Heavy Lamb Meat Prices Off Sharply
Heavyweight lamb carcass prices dropped $10 late last week for the first change in price since February. East Coast lamb prices have held at $189.50-190 on all weights for the past eight weeks. Weights over 85 pounds were $179.50-180, under 75 pounds $189.50-190.

Fed Cattle Gain $2 This Week Before Wild Rumors End Trade
Earthquakes and pestilence can’t hold a candle to coffee shop gossip and malicious rumors when it comes to destructive potential.

Plains Feedlot Sales

Range Sales

Ranchers Share Survival Tips On Drouth During TSCRA Meet
This spring is shaping up to be a dramatically different and far better spring than most ranchers experienced throughout the state last year, but those attending the recent "School for Successful Ranching" in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association were reminded that drouth is a frequent boarder and may just be away for a spell.

ADM Socked With $30M Shareholder Payment
A federal judge has approved a $30 million settlement for Archer Daniels Midland Co. shareholders who saw their portfolios plunge when a federal price-fixing investigation hit the headlines.

Cougar Coddling Has Oregon In Danger Of Being Overrun
Oregon is one of only two states in the nation that doesn’t trust its citizens to pump their own gas, so it should be no surprise that it is also one of a handful that severely limits how dangerous predators can be controlled.

Court Decrees Ag Employers Must Pay For Others’ Wrongs
A federal court in California has adopted the "deep pockets" theory of legal liability so dear to ambitious lawyers and big-government politicians. In so doing, it also appears to have stretched its credibility to the breaking point by finding an employer guilty in 1992 of violating rules not written until 1997.

Death And Capital Gains Taxes Deadly To Ranching Operations
The death tax is a knock on death's door for many family ranches and farms. The tax not only makes it difficult, if not impossible, to transfer family-owned ranches and farms from one generation to the next, it also discourages sons and daughters from going into the ranching business.

Science Textbooks Are Biased, Panel Of Scientists Confirms
Many books that are used to teach American children about the environment contain too little science, and some advocate political positions, a panel of scientists recently confirmed.

Food Shortages Loom? Lock Away More Land
What was that about the right hand and the left hand? The same administration that favors environmental activists over agricultural producers and locks away millions of acres of productive land in secretly schemed "wilderness" designations is now predicting and bemoaning a looming worldwide food shortage.

Locked Up Utah School Lands Came As News To Clintonites
The Clinton administration did not know the Grand Staircase-Escalante area was dotted with school trust lands until just before it was designated a national monument, a state official says.

Wildlife Management Series Targeting White-Tailed Deer
"W.I.L.D. about Deer," a new wildlife management series from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, kicks off April 28-29 in Ozona. "W.I.L.D." or "Wildlife Intensive Leadership Development" is an intensive multi-site training program whose pilot focus is on white-tailed deer.

New EPA Clean Air Regulations Will Cost Ag Much For Little
The Environmental Protection Agency's plan to tighten air quality standards will drive up farmer costs with no benefit to areas where the air already is clean, warns the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Small Packer Rep Says Meat Industry Must Sit And Talk
Cattlemen complain about the big packers and their seemingly little regard for anyone else in the beef business, but at least one representative of small packers has taken a cattlemen's association to task for their haste in making decisions without thinking about others involved in the industry.

Competition Is Heating Up In PRCA World All-Around
Tee Woolman, a 15-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier, walked away with the all-around cowboy title at the recent Walker County Pro Rodeo in Huntsville, Texas.

Germ Detection Method May Help Beef Co-Op
New technology to detect disease-causing bacteria in meat could make beef from a regional cooperative more marketable, co-op officials say.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Lower, Cattle Higher
Feeder lambs sold weak to $5 lower this week, slaughter lambs not well tested, slaughter ewes uneven with good and choice firm to $2 higher and others weak. Receipts totaled 7888 head.

Most Mason, Brownwood, San Saba Cattle Strong
Feeder steers and heifers sold steady to strong in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba last week, newcrop calves steady, slaughter cows and bulls $2-5 higher, pairs and bred cows steady to $25 higher. Receipts totaled 1619 head at the three sales.

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby 
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull.
"I see where a lot of papers and magazines are patting Harry Truman on the back for refusing to run again this year," said John, "but I wish they’d quit it. It hasn’t been too long since he admitted putting this country in the best shape it’s ever been in. It might make him mad for people to start a national celebration just because he’s backing out of the way, and when he gets mad he’s liable to do anything.

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
"Where were you born?" The reporter asked one of my Colorado cowboy friends. "Iowa," he answered. "Iowa!" she said. "Why did you move?" "Because it's hard to be a cowboy in Iowa."

Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
Indian Wells, California, near Palm Springs, was the site of the recent California Cattle Feeders convention. It's a strange place because I asked a dozen or more of the natives where the wells were and nobody knew. Those Indians are smart. They keep the location of the wells a secret so they can sell water to the local people; none of the tourists I saw there drank any water.

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
Journal entries for the past 10 years show us to be marking lambs on the second week of April. Percentages of the lamb crops and death losses are duly recorded. Rain, if any, is listed by measurements at the various gauges. In that last few years, extra labor is detailed by the amount of hours for each man and the extra allowances for equipment and mileage. The final report is a summary of the past winter’s feed bill for the sheep and the cattle.