VOL NO. 9 SAN ANGELO, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018 LIVESTOCKWEEKLY.COM $35 PER YEAR. Range Sales

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1 Packer Lamb Markets Lower To Higher San Angelo slaughter lambs weighing less than 70 pounds were weak to $10 lower this week, lambs over 70 pounds steady. Hamilton lambs all sold $15 lower. Goldthwaite wool lambs were $5-10 higher, Dorper and Barbado lambs $10 higher. Fredericksburg s report was unavailable at press time. Lamb and mutton meat production for the week ending March 2 totaled 2.9 million pounds on a slaughter count of 40,000 head compared with the previous week s totals of 2.9 million pounds and 39,000 head. Imported lamb and mutton for the week ending February 24 totaled 2429 metric tons or approximately 5.35 million pounds, equal to 184 percent of domestic production for the same period. San Angelo s feeder lamb market had medium and large 1-2 lambs weighing 56 pounds at $210 and 91 pounds $186. Hamilton Dorper and Dorper cross lambs weighing pounds sold for $ There was no reported direct trade on feeder lambs last week. San Angelo choice 2-3 slaughter lambs weighing pounds brought $ , choice and prime pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , choice pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , good pounds $ , pounds $180, and pounds $ Goldthwaite wool lambs weighing pounds sold for $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , Dorper and Dorper cross lambs pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , Barbado and Barbado cross lambs pounds $ , pounds $ , and pounds $ Hamilton Dorper and Dorper cross lambs weighing pounds made $ , over 70 pounds $ , wool lambs over 70 pounds $ , show lambs $ , and Barbado lambs $ New Holland, Pennsylvania, choice and prime 2-3 lambs weighing pounds were $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , choice pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , choice pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , good and choice pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , and pounds $ Slaughter lambs selling direct included 2600 head weighing pounds that brought $ San Angelo utility and good 1-3 slaughter ewes made $80-88, utility 1-2 $70-78, cull and utility 1-2 $60-65, and cull 1 $ Goldthwaite slaughter ewes sold for $ Hamilton wool ewes brought $ VOL NO. 9 SAN ANGELO, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018 LIVESTOCKWEEKLY.COM $35 PER YEAR Cattle For Sale By David, San Angelo, sold out of the San Antonio area to a Big Cabin, Okla. buyer 92 running age crossbred cow-calf pairs at $1250 and 32 crossbred threestripe cows at $1075; from the Paint Rock, Texas area to a Wilderville, Texas buyer 40 short-term black and crossbred pairs at $1035 and 26 threestripe cows at $935; from the Three Rivers, Texas area to a Buffalo, Texas buyer 52 young Brahman pairs and bred cows Scattered Panhandle fed cattle trade was registered Tuesday at $126, and feedlots were reported to be asking $ for remaining supplies at midweek. Last week s price was off $2 at mostly $126. Wednesday s Fed Cattle Exchange offered 474 head in five lots, two from Texas and three from Kansas. Four lots sold at $126 and the other, a Kansas offering, was PO d at the same price. The Texas Cattle Feeders Association counted 9677 head on area showlists, off 1039 head from last week. Formulas were up 5458 head at 56,233. Direct trade elsewhere mirrored that in Texas, limited movement at $126 in Kansas and Nebraska, followed by asking prices of $207 or better in dressed areas. Midwest fed cattle auctions were lightly reported in a wide price range of $ , strictly choice to $135 and change. Stocker and feeder cattle prices were generally steady to higher in early-week trading, though some classes at a few markets registered lower. Joplin, Mo. sold steers and heifers steady to $3 lower on receipts of 7967 head. On receipts of 3244 head, La Junta, Colo. was steady to $5 higher on steers to 800 pounds Range Sales Light Fed Cattle Trade Seen At A Steady $126 On Tuesday and $2-3 lower on heavier weights; heifers were steady to $3 higher except for five to six-weights $2-3 lower. Tulsa, Okla. was mostly steady to $2 higher on 2340 head. In Texas, 1175 head at Crockett were steady to $3 higher and 1432 head at Graham were $10-15 higher on weaned calves 600 pounds and lighter, $5-10 higher on unweaned offerings, and $5-8 higher on weights over 600 pounds. Gonzales on Saturday was fully steady to $2-3 higher on 887 head. Amarillo s 896 head bucked the trend with prices steady to $3 lower, and at Three Rivers 856 head were $3-6 higher on lightweight calves and steady to $3 lower on heavy calves and yearlings. With 7029 head on offer, Oklahoma City quoted feeder steers steady to $3 lower except pounds steady to $3 higher, stocker steers and steer calves steady to $4 higher, and feeder heifers and heifer calves $2-5 higher. Best pound steer calves brought $ ; pounds $ ; pounds $ ; pounds $ ; pounds $ ; pounds $ ; pounds $ ; and pounds $ at $2650; from the Veribest, Texas area to a Marlin, Texas buyer 102 open Hereford heifers at $1250. USDA reports 3678 head of feeder cattle selling direct off Colorado range, all for current delivery, including 190 medium and large No. 1 steers weighing 650 pounds at $ f.o.b., 180 similar steers weighing 750 at $ f.o.b., 2085 heifers weighing 750 at $ delivered, 190 heifers weighing 600 at $ f.o.b., 436 heifers weighing 750 at $ f.o.b., 247 heifers weighing at $ delivered, and 230 heifers weighing at $ delivered. Northwest direct feeder cattle trade as confirmed by USDA totaled 700 head, all delivered basis for current delivery, including 150 medium and large No. 1 steers weighing 675 pounds at $159.50, 200 similar steers weighing 725 at $153, 155 steers weighing 775 at $151, and 110 heifers weighing 675 at $146. USDA reports 2416 head of feeder cattle selling direct in Oklahoma, all f.o.b. basis, including 205 medium and large No. 1 heifers to weigh 700 pounds at $137 for June delivery; for current delivery 243 similar steers weighing 800 at $ and 336 steers weighing 850 at $142. Kansas direct feeder cattle trade by USDA count totaled 2044 head, including 135 medium and large No. 1 heifers weighing 735 pounds at $ f.o.b. for June delivery; for current delivery 661 similar steers weighing at $ f.o.b.; also for current delivery 170 medium and large 1-2 steers weighing 750 at $149 f.o.b., 573 similar steers weighing at $ delivered, and 363 such steers weighing 750 at $ USDA reports 2262 head of feeder cattle selling direct in Wyoming and Nebraska, all for current delivery, including 186 medium and large No. 1 steers weighing 810 pounds at $ and 2000 similar heifers weighing 750 at $144.51, all f.o.b. New Mexico direct feeder cattle trade by USDA count came to 1600 head, all f.o.b., including, for May delivery 236 medium and large No. 1 steers to weigh 725 pounds at $151 and 145 similar heifers to weigh 725 at $139; for current delivery 124 steers weighing 775 at $ , 120 steers weighing 800 at $140.50, and 200 heifers weighing 750 at $ WHEAT PASTURE has been short in many traditional grazing areas this dry winter. Recent rains have brought at least temporary relief to some places, though the respite has been spotty. These cattle were pictured east of San Angelo, one of the more fortunate regions. Slaughter Meat Goats Steady To Off In Most Recent Trade Slaughter meat goat prices were steady to lower in most recent trading. Goldthwaite was steady, New Holland, Pennsylvania unevenly steady, San Angelo weak, and Hamilton $10 lower. Fredericksburg was unreported at presstime. Goat slaughter under federal inspection the week ending February 17 totaled 9145 head. Goat meat imports for the week ending February 24 totaled 175 metric tons, 123 from Australia and 13 from Mexico. At Goldthwaite on Thursday, selection 1 kids weighing pounds brought $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , and pounds $ Lightweight nannies were $ , heavy $ and thin $60-90, lightweight billies $ and heavy $ New Holland, Penn., selling by the head Monday, quoted selection 1 kids of pounds $ and pounds $ , selection pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , and pounds $ Selection 2 nannies pounds brought $ and pounds $ , selection pounds $ , Selection 2 billies pounds $ , selection pounds $ and pounds $ , selection 2 wethers pounds $ Also on Monday, Hamilton kids weighing pounds earned $ , pounds $ and over 70 pounds $ , show kids $ Thin nannies were $40-75 per head, medium $ and fleshy $ , billies $ cwt. At San Angelo Tuesday, selection 1 kids weighing pounds brought $ , pounds $ , 80 pounds $222, shorn show goats pounds $ and pounds $ , selection pounds $ , pounds $ and pounds $ Selection 1-2 nannies pounds made $ , pounds $ and thin pounds $ , selection 1-2 billies pounds $ , pounds $ and pounds $ FUTURES TRADE CHICAGO (CME) Beef futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade at the close on Tuesday and at press time on Wednesday. Live Cattle Wed. Tue. Apr June Aug Oct Dec Feb April June Aug Feeder Cattle Mar Apr May Aug Sept Oct Nov Jan

2 Page 2 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 Angelo Lamb Market Steady To $10 Lower SAN ANGELO (USDA) Slaughter lambs weighing less than 70 pounds were weak to $10 lower Tuesday, lambs over 70 pounds steady, slaughter ewes firm to $5 higher, kid goats weak, nannies firm. Sheep and goat receipts totaled 4707 head. Steer and heifer calves and yearlings were $1-2 higher Thursday, slaughter cows and bulls firm, stocker cows and pairs firm. Cattle receipts totaled 1229 head. Replacement sheep: feeder lambs, medium and large pounds $210, 91 pounds $186; ewes, medium and large 1-2 mixed age hair ewes pounds $ Slaughter sheep: lambs, choice pounds $ ; choice and prime pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; choice pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; good pounds $ , pounds $180, pounds $ ; ewes, utility and good 1-3 $80-88, utility 1-2 $70-78, cull and utility 1-2 $60-65, cull 1 $54-55; bucks $ Replacement goats: kids, selection 1 37 pounds $300; selection pounds $ ; selection pounds $ ; nannies, selection pounds $ Slaughter goats: kids, selection pounds $ , pounds $ , 80 pounds $222, shorn PRODUCERS LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMPANY Over 60 Years Serving The Nation s Livestock Sellers And Buyers A Full Service Market 24 Hours 365 Days A Year 1131 North Bell Street San Angelo, Texas / SPECIAL CALF SALE Thursday, MARCH 22 In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale All Calves And Yearlings Welcome SPECIAL SHEEP and GOAT REPLACEMENT SALE Saturday, MARCH 24 Starts: 10 A.M. Replacement Quality Males and Females of all breeds of sheep and goats are welcome! This special event for the sheep and goat industry was very well attended and successful last year. You must call to confirm your consignment for this sale. Buyers must pre-register by Friday March 23, call Mike Matthiesen Watch: or the Livestock Weekly For Sale Listings You can visit with Benny Cox: 325/ Jody Frey: 325/ Charley Christensen: 325/ Office: 325/ Look At Our Website: Watch All Our Cattle Sales On DVAuction.com We Now Have A Video Sales Option For DVAuction.com Call For More Information When Is The Last Time You Toured Your Local Market Facility? Come See Us Or Check Out Our Website At SPECIAL COW SALE Thursday, MARCH 15 In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale 37 HEAD open, weaned, yearling Angus heifers. 12 HEAD choice two year old horned Hereford bulls, will be trich, fertility and brucellosis tested. 35 HEAD mostly red whiteface, heavy bred to Red Angus bulls. 15 PAIRS mostly red whiteface cows, running age cows. 10 HEAD registered Hereford bulls, sixteen plus months old, will be fertilty and trich tested, papers. All Consignments Welcome Early Consignments Hair Sheep 125 HEAD yearling Dorp/Croix ewes, exposed to Dorp/Croix bucks since December. 60 HEAD coming yearling Dorp/Croix, heavy bred to McDonald and Hodges bucks. 150 HEAD Dorp/Croix ewe lambs. 160 HEAD black headed Dorper open ewe lambs, big and good. 40 HEAD open white hair ewe lambs. 60 HEAD yearling White Dorpers, been with Wesley Glass bucks since January HEAD white hair sheep ewe lambs, to start lambing in March 25 HEAD registerable Royal White ewe lambs. 60 HEAD mostly black headed Dorper cross ewe lambs, exposed to black headed bucks since October HEAD Dorp/Croix ewe lambs, heavy bred to Royal White bucks. 50 HEAD high percentage White Dorper cross coming yearling ewes. 116 HEAD mostly white hair ewe lambs, exposed to white hair bucks since November HEAD Royal White ewe lambs. 50 HEAD open white ewe lambs. 80 HEAD white yearlings, heavy bred to white bucks lambing now. Wool Sheep 300 HEAD Rambouillet ewe lambs. Texas Largest Cattle Market 200 HEAD choice, open, shorn, yearling Rambouillet ewes ready to breed. 25 HEAD yearling Rambouillet ewes. 40 PAIRS two to four year old Rambouillet ewes and lambs (lambs will be marked). 21 HEAD yearling Debouillet ewes. Forward Contracts 50 HEAD Dorp/Croix ewe lambs, delivery late May, early June. 50 HEAD Dorp/Croix ewe lambs, delivery late May, early June. Bucks & Billies 3 HEAD yearling Dorper bucks. 3 HEAD purebred Boer billies. 15 HEAD Royal White bucks. 6 HEAD black headed Dorper bucks. 6 HEAD registered Royal White yearling bucks. 3 HEAD six month old Royal White bucks. 7 HEAD Debouillet yearling bucks. 10 HEAD big growthy Dorp/Croix bucks. 8 HEAD pureblood White Dorper bucks, their dad has produced show winners, 4 HEAD purebred black headed Dorper bucks. Goats 100 HEAD open Boer cross yearling nannies. 200 HEAD open Boer cross big nanny kids. Charley Christensen, General Manager Benny Cox, Sheep Sale Jody Frey, Cattle Sale Vernon Mansfield, Yard Foreman Producers Office Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell REGULAR WEEKLY SALES Sheep TUESDAY 9 a.m. WEDNESDAY (if necessary) Cattle THURSDAY 9 a.m. FRIDAY (if necessary) We Want Your Business And Will Work To Get It And Keep It Ol banker Tufernal called one of Jake s bad loans an now he s writin a letter to the local paper exposin the crooked fi nancial system! show goats pounds $ , pounds $ ; selection pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; selection pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; nannies, selection pounds $ , pounds $ , thin pounds $ ; billies, selection pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Steers: medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $190, pounds $ , pounds $ , 715 pounds $144; medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Heifers: medium and large No pounds $187.50, 366 pounds $176, pounds $ , Livestock Weekly (ISSN ), USPS San Angelo, Texas (325) (800) (325) FAX LivestockWeekly.com Published weekly except for the weeks of Christmas and New Year. 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Box 3306 San Angelo, Texas Street Address: 2601 Sherwood Way San Angelo, Texas pounds $ ; medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Slaughter cows: breakers pounds $62-70, boners pounds $68-76, high dressing $78-80, lean pounds $ , low dressing $58-65, pounds low dressing $50-65; bulls, yield grade pounds $ , low dressing pounds $ Replacement cows: bred cows, medium and large No. 1-2 $ per head, medium and large No. 2 $ ; cow-calf pairs, all with calves pounds, medium and large No. 2 $ per pair; stocker and feeder cows, medium and large No. 1-2 young cows pounds $91-123, young and middleaged cows pounds $82-90, middleaged cows pounds $76-84, thin and/or aged cows pounds $ Representative sales: Sheep: Nancy Haechten, Rowena, 29 wooled lambs, 94 pounds $212; Eugene Ball, San Angelo, five wooled lambs, 58 pounds $230; Mc- Intosh Ranch, Eldorado, 30 wooled lambs, 86 pounds $188; Ronnie Woods, San Angelo, five hair lambs, 52 pounds $250; Ceth and Kendra Holubec, Melvin, 41 hair lambs, 62 pounds $239; Natalia Zuniga, Miles, six hair lambs, 69 pounds $230. Goats: W.L. Metcalf, Robert Lee, 19 kid goats, 46 pounds $300; Terry Atkins, Christoval, six kid goats, 56 pounds $310; Cody Schenkel, Sonora, 17 kid goats, 41 pounds $292; Jacque Linney, Winters, seven kid goats, 53 pounds $312; H Bar H Ranch, Sheffield, 100 kid goats, 76 pounds $221; 63 kid goats, 87 pounds $201. Cattle: Smith Family Trust, San Angelo, two steers, 333 pounds $204; North Fork Ranch, Post, nine steers, 381 pounds $195; 21 steers, 433 pounds $190; Bob Hayter, Fort Stockton, five steers, 477 pounds $175; 4 Acres Ranch, Eldorado, two steers, 530 pounds $172; Longfellow Ranch, Fort Stockton, 13 steers, 548 pounds $170; 30 steers, 626 pounds $164; 33 heifers, 585 pounds $ SAN ANGELO, TEXAS 325/ Livestock Round-Ups Game Surveys Predator Control Experienced Equipped and Permitted For Hog and Coyote Eradication AUBREY LANGE KYLE LANGE 325/ , 325/ Since May Years Flying Experience

