45 YEARS AGO

Roy Durr of Scott City, Kansas, sold for Moinse Cattle Company, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, 269 steer yearlings at $20.50 for March 10 delivery to B.E. Buehler of Scott City.

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George Farr of Datil, New Mexico, sold 400 steer yearlings early this month to Vic Hansen, North Park, Colorado, for delivery in mid-April at $100 per head.

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Bob Lindsey of Borger, Texas, last week sold and delivered 90 heifer yearlings to Gale Eastman of Amarillo at $18 for shipment to Nebraska feedlots.

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Mid-West Feed Yards this week bought two loads of wooled feeder ewe lambs in the Eldorado area and one load at Eden at $19 cwt.

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G.W. Williams of Bovina, Texas, sold to Hance & Bogle of Clovis 100 fed steers averaging 1013 pounds at $22.25, delivered February 20.

40 YEARS AGO

Frank Fuller of Clovis bought two loads of 140-day fed steers weighing 1040 pounds at $25.50 from Clark Mathers of Miami, Texas, delivered this week.

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Bill Porter, Clarendon, Texas sold one load of steer yearlings weighing 505 pounds at $31 and delivered them this week to V. Lee Matney, Amarillo.

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Ben Sheppard, order buyer at Springfield, Mo., recently bought one load of good Angus springer cows, weighing around 1000 pounds and just starting to calve, at $242.50 per cow for a western customer.

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Dick Weatherly of Panhandle, Texas, sold 100 heifer yearlings, described as choice quality and expected to weigh near 700 pounds, at $26.50 for March 1 delivery off wheat pasture; they sold to an Amarillo buyer.

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Al Gallo of Dalhart sold 150 steer yearlings expected to weigh about 600 pounds at $33 for April 1 delivery off wheat to a Dalhart buyer.

35 YEARS AGO

Ray Barr, Amarillo, bought 164 choice Angus steers weighing 564 pounds at $23.50 from Richard Buckles, Stratford.

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Jerry Hartgraves, Eldorado, sold 500 two year-old mutton goats to L.D. Woodward, Graham, at $11 per head out of the shearing pens.

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J.H. Davis, Hart, sold 54 Angus two year-old heifers with 14 calves at $210.

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T.W. Winters, Lampasas, contracted 2500 oldcrop lambs to Red Bolton, Syracuse, Kan., at $18 out of the wool for May delivery. These were expected to be in good flesh and average 85-90 pounds at delivery.

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A.J. Kemp, Dimmitt, representing Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought 250 good and choice Hereford steers weighing 525 pounds at $24 from Neal Musgrove, Childress.

30 YEARS AGO

Cliff Dobson, Phoenix, sold his large wool clip at just over 50 cents; and Gunter Thude, owner of Paradise Sheep Co., Chandler, Ariz., sold his clip of about 90,000 pounds at 48 cents.

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Northwest Feed Yards, Buffalo, Okla., sold 340 heifers weighing 925 pounds, 70 percent choice, at $26.15 and 230 steers weighing 1100 pounds, 65 percent choice, at $27.25.

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James Goodrum and John Divine, Roswell, N.M., sold about 400 blackface spring lambs weighing about 80 pounds at $30 to Swift & Co., Roswell.

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Capitol Cattle Co., Austin, sold 1180 No. 1 crossbred and Okie steers expected to weigh 725 at $27.50 for July delivery in the Wichita Falls area to Panhandle feeders.

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J.J. Gibson, Paducah, sold to a Panhandle feeder 1200 crossbred steers weighing about 700-800 pounds at $26.

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Spur Feeding Co., Glendale, Ariz., bought 11,000 top Okie steers (the Barganier and the Roswell cattle) weighing about 700 pounds at $28 in the Marlin, Texas area.

25 YEARS AGO

San Angelo Feedyard, San Angelo. sold 2000 lambs in No. 1-2 pelts weighing 100 pounds at $40.50.

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Total meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated 602 million pounds, reflecting a holiday, nine percent below the previous week and one percent below last year.

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Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 2643 steers, 1150-1225 lbs., 75% choice, $45; 159 heifers, 950 lbs., 75% choice, $44.50.

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Tommy Buckner, Dalhart, bought in that area 150 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing about 625 pounds at $39.

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Heaton Cattle Co., Pampa: 50 heifers, 900 lbs., 90% choice, $44.75.

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XIT Feedyard, Dalhart: 145 steers, 1075 lbs., 75% choice, $45.25.

20 YEARS AGO

The grazing fee increase for public rangelands for 1979 is about three times President Carter’s seven percent guideline. The BLM fee for 12 Western states jumped from $1.51 last year to $1.89 per animal unit month, just over 20 percent.

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Colorado feedlots were getting $65-67 on lambs up to 120 pounds; some $70 quotations were given on lightweights.

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Hartsell T. Ash, Throckmorton, bought on order in the San Angelo area 86 No. 1-2 Okie steers and cutting bulls weighing 537 pounds at $85.

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Bob Wright Livestock, Cordele, Ga., sold in that area 212 running age cows, mostly Angus, a few Hereford and Charolais, half calved out and balance springers, at $575 per head.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 227 heifers, 750 lbs., mostly good, $63.

15 YEARS AGO

Del Rio Wool and Mohair last week completed a sale of 10,000-15,000 pounds of fine adult hair at $5.40, but negotiations had been underway before the Cape sale.

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Ray Montague, Clovis, sold to an Amarillo buyer one load of No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 700 pounds at $67, also a load of heifer mates weighing 600 at $59.

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Bob Campbell, Durant, Okla., bought in the local area 271 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 706 pounds at $65.74, also 84 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 602 at $59.55.

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USDA reported a sale of 1600 Wyoming-Western Nebraska lambs out of feedlots at 115 pounds at $57.

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Swisher County Cattle Co., Tulia: 1060 steers, 1050-1075 lbs., 60-70% choice, $68.50; 1025 steers, 1050-1075 lbs., 60-70% choice, $68.

10 YEARS AGO

JM Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Texas buyers one load of No. 1 Okie and crossbred steer and heifer calves weighing 254 and 262 at $123.91 and $109.64; a load of No. 1 Okie and crossbred calves weighing 395 on the steers and 406 on heifers at $103.38 and $89.77; a half load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 413 at $90.96 plus a half load of similar steers weighing 345 at $120.33 and a half load of heifers weighing 438 at $102.17.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 350 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60-70% choice, $76.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 155 heifers, 1050 lbs., 65% choice, $76.50.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 223 steers, 1075-1100 lbs., 60% choice, $76.

5 YEARS AGO

JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Colorado buyers three loads of black whiteface, red whiteface and Charolais steers and bulls weighing 417 pounds at $107.91, also two loads of fancy No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 425 at $96.64 and a load of black and black whiteface replacement heifers weighing 515 at $90; to a local buyer 50 black whiteface replacement heifers weighing 313 at $105.34 f.o.b.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 1039 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $74.

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Sugarland Feedyard, Hereford: 348 heifers, 1000-1075 lbs., 50% choice, $74.

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Hereford Feedyard Inc., Hereford: 60 plain floppy-eared Brahman steers, 1050 lbs., 40% choice, $73.50.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 251 heifers, 1075 lbs., $74.