Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Profit, by Any Other Name Is Still a Profit
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/10/build/state/70-cbm-costs.inc">Reports detail financial costs of CBM restrictions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Separate federal and state reports on a proposed crackdown on coalbed methane pollution say the rule could slow development, potentially costing the industry and state coffers hundreds of millions of dollars.<br />n<br />n….<br />n<br />nThe industry could lose as little as 6 percent of expected profits,…
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Too Hot
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17787557%255E30417,00.html"> Record heat killing cattle</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> RECORD temperatures are placing a severe strain on the nation's cattle industry, slashing prices in three states as the intense heat kills cattle and calves in western Queensland.</blockquote><br />n<br />nDamn, I hate to read something like this. Australia might be a competitor for market share but I…
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Looking For Better
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calve11282005?full=1'><img width='250' height='159' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calve11282005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Looking for a better flake of hay. This picture was taken a while ago but it reflects how the cattle are now. I don't ever remember seeing all of the cattle so ho-hum about thier feed. They eat it but they just don't charge the…
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This Explains Things
The Montana Stockgrowers, a branch of the National Cattlmans Beef Association (<acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>) which is lead by the meat packers and big feeders and not the cattle prodsucers, keeps wondering why they are losing members. Look at <a href="http://www.montanacattlemen.org/mca_passes_resolutions.htm">this list of issues</a> the Montana Cattlemans Association,…
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Snow Falling
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/snow01082006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/snow01082006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The rain yesterday turned to snow and gave us a light coating of snow over everything yesterday. Watching a light snow fall early in the morning is very peacful somehow. I always kind of like it.</center><br />n<br />n<b>Better remain silent, better not even think, if…
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Reporting, I Guess
I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…
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Talk About Funny
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2006/01/08/build/nation/58-mouse-fire.inc">Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<b>Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit…
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Waiting for Feed
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise01072006'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise01072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Horses waiting for feed early in the morning with a colorful textured sky behind them.</center><br />n<br />n<b>My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. Edward Weston </b>
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Ice
It seems like the ice that has formed as the snow melted is never going to go away around here.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/ice01062006'><img width='188' height='250' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/ice01062006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nYou can see the sun reflecting off the ice sheet by the barn here and there are ice sheets like this all over. Most…
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Herd Identification
I normally don't link to opinion pieces but this one gets an exception.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48237">The mark of the beast</a><br />n<br />nThe piece is about the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) and the problems with it.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Everyone wants a safe, abundant and affordable food supply, which America has enjoyed for…