READY TO SHED their winter hair as the days lengthen and warm, these horses on the Four Sixes have green feed ahead of them, but also the spring and summer work that will keep it from going to tallow.

Fed, Feeder Lambs Find Soft Prices
Feeder lamb prices failed to find any stimulus this week with most prices a little on the soft side. Fat lambs were also a little lower, due in part to a sluggish dressed trade.

Fed Cattle Sell For A Change, But Only After Giving Up $1
Plains feedlots moved cattle at midweek for the first time since early this month, but they had to go a dollar deeper into the red to do it. Fat cattle have been losing $150-175 a head for weeks now, and the only remedy feeders have for the condition is to sell more cattle at a loss.

PLAINS FEEDLOT SALES

RANGE SALES

Court Order Or Not, Babbitt Vows Wolves Won’t Be Removed
Personifying the arrogance so rife within the administration he serves, Clinton Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt told an environmental activist group Saturday that he would defy a court order to remove timber wolves his agency has illegally released.

Landowner Backs Out On Sale Of Ranch To Activist Group
A landowner has decided against selling the largest ranch on the Kaibab Plateau north of the Grand Canyon to an anti-grazing activist group. Some area residents had protested the deal, saying it could lead to the elimination of grazing on the 600,000-plus-acre Kane Ranch.

Utah Law To Protect Ag Land From Lawsuits Is Little Used
Few Utah farmers and ranchers have taken advantage of a 1994 state law intended to protect them from neighbors who do not like the sounds and smells of agriculture.

Animal Mutilations Again Subject Of Investigation
Rancher Jessie Gonzales was tending his cattle under a pre-dawn sky when he stumbled on a frightening sight.

Rancher Finally Wins His Case Over Self-Defense With Grizzly
A Montana rancher has won a decade-long battle with the federal government over his right to defend himself from a grizzly bear in his own yard.

Lobbyist Cops Espy Case Plea, Will Testify To Giving "Gifts"
A former agribusiness lobbyist has admitted lying to the FBI about $17,000 in so-called "gifts" to former Clinton administration Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and has agreed to testify against Espy, his longtime friend.

Big Outcry By Public Cancels Predator Hunting Competition
Public protests have prevailed a second time in leading to cancellation of a predator hunt for points.

Purina Mills Bought By Koch Agriculture
Koch Agriculture Co. has completed its purchase of Purina Mills Inc., bringing together two agribusiness giants.

USDA To Buy Beef, Look Into Packers
Depressed cattle prices led Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman Tuesday to announce the government purchase of $30 million in beef and a renewed investigation into whether four dominant processing companies exert unfair influence on the market.

Impact Of Captive Supplies Apparent
A USDA wrap-up of Plains feedlot volume for the reporting week ending Thursday, March 19, provides an object lesson in the power of captive supplies.

Barnes And Cooper Take Team Roping Event In San Angelo
Team roping legends Jake Barnes and Clay O’Brien Cooper have struck again. The seven-time world champion team ropers were at the head of the line when checks were handed out after the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo ended a five-day, $151,000 run recently in San Angelo, Texas.

Superior Livestock Video Sale Offering Totals 28,000 Cattle
Superior Livestock Auction offered more than 28,000 feeder cattle and breeding stock at their regularly scheduled video auction. Consignments were from 21 states and Mexico.

San Saba, Brownwood, Mason Feeders Strong
Feeder steers sold steady to strong in Mason, Brownwood and San Saba last week, some lightweight steers as much as $3 higher, some heavies $2 higher, heifers steady, some lightweights $2 higher, slaughter cows and bulls steady to $3 higher, pairs steady, bred cows $10-30 higher.

San Angelo Offers 3000 Stocker Cows
Producers Livestock Auction offered around 3000 replacement female cattle in a special spring sale here. All sales were by the head or by the pair.

Ecos Sue To Force Listing Of Shiner
Two environmental activist groups have filed suit in federal court here to force the U.S. Department of Interior to protect a two-inch minnow in the Canadian River that winds across eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma.

Angelo Feeder Lambs Firm, Cattle Steady
Feeder lambs sold firm, slaughter lambs steady, slaughter ewes firm to $2 higher.

Olney Feeder Steers, Heifers Trade Steady
Feeder steers and heifers sold steady, slaughter cows $2-3 higher, bred stock cows and pairs steady to $50 higher. Receipts totaled 400 head.

Most Llano Cattle Prices Termed Steady
Lightweight feeder steers sold steady to weak, heavyweight steers $2 higher, heifers $2 higher, slaughter cows and bulls steady to $2 higher.

Milano Replacement Cattle Sell Strong
Replacement cattle prices were strong in a special spring sale. Receipts totaled 2000 head.

Goldthwaite Sheep, Goats Mostly Higher
Feeder lambs sold $3-7 higher, slaughter lambs mostly steady, slaughter ewes $3-5 higher; stock Spanish nannies $2-5 higher, slaughter muttons $3-5 higher, other classes steady to $2 higher.

Abilene Feeder Steer, Heifer Trend Higher
Feeder steers and heifers weighing under 500 pounds sold $4-5 higher, over 500 pounds $2-3 higher, slaughter cows $1 higher, bulls $2-3 higher, stock cows $30-40 higher.

Loose Ends

Coming Up...
March 28 — "Show Me The Money" Working Man’s Bull Sale, LaJunta Livestock, LaJunta, Colorado. March 28 — West Texas Brangus Breeders Association Springtime Sale, Abilene Auction Barn, Abilene, Texas. March 28 — All Breeds Bull Sale, Deming Livestock Market Inc., Deming, New Mexico. March 28 – 14th Annual Panhandle-New Mexico Beefmaster Breeders’ Production Sale, Amarillo Livestock Auction, Amarillo, Texas. March 28 – Replacement Female Sale, Tri- County Livestock Market Inc., New Summerfield, Texas.