Lamb Prices Recover Some Of Losses
Slaughter and feeder lamb prices around the country tended to firm up this week as lamb meat prices held steady on the heavy end but continued to freefall on light and middle weights. Slaughter ewes found some strength in northern markets, but Texas prices were a couple of dollars lower.

Fed Cattle Movement Massive, Prices Much Higher This Week
The worm turned this week in the fed cattle trade. Packers came to the table needing cattle and offering money; they got the cattle and the feeders got the money.

Plains Feedlot Sales

Range Sales

IBP’s Head Buyer Sees Industry Issues From Other Perspective
IBP’s head cattle buyer, Bruce Bass, is basically a hometown boy who got his start with the country’s largest packer quite incidentally. Bass came to Dakota City in 1988 as IBP’s assistant buyer and became head buyer in December 1991.

CME Trader Urges Cattlemen To Reject Captive Supplies
Packer concentration and captive supplies remain contentious issues within the cattle industry, spawning everything from animated discussions to lawsuits.

Productive Sector Group Turns To Species Act For Assistance
It was bound to happen. A group of northern Colorado ranchers and farmers has turned the tables on eco-activists who use the federal Endangered Species Act to interfere with productive enterprise.

NCBA, LMA At Odds Once More, This Time On Handling Stock
The Livestock Marketing Association is once more at odds with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, this time over proposed federal guidelines on livestock handling.

Census Finds Farms Fewer And Bigger
The size of the American farm is increasing as the family farm of yesteryear passes from the landscape.

Better Cattle Market Foreseen In Long Run, But Spooky Soon
Derrell Peel, livestock marketing specialist with Oklahoma State University, says he likes speaking to groups at the Hardy Murphy Coliseum here because a sign on the wall says 'Nothing may be hung from the ceiling.'

Clinton Vows To Veto Grazing Reform Bill
A grazing reform measure authored by Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., faces a certain veto, according to a White House environmental adviser.

Chicken Farmers Sue, Alleging Freezeout
Poultry growers who balked at ConAgra's new contract requirements last December are now fighting the company in court.

Trail Ride On Spade To Benefit WT Rehab
The sixth annual Trail Ride for Rehab is scheduled for the weekend of September 21 and 22 at Renderbrook Spade Ranch near here.

Coop Effort Underway By Kansas Cattlemen
Kansas cattlemen are trying to organize their own cooperative to compete with the nation's largest beef packing companies.

Nation’s Feeder Cattle Prices Moved Mostly Higher Last Week
Feeder cattle prices were mostly steady to $1 higher across the country last week. Advances outnumbered declines by a two to one margin with no one area showing a definite pattern.

Texas Fed Cattle Prices Steady Last Week On Limited Movement
Slaughter steers and heifers sold steady in Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma feedlot trading last week.

Superior Video Sale Attracts 81,000 Cattle From 27 States
Superior Livestock Auction offered 81,000 feeder cattle here in their Big Horn Classic III sale. Trading was termed active and prices strong, delivery current through early December.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Firm, Cattle Steady
Feeder lambs sold firm this week, slaughter lambs untested, slaughter ewes $1-3 lower. Two day receipts totaled 17,351 head.

Fredericksburg Cattle $2-3 Higher Last Week
Lightweight feeder steers and heifers sold $2-3 higher, slaughter cows and bulls $1-2 higher. Receipts totaled 2702 head.

Most Lampasas Cattle Prices Termed Steady
Trading was active, feeder steers and heifers steady, slaughter cows and bulls steady. Receipts totaled 1835 head.

Most San Saba Cattle Prices Moved Higher
Trading was active, feeder yearlings steady to $1 higher, calves steady, slaughter cows $1-2 higher. Top producer awards at the special calf and yearling sale went to Frank Lange, Llano, for exotic breed; Terry McCall, Comanche, English breed; and Deep Creek Ranch, San Saba, Brahman cross. Receipts totaled 2946 head at Mason, Brownwood and San Saba.

Kansas Direct Feeder Cattle Prices Lower
Feeder steers sold $1-2 lower in Kansas direct trade last week, heifers steady to $1 lower. Moisture was spotty across the state, readings ranging from traces to four inches. Sales were confirmed on 12,071 head.

Cuero Cattle Prices Trend Mostly Higher
Most classes of feeder steers and heifers sold steady to higher, slaughter cows $1-2 higher, bulls $2-4 higher. Receipts totaled 3284 head.

Goldthwaite Lambs Up, Stock Angoras Lower
Feeder lambs sold steady to $2 higher, slaughter lambs $2-4 higher, slaughter ewes and bucks steady, stock ewes mostly steady; stock Angora nannies steady, muttons $2-3 lower, kids and yearlings $1-2 lower, slaughter muttons and billies $4-5 lower, nannies steady; slaughter Spanish kids and yearlings steady, muttons and billies $3-4 higher, stock nannies and billies fully steady. Receipts totaled 6000 head.

Domestic Wool Slow, Aussie Wools Higher
Trading on domestic wool was slow last week, most producers electing not to sell at this time. Demand was moderate, however, and 62,000 pounds offered at sealed bid in Uvalde, Texas, brought 73.5-95 cents grease, f.o.b. the warehouse, on 64s, 60/62s at 66 cents.

Junction Lambs, Stock Angora Goats Steady
Feeder lambs sold fully steady, slaughter ewes and bucks steady; stock Angora goats mostly steady, slaughter kids and yearlings generally steady, muttons and billies steady, nannies $1-2 lower; slaughter Spanish kids, yearlings and nannies steady, muttons and billies $1-2 higher, stock nannies $1-2 higher. Receipts totaled 12,000 head.

Hindsight

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull. 
"Just to prove," said John, "that there’s still a surprising amount of unselfishness in the world, I’ve done a very strange thing. I’ve taken pen in hand to write to my Congressman, not for any favor to me, personally, but on behalf of a friend that can’t write very well. Look this one over:

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
When the crew came toward the cookhouse Hazel shut and locked the door.
"Don't you even think about it! Looks like y'all been in a war."
And though Hazel didn't know it she was not far off the track
They'd been workin' pasture cattle and them critters could fight back!

Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
Plains, Georgia. The story that there are still some farmers that plow small acreages without the benefit of modern machinery is not without documentation. Once in a while an oldtimer is still seen in a peanut field following Georgia stock. An unreliable source of mine says it happened this way. A mule had stepped a little high and got a foot through a part of the harness when the oldtimer yelled, "Whoa," and then started a conversation with his mule, "Bill."

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
Touring companies let good tips slip on where to travel. While they are blabbing on about some pristine island paradise where the main event is a land crab rattling down the beach, the thoughtful traveler can skim off the hype and develop a plan. Pirating a nature company's brochures is how I found Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, Canada for a July trip. Frommer's guide to Canada and Mobil's travel book filled in the details.