Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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So?
<br /><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/22/news/state/92-rehberg.txt">BillingsGazette.com :: Rehberg now posting daily schedule</a><br />n<br />nWho really cares? As if this matters in the larger scheme of life and politics.<br />n<br />n<strong>But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically. Edie…
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Hay Bales
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay06202007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay06202007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It's kind of fun haying this year. I am getting enough hay that I don't mind doing it. This field is going about 1 1/3 ton to the acre. It is my poorest field so it will only get better…
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Change
The Democrats last fall took over our National Congress and claimed they would make changes. They would work for the people and solve all the problems that the Republicans dumped on us, the people. Now I haven't been very impressed with anything they have accomplished but I am a skeptic so that is not surprising.…
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One Calf Does Not Equal Nine Lambs
It appears that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/21/news/state/84-wolf.txt">wolf killing 9 lambs</a> near Big Timber merits an attempt to kill it, while a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/21/news/state/86-calf.txt">calf killed by wolves near Eureka</a> (The original story headline was "Calf kills wolf near Eureka." I'm sure this has been corrected by now though thinking about it, it would be nice if calves…
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Out Of Here
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/drys06192007?full=1'><img width='640' height='428' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/drys06192007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It finally got dry enough to ship the second semi load of drys, with some old bulls, out of here. I had quite a few more drys than normal this year thanks to the extremely dry year last year and…
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Kill The Export Market
I see the Big Meat Packing Plants are trying to get what little beef we export to <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/vetlife_content.asp?ContentID=138506">South Korea shut off</a>. Why don't they pay attention to these things? The packers know South Korea is very touchy about importing US beef so would it be so hard to be a little more careful and…
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Wild Roses
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/rose06102007?full=1'><img width='640' height='426' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/rose06102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The wild roses are in bloom. Somehow this is an important thing to me. I look forward to it every year. Taken 6/10/2007.</center>
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Reminder
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/19/news/wyoming/20-saddlery.txt">This</a> reminds me, next time I get a chance, I need to buy a new rope. A King rope is the best there is in my opinion. A little more expensive than mass produced ones, but well worth the price.<br />n<br />n<strong>To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a…
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Hay Down
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/hay06162007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/hay06162007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We finally dried up enough to get some hay chopped down the other day. It's really nice to get the haying started. We were lucky over the weekend and didn't get some of the wicked weather, hail, that was just…
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High Prices or Words Have Meanings
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ETHANOL_REFINERIES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Oil industry scales back refinery plans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come.<br />n<br />nWith President Bush calling for…