Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Grouse
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/grouse01282007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/grouse01282007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some Sharptail Grouse that have been hanging around the stack yard. Taken 1/28/2008.</center>
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Happenings
I wish I could say something exciting was going on around here but that is not the case. Same old stuff. We are about a third done calving the heifers all ready. Quite a difference from last year where we didn't have very many calves the first cycle. This year they are coming fast and…
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Wonder
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cow020962008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cow020962008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>One of the heifers wondering what I am up to. Taken 2/9/2008.</center>
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Made Up Holiday
Valentine's Day. Why did the card companies make up a holiday such as this? To sell stuff. I will guarantee you that it doesn't take a special day in the year for me to tell My Darling Wife that I love her. I love her every day, day in and day out without reservation. It…
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Miracles Can Happen
Miracles are one of those things you like to believe in but rarely see. I remember cheering during the "miracle on ice." Lately Huckabee has been saying he majored in miracles, not math. I didn't major in anything but common sense. Miracles can happen though.<br />n<br />nI all ready have a new hired hand. Usually…
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Comfortable
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/comfortable02082008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/comfortable02082008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This calf sure found a nice comfortable place to lay. They are not dumb though, they always seem to find the nice dry, warm spots to lay down. Taken 2/8/2008.</center>
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Increase
I see the shills for the big meat packers are backing the beef checkoff increase.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1052277720080210">Cattle group votes to beef up marketing fee</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cattle producers voted this weekend to increase the fee that they pay to finance the "Beef, It's What's For Dinner" advertising campaign and other programs, because inflation and other…
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Assumptions
I think somebody is operating under false assumptions here.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/13/news/local/24-mate.txt">Ag economy gives buzz to upcoming farm show</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The buzz surrounding the Montana Agri-Trade Exposition show is off the charts this year as merchants prepare for a crush of farmers and ranchers flush with profits from a healthy agriculture economy.<br />n<br />n"It's certainly…
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Surprise
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/surprise02112008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/surprise02112008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>First calf heifer just discovering she had a baby. She was really excited about it. She cleaned it up and took good care of it. The hired hand thought we wouldn't have a calf until the 15th, I said we…
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Pay For Label
<a href="http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/02/09/news/south_dakota/559d65ec5b34774b862573ea001513d1.txt">Ag groups blast plan to make retailers pay for labeling </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A plan to have retailers pay for part of the costs of country-of-origin labeling is another attempt to derail the plan, leaders of several agricultural groups say.<br />n<br />n"It's just <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The…