Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Waiting
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows12252007?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/cows12252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Cows waiting for feed. Sorry, I can't work up any more creativity than that. Taken 12/25/2007.</center>
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Brilliant
I find stories like this one so blatantly obvious that I lack the ability to respond to them.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2007/12/27/news/local_news/news1.txt">Ethanol, cattle prices linked by corn</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As the price of corn rises – largely due to increased ethanol production – the price of feeder cattle falls, said Ron Torell, Cooperative Extension livestock specialist.<br />n<br…
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Tired
I am so sick and tired of this cold I have it isn't even funny. Usually you get a cold and in about a week you get over it. I first come down with symptoms on the 13th of December and I still am not over the damn thing. It's the damnedest thing, I start…
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Eating
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves12252007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves12252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some of the calves eating their cake. Not all of them have learned to eat it yet. now that we have started feeding hay the rest should learn no problem. Taken 12/25/2007.</center>
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The Code Of The West
<a href="http://beefmagazine.com/cowcalfweekly/the-code-west/">The Code Of The West</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>I use the term, "code of the west," a lot to signify all those things that are so great about our industry but are kind of unspoken intangibles. Of course, there never was a formal code truly defined, and I've read that Zane Gray first actually used the…
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Morning
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/morning12252007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/morning12252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows drifting in for their cake on a beautiful Christmas morning. Taken 12/25/2007. </center>
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Christmas Prayer
Cowboy Christmas Prayer<br />n<br />n I ain't much good at prayin', and You may not know me, Lord–<br />n<br />n I ain't much seen in churches where they preach Thy Holy Word,<br />n<br />n But You may have observed me out here on the lonely plains,<br />n<br />n A-lookin' after cattle, feelin' thankful when it…
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Opposition
Source: <a href="http://www.bighorncountynews.com/">Big Horn County News</a><br />n<br />n<center>Tester sides with state over jail</center><br />n<br />n<blockquote><br />n<br />nby Daniel Person<br />nBig Horn County News<br />n<br />nU.S. Sen. Jon Tester Tuesday said he has not encouraged federal agencies to contract with the detention center in Hardin because of the state’s stance on using the jail to house…
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Snowy
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows12212007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows12212007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows waiting for there ration of cake on a snowy day. Behind them is one of the haystacks of winter feed for them. You can't see it all but there is about 500 tons of hay in this stackyard.…
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Trailing Cattle
My dad talks about the days of running cattle in this country when he was a kid. <br />n<br />nHis Granddad was more of a farmer than rancher but he had quite a few cattle. Once a year his granddad would gather up his older steers and trail them to the railroad in Hardin. Dad…