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FEATURES 10 From Harvard Man to Ranch Hand

How John R. Erickson left the Ivy League to become a cowboy and inspire generations with Hank the Cowdog.

By Elyssa Foshee Sanders

22 Big Decisions Ahead

A look at business strategies for cattle raisers on the heels of a drought, and suggestions from one industry expert for balancing operational needs with market trends.

By Jaclyn Roberts Parrish

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f you live in a remote area, you better be prepared when dinner time hits.

I know this well. I have often found myself at the end of the week with a dwindled supply of groceries and a growling belly. It’s my own episode of Chopped, where key ingredients are replaced with unexpected alternatives in the pantry.

In these moments, I get creative, adapt and make something new. It’s not always terrible. Some of my favorite recipes originated from moments like this.

Today, the legacy of his characters lives on through an educational collaboration with the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, where the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center recently opened its doors.

Read about Erickson on page 10 and the educational experience on page 54.

If you are fretting over last-minute gifts this December, look no further than our holiday gift guide for inspiration and ideas. After all, a copy of The Cattleman is everyone’s perfect size! CT

Those in the cattle business may know this feeling all too well. While I can’t help with your recipe box, I can offer a number of tips for making business decisions in 2024. Read “Big Decisions Ahead” to learn practical tips for setting goals within your own operation.

John Erickson, who many readers know well as the author of the Hank the Cowdog series, is the subject of “From Harvard Man to Ranch Hand.” Erickson, whose beginnings trace back to a column created for The Cattleman, shares how that early opportunity opened doors to the beloved children’s books.

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From Harvard Man to Ranch Hand

How John R. Erickson left the Ivy League to become a cowboy and inspire generations with Hank the Cowdog.

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my game. I’m five years old and never been rode. The first man that tries me is gonna get throwed,” Erickson recites in the gravelly, contemptuous drawl of a wild west desperado taunting the town sheriff before a shootout.

“I don’t know if I was dyslexic at a time when nobody knew what that was, but reading was very difficult for me,” Erickson recalls. “I write those Hank books for fourth-grade donkey boys who hate books and don’t want to read.”

Erickson had never written from the point of view of an animal, and he enjoyed it so much that he wrote another story the next morning.

ohn R. Erickson wasn’t much of a reader growing up.

The cowboy, prolific voice actor and author of more than 100 books, including the bestselling children’s series, Hank the Cowdog, says he preferred to listen to his mother’s stories about life in rural Texas — stories that laid the foundation for his writing career.

However, schoolchildren were not initially Erickson’s intended audience.

“I wasn’t trying to write stories for children. As a matter of fact, the original audience for Hank was mostly adult males involved in agriculture — readers of The Cattleman magazine.”

Hank the Cowdog, the crime-solving mutt and selfappointed Head of Ranch Security for a cattle operation in the Texas Panhandle, beloved by generations of Texans and even the most reluctant readers, made his debut in the June 1981 issue of The Cattleman.

Editor-in-chief Dale Seagraves paid Erickson $150 for the story.

A struggling novelist, cowboy and father of three young children, Erickson had resorted to churning out magazine articles at a furious pace to make ends meet.

“I was writing entire stories in one morning, really cranking them out,” Erickson recalls. “I was making very little in cowboy wages and needed the money. I was writing for money, not for literature.”

One such story, Diary of a Bronc, is based on Erickson’s ill-fated experience breaking a fiveyear-old gelding named Casey at the LZ Ranch south of Perryton.

“It starts off with the horse saying, ‘Casey’s my name, being an outlaw is

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“It’s very biblical because it’s a story of pride — the sin of pride and the agonizing process of attaining knowledge and wisdom — and every detail came from the experience of breaking that horse,” he says.

“I remembered a dog that I had known when I worked up in the Oklahoma Panhandle,” Erickson says.

“He was an Australian Shepherd named Hank, and he was about five bales short of a full load of brains.

“He thought he was Head of Ranch Security, and when we gathered cattle for branding, he would stand in the gate and bark so that we couldn’t get the cattle where we wanted them. Cowboys were screaming at him, ‘Get out of the gate! Go to the pickup! Go to the house!’ We would’ve throttled him if we’d had half a chance.”

Inspired, Erickson penned Confessions of a Cowdog, wherein Hank and his sidekick, Drover, terrorize cattle, duel with coyotes, and gorge themselves on livestock medication. He submitted the story to The Cattleman and set it aside without much more thought.

A few months later, during a reading at the Perryton Rotary Club, Erickson decided to perform Confessions of a Cowdog instead of his go-to story, Diary of a Bronc.

The audience’s reception floored him.

“I was astounded by the reaction,” he recalls. “The crowd just roared with laughter.”

After the reading, a man from the audience approached Erickson and implored him to keep writing about Hank.

“If he hadn’t told me that, I’m not sure I ever would have recognized the magic in those characters — I might never have done anything else with them,” Erickson says. “I never dreamed that Hank would become a star or that I would end up working for him, but that’s the way it turned out.

“Hank just kind of fell out of the sky. I wasn’t looking for him.”

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Erickson takes a dip with his Red Heeler, Rosie.

Photo taken by Nathan Dahlstrom, courtesy of John R. Erickson.

Hank the Cowdog, the self-appointed Head of Ranch Security for a cattle operation in the Texas Panhandle, made his debut in the June 1981 issue of The Cattleman in a column titled Confessions of a Cowdog.

The Magic of Hank Hank the Cowdog, at once foolish and deeply philosophical, his grasp of the English language tenuous and his internal dialogue littered with malapropisms and misleading hyperboles, alternates between the obtuse and the eloquent.

“To me, he’s a dog, not a human wearing a dog suit, and I get my ideas watching my dogs,” Erickson says.

“Hank is dead-serious about being Head of Ranch Security. When he barks at a low-flying B-52 bomber, he’s convinced that it’s a Silver Monster Bird that eats cows. Your average ranch dog in Texas puts a lot of effort into looking ridiculous. It’s not an easy job.”

In The Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog, Hank and Drover employ a covert operation known as Syruptishus Loaderation: “a secret and rather technical procedure for climbing aboard a pickup that is heading for town, when the driver of the alleged pickup would be less than thrilled if he knew that he was hauling dogs.”

“You’ll notice that the root of the first word is ‘syrup,’” Hank explains to readers.

“Perhaps you’ve observed the way syrup moves. It doesn’t run or fall or hop or splash. It oozes along its course, which is a sneaky and stealthy way of moving. Things that ooze are usually up to

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no good, and by simple logic it follows that most of your syrups are up to no good.

“Hence, from the root ‘syrup,’ we build a new and exciting word that means ‘sneaky and stealthy.’”

It’s this wholesome, cross-sectional appeal that continues to draw generations of fans to Erickson’s book signings and live readings.

“A lot of humor these days is not really humor, it’s ridicule,” Erickson says. “It’s motivated by anger, and I’ve managed to keep that out of the Hank stories. I want gentle, organic humor. It’s the kind of humor that cuts across national and language barriers.”

Readers continue to inundate Erickson with heaps of fan mail, praising him for getting them through the Accelerated Reader program in school.

Earlier this year, an 86-year-old great-grandmother who had just discovered the series — and promptly read 30 of the books — wrote Erickson to thank him for the gift of laughter.

Not all correspondence is lighthearted; occasionally, Erickson receives a letter that brings him to tears.

“Several years ago, I got a letter from a woman who said that her daughter just loved the Hank books and that she’d contracted leukemia,” Erickson recalls. “They knew she was dying, and what she wanted was for the family to read Hank books in her hospital room, and that was the way she passed on. That knocked me down.”

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Slim Chance pecking on his typewriter alongside Hank, Drover, and Pete the Barncat. Illustration by Gerald Holmes.

John R. Erickson on campus at Harvard. Photo courtesy of Nikki Early.

John R. Erickson, the reporter, interviews his cowboy alterego. Composite photo created by Kris Erickson, provided courtesy of John R. Erickson.

When Hank isn’t being outwitted by Pete the Barncat, rousing the ire of his owners, High Loper and Sally May, or berating Drover for his cowardice, he’s tending to cattle alongside Slim Chance, a lanky, banjo playing, tobacco chewing cowboy whom Erickson modeled after himself.

“There’s definitely a strong link between me and Slim Chance, and from the very first story that ran in The Cattleman, Gerald Holmes, the artist, drew Slim as a caricature of me,” Erickson says.

“Slim lives on boiled turkey necks and chicken gizzards because they’re cheap and easy to fix. As a bachelor, that’s how I lived. Like Slim, I didn’t wash my dirty dishes. I put them in the freezer so they wouldn’t decompose in the sink.

“Like Slim, I talk to my dogs and pull pranks on them.

Hank often wonders, ‘Do normal people behave this way around their dogs?’ Probably not, but Slim does and so do I.” But before Erickson became a $500-dollar-a-month cowboy and developed his fictional alter-ego, he longed to leave West Texas for the bright lights of New York or Boston and write literature in the tradition of Hemingway.

Wanderlust “Growing up in Perryton, it was just kind of assumed that if you had any kind of talent or ambition, you wouldn’t go back home,” Erickson says. “We heard a lot about Harvard and I was curious to know whether a kid from a small town in the Panhandle could compete in that exotic world.”

After graduating from high school in 1962, Erickson moved away from Perryton to attend the University of Denver. He spent a summer working at a church in New York City before returning to Texas to complete his bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas, where he met his soon-to-be wife, Kristine Dykema.

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By the late ’90s, Hank the Cowdog had sold millions of copies, been translated into multiple languages, and gained worldwide popularity, even spawning a CBS cartoon adaptation. Photo courtesy of Nikki Early.

In 1966, Erickson received a fellowship to study theology at a seminary of his choice and seized the opportunity to enroll in Harvard Divinity School.

During his second year at Harvard, Erickson took a fiction writing course in which he “didn’t learn much of anything,” he says, but which ignited a love for writing that has never waned.

“I started a disciplined life of writing when I got married — that brought some discipline into my life — and I started writing every morning, which is a pattern I’ve continued to the present day.”

Seven days a week, before the sun rises at the M-Cross Ranch — his and Kris’s property north of the Canadian River Valley — Erickson retreats to his office and spends

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four to five hours in front of his laptop drafting magazine articles, responding to fan mail, writing nonfiction books and planning Hank’s next mission.

He limits himself to writing two new Hank the Cowdog novels annually.

“I’m fanatical about it,” Erickson says of his morning routine. “I was not very disciplined until I married a woman with high standards, and it really turned my life upside-down. Part of my incentive was to hide from her the awful truth: I secretly longed to be a bum.

“Also, I had a sense of higher purpose and thought it was important for me to become as much of a writer as I could, and I had stories that were worth sharing.”

Back to His Roots In the winter of 1968, three credits shy of earning his master’s degree from Harvard, Erickson had an epiphany: His longtime desire to study, work and live among the big city, Ivy League intelligentsia had all but evaporated.

“I discovered that theology was not my language, and also that I couldn’t wash Texas off,” Erickson says. “I realized in my second year that I was not part of that world and never would be, and I needed to get back to Texas and figure out what to do.

“Growing up looking at the distant, bright lights, I never thought about community being important.

