Repeatedly my neighbors and friends have asked me “What can I do to improve my cell phone reception at home or in the car? This is the single, most cost effective solution. You need to use an external antenna.

For this to work, you must first have some signal present. If you are in an area where your cell phone never works, then you might be so far out of range that practical antennas won’t make a difference. But if you can see a bar or two on your phone’s signal meter, if you can occasionally make or receive a call, then an external antenna is exactly what you need. If you routinely drive through areas of weak coverage, an external antenna will make the difference between talking and saying “Huhh?”

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Definitions of fringe on the Web:

• periphery: the outside boundary or surface of something
• outskirt: a part of the city far removed from the center; “they built a factory on the outskirts of the city”

I’ve lived in a rural environment most of my life. With the exception of the 25 years I spent engaged in my chosen occupation, I’ve lived in the country


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BENEFITS

• Maximized forage production
• Provides a healthy environment for livestock
• Good for the environment, minimizes the risk of runoff and leaching of pollutants from livestock
• Looks better, it’s visually pleasing to see healthy pastures

Pasture Management should really be called “grass farming”.  Think of your pasture grasses as your crop and the animals as your method of harvest.  Matching the amount of grass with the amount eaten by the animals will reduce waste and prevent the need to make hay, which raises the cost of the feed and can lower quality.

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LONGHORN CATTLE. The Texas longhorn is a hybrid breed resulting from a random mixing of Spanish retinto (criollo) stock and English cattle that Anglo-American frontiersmen brought to Texas from southern and midwestern states in the 1820s and 1830s. A few old-timers, J. Frank Dobie^qv wrote, "contend that both the horns and bodies of the Texas cattle were derived from importations from the States out of Longhorn Herefords of England,"

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