Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Get a Clue, Burns
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=17018">Sen. Burns: <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Must Better Regulate Packers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) expressed his concern today over a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat…
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How Depressing
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/20/build/nation/55-students-skills.inc">Most college students lack skills to do complex tasks, study says</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Most college students close to earning a diploma cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.<br />n<br />nThose are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses,…
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Sunlight
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/bulls01182006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/bulls01182006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It seems like we haven't been getting much sun recently so the early morning sun slanting across the pastures really caught my eye.</center><br />n<br />n<b>Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. Yousuf Karsh </b>
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The USDA is Out of Control
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/19/build/nation/75-usda-audit.inc"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> faked anti-competition investigations, audit says</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Agriculture Department has pretended to investigate anti-competitive behavior among stockyards and meat companies since 1999, but in hundreds of cases it hasn't actually filed complaints, says an audit released Wednesday.<br />n<br />nSenior…
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An ID Number Never Stopped a Disease
Another excellent editorial about the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) that is worth a read.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://magic-city-news.com/article_5192.shtml"><acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>: What Does it Take to Raise an Alarm These Days?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Over the past couple of years, we've been subjected to a series of media scares relating to our…
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Selling Cattle
<a href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1076813.php/Oklahoma_beef_producers_selling_early">Oklahoma beef producers selling early</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Oklahoma wildfires are driving beef producers to auction animals at a younger age to avoid the economic consequences of lost pasturage.<br />n<br />nDry wheat pastures plus burned stockpiles of grass are a costly burden to producers, leading many to sell their cattle months earlier than normal, the Daily…
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Bull
<b>After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it ….up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep ….your mouth shut.–Will Rogers</b><br />n<br />nP.S. This deserved to stand on it's own.
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Viewpoint
Here on the ranch I classify all my female Bovine critters by age. There are the:<br />n<br />nCows – three years old and up<br />nTwo- year olds- self explanatory<br />nYearlings- In their first year, self explanatory too<br />nCalves- first year of life<br />n<br />nThe reason I bring this up is it's funny how my viewpoint…
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Question
I have a question to ask that I have never been able to find an answer to.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/stone01142006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/stone01142006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nIn the foreground of the above picture on the fence line you see a rock sticking up out of the ground. You will find rocks sticking up…
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Omens
It was just one of those miserable days yesterday. Why you may ask? Lost my first calf for the season all ready. The two-year olds should start calving in almost 4 weeks but yesterday morning guess what? One was just starting to try to calve when we got over there to feed. This is not…