Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Early Morning
The follwing picture was taken over a month ago. That accounts for the snow in the picture, bare and dry now after all the wind.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/comingin12302005?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/comingin12302005.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The calves coming into feed early in the morning.</center><br />n<br />n<b>Keep it simple. Alfred Eisenstaedt </b>
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Blowing Smoke
So what is my favorite organization to hate, the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>), up to now. First they say they are <a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2006/01/30/ag_news/updates/update01.txt">abandoning the private database concept of National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>)</a> when talking…
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CBM Limits
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/01/news/state/65-cbm-letter.txt">Legislators push for stiff CBM rules</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Fifty-nine Montana legislators have sent a letter to the Board of Environmental Review asking it to toughen water-quality rules to protect rivers and streams flowing into Montana from Wyoming.<br />n<br />nThe letter urged the board to "address serious problems associated with water and coalbed methane extraction" and…
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How Not To Treat An Animal
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PUPPY_DRUG_SMUGGLERS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">N.Y.-bound puppies used as drug couriers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Colombian drug dealers turned puppies into couriers by surgically implanting them with packets of heroin, federal authorities said Wednesday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSome of the ways they find to get drugs into the country are amazing but this is something else. I do like the irony of what is…
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Mexico Resumes Imports
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=27F2FC25-9C2A-A90C-ECE774A789BC1FDE">Mexico lifts ban on U.S. bone-in beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a statement released late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Mexico will resume imports of U.S. bone-in beef from cattle less than 30 months of age. However, no official timetable for the resumption of trade has been made available.<br />n<br />nAg Secretary…
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Nylon
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/nylon01302006.sized.jpg'><img width='640' height='411' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/nylon01302006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center>
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Testing The Hired Hand
When I hired my new hired hand he was real upfront that he wasn't a cowboy and that his skills on a horse were not very good. Hell, he doesn't even have a saddle which is almost a sin in my book if you want to do this kind of work but what the heck,…
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Private Database and NAIS
<a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2006/01/30/ag_news/updates/update01.txt"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> abandons private database concept for <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym></a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>, after hearing strong opposition from the industry, has abandoned its earlier decision to…
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Yearlings
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings01202006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings01202006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The yearlings coming towards the feed wagon.</center><br />n<br />n<b>Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus </b>
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Mud And Ice
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/mudice01252006?full=1'><img width='187' height='250' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/mudice01252006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun reflecting off the ice in a mud hole. Mud at this time of year is unusual and takes forever to dry since it freezes up every night and then thaws, but doesn't dry, every day. I'm tired of the mud. Could be so…