3 Equine Owners Receive ELD Info From Horse Council, Fed Lawmen By John Bradshaw JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The same anger and confusion felt by the rest of the livestock industry concerning the federal electronic logging device mandate for truckers was evident in the horse world during a session on the subject at the American Quarter Horse Association convention here last week. Cliff Williamson, director of Health and Regulatory Affairs with the American Horse Council, told a large crowd of horse owners that many of the commercial driving regulations that everyone is worried about today have been around for decades but were rarely enforced. Now everyone out there must find out if they are in compliance. And unfortunately, that information has been kind of hard to find, Williamson said. Then the information that is found is often contradictory, deliberately vague, and none of us are professional rule interpreters. Because of that, Williamson said, everyone has their own interpretation, including law enforcement. The American Horse Council has been working to get clarification from the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. AHC has also been working with other livestock groups to get a longer delay on the enforcement of the ELD mandate, and Williamson said they are optimistic about getting the delay. State law enforcement will be in charge of enforcing the ELD mandate and the commercial driver s license regulations that are worrying many horsemen. This makes it more difficult because different states have different types of licenses and different expectations for those who hold them. Because of this, Williamson encouraged those with problems with the laws to contact their state legislators, not just federal lawmakers. There is momentum right now, but it might be better directed at a state legislator who might actually listen. It would be a shame for all of our interest, all of our involvement, all of this conversation to be wasted by screaming into the void that is Washington D.C., Williamson said. Jeff Sanderson is the division administrator for the Florida Division of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Sanderson said there are two major questions currently asked of his agency, and those were certainly foremost on the minds of the horse owners in the room. People want to know if they are required to have a commercial driver s license, and if they need an electronic logging device. Even though these questions are so common, Sanderson was unable to make it completely clear just who needed what, particularly in regard to the CDL. I can t go through and teach you every one of our regulations. It is impossible, Sanderson said. We currently have an investigator academy going on in Norman, Oklahoma. In that academy it takes four weeks for those investigators to learn these regulations. There are exemptions to the rules, which also in many cases use the word may, as in may be required. Interpretation is difficult. Hitting on the high and general points, Sanderson said anyone operating a commercial motor vehicle in commerce is required to comply with the regulations. For general applicability, this is when the vehicle s gross vehicle weight rating is 10,001 pounds or more, or the truck and trailer gross combination weight rating is 10,001 pounds or more. If the vehicle is being used in commerce and is 10,001 pounds or more, then it must be registered with USDOT and have a DOT number, Sanderson said. In commerce, as Sanderson defined it, means operating as a business that earns income, even secondary income. Prize money does not constitute commerce, according to Sanderson. That point was argued by a member of the audience who had anecdotal evidence of an amateur barrel racer who was ticketed for not having a CDL. That point was of much interest to the listeners. Professional trainers are operating in commerce but amateur riders are not, according to Sanderson s interpretation of the rules. The FMCSA website supports this. A CDL may be required if the vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating or combination GVWR (with trailer) of 26,001 pounds or more. Sanderson told a story from years ago when he was working on the road in Georgia. He made a traffic stop on two rigs traveling together that both committed a traffic violation. One was a three-quarter ton pickup pulling a horse trailer, the other a one-ton pulling a 40-foot enclosed trailer. The first truck, with the horse trailer, was driven by a woman from Alabama heading to a horse show. There was a chance for prize money, but Sanderson determined that the rig was not being operated in commerce. The second truck was driven by the husband. He was pulling a tack trailer which was to be set up at the show. It was a business and therefore commerce. The combination GVWR was well over 26,001 pounds. He was required to have a CDL. He was required to have a logbook, Sanderson said. He was required to be registered with USDOT, and he was not. The driver had to call a friend with a CDL to come drive the truck. Sanderson said he told the story because this is what is encouraged of all officers. We re trying to keep the roads safe, he said. We don t want anyone to be hurt, injured or killed. Electronic logging devices have not changed the way regulations are implemented, Sanderson said. They only record drivers hours of service. There are some exceptions to the electronic logging device requirement. Among them is an exemption for someone required to log hours but who operates eight days or less in a 30-day period. In this case, an electronic logging device is not required. You can still do the logs on paper, Sanderson said. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has a division in every state that can be of assistance to those with questions. The FMCSA website has information that can help horsemen and livestock haulers sort out the situation, at The website is fairly comprehensive and will answer most horse and livestock hauling questions. The American Horse Council also has a web page devoted to these issues, including a list of state contacts, at March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 3 Sale 10:00 A.M. Over 1200 Head Consigned! SPECIAL REPLACEMENT FEMALE SALE In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale. Females Will Sell At 10:00 A.M. With Regular Sale To Follow. Thursday, March 10:00 A.M. San Saba Bred Cows, Pairs, Bred And Open Heifers Will Be Offered If your needs are for just a few head or for a truckload, plan to attend this sale. Cattle will be sorted and shaped into uniform groups according to age, breed, and months bred. 40 fi rst-calf Angus and Angus Plus pairs with Angus sired calves at side a choice set of females that are ready for the bull. (1) 45 home raised Angus Plus pairs calves at side by Evans Farms Angus bulls, fi rst or second-calf and will be selling as exposed to the same bulls, pairs will be in great shape if you are looking for a productive set of females then take a look at these. Pairs will be sorted according to age and uniformity, cattle all go back to Gardiner, Evans and Camp Cooley bloodlines. (2) 34 fi rst-calf Angus pairs choice set of calves at side by Angus bulls, selling back as open for the bull of your choice, gentle, come to cake, most of the calves were born in December and January. (3) 5 fi rst-calf black baldy (English) pairs Angus sired calves at side, selling back as open for the bull of your choice, will come to cake. (4) 12 choice Hereford heifers, long bred to proven low birthweight registered Angus bull (10X Son), dehorned, will carry no brands or ear marks, very gentle, cake broke, weight 950 pounds the right kind. (5) 14 one-raising set of Hereford heifers, weight 1000 pounds, selling as long bred to proven low birthweight registered Angus bulls with negative 1.9 EPD birthweight, very gentle, wormed, current on all shots, ready to turn out. (6) 65 choice, open SimAngus (3/8 Simmental, 5/8 Angus) heifers, all one raising, OCV, twelve to thirteen months old, weight around 750 pounds, approximately 55 will be solid black and 15 baldies this set of heifers will make someone a great set of momma cows. (7) 65 choice Angus along with a few baldy heifers, all one raising, all by RA Brown Ranch Angus bulls, OCV, weight around 750 pounds, approximately 18 heifers will be baldies with the balance being straight Angus, baldies will be sold separately from the black. (8) 6 Brahman heifers, short bred to registered Brahman bull, weight pounds, OCV, current on shots. (9) 6 Brahman heifers, selling as open, weight 650 pounds. (9A) 7 Angus cows, solidmouth, selling as medium to long bred to Angus bulls, gentle the calf raising kind. (10) 2 home raised Angus heifers, selling as long bred to proven low birthweight Angus bull, gentle the right kind. (11) 23 open SimAngus cross heifers, mostly black and black whiteface with a few red whiteface heifers, weight 700 pounds, very gentle, current on all shots ideal for the bulls of your choice this spring. (12) 2 open tigerstripe heifers, weight average 850 pounds, ideal for the bull of your choice this spring, home raised, gentle. (13) 60 Brangus along with a few Brangus baldy heifers, long bred to a low birthweight Wieser or Bunting Ranch Angus bulls, OCV, gentle, come to cake and will start calving April 1 47 will be Brangus and 13 will be baldies, the baldies will be sold separately from the Brangus these heifers have been handled the right way and will make some ranches a good set of momma cows. (14) 4 Brangus cows, medium to long bred to Brangus bulls, six and seven years old, weight 1300 pounds. (15) 3 Hereford pairs with Brangus sired calves at side, three years old, running back with Brangus bulls. (16) 44 Brangus and Brangus baldy cows with 30 calves at side, balance being long bred to Brangus and Angus bulls, solidmouth, running back with the same bulls, cake broke, easy to handle. (17) 15 Brangus pairs with Brangus sired calves at side, three years old, held open for the bull of your choice. (18) 75 open Brangus Built heifers, weight pounds, one-raising set of females are Brangus and Brangus baldies, have been pelvic scored, OCV, vaccinated with Trichguard. (19) 28 Brangus and Brangus baldy cows, long bred to Charolais bulls, fi ve years old, could have several calves by sale day. (20) 16 Angus and Angus Plus heifers, long bred to easy calving Lowline bulls, weight pounds, will have some calves at side by sale day. (21) 8 open Limousin heifers, eight to thirty months old, Homozygous black and polled, four of these females are registered and four are subject to registration, current on vaccinations. (22) 10 Brahman cows, long bred to Brahman bull, four to six years old. (23) 5 Brangus-type cows, long bred to black bull, four to six years old. (24) 30 Angus or Brangus-type cows with some baldies, medium to long bred to Angus bulls, four to six years old, will be sorted into uniform groups according to kind and pregnancy will be a good set of calf raisers. (25) 15 red or Charolais cross cows, medium to long bred to Angus bull, four to six years old, will be sorted into uniform groups. (26) 5 Angus heifers 4 registered and 1 fullblood, long bred to registered Angus bull that is in the top 2% for calving ease, top 3% birthweight and top15% weaning weight of the Angus breed, weight 1000 pounds, home raised, papers will be furnished on sale day. (27) 2 Red Angus pairs two month old Red Angus calves at side, third-calf (four to fi ve year old cows), running back with Red Angus bull and could be three-in-one packages, gentle, current on shots. (28) 5 open Brahman heifers 2 red and 3 gray, weight pounds, OCV, current on all shots. (29) 60 Brangus pairs Brangus calves at side, running back with Brangus bulls with several being three-in-one packages, pairs will range from babytooth up to solidmouth and will be sorted into uniform groups according to age, pregnancy, etc. (30) 80 Brangus cows, spring calving by Brangus bulls, young (babytooth) on up to solidmouth, will be sorted into uniform groups this is a good set of ranch cows. (31) 2 Golden Certifi ed True F-1 heifers, weight around 750 pounds, OCV, clean headed, raised out of Hereford cows and Brahman bulls. (32) 21 open Angus Plus heifers, all one raising, weight around 750 pounds, gentle, not be carrying any brands or earmarks, OCV. (33) 16 Braford cows, three years old, medium bred to registered black Beefmaster bull. (34) 24 Beefmaster pairs Brangus sired calves at side, first calf pairs, running back with $9000 registered Beefmaster bull and will be selling as exposed for 30 days, choice and in good condition. (35) 6 Brahman cows 5 are registered and 1 purebred with 4 F-1 calves at side by Hereford bull and 2 will be long bred to the same bull, seven to nine years old, will be sorted into uniform groups. (36) 14 fi rst-calf Angus and Angus Plus pairs selling as open to breed to the bull of your choice, gentle, cake broke. (37) 38 Angus and Angus Plus pairs Angus sired calves at side, mainly three and four years old with a few being solidmouth, cows open for the bull of your choice. (38) 36 Angus and Angus Plus cows, medium to long bred to Angus bulls, mostly three to four years old with a few being solidmouth cows. (39) 30 open Angus heifers, many will be half sisters out of Special Focus, the balance will be by Jorgensen Ranch Angus bulls, fancy set, weight 750+ pounds, OCV, current on vaccinations, extremely uniform set of females with tremendous set of genetics behind them, ready for the bulls. (40) For details on the cow sale or online viewing/bidding info, please call or visit our website. If you are unable to attend the female and bull sales, you may view it live and bid online (or by phone at ). If you have previously registered with us online, click the live auction button on our website and log in, but if you have not previously registered with us for our online sales, please do so prior to the sale. For instructions, go to our website and click on internet sales. If you need additional assistance, please call or us. A running order will be posted on our website the evening before the sale. Ken and Kynda Jordan, Owners and Operators Jeffrey Osbourn Jody Osbourn Bart Larremore P.O. Box 158 San Saba, Tx San Saba: 325/ Mason: 325/ info@jordancattle.com

4 Page 4 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 AVIATION CONCHO LLC Specializing In... Livestock Work Aerial Spraying Predator Control Deer Surveys Mackey McEntire 325/ Sterling City, Texas Third Generation Rancher Over 30 Years Experience Custom Cattle Feeding At Its Finest! -G Bar-G Feedyard Kevin Bunch Asst. Mgr Johnny Trotter: Pres. / Gen. Mgr. Res: 806/ Mobile: 806/ P. O. Box 1797 Hereford, Texas / Eight Miles SW of Hereford FINANCING AVAILABLE TPWD Exec Offers State Of Game; Proposed Reg Changes, CWD Update By Colleen Schreiber SAN ANGELO Those attending the recent Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association winter meeting here heard from Carter Smith, executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, who offered an update on the state of wildlife, an overview of the hunting season, and a few other statewide issues as well as some of the regulations coming down the pike. He started by reminding fellow Mike Anthony Comptroller 125,000 HEAD CAPACITY Texans just how blessed they are to live in the state of Texas. We have more deer, dove, and ducks than any state, and we have more deer, dove and duck hunters than any other state, said Smith. That s a good thing, and we need to absolutely keep it that way. The last national survey of hunter participation showed about a 16 percent decline over the last five years. Thankfully, he said, Texas is a bit of an exception, as hunter participation has steadily grown three to five percent annually. He called this hunting season about average at best. We got off to a pretty inauspicious start with Hurricane Harvey roaring into the Gulf Coast. Obviously, that had a huge impact on coastal communities, on private landowners and citizens, and it had a big impact on our colleagues. Specific to TPWD s family, 120 TWPD personnel lost their homes and 30 of the state s facilities had major damage. Goose Island State Park was our ground zero. We lost most of our vertical structures there; most of the beautiful liveoaks were topped off or partially topped off because of the high winds, said Smith. The park remains closed, though the boat ramps, which are a critically important economic engine for the surrounding communities, have been reopened. Some 300 of the state s 551 game wardens were sent to Houston to help with search and rescue. They ended up doing a little over 12,000 water rescues in and around Katy, Houston and Beaumont. The hurricane impacted the state in another way, as Smith pointed out that about 45 percent of all the people who buy hunting licenses in Texas live in the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey. Nobody was thinking about dove season from Beaumont to Corpus Christi, Smith told listeners. We saw that reflected in terms of a much, much slower start to dove hunting and license sales. Duck season was also not what TPWD biologists thought it might be, given all the water and cold weather. TPWD s mid-winter waterfowl surveys, flown all over the state, tallied the third lowest number of ducks over the last 23 years. In parts of the Panhandle, with all its playa lakes, Smith said the count was about 95 percent below the previous year s level. Duck numbers across the rest of the U.S., however, were at record levels. We just didn t see the waterfowl come to Texas in most places like we thought we would. As for the deer hunting season, most of the comments he heard from hunters were that it was too hot and too dry and that deer just weren t coming to corn. Across the board, Smith said, antler quality and body condition was about average for the year. There are always some exceptions, but for the most part the season was just pretty fair. On the quail front, he reminded that the state had three of the best quail seasons in many years. Many of you will recall that back in 2011 most folks in the Rolling Plains were ready to write off quail, said Smith. Thankfully, we got some rain at the right time, and we had some banner years in our quail country across the western part of the Edwards Plateau, the Rolling Plains and down in deep South Texas. He told listeners about a hunt he had last year around Abilene in which they put up 50 coveys in a day. It was absolutely phenomenal. In fact, the total number of quail harvested in 2017 was the highest since 2007 and 2008, many quail hunters were having flashbacks to some of the glory days of the early 1980s. Anecdotally at least, this year we re about 50 to 60, maybe as much as 70 percent off compared to last year. Scientists at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Smith said, tie the decline in South Texas directly to the timing of the rainfall, specifically the timing of it as it pertains to chick production and brood survival. He also acknowledged the serious concern in the Rolling Plains with respect to parasite loads, specifically eye worms and cecal worms also found in the eye of harvested birds. With the amount of eye worms being observed by hunters and researchers in some places, it s not hard to assume that they re going to have trouble coping with those parasite loads, much less avoiding predators and fences when flushed, said Smith. Researchers are working to get a medicated feed approved with FDA to help address the parasite problem; much like what was done to address problems with red grouse in Scotland. There are always strong feelings and pros and cons with respect to providing medicated feed to wildlife in free range settings, Smith noted. So, stay tuned. He turned next to some of the statewide issues of concern to many, starting with deer. We ve got 4.5 million whitetail and mule deer, and we have 4.5 million opinions about how we ought to manage them, said Smith. Texas has about a million resident hunters, and three quarters of a million of them, he said, are deer hunters. Another 110,000 to 120,000 nonresident hunters also come to hunt, and most of them are deer hunters as well. Hunt-

