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One unique quality of farmers and ranchers is they work together as a family. Taking care of livestock and crops requires everyone in the family — even small children doing chores like feeding bucket calves, collecting eggs and feeding chickens — to be a part of the work.

The air temperature outside is two degrees and the snow flurries are beginning to accumulate. In times such as these, my Grandmother Lane would tell me that it was too cold to snow. I looked out my window and watched the dry snow float down, then blow across the sidewalks until it caught on a grassy surface. It would be a good morning for a nap if I

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It’s January and I have been watching the weather forecasts on television with increasing intensity. I listen, but often disagree with the forecast. So, I sit in my living room in front of the television set and talk back to the meteorologist. I don’t know when they stopped being weathermen and became meteorologist.

SNOW DAY!

According to K-State beef cattle experts with the Beef Cattle Institute, it is crucial to evaluate your management practices when it comes to cattle health in extreme cold conditions. Many were able to retreat indoors in the negative degree windchills much of our area faced just before Christmas, but for our cattle out on pasture, a warm barn is not always and option.

Reeder’s is a service station located at 21st and Lewis Avenue in Tulsa, Okla. just a few blocks from my home. Reeder’s full-service pumps equals their self-service pumps and they have chefs and a kitchen that have redefined “gas station food.”

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Many prayed for rain over the last couple of years and now some of those prayers have been answered. While not all of the Greenwood County ponds have been filled, some have and that is as much as we could ask for. What does this mean for GW County? This means that more cattle will be purchased and brought in to fill these hills. And what a blessing that is. These hills are made for cattle and we are excited to have water once again.