Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Morning Gather
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/morning06032007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/morning06032007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Gathering cattle in the early morning. The sun was coming up and really highlighting the scene. The dew was really heavy and you can see the tracks in the grass. The rider is my youngest girl poking the cows along.…
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Bad News
I read a couple of stories recently that sound a little bad for our fair haired Governor, Brian Schweitzer.<br />n<br />nFirst off, regional veterinary experts are <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070609/BUSINESS/706090325/1046/rss03">not very keen</a> on his "buffer plan" around Yellowstone National Park for Brucellosis. <br />n<br />n<strong>The veterinary officials said the buffer plan, or regionalization, would be expensive and…
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Cactus Flower
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/cactus06102007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/cactus06102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The Prickly Pear Cactus are starting to bloom. Pretty, but not fun. Taken 6/10/2007. </center>
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I Missed The Memo
I tell you what, I've obviously missed some memo somewhere.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>It comes as no surprise to anyone that the number of organic farms is booming to meet consumer demand for healthy food. </blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is the opening sentence in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/10/news/business/50-cowfeed.txt">this article</a>. When did the decision come about that organic=healthy? <br />n<br />n<blockquote>organic-…
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Cattle Herd Expansion Delayed
<a href="http://beef-mag.com/cowcalfweekly/herd-expansion-expected/index.html">No Herd Expansion Expected For Several Years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Say all you want about historically high cattle prices, the longest sustained period of cow-calf profitability on record, robust consumer beef demand and the growing seasonal prospects for more grass and forage.<br />n<br />n"We didn't expand the herd last year, we won't this year, and I…
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Branding
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/oldcows06092007?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/oldcows06092007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Getting ready to brand the old cows calves. We branded the last of the calves up the other day. old cows and late calvers. The youngest of these old cows is 14 years old and the oldest was 19. That's…
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Getting There
We finally finished the last of our cow work. I had a bunch of late calvers that needed branding and we got them done yesterday. With the late calvers, bums, and old cows we managed to scrape together almost 50 head to do. With my girls and the new hired hand we whipped right through…
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Light
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/morninglight06032007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/morninglight06032007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I was trying to take a picture of the moon and the way the morning light was reflecting off of the grass. It didn't work to well but the colors and light were intriguing to me. I was branding at…
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I’ll Have To See It To Believe It
We'll see, South Korea isn't known for being very cooperative when it comes to US beef.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/08/ap3802051.html">South Korea Opens to US Beef Imports </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea lifted a de facto ban on American beef imports Friday, after the U.S. confirmed that only two shipments meant for domestic consumption were exported mistakenly, officials…
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Clean Yet
I see that with almost <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/08/news/state/25-brucellosis.txt">2000 head of cattle tested</a>, Montana is still holding on to its brucellosis free status by the its teeth. The worry continues that they will find another one testing positive but in the meantime life goes on.<br />n<br />nThis whole situation has really ignited the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/09/news/state/30-bison.txt">Bison issue at…