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It does not take into account the value of rural real estate and in particular real estate with healthy wildlife and healthy wildlife habitat, which all ties right back to hunting opportunity. Smith went on to point out that there are about 142 to 150 million acres of wildlife habitat in the state, of which about 30 million, roughly 20 percent, are under a wildlife management plan with TPWD. That led into details on a major transition that TPWD has undertaken with regard to the Managed Lands Deer program. This past year TPWD collapsed all of their deerrelated permits into two MLD permits, a conservation option and a harvest-related option. The conservation permit, he said, gives landowners the most flexibility, and in exchange for a ranch specific, customized harvest recommendation, coupled with a five month hunting season, participants are asked to do a couple of habitat management practices and report harvest from a buck and doe perspective. The harvest option enables a participating a landowner to receive a harvest quota based on where the ranch resides within one of the 44 deer management units established in the state. Landowners with the harvest option are not required to do any habitat managementrelated practices. The entire permit process is now automated, Smith said, and another new piece is that landowners can now print out their own MLDP tags. To date, some 12,000 landowners encompassing a little more than 23.4 million acres have enrolled in the conservation option, and on the harvest option side are about 1700 landowners encompassing some three million acres. Smith also discussed updates to the aerial wildlife management permit and the landowner authorization agreements that accompany this permit, something which, he acknowledged, the department heard a lot about from sheep and goat producers, and specifically from the helicopter pilots working for them. The effort to automate all of the private landowner permits through the department s Texas Wildlife Management System, and some of the resulting changes, he said, caused a lot of folks some angst early on. The angst was that in order for a pilot to be able to get his or her LOA, he or she had to submit a map of the private landowner s property for which they were going to fly to shoot coyotes or hogs or trap deer whatever the permit was needed for and that map had to be drawn and submitted and the landowner had to sign off on the boundaries of that map, Smith explained. The reason for that, he said, had nothing to do with activities traditionally practiced by the ranching community and their pilots. He explained that when the pork chopper bill passed, a piece of legislation that allowed a designated landowner s agent to pay helicopter operators to take people up to shoot hogs, a whole new niche industry developed inside the helicopter industry. What arose, Smith said, was a whole lot of phone calls to local game wardens from landowners complaining of aerial trespass. Let me be real quick to say these landowners are not the friends of the feral hog society, Smith told listeners. They are hoppin mad because someone who doesn t have permission to do so is shooting onto their property from the helicopter with help from an unscrupulous pilot. You know what, I would be mad, too, if they didn t have my permission. Consequently the commission passed a rule that required LOAs to be authorized for area wildlife management permit owners to only those permittees who submitted maps and then TPWD had landowners approve them. I know that caused some concern with a number of pilots, said Smith. Candidly, we didn t do as good a job as we should have at reaching out much more directly to the helicopter pilot community at large in advance about these changes. We should have given them more notice as to why we put this rule in place. But, we ultimately did so, and made some substantive improvements to the system that pilots requested of us. So, at the end of the day, I hope that if you don t agree with these March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 5 new changes that you will at least understand and respect where we re coming from. Smith next addressed the ongoing issues pertaining to chronic wasting disease. CWD is basically the deer analog or equivalent of scrapie in sheep or BSE in cattle. It is an insidious, slow-moving and always fatal neurological disease caused by a distorted protein or prion found in the brain. How specific deer get CWD is not always known. We believe it may be transferred through body fluids, infection of feed, water, and saliva. Deer, elk and red deer can all be infected, said Smith. CWD is now found in 24 states and in a couple of Canadian provinces, as well as South Korea and Norway. The first CWD-infected deer in Texas was found in 2012 in the Hueco Mountains in far West Texas. 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L So the obvious concern was the possibility of infection in other facilities and other places, said Smith. That caused us to throw a pretty wide loop to try and protect the state s deer herds, both captive and free-ranging. Last year, a year and a half old free-range buck in Medina County tested positive for CWD that caused further concern. So what was done? TPWD, the agency responsible for protecting the state s wildlife, in cooperation with the Texas Animal Health Commission, the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, USDA and private landowners, developed a strategy predicated around early detection and containment. Early detection means we have ramped up our surveillance considerably across the state, and then where we find the disease, We Take Pride In Our Work! Crews In New Mexico & Texas Will Travel CLINT HUGHES Licensed, Insured Christian Owned OVER 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE LS S S do everything we can to contain it and keep it from spreading, Smith explained. To that end TPWD tightened testing-related restrictions in the areas where the disease has been found. Additionally, containment and surveillance zones were put in place which require additional testing and movement restrictions were placed on deer from being transferred in and out of areas where the disease is known to exist. Over the last three years a little more than 70,000 CWD samples across the state have been collected. This includes samples from hunter-harvested animals, road kills, and from captive deer in breeder pens. A live animal test using a tonsil or rectal biopsy was approved for testing in the deer breeder facilities. Texas is the first state to accept such a test. I think that s helped a lot with allaying concern about the department killing deer in breeder facilities, said Smith. We ve had a lot of issues with that over the years. The latest development from the Panhandle is that the first CWD-positive free-range whitetail a road kill was found on the eastern edge of the containment zone just northwest of Amarillo. That s a big deal, Smith acknowledged. Now we have two free-range whitetails that have tested positive for CWD in two different places of the state. As for the CWD-positive free-range whitetail in Medina County, because that is in the heart of deer country an area that depends on hunter income, hunter dollars, tourism dollars there was a lot of interest in finding out where that deer potentially came from. TPWD contracted with Texas A&M-Kingsville to do a genetic test on that young buck. Wildlife geneticist Dr. Randy DeYoung compared the genetic makeup of the CWD positive buck to the genetic makeup of the free-range deer herd in the area and then compared it to the genetic makeup of the three CWD positive breeder facilities that are still operating in that CWD surveillance zone. What DeYoung found, Smith said, was that the genetic composition of the CWD-positive buck did not match the composition of the free-range herd; it was more closely linked to the captive deer herd. In fact, the geneticist found that the parentage of the infected deer the dam and the sire were unquestionably from a captive deer herd. So that tells us where it probably came from. What it doesn t tell us is where it contracted the disease, said Smith. We re going to continue to monitor that population. We tested 1300 samples from the free-range deer this year. We haven t found any positives yet, and I hope we don t. Rest assured, we re going to stay on top of it. He turned to some issues on the horizon. 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Like South Texas, the staff proposal will have the north zone closing the third Sunday in January, followed by the customary 14-day special spike and doe, youth and muzzleloader season. Smith joked, Some of you may be so sick of deer hunters by then you re so ready to see them leave, and you re going to be hoppin mad about this proposal. Smith went on to say, It is always your prerogative as to how long you allow hunters to be on your place, if at all. What I can tell you is there is no biological reason not to do it. About 11 to 12 percent of our deer harvest in the state comes after the first of January. He encouraged those with opinions on the matter to contact TPWD. Another proposal on the table to be decided in March is as a result of a request from the manufacturers of air rifles. They petitioned the department to make high-caliber air guns and air bows legal firearms for hunting game in Texas. Five or six states have already done this, Smith said. P. O. Box 547 Lampasas, Texas

7 The department talked with these states about wounding loss and law enforcement issues specifically, could the shots be heard, for example. To be quite candid, the feedback we ve gotten from other states is that it s not been a problem from a wounding perspective or an increase in failure to retrieve game, Smith told listeners. Given that feedback, a team of biologists and game wardens did a sampling themselves in the field using large caliber air guns to harvest deer. They reported that the deer shot with the high caliber air rifles dropped like a sack of potatoes and spooked every other deer in the field, so they also apparently made enough noise to be noticed, he said. Finally, he updated listeners on a new proposed mule deer antler restriction regulation for certain counties. To date, 117 of the 254 counties have a 13- inch antler spread requirement for whitetails. It was done, Smith explained, in an effort to protect the young bucks and shift harvest across the different age cohorts. We think the inside antler spread is the easiest and best predictor of age for whitetailed deer, he told listeners. Restricting harvest of those bucks that have a 13-inch and smaller inside antler spread will protect 80 percent or so of our year and a half to two and half year-old bucks. The feedback from the counties that already have this in place, he said, has been overwhelmingly positive. Now there has been a request for something similar for mule deer in Hall, Cottle, Childress and Motley counties. The proposal to the TPW Commission being considered in March is to have an experimental season in those counties using a 20-inch outside antler spread restriction on mule deer. Our biologists believe we ll be able to protect 55 to 60 percent of the bucks that are 3.5 years and younger, said Smith. We re going to monitor that for three years and see how it works. So stay tuned. In response to a question about judging the width, Smith explained that the best gauge is from tip to tip of the deer s ears. For whitetails that s usually 12 to 13 inches and for mule deer it s usually about 21 inches. For the game bird enthusiasts, another proposal is being considered by the Commission. If approved, for the first time this year, those hunting south of Highway 90 during the regular south zone season will be able to hunt dove beginning Friday September 14, allowing for a 90-day season. Counting the special whitewing season in South Texas that means you can hunt every weekend in September. That s a big deal for our hunters, our landowners, and our rural economy. He closed by telling listeners that the department is supportive and pleased with the work being done in partnership with Wildlife Services and others on sodium nitrite for the management of feral pigs. We feel really good about that science and I want you to know we are with you when it comes to trying to get more tools to control feral hogs on your ranches. He thanked landowners for their continued support. I want everyone in this room to hear me; we at TPWD can t do our job without you. We can t do our work without your collaboration and cooperation and trust and we know that we ve got to work to earn that trust every single day. I m going to be the first to tell you; this agency is not perfect. We will make mistakes from time to time. There will be times in which you disagree with the decisions we make, but I will promise you will always have an active, open dialog with your Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. During the question and answer session, several comments pertained to land access, habitat fragmentation, and a perceived a bias against sheep and goats in favor of deer specifically, that sheep and goats and deer cannot co-exist if deer hunting is to be a viable part of the operation. One of the major concerns that I hear from a lot of the next generation sheep and goat producers is that there s not lease opportunities available because a lot of land has changed hands new landowners with focus on wildlife, said Extension sheep and goat specialist Dr. Reid Redden. Their wildlife biologists tell them that goats and whitetails can t mix. This room is full of people who will tell you otherwise. Smith offered a direct response. One of my working hypotheses is that one of the worst things that ever happened in March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 7 Next Generation Seedstock. Fifth Generation Service. Cattle designed to move the beef industry on the road to sustained profitability. R.A. 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He went on to say that many of these new landowners are interested specifically in wildlife, which is a good thing, but more landowners also means more straws in the ground and in some places they are affecting groundwater-related resources. Some may also not be as well versed on the importance of actively managing brush and other rangeland habitats with a variety of tools, from grazing to prescribed fire to brush management. So we re seeing some real impacts from that fragmentation and from groundwater related challenges, but even from a lack of management altogether. Inevitably, more people in these rural areas bring more pressures to bear in certain places. With respect to the perception of wildlife biologist bias against sheep and goat production, Smith acknowledged the bias but also had this to say: We ve done a lot of work at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area that demonstrates the kind of compatibility that you re talking about with respect to wildlife populations on well managed sheep, goats and cattle grazing enterprises. The Sonora Experiment Station has also been ground zero for that kind of research. It would be disingenuous, however, if I told you that there aren t some biologists that have a strong predisposition against sheep and goats and concerns about their impacts on wildlife, he continued. One of the things we see more often now is that we don t have as many young people that have a connection with farms and ranches and agriculture who are going through our natural resources programs. 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Steers, medium and large No lbs. $217.43, lbs. $213.12, lbs. $203.56, lbs. $192.46, lbs. $184.31, lbs. $175.20, lbs. $167.61, lbs. $157.84, lbs. $151.46, lbs. $146.21, lbs. $141.61, lbs. $137.71, lbs. $134.46, lbs. $131.58, lbs. $130.05, lbs. $128.40; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $172.21, lbs. $171.89, lbs. $168.81, lbs. $165.03, lbs. $162.90, lbs. $158.50, lbs. $152.34, lbs. $143.72, lbs. $137.71, lbs. $133.33, lbs. $132.73, lbs. $130.62, lbs. $ Feeds Any Size Cube Pellet Grain Mixed Feed Or Big Alfalfa Cube ALL MODELS FEED IN PILES OR STEADY STREAM All Electric Models Are 12 Volt And Come With Wiring Hookup To Get You Feeding The Simple And Easy Way! NEW and USED New Mexico 5000 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $208.77, lbs. $190, lbs. $180.44, lbs. $171.88, lbs. $163.04, lbs. $156.09, lbs. $141.80, lbs. $142.83, lbs. $136.86; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $186.32, lbs. $161.03, lbs. $153.61, lbs. $147.41, lbs. $138.40, lbs. $133.91, lbs. $ Kansas 14,500 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $207.78, lbs. $194.12, lbs. $194.16, lbs. $186.48, lbs. $176.50, lbs. $163.66, lbs. $151.53, lbs. $146.01, lbs. $142.80, lbs. $139.23, lbs. $134.98, lbs. $130.70; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $176.89, lbs. $166.44, lbs. $157.86, lbs. $151.46, lbs. $145.37, lbs. $140.32, lbs. $138.71, lbs. $135.84, lbs. $131.76, lbs. $ Missouri 28,400 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $213.42, lbs. $207.78, lbs. $203.73, JIM TAYLOR SALES lbs. $200.80, lbs. $190.64, lbs. $183.40, lbs. $174.55, lbs. $166.03, lbs. $159.01, lbs. $148.29, lbs. $140.97, lbs. $136.56, lbs. $131.71; Holstein steers, large No lbs. $87.74, lbs. $88.10, lbs. $96; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $178.47, lbs. $175.15, lbs. $169.80, lbs. $166.75, lbs. $163.50, lbs. $155.26, lbs. $150.78, lbs. $145.34, lbs. $138.13, lbs. $133.29, lbs. $ Iowa 10,000 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $213.19, lbs. $207.83, lbs. $200.72, lbs. $193.95, lbs. $183.87, lbs. $171.22, lbs. $151.67, lbs. $144.39, lbs. $144.40, lbs. $138.50, lbs. $141.73, lbs. $135.06, lbs. $125.81; Holstein steers, large No lbs. $90.81, lbs. $97.45, lbs. $94.23, lbs. $89.73, lbs. $82.45; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $172.05, lbs. $167.21, lbs. $170.08, lbs. $158.90, lbs. $136.88, lbs. $140.62, lbs. $133.16, lbs. $ Nebraska 21,900 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $228.15, lbs. $207.79, lbs. $211.67, lbs. $193.56, lbs. $199.25, lbs. $184.04, lbs. $168.54, lbs. $159.58, lbs. $153.36, lbs. $147.60, lbs. $143.97, lbs. $141.25, lbs. $141.15; heif- Saves Time And Money T& S Electric Or Ground Drive Pickup models can be mounted long ways in bed or across fl atbed to feed off the side in troughs. Available in 750 pound; 1500 pound and 2000 pound capacity. T& S Less Feed Waste AA WORKS JUST LIKE THE BIGGER ONES! 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9 ers, medium and large No lbs. $196.76, lbs. $179.04, lbs. $181.40, lbs. $176.01, lbs. $170.16, lbs. $158.69, lbs. $149.52, lbs. $144.23, lbs. $139.99, lbs. $138.02, lbs. $131.59, lbs. $129.53, lbs. $ Colorado 5400 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $215.66, lbs. $206.22, lbs. $198.04, lbs. $200.89, lbs. $183.80, lbs. $168.63, lbs. $163.19, lbs. $152.02, lbs. $146.51, lbs. $144.61, lbs. $140.44, lbs. $137.20; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $195.70, lbs. $179.95, lbs. $176.66, lbs. $172.79, lbs. $167.97, lbs. $152.41, lbs. $144.44, lbs. $143.71, lbs. $137.17, lbs. $ Wyoming 5700 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $224.63, lbs. $207.81, lbs. $205.89, lbs. $202.96, lbs. $191.83, lbs. $193.37, lbs. $175.01, lbs. $159.14, lbs. $153.45, lbs. $147.52, lbs. $143.71; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $187.36, lbs. $181.38, lbs. $177.73, lbs. $177.76, lbs. $171.10, lbs. $164.24, lbs. $156.48, lbs. $147.08, lbs. $143.72, lbs. $137. South Dakota 28,100 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $206.45, lbs. $208.33, lbs. $192.35, lbs. $182.39, lbs. $178.07, Angus Production Sale Saturday March 24, PM Higgins, TX 65 Registered Bulls 30 Registered Open Females Dinner & Live Music at 12 PM We can help you make more Profit. Duane Jenkins: Duane Jenkins Dale Jenkins: Sale Book Sale Available Book Available At at Family Family Owned owned & Operated operated since Since Livestock Guardian Dog Workshop March 15, A.M. - 3 P.M. Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center 7887 U.S. Highway 87 N. San Angelo, TX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bonding Your Livestock Guardian Dog with Livestock Feeding Your Livestock Guardian Dog What Breed and How Many Livestock Guardian Dogs Do I Need? Veterinary Care Monitoring and Insurance Options lbs. $165.85, lbs. $159.61, lbs. $150.70, lbs. $145.77, lbs. $140.45, lbs. $135.86, lbs. $132.53; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $173.11, lbs. $179.67, lbs. $168.66, lbs. $167.58, lbs. $156.67, lbs. $149.64, lbs. $142.27, lbs. $137.82, lbs. $132.29, lbs. $129.06, lbs. $126.60, lbs. $ North Dakota 11,400 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $203.91, lbs. $187.19, lbs. $183.98, lbs. $183.51, lbs. $167, lbs. $161.73, lbs. $151.65, lbs. $143.07, lbs. $139.21, lbs. $136.86, lbs. $133.72; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $172.40, lbs. $175.50, lbs. $167.12, lbs. $163.56, lbs. $155.82, lbs. $146.18, lbs. $138.97, lbs. $135.48, lbs. $132.97, lbs. $128.80, lbs. $ Montana 13,300 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $214.84, lbs. $207.62, lbs. $202.25, lbs. $191.11, lbs. $182.02, lbs. $167.70, lbs. $158.93, lbs. $150.25, lbs. $146.08, lbs. $146.10, lbs. $139.16; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $187.64, lbs. $185.80, lbs. $179.15, lbs. $174.36, lbs. $168.39, lbs. $159.33, lbs. $149.56, lbs. $140.71, lbs. $139.59, lbs. $ Overview of Livestock Guardian Dog Research at the Martin Ranch in Menard The program will end with a panel discussion featuring area ranchers involved with a recent livestock guardian dog demonstration project. $15 Preregistration (by March 12) $25 On-site Registration ~ Lunch Will Be Provided ~ Please call (325) to register Virginia 3100 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $179.13, lbs. $179.36, lbs. $190.66, lbs. $169.27, lbs. $179.53, lbs. $157.27, lbs. $166.90, lbs. $138.90; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $155.96, lbs. $149.76, lbs. $152.41, lbs. $143.48, lbs. $133.13, lbs. $123.60, lbs. $ South Carolina 1700 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $196.01, lbs. $192.28, lbs. $193.73, lbs. $182.62, lbs. $179.61, lbs. $160.41, lbs. $157.82, lbs. $153.60, lbs. $145.80; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $167.43, lbs. $168.84, lbs. $162.33, lbs. $156.69, lbs. $149.69, lbs. $146.21, lbs. $141.37, lbs. $137.25, lbs. $128.97, lbs. $119.66, lbs. $ North Carolina 4600 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $175.35, lbs. $184.11, lbs. SUPPORTING THE YOUTH OF ROBERTSON COUNTY FOR 52 YEARS! COME ENJOY THE 52ND ANNUAL ROBERTSON COUNTY FAIR March 17-March 26, 2018 R.C.F.A. Commercial Heifer Sale Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Robertson Co. Fairgrounds Fair Ground Rd. Hearne, Texas For more information: Contact Bobby Corn AUCTION March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 9 VERY LATE MODEL RENTAL EQUIPMENT AUCTION ~ Herc Rentals Ahern Rentals ~ Late Model Rental Return Equip. Cat, Komatsu Earthmoving Equip., Forklifts, Skid Steers, Aerials, Truck Tractors, Dump Trucks WED., MARCH 14 11:00 AM DALLAS (Ft. Worth), TX Hicks Field Rd., Fort Worth, TX HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: 13-Excavators: 2013 Cat 336EL, Cat 325CL, 2008 Cat 320DLRR, 2007 Komatsu PC300LC, (2)2017 Kobelco SK210LC, 2012 Komatsu PC PC220LC-8, Komatsu PC200-8, 2013 Doosan DX140LC, 2008 JD 35D, Gradall, 2013 JD 85D, JD 35G(cab), 2-Motor Graders: 2015 Cat 120M2, 2006 Noram 65E, 4-Rubber Tired Loaders: 2013 Doosan DL350-3, 2013 Doosan DL220-3, Cat 924G, JD 544K, 5-Crawler Tractors: Cat D6KLGP, 2008 Cat D5KXL, 2014 Cat D4KXL, 2013 Komatsu D51EX, Pipelayer: 2005 Cat D3GLGP, 11-Tractor Loader Backhoes: 2013-(2)2012 Case 580N(4x4), Case 580 Super-M, Case 580M, JD 310 Super-K(4x4, cab), 2012 JD 310K(4x4), (3)JD 310J(4x4), Cat 420D(4x4), NH 555D, 8-Vibratory Rollers: Unused Dynapac CA3500, 2014 Dynapac CA2500PD, 2007 IR SD77DX, (2)2006 IR SD45D, 2005 IR SD45F, 2012 Volvo SD25D, 2008 Volvo SD70F, 2-Telescopics: 2012 Skytrack 10054, 2011 JLG G9-43, 3-Rubber Tracked Skid Steers: 2014 JD 328D, JD 323D, 2012 Takeuchi, 2-Skid Steers: 2014 JD 328D, NH LS190, Scissor Lift: 2007 Skyjack 3226, 14-Light Plants: (2) IR LS60HZ, Terex AL4, Doosan LSC, Air Compressor: 2010 Sullair 185DPQ, Welder: 2007 Lincoln Ranger 250LPG, Stump Grinder: Dosko 337H, 4-Tractor Loaders: Case MX120, Demo Kubota B3350, 2011 JD 3046(4x4), NH 1920, 2-Ag Tractors: JD 5045D, Kubota M9000, Utility Tractor: 2017 Kubota F3960, Mowing Tractor: Kubota M108S(w/boom cutter), Belly Dump Trailer: 2015 CTS BDT-40, SUV: 1995 Land Rover Discovery, 2-Utility Vehicles: (2)2006 Taylor-Dun B2-10, Equipment Parts: Skid Steer Door, 2-Excavator Thumbs: New Gentec MT2650, New Gentec MT830, 4-Excavator Buckets: 2006 Hensley 36in., (2)2007 C&P 24in., 2006 Werk-Brau 24in., 105-Skid Steer Attachments, 42-New Support, Survey Equip.: 2009 Topcon RLH2253 Laser Level. Site Ph: (817) Ricky TX Lic: #15791 Jack Lyon ALEX LYON & SON SALES MANAGERS & AUCTIONEERS, INC. BRIDGEPORT, NY Phone: (315) SATURDAY, MARCH 17, SALE TIME: 10:00 A.M. FROM HAMLIN,TX (FISHER COUNTY) 5 MILES SOUTHWEST ON HWY 57 THEN 1 MILE NOTHWEST ON HWY 688 EW FARMS OWNER TELEPHONE 5 STAR REP. BUCH ALBUS (325) OR EDDIE HILL (325) (PLEASE REMOVE EQUIPMENT IN 2 WEEKS OR LESS) TRACTORS, DOZER JD 8400 MDWD DSL TRACTOR, CAB, A/C, HTR, 3PT, 3 HYD, WTS, QH, 30 FRONT NEARLY NEW RUBBER, 46 RUBBER W/ DUALS (5049 HRS) SN (SHEDDED) ENG O/H AT 5047 HRS (GOOD & SOLID) CASE/IH WD DSL TRACTOR, CAB, A/C, BAREBACK 4 HYD, 30.5X32 DUALS (7602 HRS) SN (GOOD & SOLID) JD WD DSL TRACTOR, CAB, A/C, 3PT, 3 HYD, Q/R TRANS, 38 RUBBER W/ JD 158 FRONT END LOADER, 6 BKT, BALE SPEAR (7622 HRS) SN (GOOD & SOLID) CAT D60 DSL DOZER, 10 BLADE, BRUSH RAKE, GRUBBER, P/S TRANS, WIDE TRACK, 3306 ENGINE (GOOD) SN D6D4X5540 RECENT UNDERCARRIAGE OVERHAUL (3780 ENG HRS SINCE OVER- HAUL) PICKUP FORD F250 CREW CAB 4X4 PICKUP, EXT CAB, V/8, A/C, P/W (144,000 MILES) FARM EQUIPMENT LANDOLL HYD FOLD TAN DEM DISK, NEARLY NEW 1 ROLL-A-CONE 52 HYD FOLD FIELD JIM SUMNERS... (806) (10006)...(HOME) JIMMY REEVES... (806) (Clerk)... (HOME) DONNA TODD...(806) (Secretary)... $180.49, lbs. $177.77, lbs. $176.86, lbs. $175.73, lbs. $165.03, lbs. $157.81, lbs. $152.66, lbs. $145.64, lbs. $141.39, lbs. $126.79, lbs. $132.53; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $155.52, lbs. $149.41, lbs. $150.64, lbs. $150.78, lbs. $146.29, lbs. $141.76, lbs. $140.86, lbs. $135.39, lbs. $127.31, lbs. $123.28, lbs. $111.72, lbs. $ Kentucky 16,600 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $179.04, lbs. $193.50, lbs. $183.52, lbs. $176.59, lbs. $173.30, lbs. $170.22, lbs. $162.76, lbs. $154.98, lbs. $151.13, lbs. $144.56, lbs. $140.68, lbs. $136.49, lbs. $137.13, lbs. $131.09; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $160.92, lbs. $159.62, lbs. $156.27, lbs. $153.31, lbs. $151.89, lbs. $146.11, lbs. $142.30, R.C.F.A. Premium Market Sale Monday, March 26, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. Robertson Co. Fairgrounds Fair Ground Rd. Hearne, Texas For information on how to become a Buyer: Contact Sharon Elliott lbs. $138.32, lbs. $133.50, lbs. $131.20, lbs. $124.29, lbs. $ Tennessee 4400 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $188.56, lbs. $185.31, lbs. $179.99, lbs. $177.97, lbs. $169.96, lbs. $160.37, lbs. $151.32, lbs. $149.69, lbs. $140.43, lbs. $138.78; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $159.73, lbs. $156.33, lbs. $150.25, lbs. $148.22, lbs. $142.67, lbs. $136.85, lbs. $133.34, lbs. $128.69, lbs. $127.19, lbs. $ Arkansas 5000 head. Steers, CULTIVATOR W/ SCRATCHERS, NEARLY NEW 1 FLEXI-COIL 38 HYD FOLD SWEEP PLOW W/ NEW FLEXI-COIL SCRATCHERS, GOOD SWEEPS, SHANK SAVER RHINO 15 HYD FOLD SHREDDER, NEARLY NEW 1 GREAT PLAINS 2SF 30 2-SECTION GRAIN DRILL, 8 SPACE, NICE 1 JD BTM ON LAND SPINNER MOULDBOARD PLOW HAPPY VALLEY 30 DT HYD FOLD FIELD CULTIVATOR, GOOD 1 RHINO OFFSET DISK, NEEDS REPAIR 1 JD 8 ROW FOLDING PLANTER BAR W/ 6 KMC ROW UNITS 1 BIG OX 13 SHANK 3PT RIPPER, DGW 1 BIG OX 11 SHANK 3PT RIPPER 1 BIG OX 7 SHANK 3PT RIPPER 2 3PT ROOT GRUBBERS (BROWN BRO) 1 JD 10 DIRT SCRAPER W/ HYD CON- TROL 2 JD X10 GRAIN DRILLS W/ 2 DRILL HITCH 1 JD 4 BOTTOM ROLLOVER PLOW 2 8 ROW 3PT SWEEP PLOWS 1 M&W 8 ROW 3PT ROTARY 1 6 ROW 3PT FIELD CULTIVATOR 1 LOT PLOW PARTS, SWEEPS SPRAY EQUIPMENT, TANKS, medium and large No lbs. $212.39, lbs. $204.15, lbs. $201.64, lbs. $192.28, lbs. $186.02, lbs. $171.16, lbs. $160.66, lbs. $153.79; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $174.32, lbs. $170.02, lbs. $170.74, lbs. $161.16, lbs. $158.15, lbs. $148.85, lbs. $141.25, lbs. $ Mississippi 3700 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , See Feeder Cattle Continued On Page 10 TRAILERS WYLIE 90 VERSA TRAIL DRAG TYPE SPRAYER, 1250 GAL TANK, CHEMICAL & CLEAN WATER TANK, HYD DRIVE, 12X4X38 AG TIRES (USED ONE TIME) SHED- DED, SN WYLIE 100 GAL SPOT SPRAYER ON SKIDS W/ 15HP ENGINE, SPRAY WAND GAL FUEL TANK ON TANDEM AXLE TRAILER, 12 VOLT ELEC PUMP, SHEDDED & GOOD 2 80 GAL PICKUP BED FUEL TANKS W/ 12 VOLT ELEC PUMPS 1 24 SEED TRAILER W/ 18 SIDE BOARDS W/ FIREWOOD ATV S, SHOP EQUIPMENT, MISC 2 HONDA FORETRAX WHEELERS (ONE GOOD W/ 12 V SPRAYER) 1 AIRCO WELDER 1 LINCOLN 220V WELDER, SHEDDED 1 GAS AIR COMPRESSOR ON WHEELS 1 GAS PRESSURE WASHER 1 LOT HAND TOOLS 1 DRILL PRESS 1 TIRE CHANGER 1 LOT CHAINS, BOOMERS 1 CHAIN HOIST Five Star Auctioneers OFFICE: (806) P. O. 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10 Page 10 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 Feeder Cattle Continued From Page lbs. $ ; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ , lbs. $ Alabama 6600 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $202.93, lbs. $199.69, lbs. $192.70, lbs. $180.45, lbs. $170.68, lbs. $165.45, lbs. $155.74, lbs. $147.67, lbs. $142.25, lbs. $136.89; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $179.45, lbs. $172.37, lbs. $162.51, lbs. $156.50, lbs. $150.99, lbs. $142.46, lbs. $137.19, lbs. BISHOP BOOTS Quality Made To Measure From Wax Calf To Exotics For Ranch Or Office Reasonable Prices For More Information: Write: PO Box 14 Tucumcari, NM Or Come By: 6520 Quay Rd AR Tucumcari, NM Or Call: 575/ Website: bishops@plateautel.net SHEEP & GOAT SALE Monday 10 A.M. OFFICE: 254/ HAMILTON, TEXAS $132.08, lbs. $126.65, lbs. $ Georgia 6600 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $202.19, lbs. $192.08, lbs. $183.31, lbs. $174.11, lbs. $166.67, lbs. $158.47, lbs. $151.28, lbs. $144.93, lbs. $135.30, lbs. $131.72; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $179.06, lbs. $176.32, lbs. $168.70, lbs. $161.45, lbs. $153.30, lbs. $146.03, lbs. $141.93, lbs. $137.20, lbs. $132.85, lbs. $126.51, lbs. $124.14, lbs. $ Direct receipts totaled 44,200 head, the previous week 44,900 head and last year 42,600 head. CATTLE SALE Tuesday 12 Noon ROPING CATTLE SALE Friday and Saturday, APRIL 6 and 7 Sale Starts At: 11 A.M. Both Days Corriente and Corrente-Infl uence Cattle Cow and Bulls / Ropers and Potentials Call Randy For More Information Or To Consign: 254/ CATTLE SALE RESULTS 03/06/ HEAD No. 1 Steers Cow / Calf Pairs Pounds $ $ CWT Choice $ $ PR Pounds $ $ CWT Medium Quality $ $ PR Pounds $ $ CWT Aged SPLIT PR Pounds $ $ CWT Bred Cows Pounds $ $ CWT Choice $ $ HD 700 Pounds & Up $ $ CWT Medium Quality $ $ HD No. 1 Heifers Aged $ $ HD Pounds $ $ CWT Trends Pounds $ $ CWT Stocker Steers $5.00 Higher Pounds $ $ CWT Feeder Steers Steady Pounds $ $ CWT Stocker Heifers $5.00 Higher Pounds $ $ CWT Feeder Heifers Steady 700 Pounds & Up $ $ CWT Packer Cows Steady Packer Cows Packer Bulls Steady High Yield $ $ CWT Cow / Calf Pairs Steady Medium Yield $ $ CWT Bred Cows Steady Low Yield $ $ CWT Packer Bulls High Yield $ $ CWT Low Yield N / T Texas 27,000 head. Steers, lbs. $143.48, 850 lbs. $142; medium and large No. 1 heifers, medium and large No. 575 lbs. $174, lbs lbs. $137 June. $154.74, 725 lbs. $153.54, New Mexico 1600 head. Steers, lbs. $145.58, 800- medium and large No lbs. 840 lbs. $141.29, lbs. $144.78, 800 lbs. $140.50, 725 $138.24, 900 lbs. $136.93, 775 lbs. $151 May; heifers, medium lbs. $ April, 800 lbs. and large No lbs. $134.50, $ April, lbs. 725 lbs. $139 May. $ May, 800 lbs. $146 Kansas 2000 head. Steers, May, 775 lbs. $147 June, delivered 625 lbs. $169.50, 725 lbs. 875 lbs. $140.25; heifers, medium and large No $149, lbs. $147.47, medium and large No lbs. $143.72, 850- lbs. $ June. 875 lbs. $142.68; heifers, medium and large No lbs. medium and large No Colorado 3700 head. Steers, $144, lbs. $142.84, lbs. $162.84, 750 lbs. $148.14; lbs. $138.48, 750 heifers, medium and large No. lbs. $133.27, 625 lbs. $ lbs. $154.88, 700 lbs. April, 725 lbs. $ April, $142.59, 750 lbs. $137.91, delivered lbs. $158.26, 750 lbs. $ April, 700 lbs. $ May, 750 lbs lbs. $147.83, 750 lbs. $135 May, 700 lbs. $ $145.92, 800 lbs. $138. June, delivered 600 lbs. Wyoming 2300 head. Steers, $146.25, 650 lbs. $143, 725 medium and large No lbs. $138.33, 750 lbs. $136, lbs. $149.50, delivered lbs. $ May, lbs. $166, 750 lbs. $154; heifers, medium and large No. 1 lbs. $ June. Oklahoma 2400 head. 750 lbs. $ Steers, medium and large Dakotas 100 head. Heifers, No lbs. $166, 720 lbs. medium and large No $151.09, 750 lbs. $145.50, 800 lbs. $ Mittel Dozing Owned And Operated By Robert Mittel 325/ Foreman: Todd Emery 325/ Brush Work Fire Guards Ranch Work Dirt Tanks Road Work General Conservation Work A Rancher Working For Ranchers 21 Years Experience Serving Sonora, Texas And Surrounding Counties Montana 600 head. Heifers, medium and large No lbs. $154.17, lbs. $143.43, 750 lbs. $140.10, 800 lbs. $ Southwest 1800 head. Holsteins, large No. 3 delivered 275 lbs. $129 July, 350 lbs. $122, 350 lbs. $119 May. Northwest 700 head. Steers, medium and large No. 1 delivered 675 lbs. $159.50, 725 lbs. $153, 775 lbs. $151; heifers, medium and large No. 1 delivered 675 lbs. $146. Eastern Cornbelt 1500 head. Heifers, medium and large No lbs. $ Southeast 500 head. Steers, medium and large No lbs. $142.50; heifers, medium and large No lbs. $136.50, 750 lbs. $127. Clovis Light Steers Sell Mostly $6 Higher CLOVIS, N.M. (USDA- Feb. 28) Feeder steers under 700 pounds were mostly $6 higher, over 700 pounds $3 lower, heifers under 600 pounds steady to $2 higher on pounds, over 600 pounds mostly $5 lower, slaughter cows and bulls $3 higher except high yielding bulls $6 higher. Receipts totaled 2581 head. Steers: medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Heifers: medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Slaughter cows: breakers pounds $58, boners pounds $ , high dressing $70-73, low dressing $ , lean pounds $ , high dressing $69-73, low dressing $ ; bulls, yield grade pounds $84-90, high dressing pounds $ Replacement cows: medium and large No. 1-2 young to long-solid cows pounds 1-8 months bred $ per head, young oneranch reputation cows pounds 3-8 months bred $ , short-solid cows pounds 3-8 months bred $ , aged cows pounds 3-8 months bred $ ; cow-calf pairs, medium and large No. 1-2 young cows pounds with calves pounds $ per pair. SHEEP SALE RESULTS 03/05/ HEAD Slaughter Kids Dorper / Dorper Cross Lambs Feeder: Pounds $ $ CWT Feeder: Pounds $ $ CWT Slaughter: Pounds $ $ CWT Slaughter: Pounds $ $ CWT Slaughter: 70 Pounds & Up $ $ CWT Slaughter: 70 Pounds & Up $ $ CWT Show Kids: $ $ CWT Fancy Ewe Lambs N / T Slaughter Nannies Dorper, Dorper Cross Ewes and Rams Thin $ $ Head Ewes $ $ Head Medium $ $ Head Bucks $ $ CWT Fleshy $ $ Head Barbadoes Boer / Boer Cross and Spanish Nannies Lambs $ $ CWT Medium $ $ Head Ewes $ $ Head Choice $ $ Head Rams $ $ Head Boer, Boer Cross and Spanish Billies Trends Slaughter $ $ CWT Kids $10.00 Lower Breeding $ CWT Nannies Steady Choice Young Billies N / T Dorper Lambs $15.00 Lower Wool Lambs Feeder: Pounds N / T Wool Lambs $15.00 Lower Barbado Lambs $15.00 Lower Slaughter: Pound N / T Ewes $15.00 Lower Slaughter: 70 Pounds & Up_$ $ CWT Show Lambs: $ $ CWT Head = Per Head CWT = Per 100 Pounds Wool Ewes * Fancier Kids Will Consistently Bring $15.00-$25.00/CWT Stocker N / T Higher Than What Is Posted On This Market Report. 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11 OIL ABOUT RANCHING Whip Brown COW & REPLACEMENT HEIFER SALE DON T MISS OUR SALE Friday, MARCH 30 6:30 P.M. Lamar Dixon Expo Center Gonzales, Louisiana Cattle Viewing And Registration Begins At 12 P.M. SELLING 450 HEAD! 60 F-1 Braford heifers, bred two to four months to Angus bull. 40 open F-1 Brangus heifers. By Dennis McBeth A long dry spell was interrupted with rain late in February. Purple martins showed up the last day of February, and March blew in the next day over a rapidly greening landscape. It s beginning to look like spring, but we had loud thunder with the February rain. Record oil production is forecast for the U.S. in 2018, according the U.S. Energy Information Authority. Oil production in this country peaked in 1970 with average daily production reached 9.63 million barrels per day. From there it declined to a low of 4.99 MBD in It was about this time that the theory of peak oil began to be tossed around as a gloomy prediction that oil production had begun an irreversible decline, based on it being a finite resource which was being depleted with predictions for no hope of finding any new reserves. By 2008, a well-formulated recipe for fracking wells was being implemented. Production began to increase for the next seven years to an average of 9.4 MBD in There was a slight pullback in 2016, which had some rebound in We entered 2018 with the U.S. Energy Information Authority predicting that 2018 would be the year that the U.S. breaks the all-time production record. Many of us remember the prognosticators telling us that we were going to run out of oil by now. Many of the people who remember the 1974 gas lines, 10-gallon limit, and stations with an early closing time also remember many conspiracy tales about the oil companies creating a shortage. Most seem to have forgotten, or never knew, that government price controls were in place at the time. It wasn t that we were running out of oil, but that we were running out of $3 per barrel oil. The production costs in most cases exceeded $3. We probably would have run out of alfalfa hay if the government had capped it at 50 cents per bale. Many of the old-time cattlemen do not remember the price controls on oil, but most if not all have stories about the wreck that occurred when the government put price controls on beef in that same timeframe. So, here we are 44 years later, looking at forecasts for record oil production in Those of us who received the sad news in the 1990s that the Permian Basin was an old, dwindling resource with no hopes for future discoveries are watching with surprise, as it is now the most active region for drilling in the U.S. The Baker Hughes rig report dated March 2 shows 981 drilling rigs working in the U.S. That is up three from the previous week and up 225 from one year ago at this time. Horizontal wells are reported to involve 847 of the rigs operating in the U.S. The most active counties are Reeves County, Texas, with 66 rigs, followed by Midland County with 48, and Lea County, N.M. with 48. There were a total of 483 drilling rigs working in Texas as of the March report. The Texas Railroad Commission reported 963 completions for January. Using a somewhat loose comparison, almost two wells were completed for each drilling rig working in Texas in January. The term completion probably needs to be defined or explained. A normal assumption might be that a well is complete when the drilling rig finishes its work and moves out. When the well is drilled, casing is set and cemented, the rig has completed its task, but completing the drilling does not mean the same as saying that the well has been completed. Here we have another word that means different things depending upon the context. The well completion may include hydraulic fracturing and installation of the necessary production equipment sometime after the drilling rig has moved away. Various reports are given about the number of wells waiting on completion, and that is often followed by a statement about a shortage of frac equipment. To add confusion to the data, not all of the wells waiting to be fracked are sitting all alone on some remote location just waiting on equipment. With many of the 40 open Braford heifers. 