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    Road trip MO to TX

    My first question is why all the way to Mcallen? I would dodge McAllen unless you have family or some thing there. Folks bought a house in a retirement community 12-15 years ago and spent every winter there since we are heading down to clean out personal effects they bought it fully furnished...
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    Road trip MO to TX

    My 9 yr old son and I will be driving from Macon MO to Mcallaen TX and back leaving next week would like to see the Alamo going down and the gulf coast coming home Any recomendations om what to avoid or what to see
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    if this was your pasture

    omitted treating the blackberry stumps after mowing I treat both multiflora rose and blackberry after hitting with brush hog with good results
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    if this was your pasture

    put cows in to graze what they can hit the blackberry patches with the cutter chainsaw and stump treat the plum thickets and locust depending on location I would keep most oaks pecan and cedar we keep cedar groves in most pastures for winter wind breaks and spot spray weeds
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    Buying standing hay

    we have 60 acres we bale that they take sealed bids every 3 years, yields 2-3 bales per acre, pay about 15 per acre and we take care of fertilizer
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    spring grazing winter wheat

    drilled left over winter wheat last fall as a cover crop but also with the intent of grazing this spring have been thinking about interseeding oats, rye or ? to the wheat. will be putting cows in about first week of april and use hot wire to strip graze until 3rd week of may when they go to...
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    concrete waterer

    525 for single sided 200 gallon in north central mo installed 5 last year
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    No Till Drill ?

    Yetter made a 3 pt tool bar that had 21 ( I think ) no till coulters on it with a hitch on the back to pull a drill like a JD 8300 or IH 5100 would make them no till
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    County laws

    he sold the land in 2002 and they are suing him now he claims he does not know when the waste debris showed up at what point are we not liable for real estate that we once owned
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    Wife goes vegan and then buys husband's whole herd

    Even though she "bought" the herd they are still married so she has access to the money and he still owns part of the herd but now they will need to raise donations to maintain expand the herd
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    Rubic's Gates

    we had that several years ago lengthen your chain 4 locks 4 pieces of chain each reaches 1/4 way around can't relock it by crossing locks
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    Hope he cleans the hot tub

    several years ago after moving into our new house my wife said no more animals in the house, about 4 months later doing a 3 am heifer check I came to the house and told her we had a new calf that needed to be warmed up how mad will she be? she staired for a few seconds and said I will get...
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    branding irons

    we are going to start freeze branding and looking for a set who would you recommend for making buying a set from?
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    Herd Information

    ours all get a 4 digit number on their eartag the first 2 is the year born 3rd is for spring or fall 4th is their number we use 01-49 for spring and 50-99 for fall ex. 9923 is a 99 model born in the spring and 0862 is an 08 model born in the fall
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    stop naming your cows

    we have close to 30 of ours named some for personality some what was going on when they were born, Barb was born the day Aunt Barb passed, Tina was born when Tina won the first survivor show personality you can guess
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