FEBRUARY 15 Are the cattle prices starting to get better? Local cattle sales and market reports indicate a better cow market. I was at a cow sale in Assiniboia a few days ago and good killing cows went for better than 50 cents a pound. The cow prices seem to be back to what they […] Read more
The Trip For Nurse Disney
The Lesson Of 1946 Winter
FEBRUARY 1, 2010 Daylight broke this morning with a clear sky, very little wind and a temperature of -10C. It is generally accepted February 1 is the half-way point in our winter. My grandmother Lula Price was born to a pioneer couple out in the Nebraska Plains and the Dakota Territories. She and her husband […] Read more
Community Elders Pass Away
JANUARY 10, 2010 The weather turned cold and windy with snow shortly after I got back from Ontario. On the ranch, Lloyd and his family have been busy weaning calves and moving cattle from the summer and fall pastures to the winter quarters. The cattle that summered in our south pasture came home on their […] Read more
Toronto Trip Short But Sweet
DECEMBER 5, 2009 I have just returned from a 10 day trip to Ontario. I went down and back by VIA Rail and here is how it happened. In early summer, I received an invitation from my grandson, Jason, to come to his wedding, which would take place in Toronto in late November. Jason has […] Read more
The Ups And Downs Of Sale Day
SEPTEMBER 30 My daughter, Marion, is here from Calgary and today we drove to the Big Muddy Ranch and helped Ryan and his family round up the yearling steers for the sale which takes place at Mankota on Friday. We have been selling cattle at the Mankota sale since the 1960’s. It is a cattle […] Read more
Wildlife Becomes A Nuisance
JANUARY 15 In the past 10 to 15 years, wild life has become quite an expensive nuisance to the ranchers around the Wood Mountain area. The deer and the elk have become so numerous that many attitudes toward them are changing. Let me explain. My father, Leonard Anderson, an early rancher, acquired some grazing land […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