45 two to fi ve year old black cows, bred to black Angus and Charolais bulls. 35 pairs two to six year old black cows. 175 Brangus heifers, bred to Gardner bulls. 55 heifers, heavy bred. For More Information Contact: Whip Brown All purchases must be paid in full at completion of sale. horizontal wells being drilled with possibly six wells per pad, or location, the sixth well being drilled would indicate that there are five right beside it waiting on completion. One reason for those five to be waiting is that fracking and drilling do not take place at the same time on the same location. Fracturing into a well that is in the drilling phase is very high on the list of things NOT to do. Finishing up on the rig report, Canada was down four rigs for the week to 302, and that is 33 fewer rigs than were working there one year ago. The international count was up six for the week to 960, and that is up 27 from last year. Futures prices were reported with Brent crude oil at $64.37 and West Texas Intermediate at $ The Plains All American posted bulletin showed WTI at $ Natural gas was at $2.71. Gasoline at $1.90 per gallon is 42 cents above ethanol, which was reported at $1.48. (As always, numbers are reported for general discussion information only, and not as an investment resource. Not responsible for errors or omissions. Always do your own verification and research.) Dennis.McBeth@gmail.com March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 11 LIVESTOCK MARKETING SCHOOLS Taught By Wally Olson (As Learned From Bud Williams) San Angelo, TX: March Cheyenne, WY: September Claremore, OK: October Day 1 8 A.M. - 4 P.M. Know/Understand Yourself Value To Me Cost To Carry Finding Overvalued/Undervalued Inventory Grass Money Then Animals New Summerfield Sale Offerings 875 Cattle NEW SUMMERFIELD (March 3) Cattle receipts totaled 875 head. Steers: under 300 pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , 600- Day 2 8 A.M. - 4 P.M. How & Where To Sell & Buy Relationships Between Classes Of Animals Utilizing People FEE: $1000 (Future Schools Can Be Re-Taken For $100 Per School; It Takes More Than One School To Get It!) 918/ olsonranch@junct.com REPLACEMENT SALE Saturday, MARCH 17 Sale Time 11 AM. Pearsall, Texas (Easy Access On and Off IH-35 South of Pearsall) Early Consignments Include: 3 Brangus bulls, sixteen months old. 1 Red Brangus bull, sixteen months old. 3 Angus bulls, Gardiner ranch bulls, four years old. 2 Santa Gertrudis bulls, eighteen months old, registered. 150 Brangus and Brangus baldy heifers, big and good, several calves by sale day, balance calving this spring. 140 crossbred cows, three to five years old, bred (AI) to Hudgins Brahman bulls, calving late spring. 70 F-1 and Braford heifers, open, ready for bulls, pounds, really nice set. 50 Brangus and Brangus cross cows, three to six years old, calving this spring. 30 F-1 and Braford type cows, three to six years old, calving this spring. 30 crossbred cows, three to six years old, calving this spring. 70 Brangus, crossbred and Braford pairs three to five years old, calves weigh pounds, running back with Charolais and Hereford bulls. 35 crossbred and Brangus pairs three to five years old, calves weigh pounds. 45 Beefmaster cross cows, three to five years old, several calves by sale time, balance heavy bred. 16 Charolais cross cows, three to four years old, heavy bred. 8 Santa Gertrudis cows, five to six years old, heavy bred. 20 Brahman heifers, open, 700 pounds. 25 F-1 Braford heifers, open, pounds. MORE CONSIGNMENTS WILL BE ADDED Photos And Updated List Of Consignments Available At: For More Information Contact: Frank Helvey, Manager or Kelley Thigpen 830/ Office 210/ or 830/ Mobile 830/ Home Kelley Thigpen 830/ Mobile pounds $ , pounds $ Heifers: under 300 pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Slaughter cows: cows $40-74; heavy bulls $ Day 3 8 A.M. - Noon Working On What You Need To Use Livestock Inventory Numbers Follow Us On Facebook!

12 Page 12 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 Special Replacement Female Sale In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale. Females will sell at 10:00 A.M. See Page 3 Of This Week s Edition Of Livestock Weekly For A Complete List Of Consignments Thursday, March 10:00 A.M. San Saba Over 1200 Head Consigned! For details on the cow sale or online viewing/bidding info, please call or visit our website. Special Bull Offering In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale. Bulls will sell at 10:00 A.M. Plan now to attend. Bulls will be fertility tested, meet trich requirements and ready to go to work. Thursday, March 10:00 A.M. San Saba Featuring 37 Red Angus Bulls From JE Red Angus Ranch Books Are Closed 37 choice, virgin, registered Red Angus bulls, consigned by JE Red Angus Ranch of Goldthwaite seven of these bulls will be out of Crump Peacemaker 343 and the balance will be out of some of the top Red Angus bulls in the breed, thirteen to fifteen months old and several will be low birthweight and ideal for heifers, will be ready to go to work, papers will be furnished and EPD s available on the website. (1) 5 choice, virgin Charolais bulls, consigned by Clark Behrends of Fredericksburg, registered herd sires, sixteen months old, big and stout, papers will be transferred at buyer s expense. (2) 2 registered Brahman bulls, out of Hudgins bloodline sires and dams, consigned by Heavin Ranch and will be selling as commercial, two years old and ready to go to work. (3) 2 registered, purebred and fullblood Maine bulls, consigned by Prairie Rose Cattle Co., seventeen to eighteen months old. (4) 7 registered Hereford bulls, seventeen to eighteen months old 6 horned and 1 polled, consigned by Prairie Rose Cattle Co., virgin bulls, papers will be transferred at buyer s expense. (5) 1 registered horned Hereford bull, 3½ years old, consigned by Prairie Rose Cattle Co., he will be ready to go to work. (6) 1 commercial Brangus bull, seventeen months old, young, will be stout and growthy. (7) 1 outstanding Maine/Angus bull, seventeen months old, he will add pounds to your calves. (8) 3 virgin, purebred Charolais bulls, eighteen months old, all out of a registered sire, will be ready to go to work for you, consigned by Maria Berg in Brownwood and will be in good shape. (9) 2 black Limousin bulls, coming off Schur Limousin Cattle, seventeen to twenty months old, will be ready to go to work. (10) 2 LimFlex bulls, coming off Schur Limousin Cattle, seventeen to twenty months old, will be ready to turn out. (11) For details on the bull sale or online viewing/bidding info, please call or visit our website. Easter Holiday Schedule NO SALE Monday, April 2 Mason Knox Brothers Bull Sale In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale. Bulls will sell at 10:00 A.M. Plan now to attend. Bulls will be fertility tested, meet trich requirements and ready to go to work. Thursday, April 10:00 A.M. San Saba 50 Registered Hereford and 30 Registered Angus Bulls For details on the bull sale or online viewing/bidding info, please call or visit our website. 16th Annual Best Of The Best Replacement Female Sale Saturday, April 10:00 A.M. San Saba Consignments Welcome! For details on the cow sale or online viewing/bidding info, please call or visit our website. Congratulations To The Winners Of Our Premium and Stocker Feeder Sales Thursday, March 1 San Saba Premium Sale English Champion Brian Edmiston Eldorado, Texas Reserve Champion Norman W Smith Dallas, Texas Crossbred Champion Tommy Schwertner Liberty Hill, Texas Exotic Champion James Eddy Lampasas, Texas If you are unable to attend the female and bull sales, you may view it live and bid online (or by phone at ). If you have previously registered with us online, click the live auction button on our website and log in, but if you have not previously registered with us for our online sales, please do so prior to the sale. For instructions, go to our website and click on internet sales. If you need additional assistance, please call or us. A running order will be posted on our website the evening before the sale. Ken and Kynda Jordan, Owners and Operators Jeffrey Osbourn Jody Osbourn Bart Larremore Thursday, March 1 San Saba Stocker and Feeder Sale English Co-Champion Steve Lubke San Angelo, Texas Co-Champion Sterling Dry Creek Sterling City, Texas Co-Champion Mark Ivy Ranches Inc Mountain Home, Texas Reserve Champion XXL Ranches Ltd Bertram, Texas Crossbred Champion Walter Ruzicka Lometa, Texas Reserve Champion Pat & Debbie Clifton Doole, Texas Exotic Champion Tommy Duncan Kingsland, Texas Reserve Champion Chad & Kathy Oliver San Saba, Texas P.O. Box 158 San Saba, Tx San Saba: 325/ Mason: 325/ info@jordancattle.com Tax Cuts Discussed; Extensions And A Few Snafus Now The Focus By Colleen Schreiber PHOENIX, Ariz. Danielle Beck, director of government affairs for the National Cattlemen s Beef Association, gave a tax cut update in terms of just what it means for America s beef producers during the recent tax and credit committee meeting at the NCBA annual convention here. Getting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through Congress was no simple matter, and Beck told listeners that she had plenty of sleepless nights when the negotiations were underway. For about a three week period as tax reform was happening, I would awake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat because I was having nightmares about the convention and standing here before you and having to deliver bad news, said Beck. Though there were compromises, some good was definitely done. The corporate tax rate was reduced from 35 percent on the top end to 15 percent on the low end and reduced to 21 percent across the board. It was also the one piece that was made permanent. Beck said she was told that a lot of the agriculture Chapter C Corporations were previously at a 15 percent rate, and those entities may see an increase. The pass-through rate dropped and seven individual brackets were maintained, but all seven rates were lowered. The standard deduction was also doubled for both individual and joint filers, to $12,000 and $24,000, respectively. The bill was passed through budget reconciliation, which Beck noted has some benefits but also some drawbacks. The positive is that a CR bypasses the 60-vote requirement needed in the Senate and passes by simple majority. The drawback is that with a CR the deficit can t be increased. That limitation, in part, was why they weren t able to make the individual rates permanent. Consequently, more work will be needed when the time comes to fight for the extension of some of the provisions. Beck also told listeners that unlike with a CR, where a bill has to be paid for, extenders do not. It doesn t make a lot of sense, but we re not going to question it as long as we re successful in eight years. Full repeal of the death tax was a top priority, but talk that a full repeal might mean that step up in basis would go away led to some difficult discussions at last summer s NCBA business meeting. It became really clear to me that if they were looking at repealing the death tax but step up in basis would go away as well, that would be unacceptable, Beck told listeners. So we had the dual challenge of fighting for death tax repeal while still preserving step up in basis. In the end, step up in basis was fully preserved and the death tax exemption limits are now twice what they were $10 million for individual, or indexed for inflation, around $11 million, and $20 million or indexed for inflation about $22 million for couples. Beck also told listeners that NCBA s death tax policy is up for sunset review at the summer meeting. The question to consider, she said, is whether going forward industry wants to continue to fight for full repeal, to maintain current levels, or fight for additional relief through perhaps expansion of 2032A. Beck said one of the big challenges she and her team faced was educating Congress on how effective the tax code can be for those in agriculture. According to USDA, the affected tax rate for most agriculture producers is about 13 percent, which she said is because of all the provisions available to agriculture. When Congress and the President kept hitting on the message of simplification that it will be so easy that taxes in the future could be filed on a postcard we had to explain that simplification can be really dangerous. Cash accounting was one of those critical components that she heard about from a lot of producers. In the old tax code, cash accounting was restricted to $5 million average gross receipts. Under the new law that number goes to $25 million. She added that some C Corps were not able to take advantage of cash accounting, and instead were forced to use accrual. Now all corporate entities, particularly those associated with agriculture, can use cash accounting, said Beck. That s a win. As for bonus depreciation, previously businesses could immediately deduct 50 percent of the cost of qualified property. But what concerned her, she said, was that bonus depreciation was scheduled to phase out. It was supposed to have been decreased to 40 percent in 2018 and 30 percent in 2019, and then it would have been completely phased out by 2020, Beck told listeners. The House bill allowed for full and immediate expensing 100 percent bonus depreciation. The Senate bill did the same, but then they phased it out because they had to pay for it. In the enacted bill there is 100 percent depreciation on all new farm assets placed in service after September 27, 2017 and before January 1, Starting in 2023, bonus depreciation decreases at a 20 percent rate until it s phased out. This is also something we will have to work on again, said Beck. However, the fact that we were looking at a 40 percent deduction in 2018 and we re now at 100 percent, I think that s a pretty big deal. Section 179 was worked on as well. This allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the tax year up to $500,000 with a $2 million dollar for dollar phase out. The House bill maintained the current rate until 2023 and then increased the deduction to $5 million with a $20 million phase out. That would have been huge, said Beck. Unfortunately, because of the pay-for, we were only able to get a $1 million deduction effective for the taxable year beginning 2018, but it is indexed for inflation, so it will go up, and the dollar for dollar phase out will be bumped up as well to $2.5 million. Like-kind exchanges was one of the compromises that the NCBA had to make. It is now restricted to real property only. We knew that was going to be hard to fight for, but we still think it s livable, given they were talking about repealing it up until the very end. Interest deductions, Beck said, was the one issue that kept her up at night. I learned more about credit

