Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Turkeys
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/turkeys08312006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/turkeys08312006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This herd of turkeys caught my eye. There are a large number of all game birds around this year. It must have been a good year for them. That and there is not many coyotes around to prey on them. Taken 8/31/2006.</center>
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Happenings
Not much going on around here. Watching the calves grow fatter every day. We spent the last couple of days getting the corral ready for shipping. Don't have a firm shipping date yet, but the corral is now ready. I am still working at confirming the 29th of this month as shipping. The vet/brand inspector…
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Rain’s Value
Shamlessly stolen from <a href="http://www.state.sd.us/doa/secretary/news/Column_174.htm">Larry Gabriel</a>, South Dakota Department of Agriculture<br />n<br />n<font size=5><center>Rains of Confidence</center></font size=5><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A recent headline read, "Rural Confidence Hits Four Year Low." The story was based on a bank's annual survey of Australian farmers. It concluded that drought and rising input costs caused farmers to lose "confidence" that next…
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Negativity
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This Doesn’t Help
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Not Over Yet
With the cooler weather so far over the weekend they made some progress on the Derby Fire but it looks like that is in Jeporady now.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/04/news/state/30-derby_g.txt" >Fire officials order more evacuations</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>More than 200 homes were being evacuated Sunday night on the western flank of the fast-growing Derby Mountain fire.<br />n<br…
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Crikey
<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-09-04T045243Z_01_SP34161_RTRUKOC_0_US-AUSTRALIA-IRWIN.xml&src=rss&rpc=22" title="Crikey">Australia's "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin dies</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, has died in a marine accident off Australia's northeast coast, local media reported on Monday.<br />n<br />nQueensland state government sources quoted by Australian Associated Press (AAP) said Irwin, 44, whose television show "The Crocodile Hunter" won international…
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Mule Deer
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/deer08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/deer08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Mama and two babies trying to decide how threatening I am. They finally left the country. Smart move, when the hunters start roaming the area they had better not be this gentle or they won't last long. Taken 8/14/2006.</center>
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Afghanistan Farm Production
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_DRUGS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Afghanistan opium cultivation skyrockets</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Afghanistan's world-leading opium cultivation rose a "staggering" 59 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drugs chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big traffickers and remove corrupt officials and police.<br />n<br />nThe record crop yielded 6,100 tons of opium, or enough to make 610 tons…
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Excuse Me
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1730770.htm" >Cattle industry prefers 'duffing' to 'rustling'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A move is on to halt the Americanisation of English in rural areas.<br />n<br />nThe cattle industry is demanding an end to the use of the American phrase "cattle rustling" when referring to livestock theft, rather than the more Aussie "cattle duffing".<br />n<br />nLanguage expert Professor…