Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Cows Are Out
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/leaves04142006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/leaves04142006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>The leaves are just starting to come on the bushes so spring is definitely here. We finished riding and taking the last of the pairs out to the hills yesterday. I wanted to get that done before the storm they are predicting hit today so I…
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Useless or Not
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060416/od_nm/germany_cat_dc">Cat saves baby's life</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday.<br />n<br />n"The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said. "Its loud…
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Bulls Arriving
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/bulls04122006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/bulls04122006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>I've been so busy I plum forgot about the new bulls arriving. Four virgin bulls from the Sitz Angus ranch. I bought them a while ago but they just got delivered, 11:00 at night on the 12th. I am going to have to talk to them…
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Sunrise
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise04032006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise04032006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun rising on a new day. My Darling Wife snapped this while waiting for the bus to come. Taken 4/3/2006.</center>
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An Idea That is Not Well Thought Out.
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/14/news/wyoming/25-bison.txt">Schweitzer explains bison ideas to ranchers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> is proposing an expanded bison hunt and payments to ranchers who remove their cattle from the Yellowstone National Park area, saying he won't "roll over for the federal government" and let Montana be put at risk of losing its prized brucellosis-free status.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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Calf
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/cute04122006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/cute04122006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This little guy really struck me as cute while we were sorting yesterday. The way he stood there facing the horse was something. Taken 4/12/2006.</center>
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Meat Packers Lose a Round
<a href="http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/14327592.htm">Jury awards $9.25M to cattle raisers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $9.25 million to cattle raisers who said large meat packing companies had underpaid producers for live cattle.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI'm sure this will be overturned on appeal. These type of cases usually are but it's nice to see. <br />n<br />n<b>You must…
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Teaching The Children
I really don't have any comment about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/13/news/state/80-council.txt">this</a> story but it talks about a couple of things that I wanted to share. Meth and the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) headed by Linda McCulloch.<br />n<br />nMy oldest, who is in public school, is right now in the OPI mandated meth instruction part of her…
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Some Cattle Out In The Hills
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/hand04112006?full=1'><img width='640' height='431' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/hand04112006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The hired man trailing in pairs to the corner. We had brought plenty to the corner, more than was easy to handle, but we won in the long run. Got most of thewm sorted and out the gate. Taken 4/11/2006.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/out04112006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480'…
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Not Mandatory, Yet
<a href="http://www.farmfutures.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=CD26BEDECA4A4946A1283CC7786AEB5A&nm=News&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=2B5B435BBE6A4B9AA6848821D72B364F"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Outlines Plan, Benchmarks for National Animal ID Implementation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A new proposal from <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> outlines timelines and benchmarks for the establishment of the National Animal…