But when Kris and I moved back to Perryton, we’d lived through a decade of social change, unrest and foment, and the stability of a little quiet town where you knew your neighbors and went to church seemed pretty appealing to us at that time.”

Erickson and Kris uprooted their lives once again and returned to West Texas, where Erickson moonlighted as a bartender, a handyman, a carpenter and eventually a cowboy in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles while trying to get his novels published.

“I wrote novels for four or five years and sent them off to New York publishers,” Erickson says.

“I didn’t know any other way of doing it — that’s the way Hemingway did it — so I was trying to get the approval of New York writers and editors and publishers, and I got nothing but rejection slips.”

At the suggestion of a friend, he decided to shed his Harvard-instilled notions of what constituted high literature and write about what he knew and loved: being a cowboy.

Young John R. Erickson as a $500-a-month cowboy. Photo courtesy of Nikki Early.

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Erickson poured his wealth of knowledge about ranching, gained during the four years he spent working at the Crown Ranch in Oklahoma, into a book called Panhandle Cowboy, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1980. Then-unknown

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John R. Erickson with his dogs, Daisy and Dixie. Photo courtesy of Nikki Early.

author Larry McMurtry penned the forward, five years before the publication of Lonesome Dove.

A year later, Erickson authored The Modern Cowboy, a spiritual successor to Panhandle Cowboy, in which he explains ranching and cowboy work in meticulous detail.

The Modern Cowboy explores virtually every aspect of cowboying, from the economics of ranching, to attire — “[The cowboy’s] dress depends on weather, chores, and vanity,” Erickson writes — to married life on the ranch.

“It’s a very deep account of what cowboys do, what ranching’s all about — the skills, the tools, cowboy work, horsemanship — but it had a very small audience and it lived in obscurity,” he explains.

Simmering in the background were Erickson’s real-life, humor-filled stories published in The Cattleman and the budding celebrity of Hank the Cowdog.

In March 1983, rising interest in the character led him to take a leap of faith and self-publish

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the first book in the Hank the Cowdog series. By the late ’90s, Hank the Cowdog had sold millions of copies, been translated into multiple languages, and gained worldwide popularity, even spawning a CBS cartoon adaptation.

Erickson narrated the audiobooks himself, assigning a distinct voice to each character — Hank a self-assured southern drawl, Drover a hoarse whine, Pete the Barncat cat a silky, devious purr — and sang original songs to accompany each book.

Among Hank’s Greatest Hits are Rotten Meat, Eating Bugs is Lots of Fun, It’s Not Smart to Show Your Hiney to a Bear, Cannibal Trash, and A Dog Should Smell Like a Dog. The dog smell in question is achieved by luxuriating in the sewer.

In The Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, Hank explains, “That first plunge is probably the best, when you step in and plop down and feel the water moving over your body. Then you roll around and kick your legs up in the air and let your nose feast on that deep manly aroma. Your poodles and your Chihuahuas and your other varieties of house dogs will never know the savage delight of a good ranch bath.”

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John R. Erickson and remains of the M-Cross Ranch in 2017. Photo by Nathan Dahlstrom.

Forged in Flames The trust parents place in Hank the Cowdog, and the prominence of those books in readers’ most formative years, is of spiritual significance to Erickson.

“I’m not a preacher,” he says. “I went to divinity school for two years and decided that wasn’t my language system. But I’ve had the unusual opportunity to write stories that parents trust; parents trust me with their children, and that’s a heavy responsibility that I take very seriously. Even though you’ll find very rare references in the Hank stories to church, that’s the inspiration for what I do.”

Erickson’s church community would play a bigger role than ever in 2017, when wildfires swept through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and destroyed over a million acres of land, including 90% of the M-Cross Ranch.

Erickson and Kris lost their home, their guest house, childhood photos of their three children, Erickson’s writing office and library, several unpublished manuscripts and over a dozen animals, including their cowdog, Dixie.

“It was a pretty catastrophic event for us,” says Erickson. “Kris and I left home with our laptop computers, her mandolin, and the clothes we were wearing. That’s all we had the next morning, except that we lived in a loving community.

“People from our church were on our doorstep immediately with clothes and food and furniture, pots and pans and sheets and pillowcases — all the things you don’t think about. We’ve invested a lot of ourselves in this community, and it sure was gratifying when it came back to us after the fire.”

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In the wake of the tragedy, Erickson quoted the Old Testament’s Book of Job: “Naked we came into this world and naked we will leave it,” adding, “but we sure will miss that house.”

He channeled his grief into several books about wildfires: Bad Smoke, Good Smoke: One Writer’s View of Wildfires; Prairie Fire, part of the National Ranching Heritage Center’s Ranch Life Learning series; and Hank the Cowdog: The Case of the Monster Fire, which he wrote in just three weeks.

Erickson and Kris have since rebuilt their home on the M-Cross Ranch, including the bunk house where Erickson spends his mornings, thinking up new adventures for Hank and Drover and chuckling to himself as he types.

“I find Hank endlessly fascinating and funny,” Erickson says. “When I write those looney conversations between him and Drover, I laugh out loud.”

These days, when he isn’t writing books and articles, composing songs, tending to cattle or voicing Old Man Wallace, the curmudgeonly buzzard, in the wildly popular Hank the Cowdog podcast narrated by Matthew McConaughey, Erickson is performing songs on his banjo, accompanied by Kris on her mandolin, in venues all over the country.

But despite Hank’s meteoric rise to fame in the ’80s and his unwavering popularity in the decades since, one thing has remained the same.

“When I step off the plane in Amarillo,” Erickson says, “boy, am I glad to be back home.” CT

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Elyssa Foshee Sanders is a freelance writer from Lubbock.

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I find Hank endlessly fascinating and funny.”

— John R. Erickson, Hank the Cowdog author

Kris and John R. Erickson perform at the grand opening of the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center, part of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University, where the Hank the Cowdog stories come to life. Read more about the center starting on page 54. Photos by Adrian Hawkins.

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Big Decisions Ahead A look at business strategies for cattle raisers on the heels of a drought, and suggestions from one industry expert for balancing operational needs with market trends.

By Jaclyn Roberts Parrish

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att Garcia is not sure what the 2024 cattle industry has in store. He is not alone.

Pressure from drought has reduced many herd sizes, and rising input costs have strained budgets.

Garcia, who recently began his role as director of Texas Christian University’s ranch management program, recognizes the crossroads many will face in the coming year.

He is quick to note the temptation to embrace the high price for calves following a difficult drought.

However, the long game could pay off for those willing to hold back amid high prices.

With national beef cow inventory levels not seen since the 1960s, cattle supplies will be tight for the foreseeable future. The limited number of available replacement heifers means the rebuilding process will likely be slow.

This leads to the age-old question: Should cattle stay in the herd or head to the auction market?

“We’re seeing inventory so low and calf prices so high right now, and it will be interesting to see how quickly everyone can rebuild their herds,” Garcia explains.

“Even with a lot of the western states holding back animals or developing more heifers this year, they’re not going to be able to replace liquidated inventory from Texas and Oklahoma.”

All that considered, stakeholders are predicting a bullish market. If high prices are here to stay, cattle raisers can prioritize production goals by building their herds based on cattle that performed well during the drought rather than feeling pressure to take advantage of markets now.

Garcia, who has a doctoral degree in animal science and a lifetime of involvement in the industry, grew up on a multi-generational cow-calf ranch in New Mexico. Both research and real-life experience backs his opinion in offering tips for cattle raisers evaluating their next moves.

“You need to look at your operation from a production type aspect and also, ultimately, you have to look at the financial health of your operation,” Garcia explains. “You need to manage the entire system and understand that all of your management decisions are going to be completely linked.”

You need to manage the entire system and understand that all of your management decisions are going to be completely linked.”

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Cattle raisers should carefully evaluate the financial health and production goals of their operations as they enter 2024.

Reflecting on personal needs Before making strategic decisions, cattle raisers should evaluate their individual operations. Many decisions hinge on how drought impacted the bottom line.

Resilient animals are cows that continue to breed back, wean calves and maintain their body condition. Keeping diligent records will provide data to support year-to-year analysis of a cow herd.

Cattle raisers should evaluate what percentage of their herd is breeding back versus the percentage of cows open after a 60- to 90-day breeding window. This consideration is especially important when evaluating whether females could rebreed and continue to produce calves amid stress.

“If you’re in a situation where you took out extra debt to try to get yourself through that drought, the reality is you probably need to start looking at taking advantage of these high markets,” Garcia says.

Premiums are an opportunity to get ahead of debt, especially loans that were unexpectedly incurred during the drought.

Prioritizing payment of these unplanned loans can help get an operation back on track. However, long-term debt tied to financially stable ranches may offer other options.

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He notes cattle raisers may opt to wait to cash in on the market to prioritize production goals. To do so, he suggests looking at data points within your herd.

“Those animals have experienced extreme stress more than likely,” Garcia says. “I’m looking for those resilient animals that can operate in that limited resource environment. The reality is this isn’t the last drought we’re going to see. We want to be identifying those resilient animals, ones that mitigate risk and variability to remain productive in our systems.”

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In addition, weaning weights can be an informative metric to evaluate and identify those animals genetically equipped to sustain drought conditions.

Because they will not put on pounds as efficiently during a drought year, cows that produce calves performing better than average with limited resources should be retained.

Retaining females that require above average supplemental maintenance is a drain on cow productivity — and the pocketbook.

“There tends to be negative consequences when you’re having to bring in resources that you don’t have,” Garcia says. “But there’s also that production consequence if animals are not as productive because they’re not compatible with your production system.”

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function and reduce calf stress should remain in place.

However, more advanced protocols with higher inputs may warrant a second look.

The cost of implementing value-added programs should also be evaluated.

Garcia offered 2014 as an example, where traditionally marketed cattle saw premiums even though they were not leveraging various value-added programs.

“Typically, we take advantage of these value-added programs to add economic benefit to our cattle,” Garcia says. “Now the big evaluation is going to be whether that input cost to implement that program generates enough income or economic benefit.”

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For example, nutrition-based preconditioning programs largely tie profitability to calf gains. Nutrition programs can add up quickly through supplemental feedstuffs. Do not assume the higher premiums at the sale barn will cover higher input costs. Reevaluate expenses to current premiums to protect your bottom line.

Garcia says this systems-based approach is important in understanding the bigger picture.

“That constant evaluation of that compatibility of resources, finances and production goals is essential for any large-scale or small-scale producer.” CT

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Where We Stand

ISSUES ON WATCH IN

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By Arthur Uhl, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association president

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ept. 30 marked the expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill.

The deadline passed quietly amid heated debates surrounding appropriation bills and a looming government shutdown. At the time of press, a new Farm Bill had yet to be marked up by either the House of Representatives or Senate, and the likelihood of new legislation emerging in 2023 appeared unlikely.

With nutrition programs such as school lunches woven into critical farm policy, there is more at play. Urban districts with high participation in government food and nutrition subsidy programs may have competing interests with rural districts. This leaves elected officials with a difficult decision: extend the current Farm Bill or risk the legislation becoming a chess piece in a soon-tobe heated 2024 presidential election cycle.

Either way, our eyes are on key legislative priorities.

Among these priorities is the inclusion, or lack thereof, of a standalone livestock title. Unlike other commodities with dedicated sections for their needs, livestock does not have such a title in the Farm Bill — and we want to keep it that way. A standalone section could open the industry up to opportunities for government overreach and onerous regulations.

