Feeder Lambs Make Effort To Recover
Feeder lambs in several areas around the country showed signs of trying to recover some of their recent losses. Some sales in San Angelo were as much as $3 higher. Slaughter lambs were lightly tested but did show a little strength in some areas. Slaughter ewes were sharply higher in San Angelo with a good demand from Mexican buyers, but prices were rather uneven elsewhere.

Brief Rally Lifts Fed Cattle To $75 Before Board Fizzles
It was a very good hour — or so.
The bulk of fed cattle trade through the Texas Panhandle and up onto the Plains was conducted in about an hour’s stretch Tuesday, between the time that packers consented to give an extra dollar and the time the futures board rolled back, scotching further activity. Observers opined that many feeders saw in the paper trade an opportunity to lock in a satisfactory hedge.

Plains Feedlot Sales

Range Sales

Water Contamination By Reese Air Base Subject Of Lawsuit
It’s not uncommon for both state and federal agencies to fine private enterprises huge sums of money, sometimes millions of dollars, for damaging the environment. But what happens when the federal government is at fault for damaging the environment? Shouldn’t they be held accountable for their actions just like private citizens?

Panhandle Meat Purveyor Is One Of Many Shaken By Peso’s Fall
The devaluation of the Mexican peso in December rattled markets in New York, London and Shamrock, Texas.

Howling Of Wolf’s Promoters Drowns Out Ranchers’ Message
Rancher Chris Bakwin peers out the window of his log house and points across the road. His guest sees only a ridge of fir trees, their outlines blurred by falling snow.

New Federal Meat Inspection Plan To Include Microbe Tests
Meat and poultry would be checked by microscope for the first time under government proposals being developed to catch bacterial contamination in those foods.

Sheep Spokesman Offers Outlook On Current Session Of Congress
The 104th Congress, which convened earlier this month, will be a busy one for agricultural interests. Both the House and Senate agriculture committees will spend the majority of the legislative session drafting the 1995 Farm Bill.

1995 Public Grazing Fee Down, Validating Current Formula
The 1995 grazing fee for Forest Service and BLM lands will be $1.61 per animal unit month, down 37 cents from 1994, and the fee on National Grasslands will be $1.89, down 19 cents.

Women Just Don’t Understand Man’s Driving Need — To Rope
Well, I did it again. Yep, I have managed to alienate one of the women of the world against me and the rope I gave her son. Never did I ever dream that rope would cause more hate and discontent than I could.

Producers Video Cattle Sale Offerings Approach 5800 Head
Producers Video Auction offered roughly 5800 cattle in regular trading here late last week. Most consignments were from Texas, but cattle also came from Arkansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Oklahoma.

Study Says Meat Diet Made Humans Smart
A British anthropologist recently issued a report that may have vegetarians crying in their tofu. According to Leslie Aiello of London’s University College, it was a shift to meat-eating by our distant ancestors that made them smarter than their primate cousins and started them on their way to becoming human.

Texas Corn And Wheat Stocks Up From 1993
Texas stocks of corn and wheat in all storage positions as of Dec. 1 increased from last year, despite a decline in total oat and grain sorghum stocks.

Nominations For Rural Hero Now Being Taken
The search is underway for the rural hero for 1994, awarded by the Texas Farm & Ranch Safety Council. The 1994 recipient will be announced March 21 at the 56th annual Texas/Southwestern Safety Conference and Exposition at the Austin Convention Center.

Grazing Settlement Illegal, Ranchers Say
Some ranchers say the proposed settlement of a lawsuit over grazing on the Beaverhead National Forest is illegal and should be rejected by a federal judge.

Montana Sues Feds Over Buffalo, Bangs
Montana is asking a judge to force the federal government to stop wild bison from wandering outside Yellowstone National Park because the animals can transmit brucellosis.

Rat-Killing Farmer Still Facing Fines
A Taiwanese immigrant won't go to jail on charges of endangering a Tipton kangaroo rat by plowing his land in Kern County. But his farming company remains in trouble for allegedly violating the federal Endangered Species Act.

