Lamb Meat, Fat, Feeder Lambs Fall
Lamb carcasses took a $7-8 drop late last week to create considerable confusion in the trade. In fact, the prices on heavies, those over 85 pounds, were so bad they were not reported other than to say they were "trading well below the value of 75 pounds and down."

Fed Cattle Price Plunge Ends; Question Is How Much Recovery
The long tumble in Plains fed cattle prices ended this week as packers bid higher money and many feeders sat back to await a little more sweetening in the pot.

Plains Feedlot Sales

Range Sales

Facing Legislative Funding Crisis, ASI Board Downsizes
The American Sheep Industry Association’s legislative arm will be out of money in the next 30 days. That was one of several critical issues ASI board members addressed at their recent mid-year meeting here.

Ranch, Farm Heritage Director Far From Home, Original Field
In his palm leaf hat, he looks more like a cattleman than an anthropologist, but the director of the New Mexico State Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum here and the newly appointed director of New Mexico's Cultural Heritage Agency has his doctorate in prehistoric Eskimo migration patterns. And though he’s a confirmed Southwesterner now, he’s also a long way from his boyhood home.

Cattle Imports Lower So Far This Year, Statistics Reveal
Recently released statistics show that live cattle imports into the United States have been consistently lower this year than in 1996 through the end of March.

Ethanol Subsidy Takes First Hit In House Committee Vote
A proposal to eliminate the federal subsidy for ethanol survived a strong challenge last week by Rep. Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, in the House tax-writing committee.

Clinton Signs Relief Measure After Delaying It With Veto
President Clinton late last week signed a major disaster relief bill that will pump billions of federal dollars into several states and includes provisions to pay for livestock lost to floods and winter blizzards.

Most Steers And Heifers Steady In Angelo Special Sale Monday
Steer and heifer prices were generally steady here Monday in the season’s second special feeder sale at Producers Livestock Auction.

Man’s Best Friend Sometimes Tries Man’s Short Patience
It is a well established fact that a man should have at least one good dog in his lifetime. Me, I've had four. They didn't all start out to be good dogs, but they ended up being a way yonder good.

Horse’s Vital Signs Key To Health State
When a horse looks or acts sick, it's important for an owner to be able to know for sure. A horse owner should remember the normal figures for a horse's key vital signs of temperature, breathing rate and resting heart rate, advises Bruce Peverley, Oklahoma State University area Extension livestock specialist at Claremore.

Kerr County Wins 38th Annual National 4-H Wool Judging Meet
Kerr County 4-Hers grabbed national championship honors here last week at the 38th National 4-H Wool Judging Contest in conjunction with the 60th Annual Sonora Wool and Mohair Show.

Buffalo Summit Seeks Management Proposals
Regional and federal officials are looking at alternative long-range management proposals for Yellowstone National Park buffalo this week.

USDA Defends Limited Signup Of CRP Land
Rather than idle land now that is better used for growing crops, the Agriculture Department will wait until fall before adding more acreage to its Conservation Reserve Program.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Trade Sharply Lower
Feeder lambs sold $6-10 lower this week, slaughter ewes firm to $1 higher. Receipts totaled 10,532 head.

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull.
"If it was left up to me to name the nerviest class of people in the world," said John, "I don’t know but what I’d vote for sheep raisers.

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
I was invited to participate in a celebrity team roping this spring, a very fancy affair with movie stars, singers, artists, bronc riders and football players. They match a celebrity with a top professional roper who tries to make the celebrity look good.

Wildlife By Design
By Dale Rollins, Ph.D
Are you on a "name calling" basis with the plants on your ranch? The prairie ecologist J. E. Weaver once professed, "Nature is an open book for those who care to read. Upon each grass-covered hillside is revealed the history of the past, the conditions of the present and the hope for the future."

Shortgrass Country
By Monte Noelke
After all these years of ranching through every kind of woolly disaster from hungry prairie wolves to chartering space aboard ship to send wool clips to Boston, my family continues to run sheep.