13 utilization in the last six to seven months than I ever thought I would, and not being from a producer background and looking at how a feeder sector, in particular, utilizes credit for their operations, was really eye-opening. In the past, producers were able to deduct interest without limitation. However, the Republican blueprint eliminated interest deductions outright, and they did this, she said, as a way to make what they were calling border adjustability, talked about extensively early on, compliant with the World Trade Organization. The border adjustability tax went away, and the House instead proposed limiting interest deductions to 30 percent of earning based on EBITA calculation earnings before interest, taxes and amortization for all businesses with gross receipts in excess of $25 million. For a feeder operation with a capacity of 5000 head or greater, depending on the market, they wouldn t have been able to deduct interest without restriction, and that would have had a huge impact on our industry, Beck explained. It was really frustrating while this was happening, because we had a conversation with Ways and Means right when the proposal came out, and they insisted that 98.8 percent of farms are covered under the small business exclusion, and that was according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. Well, that data did not include beef; they were looking at farmers, not feeders and not ranchers, and that was not acceptable. The Senate bill, she said, was worse than the House bill when it came out. Instead of $25 million in gross receipts in small businesses, it was $15 million. That would have captured even more feeders, and the 30 percent cap was based on EBIT earnings before interest and taxes and because you re not adding depreciation back in, that would have been even more restrictive, she explained. Luckily, we had been in constant conversations with the Senate and they already had language drafted to fix this, and that language was included in amendments. In the end the solution that was worked out was interest expense is allowed for all farm operations with gross receipts under $25 million. If gross receipts exceed that amount, tax filers may still deduct interest without any sort of restriction, but if an operation chooses that route, it must also elect to depreciate assets over a longer schedule. If you don t want to make that election you can deduct interest, but it will be capped at 30 percent of your modified income, and it s EBITD until 2022 and then it s EBIT for all the years thereafter, Beck explained. This is a perfect example of how wonky they got in trying to save money. In closing, she discussed one of the glitches of the new tax law, that dealing with a cooperative provision, referred to as the 199 deduction for co-ops. Beck said this manufacturers deduction provision was on the chopping block from day one, but the week prior, grassroots rose up and effectively were able to get something included that was meant to make co-ops whole in exchange for losing the 199. Unfortunately, the language is very technical and it created a perverse incentive and a market distortion in favor of co-ops over privately held entities, Beck told listeners. So we have to get this fixed. SPECIAL STOCKER COW AND HEIFER SALE Saturday, MARCH Noon Early Consignments: 40 fi ve to seven months bred, four to six years old, black and black baldy cows. 4 or 5 virgin Angus bulls. 30 Charolais cross pairs, three and four years old, calves by Red Angus bulls. 40 black cows, three to fi ve years old, Angus sired calves. Mini Brahmans 6 cows and 1 nice bull, gentle. 10 first-calf tigerstripe pairs, black calves. 5 Brahman cross heifers, black calves. 7 tigerstripe heifers, pounds, exposed to black bull since December tigerstripe open heifers, pounds. 6 Hereford heifers, heavy bred to gray Brahman bull, 2 pairs, more by sale day. 10 Hereford heifers, exposed to gray Brahman bull, bull also sells. 20 Brahman cross pairs, three to fi ve years old, pound calves. 3 Longhorn cows, fi ve years old, bred to Charolais bull. 8 Angus heifers, northern breeding, 500 pounds. 10 black baldy heifers, weight pounds. 10 red baldy heifers, weight pounds. 1 tigerstripe bull black heifers, pounds, heavy bred. For Consignment Updated List Call: Troy: 254/ or 254/ Chris: 254/ STEPHENVILLE CATTLE CO. Highway 281 North Stephenville, Texas The initial thought was to include a fix in the omnibus package, she said, but Democrats have made it clear they will not allow any tax amendments into the omnibus. My understanding now is they will probably just restore 199 for co-ops and take 199A out, she said. The co-ops want it to be permanent, but it s hard to justify making that provision permanent where every other provision on that title is sunsetting. Finally, Beck said Congress will also have to work on other expiring provisions. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage and build upon all the work done over the last year and a half. So even though tax reform is over, I m still going to be working on this. Ed Elfmann, senior vice president of agriculture and rural banking policy for the American Bankers Association, highlighted some concerns, one of which is that farm debt is increasing at the same time farm income is declining. We re really nervous about commodities and what s going on with grain, particularly in the Midwest, Elfmann told listeners. We re not panicking, but we are very, very cautious on the bank side of the world. Another statistic that his group follows closely is farm size and production. One stat to remember is 10 percent of farms account for 66 percent of production and 52 percent of the acres. The era of the 40-acre farm is not what it used to be. S P E C I A L S T O C K E R C O W S A L E March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 13 NIPP CHAROLAIS 9TH ANNUAL BULL SALE Saturday, March 17, PM At the Ranch Wilson, Oklahoma 10D 118B 1620 Sire: LOF/VPI Abraham 48A BW: 0.6 WW: 40 YW: 75 TSI: Sire: EC Reliable 5043 Pld BW: 1.5 WW: 37 YW: 65 TSI: Sire: LT Ledger 0332 P BW: 0.2 WW: 37 YW: 72 TSI: TRI- RI-COUNTY LIVESTOCK MARKET INC. Special Stocker Cow Sale Saturday, MARCH 31 In Conjunction With Our Regular Sale Offering: Pairs Bred Cows Heifers Bulls Sire: M6 Cool Rep 8108 ET BW: 1.8 WW: 39 YW: 65 TSI: Sire: EZB/NC Kozomo 3116 P BW: 1.7 WW: 32 YW: 67 TSI: He added, however, that the agriculture sector is certainly not the only sector where consolidation continues to occur. In 1987 there were 17,000 banks in the U.S. Today it s just under Also, the small banks are shrinking while the regional and big banks are getting bigger, and a lot of it has to do with regulatory environment, cost, compliance, etc. It s the world we live in. Elfmann also told listeners that Farmer Mac, the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, a publicly traded company chartered by the federal government in 1988 to serve as a secondary market in agricultural loans, is picking up more farm debt because they re buying loans. As for the other two players in this space, the Farm Credit System and commercial banks, in terms of farm operating loans in their portfolios, about two years ago commercial banks pulled ahead of Farm Credit. There remains a big gap, Sire: Bamboo/NC Jackpot 3370 BW: 1.8 WW: 39 YW: 67 TSI: however, in farm real estate lending, where Farm Credit continues to lead the way. He talked about the 1980s farm crisis, noting that typically an economic super-cycle turns over every 30 years. We re in year 38 of this cycle, so we have to be watching this, Elfmann said. He pointed to Iowa land prices, which are already trending lower. He added that See Tax Cuts Continued On Page 14 For More Information Call: 903/ US Highway 79 North PO Box 206 New Summerfield, Texas Sire: M6/RC Fresh Air 1138 Pld BW: 0.7 WW: 31 YW: 51 TSI: Sire: LT Ledger 0332 P BW: 0.6 WW: 33 YW: 72 TSI: Sire: EZB/NC Kozomo 3116 P BW: 1.1 WW: 43 YW: 80 TSI: Curtiss & Brenda Nipp U.S. Hwy 70 Wilson, OK (580) (580) cell Justin (580) Travis (580) nippcharolais@yahoo.com Contact us for a sale catalog!

14 Page 14 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 Tax Cuts Continued From Page 13 because farm policy is so different today compared to the 80s, when the cycle does turn, it will not be a big burst. He pointed to crop insurance, a diversity in marketing options and a global market, which are all positives and should help when the market transition occurs. With respect to land, unlike in the 1980s, this time around many paid cash. Elfmann talked about ABA s work on the pending farm bill as well as bills they re working on to shore up USDA s loan program and improve the rural appraiser program. Crop insurance is another critical issue, as it s one of the best forms of risk management. We use it; we need it, said 4 L Cattle Co. Buyers and Sellers of All Classes of Livestock Vic Choate 325/ P. O. Box 1521 San Angelo, Texas TULIA LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET REPORT Receipts From Thursday, March Head Stocker cattle steady, most feeders steady to weak, cows $2-4 higher STEERS 452 lbs. 345 lbs. 252 lbs. 378 lbs. 486 lbs. 686 lbs. 844 lbs. 649 lbs. 458 lbs. 773 lbs. 685 lbs. 792 lbs. 631 lbs. 837 lbs. 681 lbs. 709 lbs. 701 lbs. 850 lbs. 881 lbs. 847 lbs. 873 lbs. $ Elfmann. From the banking world, anything that mitigates risk is good. Specific to the pending farm bill legislation, he told listeners that from a banking perspective, the FSA loan program outside crop insurance is the single biggest issue that ABA cares about. We can sell that 90 percent guaranteed loan to Farmer Mac, and when we do that we pull it off our books, and that helps our lending limit because a lot of our smaller banks are capped by the lending limit, he explained. These loans, he said, are also beneficial to young beginning farmers and ranchers, and having the 90 percent guarantee mitigates the banks risk. The one problem with these loan programs, he added, is lbs. 875 lbs. 768 lbs. 796 lbs. HEIFERS 269 lbs. 349 lbs. 567 lbs. 593 lbs. 481 lbs. 632 lbs. 616 lbs. 653 lbs. 801 lbs. 818 lbs. 770 lbs. 793 lbs. 817 lbs. 652 lbs. 760 lbs. Slaughter Cows: $55.00-$70.00 Mark Hargrave...M: 806/ Tyler Hargrave...M: 806/ Bob Schulte, Field Rep...M: 806/ $ Give Us Your Address And Get Instant Market Reports! Watch Us Live On SALE EVERY THURSDAY AT 10 A.M. Worship Service At 9:30 A.M. that they are too small. There was some discussion in the question and answer session about this particular point. One producer commented that he had two sons who used the program to get in the cattle business, and the $300,000 limit simply wasn t large enough. He was referring specifically to the direct loan program, and Elfmann responded that ABA supports moving the cap to $500,000. Other issues they re focused on in the farm bill deal with infrastructure, specifically bridges and roads, as well as technical changes to Farmer Mac, risk management, and crop insurance for the dairy sector, changes to the cotton program, and support of CRP continuation. ABA, he said, is also working to modernize the guaranteed operating loans and ownership loans. The last changes to the program were made in 1992 during George H.W. Bush s administration, he said. We re asking to increase the program from $1.399 million to at least $2.5 million. They want to update the program s website so that customers can go online and check their loan balances. They also want to find additional ways through this program to help young farmers and ranchers through perhaps interest rate assistance. He talked about the acre rule, which basically says loans for properties of 1000 acres or more are statutorily capped at $13 million. However, if it s 999 acres it can go to the Farmer Mac statutory limit of $61 million. What s happening is if we have a 1500-acre property, the loan gets split into two, said Elfmann. All it does is add more paperwork. ABA would like to use some kind of index instead to figure where the cap should be. He touched on another critical issue, that of rural appraiser certification. If you want to be an appraiser, you have to train for 3000 hours, he said. You can argue in front of the Supreme Court before you can become an appraiser. Finally, he said ABA supports the Financial Choice Act, which would in part weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and remove many of the regulatory burdens put in place in 2007 and 2008 after the financial crisis. I hear all the time that there is a lack of credit in rural America, said Elfmann. It s not a lack of credit; there s a lack of us being able to give you the credit because of regulatory hurdles. Banks have money sitting there unused. 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Totals included the following: Australia 4036, Brazil 753, Canada 14,594, Chile 1166, Costa Rica 296, Denmark 701, France one, Germany 65, Honduras 57, Hungary 10, Ireland 120, Israel 20, Italy 144, Japan five, Mexico 4928, Netherlands 193, New Zealand 5192, Nicaragua 896, North Ireland 59, Poland 1813, San Marino 24, South Korea one, Spain 185, United Kingdom 187, and Uruguay 613. Fresh beef totaled 17,117 with Australia 2447, Canada 4411, Costa Rica 296, Honduras 57, Ireland 27, Japan five, Mexico 4291, New Zealand 4144, Nicaragua 896, and Uruguay 544. Processed beef totaled 2690, including Brazil 673, Canada 1878, Mexico 39, New Zealand 32, and Uruguay 69. Fresh pork totaled 9225 with Brazil 81, Canada 5640, Chile 48, Denmark 618, Ireland 92, Mexico 418, Netherlands 183, North Ireland 59, Poland 1742, Spain 157, United Kingdom 157, and Uruguay 187. 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If he wishes, he should be permitted to state: Wanted: Single man who is perfectly sure he s a man. Or, Wanted: Female who does not object to the designations Men and Women on our restroom doors. If Associate Justice Douglas had his way, we d be seeing help wanted ads like this in range country newspapers: Wanted: Two persons desirous of living together, one to do light housework and cook, the other to break broncs and make a damn good hand around the ranch. (S.F. 03/08/73) Domestic Wool Slow, Aussie Market Higher GREELEY, Colo. (USDA) Domestic wool trading on a ALL TERRAIN BULLS E744 ASA Homo Black, Homo Polled 1/2 SM 1/2 AN SIRE: BRIDLE BIT CALVARY C503 MGS: BAR CK TEBOW 1006X CE BW WW YW MCE MILK MWW DOC CW YG MARB REA API TI E707 ASA Homo Black, Homo Polled PB SM SIRE: HOOK`S BEACON 56B MGS: CNS DREAM ON L186 CE BW WW YW MCE MILK MWW DOC CW YG MARB REA API TI clean basis was very slow last week, with 45,000 pounds of confirmed trades. The following prices reflect confirmed trades of domestic clean wool, f.o.b. the warehouse, in original bags or square packs, bellies out, some graded, and 76 millimeters or longer. No allowance is made for coring, freight or handling fees at the warehouse level to reflect net grower prices. Wools shorter than 75 millimeters are typically discounted cents clean, and classed and skirted wools usually trade at a cent premium to original bag prices. In most recent trading, Territory states sold 22 micron for $5.09, 23 micron $4.90 and 26 micron $2.70. Domestic wool trading on a grease basis was also very slow, with 54,000 pounds of confirmed trades. Territory states lamb wool, millimeter, 22 micron brought $1.90, millimeter, 24 micron $1.72, and millimeter, 27 micron 95 cents. 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Canada is the top supplier, and Canada s foreign minister is also threatening retaliatory measures if it is not exempted from the tariffs. While Doud declined to comment on Trump s actions that could start possible trade wars around the globe, he did talk candidly about export markets and the need to expand those markets during this month s Cattlemen s Day at Kansas State University. Doud, a graduate of K-State, formerly worked for the National Cattlemen s Beef Association and then for Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., on the Senate Agriculture Committee. We export to Canada $800 million worth of beef a year, Doud said. It used to be that Canada was our number-one export market. Now, they re number five. But he noted that the U.S. imports a lot of beef from Canada. The majority of the people in Canada live in the east. The majority of the cattle in Canada are in the west. Grand Island, Neb., is closer to Toronto, Canada than to Alberta, Canada. We import beef from Canada into places like Portland, Seattle and San Francisco, Doud said. Grand Island exports huge amounts of beef up into Toronto. About half of what the U.S. imports from Canada is 50/50 trim, he said. About 80 pounds of that steer carcass, he said, is 50/50 trim. It s imported down to these massive grinders out in California. Those grinders turn out about a million pounds of ground beef a day. That s fast-food hamburger, he said. That s where all that goes. If that market weren t there, what would be the value of that 50/50 trim? he asked. Doud said Mexico is the number-three market for the U.S. My first trip to Mexico as chief economist for NCBA was at the end of 2003, early 2004, Doud said. At that time, Mexico had an antidumping case against the United States. He said that if it hadn t been for the quick thinking of Cargill, which hired the best trade lawyer in Mexico, a nephew of the mayor of Mexico City, and got Cargill out from under those anti-dumping charges, the U.S. would have faced a huge tariff going into Mexico, shutting the market off. As it was, he said, for many, many years, Cargill was the only company that could do business down there. Doud said he and others have spent a lot of time with Mexican ranchers and were able to impress on them the importance of the world market. They re-engineered their GRAPE CREEK TRAILER REPAIR Your Dealer For EASLEY TRAILERS Horse Trailers Stock Trailers Tandem Dual Flatbeds Replacement Beds For Pickups Quality Repairs At Affordable Prices Repaint Rewire Refloor Install Hitches Dealer For Jiffy Jacks 8169 North US Highway 87 (Next To Circle K) San Angelo, Texas 800/ / market down there, he said, to have the ability to export beef. That has led to a huge change among Mexican ranchers once they got a taste of the world market. The new money in the beef industry is going to come from international trade, Doud said. Seventeen percent of the money that you get paid for your cattle, he said, comes from some other currency. The value of beef exports in 2003 amounted to about $150 a head. Today, Doud said, it s almost double that. About $284 of every steer that s sold comes from abroad. Last year, we exported $7.2 billion worth of beef, he said. In 2003, it was less than $4 billion. The U.S. is now importing $5.5 billion worth of beef annually. What s so different in the last 15 years, Doud said, is 11 percent of our production is exported to 125 countries. That s almost double what it was when I started 15 years ago. Doud said the U.S. has an advantage in beef production compared to the rest of the world. U.S. producers, he said, create a product like no one else. I ve seen feedlots in Alberta, a couple in Australia, Doud said to cattlemen gathered here. No one makes product like what you make. He said beef producers here have an advantage in terms of grass, water, grain, distiller s grain, transportation, and processing infrastructure. But the big difference Doud sees between the U.S. and farmers and ranchers around the world is the U.S. banking industry. Our ability and our relationship with our local bankers is unique to anywhere in the world, he said. No place else has that. He said no place else has the research and extension services that the U.S. has. All that ties together, Doud said. He said it is amazing to him how big the U.S. agriculture industry is. We export $140 billion worth of agricultural products out of this country, he said. Our biggest challenge is we intimidate a lot of other countries in terms of the scale, the size, and the scope of what we do. Just the domestic distribution of food is complex, he noted. If all the trucks stopped carrying food into Long Island, N.Y., they would run out of food in one day. Eighteen hours, actually, Doud said. He said that as a country, U.S. citizens take food for granted. On the East Coast, he said, if you have a snowstorm, you can go into the grocery store afterwards; it hits you because the shelves are empty. Doud said that compared to other countries, the U.S. has a great infrastructure. Don t worry about that, he said. Worry about the fact that we have to maintain it. We re the envy of the world. We just have to make sure that we keep it. Still, he said, a new plant in Durango, Mexico, is the most technologically advanced facility in the world. It s so far beyond anything that we have here, Doud said. In that facility, when they disassemble that carcass, at the other end, they can connect every cut back to the carcass. They have full traceability, front and back, through the plant. They can weigh every cut as it s going through the plant. It s unlike anything that we have, Doud said.

