Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Where’s The Beef?
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/where08062007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/where08062007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>These yearlings were really curious at what we were up to at the fire scene. They kept wandering around getting in the way. The Hired Hand said they were wondering why they weren't invited to the barbecue. Taken 8/6/2007.</center>
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Politics
The Republicans in the state are really trying to make political hay over Gov. Schweitzer's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/07/news/state/35-attack.txt">veto of firefighter tax breaks</a> now that fire season is really on us. This is blatantly politics and anybody with half a brain would realize this. Why didn't the Republicans make such a big issue out of it when…
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Fire
Too much excitement around here for me. Monday afternoon the hired hand come running home saying there was a fire. Boy he was excited about it. We went running over to see where it was and what we could do. I told My Darling Wife I didn't want to call it in yet because I…
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Water Drop
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/save08062007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/save08062007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We had a little fire yesterday and I truly believe this helicopter saved the day for us. We got it under control and only burned about 50-75 acres. The next couple of days will be busy with short nights and…
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Strange Looking
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/strange08012007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/strange08012007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This is one weird looking chicken My Darling Wife got with this batch. The company she gets them from usually throws in one free exotic chicken with every order and this one must be it. I think it is the…
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Interesting Concept
Now here is a real interesting concept, a <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UNIONIZED_BLOGGERS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Blogging Union</a>. Now I'm no expert on unions but usually they are formed to protect the workers safety and wages. Does this mean that I would get paid for doing this? If I were in a blogging union would I be protected from having to blog…
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Progress
It looks like the beef industry might be making progress in Japan. The Japanese government might be thinking about <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070805a3.html">upping the age limit for imported beef</a> from 20 month to the more generally accepted 30 month age limit. There is still one little hurdle to go through, the Food Safety Commission, and there is…
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Baby
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/peasant07242007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/peasant07242007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A little pheasant chick. This one obviously was born wild here instead of planted. You can tell by the size. Taken 7/24/2007.</center>
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More Information
More information on Britain's foot and mouth disease problem. The outbreak was likely from a <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">government sponsored lab</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a high-security laboratory near the infected farm.<br />n<br />nThe agriculture department…
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Britan’s Outbreak
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Foot-and-mouth disease detected in UK</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIn 2001, foot and mouth disease devastated Britain's meat industries and I'm sure everyone…