Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Not Happening
The big news in Montana over the weekend was the visit of <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/06/news/state/23-election_g.txt">Barack Obama</a> and <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/07/news/state/22-election_g.txt">Hillary Clinton</a> to the state. There were numerous newspaper stories, TV stories and blog reports about the events they were in all over the place this weekend. I couldn't get any news without running into them. The people…
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Dry, Dusty
Something I always have tried to do is look at the positive side of things. No matter how bad it is, I try to see the good. I'm beyond seeing the good anymore. It's so dry here and so many storms have missed us that I don't know what to do. The last storm went…
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Trailing Out
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings04042008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings04042008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It's that time of year again. Time to quit feeding and kick things out to the hills. We took the yearlings out yesterday. Taken 4/4/2008.</center>
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Question
You hire on to a place that part of your duties is riding. You don't have a saddle, even though you indicated you did. What should you do, be looking at buying a saddle or spend all your time talking about the boat you are going to buy? Shouldn't your higher priority be buying a…
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White Faced
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/whiteface03272008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/whiteface03272008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Momma and baby. My Darling Wife really likes these white faced calves so this picture is for her. Taken 3/27/2008.</center>
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Dry
<a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/02/news/local/29-march.txt">March comes in warm, leaves us dry</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>March should have been a lot wetter in Billings. Instead, it was the 10th-driest March in 75 years of recordkeeping.<br />n<br />nJust .42 inch of precipitation, mostly snow, fell on the city during the month. That's just 38 percent of the average 1.12 inches that usually…
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A Plan
<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/NEWS01/803300320/1002">Montana willing to share wolves with other states</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The head of Montana's wolf program said earlier this week that the state would be willing to trap and transplant wolves to other states if requested.<br />n<br />n"We're open to it," said Caroline Sime of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, in response to criticism from…
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Bulls
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/bulls03302008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/bulls03302008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Four new bulls that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Angus bulls from some little breeders in the area. They were really nice bulls that were not overfed or gussied up. A lot of the big guys over feed…
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Talking Tough
I see Condoleezza Rice is talking tough to South Korea about <a href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/03/26/afx4819089.html">beef trade</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> 'The United States believes that our beef is safe and that the markets ought to be open to it all around the world,' Rice told reporters with her South Korean counterpart Yu Myung-Hwan at her side after extensive talks…
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Bum
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/bum03122008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/bum03122008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Had a bum around here for about a week or so. A twin that the mom wouldn't accept. Grafted him on a two year old that lost a calf. He was a cute little guy, that's for sure. Taken 3/12/2008.</center>