Even without a stand-alone livestock title, important issues for ranchers and landowners still exist within the Farm Bill. These include maintaining robust voluntary conservation programs within Title II. These conservation programs provide support for implementation of incentive-based conservation opportunities that are free from government mandates.

It is also essential that we provide support to the uncertain nature of our industry. Disaster programs within Title I address some of these challenges.

Title I funds programs including the Livestock Indemnity Program, which provides payments to eligible ranchers and contract growers for livestock deaths in

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excess of normal mortality or that are sold at reduced price caused by an eligible loss condition. Also under Title I, the Livestock Forage Disaster Program makes payments to producers who have suffered from grazing loss on drought-affected pastures; and the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees and Farm-Raised Fish Program provides payments to livestock producers as compensation for losses due to disease, weather, and feed or water shortages not covered under the previously stated programs.

Additional support through Title I offers producer riskmanagement tools. Recent changes to Livestock Risk Protection programs have greatly increased the efficacy and appeal of risk management tools as a useful safety net for the livestock industry.

Finally, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association supports a continuation of the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank, which houses the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine bank. This legislation also includes the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program allowing government entities to collaborate with animal health partners to implement projects that enhance prevention, preparedness, detection and response to the most damaging emerging and foreign animal diseases that threaten U.S. agriculture.

We understand the devastation a foot-and-mouth or other disease outbreak could cause the industry and fully support the continued funding of both programs.

As we await an update on these important pieces of legislation, I encourage members to stay plugged in to Farm Bill policy through Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association’s daily email newsletter, TSCRA Update, distributed to active members. If you don’t receive these updates, be sure to activate your Member Center login, ensuring we have an updated email address on file. Until then, the association will continue our efforts to advocate on your behalf. CT

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.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson is the descendant of a long line of dairy farmers and a lifelong resident of Howard Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008, Thompson represents Pennsylvania’s Fifteenth District.

Farm Bill, he made numerous trips across the nation, including to Texas, to hold listening sessions focused on ensuring farmers and ranchers have a voice in the legislation that supports their livelihoods.

As a proud and active member of the House Committee on Agriculture for more than a decade, Thompson formerly served as ranking member of the full committee during the 117th Congress and as vice chairman during the 116th Congress, before becoming chair in 2023.

He believes feedback from our nation’s farmers, ranchers, and producers is the most critical part of developing an effective Farm Bill. Thompson has voiced his support of the beef industry throughout his travels.

Thompson also advocates for producers in Washington, D.C. His dedication to this vital segment of the agricultural industry is apparent in his legislative priorities. Thompson Thompson also serves as a senior member has consistently opposed harmful regulations, U.S. Rep. Glenn of the House Education and the Workforce “GT” Thompson such as the Obama and Biden-era Waters of Committee. He was previously the Chairman the United States, and has supported essential of the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry programs like the Beef Checkoff and agricultural safety net. and Subcommittee on Nutrition, and Ranking Member Thompson is a proud graduate of Penn State and of the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities Temple University, where he earned bachelor’s and and Risk Management. master’s degrees in education, respectively. He and his Thompson has been a staunch defender of rural wife, Penny Ammerman-Thompson, have three adult America throughout his tenure on the Committee on sons: Parker, Logan, and Kale; and two grandchildren, Agriculture. Throughout the process of drafting the 2023 Noem and Gabriel. CT

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

Prior to joining Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Kirton worked for the Georgia Cattlemen’s Association.

TSCRA WELCOMES NEW HIRES

Also in September, Debbie Albracht joined the association as an accounts payable accountant. Originally from Houston, Albracht now resides in Burleson where she enjoys camping in her restored vintage 1973 camper, hiking, traveling and restoring old furniture.

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She is a graduate of Sam Houston State University with a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management. Prior to joining Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Albracht worked for Moritz Partners as a payable accountant and funding specialist.

Earlier this fall, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association added to its accounting and communications and marketing teams.

Shelby Kirton, originally from Okeechobee, Florida, joined the association in September as the new manager of communications and marketing. Based in the Fort Worth office, she assists with communications and marketing across all departments.

Shelby Kirton

APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR INTERNSHIPS AT CATTLE RAISERS CONVENTION & EXPO Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association opened the application window for 2024 Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo internships.

Growing up, Kirton was heavily involved in her family’s purebred Brahman and F1 operation, where they raise and show cattle across the Southeast. She attended Debbie the University of Florida and earned a Albracht bachelor’s degree in animal science. After graduation, she pursued her master’s at Oklahoma State University in agricultural communications.

This internship program offers students the chance to broaden their networks and collaborate with association personnel and leading industry figures while assisting in the success of the largest agricultural gathering in the Southwest. The internship will be held March 19-24, 2024, in Fort Worth.

Convention internship applications are due Jan. 5, 2024, and are available at tscra.org/employment. CT

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INDUSTRY

BRIEFS DR. LEWIS R. "BUD" DINGES SELECTED AS TEXAS STATE VETERINARIAN

Texas Animal Health Commission welcomed Dinges as a field veterinarian in 2019. He was later promoted to region director and currently serves as an agency veterinarian for the commission.

Dr. Andy Schwartz, Texas Animal Health Commission’s previous executive director, announced his intent to retire in July. His retirement will be effective January 2024. Schwartz will remain working alongside Dinges and the Texas Animal Health Commission in the coming months to aid in the transition.

MODEST REBOUND FOR BEEF EXPORTS

Texas Animal Health Commission named Dr. Lewis R. “Bud” Dinges as the state veterinarian and the commission’s executive director during an Oct. 3 meeting at its headquarters in Austin.

August exports of U.S. beef exports were well below the large totals posted in August 2022, but showed improvement over July results. That’s according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and compiled by U.S. Meat Export Federation.

The governor-appointed Texas Animal Health Commission representing the general public and livestock, poultry, and exotic animal agriculture industries accepted the recommendation of the selection panel in the scheduled public meeting. The commission designated Dinges to begin his tenure Oct. 16.

The month’s beef exports totaled 109,000 metric tons, down 19% from last year — when export volume was the second highest on record — but a 6% increase over July.

Dr. Lewis R. “Bud” Dinges

“It is with great pleasure that we promote Dr. Dinges to the position of TAHC executive director and state veterinarian,” said Texas Animal Health Commission Chairman Coleman Locke. “Dr. Dinges’ extensive veterinary knowledge, diligent work ethic, and varied livestock education and experience will serve the industry exceptionally. The TAHC is grateful for the four years he’s contributed to the agency and look forward to Dr. Dinges serving in this new role.”

Dinges earned a bachelor’s in animal science at Texas A&M University and doctor of veterinary medicine degree from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine.

His professional career began in a mixed animal practice, and over the years, he continued practicing in various private and corporate settings in Texas and beyond.

Dinges contributed many years to the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery as a Clinical Assistant Professor and primary patient care provider for animals at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

As an involved leader in Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association’s cattle health and well-being committee, Dinges collaborated with Texas Animal Health Commission, Southern Animal Health Association, USDA and other regulatory agency officials.

This sparked his interest in regulatory veterinary medicine and led to leadership roles with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association cattle health and wellbeing committee years later.

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Export value was $883.9 million, down 15% year-overyear but 9% above July. Exports to Mexico continued to trend higher in August, shipments to Guatemala were the second highest on record and exports to South America were the largest in more than a year.

August exports also increased year-over-year to Africa and the Dominican Republic. Exports to leading markets South Korea and Japan were well below last year, but they improved over July.

For January through August, beef exports trailed last year’s record pace by 12% in volume (881,343 metric tons) and 19% in value ($6.69 billion).

“Beef exports certainly face significant headwinds, especially in our large Asian markets where food service has been slow to recover and consumer confidence is low due to the impact of rising prices and the strong U.S. dollar,” USMEF CEO Dan Halstrom explained in the report. “But exports to South Korea and Japan did bounce back to some degree after a difficult July.

Mexico continues to be a major bright spot for U.S. beef, and exports to other Western Hemisphere partners in Central and South America and the Dominican Republic also gained momentum in August.”

KING RANCH INSTITUTE FOR RANCH MANAGEMENT INTERIM LEADERSHIP The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management announced Rick Machen, Paul C. Genho endowed chair in ranch management, will serve as the institute’s interim director, as of Oct. 1, until the executive director position is filled.

As a professor and holder of the initial Paul C. Genho endowed chair in ranch management,

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In the News Machen works closely with graduate students, and teaches and cooperates in the development and conduct of the institute’s annual Holt Cat Symposium and numerous lectureships.

Born and raised in Central Texas, Machen received a bachelor of science from Angelo State University in 1981, and pursued graduate training at Texas A&M University in College Station, receiving a master of science in 1984, and a Ph.D. in animal nutrition in 1987.

In June 2016, Machen accepted a faculty position in the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management located on the campus of Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

His years of experience serving the industry in a professional capacity and as an integral member of the faculty will serve the institute well as he leads during this transition.

MCCLINTOCK INDUCTED INTO HEREFORD HALL OF MERIT Mark McClintock, a Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association member from San Angelo, was inducted to the Hereford Hall of Merit Oct. 21 at the American Hereford Association Annual Meeting and Conference in Kansas City, Mo. The Hall of Merit recognizes two inductees each year who have heavily influenced the Hereford breed.

McClintock’s roots trace back to a racetrack on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where his father was a horse trainer and jockey. He grew up showing cattle and attended Cal Poly University, where he studied animal science and even cut his long, beloved locks to judge on the livestock judging team. Since then, he has traveled the world to evaluate cattle of every shape, size and color.

After college, McClintock worked for Bright Herefords in California before becoming the herdsman for Lone Star Herefords. While on the road fitting and showing cattle, he met his wife, Teresa, at the National Western Stock Show, and she joined McClintock at Lone Star. The couple has two sons, Ryan and Mason.

The McClintocks went to West Texas to work for the Rocking Chair Ranch in the early ’80s. There, McClintock was tasked with building a herd of elite Hereford cattle.

McClintock won Hereford Herdsman of the Year in 1981 and over the next 25 years, built and maintained the Rocking Chair Ranch Hereford herd. He was an essential part of establishing a market for bulls, often selling Hereford sires to Brahman breeders to create the ultimate Southern cross.

After finishing his tenure with Rocking Chair Ranch in 2009, McClintock continued marketing cattle and started a consulting business. From coast to coast, McClintock has assisted Hereford breeders of all sizes with marketing efforts, while continuing to judge major cattle shows. CT

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COW TALK: SHARING OUR INDUSTRY Participate in the Ranching 101 webinar Dec. 12.

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Participants will learn how to share their story and positively impact the cattle industry by interacting on social media platforms. Interested association members can register for the hour-long Zoom webinar by scanning the QR code.

Jaclyn Roberts Parrish, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association executive director of communications and marketing, will share how to effectively communicate agriculture’s message and discuss why connecting on social media matters.

Parrish brings nearly a decade of experience in policy communications, issues management and

digital strategy. Her insights and techniques will inspire, educate and empower cattle raisers to navigate the ever-evolving cattle industry with knowledge and confidence.

Ranching 101 webinars provide participants with practical, sound guidance on the tools and equipment needed to get started in ranching or land ownership. The monthly webinar is available online on the third Tuesday of every month.

