Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Dragging In
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/drag06092007?full=1'><!– s9ymdb:106 –><img width='640' height='427' style="float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/drag06092007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A calf being drug into the branding fire at our recent branding of odds and ends. My Darling Wife was playing photographer here. Taken 6/9/2007.</center>
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Risks
What are the real risks of contracting a disease. Sometimes people worry about the wrong things. The whole US beef ban in South Korea and limited market in Japan is all due to <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> and the fears that people will contract variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease from it. So what's the real chance of…
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Strange Words
"It looked like a normal, decomposed, brain, kind of like toothpaste." I just heard this on TV this evening (Dr. G Medical Examiner). The way some people act I think maybe they don't have a brain but maybe this answers the question, they have a "normal, decomposed, brain."<br />n<br />n<strong>I never thought I was normal,…
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Cool
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/dog/cool06102007?full=1'><img width='427' height='640' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/dog/cool06102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>With all the moisture we have had there are puddles of water all over the place. The cattle sip water out of them but Lucky has a different use for them. They are so nice and cool he can't help…
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Misleading
This has to fall into the misleading quote of the year awards.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"The National Animal Identification System is one of the tougher programs to administer, but we are making progress with the voluntary approach," Knight said. "It doesn't cost anything, it's confidential, it's simple to do and, most importantly, it's the right thing to…
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Dalmation Toadflax
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/toadflax06132007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/toadflax06132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I discovered this patch of flowers last year and was not sure what they were. Then last fall the guy working for me identified it, Dalmation Toadflax. Toadflax is a noxious weed that can really take over the country. I…
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Drought Not a Concern, For Now
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/14/news/state/20-drought.txt" >Wave of wetness improves state's outlook</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With floodwaters still receding across southeastern Montana, it's time to talk about drought – or the lack of it.<br />n<br />nThe agricultural drought – the one that produced sparse and spindly crops and withered range grasses during many of the past eight years – has subsided.<br…
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Step Forward
Beef trade with Japan has taken a <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=2692EC9E-D863-3BFE-F4544C0BDA405F1C">big step forward</a>. They have given 35 beef plants a clean bill of health which will stop 100% inspections of imports in Japan and they will scale back to only random checks. This is a good step, now to work on getting them to accept something other…
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Misty Morning
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/mist05212007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/mist05212007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It was a wet, misty day when I was up moving these cattle. You can tell by the clouds. Taken 5/21/2007.</center>
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Not Yet
I was going to try to cut a little hay down yesterday so I could get the haying started. I always say the hay doesn't dry standing up, but it definitely doesn't dry when it rains. Yes, again we got another half inch of rain and now have to wait until the ground is dry…