17 According to Doud, Mexico has developed a plan to feed half a million cattle around that plant. When that s fully operational, he said of the plan, they may be pulling cattle from Southern Arizona clear down into that plant in Mexico. Doud said the U.S. needs to figure out how to have a North American relationship with regard to how they re doing that. We import somewhere in the neighborhood of a million head of feeder cattle, he said. At one point here a few years ago, 40 percent of the feeder cattle in the Texas Panhandle were Mexican cattle. Doud said most of the Mexican ranchers along the Border were educated in the U.S., many of them at Texas A&M and West Texas A&M. It s all U.S. genetics, he said of the Mexican cattle. Doud said it s a unique relationship that the U.S. has with Mexico. It is a huge market, he said, and it s just going to keep growing and getting better. Doud said the beef industry has spent a lot of time working in Mexico. If you get the ranchers in the room, he said, we can sort out a lot of problems, and we can get out of the room and tell our respective governments what we want them to do. But today, he said, Japan is the U.S. beef industry s number-one market. The U.S. exports $1.9 billion worth of beef annually to the Land of the Rising Sun. That s half a billion more than 2003, 15 years ago, he said. But it was only just five years ago that we got that market back together. From 2003 to 2013, Doud said, the U.S. lost about $10 billion in exports because of the cow that stole Christmas, the Canadian-origin dairy cow discovered to have BSE. There s a 38.5 percent tariff on beef going to Japan. Right now, it s 50 percent because we re pumping so much beef in there because of the drouth in Australia, he said, but there s an enormous potential in that market still. It continues to grow. Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, that tariff would have been lowered to nine percent, but President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the TPP. We ve got to continue to work to figure out a way to get that tariff down and sell more beef to Japan, Doud said. Of the more than $7 billion of the U.S. beef trade in the world, he said, $4 billion goes to Asia. That s 64 percent of the beef export trade of the United States. In Japan, it s taken us 15 years to get our market share even with Australia, Doud said. We re now into Japan for the first time in 15 years. He said he can t emphasize METAL BUILDINGS Texas And Surrounding States enough the need to prevent things like the cow that stole Christmas from happening. On the good side, Doud said, our number-two market is South Korea. That s a $1.2 billion market for U.S. beef. It was less than half of that when Doud started in the beef business in And there was a 40 percent tariff, he added. But the Korean Trade Agreement brought that down over a 15-year period. That tariff now in Korea is 21 percent, Doud said. The retail beef price in Korea is nearly $20 a pound. We still have enormous upside potential, he said. That Korean trade deal for me was easily the best and biggest deal that we have ever done. Doud said it was really, really important. Once the U.S. got a trade deal with Korea, the Australians closed their offices there within months. Right now, Australia is suffering from a terrible drouth, but Doud said they will be back. Australia has a stated government policy of having eighty percent of their agricultural exports covered by a trade agreement. In the U.S. today, that number is about 46 percent. Of course, Doud said, a vast majority of that is Canada and Mexico and NAFTA. Turning to China, he said China has 1.3 billion people and a growing middle class of consumers. Today, China and Hong Kong are importing in the neighborhood of three billion pounds of beef, Doud said. Walmart s beef sales are two billion pounds. We import about 2.2 billion pounds, Doud said. China now imports more beef than the United States. In 2003, Archer Daniels Midland expected China to import 18 million tons of soybeans, up from about eight or nine million tons. This year, China will import 100 million metric tons of soybeans. That s about 60 percent of the soybeans raised for export in the world. We are just beginning to scratch the surface, Doud said of trade with China. Fifteen years ago, they weren t even on FENCING CREWS & BULLDOZER All Types Of Farm, Ranch And Oil Field Fencing March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 17 the radar. Today, they re buying three billion pounds of beef. China buys huge amounts of offal or variety meats. We sell everything but the moo when we process an animal, Doud said. The Chinese spend a dollar a pound for rectum. 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20 Page 20 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 BAXTER BLACK ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE Dear Baxter, As a fellow veterinarian, I am hoping you can help me. My wife Nancy has two cow dogs that will readily obey commands to sit and stay until they get near a cow. Then they chase the critter and can t hear a word we say. It s very obvious to me that they go deaf near livestock. So, what s your diagnosis? I ve considered cow dander allergies, pour-on irritation and ear infections, to name a few. If possible, send a note or RX. Why Feed At CAL-TEX FEED YARD? 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However, research at the NASA Cow Dog Behavioral Institute in Homer City, Penn. indicated a relationship more closely related to the proximity of the dominant figure, i.e., the greater the distance between master and dog, the less your influence. The technical name for the syndrome is called Progressive Dumb Dog Detachment Amnesia, or PDA. There are some social scientists who believe PDA is a result of a broken home, a puppyhood trauma, or sucking hind tit. Others, with only a Master s Degree, prefer to think it is a biological defect like damaged chromosomes, lack of a brain, or too much Co-op dog food. Extensive studies have been done to discover a method to change the PDA dog s behavior, such as necking him to a mule, using remote control pontoons, or letting him drag a hundred foot of log chain. Although these techniques can alter his direction, they often interfere with his mobility in the corral. 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Sheep: Dorper and Dorper cross lambs pounds $ , pounds $ , over 70 pounds $ ; Dorper and Dorper cross ewes $ per head, rams $ cwt.; wool lambs over 70 pounds $ , show lambs $ ; wool slaughter ewes $80-110; Barbado lambs $ , ewes $ per head, rams $ Goats: kids pounds $ , pounds $ , over 70 pounds $ , show kids $ ; slaughter nannies, thin $40-75 per head, medium $ , fleshy $ ; Boer and Boer cross replacement nannies, medium quality $ per head, choice $ ; slaughter billies $ cwt. Steers: No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , over 700 pounds $ Heifers: No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , over 700 pounds $ Slaughter cows: high yielding $70-74, medium yielding $60-69, low yielding $45-59; bulls, high yielding $ Replacement cows: bred cows, choice $ per head, medium quality $ , aged $ ; cow-calf pairs, choice $ per pair, medium quality $ Tulia Feeder Steers Termed Mostly Steady TULIA (USDA-March 1) Feeder steers sold mostly steady, heifers $1-3 higher. Receipts totaled 4506 head. Steers: medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $120; medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ Heifers: medium and large No pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; medium and large No pounds $ GRAHAM LIVESTOCK COMMISSION LLC 203 Highway 67 South Graham, Texas SALE EVERY MONDAY 12 NOON We sold 1432 head of cattle Monday, March 5, including 208 packer cows, bred cows and pairs, 1224 yearlings and calves. Packer cows were $6-8 higher. Packer bulls were $4-6 higher. The replacement bred cows and pairs were $ higher. Market on steers and heifers weighing 600 pounds and under were $10-15 higher on the weaned calves, the non-weaned calves were $5-10 higher. Feeder steers, heifers and bulls weighing over 600 pounds were $5-8 higher. We had a very active market with all classes of cattle being higher. 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22 Page 22 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 C The OMPUTER R & The OWBOY By C. A. Rodenberger, PhD. I don t have a drone, but my friend Jim Dixon at Cross Plains got one and has been posting aerial photos on Facebook. He was complaining about having trouble making videos, so I want to tell him that the March 2018 Consumers Report magazine has an JCO Livestock LP Bonded Livestock Dealer Montalba, Texas 800/ Country Cattle Available Jay Davis 972/ Justin Hill 903/ Billy Lane 903/ ROWENA Highway 67 Rowena, Texas OLD STYLE COTTONSEED CAKE All Natural Product 26% Protein 6.5% Fat 29% Fiber 20,000 I.U./lb. Vitamin A Available In Pellets For Cattle Sheep Goats Deer Bulk Delivery Available 325/ article on page 19, How To Shoot Great Drone Video. I can t vouch for the accuracy, but it might help all of you new drone flyers. I keep looking for stories on the use of computers in agriculture. 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25 831 steers, 1100 lbs., 55% choice, $81. Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 170 steers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $ YEARS AGO The Texas Animal Health Commission reports that 218,688 cattle entered Texas from other states while 107,848 were shipped out to other states. Also, 7723 sheep entered Texas and 5250 were exported to other states. Johnny Emmons of Grandview, Texas, took the calf roping world by storm recently when he won more than $18,500 and swept average titles at two of the PRCA s largest annual indoor rodeos: the Dixie National Rodeo in Jackson, Miss., and the San Antonio Stock show and Rodeo. Lane County Feeders Inc., Dighton, Kan.: 1245 heifers, lbs., $61; 272 steers, lbs., $61. New Mexico feeder lambs weighing 100 pounds moved at $ Colorado had 130-pounders at $65 with a 30-cent per pound slide over that weight. California lambs continue to move off wet alfalfa fields into Colorado feedlots for finishing. XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 2024 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $61; 1676 heifers, 1025 lbs., 50% choice, $ YEARS AGO Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in North Texas for current delivery one load of No. 1 English and exotic cross steers weighing 750 pounds at $76.50 and four loads of similar heifers weighing 700 at $72. Northwest direct feeder cattle trade as confirmed by USDA totaled 200 head, all for current delivery. USDA reports 1320 head of feeder cattle selling direct off Colorado range, all for current delivery. Goat slaughter under federal inspection last week was one of the largest on record at 14,635 head. Exports to Mexico last week included 452 goats. Lometa quoted pound slaughter kid goats $ , pounds $ , pounds $95-107, and over 100 pounds $ Nannies brought $50-55 and billies $ Producers Internet Auction offered 1200 feeder cattle Thursday for current delivery. Steers: medium and large No lbs., $ , 580 lbs., $88.50; medium and large lbs., $ YEARS AGO Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated at million pounds,.1 percent lower than the previous week and 8.7 percent above last year. Cumulative meat production for the year to date was 4.6 percent higher last year. Direct fed cattle trade was limited to a few thousand head 12 th Annual Bull Sale Cattlemen s Livestock Auction Belen, NM Monday, March 19, pm Wayne Connell Auctioneer Cattlemen s Livestock Auction Belen, New Mexico BLACK A N G U S For catalog call or in the western Cornbelt at $90-91 live and mostly $ dressed. Midwest auctions paid anywhere from $84 to $91, strictly choice to $94. Coleman feeder steers under 500 pounds were steady to firm, over 500 pounds $1-3 higher, heifers under 500 pounds $1-2 higher, over 500 pounds steady, slaughter cows and bulls steady, replacement cows and cow-calf pairs steady. Receipts totaled 1798 head. Grease wool trading was slow to moderate under moderate demand. Domestic wool tags delivered to the buyer on a grease basis, No. 1 brought cents, No cents and No cents. San Angelo feeder lambs weighing pounds brought $ , pounds $ , a few newcrop lambs $ , CALVING EASE GROWTH CARCASS Remember: IT S NOT BLACK HIDE, IT S ANGUS INFLUENCE! pounds $ , and a set weighing 100 pounds $99. Junction lambs pounds sold for $ , pounds $ Sioux Falls had 45 pound lambs bring $129, 105 pounds $93. 5 YEARS AGO Winter blizzard conditions played havoc with feedyards in the Plains area. Record snowfall and high winds closed interstates and major highways, disrupting transportation into and out of the feedyards. Power shortages affected a few yards. Managers reported problems with snow removal and feeding of cattle. High death loss was confined to a few yards and some wheat pasture cattle. 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26 Page 26 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 by Lee Pitts DAVID K. FLETCHER, M.D., ABAARM, An -Aging and Stem Cell Treatment Who are these gents? IT S THE... PITTS The li le one is Doc Fletcher Stem Cell expert in Tyler, Texas and the big one is Bill Scarborough from Santa Anna, Texas. Bill grew up on a farm near Robstown, Texas and always wanted to be a cowboy and a rancher. He bulldogged and roped but he only weighed 130 pounds back then. When he was 13 years old a horse kicked him in the le hip. That same year he kicked a Boar Hog in the head and broke his right bunion joint and he has had arthri s in both places ever since. Subsequently he developed a bad right shoulder and his right hip started to hurt too. His ranching ac vi es were ge ng pre y limited. I learned a long time ago that most people can be divided into one of two camps. My wife taught me that lesson the first time we went grocery shopping together 45 years ago. When we came to the condiment aisle she had a preconceived notion that our mayonnaise needs would best be filled by Best Foods. But I was a Miracle Whip guy. Right there in the store she informed me that Miracle Whip was for A year ago in May 2016, Dr. Fletcher harvested his stem cells and treated the right shoulder in 3 places, both hip joints, and his bunion joint. Recently he reported his right hip improved 100%, le hip improved 85%, right shoulder improved 90% and his right bunion improved 85%. Bill reports he is gradually ge ng be er and better. So much so, that he started a new ranching project. He obtained two Hungarian Gray Bulls (very rare and marble on grass). He is crossing these on Piedmontese Cows. If you want to speak with him about these ca le his number is This is the 7th year that Doc Fletcher has been trea ng arthri s with stem cells. Three out of four of his pa ents report an average of 75% relief of their pain and disability. Doc is a specialist in the treatment of arthri s and trained at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Emory in Atlanta and UAB in Birmingham. He is cer fied also as an expert in An -aging and Regenera ve medicine. SPRING SPECIAL He wants you to know that he uses only your cells. They have not been obtained from some foreign woman. They have only been out of your body for a few hours and the tests done at Doc s office indicate that 98% are alive and kicking when he injects them into your joints. $1500 OFF poor, homeless bums, while I told her that Best Foods was for rich, overeducated snobs. My taste buds have not been tickled by Miracle Whip since that day. As with checkers, it s the same with commercial cattlemen, most can be divided into either Black or Red. The bigger band of black brothers and sisters are more apt to own a tractor and do some farming, while the others bet it all on red and only raise cattle. Blacks are more apt to golf, while the Reds usually have a roping arena on their place. The Black contingent is more likely to have radio eartags in their cattle, use a calf table, and either freeze brand or apply no brand at all. Reds still do it the old-fashioned way with real branding irons and a hot fire. A Red s branding smells like oak or mesquite with a hint of cow If you want to speak with Doc about stem cells for your arthri c condi on, his number is: Give Doc or Francene a call to get more details. manure; a black s branding smells of disinfectant. If there s a red-hided animal in a Black s pasture, you know it s the result of a recessive gene, but if there s a black-hided bull in with Red s cows, you know it belongs to the neighbors. Commercial cattlemen who prefer black-hided cattle are more apt to retain ownership, while Red s calves are sold on the video or at the local auction market. A breeder of blacks can tell you the birth, weaning and yearling weight EPDs of every one of his bulls, whereas a red breeder can tell you the price of eight-weights in Kansas. Blacks own all their land, while Reds lease theirs, usually from the Feds. The Reds know that BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management, but to a Black a BLM is a bowel movement. So you see, TY JONES CATTLE CO. Bonded Buyers & Sellers of Country Cattle Contracting For Immediate Or Future Delivery (806) Office FAX: (806) P. O. Box 8190 Amarillo, Texas Dealers For Mexican Cattle CLASSIFIED ADS GET QUICK RESULTS! CALL TODAY! 