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Panhandle fed cattle trade was typically quiet at midweek, feedlots asking $130 with bids yet to be seen. Last week's going rate was $124.

Compared to last week sheep markets in most areas of the country were posting prices $10-30 lower on lambs weighing less than 100 pounds while heavy lambs were even and in some cases $10 higher. At New Holland, Penn., heavy lambs, 110 pounds and heavier, were mostly steady to $10 higher. San Angelo, Goldthwaite, Hamilton and Fredericksburg all reported $10-30 lower lamb prices.

Slaughter meat goats sold steady to $10 higher in recent trading. San Angelo kids were quoted firm. Fredericksburg kids 60 pounds and over sold steady with the week before while light and slaughter kids were sharply higher at Goldthwaite. At New Holland, Penn. slaughter kids traded mostly steady to $10 higher.

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Superior Farms was the first lamb processor to receive approval to implement instrument grading in their processing plant in Dixon, California.

Last year Secretary of Energy Rick Perry spoke to those in the energy industry about what he called “the new energy realism.”

A wide ranging discussion on the ability of the livestock industry to change to meet consumer demands not only in the U.S. but worldwide took place at the recent International Livestock Congress.

The times, they are a’changing. History never stands still.

Last summer, a case from the El Paso Court of Appeals, Harrison v. Rosetta Resources Operating, raised interesting arguments regarding water use and the accommodation doctrine.