In 2019, Cactus Feeders with its one-time feeding capacity of 550,000 head began sourcing beef on dairy cross cattle to help fill their 10 feedyards located in the Texas Panhandle and Southwest Kansas. Today they have closeouts on several thousand beef dairy cross cattle.

The beef industry is constantly changing, particularly, the structure.

The Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Leadership Development Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization committed to future generations of land and livestock stewards and leaders, announced today the opening of the first-ever application window for the TSCRA Leadership Development Foundation Working Grant Program. The program will distribute financial capital to business owners with a demonstrated interest in the beef value chain.

March exports of U.S. pork were steady with last year’s volume and edged higher in value, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation. Also beef exports were below last March’s large volume, but export value was the highest since June 2023.

The largest wildfire recorded in Texas history burned over a million acres in the Panhandle from February 26 to March 16, 2024. An estimated 7300 cattle died. The greater picture of deaths reported will no doubt be larger when considering animals lost to post-burn health issues.

Nine students have been selected to receive $2500 scholarships from the Livestock Marketing Association, or LMA, Scholarship Program.

My cousin and I had Mr. Garrett’s sophomore biology class just after our school lunch. With our bellies full and a room with no air conditioning or window shades we struggled to stay awake when Mr. Garrett’s monotone voice would push us over the edge into a coma.

Statler Wright's draw for the Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo felt very familiar. While he had never been matched up with Frontier Rodeo bucking horse, Watch Kitty before, Wright knew some people who had.

70 YEARS AGO Foster Pickett of Amarillo has bought three loads of good, aged cows with calves at $143 per pair from Hank Faustian of Amarillo; these were delivered last week.

I make my living from grazing cattle on large landscapes in the American West. When it comes to this vocation, making the land and the ecosystems as healthy as I can is even more important than financial viability. I feel this way because the health of the land provides for my business, represents my family’s future, and because I was raised in a community of people for whom working in concert with the land was a way of life.