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  1. Texan

    Grazing turnips

    Anybody here had any experience grazing turnips? Preferably, light calves. I'd be interested in reading your advice and experiences. They seem like they would be fairly cheap to establish, but one of my concerns is the damn hogs. If anybody in hog country has tried them, how did that work?
  2. Texan

    Fenced in

    Somebody sent me this pic from the Bastrop fire. Really puts the fear into perspective for any cattleman.
  3. Texan

    It must suck to be you

    It must really suck to be one of you Obama supporters. All of the grand plans you had. All the talk of "HOPE" and "CHANGE" and all of that silly crap. All the starry-eyed dreams you had when you listened to your Messiah's big talk. All of the wet dreams you had each night after his grand...
  4. Texan

    Update on Eastern Livestock Bankruptcy

    Bankruptcy Trustee Gives Update On Eastern Livestock Debacle By Colleen Schreiber KISSIMMEE, Fla. — One of the cattle industry’s worst debacles — at least in recent times — the Eastern Livestock Chapter 11 bankruptcy case is now about 10 months in, and far from being sorted out...
  5. Texan

    2004 Presidential Election rigged four years earlier?

    I'm trying to hone the deductive reasoning portion of my investigative skills and I need a little help... After being elected in 2000, if President Bush told all of his regulators to take an 8-year vacation, or an 8-year coffee break, wouldn't he have had to know in advance that he was going...
  6. Texan

    What will it take?

    What will it take for some of you to get off of your knees in front of Obama and speak out against this? This goes all the way to the White House and the Attorney General and some of you don't even have the integrity to speak out against it because you think it will make you look weak. How...
  7. Texan

    Blast from the past

    This has got to be one of the goofiest threads of all time: http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39319
  8. Texan

    How stupid are you?

    The Blamer-in-Chief is still at it. Just this week, he appeared on the Tom Joyner radio show and he's still trying to blame President Bush for his own bad policy decisions. Will this President ever mature enough to accept responsibility and act like a leader? Is this the type of person...
  9. Texan

    Will the Real Democratic Party Stand Up

    I suppose that if you voted for Barack Obama, these guys blocking the door at a polling place in Philadelphia represent your views?
  10. Texan

    The fish rots from the head down

    Malkin: Cover Up - The Fast and Furious Edition By Michelle Malkin August 31, 2011 6:30 am There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a "rubber room." That's the nickname for taxpayer-subsidized holding pens, such as...
  11. Texan

    Kinky for Perry

    Kinky for Perry Aug 24, 2011 7:45 PM EDT Kinky Friedman once ran against Rick Perry for the Texas governorship. So would the singer and writer vote for him for president? Hell, yes! The world’s most famous Jewish cowboy on why he wants to live in Rick Perry’s America: By Kinky Friedman Rick...
  12. Texan

    Too funny...Buffett's hypocrisy

    Warren Buffett’s taxing hypocrisy By Bill Wilson — The Obama Administration has turned to billionaire Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of financial giant Berkshire Hathaway, to make the case for raising taxes on the rich because, says Buffett, he can afford it. On Aug. 22, the...
  13. Texan

    Congratulations, Oldtimer

    I had a few comments/questions on some political matters, but I decided that can wait for some other time. For this thread: Congratulations on the new granddaughter! :wink:
  14. Texan

    Draxxin

    Any of you that use Draxxin for first pulls or mass treats having trouble with it this year? I've had some calves that either didn't respond at all, or that I've had to repull after a couple of weeks. I hit those with Excede and so far it seems to be working better.
  15. Texan

    Texas = Hell?

    Well...not really. But it's sure getting hellish. ======================= Texas crop, weather for Aug. 16, 2011 Forage expert: It's a 'no-brainer;' sell out herds now AgriLife Today August 16, 2011 By: Robert Burns COLLEGE STATION – With little to no grazing and hay, should livestock...
  16. Texan

    Great news!

    Timothy Geithner to stay at Treasury By BEN WHITE | 8/7/11 4:05 PM EDT Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will stay at his post through the fall and President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, the Treasury Department announced Sunday. “Secretary Geithner has let the president know that he...
  17. Texan

    How stupid are you?

    Fannie Mae asks for another $5.1 billion in bailout cash Today brings more great news from the bailout. Fannie Mae, which has already eaten over $100 billion of taxpayer money after being absorbed by the federal government in 2008, took a loss in the second quarter of $5.2 billion — and they...
  18. Texan

    S&P Downgrades U.S. Debt Rating - Press Release

    Standard & Poor’s took the unprecedented step of downgrading the U.S. government’s “AAA” sovereign credit rating Friday in a move that could send shock waves through global. The following is a press release from Standard & Poor’s: – We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the...
  19. Texan

    Where are you?

    Aren't there some people here who used to provide stock market updates for us during the last few months of the Bush Administration? Do you guys no longer have any interest in what's happening with the Dow?
  20. Texan

    Where are you?

    Where are you states-rights supporters? The ones that complained so much during the Bush Administration? Now that the Holder Justice Department is suing Alabama for trying to enforce the immigration laws that the feds refuse to enforce, I figured we would be hearing something out of you...
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