Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Fraud
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/18/AR2006071801467.html">Aid to Ranchers Was Diverted For Big Profits</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>When a drought left pastures in a handful of Plains states parched in 2003, ranchers turned to the federal government for help. Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture quickly responded with what they considered an innovative plan.<br />n<br />nThey decided to dip into massive…
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Friends And Enemies
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Rising
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/rise07182006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/rise07182006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun rising on another hot, dry day. It looks so beautiful, I just wish it would bring some relief. Taken 7/18/2006. </center>
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No Shit Sherlock
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/19/news/state/33-gov.txt">Governor: Prepare for fires</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> said Tuesday that dry weather and lightning will continue to present fire danger and that Montanans should be prepared to protect their own property.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIt only took 345,000 acres in the past week or so for out fair haired governor to realize that "dry…
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Without Interference
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has been running around all over the place trying to get some company interested in coal to fuel plant on the Otter Creek coal tracts and he hasn't found any traction for his idea yet. I've pointed out time and time again that with no infrastructure at Otter Creek, no company was…
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Grazing
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings07072006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings07072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The yearlings grazing peacefully on their new pasture. Taken 7/7/2006.</center>
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The Feds Taking Over
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/18/news/local/70-cobb.txt">Burns backs federal aid for Cobb Field</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., announced Monday that a $500,000 appropriation to help defray the cost of rebuilding Cobb Field will be included a federal spending bill.<br />n<br />nThe proposed federal appropriation is included in the 2007 Treasury, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill. If…
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Quite a Contrast
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published<br />n<br />nWith the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/17/news/state/25-hardin_g.txt">fires</a> and hot temperatures I thought a look back at winter was appropriate.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves12142005?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves12142005.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The calves coming into feed during near blizzard conditions. It was very cold. It looks nice right now…
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At it Again
Well R-calf is at it again.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/071306-canada's.htm">Canada’s Latest <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Case in Youngest Animal Yet; <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Must Rescind Final Rule</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Today the Canadian government confirmed its fourth positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (<acronym title="Bovine Spongiform…
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Burning Sun
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sun07142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sun07142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>If you look real close you will see the sun setting behind the smoke of the Pine Ridge fires near Hardin. We were on our way home from our fire and shot the picture through the remains of a fire a few years ago…