Monday, June 25th

Have you ever noticed how completely mysterious these staples of the show ring appear to people that have no idea what a steer show is?

Katie has the info and we’ll have it posted sometime today/tomorrow.

…but her “organic, grass fed, antibiotic and vaccine free beef” hamburger meat came from a ranch where the owners just don’t give a damn about taking care of cattle.  Who knew that my grandfather was such a progressive cattlemen back in the 80s?  (I mean other than the worms that infested the insides of the herd back then)

That industry can discuss their impartiality and journalistic integrity all they want.  The day I see an article in a cattle industry publication about animal abuse that focuses more on going after those behind the abuse than stressing that “it’s more important than ever that we get the real story about animal agriculture out” will be the day I consider it to be journalism.

That weather forecasts were the kind of thing where the more often you check them, the higher the odds of precipitation gets.

No, not because he finally realized that it’s crazy to bale hay without a big one.  Because he burned his baler up last week, so he got an extinguisher, this week.