Lamb Carcass Prices Find Lower Levels
The lamb industry took quite a blow last week with carcasses over 85 pounds quoted at $122, or $50 less than lightweight carcasses and $29 below 75-85 pounders.

Fed Cattle Regain Quick $2, But Some Feeders Wanted $3
The psychology in the feedlots turned around this week, though no one seemed to know why, any more than they could explain the depression that had gripped trade for the past several weeks.

Plains Feedlot Sales

Range Sales

Byron Hayes Traded Way Through Depression And Several Wrecks
Anyone who was in the sheep business in West Texas prior to the 1950s has likely heard of an Iowa trader by the name of Byron Hayes. For many years in the 1940s he and partner Theron Weatherby, a Big Lake native, sent several thousand head of yearling wethers, thousands of aged ewes and peewee lambs a year to farmer-feeders in Iowa.

An Appreciation For Horses Keeps Trainer In The Saddle
Then there was the time Hank Ack rode Buster Welch's horse Rabbit into the casino at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe.

Clean Air Battle Shaping Up As Congress Prepares Review
Congress will soon be taking a critical look at the Clinton administration’s severe new "clean air" rules, and despite confident talk to the contrary, EPA and its media allies are digging in for a bruising fight.

NMSU Dean To USDA As Undersecretary
An associate dean at New Mexico State University's College of Agriculture and Home Economics has been tapped as an undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Control Over Water In Texas Depends On Where It Is Found
Subterranean waters usually are divided into (1) underground streams of water flowing in known or ascertainable courses; and (2) waters that seep or percolate through the earth in undefined channels, referred to legally as "percolating waters."

Huge Winter Wheat Crop Is Forecast
A cool spring in the southern Plains will produce a bumper winter wheat crop that is projected at 20 percent larger than last year's, the U.S. Agriculture Department reported Friday.

1995 Midwest Heat Wave Losses In Feedlots Spurred Research
It was two years ago this month that a heat wave killed more than 3000 cattle in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa.

APHIS Okays Imported Beef From Argentina
A USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service rule scheduled to go into effect in August clears the way for importing Argentine beef that had been prevented from entering this country because of animal health concerns.

South African Angora Tops Sale At $4000
Robert Stewart, Clifton, bought the top-priced South African Angora goat at the 10th annual Hobson, Haby, Lockhart, Ross, Speck production sale for $4000. The buck was the first registered South African Angora goat to sell in the United States since 1925. A second South African goat went to Jene and Sue Nissen, Marshall, North Carolina.

Steers Heifer Prices Higher In Angelo Special Sale Monday
Steers and heifers were generally $1-2 higher Monday in the season’s third special feeder sale at Producers Livestock Auction, instances $3-5 higher on steers weighing more than 700 pounds.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Lower, Cattle Higher
Feeder lambs sold $1-3 lower this week, slaughter lambs not well tested, slaughter ewes weak. Receipts totaled 10,772 head.

Llano Feeder Steers, Heifers Fully Steady
Feeder steers sold fully steady, slaughter cows and bulls $1-3 lower. Receipts totaled 634 head.

San Saba, Brownwood, Mason Feeders Higher
Feeder steers and heifers sold $3-8 higher in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba last week, some under 375 pounds $15 higher, slaughter cows steady to $2 lower, bulls steady, stock cows $50-150 higher. Receipts at the three sales totaled 2620 head.

Unregistered Bull in a Hotel Lobby
Choice gleanings from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull.
"If I was a young man starting out," said John, "I believe I’d be a cattle philosopher instead of tackling some other end of the cattle business. Of course, there’s no demand for cattle philosophers right now, but there might be sometime. The government might even figure out some kind of subsidy for them if anybody mentioned it.

On The Edge Of Common Sense
By Baxter Black
It was every fairboard's nightmare when the lightning hit the stage.
Course, it might have been expected; it was just another page
In a trail of disasters that befell our county fair
That began when Dr. Knockwurst told us we should be aware

Pokin' Fun 
By Doc Blakely
Sometimes writers like myself don’t have to work very hard to come up with good material. Sometimes it just falls right out of the sky. Like the following actual ads: Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated? Come here first!

Wildlife By Design
By Dale Rollins, PhD.
West Texas, there really is a Santa Claus. I'm certain. Yes, I know it's mid-July and nowhere near Christmas, but I've got renewed hope that my letter to Santa Claus last December was answered.

Shortgrass Country 
By Monte Noelke
Been a lot of publicity for our state from the organization itself the Republic of Texas. No sense in reviewing the Fort Davis episode. Citizens fortunate enough to miss such news should be left to enjoy their run of luck. Another pertinent point is writers going around blabbing about uprisings and insurrections may find themselves in need of thicker armor than the one-inch layer of leaf fat covering their heart chambers.