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Registration is complimentary for any association member. Visit tscra.org to learn more. CT

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OBITUARIES JOHN DOUGLAS “DOUG” PERKINS, 70, of Austin,

died Sept. 20.

Perkins grew up in San Antonio, attended University of Texas at Austin and received a bachelor’s of journalism degree in 1974. While on campus, Perkins met the love of his life, Susan Brock, and they married in 1975.

After graduating, he became a business journalist for The Cattleman, where he began to hone his talent for writing. Later, he was the editor of Simbrah World, and then worked with the Texas Beef Council for 17 years, specializing in educating the public about beef quality and nutrition.

Perkins earned his master’s degree in technology commercialization in 2004 from the McCombs School

of Business at University of Texas. In 2005, he formed TriTech Ventures LLC, and for the next 15 years, helped science and technology start-up companies develop business strategies.

Throughout his career, Perkins was known as an exceptional writer. He traveled nearly every back road, dirt road and highway across the state and documented wonderful stories of Texas cattle ranching.

Perkins is survived by his wife; siblings, George-Anne Whitehurst (John), Richard Douglas Perkins (Judith), Amali Celeste McEntire (William), Beverly Perkins Maurer and Stephen Douglas Perkins; more than 50 nieces and nephews; and lifelong friend, Henry McDonnell. CT

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Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association — Vintage Rope Hat. Blast to the past with your posted sign rope hat from Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Gloves. Gear up for the new year with a fresh set of gloves. Posted Signs. Keep every cattle raiser happy with one of the association’s iconic blue gate signs. Yeti Mugs. A variety of sizes to fit the needs of anyone on your list. Convention Registration. Reserve a place at the 2024 Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo for the gift to education, networking and fun. tscra.org Collin Street Bakery — Delicious treats. A selection of favorites from the Collin Street Bakery that truly live up to the hype, including the DeLuxe fruitcake, fudge pecan pie, pecan brittle and variety of pecan cakes. collinstreet.com Linz Heritage Angus — Steak box. Turn your home into a steakhouse this holiday with a mouth-watering gift from Linz Heritage Angus, delivered right to your door. meatsbylinz.com Farmhouse Vineyards — ­ Assortment of Wine. Enjoy an assortment of premium Texas-grown wine from Farmhouse Vineyards including Farm Fresh Sangria, 2020 Proving Ground red blend and 2021 Oh Hey Charolais chardonnay. farmhousevineyard.com Special Ranger Foundation ­— Silk wild rag. Support a great cause with a beautiful wild rag featuring warm hues and a dark cowboy silhouette. tscra.org Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association members can use the code CATTLECHRISTMAS to receive free shipping.

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Theft & Law

LOVE COUNTY MAN SENTENCED FOR HORSE THEFT

whereabouts of the stolen horse is urged to contact Hyde at 918-315-2925.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association would like to thank Love County Sheriff Andy Cumberledge, Love County Undersheriff Trent Daniel and the Love County District Attorney’s Office for their joint effort in the investigation.

TSCRA Special Rangers aid in investigation.

Joshua Dale Parsons, a Love County resident, was convicted and sentenced in September on one count of larceny of a domestic animal (horse) and one count of knowingly concealing or receiving stolen property.

HIDALGO COUNTY MAN CAUGHT STEALING LOCAL RANCH FENCES

The convictions stem from an investigation led by Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Cody Hyde.

Erasmo Anguiano arrested after a TSCRA investigation.

In September 2022, Hyde received Cody Hyde District 3 a report of a sorrel mare stolen TSCRA Special Ranger from a victim near Burneyville, Oklahoma, in April 2022. Through an investigation, Hyde interviewed witnesses and obtained compelling evidence from social media.

In an attempt to locate Parsons at his residence near Burneyville, Hyde came in contact with several individuals on the premises. One was identified as Jocelyn Brock, suspected of being a co-conspirator with Parson in the theft. Brock had an open warrant for drug trafficking and was taken into custody.

During a post-arrest interview, Brock revealed the location where Parsons fled prior to Hyde’s arrival.

Parsons was taken into custody at a residence outside of Burneyville and booked in the Love County jail.

Parsons appeared before Love County District Court where he pleaded guilty to all charges and received a five-year deferred sentence, along with an order to pay restitution to the victim.

However, at time of press, the victim’s horse remains missing. Anyone with information regarding the current

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Hidalgo County resident, Erasmo Anguiano, was arrested Oct. 2 for criminal mischief.

The charges filed are the result of an investigation led by Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Joe Aguilar Jr. In September, Aguilar received a call from a rancher in Hidalgo County reporting damages to fences at ranches along Wallace Road in northern Mission.

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Region 4 Supervisor During an investigation, Aguilar TSCRA Special Ranger learned the ranch manager caught Anguiano removing portions of fencing from the ranch and reported seeing a roll of fence line in the bed of Anguiano’s work truck. When approached about the theft, Anguiano claimed an unknown person asked him for help removing the fence.

Anguiano could not identify the person.

Further investigation determined Anguiano stole fencing from other victims at night while working as a canal rider at the local irrigation district.

Anguiano confessed to the crimes and was arrested Oct. 2, and booked at the Hidalgo County Jail with a $7,500 bond. CT

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Theft & Law cattle missing near Hwy 21. The black baldie cattle are branded with an “R” in the middle of a Texas shape on the left hip and have red ear tags. The cattle escaped through a down fence on the property. They were last seen Oct. 11. Anyone with information on this case is urged to contact Bobbitt at 936-222-2144.

DISTRICT 23 — EAST TEXAS

Polaris ranger stolen in Hardin County.

DISTRICT 1 — TEXAS PANHANDLE

Cow-calf pairs missing in Hall County.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Chris Ward reports three cow-calf pairs missing from a property southeast of Esteline on FM 658. The cattle are two-year-old black or black baldies, and the calves weigh approximately 500 pounds.

They are branded with a “JS” connected brand on their left hips and overbit ear notches in their left ears.

The cattle have blue ear tags in their left ears and the calves are not tagged. They were last seen Oct. 2. Anyone with information on this case is urged to contact Ward at 806-205-0119.

Cattle missing in Seminole County, Oklahoma.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Cody Hyde reports six Santa Gertrudis cows and one Santa Gertrudis calf missing from a property in Sasakwa, Oklahoma. The missing calf is red and weighs approximately 450 pounds. The six missing cows are also red, and one of the six cows has a white motley face and weighs around 1,100 pounds.

The livestock are branded with a “T” on their left hips and numbered ID tag in their right ears. The cattle were discovered missing on the owner’s property Sept. 12 in southern Seminole County. Anyone with information on this case is urged to contact Hyde at 918-315-2925.

DISTRICT 7 — NORTHWEST TEXAS Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Jay Foster reports nine head of cattle missing in the western portion of Foard County. The cattle are middle-aged black or red Angus cows. The cattle are branded with a “rocking O” on the right side or right shoulder. They have a yellow numbered ear tag. Some may have a swallow fork ear mark in their right ear. The cattle were last seen in mid-September.

Anyone with information on this case is urged to contact Foster at 940-475-0295.

DISTRICT 14 — EAST TEXAS

Cattle missing in San Augustine County.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Darrel Bobbitt reports five head of

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DISTRICT 25 — SOUTHEAST TEXAS Cow missing in Victoria County.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Robert Fields reports a cow missing from a property. The black, white-faced cow is not branded and was last seen in early September.

Charolais bull missing in Goliad County.

DISTRICT 3 — EASTERN OKLAHOMA

Cattle missing in Foard County.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Mike Boone reports a 2023 black Polaris Ranger XP 1000 stolen Oct. 9 from a ranch. Unknown individuals entered the ranch sometime during the night and stole the Polaris Ranger from inside the barn area. Suspects exited the property by cutting a fence. Anyone with information on this case is urged to contact Boone at 409-658-5725.

Fields also reports a Charolais bull missing. The bull is branded with a “L over half-moon/rocking L” on the right hip. The bull was last seen in August in Goliad.

Bull missing in Goliad County.

The special ranger reports a Charolais bull missing from a property in Berclair. The Charolais bull is unbranded and was last seen on the ranch in early summer 2022.

Angus bull missing in Victoria County.

Fields also reports a black Angus bull missing from a property in Victoria. Last seen Sept. 19, the bull is approximately 5 years old and has a “N” over “F” connected brand on its left hip. Anyone with information on these cases is urged to contact Fields at 361-207-5207.

DISTRICT 26 — CENTRAL TEXAS Angus calf missing in Kerry County.

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Todd Jennings reports an Angus calf missing near Center Point. The black calf weighs approximately 400 pounds with an orange No. 42 ear tag in its left ear. The calf was last seen Oct. 2. Anyone with information on this case is urged to contact Jennings at 830-997-7585. CT TSCRA offers a cash reward for information leading to the arrest and/or grand jury indictment of individuals for theft of livestock or related property. Anonymity is guaranteed. To provide information, call the Operation Cow Thief tip line at 817-916-1775.

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LANDOWNER RIGHTS ON THE BORDER EDUCATIONAL SERIES PRESENTED BY TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATION Join TSCRA for a one-hour breakfast to discuss how landowners can reclaim their rights amidst the illegal immigration crisis. Attendees receive a free copy of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Landowner Border Law Handbook and will hear from attorneys, elected officials and industry experts. Series free to all, TSCRA member or not.

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LESSONS IN STOCKMANSHIP Animal handling, husbandry impact cattle performance and the bottom line.

By Jena McRell

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enowned stockman Curt Pate says, some of the worst days of his life have been spent working cattle — and some of his best days, too. Pate is a sought-after presenter known for his hands-on, live demonstrations on cattle handling, horsemanship and animal stewardship.

Pate was a recent guest on TSCRA Talk, a podcast by Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and shared his lifelong journey of observing animal behavior, and how proper stockmanship plays a role in overall ranch efficiency and profitability.

“It is not only the right thing to do, it is the only thing to do,” Pate said.

The Montana-native grew up immersed in the livestock business, learning from family members involved in cow-calf production, auction markets, feedyards and harvesting facilities. He said he had a front-row seat at the hands of many great stockmen, including his grandfather.

“He was always buying high-risk calves and would spend a lot of time feeding and working with them,” Pate said. “Once he got them straightened out, he’d say, ‘Now we got ‘em on the gain, son.’”

The terms animal handling and stewardship might not have been common vernacular to stockmen like Pate’s grandfather, but he said that is exactly what they were doing. Reading animals, recognizing their needs and setting them up to achieve their highest potential — those are the true roles of an animal caretaker.

By starting small, like many do when raising livestock in 4-H and FFA, stockmen can study animals on an individual basis, Pate said, then grow from there.

“When you have small numbers, it’s easy to see the animals and really get attached to them,” Pate said. “Then when you go to bigger numbers, you still have that care and affection for the whole herd, like you would a few, which I think is important for all of us to understand.”

Through the years, Pate learned by herding sheep, rounding-up wild horses, training colts, riding feedyards and sitting around a campfire listening to stories from seasoned stockmen. In the ‘90s, he spent time on the set of Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer while supporting his friend Buck Brannaman, the movie’s technical advisor.

