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Blkbuckaroo
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Must be nice to have cows that know the way and are happy to go there without instruction.
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Silver
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey gcreek, I see on the dash of your pickup you have the handy dandy weed identifier key chain the ministry likes to hand out. Do you have all your local noxious weeds identified and dealt with? Very Happy
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gcreekrch
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Silver wrote:
Hey gcreek, I see on the dash of your pickup you have the handy dandy weed identifier key chain the ministry likes to hand out. Do you have all your local noxious weeds identified and dealt with? Very Happy


Sharp eye Silver. Wink

We do have a few weeds here that came in with feed we have bought. Some Canadian Thistle that arrived in a load of barley 10 years ago has nearly been eradicated. There is also a bit of Rattlebox weed that came with some hay we got in Vanderhoof. We fed it on the ground we grow our oats on, a couple of years of making silage out of it and it disappears too. The worst weed we have is Jackpines.
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Big Swede
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd take a few acres of your jackpines. Always enjoy your pictures.
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Grassfarmer
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another question for you gcreek, with all that snow you get what is your average annual precipitation?
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gcreekrch
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Grassfarmer wrote:
Another question for you gcreek, with all that snow you get what is your average annual precipitation?


If I remember right it is about 18 inches of less. Lester Dorsey, one of the original settlers, used to say this country would be a desert if it wasn't for the trees. A 10 to 12 inch pine can be up to 400 years old. (not that the beetles left many of the real old trees alive)
There are literally thousands of springs bleeding out of the ground here which is why our meadows are so wet. Thre is basically nothing for a cow to eat in the timber.
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