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Here is the bread recipe mentioned as being pretty easy, FH. I found it in the "PARTYLINE COOK BOOK' I bought at a silent auction at an NCBA convention in Charlotte, NC in 1999. Wish I had made such notations in all the cookbooks I have! This one is interesting because many of the contributors...

Does someone know how to find the 'PM icon'? I tried to send a PM, and the message "no PM icon found" came up, and I didn't see a way to find it. Probably missing something, but noticed others have had problems, too. Thanks for any help. mrj

Time to wrangle horses before going to vaccinate some calves. Gate to the yard is open, but they will go right to the barn for their oats. A nice brisk morning, horses feeling frisky. Run south to the water tank, notice the open gate, and it's off to the opening! Old cowboy in pickup pulling...

We are remembering our western heritage this week end with two events. One in Ft. Pierre today and again tomorrow. Excellent demonstrations of crafts, such as saddle making in progress, lots of braided tack by local people. Old E. C. Lee saddles on display, as well as buggies, wagons, etc...

This might relate to the great piece posted by Soapweed lamenting consumers' lack of understanding of facts about food production, in a way. I served some watermelon as a snack yesterday afternoon, a favorite food of our great grand daughter, age three and a half years. When she saw the...

I've been told we got about .90" of rain since sometime during the night. It came nice and gentle, off and on all day and as it got dark tonight. Pretty timely, as grass had appeared to be losing ground lately. A true blessing! We are about 8 miles north of exit 170 on I-90, and am guessing it...

Is there any information on causes or reasons for that presentation at birth? We have had several in heifers this year. Lost a few. A few caesarians, and a few pulled at home. lose some, win some, it seems. Varying sizes, I believe. It will be interesting to see what happens with the cows...

Part of our crew set out last Friday to bring home about 500 cows and their calves for weaning. They knew they were short handed, and it would be dicey getting them home before dark, given the distance, big pasture, etc. They did get them into a different pasture, but had to give up before...

I appreciate the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) serving free meals to people left homeless by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. That seems a very appropriate use of Beef Checkoff and the partnering federal dollars. Cattle producers are well known to use their own money to help people, and...

There is an interesting report in Drovers CattleNetwork today. Link to it at http://www.cattlenetwork.com.cattle-news/latest/Cattle-raiser-convention-features-session-on-beef-product-development-trend-118518200.html. It reports on a session presented by Dr. Molly McAdams who is a branding and...

We seem to be inundated with stories of ever more people going hungry in the USA. Implied is that it is through no fault of their own, which may well be the case for some, notably small children and those too ill to work, yet too 'wealthy' to have access to food programs (can that happen???)...

Contrary to what one would think from much comment on this forum, there are some good editorials and stories about the attacks on NCBA. Pete Crow has had several in Western Livestock Journal, and this Guest Editorial in the Cattle Business Weekly by Bill Donald, a cattle producer in MT...

The Food and Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, if passed as it now stands, will surely make people in the business of raising food animals consider that trite phrase once again. THis is a short version of news release from NCBA in Beef Magazine Cow Calf Weekly email. NCBA is urging the House...

How would you Canadians posting here rate your health care system? We in the USA are probably going to get much the same system, if 'O' has his way. Hopefully, it won't be so bad as it would surely have been had T Daschle not been caught at his tax evasion. I don't have much confidence in...

Headline in Cow-Calf Weekly, 9/12/'08. US feeder cattle imports from Mexico totaled just under 390,000 head compared with 585,000 at same date last year, due partly to lower cow numbers in Mexico. Total for 2008 is expected to be about 750,000 head. mrj

From the Economic Research Service. Structure and Finance of U. S. Farms: 2005 Family Farm Report at www.ers.usda.gov. About 717,000 farms in the US wentout of business between 1992 and 1997. HOWEVER, the total number of FARMS declined by just 13,400 BECAUSE the number of entries into...

Premium Protein Products, Omaha, NE, makes deal with largest Japanese retailer, Aeon Co. according to Aeon spokesman. Story is on www.Meatingplace.com News Page, date 4/28/'08. Aeon says it will exclusively carry beef produced by Premium Protein Products. This company has a history of good...

Western Livestock Journal, 3/24/'08 issue, has a report from an interesting study of 1,147 consumers called "The Power of Meat--an In Depth Look at Meat Through the Shoppers Eyes. It was conducted by AMI and the Food Marketing Institute and sponsored by Sealed Air's Cryovac Food Packaging...

I heard your Saskatoon Children's Choir on my radio as I was waking up this morning. They are awsome! Beautiful music from their Easter Concert, I believe. Googled the name, and they have many awards according to the MANY 'results' listing that name. You have a group to be very proud of, IMO...

I woke up this morning to a great music group on my radio! It was the Saskatoon Children's Choir performing their Easter concert, or at least some of the music from it. Had to get up and miss a large part of it as that Canadian station doesn't come in on other radios in the house. Awsome...