If it is a plastic tag, you will need to cut the post part that joins the two sections. The steer will not be happy about you fooling with his ears. It will leave a hole. If it is a metal tag, I would just leave it. They can be removed with great difficulty, but it will be more likely you will rip his ear trying.

The round tags that the "big guys" generally use represent licensing fees paid for propagation rights for exactly the number of tags purchased. In other words, if Certified Roses wants to grow and sell 1000 bushes of "Easy Does It," it pays the licensing fee for 1000 plants to Weeks (who owns the rights in the U.S), gets propagation materials for that quantity and 1000 tags indicating that the licensing fees were paid for each such newly propagated plant. Those round metal tags are how the "big guys" make sure they've been paid their licensing fees. Namely, if a plant they are due licensing fees on shows up in a market without those tags, the propagators can be tracked down and made to pay the fees. Kathy p.s. They were selling the tags in your link for $.99 at the 99 Cents Only stores, i.e. 50 tags for a buck, last year. I bought a whole bunch of packages of those, and that's what I use now.

It can happen at any age. I usually am fairly upfront and say I remember the face but can't place the name (or something like that). But I did have one on the 4th I just couldn't remember her to save my life. We were at a mutual friend's place and 3 hours later when she finally mentioned Fargo, it hit me who she was! I was too ashamed to admit it. Especially after Tom started to introduce us and Sharon goes "OH we know each other!!!!" Uh, yeah, uh, we do?? Let's see... I'll be back in a bit. I'd better go check the refrigerator for my car keys....

Thank you all so much for being here for me. It really is such a comfort. Jeannie and I talked for an hour today. Though it was hard, it all seemed to come natural, as it always has between us. I should have known it would be. She told me how much I meant to her and how I was the only one that she felt she could ever talk to about the hard things and it means so much to her that I'm there for her now. She asked if I would promise to be there for Jeff and Eric when it's over. I promised. Jeff and I have become very close during all this as when Jeannie wasn't strong enough to talk, he and I would talk. I'll keep calling him and checking on him. make plans for him to come out and visit us. Their son Eric is a very busy with his job and often travels, but I know he too will be there for his Dad. So will Jeannie's siblings and other family members. He told Jeannie today that he will not stay in their home after she's gone. I imagine he won't be able to bear being there without her. She said she told him to remarry as he's still so young. He told her no one could ever measure up to her, and I know he means that. I also told her how much she means to me, in detail. We talked about whether or not she should try another round of chemo, telling me what her original surgeon of six years ago told her yesterday after reading the CT Scans. He was very kind, telling her how he'd never seen such a fighter and he wouldn't tell her this if he didn't really feel it to be true, but at this point chemo would only make her sicker and probable shorten her life more. She's going to talk to her wonderful family doctor tomorrow and arrange to talk to the pastor that does the cancer therapy sessions as soon as she's back in town. We both felt she would be the best to understand her situation. She told me she was afraid the actual dying would be painful, so I recommended she make an appointment to meet with someone from Hospice. That way she'll know just what to expect and when would be the best time to start under their care and how she wants to go about it. We decided to talk every day we can. Something I wish I'd have done already, but as I said earlier I didn't want to cause more concern for her. We did cry a bit, but for the most part we had a wonderful conversation. She's going to have her son set up Skype for them so my daughter can talk with her, she's always adored Jeannie, and she and I both want her daughter to meet Jeannie. I know that will be good for Jeannie too as she has always loved children. When she and her hubby drove a semi together, she was trucker buddies with different classrooms around the USA writing them letters and sending special things from around the country to them to teach them about our country. It's just so hard to understand when someone so good and always thinking of others first, even when she didn't have much herself, to be taken when she could give so much more. But maybe that's why God is bringing her Home, for He has other plans for her from Heaven.