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Just a scoop full(Nov. 18)--A man went to a farm auction not long ago. This particular man is known to be onery. He saw a friend of his at this auction that day. So, just to have a little extra fun or perhaps being a pain, he went back to where you get your numbers. Most farm auctions have you check in, give them your name and address, and then they give you a number to call out to the auctioneer when you buy something, rather than holler out your name every time. This man told the young lady giving out the numbers he had lost the card that had his number on it. She said that was alright, and asked him his name. He told the young woman his friend's name. So, she smiled and gave him his friend's number. So, being the onery man he was, he started buying a few little piles of junk using his friend's number. After about three piles of junk, his friend finally hollered out, "Someone must have the same number that I have." This same onery man had another friend--and they played jokes on each other constantly to see who could get the last laugh. Both of these men were very crusty and liked to hoop and holler a lot. They went out west 100 miles to Guymon to hunt coyotes early one morning. At noon, they went into this large cafe to eat. Just for a joke, this onery man stood up and hollered out to everyone in the café. He said, "I would like to introduce you to the new Methodist preacher in town. And he wants everyone to bow their head as he leads you in prayer." Not to be outdone, he said his friend said the prettiest prayer you have ever heard. It appears to me about every two weeks the packers, or whoever, sell the front fat cattle month very hard for one or two days. This lowers our fat cattle, allowing the packer to buy not only all the cash fat cattle a lot cheaper, but also all of those tied to that same week's market that are supplied to the packer as formula cattle. What would have worked very well for the past year is to sell every fat cattle month on the futures and simply get out of that contract once it became the closest contract. The only problem with doing that is if our whole market moved to a higher level. That's a nice thought.
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