Hindsight

50 YEARS AGO

Richard Adams of Amarillo is reported to have sold about 750 steer yearlings for fall delivery to Weisbart Cattle company of Denver at $18.50; these will be delivered off Adams’ ranch at Sunray, Texas.

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Red River Ranch of Springer, New Mexico, is reported to have sold around 200 steer calves for October delivery at 21 cents a pound.

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Walter Smith of Wyoming, Illinois, is reported to have contracted 300 Angus mixed calves for fall delivery in the Roy, New Mexico area at $18 and $20.

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Ray Barber of Amarillo sold, to John Easley of Lovington, New Mexico, 122 heifer yearlings weighing 409 pounds at $17.50 for immediate delivery.

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Jess Burner of Pecos, Texas, and Fort Sumner, New Mexico, sold 900 cows and calves to Nevada buyers and delivered them this week off his Fort Sumner ranch at $145 per pair. The cows were good quality, four years old.

45 YEARS AGO

M.L. Happel of Amarillo bought, on eastern order, 598 feeder steers averaging 929 pounds at $27 and received them last weekend from Royce Bros., El Reno, Okla.

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Carrol Farmer & Co., San Angelo, received this week a load of mixed fat and feeder Rambouillet lambs from Paul Burns, Robert Lee, at $18.50 on the feeders, weighing 61 pounds, and $22 for the fats, weighing 75 pounds.

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Brooks Pletcher, Perryton, Texas, bought 125 heifer and steer calves at $32 and $35 for Oct. 1 delivery with a 20-mile haul and three percent shrink from Travis Flowers, also of Perryton; these calves are expected to weigh around 450 pounds at delivery.

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Jewel Avent of Tulia, Texas, bought 700 mixed calves expected to weigh about 400 pounds at $32 and $34 for Oct. 1-15 delivery from M.L. Happel, Amarillo; these are located in the Matador area. Avent also bought, from Miles Cattle Co., Cresson, Texas, 230 crossbred Brahman heifer and steer yearlings expected to weigh about 650 pounds for July 1 delivery at $26 straight across.

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Ray Barr and Leonard Zielke of Amarillo bought, from Dorsey Mae Thompson of Sulphur, Okla., 450 Hereford mixed calves expected to weigh around 450 pounds at $32 and $35 for heifers and steers, respectively, for Aug. 1 delivery on the heavy end and Oct. 1 on the light end. They also bought, from Jim Lester & Son, Tishomingo, Okla., 100 Angus steer calves expected to weigh 475-500 pounds at $35, also for Aug.1 and Oct. 1 delivery.

40 YEARS AGO

Travis Martin, Seymour, this week sold 200 head of good quality heifer yearlings averaging 625 pounds to Lloyd Goodner, Amarillo, at $16.50 for delivery by June 10.

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Swift & Co., Fort Worth, this week bought and received approximately 3000 head of choice clipped, fed spring lambs weighing 83-85 pounds with No.2 pelts from Kothmann Bros. Commission Co., Menard, at $22.50.

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Jess Haney of Hominy, Okla., bought 110 heifers described as thin, long-age calves weighing 350 pounds at $21 and received them this week from Yeso Ranch Co., Yeso, N.M.

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Leonard Freis of Amarillo bought 280 fed steers described as good and choice grade, weighing 1100 pounds at $19.50 from Gill Cattle Co. for delivery this week out of the Ted Waldhauser feedlot in Clovis.

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Ralph Britten of Groom bought 75 mixed calves weighing 360 pounds at $18 and $23 and received them last weekend from J.T. Trew of Alanreed, Texas.

35 YEARS AGO

Horney Cattle Co., Fort Sumner, N.M., sold 600 Hereford mixed calves expected to weigh 425-450 at $33 and $37 for November 1 delivery to a New Mexico buyer. The firm about a month earlier sold 250 Hereford mixed yearlings expected to weigh 700 pounds at $26.50 and $29 for November 25 delivery to another New Mexico buyer.

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T.M. Dye, Roswell, N.M., contracted about 300 crossbred lambs expected to weigh 85-95 pounds and to be 80-90 percent fat at $25-26 cwt. for September 15-October 15 delivery in the area from the plains east of Roswell to the Piñon Mountains.

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Al Gallo, Dalhart, sold 800 Hereford and Angus heifers expected to weigh 700 pounds at $27.25 for late October delivery.

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Glenn Russell, Clayton, N.M., sold 465 choice Okie steers expected to weigh 700 pounds at $29.90 for fall delivery to E.M. Gossett Jr., Dumas, Texas.

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30 YEARS AGO

Luther Brown, Claude, bought from Wilbur Cobb, Claude, 67 mostly Hereford and a few mixed breed steers weighing 645 and 700 pounds at $32 and $36, respectively.

