Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • The Word is Getting Out

    You know my feelings about how the drive for biofuels is going to drive the price of food up and how this trade off might not be the smartest thing in the world, but I now see the larger press is picking up on this idea.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0639150720070307" title="Told you so.">As biofuels boom, will…

  • Rain

    Okay, this is ridiculous. It's the 8th of March and it's raining here. The ground is still frozen underneath and there is still snow and ice around in places. Adding rain to this slushy, muddy, icy, miserable ground we have around here is not necessary. It just makes the cattle, My Darling Wife, and me…

  • This is a Compromise?

    It appears that South Korea is willing, if that's what you want to call it, to compromise on their <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2252-South-Koreas-Trade-Barrier.html">official/unofficial US beef Blockade</a>. Instead of combing through a whole shipment of beef to find the most minute piece of bone fragment imaginable so they can reject the shipment, they are now willing to comb…

  • Comfort

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/comfort03032007?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/comfort03032007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This heifer decided the inside on the feeder would be a more comfortable place to lay. She was also resting her chin on the lip of the feeder. I guess that helped hold her head up. Taken 3/3/2007.</center>

  • Question

    I have been approached by a commercial entity about using some of my photographs on some of there web pages. Does anybody out there know how this works? The individual said my pictures are of value so I need to get the value out of them if he uses them but he is not sure…

  • Snow Scene

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/snow02172007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/snow02172007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>With the last of the snow melting off in the warm temperatures I thought it appropriate to post another snow scene. Taken 2/17/2007.</center>

  • Running Scared

    Can you guess who is running scared from <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>? The big Meat packers, <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>, good guess but wrong. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>And industry officials say they're ready to put up a fight.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWow, they are really going to fight this. Who…

  • High Water

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/highwater02212007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/highwater02212007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This photo is from a while ago but is indicative of what is happening now again. The water is running high as the rest of the snow melts in the 50+ temperatures we are getting. You can see where the…

  • First Calf

    Spring has officially Sprung for me and a new year has begun. The first calf on the cows was spotted yesterday. The cows don't get the attention the first calf heifers do. I knew the cows could be starting any time now so it was not a surprise, nice to see but not a surprise.<br…

  • Ruin My Day

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ruin03032007.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:106 –><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ruin03032007.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Here is a really good way to ruin a persons day. By the time I got it fixed yesterday it was after noon and the cows decided we weren't going to feed them at all. Taken 3/3/2007.</center>

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