Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Food Borne Illness

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=94959" >Rates Of Foodborne Illness Are Decreasing</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that rates of foodborne illness and the incidence of pathogens in food declined significantly between the late 1990s and 2005. The incidence rates of infection for major pathogens declined by the following rates: Listeria, 32% Campylobacter, 30% E. coli…

  • Big Stick

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=E9F8510B-A169-AD8F-9896FE5EC9135590" >Nelson threatens trade war with South Korea over beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (D) threatened to introduce legislation that would impose sanctions on South Korea if that nation doesn’t end its more than three-year-long ban on U.S. beef. Nelson introduced similar legislation aimed at Japan while that nation's market remained closed to…

  • Snow Lover

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/dog/lucky12302006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/dog/lucky12302006.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Somebody enjoys the snow. As warm as it is getting it won't last much longer for him. Taken 12/30/2006.</center><br />n<br />nUPDATE: Picture problem now fixed, Sorry.

  • Prognostications

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/ROBERTSON_PREDICTION?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Pat Robertson predicts 'mass killing'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.<br />n<br />n"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said…

  • Here It Comes

    Montana's Legislature convenes today in it's biennial 90-day session. All I can say is <a href="http://www.acronymfinder.com/acronym.aspx?rec={0EA05764-8568-11D4-8351-00C04FC2C2BF}">BOHICA</a>. I guarantee you that is what is going to happen, the taxpayers is going to get screwed over. I'm sure glad they can only do this once every two years. I don't think I could stand a yearly reaming…

  • Cattle Troubles

    I talked a couple a days ago about the <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2332-Nasty-Storm.html">winter storm</a> and the livestock that is in trouble with it. A little more information is trickling into the national consciousness about it now.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4439593.html" >Haylift to save snowbound cattle begins</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>National Guard helicopters dropped emergency food bundles and bales of hay…

  • Ice Crystals

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/crystals12302006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/crystals12302006.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Crystals that were all over everything a few days ago. They look cold and it was that morning. Taken 12/30/2006.</center>

  • Good Looking

    I had a neighbor drive through my place "looking around" the other day. He stopped and visited when he was done and told me "That is one nice looking bunch of two-year olds, I think they are the best I've ever seen." I know, I should have just said thank you or something similarly modest…

  • Interesting Problem

    <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aROCMcTjM8_g&refer=home" >Removing Gene for Mad-Cow Disease May Breed Healthier Cattle </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cattle can be genetically altered to lack the protein that causes mad-cow disease without adverse health effects, a study suggests.<br />n<br />nScientists at Hematech Inc., a unit of Japan's Kirin Brewery Co., and the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that cows bred…

  • Any Grub

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/yum12302006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/yum12302006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A cow approaching me thinking the camera is cake that she can eat. She had absolutely no fear and was just sure the camera was something to eat. You can even see her licking her lips in anticipation. Taken 12/30/2006.</center>

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