800/ / FAX 325/ Memorial Blvd Kerrville, Texas 830/ / Call or us today to discuss your needs. Licensed In Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico there s not much difference after all. Black s squeeze chute is either blue or green, while Reds naturally prefer red. Black s is a $15,000 hydraulic squeeze, but Red wouldn t spend $15,000 for a pickup, let alone a squeeze chute. Speaking of which, Black s work vehicle is a Yukon or Chevy Tahoe, while red usually drives a Ford F-150. Black uses an ATV to check the cows, but Red rides a Quarter Horse. Black owns a tractor that usually runs like a Deere, whereas Red knows all that deer are good for is hunting. He swears there will never be a tractor on his place. Black prefers his saddle fully tooled, while Red rides a rough out. Black supplements his cows with tubs, cubes or rations that were concocted by a consulting nutritionist. It usually involves distiller s grains. Red feeds his cows rained-on hay and believes beer is for people, not beeves. Black is a Cinch jean, boxerwearing Catholic or Episcopalian who uses the latest I-phone. He or she bets on March Madness basketball and prefers filet mignon. Red wears briefs under his Wranglers, still uses a generic flip phone, is a BIG Dallas Cowboys fan, and prefers a tasty ribeye. 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Black breeders cheat by mixing in some Simmental blood when nobody s looking, while Red cheats by blending in some Hereford blood. The only thing Blacks and Reds have in common is a hatred of White cattle. (Author s note: The opinions expressed here do not reflect the beliefs of the editor, publisher, owner or anyone else even remotely related to this publication, because some are Blacks and some are Reds.) Red Meat Production 4.7% Above A Year Ago DES MOINES, Iowa (USDA) Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated at million pounds, 3.5 percent higher than the previous week and 4.7 percent higher than last year. Cumulative meat production for the year to date was 2.9 percent higher than last year. Cattle slaughter was estimated at 608,000 head compared to 572,000 the previous No more feed damage by rodents or varmints. No more feed sacks to handle. Heavy pipe structure. Skid mounted. 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(USDA-March 5) Slaughter kid goats were unevenly steady, slaughter nannies mostly steady, slaughter bucks mostly steady to $10 lower per head, wethers steady to weak. Goat receipts totaled 1546 head. Slaughter goats: all sold by Ronnie Sauer rsauer@swtxsolar.com 103 South Divide Eldorado, Texas / / STEP UP TO C attleac attle quipment & Acc. Hydraulic Squeeze Chutes Working Facilities Dealers Of Electronic Chute And Platform Scales A Super Duty Line the head; kids, selection pounds $ , pounds $ ; selection pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ , pounds $ ; selection pounds $ , pounds $ ; nannies, selection pounds $ , pounds $ ; selection pounds $ ; billies, selection pounds $ ; selection pounds $ , pounds $ ; wethers, selection pounds $ Columbus Calf Auction Prices Termed Higher COLUMBUS (March 1) Calves were higher, cows steady to strong. Receipts totaled 683 head. 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KOLLMYER & SON Serving West Texas Since 1937 WE STOCK QUINCY AIR COMPRESSORS FOR: FEED MILLS COTTON GINS FEEDYARDS REPAIR SHOPS TIRE REPAIR SALES SERVICE PARTS Call: Steve or Joe Kollmyer 325/ Minerals Protein Tubs Bryan Adams Southwest Region Manager CO, AZ, TX, NM, OK 325/ Liquids Offi ce: 254/ or Cell: 806/ March 17 Doyle Hereford Ranch Production Sale, Wolfe City, Texas. FMI: 214/ March RD Annual Hales Angus Farms Sale, Canyon, Texas. FMI: 806/ March Farms Abilene Bull Sale, Abilene Livestock Auction, Abilene, Texas. FMI: 979/ , 405/ March 17 Hales Angus Farms Sale, Canyon, Texas. FMI: 806/ , 806/ March 17 Gabriel Ranch Angus Production Sale, Grand Saline, Texas. FMI: 903/ March 17 Texhoma Beefmaster Sale, McAlester, Oklahoma. 254/ March 17 Mound Creek Ranch Brangus Production Sale, Leona, Texas. FMI: 713/ March 17 Landon Hays Memorial Angus Sale, Arcadia, Louisiana. FMI: 318/ , 318/ March 17 American Brahman Breeders Association Female Sale, Caldwell, Texas. FMI: 979/ , 713/ , 979/ , 979/ March 17 Pollard Farms Angus Bull Sale, Waukomis, Oklahoma. FMI: 580/ March 17 Hays Brothers Angus Ranch, Arcadia, Louisiana. FMI: 318/ March 17 Five Star Auctioneers equipment auction of EW Farms, Hamlin, Texas. FMI: 325/ , 325/ March Rio Grande Valley Beef Improvement Online Sale. FMI: 956/ March 19 Bridle Bit Simmental All Terrain Bull Sale, Walsh, Colorado. Simmental and SimAngus bulls, offering 70 head. Also Far Out Cattle Ranch offerings. FMI: 719/ March th Annual Black Angus Ready For Work Bull Sale, Cattlemen s Livestock Auction, Belen, New Mexico. FMI: 575/ March nd Annual Manzano Bull Sale, Gardner Family, Estancia, New Mexico. FMI: Bill 505/ ; Cole 575/ ; Clayton 505/ March 20 Flying S Herefords Production Sale, Paluxy, Texas. FMI: 214/ March 21 2 Bar Angus Bull Sale, Hereford, Texas. FMI: 806/ Bovatec Blocks Mineral Tubs March 22 Special Bull Offering Featuring J E Red Angus Ranch Bulls, Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba, Texas. 325/ ; March 22 Super American Bull Sale, Bloomington, Texas. Brangus/Santa Gertrudis and cross bred bulls. FMI: 979/ March Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Convention, Ft. Worth, Texas. FMI: 817/ March Spring Horse Sale, Clovis Livestock Auction, Clovis, New Mexico. FMI: 575/ ; clovislivestock.com March 23 3F Angus Production Sale, Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma. FMI: 918/ March 24 West Texas Brangus Breeders Association 24th Annual Springtime Sale, Abilene Livestock Auction, Abilene, Texas. FMI: 325/ ; 325/ March 24 Special Sheep & Goat Replacement Sale, Producers Livestock Auction, San Angelo, Texas. FMI: Benny Cox 325/ , Jody Frey 325/ , Charlie Christensen 325/ , office 325/ March 24 Berry Angus and Lopez Angus 1 st Annual Bull Sale, Colfax County Fairgrounds, Springer, New Mexico. FMI: 575/ ; 575/ ; 505/ March 24 Sturgess Double S Cavender Ranches Charolais Bull Sale, Jacksonville, Texas. FMI: 903/ March 24 Santa Gertrudis Bluebonnet Classic Production Sale, Lavaca County Expo Center, Hallettsville, Texas. FMI: 979/ Copeland & Sons Herefords ANNUAL BULL SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018 Five States Livestock Auction Clayton, New Mexico 12 noon and on SuperiorClickToBid.com 50 HEREFORD BULLS Herd Sires & Range Bulls 80to 100 BALDY REPLACEMENT HEIFERS Sired by Copeland Bulls Real World Cattle Range Raised Time Tested Stout & Rugged SELLING SONS OF THESE GREAT SIRES PLUS OTHERS! BAR S LHF AHA Seven Trait Leader Sire of 2017 Denver National Supreme Champion Hereford, Belle Air 10 sons sell! BR Copper 124Y AHA Nine Trait Leader BR CSF Copper ET x BR Abigail 8130 ET (Sooner x Gabrielle) 9 sons & his semen sell! Join us as we celebrate our 75th Year of Ranching & Raising Quality Herefords! SALE CATALOG NOW ONLINE: copelandherefords.com Established 1943 PREMIER HEREFORD BREEDER 2018 NATIONAL WESTERN & FORT WORTH STOCK SHOWS March 24 Emmons Ranch Beefmaster Bull Sale, Groesbeck Livestock Auction Barn, Groesbeck, Texas. FMI: 903/ , 903/ March 24 Valley View Charolais Bull sale, Polson, Montana. FMI: 406/ March 24 High Roller Angus Production Sale, Center, Texas. FMI: 254/ March 24 Special Replacement Female Sale, Cattleman s Brenham Livestock Auction. FMI: 979/ March 24 Lone Star Angus Production Sale, Gainesville, Texas. FMI: 940/ March 24 Littlerobe Angus Ranch Bull and Female Sale, Higgins, Texas. FMI: 806/ , 806/ littlerobeangusranch.com March 24 Sandhill Farms Hereford Production Sale, Haviland, Kansas. FMI: 620/ March 25 WHR Shorthorns Production Sale, Van Alstyne, Texas. FMI: 903/ March 26 Herbster Angus Production Sale, Marysville Livestock Auction, Marysville, Kansas. FMI: 402/ March 26 McEntire Red Angus Partners in Progress Bull Sale, Sweetwater, Oklahoma. FMI: 530/ , 580/ March 27 Harrison Cattle Co., Inaugural Hereford Production Sale, Arapaho, Oklahoma. FMI: 580/ , 580/ March 30 Whip Brown Cow & Replacement Heifer Sale, F-1 Brangus and Braford, Gonzales, Louisiana. FMI: 225/ March 31 Tri-County Livestock CLIFF & PAT COPELAND cliff@copelandherefords.com MATT COPELAND matt@copelandherefords.com CLIFFORD & BARBARA COPELAND ALYSSA FEE, Herdsman alyssa@copelandherefords.com Dustin N. Layton laytonauction.com March 8, 2018 Livestock Weekly Page 29 Market Special Stocker Cow Sale, New Summerfi eld, Texas. FMI: 903/ March 31 M Charolais Bull Sale, Alvarado, Texas. FMI: 817/ March 31 Richardson McClung Ranch Angus Herd Reduction Sale, Eastland, Texas. FMI: 325/ March 31 Peacock Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Covington, Texas. FMI: 254/ April 2 Pharo Cattle Company s Bull Sale, West, Texas. 800/ ; PharoCattle.com April 5 Special Bull Offering Featuring Knox Brothers Hereford and Angus Bull Sale, Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba, Texas. 325/ ; com April 6-7 Hamilton Commission Co., Roping Cattle Sale. FMI: 254/ April 7 14 th Annual Red Hot Bull Sale, Bosque, New Mexico. FMI: Emilio Sanchez 505/ ; Skylar Harris 979/ ; reddocfarm.com GILLESPIE COMPANY would like to announce their SINCE Longhorn Street P. O. Box 454 Fredericksburg, Texas Sale: 830/ Fax: 830/ Website: Market Reports CATTLE 859 HEAD SOLD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Cows and Bulls Steers Heifers Cows Bulls Bred Cows Cow/Calf Pairs Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Lower Quality Steers Lower Quality Heifers $2.00-$4.00 Higher $5.00-$7.00 Higher $2.00-$4.00 Higher $45.00-$76.00 CWT $80.00-$98.00 CWT $ $ Head $ $ Pair Medium To Large Frame #1 STEERS HEIFERS $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT Representative Sales: SHEEP/GOATS 2420 HEAD SOLD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Wool Lambs Dorp Lambs Kids 18 Black Steers 1 Black Steer 1 Black Steer 1 Black Steer 1 Black Heifer 1 Black Heifer 1 Black Heifer #1 Wool Lambs Pounds #1 Wool Lambs Pounds Barbado Lambs Pounds Dorper Cross Lambs Pounds Dorper Cross Lambs Pounds Light Slaughter Lambs Pounds Slaughter Lambs Pounds Packer Ewes Sheep Bucks/Rams #1 Spanish/Boer Cross Kids Pounds #1 Spanish/Boer Cross Kids Pounds #1 Spanish/Boer Cross Kids Pounds Spanish/Boer Cross Muttons Angora Kids Lower Quality Kids Packer Spanish/Boer Cross Nannies Stocker Spanish/Boer Cross Nannies Angora Nannies Boer Cross Billies April 10 Three Mile Hill Ranch s Annual Yearling Angus Bull Sale, Animas, New Mexico. FMI: 575/ ; 575/ April 10 Hilltop Angus Ranch s Annual Production Sale, Lewistown Livestock Pavilion, Lewistown, Montana. FM: 406/ ; 406/ ; April Museum of the Big Bend 2018 Trappings of Texas, Alpine, Texas. FMI: 432/ April 14 Bobby Edmond Horse Sales Open Horse And Tack Sale, Abilene Livestock Auction, Abilene, Texas. FMI: 325/ ; 806/ ; 806/ ; April th Annual Special Best Of The Best Replacement Female Sale, Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba, Texas. 325/ ; April 14 Muleshoe Ranch Bull Sale, Breckenridge, Texas. FMI: 254/ $ CWT 705 $ CWT 400 $ CWT 505 $ CWT 500 $ CWT 390 $ CWT 610 $ CWT Shaun or Wayne Geistweidt Will Accommodate You Whether You Have A Truck Load Or A Pickup Load!!! Shaun Geistweidt Wayne Geistweidt 830/ / Sales: Sheep and Goats Tuesday 9:30 A.M. Cattle Wednesday 12 Noon Steady Steady Steady $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT $ $ CWT

30 Page 40 Livestock Weekly March 8, 2018 ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION 900 North Garden P. O. Box 2041 Roswell, New Mexico / Announcing Our New Webpage: Cattle Sale 9 A.M. NEXT REGULAR SALE MONDAY, MARCH 12 $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ / FAX Benny Wooton Cell: 575/ Smiley Wooton Cell: 575/ We sold 1426 head of cattle Monday, March 5 on an uneven market, with excellent buyer attendance. This is the top of the market and prices range down from this according to quality, condition, and fill. Compared to last week: stocker cattle: steady to $5.00 lower; feeder cattle: steady to $2.00 lower; packer cows and bulls: $1.00 to $2.00 higher Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Packer Cows Canner & Cutter Cows Packer Bulls STEERS STOCKER CALVES AND FEEDER YEARLINGS: Runyan Martin 4 Mile Ranch, Hope, NM 11 blk / red strs 376# Steve Oldfield, Roswell, NM 10 blk & bmf strs 397# L-J River Ranch, Denver City, TX 11 mxd strs 385# Greg Conklin, Lake Arthur, NM 5 blk strs 401# Dennis Weibe, Seminole, TX 5 blk strs 405# Steve Oldfield, Roswell, NM 15 blk / bwf strs 462# Pauline Bruton, San Antonio, NM 2 char strs 448# Greg Conklin, Lake Arthur, NM 5 blk strs 488# Sierra Alta Ranch LLC, Dona Ana, NM 8 mxd strs 508# Noe Landaverde, Dexter, NM 6 blk & bmf strs 530# Wes or Karla Bruton, San Antonio, NM 5 Char x strs 552# Jordan Johnson, Lake Arthur, NM 3 blk & bmf strs 575# Francis Batie, Artesia, NM 3 red strs 608# Pauline Bruton, San Antonio, NM 16 Char x strs 597# San Augustine Ranch, Lake Arthur, NM 2 rwf strs 610# Ray Miles, Hagerman, NM 3 blk strs 667# Francis Batie, Artesia, NM red str 715# Martinez Ranch LLC, Santa Rosa, NM rwf str 760# Boot Ranch Inc., Yeso, NM 2 blk / bwf strs 788# Pauline Bruton, San Antonio, NM 7 mxd strs 804# Steve Oldfield, Roswell, NM 8 blk mxd hfrs 383# Noe Landaverde, Dexter, NM 3 blk hfrs 320# Crockett Ranch, Hope, NM 2 red hfrs 388# Sierra Alta Ranch LLC, Dona Ana, NM 3 blk hfrs 452# Steve Oldfield, Roswell, NM 11 blk hfrs 449# Jim D. Wagner, La Luz, NM 2 blk & bmf hfrs 470# Sierra Alta Ranch LLC, Dona Ana, NM 17 blk & bmf hfrs 522# Wes or Karla Bruton, San Antonio, NM 6 Char x hfrs 546# Aaron & Virginia Lewis, Carlsbad, NM Char hfr 675# Casabonne Ranches, Hope, NM 6 blk mxd hfrs 693# Kincaid Brothers, Pinon, NM 4 blk hfrs 653# Casabonne Ranches, Hope, NM 9 blk mxd hfrs 757# Walker Wells Ranch, Pecos, TX 5 blk hfrs 844# PACKER COWS AND BULLS: Vern Newlin, Roswell, NM blk bull 1780# L7 Ranch, Roswell, NM red bull 1710# Pauline Bruton, San Antonio, NM Char bull 1740# Ganada Inc., Shallowater, TX red cow 1235# Beau Marshall, T or C, NM rwf cow 1145# Ganada Inc., Shallowater, TX blk cow 1255# Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Feeder Bulls Cow/Calf Pairs Top Half Bred Cows Top Half HEIFERS $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ $ To $ T K Ranch, Lovington, NM bmf cow 1390# Nathan Jurva, Carlsbad, NM blk cow 1380# Waddie Hobbs, Dexter, NM Char x cow 1375# STOCKER COWS: Nathan Jurva, Carlsbad, NM red bred cow Billy Byrd, Roswell, NM blk bred cow Pud Schneider, Ruidoso Downs, NM blk bred cow Jose Luis Varela, Roswell, NM wf pair Jack R. Valentine, Lincoln, NM blk pair BULLS excellent quality registered Chi-Angus bulls coming 2 year old virgin bulls Trich and fertility tested ready to turn out. ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION PRECONDITIONED CALF PROGRAM The RLA Preconditioned Calf Program has been a great success. Call Benny to see how you can get your calves enrolled. ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION TRUCKING For All Your Trucking Needs Contact: Smiley Wooton: 575/ x102 Pots Straight Decks Flatbeds and Dry Box Vans RECEIVING STATIONS Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Livestock Auction Receiving Stations need to call our toll free number for transportation permit number before leaving home. This number is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Just ask for hauling permit number. PECOS, TEXAS For information to unload, Jason Heritage at Or Smiley Wooton at Receiving cattle every Sunday. No Prior Permits Required. Trucks Leave Sunday At 4:00 P.M. CT. ADVANCED CONSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, MARCH 12, HEIFERS replacement quality 95% black/bwf Angus crossbred heifers weaned 130 days BS Gold one Shot / 7 way Somnus at branding and weaning plus Dectamax medium condition coming off short wheat PI tested negative 550 to 700 pounds. 120 CALVES long aged calves off of Hereford heifers and Corriente bulls weaned 160 days 2 rounds of BS Gold One Shot / 7way plus Dectomax medium condition off cake and grass 450 to 550 pounds. 150 LIGHT YEARLINGS long aged 1½ and 2 quality crossbred yearlings weaned 150 plus days shots at branding and weaning most were used in sorting and penning events through the winter medium condition off alfalfa fields 500 to 600 pounds. 2 BULLS coming 2 year old ¾ Brangus ¼ Corriente virgin bulls good heifer bulls Trich and fertility tested ready to turn out. ADVANCED CONSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 Toll Free Number: VAN HORN, TEXAS 800 West Second -- Five blocks west of Courthouse. Smiley Wooton Receiving cattle 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. Trucks leave at 3 P.M. CT. SAN ANTONIO, NEW MEXICO LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO Nine Miles East of San Antonio on US Hwy 380 Hwy. 90 at MM #3 - East Side of Hwy. (20 Bar Michael Taylor 575/ Livestock) Receiving Cattle 2nd & 4th Weekends of Each Receiving Cattle 2nd & 4th Weekends of Each Month Month Truck Leaves At 2 P.M. MT Sunday Trucks Leave Sunday At 3 P.M. MT Smiley Wooton: 575/ Cell 575/ Office MORIARTY, NEW MEXICO Two Blocks East, One Block South of Tillery Chevy Smiley Wooton 575/ Cell 575/ Office J. C. Burson 505/ Trucks Leave Sunday At 4 P.M. MT New Mexico Stations Receive Livestock Sunday