Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Grazing
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/grazing081472006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/grazing081472006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cattle contentedly grazing on the dry, brown grass. Bitch as I will about it the dry, brown grass has a lot of punch to it and the calves are really growing well on it. Less than a month to shipping. Let them put…
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Lost and Found
The other day when I was preg checking heifers I knew I was missing one Yearling but wasn't too worried about it. I assumed the neighbor to my north that had the last two I got in so I assumed that was where the last one was since the yearlings have been there for almost…
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A Day Late
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/01/news/state/25-burns_z.txt" title="Foot In Mouth Yet Again">Burns' fire request comes late</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns urged <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> to declare a fire state of emergency Thursday and activate the Montana Army National Guard for firefighting – more than a month after Schweitzer had already done so.<br />n<br />nIn a brief letter faxed…
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Brown
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/brown08282006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/brown08282006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Brown, dry landscape. That's all there is to take a picture of so I guess I will. Sad. Taken 8/28/2006.</center>
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Derby Fire
A really bad fire near Big Timber/Columbus.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/31/news/state/20-derby_g.txt" >Residents scramble to get out of Derby fire path</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/31/news/state/21-fire.txt" >Towns of Fishtail, Nye under evacuation order</a><br />n<br />nI note the map in the paper appears to be a little out of date. The reading I have been doing is that there is…
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Flower
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/sunflower08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/sunflower08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Wild Sunflower in Bloom. Taken 8/14/2006.</center>
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Disaster Aid
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=5BACE54A-C332-26AD-CD425CCF6595AEFE" >Johanns unveils drought aid package</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Ag Secretary Mike Johanns toured drought-ravaged areas of South Dakota Tuesday, then announced a new program for hard-hit livestock producers called the Livestock Assistance Grant Program (LAGP).<br />n<br />nUnder the program, <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>…
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People Are Stupid
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/30/news/state/55-infant.txt" title="Billings Gazette">Dead infant reported; search finds nothing</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A contracted sanitation worker was doing standard cleanup Friday and spotted what may have been a child. The worker was concerned but bagged the trash anyway, thinking it could have been a doll, Pryor said. Law enforcement was notified once the worker's supervisors learned of…
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Sore Behind
Three trips to Billings to get everything I wanted to sell hauled up to the market. One hundred and eighty miles per trip. That's 540 miles total. Sixty dollars of gas per trip. One hundred and eighty dollars to haul all the critters up there. Sale is today but I won't be there, I have…
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Crested Wheat Grass
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/crested08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/crested08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Crested Wheat Grass. There is quite a lot of this domesticated grass scattered all over the country any more. It spreads like weeds. The cattle don't particularly like it when it is tall and old like this but will eat it if there is…