Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Sleep
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/sleep03092008?full=1'><!– s9ymdb:110 –><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/sleep03092008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Finally got the first calf on the cows. I don't know what they were holding on for. Usually I have one by the first but this year they stuck to schedule a little better. Taken 3/9/2008</center>
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Why
Why is it necessary to change the damned time? I know, the fanatics out there will tell me to save energy even though it has been proven not to save energy. <br />n<br />nIt is so upsetting to change the time twice a year. it throws everything off schedule so bad. I would like to…
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Corn Economy
<a href="http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272619238.shtml">The Importance of the Corn Economy</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Our food supply depends to a large extent on corn. We feed corn to cattle and cows to provide meat on the table and milk in our glass. It is fed to chickens to provide a staple in our diet and eggs for our morning breakfast. Corn…
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Help
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/tiger02232008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/tiger02232008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Tiger helping me check heifers. If she could just figure out how to do it without getting her feet wet she would be real happy. Taken 2/23/2008.</center>
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Disappearing Claim
Recently there was a flurry of articles like <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i48wHqgQ8qU6T0OawXCiImMhTTNgD8UQFDIG0">this one</a> trumpeting the fact that the white-tailed jack rabbit had disappeared from Yellowstone National Park. Now all of a sudden, with no where near the fanfare, we here the scientist involved is <a href="http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/montana_biologist_withdraws_claim_of_rabbits_disappearance/2585/">withdrawing his claim</a> that these jack rabbits have actually disappeared from the…
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Mandatory Is Back
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=7BA3BAF3-0755-4CAA-321F01F5B69106A8">Peterson again backs mandatory national animal ID</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>mandatory national animal identification system is coming, at least if House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson has anything to say about it. In perhaps one of the underreported stories of the National Farmers Union (NFU) convention, House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, in a phone call…
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Run You Fools, Run
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/run02262008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/run02262008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I was a little behind schedule feeding this day and the yearlings were coming looking for their feed. Once they saw me, they came on a dead run like they were starving to death. Taken 2/26/2008.</center>
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Job
Is doing their job too much to ask of a Hired Hand? It sure seems like it.
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Traceback
My friend over at <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/">Northview</a> asked me last week my opinion about <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/bayer_content.asp?contentid=201462">this</a>. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>In letters sent to Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., this week, R-CALF USA relayed that the organization has endorsed and supports what is referred to as The Traceback Bill, a…
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At It Again
America's home brewed terrorists are at it again.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0340672420080304">Seattle fires may be linked to radical eco-group</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Three multimillion dollar homes in a Seattle suburb were destroyed in a fire on Monday, and authorities were investigating a sign found near the scene that raised suspicions a radical environmental group might have set the…