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Buck and Jim Sumners, Dalhart, representing B&J Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Texas Panhandle 250 Okie steers weighing 550 pounds at $35.50; and in the Oklahoma Panhandle 200 Hereford and black baldface heifer yearlings weighing 650 pounds at $32, received.

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Beef Cattle Co., Wheeler: 90 heifers, 850 pounds, 70% choice, $38.

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Texsun Feedyards, Hereford: 44 steers, 1077 pounds, 70% choice, $39.

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Dalhart Feed Yard, Dalhart: 140 steers, 1100 pounds, 70% choice, $38.50.

25 YEARS AGO

Charles Forest Wade, Clovis, bought out of Tennessee 100 No., 1 mixed breed heifers weighing 300 pounds at $97.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos, bought in Louisiana 165 No. 1½ crossbred and Okie heifers weighing 300 pounds at $95.41, also 166 No. 2 crossbred heifers weighing 321 at $88.50, delivered.

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Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 744 steers 1200 lbs., 80-85% choice, $74.50; 139 steers, 1125 lbs., 65-70% choice, $74.25; 70 steers, 1125 lbs., 65% choice, $74.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 98 steers, 1075 lbs., 75-80% choice, $72.50.

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Hitch Feedlot, Guymon, Okla.: 190 steers, 1125 lbs., 75% choice, $73.50.

20 YEARS AGO

Producers Wool and Mohair Co., Del Rio, sold about 385,000 pounds at sealed bid last Thursday. Paint-free eight months wool sold from 95 cents to $1.12 per pound grease, bulk about $1.05.

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John Hart, Hart, Texas, and Owen Hart, Lubbock, bought in the Austin area to be summered at their Santa Rosa and Las Vegas, N.M. ranches 450 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 450 pounds at $64.

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Bob Bachman, Graham, representing Agri-Ventures Corp., sold for June 20 delivery to a Texas Panhandle feedlot 225 No. 1 crossbred steers to weigh 675 pounds at $61.50, also 80 heifer mates to weigh 625 at $56.50.

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Western-Lockney Ltd., Lockney: 384 steers, 1100 pounds, 60% choice, $66.50.

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Jarboe-Lackey Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 142 steers, 1100 pounds, 70% choice, $108 in the beef.

15 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in Central Texas for July delivery 650 No. 1 Okie and crossbred heifers to weigh 700 pounds at $72, also 300 No. 1 Okie heifers to weigh 750 at $71.

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Hitch Feeders No. 1, Hooker, Okla.: 552 steers, 1050-1125 pounds, 60% choice, $73; 324 heifers, 1000 pounds, 60% choice, $72.50.

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Mason Warehouse, Mason, sold about 30,000 pounds of mostly 12-months wool, finewool from $1.25 on some short types to $1.66, bulk $1.56-1.66, crossbred wool $1.30, blackface 70 cents.

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Phil Gjerstad Cattle Co., Dodge City, Kan., sold out of Polkinghorn Feedyard, Dodge City: 92 heifers, 1100 pounds, 65% choice, $72.50.

10 YEARS AGO

XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 2114 steers, 1175-1200 pounds, 60% choice, $68; 155 heifers, 1050 pounds, 60% choice, $68.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 727 steers, 1125 pounds, 60% choice, $68; 343 heifers, 1050 pounds, 50% choice, $68.

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Cattle town Inc., Hereford: 130 steers, 1200 pounds, 55% choice, $67.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 225 Mexican crossbred steers, 1075 pounds, $66.

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Slaughter ewes in San Angelo brought $35-49 and in the Midwest $22-32.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle for current delivery 150 No. 1 Okie and crossbred heifers weighing 675 pounds at $71.

5 YEARS AGO

The 1998 gross income from cattle and calves, hogs and pigs, and sheep and lambs for the U.S. totaled $44 billion, down 12 percent from 1997. Gross income fell for all three species. Both hogs and pigs and sheep and lambs declined the most, at 28 and 24 percent, respectively. Cattle and calves declined six percent.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in North Texas for August 1-15 delivery 400 No. 1 Okie steers to weigh 800 pounds at $473; in the Texas Panhandle for current delivery 420 No. 1-1½ Okie steers weighing 750 at $70.

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Slaughter lambs in San Angelo were scarce, a few 100-110 pounders making $80-85. Midwest markets were mostly $78-85.90.

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Lamb and mutton passed for entry into the U.S. last week totaled 833 metric tons or 1.8 million pounds, the equivalent of 56 percent of domestic production. The total imported for the year to date is now 46.9 million pounds, down 4.5 percent from the same period a year ago.

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USDA reports 2500 head of feeder cattle selling direct off Oklahoma range, and in Montana the count came to 885 head. In the Northwest the direct feeder cattle trade totaled 1350 head as confirmed by the USDA.

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