Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Talking
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/20/news/state/25-wolf.txt" >Feds may delist wolf in two states</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Wolves in Montana and Idaho could be taken off the endangered species list even if Wyoming wolves remain listed, federal officials said Tuesday.<br />n<br />nA proposal to delist wolves could come as early as next month.</blockquote><br />n<br />nJust a lot more talk, when will we…
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Rumbles
<a href="http://www.ilfb.org/viewdocument.asp?did=12746&r=0.6349451" >Japanese restaurants want more U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese restaurants are feeling a serious supply crunch, according to reports from the Associated Press. The restaurants are set to urge the government to ease restriction on U.S. beef imports, officials said Tuesday.<br />n<br />nAlthough Tokyo eased a 2 � year blanket ban on U.S. beef…
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Lines
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/walk12052006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/walk12052006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Another fairly straight fence line against the natural lines of nature. Yes, that's Lucky quite a ways out there. Taken 12/05/2006.</center>
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Expensive Burger
I occasionally read stories about expensive hamburgers and they astound me. Here's another one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Jakarta-hotel-puts-110-burger-on-menu/2006/12/19/1166290520313.html" >Jakarta hotel puts $110 burger on menu</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A hotel in Indonesia is dishing out a hamburger that costs more than twice the monthly minimum wage in some parts of the country.<br />n<br />nThe $US110 ($A141.27) hamburger offered…
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Calves
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves12072006?full=1'><img width='509' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves12072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The calves coming up and waiting for their feed. Taken 12/7/2006.</center>
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Resonable Thoughts
I've been trying to get a handle on what is going to happen to cattle prices with the Ethanol boom driving corn prices so high. Part of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/14/news/local/30-stockgrowers.txt">this story</a> finally clued me in to the best explanation I've seen.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>What might be really ridiculous is corn going to $4 a bushel.<br />n<br />nMichael…
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Troublesome
<a href="http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/cattlemeds121206.shtml" >Antibiotics in cattle a concern for consumers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> Just as in humans, the use of antibiotics quickly can help a sick cow return to the pink of health.<br />n<br />nBut in the cattle industry, that isn't the only use of antibiotics.<br />n<br />nSince the 1950s, it's been common to give so-called "sub-therapeutic"…
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Feeding
Well, I finally started to feed the cows some hay earlier this week. With the lack of snow cover the cows were doing okay on the grass available but I penciled out, yes in this day of computers, PDAs, and calculators I still am more comfortable with a pencil and paper, what my hay supply…
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Tullock Creek
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/tullock12112006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/tullock12112006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nothing special, just looking down the East Fork of Tullock Creek. This one's for you JT. Taken 12/16/2006.</center>
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Quite A Change
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/lf_nm/cities_dc" >In epochal shift, half humanity to become urban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With the world poised to enter an urban age when more people will live in cities than in the countryside, Josiah Tobiko sees no need to move from his cow dung-covered hut in rural Kenya.<br />n<br />n"You can choose city life with televisions and…