IN THEIR ELEMENT, these horses on the Four Sixes provide a pleasing aspect with open country stretching to the horizon behind them. For some of us, of course, any picture of horses is pleasing as long as it isn’t cluttered with tangles of bent barbed wire and assorted barnyard junk.

Lamb Meat Suffers More Loss
Heavy lamb carcassses took another hit last week and weight continues to be a critical factor.

Plains Fed Cattle Trading At A Standstill By Midweek
The packers and the cowboys were both on offense this week, and as of late Wednesday, no one knew for sure who had the ball.

PLAINS FEEDLOT SALES

RANGE SALES

Livestock Losses Still Unclear From Early Blizzard On Plains
The Southeastern Colorado cattle industry was still trying to determine the death loss this week from a blizzard that ripped through the state the last weekend of October.

USDA, EPA Can't Get Together On Ag Air Quality Agreement
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency aren't speaking to each other. The two agencies were expected to sign a "memorandum of understanding." They didn't.

Range Professional Says Manage For Risk First, Supply Later
Those in the range profession need to help ranchers manage risk rather than supply. That was the gist of remarks made by New Mexico State University range scientist Dr. Jerry Holechek.

Editorail
Pepper Spray Protest Misses Some Salient Points Of Fact
The popular press and leftist politicians are all a'twitter over allegations that Humboldt County, Calif. deputies used "excessive force" to dislodge anti-logging protesters in two recent incidents.

"Crimes Against Nature" Means Something Quite Different Now
Years ago, when I was just starting out as an attorney, I worked on a criminal case in Wyoming that involved an alleged sexual assault.

Geologist Wants Utah "Monument" Opened Up
The secretly concocted Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument should be opened to mineral development with subsequent federal royalties placed in a national park trust, Utah state geologist M. Lee Allison says.

Grazing Reform Bill Passes Full House By Wide Margin
Ranchers would have to pay 48 cents more for each cow and calf, horse or every five sheep and goats they graze on federal lands, under legislation passed late last week by the House.

USDA Shuts Down Beef Plant Over E. Coli
The U.S. Agriculture Department took action last Friday to shut down a beef processing plant in Nebraska that had recently recalled more than 600,000 pounds of meat because of E. coli contamination.

Science Seeks Germs To Kill Other Germs
The nation's scientists are taking aim at the bugs in beef and chicken that make people sick by wiping them out in the bowels of animals before they are slaughtered.

Ohl Bests Whitfield In Match At San Angelo Roping Fiesta
Spectators who were drawn to the Saturday matched roping at last weekend's San Angelo Roping Fiesta for the excellent weather were handsomely rewarded.

PRCA Regular Season Concludes; Mortensen Clinches All-Around
Bareback rider Larry Sanvick enjoyed a profitable trip south last weekend.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Steady, Cattle Lower
Feeder lambs sold steady this week, slaughter lambs not well tested and slaughter ewes $4-6 higher.

San Saba, Brownwood, Mason Feeders Lower
Most feeder steers and heifers sold $1-4 lower last week in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba.

White Hereford Bulls Average $2742 Each
The J.E. White Jr. and Sons sold 62 registered horned Hereford bulls for an average price of $2742 per head. A total of 353 heifers averaged $881.

Llano Feeder Steers Lower, Heifers Hold
Feeder steers sold steady to $2 lower and heifers steady.

Letters To The Editor

Coming Up...
November 8 — Holmes Farms Inc. Replacement Female Sale, Springfield Regional Stockyard Sales Center, Springfield, Missouri. November 8 — Wilkinson Gelbvieh Ranch’s Wind of Change Gelbvieh Production Sale, LaJunta Livestock, LaJunta, Colorado. November 8 — Tom J. Moore Cattle Company’s Brangus Sale, Four County Auction Center, Industry, Texas.