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Rock back in February I bought 15 cows that would calve by late April 2025 for $30,000

This week I bought 11 replacement heifers that weigh 600 and won't calve until February of 2027 for $26,000.

I'm now wishing I would have bought more bred cows this last February.

Its a crazy market now when you have to replace some older cows.

Morning all

I hope so
I may not deserve it but I sure need it

On this day in history 30 Sept

1777
Continental Congress, flees to York, Pennsylvania, as British forces advance

1805
Napoleon Bonaparte's army draws into the Rhine

1867
Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

1934
Babe Ruth's final game as a NY Yankee, he goes 0 for 3

1935
The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1939
In the first televised college football game, Fordham beats Waynesburg, 34-7 at Randalls Island, NY

1946
Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials

1997
Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits

2019
315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 breaks away from Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica

2020
Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases

2023
Bipartisan deal to avoid US government shutdown signed just hours
before midnight deadline, provides funding for 45 days

Born on this day

1975
Marion Cotillard French actress (Inception, La Vie en Rose, Rust and Bone), born in Paris, France

1982 Lacey Chabert, American actress (Party of Five, The Wild Thornberrys), born in Purvis, Mississippi

JOTD

Grandpa goes out fishing with little Johnny. On the lake, he pulls a beer from the backpack and starts drinking.

Little Johnny: Can I have a sip grandpa?

Grandpa: can your dick touch your butthole?

Little Johnny: Unfortunately, not yet

On the second day of fishing. Grandpa pulls out a cigarette and the conversation continues like this:

Little Johnny: Can I have a puff, grandpa?

Grandpa: can your dick touch your a-hole?

Little Johnny: Not yet, sir.

A few minutes later. Little Johnny unwraps a pack of candy and grandpa asks for one.

Little Johnny: can your dick touch your a-hole? Grandpa answers proudly; ‘Yes, it can’.

Little Johnny: then go frick yourself.

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1805
Napoleon Bonaparte's army draws into the Rhine

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Napoleon owned Europe in this time period. He was incredibly gifted when it came to the tactical and operational level of warfare and France had a massive army he could beat people to death with.

Even his strategy was usually pretty solid but he didn't have a solution for the British navy. No one did really. All the UK had to do keep the French bottled up in port and keep finding new ways to stir up trouble on the mainland.

Napoleon can lay the blame for his eventual defeat to one country in particular. The US. What? Well, in the Revolutionary War, the British had made the mistake of not corralling the French fleet. That allowed the French to blockade Cornwallis at Yorktown and set in motion Britain's loss.

They didn't make that mistake in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Morning all

Today in History: October 1

0331BC for Krad Alexander the Great decisively shatters King Darius III's Persian army at Gaugamela (Arbela), in a tactical masterstroke that leaves him master of the Persian Empire.

1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, priced at $825

1957 ""In God We Trust" appears on US paper currency as an act to distinguish the US from the officially atheist USSR; the motto had appeared on coins at various times since 1864.

1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson debuts; Carson will remain The Tonight Show host until 1992.

1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, the second of Disney's "Magic Kingdoms."

1974 Five Nixon aides--Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell--go on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.

1975 Legendary boxing match: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila."

1979 US returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

1982 First compact disc player, released by Sony.

1989 Denmark introduces the world's first "civil union" law granting same-sex couples certain legal rights and responsibilities but stopping short of recognizing same-sex marriages.

2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over judicial functions of the House of Lords.

2017 Stephen Paddock shoots dead 58 people, injuring 489, at a concert in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in American history

2020 US White House aide Hope Hicks tests positive for COVID-19

2021 US COVID-19 death toll passes 700,000, with daily deaths averaging 1,900 a day

2023 Fashion designer Sarah Burton shows her last collection for label Alexander McQueen in Paris, after 13 years

Born on October 1

1935 Julie Andrews (Julia Elizabeth Wells), actress and singer whose films include Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.

1963 Mark McGwire, "Big Mac," pro baseball player who broke Roger Maris' single-season home run record; admitted in 2010 to using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career.

Joke of the Day
A DEA officer stopped at our farm yesterday; he said “I need to inspect your farm for illegal growing drugs.”

I said “Okay, but don’t go in that field over there.”
The DEA officer verbally exploded saying, “Sir, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, the arrogant officer removed his badge and shoved it in my face. “See this badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish…. On any land! No questions asked or answers given! Have I made myself clear? Do you understand?!”
I nodded politely, apologized, and went about my chores. A short time later, I heard loud screams, looked up, and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by my big old mean bull…. With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that he’d sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified.
I threw down my tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of my lungs, “Your badge, show him your badge!”

Yeehaw for a fat check-I wish I had about a hundred more to sell

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Yeehaw for a fat check-I wish I had about a hundred more to sell

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You guys are why I have to buy the clearance meat from Sams