Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Enjoy
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/calves01272008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/calves01272008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some of the yearling replacement heifers enjoying their breakfast. Taken 1/27/2008.</center>
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Quick Hits
Things I should have posted about but haven't.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/05/news/state/38-brucellosis.txt">Brucellosis is almost wiped out in the US</a> with the declaration that Texas is now Brucellosis Free. Of course there still is the problem of Brucellosis in Bison and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area, but that is not cattle. I still think it can…
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Weather
What goofy damned weather. Friday; nice, highs near 40, way to much damned wind. Saturday; snow about 4-5 inches, cold, zero or colder, wind, downright miserable. Today; highs near 40, no wind, nice, at least that's the forecast. Sure is goofy. <br />n<br />nI hate calving heifers in cold temperatures like Saturday. Of course I…
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Cattle Cycle
<a href="http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1202425683667.xml">Weather, ethanol short-circuit the normal cattle cycle</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>If the cattle cycle isn't dead, it's at least on life support. That's what market experts told ranchers today at the annual Cattle Fax Outlook Seminar at the Cattle Industry Convention in Reno, Nevada. Cattle Fax is a producer-owned beef industry market analysis organization.<br />n<br />nTwo…
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Moon
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/moon01242008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/moon01242008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Another shot of the moon as the sun was coming up recently. Taken 1/24/2008.</center>
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Bio-Fuels Aren’t A Green Fuel
I've heard over and over again how ethanol and bio-fuels are the new "green' fuel and are going to save our planet. Guess what, they appear to be wrong.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=biofuels-bad-for-people-and-climate">Biofuels Are Bad for Feeding People and Combating Climate Change</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Converting corn to ethanol in Iowa not only leads to clearing more of…
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Pheasants
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/phesant02012008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/phesant02012008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some pheasants have found the feed grounds and are cleaning things up. Taken 2/1/2008. </center>
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Interest
I wonder why it takes a Legislator that lives almost 300 miles away to start questioning the deal with the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/06/news/state/15-hardin.txt">Hardin Jail</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A state lawmaker from Butte has asked corrections officials and representatives of Hardin to explain why a $27 million jail was built in the southern Montana city but now sits empty.<br…
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Disgust
Yesterday was one of those days. I was disgusted most of the day. The thing that really set it off was the Hired Hand quit. Not that he was that great of guy but with calving going on he was better than nothing. He is going to stay up till the first but would like…
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First Calf
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/first02042008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/first02042008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The heifers have had their first calf. Born the evening of the 3rd. The Hired Hand swore we wouldn't have a calf on the ground till the 15th of the month. I told him we would have at least 10…