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Fed cattle trading on the South Plains was nonexistent mid-week.

Slaughter meat goats traded steady to higher this week. San Angelo and Fredericksburg slaughter goats traded mostly steady on overall better quality receipts. Goldthwaite light kids traded $15 higher, slaughter kids $10-15 higher, and slaughter nannies steady to $10 higher. At New Holland, Pennsylvania, all classes of slaughter goats traded mostly steady.

Lamb markets reported mixed results this week as San Angelo called slaughter lambs $5-10 higher while feeder lambs were steady. New Holland, Pennsylvania, slaughter lambs $10 lower. Slaughter ewes steady.

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One of the highlights at the recent Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association winter meeting was a rancher panel that shared their experiences about their very unique operations.

Those attending the recent Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association winter meeting heard about little known Q fever.

Christmas memories of long ago dictate what we find in the season today. Those memories, as varied as they are in location, extravagance, or lack of it, belong to us. They reach a depth of emotion within that no other holiday comes close to touching.

The Public Lands Council is now taking applications for the Nick Theos Scholarship. The scholarships provides students with a passion for the western livestock industry an opportunity to attend the 2020 PLC spring legislative conference, held March 30-31, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a more protective interim decision on sodium cyanide, the compound used in M-44 devices to control certain wild predators, primarily coyotes, as part of the re-registration review process required by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.