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| Vol. 49 - No. 4 | Thursday, January 30, 1997 | $25 Per Year |
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Fat, Feeder Lamb
Prices Edge Upward
Fat and feeder lamb prices moved higher in the
Midwest, where severe winter conditions have curtailed
movement. Texas prices, however, were generally on the
soft side. Slaughter ewes were stronger in Texas and
lower in the Midwest.
Fed Cattle Give
Up Another Dollar As Mood Turns Gray
The cautious optimism the Plains fed cattle
industry showed at this time last week was short-lived;
in less than 24 hours the first feeders caved to a $1
lower market at $65, and soon everyone followed suit.
ASI To Downsize,
Shift Focus To Specific Industry Issues
The sheep industry’s national organization
will be downsized in the next 45 days to accommodate
funding lost with the phaseout of the National Wool Act
and the subsequent loss of the organization’s bid
for a promotional checkoff.
Grass, Forage
Meet Planned For Abilene
Information on cool and warm season grasses and
other forage will be available at a meeting planned for
Wednesday, Feb. 12 at the Taylor County Fairgrounds
coliseum meeting room here.
Study Aims At
Making Cattle Graze Spurge
If you can't fight it, feed it. That's the tack a South
Dakota State University researcher is taking against a
weedy prairie scourge known as leafy spurge. Years of
searching for ways to wipe out spurge have produced
little, so Scott Kronberg wants to make the weed an
acceptable source of feed for cattle.
Farmworker
Union Sued By Its Own Employees
The United Farm Workers union has made a habit over the
years of dishing out lawsuits like Colonel Sanders dishes
out chicken. Now it’s getting a taste of its own
medicine.
Angelo Feeder
Lambs Lower, Cattle Higher
Feeder lambs sold weak to $2 lower this week,
slaughter lambs steady and ewes firm to $1 higher.
Receipts totaled 10,574 head.
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
By Baxter Black
"Famous Friends of the Wolf
Cookbook" is a new cookbook authored by two
ladies in Idaho. Oh, great, I thought, talk about bad
press. A couple of rancher's wives are offering recipes
on how to cook wolf meat, i.e. wolf burgers, pickled
wolf's feet, wolf on the halfshell ... But I was wrong.
Unregistered Bull
in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of
Unregistered Bull.
"Strictly from the standpoint of
ignorance," said John, "and without knowing
anything at all about it, I’d say this Mexican labor
situation is a bad deal all the way around. It looks like
the more it’s discussed, the more it gets out of the
hands of the ranchmen and the Mexican laborers."
Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
There are some people who are so optimistic that
regardless of what happens their stock statement is
always, "Well, it could have been worse."
Shortgrass
Country
By Monte Noelke
At the last general election, 723 out of 1272
registered voters in Irion County went to the polls.
Further calculations showed this less than 57 percent
turnout left 549 people to find better means of exerting
their influence on the way the country is run. Such power
plays as filibustering coffee house sessions or
threatening to write letters to newspapers are thought to
be among the alternatives.