45 YEARS AGO

Art Brawley of Amarillo is reported to have sold 179 steer yearlings weighing 700 pounds at $18.65 to Bob Mayer of Denver, delivered January 1.

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Wertheimer Cattle Company is reported to have bought, from Leo Singer of Amarillo, 300 two year-old steers weighing about 900 pounds at $19.25 for January 20 to February 6 delivery.

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W.H. Kimble of Amarillo sold to Guy Flint, also of Amarillo, 100 steer yearlings weighing 900 pounds at $18.75; also 100 steer yearlings weighing 700 pounds at $19, and 160 heifer yearlings at $16.50, January 8-15 delivery.

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Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo this week bought a load of fat lambs from Will Loveless of Eden at $18 cwt., and a load of mixed fats and feeders weighing 80-85 pounds from Fats Zappe of Ballinger at $17.50.

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Jess and Conway Kuykendall, Happy, Texas, sold 300 heifer calves to Gale Eastman of Amarillo at $16 for March 8-15 delivery.

40 YEARS AGO

M.L. Happel of Amarillo and Walter Hubbard, Oklahoma City, bought, on eastern order, 3450 steers expected to weigh 800 pounds at $26.50 for delivery this week from Kunneman & Williams of El Reno, Okla.

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DeWitt DuLaney and Rue Wharton of Dalhart, Texas, sold 600 fed heifers estimated to weigh near 950 pounds at $26 for delivery this month to Swift & Co., Fort Worth.

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Owen Seamands and J.D. Pitman of Hereford, Texas, sold 300 steer yearlings expected to weigh around 650 pounds at $32 for Apr. 1-15 delivery to Iowa feeders.

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Bennie Willis of Mt. Park, Okla., bought 100 mixed calves weighing 430 pounds at $125 per head from Levi Portwood, Snyder, Okla., and received them last week; also 25 two year-old replacement heifer yearlings from Leon Messick, Mt. Park, at $185 each.

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The nation's fat lamb market remained depressed during the first week of the new year. Trading in other classes was almost too scant to indicate a trend but was nominally fully steady. Slaughter lambs were quoted generally at $18-18.50 at terminal centers throughout the country.

35 YEARS AGO

E.W. Carter, Stratford, sold 400 steer yearlings weighing about 625 pounds at $22.75 to northern buyers.

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Calvin Elms, Kerrick, Texas, sold 95 heifers weighing 600 pounds at $20 to Colorado buyers.

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Top of Plains Feeders, Friona, sold 202 fed steers weighing 1040 pounds, 70 percent choice at $21.40 delivered to local packers.

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Sid Park, Sunray, sold 100 steer calves weighing 480 pounds at $23.75 for delivery to a Colorado buyer and 56 steer yearlings weighing 655 pounds at $22 for delivery to an Illinois feeder.

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Bill Wallace, Amarillo, bought for Supreme Beef Co., Lubbock, 165 fed steers weighing 960 pounds and described as good with an end of choice at $19.80 delivered from Gooch Feedlots, Dalhart; also from Hereford Feedlots, Hereford, 65 standard to good steers weighing 1100 pounds at 19.

30 YEARS AGO

Jerrel Gann, Guymon, Okla., bought on order for Hi-Plains Cattle Co., Dodge City, Kan., 100 good and choice 938 pound heifers at $26.50 out of Boise City Feed Yards, Boise City, Okla.

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Dean Cluck, Gruver, sold 1070 No. 1 Okie or better steers weighing 607 pounds at $28.50 to an Arizona buyer.

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Howard County Feed Yards, Big Spring, sold 58 good 775 pound heifers at $25 and 104 good and choice 825 pound heifers at $25.50 to Texas packers.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, San Angelo, sold five loads of 70-80 percent choice 1050 pound steers at $28.50 and five loads of similar steers at $28 to Texas packers.

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Fairleigh Feed Yard, Scott City, Kan., sold 1136 steers, mostly in the range of $27.25-27.60, including 199 head weighing 1137 pounds at $28 and 224 Brahmans weighing 978 at $26.75.

25 YEARS AGO

Texas Beef Producers Feedyard, Dumas, bought off wheat at Sunray 590 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 640 pounds at $54.

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DeWitt Dulaney, Dalhart, bought on order in the Texline, Texas area 300 Hereford, Angus and black baldface heifers weighing 380 pounds at $50.

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Wyoming has had some heavy feeder lamb trade at up to $42, going into Colorado.

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Jewel Avent, Tulia, representing Prairie Cattle Co., Tulia, bought in the Dumas area 126 Angus steers weighing 700 pounds at $50 from Paul Hays, Tulia.

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Hartsell T. Ash, Throckmorton, bought in that area 27 black baldface heifer and steer yearlings weighing 600 pounds at $43 and $49.

20 YEARS AGO

Most cattlemen will remember 1978 as the year the market "turned around" and headed for higher, more profitable ground. Charles E. Ball, executive vice president of the Texas Cattle Feeders Assn., lists the upturn in cattle prices as the biggest news event of the year.

"We opened the year with $44 fed cattle and by June were selling cattle for $62," he notes.

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Halo Cattle Co., Elida, N.M., sold to a Kansas buyer 880 mixed breed steers weighing about 700 pounds at $70.

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K&S Cattle Co., Devine, sold to an area buyer 70 crossbred Brahman cows weighing 950-1000 pounds at $500 per head.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 321 steers, 1075 lbs., $58.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 194 heifers, 950-975 lbs., 75% choice, $56.

15 YEARS AGO

Hughes Land & Livestock, Scott City, Kan.: 249 heifers, 965 lbs., 65% choice, $66.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 135 heifers, 950 lbs., $67; 133 heifers, 975 lbs., $66.50; 88 heifers, 975 lbs., $66.

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Fred Baldridge, Clovis, sold to Parmer County Cattle Co., Bovina, 180 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 625 pounds at $66. His son, Buddy, sold to the same buyer 132 No. 1 steers weighing 565 at $66.

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Lamb market opened the new year on a strong note in Texas and the West in general, though some Midwestern terminals were weakening from the extreme highs of the holiday storm period.

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The Mohair Council of America has hired Bob Paschal as new executive director, succeeding Fred Campbell, who resigned to go into private wool and mohair business.

10 YEARS AGO

Kahoots Cattle Co., Dalhart and Tucumcari, N.M., sold 415 Hereford steers weighing 665 pounds at $86.75 off wheat to a Texas Panhandle feedlot.

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The Midwest electronic lamb auction sold 380 Ohio lambs to weigh 125 in No. 2 pelts at $71.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 227 steers, 1070 lbs., 45% choice, $74.50; 543 heifers, 960 lbs., 60% choice, $74.

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Ranchman's Wool and Mohair Inc., Brownwood, sold 200,000 pounds of mostly spring adult mohair, some fall adult, at $1.40-1.50.

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National Farms Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 120 heifers, 1050 lbs., 75% choice, $116 in the beef.

5 YEARS AGO

Fat lambs in San Angelo weighing 90-115 pounds brought $70-74, a few $76-77, most bound for Mexico. Other choice lambs weighing 95-125 pounds made $66-71. In Billings 127 pound fats made $59. Virginia had slaughter lambs at $68 and Pennsylvania $75-85.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 200 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 700 pounds at $84 and 230 No. 1½ Okie steers weighing 650 at $83.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 94 heifers, 1025 lbs., 50% choice, $72.

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Hitch Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 810 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $72; 598 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $72.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 284 steers, 1150 lbs., 65-70% choice, $72.