Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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CBM Water
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/24/news/state/52-cbm-injection.txt">CBM water injection rejected"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Water drawn from aquifers as part of coalbed methane production does not have to be injected back into the ground, a state board decided Thursday, rejecting a push by some ranchers in eastern Montana.<br />n<br />nProposals to place new requirements on the young coalbed methane industry, which extracts natural…
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Enjoying Lunch
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/lunch03172006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/lunch03172006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center>
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Freedom Not
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_CHRISTIAN_CONVERT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Afghan convert may be unfit for trial</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity may be mentally unfit to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Wednesday amid growing international condemnation of the case.<br />n<br />nAbdul Rahman, 41, has been charged with rejecting Islam, a crime under…
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Two More Gathered
Well, quite a day yesterday. Both Sunday and Monday I found a dead calf out on the cows in the morning, so yesterday I was pretty leery about going over to feed because I was afraid I would find another dead calf. Both the calves that died were so picked apart by the Bald Eagles…
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Water, Eastern Montana’s Life Blood
There is an interesting story in the Gazette about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/21/news/state/20-cbm.txt">problems of re-injecting Coal bed Methane water</a>. If you are interested in the whole CBM development it is very interesting, otherwise I'm sure its as dry as dirt. One really interesting thing jumps out at me from the article though.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Tongue River…
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Growing Pains
The ethanol industry is having some growing pains. According to <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060320/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices_ethanol">this story</a>, the price we will pay for gasoline this summer is going to be significantly higher because there is not sufficient distribution facilities to get the ethanol where it needs to be causing shortages of fuels in some markets.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>But there's trouble…
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Curiosity
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calf03172006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calf03172006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A curious calf approaching me trying to figure out what I am. Cute little devil if you ask me. Taken 3/17/2006.</center>
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Is This a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060320/1a_bottomstrip20.art.htm">Lawmakers get out of the House</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The House of Representatives is on track this year to be in session for fewer days than the Congress Harry Truman labeled as
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It Was Expected
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=24356">S Korea Still Has Concerns About Mad Cow In US</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea still has outstanding concerns about the latest case of mad-cow disease found in the U.S. and that may be delaying the process to resume beef trade, U.S. industry and government officials said Monday.<br />n<br />nSouth Korea is concerned about the age…
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What Snow?
I see by the paper that Billings had a nice little <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/20/news/local/25-snow.txt">snow storm</a>. I had been watching the weather and knew the storm was coming and was hopeful and dreading it both at the same time. A nasty storm while calving is always difficult but the moisture sure would have been nice. As it…