Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Hawk
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/hawk10152007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/hawk10152007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I sure have been seeing a lot of hawks around lately. Can't complain though since they eat lots of little rodents I don't like. Taken 10/15/2007.</center>
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No Split State
I see the Board of Livestock has decided <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/07/news/state/19-panelists.txt">against split state status</a> for Brucellosis here in Montana. The Governor decided to let the ranching community decide and they let their feelings be known to the Board of Livestock yesterday.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>After hours of rancorous debate punctuated by yelling and boos from the audience, the…
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President Ready To Vote No
What does the administration <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/11/0329.xml">think of the Senate Farm Bill</a>?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>I am pleased to have this opportunity to outline the Administration's very significant concerns about the Senate farm bill being debated on the floor of the Senate this week. The Statement of Administration Policy, or SAP as we refer to it, will be…
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Frosty
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/frosty10312007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/frosty10312007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A very frosty sunrise. It was the coldest morning yet this fall. Long johns and winter jacket sure felt good. Taken 10/31/2007.</center><br />
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Food Crisis
Everybody that has read here for a while knows that I am very concerned that the push the US is seeing into ethanol and biofuels and the subsidies the government is spending on these things are endangering our food security. We have to think about what we are doing by trying to grow our fuel.…
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Content
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/content10312007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/content10312007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The calves were just contentedly standing in the corral waiting for it to warm up so we could work them. You can see the frost on this ones back from the cold night. Taken 10/31/2007.</center>
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CBM Settlement
I would really like to know who come up with <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/05/news/state/22-tongue.txt">this settlement</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>It suggests relatively strict water quality standards for the Tongue River, in line with the state's 2006 rules. The Powder River would be subject to older, less-restrictive standards. And there would be minimal restrictions along two tributaries – Hanging Woman and…
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Cold
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/wrong11012007.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:106 –><img width="250" height="167" style="float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/wrong11012007.serendipityThumb.jpg" alt="" /></a>I had to laugh when i saw this. It might be getting colder out this fall but i don't think it is that cold.
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Cloudy
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows10132007?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/cows10132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows out grazing in some alfalfa fields. There were a lot of cloudy days through October but very little rain. Damn the bad luck. Some moisture sure would have been nice. Taken 10/13/2007.</center>
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Worst Enemy
I swear Montana Republicans are their own worst enemies. There is now a Republican Legislator suing the Governor to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/01/news/state/27-taxrebatesuit.txt">stop, yes I said stop, a tax rebate</a>. The Republican party in general and Sen. John Cobb of Augusta both claim that the Governor used faulty accounting in figuring the rebate and the law needs…