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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
At least a few West Texas feeder lambs have been sold
this year on "sliding scale" basis, thereby
fulfilling earlier predictions of several traders who’d been
close to sellers of oldcrop fat lambs back in the spring. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
The male chauvinist pig is still around, but humor won't let
him be much more than a ham. As John Wayne used to say,
"A woman's place is in the home, and she ought to go
there just as soon as she gets off work."
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
Herders in the shortgrass country are eager to find
new means of making a living. School teaching and schoolbus
driving, plus pumping oil wells and guiding hunters, are
barely returning enough to support the sheep and cattle
business. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
It was every cowman’s nightmare. Owen’s ranch
in Globe was a long way from the Prescott sale barn. It also
involved passing through the "Gates of Hell," as he
referred to the booming, seething expanse of asphalt and
dragon’s breath others call Phoenix. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
Horse and bull auctions are as different as boys and
girls. Take the parking lot, for instance: At a horse sale
there is one, while at a bull sale it's more apt to be a cow
pasture. It's also much harder to find a parking place at a
horse sale. The really big difference, though, is in the rigs
parked in the parking lot. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
One of the most interesting presentations I’ve seen
in 20 years of higher education was by a demographer while at
Oklahoma State University. A demographer studies population
growth. I do not remember his name, but his message had a
sobering effect on me. And I do remember one of his
quotations: "The future is here today, but we have to
learn to see it." |
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C.A. Rodenberger, PhD.
The Computer
& The Cowboy
I need to reevaluate my reporting of the statistics about the
use of computers by farmers and ranchers.
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