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Something to think about, Sustainable is a word tht is sometimes over used. I believe it is proper to produce all we can, but without gluttony or waste. It is difficult to find a balance between what we need and what we can produce and still assure we have what we may need at some...

The government wants to tell us what to plant how much we can plant and set the price for what we produce. It wants to find a way to over ride the laws of supply and demand. Farm subsidies have been somewhat successful but come a long way from being fair and just

It all goes back to the time of the kings. If the king found his granaries and warehouses full[, then in a time of a famin he opened them to feed the people, he was considered a good king. If he found them empty, he taxed the people and took some of the farmers crops to fill them, he was a...

I am back on ranchers net, at least to browse. I am living in Cherry Hills Eststes asisted living here in Valentine again. I had what they call a mimi-stroke I am doing pretty good. I am able to walk and get around again but have to live here This thing happened to me while I was driving...

I have a 40X60 Marval Brute here. We put it p in 1975. It may have a little more wall space then the old Quonset. but does have some wasted space. It serves our purpose I guess. The Miracle Span was popular when we put this up too. Don't know why we chose this one. A steel building doesn't...

I have an 1989 250. Is it air in the clutch system or is that the clutch don't entirely release? I believe the slave cylinder is fastened to the fire wall. After time the fire wall becomes less stable so it don't work so well. Some put an adjustable push rod from the slave cylinder to the...

We are near South Dakota's banana belt here -2F this morning Not expected to warm much today, then colder tonight and tomorrow. 3 inches of snow now. NNE wind but it is not moving much snow

It seems that a lot of people are having trouble with their computers. Viruses on top of viriuses. Mine hasn't worked right for the past six months. Have put 2 new hard drives in it in the past year. Now I have the windows 7 version in but I am still not satisfied in the way it works...

Flying S just about says it all. It just happens that today is my birthday, a big one. It's easier to look back then to look ahead. There are some things I would like to get out of my craw. When I came home from the service at the end of the Korean war, my main concern was to start to put...

It was 0 F here this morning overcast with only light wind. Cold predicted for tomorrow with strong wind. Barometer reads 30.25 so we may not get the wind. Still a little snow on the ground.

Happy New Year to everyone on Rancher's Net Time marches on, but it is sometimes good to put the old year aside and put our hopes on the new one. Hope all on ranchers net wll have a good and prosperous 2014

According to my thermometer the overnight low here was -18 Valentine reported 24 below. It is +1 degrees now no wind. When I was a kid this was the kind of day we stayed home from school. School was 1 1/2 miles from home. Maybe we learned just as much looking at the pictures in the Sears &...

We have to understand the real situation there. I live, maybe 150 miles south and east of the area affected. I am no longer in ranching, but if there were losses here they were small. Neither the ranchers or the livestock were prepared for such a storm. Usually here in South Dakota cattle...

First snow of the season here. This weather pattern started here early Thursday morning. First with thunder and lightening, then rain. There was .40" in the rain gauge after that. this was followed by mist and light ever since. friday morning had another .40 of rain., haven't checked it...

Had a fair shower here yesterday about 11 AM too. Brought the month's rainfall a little above average, and we still have a few days to go. Looks like a fair chance of rain most every day for the next week. Looked a bit dry here about the 4th of July as we didn't get our June moisture, but...

Dogs do have some way of sensing when rain is coming. We have had dogs here that would usually stay near the house, but if it appeared that it might rain, they would come out to the field where we were working. They were afraid of thunder and felt safer when near us. I have even seen them...

These are a couple of pictures out o my book. They didn't copy to well. Here is what I have written about them: Lead plant Leadplant is nearly as abundant as the scurf peas. leadplant is probably the most important of all the native legumes. It is deep rooted, woody shrub...

Don't know if anyone is interested, but I will report in anyway. It is overcast here today. We receive nearly 2 inches of rain yesterday and last night. Valentine reported .70, but that may not have included what they got yesterday. Rain was really welcome and appreciated as rainfall in June...