Heavy Lamb Carcasses Drop Hard
Heavy lamb carcasses took another stiff licking last week and are now $23 below handyweights and $28 below lightweights.

Fed Cattle Trade Kicks Off Wednesday At Steady $68 Rate
Plains fed cattle trade stood at ease the first two days of the week but kicked into gear Wednesday. Texas Panhandle movement exceeded the week’s showlist at a steady $68.

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Triangle Uses Prescribed Burns As Foundation For Brush Control
With the high cost of mechanical and chemical brush control, some private landowners believe the time has arrived for prescribed fire to take center stage in controlling invading brush species, particularly redberry juniper. Such is the case with the Triangle Ranches of Texas.

Senate Bill Allows Innovation In Efforts To Avoid Pollution
Texans could avoid some state pollution-control rules if they come up with alternative control methods under a Senate-approved bill that predictably drew fire from environmental activist groups.

Colorado House Tells Babbitt "Get Packing"
Complaining that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and other administration bureaucrats believe the West "is their own playground," the Colorado House of Representatives last Thursday passed a resolution demanding Babbitt’s resignation.

Bobby Unser Case Tailor-Made For Conservative Legal Group
Mountain States Legal Foundation is offering free legal services to retired race car driver Bobby Unser in his dispute with the U.S. Forest Service, a case that drives home everything the public-interest law firm has been saying about excessive government for years.

Mid-April Freeze Chilled Hopes For Wheat Crop In Three States
A bitter mid-April freeze severely damaged what might have been the best Texas wheat crop in five years, though industry experts say high prices might provide some relief.

Claim To Set Record Straight On Wilderness Hedges Truth
Rep. Helen Chenoweth opened a congressional hearing in Washington last week with a tale that seemed to typify the bureaucratic thinking people love to hate about the federal government.

Study Suggests Grasshoppers Could Be Fought More Cheaply
Farmers and ranchers could slash insecticide use by up to 75 percent without seeing a reduction in effectiveness against grasshoppers, according to early results from a University of Wyoming study.

Colorado Senate Okays Hunt Rights Amendment
Fishing and hunting would be constitutionally protected rights in Colorado if voters approve a resolution endorsed last Friday by the Colorado Senate.

Western Congressman Wants More Wilderness Locked Away In East
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. U.S. Rep. Jim Hansen of Utah is all for more wilderness — as long as it's not in the West.

Much CRP Acreage Held Hostage To Disaster Bill In Congress
Legislation intended to fund relief to victims of the Midwest floods and other disasters could force millions of acres of idled farmland back into production.

EPA Chief Loses Her Temper When Questioned By Lawmakers
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency lost her temper last week when lawmakers questioned her agency's proposal to tighten air quality standards. Some accused her of skirting the law.

Espy Probe Produces Another In Long List Of Indictments
Former Clinton administration Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy's chief of staff is charged in a federal indictment with concealing $22,000 received from two farming associates while serving as one of the department's top officials.

EU Pulls Out Of Talks On U.S. Meat Imports
The European Union announced last Friday that it has failed to reach agreement with the United States in a dispute over meat standards, and said the EU is recalling its negotiators from Washington.

On Earth Day Wyoming Leaders Seek Personal Responsibility
Last week’s "Earth Day" observance was an excuse for environmental activists to hype their agendas and raise money. Politicians — including many who should know better — have also been co-opted over the years. Two Wyoming leaders were among those who kept their wits about them.

Montana Stockmens’ Meetings Air Broad Range Of Concer
The first in a series of town meetings being conducted around the state by the Montana Stockgrowers Association finds concerns as broad as Montana itself.

Bayou Buckaroo Still Leading PRCA All-Around Cowboy Race
All-around cowboy standings leader Chad Hagan of Leesville, La., won the calf roping title at recent the Buccaneer Days Pro Rodeo in Corpus Christi. The 23 year-old cowboy roped his calf in 8.2 seconds and earned $2248, boosting his overall winnings to $31,978. In the all-around standings, Hagan is followed by reigning champ Joe Beaver, Huntsville, Texas, with $25,774; Butch Myers, Athens, Texas, $23,179; Jason Evans, Huntsville, $22,019 and Brad Goodrich, Hermiston, Ore., $19,026.

NCBA Finds Retail Beef Prices Lower
Average retail beef prices declined further during March, and indications are that consumers can expect continued bargains through the upcoming grilling season, says the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

EPA Using Tax Money To Generate Backing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just committed $50,000 of taxpayers’ money to buy itself a cheerleading section.

More Mexican States Make TB-Clear List
The Texas Animal Health Commission has announced the tentative addition of several more Mexican states to the list approved to export feeder cattle to Texas.

San Saba, Brownwood Mason Feeders Higher
Choice feeder steers weighing 250-350 pounds sold $3-5 higher last week in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba, other classes steady to strong, replacement heifers $2-4 higher, slaughter cows steady, stock cows steady to $25 higher. Receipts totaled 1780 head at the three sales.

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby 
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull.
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It's the Pitts 
By Lee Pitts
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to get on the other side of a barbed wire fence there are basically three different techniques ... the split, the straddle, and the slide.

Pokin' Fun
By Doc Blakely
I've been thinking about writing a new book. It will be called Men Are From Ft. Worth, Women Are From Throckmorton. This will help women learn what men really mean when they say the following things:

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
A new holistic doctor hit San Angelo in a big way a year or so ago. He's a brilliant man, a medical genius, in my opinion, and I haven't even met him.

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