These days, Pate carries his years of experience with him as he conducts trainings and clinics all around the

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Curt Pate presents a horsemanship demonstration during the 2023 Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo in Fort Worth.

country and the world, including live demonstrations at the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo. He says he enjoys passing on what he’s learned to others.

“Stockmanship and animal husbandry will increase your profits and sustainability more than anything else, using less input costs,” Pate said. “The input cost is time.”

In Practice Weaning is a critical, often stressful time in a calf’s life.

Pate said this is an opportunity for humans to observe, learn to read the animals and respond with care in a way that lessens the shock of the transition.

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It begins with keeping a calm environment when working calves. Pate said to remember the basic animal instinct of predator versus prey. Based on their actions, humans can influence whether or not calves see them in a harmful or helpful light.

“When you lose control of your emotions, a cow, your horse or any other animal, they’ll see you as a predator,” he said. “We have to learn to control our emotions, think our way through situations, and get those calves so they can think their way through the situation, too.”

Pate is the first to admit, sometimes, the situation can be less than ideal. Wrecks happen, things do not go as planned and not everyone responds perfectly all of the time. It’s the lessons learned in these moments that make all the difference.

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“A big part of stockmanship is being in a wreck and then getting out of it without breaking the trust of those cattle,” he said.

Back to the example of weaning calves, one way to establish a first act of human trust is to offer direction to the water trough or feed bunk. If the group starts to walk the fence and head the opposite way, Pate said to get out in front of them, slow them down and redirect.

“It’s our job to stop and help them understand, so that they can get to that water trough and feed bunk or grass, and let their genetics and the nutrition we have go to their fullest,” he said. “That’s where the real profit comes from.”

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“You need to work cattle in a time when you don’t have a lot to get done,” Pate said. “Put your cattle through the chute with no veterinarian there or anything to do. Learn how to position yourself where you can drive cattle straight, where you can stop cattle and get them going again.

And then I always think it’s a good idea to have somebody videotape you. Watch it back and try to figure out what worked.”

To listen to more of the conversation, download TSCRA Talk via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. CT

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THE HERD REBUILDING

CHALLENGE By 2025, beef production is forecast to be down roughly 16% from the 2022 level.

By Derrell Peel

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here can be little doubt that the biggest issue in the cattle industry right now is the question of when herd rebuilding will begin. The challenge of herd rebuilding can be summed up with the following three questions.

1. What do we need to do?

Drought-forced herd liquidation from 2020 to 2022 has resulted in smaller-than-necessary beef herds. The Jan. 1 beef cow herd at 28.9 million head is the smallest since 1962.

The beef cow herd has continued to decrease in 2023 and will be smaller yet going into 2024.

Domestic and international demand for U.S. beef will support and encourage a significantly larger herd going forward.

This will require increased heifer retention and reduced cow culling that will further squeeze cattle slaughter and beef production for at least two to three years.

Persistent drought is making it difficult to stop herd liquidation, never mind stabilizing and then rebuilding the herd. As of early October, 40% of the U.S. is in some stage of drought, with 23% in severe to exceptional drought. This includes regions where significant numbers of beef cows are located.

While herd liquidation is likely still happening in some regions, from a national perspective, it has slowed or stopped. Beef cow slaughter is down year over year in 2023, but has not decreased enough to suggest the cow herd has fully stabilized.

Moreover, the continued liquidation of cows and heifers in recent years means the industry has little ability to begin any herd expansion soon. The latest monthly slaughter data shows total female — cows and heifers — slaughter has averaged 51.7% Derrell Peel of total cattle slaughter in the last year, the highest average rate since 1986.

After record beef production in 2022, due to drought liquidation, beef production is falling in 2023 and expected to fall sharply for at least two more years.

By 2025, beef production is forecast to be down 15 to 16% from the 2022 level. This will be the lowest since 2015 and possibly the lowest level since 1993. Herd rebuilding will be needed and encouraged by the market.

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2. What can we do?

It will take several months of reduced female slaughter before any herd expansion will be possible. In the most recent herd expansion, the percentage of female slaughter in total cattle slaughter dropped to a low of 43.3% in 2016, two years into the last cyclical expansion.

The situation now suggests that, once it starts, it will likely take a year or so before the cow herd inventory will stabilize and any expansion can begin.

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Beef cow slaughter is down year over year in 2023, but not enough to suggest the cow herd has fully stabilized.

3. What do we want to do?

Finally, the question of producer expectations and whether or not producers are even trying to begin rebuilding. While some can’t due to continued drought or recovery, others have compelling financial needs to pay down debt or restore equity drained by drought and high input costs before retaining heifers.

Certainly, some producers are beginning to retain heifers but, on balance, it looks like minimal herd rebuilding is starting in 2023. Some older producers are looking at the current market as a means to exit cattle production, or at least, cow-calf production.

Sharply higher interest rates and the cost of financing herd rebuilding is also a deterrent for some producers and lenders, especially when combined with some skepticism about how long the current market will last.

All in all, it’s beginning to look like 2024 will be, at best, a year of stabilizing the beef cow inventory.

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Neither Mother Nature nor producers seem to be in much of a hurry to get started with the next herd expansion. When it does start, herd rebuilding is likely to be a lengthy process with strong prices supporting the industry recovery. CT Derrell Peel is an agricultural economics professor and livestock marketing specialist for Oklahoma State University Extension.

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Ranching

WHAT PLANT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE

MONTH OF DECEMBER? Western Indigo (Indigofera miniata)

By Kent Ferguson Photo by Joseph A. Marcus, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

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estern Indigo is a legume found growing on rangelands throughout most of Texas and Oklahoma, except for the far western regions.

A perennial stemming from a woody taproot, the plant grows on various soils from shallow to sandy.

Western Indigo:

• Produces several trailing prostrate stems, 2 feet or longer, that are covered in gray hairs.

• Produces flowers throughout the growing season, giving it another common name, Scarlet pea.

• Has up to seven salmon to pink-colored flowers

near the end of the branch that are two-lipped, bonnet-shaped and formed in axillary spikes up to 4 inches long.

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• Has odd, pinnately compound leaves that are 1 to 1.5

inches long. Around five to nine leaflets can be found alternating on the stem, which are up to a half-inch long and short stalked with fine hairs.

• Produces hairy, straight pods that are about 1 inch long and contain up to 10 green beans speckled with brown.

Western Indigo is a highly preferred forage for white-tailed deer, domestic livestock and exotics.

The plant can be eliminated from the pasture without appropriate stocking rates. Under proper management, Western Indigo will increase in density and provide beneficial forage for grazers. CT Kent Ferguson, a retired rangeland management specialist from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, provides plant identification photo stories to help ranchers.

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Beyond Our Gates

A DOG’S LIFE ON THE RANCH Hank the Cowdog introduces new generations to ranching through an immersive cowboy experience.

By Elyssa Foshee Sanders Photos courtesy of the National Ranching Heritage Center

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hose familiar with the bestselling children’s book series Hank the Cowdog know that Hank brings a uniquely humorous — and distinctly canine — perspective to life on a ranch.

Now, fans can enter Hank’s world and join him on his crime-solving adventures in real life.

The Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center, part of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University, is an elaborate homage to the ranching profession and to author John R. Erickson’s work. The $8.2-million museum wing, which opened in October, takes visitors on a journey through the M-Cross Ranch — Hank’s stomping grounds in the 80-and-counting Hank the Cowdog books, which are informed by Erickson’s own experiences as a cowboy.

As a struggling ranch hand in the ’70s and ’80s, Erickson spent his free time writing to make ends meet.

Two of his early nonfiction works — Panhandle Cowboy and The Modern Cowboy — would lay the foundation for Hank the Cowdog and, eventually, the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center.

Long after Hank’s meteoric rise to stardom, between readings at an elementary school in suburban Houston, Erickson found himself with spare time on his hands and began perusing the library’s selection of books on ranching and cowboys. To his dismay, all of the books were written by authors from New York and Connecticut and distributed by Manhattan publishing houses.

“They were people who had no personal experience in that way of life, in that business,” Erickson says. “In fact,

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they probably got all of their information by checking The Modern Cowboy out of the library and using my hard-won experience to sell their own books, so I thought, ‘Why should these kids be reading books on ranching and cowboying by people who know nothing about it?’”

He distilled his ranching expertise into a five-book series on ranch life containing the same information as The Modern Cowboy, but accessible to young audiences through the narration of Hank the Cowdog.

In partnership with the National Ranching Heritage Center, the Ranch Life Learning series has been distributed to classrooms across the state and utilized in science and social studies curricula. The subjects covered include animal husbandry, the indelible bond between a cowboy and his horse, wildlife conservation, and natural disasters.

Julie Hodges, the Helen DeVitt Jones endowed director of education at the National Ranching Heritage Center, has been working with Erickson to teach students about ranching for almost a decade.

“What he did was pretty magical,” Hodges says. “He brought a really complicated, convoluted system of ranching together in a concise, clear way that’s useable in a classroom, and magic because Hank’s sprinkled on top of it.

“As we were working with teachers and getting these books out into the world, we realized there was an opportunity to bring these books to life and give people a hands-on opportunity to learn what ranching is.”

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Beyond Our Gates After being deputized by Hank, the Official Head of Ranch Security, visitors to the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center can explore more than a dozen immersive exhibits and learn what it takes to be a cowboy. Attractions include an orientation theater in which a holographic Erickson introduces new deputies to the ranch; a 360-degree cattle herding simulation; interactive water features; the Dark Unchanted Forest; and Sally May and High Loper’s ranch house, from which Hank is banned due to his notoriously poor hygiene.

Erickson, his wife, Kris, and their son, Mark, celebrated the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center’s opening day with a sold-out concert featuring original songs from the Hank audiobooks.

Fans sang along, laughed uproariously, and wished Erickson a happy 80th birthday, all with their personal copies of Hank in hand for later autographs.

“Hanging out with Mr. Erickson is like being with Elvis,” Hodges says. “He thinks I’m silly for saying that, but it’s true. You can’t walk across the parking lot without getting stopped several times, and people come up to him during book signings and tell him the most amazing stories and thank him for raising their children and grandchildren, or just tell him about how his books made a reluctant reader get into reading.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s educators, parents, or cowboys, there’s always a line out the door to talk to him. He’s kind of magic. He still draws a crowd, and people still connect with Hank in a profound way.” CT Elyssa Foshee Sanders is a freelance writer based in Lubbock.

Opposite page: The entrance to M-Cross Ranch at the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center, modeled after Erickson’s own ranch near Perryton.

Top: The ribbon cutting at the grand opening.

Top left: A new Deputy of Ranch Security tries his hand at pumping water from Wolf Creek, which runs through M-Cross Ranch.

Top right: John R. Erickson attends the grand opening of the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center.

Second from bottom: A family plays the ranching strategy game, “One Year in the Life of a Ranch.”

Bottom left: “A Day in the Life of a Cowboy” 360-degree simulation theater.

Bottom right: Hank waits in front of Slim Chance’s ranch pickup, his preferred method of transportation.

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Director Spotlight

GETTING Involved

How TSCRA Director Gilly Riojas stays encouraged with the cattle raisers community.

By Shelby Kirton

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s a young boy, Gilly Riojas admired leaders of Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association like others might admire professional athletes or celebrities.

