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    Sweet clover questions

    I Have a few questions for those of you that graze sweet clover. I am a fairly recent transplant to Eastern Oklahoma so my experience with it is fairly limited. I am a beekeeper in addition to running cows so the attraction is obvious but I have a few concerns that I need to quell before I go...
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    Another Dirtbag Teacher

    Our modern school system was designed by a communist. What do we expect? I expect that it would be a little better here in Oklahoma but when my kids were ready to start school we still lived in CA and sending them to public school there wasn't even an option for us so we homeschool. Even if the...
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    off topic

    We moved about eighteen months ago from central CA to eastern OK. We bought a home sight unseen to go with the ranch we wanted and recently decided to sell it and build on the ranch. I was grumbling today about moving stuff again and my daughter reminded me that this time I only have to haul it...
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    NFL and the kneelers who are ruining the game

    I hate it. When we moved here to OK from CA I decided that part of slowing down was going to be watching football and I like all of the AFC west teams. I expect to see some thug life as that comes with watching pro sports and made my peace with it and enjoyed watching the Chiefs last year but...
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    off topic

    I'm back to being dog poor. I bought a started dog and a pup a few months ago. I lost the started dog in a thunderstorm (still not sure what happened but a dead dog is a dead dog) and the pup tried to head off the mail truck and bring it back to me today. I'm back to two old grouchy retired...
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    You can't save them all

    I knew a guy in CA that bought a few high dollar horses out of Nebraska that lost two of them getting wedged in a tree like that. Turns out they had seen just about everything there was to see on a ranch except trees. The last one got sold cheap because the other common CA ranch feature that...
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    off topic

    It was hotter than I would prefer to be weaning calves today but we did it anyway. My son is turning into real help and just in time as somewhere along the way I got to old to do it all by myself. Luckily the small rip in the crotch of my jeans turned into a big rip as I was grateful for the...
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    Machine?

    That's all I ever saw in CA. I didn't know they made anything else for cutting hay until I moved here to OK. In CA it's so dry during hay season that all they have to do is rake two windrows together in the late afternoon and then start baling around midnight to get whatever dew they can...
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    Mustang Pictures--------------

    Those pictures bring back a lot of fond memories for me. When I was a kid my grandmother lived in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada and we used to spend days on end going out to watch the mustangs.
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    Still going on

    I saw it a few minutes ago. I started to comment and then deleted it, Commented on the 9-11 thread instead, logged out and came over here where things make sense. Pretty much the only reason I even look there at all is force of habit. I have a handful of things I look at whenever I sit down at...
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    montana on fire

    Do ya feel kinda left out? Hard to find many stories in the media about ANY of the fires. Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and now Montana and parts of Washington and Canada and not much more than a blip on the radar. The one good thing we found out early on is that Montana has their shyt...
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    Harvey

    My wife and I got involved with disaster relief after the fires in Kansas. We made a specific donation that called for us to do some research and make some connections and also hauled some donated stuff from our area and in doing so wound up with a network of people that are very focused on...
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    Generational disasters

    I don't know what could come next. I left California in the last part of the crippling drought there. I'm in a high rainfall part of the country now and I still start sweating when it dries out just a tad here. I think I have weather related PTSD. :lol: I have a friend that we helped in Kansas...
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    Hey Gcreek

    Yes. I've always considered myself a cattleman first but that trip made me realize how much the people mean to me. I hate that business suffers, I can't stand the thought of the stock that has suffered, but both of those have already dulled with time for me. What I won't ever, ever, forget is...
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    Hey Gcreek

    I doubt anyone will have any hard numbers for a long time to come. We went to Ashland about a month after the fire and they were still finding and destroying cattle. With as much fence burned up in all these fires there's really no way to get an accurate count. Even the stuff that survives is...
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    Hey Gcreek

    That was a real struggle when my wife and I were trying to drum up local support for the fires in Kansas and western OK earlier this year. People here had no clue what kind of devastation we were telling them about. We took video when we went to Ashland and it blew people away to see that kind...
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    Gestational Protein Research

    Interesting but in my mind not a reason to start feeding better. You'd sure up your chances of getting a heifer bred but reduce your chances of finding out which cattle can hack it in hard times. I've done a little digging into epigenetics where you program cattle in utero and that shows promise...
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    Young Muslims Getting Rabies

    Put's a whole new spin on getting a piece of Azz.
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    A FEW HIRED HAND TALES, by Steve Moreland, August 13, 2017

    When I was a very little boy my dad had a hired hand in his early twenties that he paid every saturday morning. One morning my sister and I were watching cartoons and he came up to the house to collect his check. Dad offered him a seat in the living room where we were at. Instead of taking a...
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    Anyone still around here

    Things still make sense in the middle and top of the state. There's a lot there to like. Everybody thinks if you grew up in CA you know how to surf but that state has some awesome cattle country.
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