Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Gone
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/ship09262008.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:112 –><img class="serendipity_image_center" width="250" height="167" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/ship09262008.serendipityThumb.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Shipped the steers out of here on Friday. They really weighed well this year. 554 lbs. That's 40 pounds better than last year. Some early September rains really made a big difference. Taken 9/26/2008.</center>
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Crystal Ball
I sometimes wish I had a crystal ball so I could see what was coming up in the future. It is really something out there. I don't need to link the stories. Investment banks failing. The government buying AIG to save their ass. The financial crisis not only rocking this nation, but the world is…
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Just Deserts
Yesterday while preg checking the replacement heifers my oldest daughter made a great observation. While fighting with a particularly recalcitrant heifer she said, "Now I know why we eat you." How many cattlemen have you seen that are vegetarian? Most all of them love beef. It is kind of just deserts or revenge for having…
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Beautiful
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/day08162008?full=1'><img class="serendipity_image_center" width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/day08162008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It definitely was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Taken 8/16/2008.</center>
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No Surprise
Didn't I tell you this would happen when the wolf was first de-listed?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/07/19/news/state/30-wolf.txt">Judge puts wolf protection rules back in force</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal judge has restored endangered-species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts in the fall.<br />n<br />nU.S. District Judge…
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I Know
Yea, I Know. I haven't been around much lately. I don't know what to say. After about 5 years I just lost the impulse to say anything. Once I didn't for a few days there was nbo pressure on me to do it again. Am I going to promise to do better? I don't think…
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Turtle
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/turtle06282008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/turtle06282008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A fairly rare sight around here. Big, old Snapping turtle. Normally you see them near water but this one was quite a ways away from any. Must be traveling to a new watershed. Taken 06/27/2008.</center>
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Strung Out
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings06242008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings06242008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Trailing the yearlings to fresh pasture. There was nothing wrong with where they were at but I do need to save some grass there for later in the year so it was time to move them. taken 6/24/2008.</center>
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Strong Stance
<a href="http://www.uscattlemen.org/TheNewsRoom/2008_News/6-23BrucellosisEradication.htm"><acronym title="United States Cattleman's Association">USCA</acronym> Calls For Long-Term Brucellosis Eradication Program Within Greater Yellowstone Area</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Cattleman's Association">USCA</acronym> (June 23, 2008) – On Monday, June 9 state and federal animal health officials confirmed the presence of brucellosis in a suspect cow located in the Paradise Valley of Montana. Days later, two…
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Will They Listen?
<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDdJ3UTsqcN2JyaG8SKq_yCh8cpwD91E2G580">Study: Moving virus research could be costly</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now conducted,…