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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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It always seems the weather quickly turns cool once the kids are back in school. Now that we're having really cool (sometimes downright chilly) mornings and evenings, it's time to start winnowing out my houseplants again. Each year, I get to decide which will make the cut and spend the winter inside with me and which are going to freeze and die. Such power I have! I have pulled all my onions, not wanting them to get waterlogged and rot in the soil since some rain finally arrived. They've been...
School has started and it brings to mind the days many of us packed lunch to school. My husband and my daughters went to school at Tampico (Tampico Tech as some of the locals call it). Back in the days of wood stoves in country schools, some lunches were packed in containers that could be set on the wood stove to warm up. Of course, many sandwiches and goodies were packed before the days of Baggies, Zip Lock bags, or Tupperware. Do you remember the days of wax paper sacks! Of course, I am thinking that many goodies and lunches went to the...
Artificial intelligence. It conjures up images of science fiction movies, killer computers and curiously Austrian Terminators, doesn't it? If we give a machine the ability to think for itself, surely it has the wherewithal to deduce that it simply doesn't need us as fleshly overlords any longer. What possible good could come from this? Well, not so fast... First let's delve into a brief history lesson. A gentleman named John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" in 1955 and defined...
The 2021 Wheat and Barley Variety Survey reports are now available. Funded by the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee, these reports were conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service Mountain Regional Office to help guide breeding programs in selecting cultivars to develop that will ultimately increase the on-farm profitability and end-use marketability of Montana-grown crops. "The varietal survey provides state wheat and barley breeding programs with valuable producer feedback that...
The Market Report for the Glasgow Stockyards as of Sept. 2 shows 704 cattle sold with cows and bulls steady. Utility and Commercial Cows brought in $63 to $75. Canner and Cutter cows brought in $52 to $63. Bulls brought in $75 to $90.50. SCHEDULE: • Thursday, Sept. 9 — Yearling special and all Class Cattle Auction. Several consignments of yearlings. • Thursday, Sept. 16 — Yearling special and early spring calf auction and all class cattle auction. • Monday, Sept. 20 — Last Northern Video Auction....