Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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I Guess I’m Stupid
I always love articles like this one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=26211">Cattle Cycles: Where Are We & Where Are We Headed?</a><br />n<br />nIf you are in the business and keep minimal track of what is going on you know where we are and what is happening with out some "expert" telling you. I could see this article…
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Change in Life
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/nosnow03282006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/nosnow03282006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Blue Skies, no snow, spring is definitely here. The feel in the air and the sounds of nature all change and feel more alive now than they did earlier in the winter. It's great, a new year in Montana, The Last Best Place.</center><br />n<br />nIt…
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Terrorist Cat
<a href="http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_3646541">House arrest for attack cat</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A ferocious feline terrorized a quiet Fairfield neighborhood, to the point that residents are seeking help from the law to stop the so-called "Terrorist of Sunset Circle."<br />n<br />nLewis, a 5-year-old, black-and-white longhaired cat, attacked at least a half-dozen people on the cul-de-sac and even took on the…
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Meeting
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/meeting03152006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/meeting03152006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A dog, a cat and a calf. Quite the meeting of the minds. Momma was to busy eating to notice her baby was near these ferocious critters. Taken 3/15/2006.</center>
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What Are They Fighting Over?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/28/news/state/35-delisting.txt">Who will pay for wolf costs undecided</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Since it first declared gray wolves in need of protection, the federal government has paid the bill to help rebuild the predator's population in the Northern Rockies.<br />n<br />nBut with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now declaring wolves recovered and eager to hand off full…
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What’s the Surprise
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_BEEF_BATTLE?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japanese shun U.S. beef, eat Australian</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Kenji Miyoda, savoring a bowl of rice topped with beef from Australia, raw egg and spicy sauce, believes Australian beef is far safer than American beef.<br />n<br />n"It tastes OK, it's cheap, and it fills me up," the 27-year-old banker said gobbling down his 450 yen ($4)…
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Warmer Weather
It finally turned warm and spring like so it's time to get ready to turn everything out into the hills. I see a little green grass starting to poke its head through so it's time. I've had the hired man checking out fences in the pastures we will be going out to so that they…
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Organic Beef
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/25/news/wyoming/20-organic-beef.txt">Rancher has stake in organic beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cattle rancher Rod Morrison doesn't want to just sell you a steak.<br />n<br />nRather, he wants to sell you a choice cut of organic beef, letting you pick which ranch in the Bighorn Basin it came from. And he wants to let you make the purchase without…
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Abuse Upon Abuse
I warn you, this story is so tragic that it's almost hard to belive. What members of the human race do to one another I find more and more amazing the older I get.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/20060320/hz_afghanistan_0306/blogs2986">Child Bride</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He…
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She Fooled Me
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/horses03172006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/horses03172006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Yesterday morning when we got out to feed the cows I noticed one cow wandering around the feed ground, tail in the air, smelling all the calves laying around and bawling like mad. Quite the unusual behavior for a cow so i went over to check…