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Week of Dec. 26 , 2003 - Jan. 1, 2004 — BIG TIMBER (MT) PIONEER — Page 23 Beef prices predicted to stay strong, but lower Amid the traffic. the packages and the slush puddles, sometimes stress threatens to squeeze the joy out of the holidays. Montana State University-Bozcman faculty and staff offer tips, a poem and a recipe for Norwegian glogg to keep the holidays jolly Humor can help overcome tense or unhappy situations say the experts Greg Keeler. English, offers a poem. \Christmas Tree.\ I think that I shall never see A nightmare like this Christmas tree. A tree I bought 'cause I'm a dolt. Its trunk's shaped like a lightning holt: A tree that fits into the stand By only God Almighty's hand: A tree one sees and swears he -cos a Living Leaning Tower ol Pisa On top of which a star is lurched So skewed it makes my stomach lurch. Poems are spawned by fools like me, But only hell could spawn this Christmas tree. MSU Extension specialists lecogmzc that some holiday Mresscw can he prevented \Avoid expecting perlcciion.\ -ays Sandra Bailey. MSU Extension lamily specialist. \A burnt pie should not spoil a holiday dinner Plan ahead — make a list and a tentative schedule to complete tasks. \nd be flexible -- expect the unexpected and don't allow surprises hi spoil your plans.\ She also suggests that when ■dunning occasions, people scale Kick holiday activities to make the mie more relaxing and enjoyable For example, she suggests buying dinner rolls rather than making them from scratch \If your family has had some changes such as a divorce remarriage, death ol a laimK member, or if a loved one is away serving in the military your holidays will be different.\ says Bailey. \Consider a new tradition while respecting die old Or change a tradition to help everyone cope with a loss and find peace and enjoyment during die season \ Often people remember the traditions rather than the gifts \Our family Ivas a tradition of putting a slum clue on the 'to/lVnm.' card,\ says Brian O'Connor. MSU facilities services \Punny clues oi puns are always appreciated I'or example, if yon were going someone a wool sweatei. you may say 'because it's baaa.iad lo he cold ' l tluuk my dad started this, but it's a tradition I love and have kept going.\ Bob Flaheity. student health .services physician, recalls that when he and Ins brother were growing up. fhey came tip short on both ideas and cash for gilts. One of them gave Ins Boy Scout key chain lo the other lor Chusiiaas The following year, the gift went the reverse direction \It may have stalled with one ol us being too cheap lo huv die oilier a gift, hut it go! lo he such a joke that we carried on the tradition for several years.\ recalls I'luliei tv Extension food and nutrition specialist Lynn Paul recommends to jokcslers and revelers that they moderate their consumption of alcohol. \Alcohol is ultimately a depressant, the opposite ol making one jolly.\ says Paul. \'Moderate' means two dunks like iwo glasses healthier lood dunces, they should consider that alcohol diminishes inhibitions and that may lead lo snacking on higher calorie and sugary foods People need lo be aware that the caloric conteni in alcohol is huge For example, one or iwo drinks won't make a huge diil’erenee hill two or three drinks at every party will he part of the equation to add to more pounds during die holidays\ Gro Luiule. WET project accountant, offers an alternative holiday drink, alcohol-lrce Norwegian glogg \The recipe is simple.\ says Luiule. \Pour clips cranberry / raspberry juice. I cup of apple juice. I cinnamon suck. I piece of giiiger-rooi. 5 cloves, orange peel and sugai to taste Put spieCs in a spice hag and sunnier wilh the juices lor at least an hour Serve glogg hot It's nice lo serve glogg with blanched almonds and raisins in little punch glasses\ Lunde adds tli.it children love die festive and colorful treat Children can remind adults how lo c.iuli the holiday spirit Museum of the Rockies stall member Angie Vein/ brought her baby silling cliaige. LI lie. lo the 'I ay lor Planetarium s \Laser Yuletide\ program recently: the show combined holiday songs and laser imagery, computer graphics and special elteets During a rendition of \Let It Snow\ on the hemispherical screen ovcihead. computerized snow seemed to fall from the sky Vein/, looked ovei a! her Iricnd and found Lilies head had; her mouth open and her tongue out. waiting lo catch snowflakes \I think I caught just one.- the voumisicr said By MSU News Service Cattle and wholesale beef prices increased dramatically fiom the fail of 2002 to the fall o\f 2003. about 26 percent to 58 percent savs John Marsh, an agricultural economist at Montana Slate University Bo/eman. \This has resulted in financial improvements for many beef producers and processors.\ Marsh said. Retail beef prices increased less, however, around 20 percent, putting more of a squeeze on retail groceris beef margins Statistical research has shown that about 78 percent of the price increase over this period was due to reduced supplies of domestic cattle, closing off imports of Canadian cattle and beef due to efforts lo keep spongilorm eneelphalopathy (BSE) out of the United States, and reduced slaughter cattle weights In addition. Marsh said that about 14 percent of the price increase was due to increased domestic beef demand and about 8 percent was due lo increased value of beef by-products like hide and offal Economists indie.ite. barring the uiilbiosccn that cattle prices should bode well for the next two to three years. However, said Marsh, cattle prices still could average at least $ 10 per hundredweight less in 2004 than m 2003 \The positive effect on U.S beef prices from Canadian BSE was due only to hick of detectable BSE in the United Stales cattle herds and consumers not fearing BSE in out red meat supplies. Otherwise, we would be telling a diflcrem story.\ Marsh said. If Canada were to regain itis losi 200? market share of U S cattle and beef supplies, ii could mean a drop in calile prices hv about $5.80 per hundredweight by December 2004 In the near Iuture, a more complete explanation of 2003 beet prices will be included in a briefing available on the MSU Agricultural Marketing Policy Center s Web site www ¡impe.montana.edu Do you have something to Buy, Sell, Trade or Give Away? 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