Feeder Lambs Steady, Fats Begin To Sag
Feeder lambs held fairly steady around the country this week with the supply very short. Most of the oldcrop lambs have about played out and newcrops are primarily committed for later in the year.

Feedlots Hold Off For $64 Bid, Finally Get It Late Wednesday
Fed cattle trade through much of the Plains stood at an impasse most of Wednesday after a spurt of steady $63 sales Tuesday. That changed just before presstime when two of the big packers began offering the first $64 bids and feedlots snapped them up like candy.

PLAINS FEEDLOT SALES

RANGE SALES

1996 Lamb Prices Reach Record High Levels As Numbers Decline
Lamb prices in 1996 exhibited a graphic picture of the effects of supply and demand. Record high prices were recorded while numbers reached record low levels. Slaughter was down around 10 percent last year.

Organizer Foresees Increasing Emergence Of Ag Cooperatives
Each agricultural cooperative is as unique as the members who put it together, says a Colorado man who has experience in the field.

Administrative Savings Allow Increased Checkoff Spending
The 1996 annual report released by the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board shows that the beef checkoff program is "accomplishing its goals of effectiveness and efficiency," says CBB Chairman Jan Lyons, a purebred producer from Manhattan, Kan.

Analysts Forecast 1997 To Be Much Brighter For Cattlemen
Cattle numbers will be smaller in 1997, while beef production will increase slightly compared to 1996. Total beef production is expected to rise about one percent in 1997, but prices on all classes of cattle are expected to be above year-ago averages.

Book Tells Greenhorns That Manure May Smell
Ignorance is bliss, they say, but not to those who have to listen to carping from the formerly ignorant who suddenly awaken to the real world’s little annoyances.

Clinton Appointees Purge Old FS Hands
The Clinton administration's pursuit of its anti-logging and environmental activist agenda has led to the departure of two veteran Forest Service officials, a Republican senator contends.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Softer, Cattle Firm
Feeder lambs sold steady to $1 lower this week, slaughter lambs and ewes firm. Receipts totaled 5608 head.

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
The 1996 National Finals Rodeo finished in a blaze of glory for some and indigestion for others. But through it all the buckin' stock shined. I watched as Khadafy Skoal, Copenhagen Blue Jeans, Dodge Ram Tough, Grasshopper, Colt Peacemaker, Try Me and Woolly Bully pounded, spun and bucked their way through eight seconds of high voltage cowboy carnage.

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull.
John was about to launch one of his philosophical monologues when he was interrupted by the approach of the hotel manager, accompanied by a female guest. She was a buxom lady, well dressed and amply equipped with jewelry and perfume. She was old enough to vote; in fact, she was old enough to vote twice, but one got the impression it would have been dangerous to say so.

Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
About this time of year, a young man's fancy turns to love and his brains to mush. You can see that faraway look in his eye as Valentine's Day approaches.

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
Things are falling into place in ‘97. Big offers started coming in right after the holidays. Opportunities like a bid to keep a notorious insomniac eight month-old boy at the ranch while the mother and father rested up on the top floor at a big Fling Ding dance at Sonora, Texas.

Wildlife By Design
By Dale Rollins, Ph.D
"The last word in ignorance is the man who asks of a plant or animal, — what good is it?" — Aldo Leopold Anyone who’s ever been afield with me or heard me speak knows that I harp on (a) knowing your plants, and (b) knowing how to manipulate them. This premise is just as applicable for steers as deer, for bobwhites as for black baldies. But sometimes such axioms can back you into a corner.

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