DECLINING NUMBERS is a tiring refrain in the U.S. sheep industry, but the Texas lamb feeding business is experiencing something of a mini-revival, spurred on by the opening of the new lamb plant at San Angelo. These lambs are on feed near Eldorado, where rancher Mike Moore has joined the resurgence.

Fat, Feeder Lamb Prices Show Strength
Fat and feeder lambs showed a little strength around the country this week, though slaughter ewe prices fell sharply.

Plains Fed Cattle Prices Gain Another $2 In Midweek Trading
Plains feedlots offered short showlists again this week and in so doing garnered the highest price they've managed so far this year.

PLAINS FEEDLOT SALES

RANGE SALES

Former Gov. Briscoe Honored For Years Of Contributions
Lifelong rancher and former Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe was recently honored as the recipient of the National Golden Spur Award.

Charlie Ball Charts History Of Cattlemen's Organizations
Cattlemen have faced many problems during the long histry of the industry, not the least of which has been getting organized and presenting a solid front on the issues that plagued them.

Plains Feedlots Facing Effect Of Shipping Tangles On Grain
With the local feed grain harvest in full swing, area cattle feeders don't appear worried about a shortage of corn or grain sorghum due to transportation problems.

Incoming Ranch To Rail Cattle Show Signs Of More Selection
If first impressions mean anything, cattlemen consigning to this year's Ranch to Rail program are zeroing in on what the industry is asking for.

Sound Science Is Rangeland Mangers' Best Political Tool
Range professionals, rangeland managers, and farmers and ranchers must not be afraid to get political. After all, they have sound science to back them up.

Milk Cow Riding Wreck Retold, But Only After Several Years
Have you ever noticed how thinking-type ranch kids can come up with a solution for just about any problem that seems to prevent them from having fun?

Clinton "Global Warming" Plan Finds Critics From Both Sides
President Bill Clinton has finally announced the plan his administration intends to propose in Japan this December at the "global warming" treaty convention.

Beef Industry Offering Scholarship Funding
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are offering $20,000 in scholarship monies to college students pursuing careers in the beef industry.

That Was A Campaign; This Is Different
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows, all the while generating campaign rhetoric that both sides readily ignore later.

Beef Co-Op Looking For New Options
A struggling beef cooperative may be looking for outside investors or scaling back its plans for a processing plant.

Three Bull Riders Sidelined; Mortensen Leads All-Around
Three PRCA bull riders headed for the $3.4 million National Finals Rodeo have been sidelined with broken bones.

Four Predator Meets Set During November
Predator Awareness Workshops have been scheduled in four far West Texas counties during November.

Superior Livestock Video Sale Offering Totals 26,000 Cattle
Superior Livestock Auction offered more than 26,000 feeder cattle and breeding stock at their regularly scheduled video auction. Feeder calves and yearlings sold higher, stock cows weak.

Steer And Heifer Prices Lower In Angelo Special Sale Monday
Steers and heifers sold weak to as much as $3 lower here Monday in the season's eighth special feeder sale at Producers Livestock Auction.

Shiner Ranch Brahman Sale Average Is $789
The Shiner Ranch and Partners Brahman and Brahman cross cattle sale averaged $789 on 1123 head.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Firm, Cattle Steady
Feeder lambs sold firm this week, slaughter lambs poorly tested, slaughter ewes fully $5-10 lower.

Most Llano Cattle Prices Turn Lower
Feeder steers sold barely steady to $3 lower, heifers $2-3 lower, slaughter cows and bulls $1-3 lower.

San Saba, Brownwood, Mason Feeders Higher
Choice feeder steers sold steady to $2 higher last week in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba.

Mexican Feeder Cattle Imports Up 72 Percent
Mexican feeder cattle exports to the United States totaled 18,973 head last week, all entering Texas.

Abilene Feeder Steers Steady, Heifers Mixed
Feeder steers sold fully steady, heifers under 400 pounds steady, over 400 pounds $1-2 lower.

Goldthwaite Lambs, Goats Trade Higher
Feeder lambs sold steady to $2 higher, slaughter ewes steady to $2 higher.

M6 Charolais Bulls Average $2353 Each
The seventh annual M6 Ranch Charolais bull sale in Alvarado, Texas, averaged $2353 on 118 head.

Pair-A-Dice Brahman Females Avg. $1586
Seventy-one lots of female Brahman cattle sold in the Pair-A-Dice Ranch Fall Production sale at an average of $1586 per head.

Angus Sale Averages $2166 On 54 Bulls
A total of 54 bulls brought an average of $2166 per head here Saturday during the West Central Texas Angus Association's 11th annual Performance Angus Bull sale.

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Coming Up ...
October 31 — 9th Annual Senior Steer Ropers Association’s "Jim Franklin Memorial Steer Roping", Lamesa 6 Ranch, San Angelo, Texas. November 1 — The Fall Gatherin’ ‘97, Joplin Regional Stockyards, Joplin, Missouri. November 1 — Fall Breeders Replacement Sale, Tulsa Stockyards, Tulsa, Oklahoma.