“Growing up, I always looked at the pictures of the board of directors and it was this awe-inspiring event,” Riojas says. “These individuals are the ones who you wanted to model yourself after.”

Riojas grew up as the sixth generation on his family’s cow-calf operation near Austin in Lampasas County.

“We were TSCRA members, but weren’t heavily involved,” he says. “We always had our blue signs everywhere and enjoyed getting our copy of The Cattleman magazine.”

While his membership in Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association started at an early age, his decision to seek a more active leadership role began later in life.

Riojas attended Texas A&M University and received a degree in agricultural economics. During his time in College Station, Riojas says he further developed his passion for the industry. He also graduated from Texas Christian University’s ranch management program.

“I always loved being around the cattle business and the people,” Riojas says. “That is really what led me to get involved.”

Today, Riojas resides in Corpus Christi with his wife, Andrea, and daughter, Rylynn. He serves as general manager of La Babia Cattle Co. where he oversees dayto-day operations.

Eight years ago, Riojas says he decided to take his first steps toward becoming a more engaged within Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

“There were a lot of cattle raisers meetings where I showed up by myself, because I wanted to be involved,” Riojas says. In 2019, he was elected to the association’s board of directors and currently serves as the leadership development committee chair.

When thinking about the future of the cattle industry, Riojas says the evolving age demographic of the American rancher is of top concern. He commends Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association for

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Gilly Riojas, far right, with his wife, Andrea, and daughter, Rylynn.

their efforts toward developing young producers and future industry leaders.

“Getting them involved and more comfortable with our association at a younger age will have a lot of longterm success,” Riojas says.

Throughout the years, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association has provided Riojas with opportunities to network with other cattle raisers from across the Southwest.

“You’re able to pick up a lot of information, such as what’s working or hasn’t been working for other cattle raisers,” Riojas says. “TSCRA does a tremendous job at putting together educational sessions and networking opportunities.”

When getting involved in Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Riojas offers this advice: “Don’t be afraid just to hop in with both feet. It is an extremely welcoming group, whether you’re a private landowner or in the cattle business. It’s a great place to be surrounded by people with the same mindset.” CT

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Pete Bonds Saginaw, 2013-2016

Emily Lochner Executive Director, Engagement & Education

Richard Thorpe lll Winters, 2016-2018 Robert E. McKnight Jr. Fort Davis, 2018-2020

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G. Hughes Abell Austin, 2020-2022

Megan Wills Executive Director, Finance & Human Resources

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REGION 2

Joe M. “Jody” Bellah, Throckmorton

Kevin Busher, Winters

Blake Birdwell, Canyon

Charles M. “Charley” Christensen Jr., San Angelo

Gordon E. Sauer, Fredericksburg

C.A. “Chili” Cole IV, San Angelo

Danny B. Stewart, Sterling City

Alan F. Curry, San Angelo

Rick Tate, Marfa

James H. Dudley IV, Horseshoe Bay

Cliff Teinert, Albany

Amanda Dyer, Fort Davis

Dennis W. Webb, Barnhart

Johnny Ferguson, Big Lake

W. C. “Billy” Williams, Mertzon

DIRECTORS

E. S. F. “Swasey” Brainard II, Pampa J. K. “Rooter” Brite Jr., Bowie Donnell Brown, Throckmorton Campbell Burgess, Amarillo Deborah Clark, Henrietta Lynn Cowden, Skellytown J. B. Daniel, Crowell James Henderson, Memphis Clayton Henry, Wichita Falls

DIRECTORS

D.A. “Day” Harral, Fort Stockton Ron Helm, Van Horn Heath Hemphill, Coleman

Len P. Mertz, San Angelo Tom Perini, Buffalo Gap Bill Phinizy, Gail Frank Price, Sterling City

REGION 3 DIRECTORS

Brooks Hodges, Guthrie

Shelby W. Horn, Fredericksburg

Ford Drummond, Pawhuska, Oklahoma

Joe Leathers, Guthrie

Larry R. Horwood, Sterling City Grant Jones, Rochelle

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Frank McLelland, Tahoka Jeff Mitchell, Amarillo

Mark W. Jones, Brady

Gage Moorhouse, Benjamin

W. Clay Jones, Brady

Diaz W. Murray, Wichita Falls

Ty Keeling, Boerne

J. Malcolm Shelton IV, Amarillo

Lorenzo Lasater, San Angelo

Dale A. Smith, Amarillo

Brian T. McLaughlin, Midland

Jim Thompson, Breckenridge

David L. Neal, San Angelo

Tom Watson, Muleshoe

Gerald Nobles Jr., Brady

Wesley Welch, Lubbock

James Oliver, Ozona

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Wade Perks, San Angelo

William L. “Buck” Arrington, Pampa Van Baize, Nocona Emry Birdwell Jr., Henrietta

Jessica Tate, Marfa James Uhl, Fort McKavett

Les Nunn, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma

REGION 4 DIRECTORS

Edward Bordovsky Jr., Riviera Austin Brown III, Beeville W. Christopher Bush, Refugio James Clement lll, Kingsville David S. Crow, Corpus Christi Dustin Dean, Floresville David DeLaney, Kingsville

Cody Webb, Barnhart

Robert “Bobby” Dobson, Birmingham, Alabama

Ken Welch, Baird

James L. “Jamie” Donnell Jr., Fowlerton

Ray W. Willoughby III, Eldorado

J. David Eppright, Cost

J. D. Cage, Muleshoe

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Benjamin Eshleman III, Corpus Christi

Mike Gibson, Paducah

C. A. “Chip” Cole III, San Angelo

Joseph B.C. Fitzsimons, Carrizo Springs

Ronald J. “Ron” Gill, Chico

William C. “Billito” Donnell Jr., Alpine

Cody Fry, Lueders

Mary Lou Bradley-Henderson, Childress R. A. “Rob” Brown Jr., Throckmorton

Robert B. Mansfield, Amarillo

Richard Gates, Marfa

Jim L. Gates, Pearsall

Tom Moorhouse, Benjamin

W. H. “Billy” Green III, Albany

Milton S. Greeson Jr., Victoria

Boots O’Neal, Guthrie

Rafe Hargrove, Rotan

Bret Griffith, Del Rio

James Palmer, Roaring Springs

Dr. Joe Pat Hemphill, Coleman

Heath Grigg, Kingsville

Wilson Scaling, Henrietta

Ken Jordan, San Saba

Marty R. Harris, Tilden

Chris Scharbauer, Amarillo

Don Keeling, Fredericksburg

Leslie Kinsel, Cotulla

John Welch, Wolfforth

Chris Lacy, Fort Davis

Claude Koontz, San Antonio

A. B. “Buck” Wharton III, Vernon

Laurence M. Lasater, San Angelo

Steven J. Mafrige, Tilden

Tom Woodward, Decatur

Ben Love, Marathon

Beth Knolle Naiser, Sandia

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TSCRA Leadership Federico Nieto, Raymondville

Gardner H. Dudley, Houston

T. Michael O’Connor, Victoria

Jay C. Evans, Dripping Springs

Jason Peeler, Floresville

Lloyd French IV, Houston

J.R. Ramirez, La Pryor

Dan Gattis, Georgetown

Gilly Riojas, Corpus Christi

REGION 6 DIRECTORS

April Bonds, Saginaw Missy Bonds, Saginaw

M. Stuart Sasser, Corpus Christi

Kelley Sullivan Georgiades, College Station

Lew Thompson, Pearsall

George Harrison, Bay City

Gene S. “Primo” Walker Jr., Mirando City

Tom J. Haynie, Navasota

C. Clark Welder, Beeville

Robert Hodgen, Houston

John Zacek, Victoria

Colt Hoffman, Marlin

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Clay Kenley, Crockett

Steve G. Beever, Pearsall

Gary Price, Blooming Grove

Jason Harlow, Dallas

Richard H. Bennett, San Antonio

Clive Runnells III, Austin

Pete Hudgins, Sherman

Chip Briscoe, Carrizo Springs

John Sumner Runnells III, Bay City

Tom Johnson, Wortham

Tony Spears, Rosanky

John Z. Kimberlin Jr., Dallas

John “Rocky” Sullivan, Galveston

Ken Leiber, Fort Worth

Martin W. Clement II, Kingsville Thurman S. Clements Jr., Victoria Nixon Dillard, Pleasanton Trainor Evans, Mercedes Thomas J. “Tommy” Haegelin, Concan

Bill White, Stowell Claudia Scott Wright, Richmond

John L. Cantrell, Cresson Ian Chapman, Madill, Oklahoma Hunter Crow, Dallas James T. Dangelmayr, Muenster Seth Denbow, Weatherford Crawford Edwards, Fort Worth John Greer, Henrietta

Stefan Marchman, Fort Worth William H. McCall, Fort Worth Dan Nance, Haslet

Dr. Philip C. Hardee, Beatrice, Alabama

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Susan Roach, Fort Worth

Allen C. “Dick” Jones IV, Corpus Christi

Leroy Ezer, Anahuac

Stephen S. “Steve” Sikes, Fort Worth

David W. Killam, Laredo

Frank Green, Liberty

Bragg Smith III, Dallas

Dan W. Kinsel III, Cotulla

Coleman H. Locke, Hungerford

Curtis Younts Jr., Belton

Steve C. Lewis, San Antonio

Katharine Armstrong Love, Austin

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Richard M. Lucas Jr., Houston

Bradford S. “Brad” Barnes, Fort Worth

William “Alan” McNeill, Beaumont

George Beggs IV, Fort Worth

Evalyn Moore, Richmond

John W. Carpenter III, Dallas

Raymond E. Moore IV, Richmond

Barrett D. Clark, Breckenridge

Rick Peebles, Baytown

Markham B. Dossett, Waco

Jim McAdams, Seguin James A. McAllen, Linn Tim Pennell, Westhoff Jim Peters, Quemado Scott Petty Jr., San Antonio Tom Risinger, Weslaco Frates Seeligson Jr., San Antonio Richard Traylor, Batesville Roger F. Welder, Victoria

Gordon Richardson, Caldwell Charles R. “Butch” Robinson, Navasota

Bob Drake, Davis, Oklahoma James H. “Jim” Dudley, Comanche James E. “Jim” Link, Crowley

Nolan Ryan, Round Rock

Jon David Mayfield, Dublin

Ed Small, Austin

C. H. “Terry” McCall, Comanche

REGION 5

Guy F. Stovall Jr., El Campo

Bob Moorhouse, Weatherford

DIRECTORS

Gerald Sullivan, Galveston

Bill Cawley, Crockett

John L. Sullivan, Galveston

Mary Joe Reynolds-Montgomery, Fort Worth

Wayne Cockrell, College Station

Robert J. Underbrink, Houston

Tom L. Roach III, Bozeman, Montana

Herff Cornelius Jr., Wadsworth

Beau Brite White, Rosanky

Stephen T. “Steve” Swenson, Dallas

Carlos Detering III, Houston

Dr. M. R. “Mike” Wirtz, Brenham

Bart Wulff, Dallas

David W. Winters, Del Rio

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TSCRA Special Rangers

Scott Williamson

Executive Director, Law Enforcement, Brand and Inspection Services

District 7 Region 1 supervisor Jay Foster P.O. Box 415 Childress, TX 79201 940-475-0295

