Lamb And Ewe Prices Show More Strength
Sheep and lamb prices continued recent gains by adding $2-5 for the most part. But comparing this week’s prices with two months ago paints a strange picture.

Fed Cattle Movement Active, At Least For One Day’s Trade
Tuesday was a very good week in the Texas Panhandle. That was when feedlots moved the vast bulk of the 80,000-plus cattle they had sold for the week through late afternoon Wednesday. Discounting green supplies, says the Texas Cattle Feeders Assn., the week’s 83,660 head showlist is essentially gone.

Plains Feedlot Sales

Range Sales

New Mexico Rancher Knows How To Make Range Operation Work
Having grown up on a ranch in Southwestern New Mexico, Mike Casabonne is familiar with what it takes to be a good sheepman on a range operation. His dad has been in the ranch business all his life on a place 12 miles southwest of Hope, and Mike Casabonne says a great deal of what he knows today came from working with his dad. What he didn’t learn on his father’s ranch, he vowed to learn elsewhere.

Espy Probe Seeks Connections With Lax Poultry Regulations
The independent counsel investigating former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy is searching for evidence that a top Espy aide may have cleared the way in April 1993 for work on stricter poultry regulations.

Stability May Be Returning To Mexican Currency, Trade
With President Clinton's announcement of a $20 billion loan guarantee and similar moves by other countries and organizations around the world, Mexico's economy appears to be stabilizing.

Quail Experts Tout Different Theories About Bad Quail Year
Where have all the quail gone? That’s a question being asked by ranchers, biologists and quail enthusiasts in general. Though quail are known to be a boom and bust species, wildlife biologists across the state are perplexed at how low and how widespread that bust was this past year.

Fourth Quarter Index Reflects "Non-Conforming" Beef Costs
The beef industry continues to lose a large amount of money because of failure to meet desired standards of beef quality and consistency, according to a beef checkoff-funded "non-conformance" index calculated by Cattle-Fax for the fourth quarter of 1994.

New TSCRA President Is Chaunce Thompson
Breckenridge cattleman Chaunce O. Thompson Jr. was named president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association late last week.

USDA Letter Clears Montana Cattle In Buffalo Bangs Flap
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has vindicated Montana's livestock industry by endorsing the state's brucellosis-free status, says U.S. Sen. Max Baucus.

Wyoming Lawmakers Want Federal Land
The Wyoming Senate Agriculture Committee has pledged to study a bill that would allow the governor to use state permanent funds to buy federal lands.

Brush Feeders Steady, Heavier Weights Weak
Feeder steers under 700 pounds were steady and heavier kinds off $1, feeder heifers steady to $1 higher on weights under 500 pounds. Receipts totaled 2562 head.

Feeder Cattle Prices Decline As Fat Trade Becomes Sticky
Feeder steers and heifers sold steady to $2 lower around the country last week, yearlings weighing over 600 pounds most often finding the slowest going.

Texas Slaughter Cattle Steady In Sluggish Trade Last Week
Slaughter steers and heifers closed steady last week in Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma feedlot trading. Trade was almost nonexistent until Thursday morning as feedlots staunchly resisted sharply lower bids.

Superior Livestock Video Sale Offerings Total 35,000 Cattle
Superior Livestock Auction offered nearly 36,000 feeder cattle in their regular video sale here. Consignments were from 25 states, Canada and Mexico.

Angelo Lambs Steady To Up, Cattle Weak
Feeder lambs sold firm here this week, slaughter lambs $3-4 higher, slaughter ewes firm, instances $2 higher on plain offerings. Receipts totaled 11,892 head.

Fredericksburg Feeder Cattle Prices Decline
Feeder steers and heifers sold 1-2 lower, slaughter cows and bulls $2 lower. Receipts totaled 1376 head.

Jordan Bulls Range From $1000 To $3100
The high scoring and overall champion of the 1995 all-breed winter bull sale here brought $3100. The registered Brangus was consigned by Steiner Ranch. Steiner also had the reserve champion, a Brahman cross that sold for $2250.

Lampasas Feeder Steer And Heifer Trend Off
Feeder steers and heifers sold mostly steady to $1 lower, instances $2 lower, slaughter cows and bulls steady, stock cows steady. Receipts totaled 1000 head.

Goldthwaite Fat Lamb Prices Mostly Higher
Feeder lambs sold steady, slaughter lambs $1-3 higher, slaughter ewes and bucks $2-3 higher; Angora goats untested; Spanish kid goats $2-3 higher, nannies, muttons and billies $3-5 higher. Receipts totaled 3452 head.

Kansas Direct Steer, Heifer Prices Lower
Feeder steers weighing 700-825 pounds sold $1-2 lower last week in Kansas direct trading, heifers 700-800 pounds lower in a light test. Sales were confirmed on 8151 head.

Most Cuero Feeder Cattle Some Weaker
Trading was active and demand strong, feeder steers a little weaker, slaughter cows and bulls about steady. Receipts totaled 1259 head.

Most Junction Sheep, Goat Prices Higher
Feeder lambs sold $1-3 higher, slaughter ewes and bucks $2-3 higher; stock Angora nannies and muttons $3-5 higher, kids steady, slaughter classes $3-4 higher; Spanish goats $3-5 higher. Receipts totaled 2600 head.

Domestic Wool Up, Aussie Wools Mixed
Demand remained good for limited supplies of feedlot lamb wool last week, prices firm to five cents higher. Not enough 12-month wool was available yet for an adequate test.

U.S. Meat Production 1.6% Above A Year Ago
Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 775.3 million pounds, 1.3 percent below the previous week and 1.6 percent above the same week a year ago.

Hindsight

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull. 
Old John looked sorta dazed in the lobby this week. 
"I just got my mail," he muttered, "an’ this was in it. Read it."

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
In my life there are people with talents I admire: horse trainers, good ropers, cattle traders, backyard mechanics, welders, guitar players, A.I. technicians, farriers, purebred breeders and rough stock riders, for instance. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that you can’t be good at everything, so even though I admire these talents, I don’t envy them.

Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
Two cattlemen in the lobby of the First Bank and bust of downtown Cowtown were economizing by drinking that free coffee while they read day-old copies of the Wall Street Journal and filled their pockets with lump sugar. Cattlemen always look at both sides of a problem, sort of a good news/bad news philosophy with a country twist.

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
Only a few people are left around who write postcards or personal letters. The demise of the Aunt Minnies and Aunt Myrtles and Uncle Aubreys, who once stayed in contact with their nieces and nephews by lead pencils and lined tablets, cut deeply into stamp cancellations; nevertheless, a few of us are still writing, and will spend six bits processing a card or 30 cents on a stamp to be in print.