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| Vol. 48 - No. 5 | Thursday, February 1, 1996 | $25 Per Year |
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Fat, Feeder Lambs
Enjoy Good Demand
Both fat and feeder lambs enjoyed good demand and
generally steady to higher prices across most of the
country this week. Slaughter ewes ranged from steady to
weak.
Fed Cattle In
Waiting Game As Packers Bid Lower Again
There were more fed cattle at the Fort Worth Stock
Show this week than in Plains trading channels. After
picking up more than 130,000 head in the Panhandle area
alone last week, packers reverted to their recent habit
of sitting out the live trade, calling in captives to
fill any gaps in their kill schedules.
IWS Plans Improved
Marketing Strategies For Wool In U.S.
Pete Peter, the newly appointed director of the
International Wool Secretariat, told listeners in the
Wool Track Education session at the American Sheep
Industry Association annual meeting here recently that he
sees a land of opportunity in America for wool.
Conventioneers
Vote To Create New Consolidated Cattle Group
It was a warm, humid Tuesday afternoon in San
Antonio when the National Cattlemen’s Association
came to an end.
Freedom To Farm
Legislation Harks Back To A Decade Ago
A Republican lawmaker introduces a bill to radically
change the way the government subsidizes farmers to
eventually return them to the free market.
Cattle Market,
PRIA Formula Combine To Trim Grazing Fees
The current sick cattle market has a few silvery
threads in its lining, but even those who can grab hold
of them won’t see much benefit.
Consumer Needed To
Pull Wool Industry Out Of Stalemate
The consumer is the only one that can pull the wool
industry out of its current stalemate. That was the
message brought by Eric Whittington, manager for Wellman
Industries, raw wool purchasing, evaluation of top to
attendees of the Wool Track Education Session at the
recent American Sheep Industry Assn. meeting here.
Senate To Vote
On Farm Bill Compromise By Late This Week
The U.S. Senate will vote on a farm bill on Thursday,
according to South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle, leader of the
minority Democrats.
Wyoming Rancher
Files For Predation Relief
A Jackson-area rancher has filed a claim seeking
$5811 from the state Game and Fish Commission as
compensation for 14 calves and two cows he said were
killed by grizzly bears.
Issue Of
Predation By Eagles Still Seethes After Decades
The shot that clipped the wing of a juvenile bald eagle
last month could be just the latest volley in a
decades-old crossfire pitting environmental activists and
Texas hill country ranchers.
Stockmen File Suit
To Halt Wolf Scheme
Two Montana livestock groups and a rancher have
gone to federal court to halt further wolf reintroduction
to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho.
NCA Wants Much
CRP Acreage Released To Produce Grain
Cattle producers looking for a way out of their
industry's doldrums say it would help to put 16 million
acres of idled land back into production to drive down
feed prices.
USDA Letting Some
CRP Acres Out Early
The Agriculture Department is letting landowners
remove some acres from its long-term Conservation Reserve
Program so they can farm them in the spring.
EU To Stand
Firm On U.S. Beef Ban
The European Parliament is urging the European
Union to stand firm in a trade dispute with the United
States by maintaining a ban on imports of beef treated
with hormones.
IBP’s Profits
Jump 41 Percent In 1995
While cattlemen struggled with the lowest prices
and weakest market in years, the nation’s largest
beef packer reported record earnings and a 41 percent
increase in profits last year.
Producers Video
Auction Sale Offering Totals 3453 Cattle
Producers Video Auction offered 3453 head of
cattle here last week in their regular video sale.
Consignments were from Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and
Montana.
Superior Video
Cattle Auction Offerings Total 42,000 Head
Superior Livestock Auction offered 42,000 head of
cattle in special trading here in conjunction with the
National Cattlemen’s Association convention. Trade
was termed moderate and demand fair, prices softer.
Delivery terms were mostly current to May, a few for June
and July.
Angelo Lambs
Mixed, Cattle Steady To Up
Newcrop feeder lambs were firm to $2 higher here
Tuesday, oldcrops weak to $2 lower, slaughter lambs
steady to $1 higher and slaughter ewes weak. One day
receipts totaled 10,527 head.
Mason And San
Saba Feeder Cattle Off
Stocker calves sold steady to $4 lower at Mason
and San Saba auctions last week, feeder steers $3-4
lower, heifers steady to strong, slaughter cows and bulls
steady to $3 higher, stock cows and pairs steady.
Big Elm Brangus
Herd Bulls Average $1238
Six aged Brangus herd bulls at the Big Elm herd
dispersal sale here averaged $1238 per head, seven three
year-old commercial bulls made $1007, 29 two year-old
commercial bulls averaged $1056, and 28 yearlings brought
$562.
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
By Baxter Black
The rancher told his foreman, "Looks like
things are gettin' tough The price of calves is deadly,
hell, there may not be enough To pay the note this
winter, I'm already overdue What with buyin' that new
tractor, shoot, it wuddn't even new
Unregistered Bull
in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of
Unregistered Bull.
"Man and boy," said John this week,
"I’ve been a slow-witted witness to many a
strange thing, but this price control business up to now
is the most puzzling thing since the invention of road
maps.
Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
San Francisco airport, noon. Out of 10,000
people and half a dozen restaurants, I select the number
one restaurant with the number one drunk. It was the only
seat at the counter and it just happened to be next to
him. The reason I knew that he had been imbibing was
because people kept tripping over his breath.
Shortgrass
Country
By Monte Noelke
Seven unpapered aliens passed north of the ranch
on the coldest day we were to have in December. They
walked 10 days before taking a chance of asking for food
and shelter. The leader knew the ranch country, but found
the people gone who once fed the southern foot soldiers.