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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
A politician's love for farmers is a many-splendored
thing, especially in an election year. Right now,
sliding-scale Republicans and rigid-support Democrats are
knocking each other out to prove their respective programs
will do most to promote farmers' welfare. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
It’s getting worse every year. We’ve got the
greatest influx of Yankees into the South since northern
drummers caught a glimpse of Dolly Parton. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
National Ag Day was the twentieth of March. Tenders
of flocks and toilers of seeds and row crops may have missed
the day trying to make their operation last through the rest
of the month. For the ones of us really out of touch, there
was also a bigger window, "Ag Week", beginning on
the 18th and ending on the 24th of March. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
It's in the pit of the stomach, a pure visceral
reaction. Watching television news clips of the black, oily
smoke rolling up and over that oh-so-green British
countryside, I suddenly smell it, a gut-griping olfactory
hallucination combining feedyard deadpile and diesel fuel. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
Outside the grocery store the other day was a man
holding a sign that read, "Will work for dog food."
Next to him was an unkempt Collie with a sad look on its face.
People were practically throwing money at the man. What
marketing! But I still don’t think it will be enough. Have
you checked out the price of pet food lately? If that fellow
is really going to "work for dog food," he had
better plan on putting in overtime. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
Plant ecologists define "succession" as the
"orderly, predictable process of change in plant
communities over time." The ability to forward, or
retard, succession (depending upon one's desired plant
community) is the single most important tool of the wildlife
habitat manager. |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
RFD and REA. Rural Free Delivery and Rural
Electrification Administration brought services that city
folks had taken for granted years before. We needed mail to
keep informed. We needed electricity to power our homes, and
later our irrigation, barns and milking systems. |
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