Showing posts with label ag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ag. Show all posts
August 19, 2008

What do the mice know that I don't?

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Last Bite As you may know, I blog from an old feedlot. There are no cattle here now, because its too close to the sensitive nostrils of town...
July 22, 2008

Save the Rodeo

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Bull Rider - Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Texas Fred wants everyone who likes the Rodeo to help show the anti-rodeo animal rights wackos j...
June 28, 2008

Wind Damage at the Feedlot

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Wind starts to blow - click for video A nasty storm with winds I estimate at about 90 mph came up very suddenly yesterday afternoon. It onl...
July 10, 2007

Cow Farts Got You Worried?

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Add Beano to their Feed Scientists at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in the UK have a notion to change the diets of o...
June 15, 2007

Ethanol: Sensible Advice

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Sensible advice from the Nebraska Cattlemen : "let the marketplace determine input needs for ethanol production." Read more at Sou...
May 03, 2007

Odd Crop Report Headline

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Big John Deere Planter I saw this headline in a clipping service e-mail from Brownfield's Ag News Network: Nebraska Corn Board chairman ...
September 13, 2006

Grain Farmers - always something to complain about

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Big Crop - Big Picker America's grain farmers, God bless 'em, figure that any crop news is bad news. The latest crop estimates indi...
June 29, 2006

Milkweed

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Common Milkweed - Asclepias syriaca Like many old rural homes, the house here at the Feedlot has a bit of an aroma. Warm, humid weather se...
June 19, 2006

It can't be anthropogeneric global warming

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Dry Corn at the Feedlot On the national scene this afternoon, it looks like the bad guys are on the ropes. Jihadis , commies , useful idio...
May 24, 2006

Nebraska Crop Report

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Young Corn - Grant Wood Nebraska's corn and bean planting is nearly completed. The weather has been warm and dry, facilitating this spr...
April 10, 2006

America's Feedlots: Breaking the US Foreign Oil Habit

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Gasoline from Manure A Japanese researcher has developed a process for producing gasoline from manure . This is wonderful news, especially ...
March 28, 2006

Ethanol: a Trick on Farmers

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Coal Power makes Ethanol The old feeder used to illustrate the relationship between red indians and white men in the USA with an anecdote. ...
March 22, 2006

"Farmer's Snow" Causes Calving Problems In Nebraska

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Moo The big snow we just had here at the Feedlot was considerably worse to the west of us. Up to 25" in some places. While this repre...
February 08, 2006

Buy Danish Pork

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Its Automatic! The Danes have put lots of thought into their Welfare State . You have to hand it to them, having to rationalize the added c...
October 14, 2005

State 29: Corn Burning Stoves

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With winter coming soon, the old feeder's thoughts turn to wood stoves. Oh, I've had to live in a house in town with 'forced air...
September 17, 2005

Grain farmers get Katrina heads-up

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Welcoming homeless hurricane survivors, sending volunteers with supplies and raising money to help, American private citizens have comported...
September 12, 2005

Rewilding the Great Plains

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The tweed jacket with elbow patches crowd are at it again. They know what we need to make ours a better world. They have a plan: the rewild...
March 15, 2005

The Beef State and PETA

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Today Is International Eat An Animal For PETA Day . I wouldn't have known this except for the sharp cats at Wizbang , who can turn an...
February 12, 2005

King Corn

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State Senator Jack Kibbie of Iowa is introducing a bill mandating that all gasoline sold in the state include 10% ethanol, as in Minnesota, ...