Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Buffer Zone
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/04/news/state/45-buffer.txt" >Officials discuss brucellosis buffer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Creating a brucellosis buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park is a possibility as state and federal officials look for ways to keep the disease from recurring in Montana.<br />n<br />nTeresa Howes, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said she and the…
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Paint
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/paint06252007?full=1'><img width='427' height='640' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/paint06252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Paint wondering what the heck I am up to with the camerae. Taken 6/25/2007. </center>
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Contrast
Today is the Fourth of July. The anniversary of the day the Declaration of Independence was approved, it was signed later, by the Continental Congress. <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/">Read the document</a>. You want to talk about awe inspiring, this is it.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve…
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Hay
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/bales07022007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/bales07022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I finished baling the last of the alfalfa on the Sarpy side yesterday. Fifteen hundred and thirty four bales of hay. Just over 2 ton to the acre. I'm very happy about that. You can't really see it all well…
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Worry
As hot and dry as it is getting around here <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this</a> is a real concern for me. Over 50 square miles burned. With the amount of grass around here we could see the same thing if one gets started. Just one more thing to worry about I guess. Temperatures are supposed to be in…
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Enjoying
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/enjoy06282007?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/enjoy06282007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Turned the cattle into a new pasture and they sure are enjoying the fresh grass. Taken 6/28/2007.</center>
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Herding
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/herd06252007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/herd06252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The new chickens are sure growing fast. They are wandering all over the place. Lucky keeps trying to herd them around. Where he is trying to take them is beyond me, but he keeps trying. Taken 6/25/2007.</center>
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US Beef Makes Strides
<a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/headlines/47189.htm" >Major Japanese supermarket chain puts US beef back on its shelves</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Major Japanese supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. brought American beef back to its shelves Friday, about 3 1/2 years after sales were halted in the wake of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, a parent company spokesman said.<br />n<br />nU.S.…
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Damage Seen From On High
There was a pretty nasty hail storm went across Northern Montana earlier in the month of June. I gave it a <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2688-Hay-Down.html">brief mention</a> and left it at that and there was some comments on how bad it was. I found it really interesting that the damage could be seen in satellite imagery.<br />n<br />n<center><a…