District 13 Larry Hand

District 1 Chris Ward

P.O. Box 88 Clarendon, TX 79226 806-205-0119

District 8 John Vance

P.O. Box 284 Decatur, TX 76234 903-438-6251

District 14 Darrel Bobbitt

P.O. Box 1482 Chandler, TX 75758 903-571-3488

P.O. Box 125 Kennard, TX 75847 936-222-2144

District 19 Region 2 supervisor H.D. Brittain

District 20 Kenny Murchison

District 2 Ben Eggleston

District 3 Cody Hyde

P.O. Box 206 Higgins, TX 79046 806-852-4741

P.O. Box 174 Roland, OK 74954 918-315-2925

District 9 Zach Havens

District 10 Robert Pemberton

5808 CR 247 Hico, TX 76457 254-396-1747

District 15 Marvin Wills

117 Oak Ridge Gatesville, TX 76528 254-223-2330

District 4 Region 3 supervisor Bart Perrier P.O. Box 74 Barnsdall, OK 74002 918-440-8360

District 11 Brad Oliver

District 6 Garry Brewer

P.O. Box 53931 Lubbock, TX 79453 806-778-9153

District 12 Region 6 supervisor Bo Fox

P.O. Box 341 Campbell, TX 75422 903-450-3900

350 N. Main Street Ravenna, TX 75476 903-328-8023

District 16 Joe B. Roberts

District 17 Mike Beggs

District 18 Clay McKinney

Abilene, TX 79605 325-669-1427

P.O. Box 52612 Midland, TX 79710 432-788-1884

P.O. Box 521 Sulphur Springs, TX 75482 903-348-9638

P.O. Box 1622 Pecos, TX 79772 432-448-9367

VACANT P.O. Box 65 Christoval, TX 76935 325-340-2268

P.O. Box 66 Giddings, TX 78942 512-705-3226

District 21 Contact Brent Mast 936-714-6619

District 22 Region 5 supervisor Brent Mast P.O. Box 301 Richards, TX 77873 936-714-6619

District 23 Mike Boone

District 24 Daniel Risinger

4690 Cherry Hill Road Kountze, TX 77625 409-658-5725

2993 FM 1459 Sweeny, TX 77480 979-292-5132

District 29 Region 4 supervisor Joe Aguilar Jr.

District 30 Steve Martin

STARTING SOON District 25 Robert Fields P.O. Box 734 Cuero, TX 77954 361-207-5207

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District 26 Todd Jennings

1601 East Main Fredericksburg, TX 78624 830-997-7585

District 27 Matt Sigur

P.O. Box 913 San Diego, TX 78384 361-726-2354

District 28 Kevin Marmor 1833 FM 2200 W. Devine, TX 78016 210-215-4168

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P.O. Box 341 Mission, TX 78573 956-513-0297

P.O. Box 417 Beeville, TX 78104 361-542-0496

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New Members 181 Cattle Co. Floresville

Emersyn Blanek San Angelo

Kinley Goble Christoval

2H Hoog Ranch Castroville

Bluestem Ranch May

Audrey Hammock Waxahachie

3 Lazy S Ranch Sedan, Kansas

Bourland Cattle Co. LLC Seymour

JaQuinton Hardy Red Oak

3-G Livestock & Ranch Co. San Angelo

Macy Bowers Bryan

Nicolette Hash Conroe

4G Ranch Longview

Boyero Cattle Co. Fort Worth

Heinke Ranch Bay City

A&E Cattle LLC Weatherford

Pamela Burgess Floresville

Cade Henry Kilgore

Agra Englewood, Colorado

Alexis Camara Canyon

Bernie Hernandez Rosenberg

Julie Marie Alford College Station

Danielle Carter Gold Canyon, Arizona

HHK LLC Houston

John Posey Alford College Station

CAW Legacy Marshall

Kaelynn Hoelscher Winters

Sterling Andrews Llano

Cedar Mills Farms LLC Gordonville

Honorato El Paso

Amanda Andrews Llano

CMK Cattle Co. Bulverde

Honza Ranch Ennis

Aubrey Boyd Ranch Plano

Craig Rock Ranch Jacksboro

Billy Hughes Detroit

Jeffery Bailes Throckmorton

Crooked Mesquite Ranch Richwood

Kalli Hughey Detroit

Malaina Baker Blue Ridge

CZ Land & Oil Alice

Kris & Wendy Hunt Longview

Melody Beck Bastrop

Delanie Davila Kingwood

It’ll Do Ranch Jewett

Hollis Beckham Richwood

Thomas Davis Hico

Jackson Family Ranch Austin

Biar Cattle Co. Stephenville

Diamond C Ranch San Augustine

JM Brand Farms Tusocla

Bill Wolf Dairy Windthorst

Tyler Elkins Georgetown

Jones Bayou Cattle Co. Hughes Springs

Bird Cattle Co. Winnsboro, Louisiana

Garfield Farms Donna

Jordan Farms San Angelo

Caly Blacksher Garrison

Tom Gates Buffalo Gap

JRBE Red Angus Sanger

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New Members Jaraden Kearby Lubbock

Maggie Moe Amarillo

Riley Ranch & Cattle Co. Edmond, Oklahoma

Reese Kearby San Angelo

Moore Ranch Fort Worth

Rio Cattle Alton

Brazos Kirkwood San Angelo

Nelson Farms/N&S Seed LLC Dover, Oklahoma

RKB Cattle Winnsboro

Audrey Koch Pattison

Oak Hill Ranch LLC Houston

RLCL LLC Houston

Luke Lacy San Angelo

Robert Ochoa Three Rivers

Rockin R Ranch Palmer

Paul Langford Annona

One Seven Cattle Co. LLC Rankin

Rockin Reatta Throckmorton

Lazy 5 Ranch Throckmorton

Oscar Medley Ranch Fort Davis

Routt Family Farm Chappell Hill

Lehman Ranch Santa Fe

Page Ranch Bay City

Running H Ranch Winters

Lone Oak Ranch Clifton

Kelly Waltman Payne Winnsboro

S Bar Ranch Royse City

Lone Wolf Operations, Unlimited LLC Water Valley

Ava Pluchino Houston

Sawyer-Soape Cattle Needville

Lost Springs Ranch San Angelo

PNTechnologies Canyon

Ruby Schell Houston

M&E Cattle LLC Floresville

Purple Wave Auction Manhattan, Kansas

Wes Shaw McLean

Weldon Mahan Woodway

Ranch Emmanouella Lewisville

Melanie Sherry Houston

Kevin Martin Pace, Florida

Ranches & Rivers LLC Uvalde

Donald Shive Abilene

Logan Lee Martin Vega

Red Kardinal Livestock Co. San Angelo

Sisco Ranching Co. Water Valley

McDermott Farms Gilmer

Reed Cattle Co. Azle

Phillip Sollock Somerville

Elizabeth McGibbon Green Valley, Arizona

Reeder Ranches Weatherford

Southard Family Ranches Decatur

MD3 Ranch Emory

James Reimer Seminole

SP Cattle Co. Valliant, Oklahoma

Rusty Mertink Giddings

April Rice College Station

Squanderosa Ranch Stephenville

Frank H. Miska Sweeny

Michael Rich Jacksboro

SR Ranch Brenham

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THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE

T-T Livestock San Saba

We believe no one cares more for the land than those that steward it. Together, we can revitalize each acre of soil across our grazing lands. Join others working to preserve this essential natural resource. You can make a difference. Don’t wait. Donate today.

Tangney Booms Bellville The Cow Camp Thrall The Rocking B Santo

Just like every acre matters, so does every gift.

Benny Thomas Sunnyvale Tipton Ranch Jacksboro Terry Tolbert Nacogdoches Travis Family Ennis Turman Farm Flint Carter & Hannah Turner Wichita Falls Ross Vinson Tuscola WA Ranch Llano Warren Ranch Properties Fort Worth Herman & Nancy Weber Blanco Justin Williams Alvin Jack Worley Marshall

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Jason W. Yarbrough Comanche

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Auction Markets & Market Inspectors ANDERSON Elkhart Horse Auction

BURLESON

Caldwell Livestock Comm.

Where: Elkhart Phone: 903-764-1495 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Tiffany Patterson, 903-388-7288

Where: Caldwell Phone: 979-567-4119 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Mark Nygard, 512-281-6330

ATASCOSA

CALDWELL

Atascosa Livestock Exchange

Lockhart Auction

Where: Pleasanton Phone: 830-281-2516 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Marvin Bendele, 210-213-5890

Where: Lockhart Phone: 512-398-3476 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Nina Nygard, 512-281-6753

AUSTIN

CAMP

Four County Auction

Bruce Overstreet Livestock

Where: Industry Phone: 979-357-2545 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Lisa Sebastian, 979-270-3041

Where: Pittsburg Phone: 903-856-3440 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Michelle Willeford, 903-767-0670

BAILEY

CHEROKEE

Muleshoe Livestock Auction

Tri County Livestock Market

Where: Muleshoe Phone: 806-272-4201 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Leo Aviles, 956-437-3899

Where: New Summerfield Phone: 903-726-3291 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Jason Spence, 903-316-1950

BEE

COLEMAN

Beeville Livestock Comm.

Where: Beeville Phone: 361-358-1727 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Robert Bridge, 361-542-6693

BOSQUE Meridian L/S Comm. Co. Where: Meridian Phone: 254-435-2988 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Larry Brown, 254-265-1920

Clifton Livestock Comm. LLC Where: Clifton Phone: 254-675-7717 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Larry Brown, 254-265-1920

BOWIE J & J Livestock Auction Where: Texarkana Phone: 903-832-3576 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Cheri Beal, 903-280-4554

Coleman Livestock Auction Where: Coleman Phone: 325-625-4191 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Dave Williams, 325-669-2030

COLORADO

Where: Columbus Phone: 979-732-2622 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Lisa Sebastian, 979-270-1228

COMANCHE

Comanche Livestock Exchange Where: Comanche Phone: 325-356-5231 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Michael Davis, 254-879-3121

COOKE

Where: Dalhart Phone: 806-249-5505 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Clifton Miller, 806-570-7439

DEAF SMITH Hereford Livestock Auction Where: Hereford Phone: 806-240-3082 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Joe Bob Via, 806-452-9280

DEWITT Cuero Livestock Comm.

Where: Cuero Phone: 361-275-2329 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Kaylee Malatek, 979-942-0323

EASTLAND Texas Cattle Exchange Where: Eastland Phone: 254-629-2288 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Ronnie Ober, 817-371-7071

ERATH Dublin Livestock Auction Where: Dublin Phone: 254-445-1734 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Ronnie Ober, 817-371-7071

Erath County Dairy Sale Where: Dublin Phone: 254-968-7253 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Bob McBryde, 940-859-6217

Stephenville Cattle Co. Where: Stephenville Phone: 254-968-4844 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Bob McBryde, 940-859-6217

The New Gainesville Livestock Auction

FAYETTE

Where: Gainesville Phone: 940-665-4367 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Robin Gibbs, 903-227-0791

Flatonia Livestock Comm.

CORYELL

Where: Bryan Phone: 979-778-0904 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Nina Nygard, 512-281-6753

Where: Gatesville Phone: 254-865-9121 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Ray Davis, 254-718-5512

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Cattleman’s Livestock Comm.