NCA Says EPA’s Claim On Dioxin Unfounded
An Environmental Protection Agency draft report assessing human exposure to dioxin makes unsubstantiated conclusions, says the National Cattlemen’s Assn.

Most Of Nation’s Feeder Cattle Prices Trended Lower Last Week
Feeder cattle prices were steady to $2 lower around the country last week. Primary exceptions were Tennessee and the Southeast, which trended steady to $2 higher on some steers.

Texas Fed Cattle $1 Higher Last Week In Active Trading
Slaughter steers and heifers closed mostly $1 higher in Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma feedlot trading last week.

U.S. Meat Production .6% Above A Year Ago
Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 820.1 million pounds, 2.9 percent above the previous week and .6 percent above the same week a year ago.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Higher, Cattle Lower
Feeder lambs sold $2-3 higher here this week, slaughter lambs steady, slaughter ewes $2-4 higher with some sales $5-7 higher. Receipts totaled 8584 head.

Goldthwaite Stock Angora Muttons Up
A limited supply of feeder lambs sold $2-5 lower, slaughter lambs $1-2 lower, slaughter ewes and bucks near steady, stock ewes steady; stock Angora muttons $4-8 higher, kids steady, slaughter nannies and muttons steady, kids and yearlings $3-5 lower; slaughter Spanish kids $3-5 lower, nannies, muttons and billies steady to $5 lower. Receipts totaled 4400 head.

Kansas Direct Feeder Steers Mostly Firm
Feeder steers weighing 700-850 pounds sold firm last week in Kansas direct trading, heifers 600-700 pounds steady to weak. Weather in Southwest Kansas has been mild. Sales were confirmed on 9340 head.

Most Fredericksburg Cattle Prices Higher
Most feeder steers sold $1-2 higher, heifers under 500 pounds $2-4 higher, slaughter cows and bulls $1 higher. Receipts totaled 1648 head.

Llano Better Stock Cattle Sell Steady
ood young pairs, cows and heifers sold active and steady in special female replacement trading, lighter weight bred cows and older cows lower, premiums paid for No. 1 offerings. Receipts totaled 1174 head.

Most Lampasas Cattle Prices Fully Steady
Feeder steers and heifers sold fully steady, slaughter cows and bulls steady, stock cows and pairs steady. Receipts totaled 900 head.

Most Cuero Cattle Steady To Higher
Feeder steers were steady to strong in active trading, heifers 500-700 pounds higher, slaughter cows and bulls about steady. Receipts totaled 2060 head.

Domestic Wool Slow, Aussie Wools Mixed
Trade was slow on limited supplies of domestic wool last week. Some shearing is now underway in Arizona, the Pacific Northwest and upper Midwest. Approximately 50,000 pounds of 12-month ewe wool, bulk 64s with bellies out untied, sold in Arizona at $1.01 grease, f.o.b. Near 1800 pounds of skirted 62s in the Northwest brought $1.05 grease delivered to the mill.

Hindsight

Letters To The Editor

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull. 
Attention to all horse players! Science hasn’t forgotten you, after all!
Down through the ages you’ve been left pretty much on your own as you tried to make wise investments in equine speed. Oh, you’ve been touted on plenty of races, no doubt, but did you buy your information from people who knew horses, or from people who merely knew horse players?

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
"How ya doin’ Skip?" I asked. "Okay, I guess," he said. "Remember my good rope horse?"

Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
Recently there has been a rash of plane crashes, pickup trucks bursting into flames when hit from the side, etc. Now the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission caught ‘em red-handed. Two million electric fry pans that leak electricity around the handles have been discovered by two million housewives who scrambled everything they touched — whether it was intended to be or not — including the eyeballs of those newlywed husbands who sneaked up behind their brides for a little smooch on the neck.

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
The government isn’t going to be able to hang a habitat rap on this part of the shortgrass country. We are taking better care of the wild animals than Snow White ever sheltered her dwarves.