Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Small Grain Farming
There is quite a series of articles today in the Gazette about wheat farming in Montana that is interesting.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/state/25-farm-profits.inc">Higher costs, lower prices dry up farm profits</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/state/50-grain-harvest.inc">Grain harvest a bitter pill as cost of production rises</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/business/26-grain.inc">Competition squeezes Montana's grain growers</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/business/27-wheat.inc">Crop yields partly make up…
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Seeing the World Differently
<a href="http://www-surgery.ucsd.edu/ent/PatientInfo/info_bppv.html">Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo</a> definitely leaves a person with a different view of things. It makes it really hard to focus and concentrate. Benign is one term I wouldn't use for it though. It really affects me.<br />n<br />n<b>And one of his partners asked "Has he vertigo?" and the other glanced out and down…
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Question As Yet Unanswered
Every time I read a story about <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> talking about making fuel from coal, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050825/pl_nm/energy_montana_dc">like this newest one</a>, in Eastern Montana I ask the question, " what makes Schweitzer or anyone else think the Northern Plains Resource Council (<acronym title="Northern Plains Resource Council">NPRC</acronym>) and other environmental groups allow this to happen?"<br…
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Damn
Guess I had better start checking out how many extra hoops I am going to have to jump through to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/26/build/state/35-vs-cows.inc">ship my calves out of state</a>. What a pain.<br />n<br />n<b>The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. Mason Cooley</b>
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Restraint
I don't know if I would have been able to contain myself as well as <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050825/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_india_principal">these parents</a> did. I would have opted for a lot worse.<br />n<br />n<b>Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there…
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Good News
You might remember that this spring I mentioned my son's speech therapist <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/923-Bad-News.html">was leaving</a> and I had no idea whether he would be able to get services in another year. Well, he will. <br />n<br />nThe remaining therapist at Scottish Rite Speech and Language Disorder Clinic had visited with us and indicated she was…
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The Fair
The 13th edition of The Rascal Fair is up over at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/2086">Craig's place</a>. As usual in Craig style it is great. Go over and read around Montana blog sphere. I noticed <a href="http://leftinthewest.com/?p=1541">Matt</a> says the Fair was on vacation. If it was I wasn't aware of the fact. I have been entering the Fair…
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Beef News
I saw recently that the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>) wanted to allow the <a href="http://www.agweb.com/get_article.asp?pageid=120143&src=gennews">importation of Japanese beef</a> in to the US. I thought this was laughable since they are a beef starved country and have very little beef…
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Do Over
One of those days yesterday. You know those do over days. My personal vehicle died on Sunday so I had to find a way to get it to the garage to fix it. These damn newer vehicles are so complicated you can't work on them. My Darling Wife borrowed my father's vehicle to go to…
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Laundring Money
The big Texas cattle feeders might be helping <a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3319609">launder drug money</a>. I have no love for the Texas feeders that bring Mexican cattle into the US and sell them as a US product but I am sure they had no idea they were laundering drug money. If the justice Department starts seizing cattle it…