Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Again
I really think someone needs to tell <a href="http://www.brianschweitzer.com/images/road_pics/pic8.jpg">this man</a> to think before he <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/07/28/build/state/20-schweitzer-meatlabels.inc">speaks</a>. While I agree with the concept of <a href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/cool/index.htm">Country of Origin Labeling</a> (<acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>) for meat and produce I don't see how one state can implement it. Like it or not this is a federal issue.<br…
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Preg Check
Busy this morning. Between the back spasms, which are finally on the decrease after 3 weeks fighting back problems, and getting ready to pregnancy check the replacement heifers was just too busy/uncomfortable to post anything. Kind of wish there was something exiting to talk about but afraid not.<br />n<!–more–><br />nThe Pregnancy check went well and…
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Waiting
I see this <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/27/build/local/50-krispy.inc">picture</a> in the local paper this morning and couldn't belive it. These people are so lacking a life that they are going to wait all night for a silly Krispy Kreme doughnut? I've heard about the fanatical following people have for this overly hyped confectionary but I can't understand this at…
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Convention
With the Democratic National Convention going on that's about all that's in the news. I'm not quite sure why. Everybody knows who the candidate is going to be and all the convention is about is rallying the faithful to the banner, or is it?<br />n<br />nSeems like some candidates, including our own Brian Schweitzer, are…
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Herd Expansion?
Is the expected cattle herd expansion finally beginning to happen? <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=2524">This story</a> indicates that maybe it is. Total inventory of cows and calves is down again, explaning the current high prices, but there is a 4% rise in heifer retention that signals a herd expansion.<br />n<br />nThe whole herd expansion question has been an…
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Despair
<i>Farmers have been committing suicide for the past three years in despair at crop failure, drought and growing indebtedness.<br />n<br />n Their plight has been worsened by the lack of rain this year and officials say the situation could get worse.</i><br />n<br />nI know conditions are getting bad, but I never imagined. The thing is…
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Food
Doesn't <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996185">this</a> just sound real yummy? I personally think people will not pee on their food to eat it but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know if I could get hungry enough to resort to this but you never know.<br />n<br />n<b>Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such…
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Army
I realize the Army's recruting slogan is now "an army of one," which makes absolutely no sense, but I remember when it was "be all that you can be." <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/odd_perks_dc">This story</a> gives thier old slogan new meaning, for women at least. <br />n<br />nBe <b>ALL</b> that you can be, the doctors need the practice.<br…
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Wolf’s
<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=10&u=/ap/20040722/ap_on_sc/wolves_killed">Feds Exterminate Idaho's Largest Wolf Pack</a><br />n<br />nWolves true nature shines through.<br />n<br />n<b>It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. W.R. (William Ralph) Inge</b>
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Predator Friendly
<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/ranching_with_predators">Some Ranchers Become 'Predator Friendly' </a> Here on Sarpy Creek we are real 'Predator Friendly' . We like to sneak up as close to them predators as we can before we do them the favor of destroying them with a real freindly bullet. If this is a managment decision some people wish to make…