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Panhandle fed cattle trade was back to its usual mid-week standoff.

Slaughter meat goats traded steady to higher this week. Kids were steady at San Angelo and $5 higher in Fredericksburg. At Goldthwaite light kids sold $10-20 higher while slaughter kids were $5-10 lower. At New Holland, Pennsylvania, slaughter kids traded mostly steady to $10 lower.

San Angelo and most other sheep markets regained some of the downturn experienced in recent trade with lamb prices called firm to $10 higher while the market at New Holland, Pennsylvania, was off $10-15. The lack of forward contracting on lambs has been cited by observers as one factor in weak lamb markets. 

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Trade agreements, African swine fever, and export markets in general were the topic of discussion during the international trade committee meeting at the recent National Cattlemen’s Beef Association summer meeting here.

It was a given that the cattle market last week would be impacted by the fire at Tyson’s Holcomb beef processing plant.

At the Colorado Wool Growers Association annual convention in mid-July, there was a bit of angst, certainly some uncertainty about where the lamb market was headed and in particular, how the fall run lambs would fair.

The August congressional recess is nearing its end and while there are many important legislative issues that citizens are likely addressing with their respective constituents none is more critical than the passage of the U.S., Mexico, Canada Agreement.

It was about now, late into a long hot summer, that I would start to miss school. Not school for the education, but school for the friends and the activities.