Lambs Find New Life This Week
Fat and feeder lambs found better going this week in most market areas. Fat lambs were a couple of dollars higher in the Midwest and in San Angelo.

Plains Fed Cattle Gain $2 In Brisk Tuesday Movement
Plains feedlots were caught off-guard Tuesday when packers offered $65 for cattle that struggled to remain steady last week at $64.

Plains Feedlots Sales

Range Sales

Turner Ranches Run Buffalo For Profit, Not As A Hobby
Russ Miller enjoys his work. Born in Kansas, reared in California, he graduated from Montana State University with an English degree. Today, he manages Turner Ranches.

Sheepmen Share Experiences With Field Grazing Of Lambs
With a total sheep inventory only half as large as it was 20 years ago - down from more than 13 million head to fewer than eight million - one of the biggest obstacles facing the sheep industry is providing a consistent lamb product year-round.

Latest Revision Of Texas Water Law Drouth-Spawned, As Usual
There has not been a decade since 1884 when some part of Texas has not experienced the significant and damaging effects of drouth.

Credit Shelter Trust Can Pass Estate To Heirs, Not The IRS
Many people think that estate planning is just for the very rich, evoking images of land holdings, fancy cars and priceless works of art. However, legally, we all have an estate at the time of our death.

Evans' UBar Ranch Tops Index In Annual Angora Goat Test
A total of 78 goats completed the Angora goat performance test.This year's starting weight, Dr. Dan Waldron told listeners, was somewhat lighter, but final weights were up.

Trouble Escalate In Mexico; Screwworm Fly Dispersal Halts
Labor unrest that has plagued the joint U.S.-Mexico screwworm plant for years boiled over into voilence earlier this month, and dispersal of sterile screwworm flies has been halted since last Friday.

Anti-Grazing Forces Competing For Choice Leases In Arizona
Tucson hunters and New Mexico environmental activists hope to outbid Arizona ranchers for certain choice state land leases.

Unser Vows To Fight U.S. Forest Service
Addressing a supportive audience at a New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau conference, former auto racer Bobby Unser drew cheers by calling for a U.S. Forest Service "housecleaning."

Buffalo Guts Hurler Faces Federal Case
A Bozeman woman who splattered rotting buffalo guts on a group of high-ranking officials has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Possible Effects Of El Niño Still A Matter Of Conjecture
It's too early to tell where drouth and floods will strike as a result of the intensifying El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, scientists attending a two-week colloquium in Boulder say.

Interstate Meat Shipment Ban Conflict Is Coming To A Head
Iowa meat processors can sell emu steaks or alligator ribs across state lines, but not their beef.

Near-Unanimous Vote Pans Warming Treaty
A non-binding resolution approved by the Senate urges the United States not to sign an upcoming global warming treaty.

Sleeping Sickness Found In E. Texas
The Texas Animal Health Commission reports that equine encephalomyelitis, known as "sleeping sickness," has been diagnosed in three East Texas horses.

Loose Ends
Two West Texas sheep clinics aimed at informing producers of several positive changes in today's sheep industry are set for August 6 and 7 in Ozona and Del Rio, respectively.

Coming Up...
Aug. 1-2—Superior Livestock Auction Video Royale V, Winnemucca, Nev. Aug. 4—Special Feeder Sale, Producers Livestock Auction, San Angelo, Tex. Aug. 7—Rambouillet Sheep Sale, Texas A&M University Research Station, Sonora, Tex.

Wyoming Not Happy With APHIS Review Of Brucellosis Program
The recommendations of a federal task force sent to study the threat brucellosis presents to Wyoming livestock are getting a chilly reception from state and livestock industry officials.

Activists Granted Injunction To Interrupt Grazing, Logging
Environmental activists were jubilant after a federal appellate court voided hundreds of livestock grazing leases and extended a logging ban in Arizona and New Mexico national forests.

Feds Threaten Prison And Fines For Grazing Own Land In Oregon
The feds' National Marine Fisheries Service has threatened to punish people who log or graze their own land, even if they do so in accordance with strict state environmental laws in one of the nation's most "environmentally correct" states.

USDA Plan Would Divert Export Funds To Build Grain Reserve
U.S. grain growers are upset over a plan that would use money meant to market their products overseas to rebuild government-owned emergency grain reserves instead.

Judge Dumps Rules On Watered Poultry
Responding to challenges issued by consumers and livestock producers, a federal district judge in Iowa last week invalidated USDA regulations allowing poultry products to be watered down before sale.

San Angelo Feeder Lambs, Cattle Higher
Feeder lambs weighing over 80 pounds sold $1-3 higher this week, lightweight lambs steady, slaughter lambs $3-5 higher and slaughter ewes weak to $1 lower. Receipts totaled 10,975 head, fully 45 percent slaughter ewes.

Producers Video Sale Offers 6200 Feeders
Producers Video Auction offered 6200 feeder cattle at their regular sale. Delivery is mostly current through November.

Most Colorado City Cattle Prices Higher
Feeder steers and heifers sold steady to strong, slaughter cows $1-3 higher, bulls steady to $2 higher, stock cows and pairs steady. Receipts totaled 926 head.

Llano Feeder Steers Steady, Heifers Off
Feeder steers sold firm, heifers $1-2 lower, slaughter cows and bulls steady. Receipts totaled 549 head.

Brownwood, San Saba, Mason Feeders Steady
Feeder steers and heifers sold steady to strong last week in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba, slaugher cows and bulls steady to $1.50 higher, stock cows $50-75 higher. Receipts at the three sales totaled 3328 head.