Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Finally
I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting to see a calf on the cows and finally this morning I saw one. Actually there were two new baby calves on the cows. They are supposed to start on the 10th of March but usually there is a calf or two on the ground before February…
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Shakedown
The other day I chastised Sen Burns for his dedication to <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/794-Helping-Hand.html" target="_new">helping the poor</a>, namely himself, by securing federal funding. I now read this morning a story I seemed to have missed. Sen Baucus going out and <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/06/build/state/50-horse-sense.inc" target="_new">shaking down</a> a gathering of 50 lobbyists in Washington D.C. How disgraceful. When asked…
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BSE and Science
I have a new commenter on the site. If you haven't been watching the fight in the comments she is a Canadian rancher's wife taking me to task for my views on the cattle from Canada issue. She recently made the statement in one of her <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/796-Somebodies-not-checking-their-facts.html#c1636" target="_new">comments</a>:<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Guess there's no point arguing…
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Hitting the Road
Yesterday The ranch signed up for some of the new grassland insurance they are offering. Kind of a no-brainer with the weather the way it is. We are almost guaranteed to get a payoff on the thing. Heard a couple of interesting items while I was at it.<br />n<br />nOne of my neighbors to the…
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Somebody Pinch Me
Fifth of March and we have a fire weather watch issued for tomorrow.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK<br />nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT<br />n430 AM MST SAT MAR 5 2005<br />n<br />nMTZ029>031-035>038-042-057-058-063-061044-<br />nCARTER MT-GOLDEN VALLEY MT-JUDITH GAP MT-MUSSELSHELL MT-<br />nNORTHERN BIG HORN MT-NORTHERN ROSEBUD MT-POWDER RIVER MT-<br />nSOUTHERN BIG HORN MT-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD MT-TREASURE MT-YELLOWSTONE MT-<br />nINCLUDING…
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Revelation to All
I'm just a dumb cowboy and I know it's dry here. Does it really take some "expert" to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/04/build/state/30-weather.inc" target="_new">tell me this</a>? <br />n<br />nI know it could rain/snow tomorrow and give me enough moisture to scrape through another year, but I'm tired of scraping through. I'm tired of the drought and the worry…
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Senate Vote
This blog is starting to sound like The <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Times or something but when that's whats going on that's important you talk about it. Only after a Judge rules to block imports of Canadian live cattle does the US Senate muster up the gonads to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/03/build/nation/20-senate-madcow.inc" target="_new">vote against</a> the proposed rule.…
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Images
<img width='110' height='74' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/elebabtl.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' />I have enough of a working knowledge of Artificial Insemination of cows that the whole image in my mind of performing such a procedure on an <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELEPHANT_INSEMINATION?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_new">elephant</a> is an image I really don't want in my head. Do you want to know what image is…
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Somebodies not checking their facts
I was reading the latest issue of Business Week and found an <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_10/b3923107_mz018.htm" target="_new">article (luckily available online) on <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a> that was interesting. It talks about the research into how it works and new techniques to fight it. There was one part that really set me off though.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Those many uncertainties…
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Preliminary Injunction
I see R-Calf won a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/03/02/build/state/20-madcow-canada.inc" target="_new">preliminary injunction</a> prohibiting the opening of US border to live cattle from Canada. I assumed Judge Cebull would grant the temporary injunction but now there will be a full trial on the issue, that is if the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by…