SOUTHERN-CLIME CATTLE often have problems with winter weather in West Texas and the Panhandle, but these Florida imports have been on native pasture west of San Angelo since late summer and had plenty of time to acclimate. They’ve also been the beneficiaries of a fairly benign season — at least so far.

Lamb Prices Continue To Work Lower
The limited available supply of feeder lambs in Texas sold generally lower this week while Midwest markets held about steady. Slaughter lambs were a couple of dollars lower in most places. Slaughter ewes worked a little higher.

Plains Fed Cattle Trade At Midweek For $64, But Many Texas Lots Hold
Plains fed cattle trade was a standoffish affair during the first part of the week, packers tendering ridiculously low bids and feedlots demanding at least steady money. That changed about midafternoon when buyers came up to the minimum asking price and holders became sellers.

PLAINS FEEDLOT SALES

RANGE SALES

Lubbock Man Preserves History By Restoring Old Photographs
To say Harley Shannon has had a diversified career is way short of the mark. He has done everything from buying cattle, hogs and sheep to brokering hay, from working at a newspaper to industry relations with the National Livestock & Meat Board, from managing a ranch to being in the oil business, from cattle procurement for a large livestock auction to selling everything from computer hardware for electronic cattle marketing to tub grinders and plastic sheeting. And those are only highlights.

No Talking, No Running Away From Amarillo For Oprah Trial
The judge won't let anybody involved the case talk about it publicly, local businessmen vie to rent space for television productions, and one entrepreneur is giving away anti-Oprah buttons. The stage is set for Texas cattlemen's lawsuit against television talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey, her associated production and distribution companies, and a guest.

Sharp Proposes Using Inmates To Clear Cedar Over Aquifer
You can tell a political race is getting serious when a candidate sticks his neck out, and Texas Comptroller John Sharp has done that in his bid to win the Lieutenant Governor’s chair vacated by the retiring Bob Bullock.

Wetlands Ruling On East Coast Could Be Chink In Feds' Armor
A federal appeals court decision about wetlands at a Maryland development could dramatically change the scope of the Clean Water Act by abolishing regulation of inland areas in five states.

Congress Reluctant To Act, So Air Regs Face Court Test
The Congressional leadership is unwilling to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's new air quality standards. But this does not mean the standards will last.

Climate Treaty To Be Top Ag Issue In Congress This Year
The Global Climate Treaty Summit, which concluded in Kyoto, Japan in December, raised a lot of interesting issues that agriculture will closely follow in the ensuing months. The treaty calls for the European Union to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions by eight percent below 1990 levels, the U.S. by seven percent; and Japan by six percent.

Piles Of Grain Shrink Slowly, But They Are Shrinking Some
Slowly but surely, those piles of grain dumped outside Kansas elevators are getting smaller. There are about 10.5 million bushels of grounded grain throughout the state, compared with 31.5 million bushels in October and November, state Agriculture Secretary Allie Devine said late last week.

Judge Pours Anti-Milk Suit Down Drain With Dismissal
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man who blamed his health problems on a weakness for milk. Reports do not indicate whether he was able to keep a straight face when he made his ruling.

Longterm Study Says Buffalo, Cattle Have Similar Impacts
The natural blue grama grass of northeastern Colorado doesn't seem to mind who grazes on it — the buffalo who did it for 10,000 years or domestic cattle that replaced them a century ago.

Study Says South Texas Cougars Have Smaller Range Than Others
Mountain lions in South Texas tend to have smaller home ranges than their western cousins and prey mostly on white-tailed deer, says a new study

Anti-Grazing Radicals Call Emergency Haylift A Subsidy
Anti-grazing radicals, who think nothing of demanding billions of taxpayer dollars to fund their pet "endangered species" schemes, are already denouncing the recent emergency haylift as a "subsidy" to New Mexico ranchers.

Cattle Raiser School’s Focus To Be On Individual Producer
Classes for the 1998 Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association School for Successful Ranching will reflect the tough decisions that individual ranchers face on a day-to-day basis.

MCA Meeting To Focus On Adult Hair Market
Developing markets for adult mohair will be the focus of the annual meeting of the Mohair Council of America here January 21-22.

Trend Indicates More Ranchers Leasing Rather Than Owning
Absentee ownership and high land costs are making grazing leases more common, notes Bruce Carpenter, Fort Stockton-based Extension livestock specialist.

Angelo Lamb Prices Face Sharp Decline
Feeder lambs sold weak to $3 lower this week, slaughter lambs poorly tested although a few sales were sharply lower, slaughter ewes firm to $3 higher.

San Saba, Brownwood, Mason Cattle Higher
Choice feeder steers and heifers sold steady to $4 higher in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba last week, slaughter cows and bulls steady to $4 higher, pairs and bred stock cows $50-100 higher.

Most Llano Cattle Prices Termed Higher
Lightweight feeder steers sold fully steady, others $2-5 higher, heifers $2-6 higher, slaughter cows and bulls $2 higher. Receipts totaled 571 head.

Junction Lambs Off, Stock Angoras Mixed
Feeder lambs sold $2 lower, slaughter ewes and bucks steady; stock Angora nannies steady to $1 higher, muttons $5 lower, other classes $2 lower.

Lastovica Angus Bull Sale Averages $2319
Lastovica Angus Farm sold 59 registered yearling bulls for an average of $2319 per head.

Coming Up...
January 17 — Special Cow Sale, Pearsall Livestock Auction, Pearsall, Texas. January 17 — Annual January Special Cow, Bred Heifer and Breeding Bull Sale, Green City Livestock Market Inc., Green City, Missouri. January 17 — Bobby Edmond Horse Sales Special Winter Riding Horse Sale, Amarillo Livestock Auction, Amarillo, Texas.