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    Dimmitt Tx Dairy Farm Explosion

    Proable when all of the report is out it will be found that there was a methane collection at the farm and the machinery that moves the gas around to the farm malfunctioned. Methane collection systems is pretty prevelant around the larger farms.
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    Let the fight begin!

    My wife does ribs and brisket in the slow cooker. It as good as any cooked in the smoker and a whole lot easier.
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    Priefert Squeeze Chutes..anyone with advice

    Are you located any where in east texas. Priefert has a scratch and dent outlet. Good buys on gates and equipment. I was over there today and bought a 14 heavy gate for 162 dollars. Been about ten years since I had been there go around the Marvin Priefert loop and you will find the entrance to...
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    Nuclear Engery

    This looks very promising for the future. It would be good to install at some locations where the infrastructure was available for distribution. Such as a power plant that had been closed. https://www.lastenergy.com/approach
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    Four words

    named amos and andy
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    Four words

    Twins freemartin and bull
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    Counting Your Money

    I would like to add this "It is not what you make but how to manage what you do make."
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    Counting Your Money

    GB emember when a Baby Ruth 1\4 pound bar could be bought for 25 cents. Big enough to have to take to the sawmill to divide
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    Bale Grazing

    Yes it is electric it is the M3B400R. Was mfg by Thompson now Herd out of Logansport In. The unit I have is not available anymore. It is replaced with a I-92 mfg and sold by Kasco.
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    Counting Your Money

    When candy bars were a nickel I did not have a nickel. But I can buy the $1.50 candy bar but I do not. Type II here.
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    Bale Grazing

    I have bale grazed and here is how I did it. In the fall and in my area is no such thing as stock piling forage. So I would cut and bale the surplus grass in the late fall and wrap with sisal twine and leave in the pasture. Also the rake tractor had an electric herd seeder that I had a mix of...
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    Anyone moving money to bonds ?

    I bonds pay the rate of inflation.
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    Correction

    Liked your story but get it correct you had two bull rides. The first and the last makes two.
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    Sustainable Agriculture?

    https://kerrcenter.com/oklahoma-sustainable-livestock/cattle/?filter_post_tag=forages A lot of good information from the Kerr Fondation.
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    Kioti Tractors

    Should make grass grow. From a strictly chemical disposition DEF is a mixture of 67.5% de-ionized water and 32.5% urea
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