Cattleman’s Columbus Livestock Auction

BRAZOS

Brazos Valley Livestock Comm.

DALLAM

Coryell County Comm.

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Where: Flatonia Phone: 361-865-3538 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Danielle Robbins, 512-944-0383

Schulenburg Livestock Auction Where: Schulenburg Phone: 979-743-6566 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Vance Weltner, 210-473-9099

December 2023

Auction Markets & Market Inspectors FLOYD Floydada Livestock Sales

HAMILTON

Hamilton Livestock Comm.

Where: Floydada Phone: 806-983-2153 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: JE Stone, 806-777-4396

Where: Hamilton Phone: 254-386-3185 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Bob McBryde, 940-859-6217

FRIO

HARDIN

Pearsall Livestock Auction Where: Pearsall Phone: 830-334-3653 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Clarence Stevens, 210-415-0441

GILLESPIE Gillespie Livestock Co. Where: Fredericksburg Phone: 830-997-4394 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Larry Bowden, 210-846-0380

GONZALES Gonzales Livestock Market Where: Gonzales Phone: 830-672-2845 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Derek Bettis, 979-743-9699

Nixon Livestock Comm.

Where: Nixon Phone: 830-582-1561 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Landyn Maguglin, 361-492-9484

GREGG Longview Livestock Where: Longview Phone: 903-235-6385 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Paul Pruitt, 903-725-6200

GRIMES

Gore Family Auction Center Where: Silsbee Phone: 409-782-0612 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Christy McCoy, 409-782-0612

HENDERSON

Athens Comm. Co. Where: Athens Phone: 903-675-3333 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Brandy Baughman, 903-440-4382

HIDALGO

Edinburg Livestock Auction Where: Edinburg Phone: 956-383-5671 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Coney Alvarez Jr., 956-437-3899

HILL

Hubbard Livestock Market Where: Hubbard Phone: 254-576-2584 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Bob McBryde, 940-859-6217

HOPKINS

Sulphur Springs Livestock Comm.

Where: Sulphur Springs Phone: 903-885-2455 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Paul Pruitt, 903-725-6200

HOUSTON

East Texas Livestock Auction

JASPER Kirbyville Auction Barn Where: Kirbyville Phone: 409-423-2612 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Jerry Boulware, 936-465-1597

JIM WELLS Gulf Coast Livestock Market Where: Alice Phone: 361-664-4395 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Ramiro Garcia, 361-460-0008

JOHNSON Johnson County Cattle Auction Where: Cleburne Phone: 817-556-9090 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Lee Snyder, 254-707-1682

KARNES Karnes City Auction Where: Karnes City Phone: 830-780-3382 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Landyn Maguglin, 361-492-9484

Karnes County Livestock Exchange Where: Kenedy Phone: 830-583-2574 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Kaylee Malatek, 979-942-0323

LAMAR Cattlemen’s Livestock Comm.

Where: Paris Phone: 903-784-2238 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Lana Caldwell, 903-908-0530

Paris Livestock Auction

Where: Crockett Phone: 936-544-2246 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Cheyenne London, 936-222-3689

Where: Paris Phone: 903-739-2575 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Robin Gibbs, 903-227-0791

HOWARD

LAMPASAS

Where: Big Spring Phone: 432-267-5881 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Bruce Brandenberger, 254-977-5763

Where: Lampasas Phone: 512-556-3611 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Ray Davis, 254-718-5512

GUADALUPE

JACKSON

LAVACA

Edna Livestock Auction

Hallettsville Livestock Comm.

Where: Seguin Phone: 830-379-9955 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Robert Fields, 361-207-5207

Where: Edna Phone: 361-782-7666 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Galynn Mazoch, 979-578-1823

Where: Hallettsville Phone: 361-798-4336 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Kaylee Malatek, 979-942-0323

Mid-Tex Livestock Auction Where: Anderson Phone: 936-825-3970 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Danielle Robbins, 512-944-0383

Navasota Livestock Auction Where: Navasota Phone: 936-825-6545 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Rick Faught, 936-442-1039

Seguin Cattle Co.

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Big Spring Livestock Auction

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MEDINA

RUSK

Where: Giddings Phone: 979-542-2274 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Nina Nygard, 512-281-6753

Where: Hondo Phone: 830-741-8061, Sale Day: Monday Contact: Clarence Stevens, 210-415-0441

Where: Henderson Phone: 903-657-2690 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Samuel Steadman, 318-617-1141

Lexington Livestock Comm.

MILAM

SAN SABA

Where: Cameron Phone: 254-697-6697 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Rick Faught, 936-442-1039

Where: San Saba Phone: ­325-372-5159 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: David Munden, 325-456-7253

NACOGDOCHES

SHELBY

Where: Nacogdoches Phone: 936-564-8661 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Michael Witcher, 936-556-0992

Where: Center Phone: 936-598-4395 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: Michael Witcher, 936-556-0992

NAVARRO

STARR

Where: Corsicana Phone: 903-872-1631 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Tyler Rader, 713-907-2725

Where: Rio Grande City Phone: 956-437-1988 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Coney Alvarez Jr., 956-437-3899

PANOLA

SWISHER

Where: Carthage Phone: 903-693-6361 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Lori Blankenship, 936-234-3441

Where: Tulia Phone: 806-995-4184 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Michael Vessels, 806-517-3188

POLK

TAYLOR

Where: Livingston Phone: 936-327-4917 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Harvey Williamson, 963-334-5325

Where: Abilene Phone: 325-673-7865 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Dave Williams, 325-669-2030

POTTER

TITUS

Where: Amarillo Phone: 806-677-0777 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Michael Vessels, 806-517-3188

Where: Mt. Pleasant Phone: 903-575-9099 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Paul Pruitt, 903-725-6200

RAINS

TOM GREEN

Where: Emory Phone: 903-473-2512 Sale Days: Tuesday & Saturday Contact: Brandy Baughman, 903-440-4382

Where: San Angelo Phone: 325-653-3371 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Bruce Halfmann, 325-315-5972

Giddings Livestock Comm.

Where: Lexington Phone: 979-773-2922 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Nina Nygard, 512-281-6753

LEON Buffalo Livestock Comm.

Where: Buffalo Phone: 903-322-4940 Sale Day: Saturday Contact: Tyler Rader, 713-907-2725

LIBERTY Raywood Livestock Market Where: Raywood Phone: 936-587-4941 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Harvey Williamson, 963-334-5325

LIMESTONE Groesbeck Auction & Livestock Where: Groesbeck Phone: 254-729-3277 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Tyler Rader, 713-907-2725

LIVE OAK Live Oak Livestock Auction Where: Three Rivers Phone: 361-786-2553 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Marvin Bendele, 210-213-5890

MASON Jordan Cattle Auction Where: Mason Phone: 325-347-6361 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Warren Ottmers, 830-669-2262

MCLENNAN Waco Stockyards Where: Waco Phone: 254-753-3191 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Larry Brown, 254-265-1920

West Auction Where: West Phone: 254-826-3725 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Ray Davis, 254-718-5512

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Hunt Livestock Exchange

Union Comm.

Milam County Livestock Auction

Nacogdoches Livestock Exchange

Corsicana Livestock Market

Panola Livestock

Livingston Livestock Exchange

Lonestar Stockyards

Emory Livestock Auction

Jordan Cattle Auction

Center Auction Co.

Triple G Livestock Auction LLC

Tulia Livestock Auction

Abilene Auction

Stone Livestock Comm.

Producers Livestock Auction

ROBERTSON

UVALDE

Where: Calvert Phone: 979-364-2829 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Ray Davis, 254-718-5512

Where: Uvalde Phone: 830-278-5621 Sale Day: Thursday Contact: Clarence Stevens, 210-415-0441

Calvert Livestock Co.

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Auction Markets & Market Inspectors VAN ZANDT

WISE

Wharton Livestock Auction Where: Wharton

Mort Livestock Exchange

Decatur Livestock Market

Phone: 979-532-3660

Where: Canton

Sale Day: Wednesday

Phone: 903-287-6386

Contact: Galynn Mazoch, 979-578-1823

Sale Day: Special Sales Only Contact: Paul Pruitt, 903-725-6200

WICHITA

WASHINGTON

WOOD

Wichita Livestock Sales

Brenham Livestock Auction

Where: Wichita Falls Phone: 940-541-2222 Sale Day: Wednesday Contact: R.C. Langford, 832-330-7279

Where: Brenham Phone: 979-836-3621 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Lisa Sebastian, 979-270-3041

WILBARGER

WHARTON

Where: Vernon Phone: 940-552-6000 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Dennis Wilson, 940-613-7693

Where: El Campo Phone: 979-543-2703 Sale Day: Tuesday Contact: Galynn Mazoch, 979-578-1823

Winnsboro Livestock Auction Where: Winnsboro Phone: 903-365-2201 Sale Day: Friday Contact: Alan Pruitt, 903-725-6200

YOUNG

Vernon Livestock Market LLC

El Campo Livestock Co.

Where: Decatur Phone: 940-627-5599 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Rebecca Benson, 940-389-6382

Graham Livestock Comm. LLC Where: Graham Phone: 940-549-0078 Sale Day: Monday Contact: Kyla Rater, 940-284-9968

At Cactus Feeders The Cattle Come First, and Our Cattle Feeding Customers are the Core of Our Business - Let’s Partner on the Cattle When Our Folks Drive Through the Gate They Think and Act Like Owners Because They Are Owners - They Have a Vested Interest in the Cattle They Care For

Get to know the individuals who make Cactus Feeders a success.

Cactus Feedyard

Matthew Turney, Manager Cactus, TX office: (806) 966-5151 cell: (806) 282-7077

Centerfire Feedyard Adam Gerrond, Manager Ulysses, KS office: (620) 356-2010 cell: (806) 390-9034

Frontier Feedyard

Southwest Feedyard

Jon Vanwey, Manager Spearman, TX office: (806) 882-4251 cell: (719) 251-2381

Kacey Graham, Manager Hereford, TX office: (806) 364-0693 cell: (806) 316-8799

Stratford Feedyard

Hale Center Feedyard

Pistol Audrain, Manager Stratford, TX office: (806) 396-5501 cell: (806) 753-7133

At Cactus, our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) makes each employee an owner of the company. They think like owners and take care of the cattle like owners. That’s the secret to what has made Cactus Feeders a success, and that will continue to make us successful tomorrow.

Custom Cattle Feeding

Retained Ownership

Partner on Cattle

Wolf Creek Feedyard Keith Brinson, Manager Perryton, TX office: (806) 435-5697 cell: (806) 282-7588

Wrangler Feedyard

Rusty Jackson, Manager Hale Center, TX office: (806) 879-2104 cell: (806) 773-9457

Randy Shields, Manager Tulia, TX office: (806) 583-2131 cell: (806) 290-0559

Ulysses Feedyard

Syracuse Feedyard

Adam Gerrond, Manager Ulysses, KS office: (620) 356-1750 cell:(806) 390-9034

Phil Moreman, Manager Syracuse, KS office: (620) 384-7431 cell: (806) 340-4790

Sell Us Cattle

Call Any of the General Managers Listed Above or Call The Headquarters in Amarillo (806) 371-4715

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Sartwelle Brahman Ranch Ltd P O Box 27, Campbellton, Texas USA 78008

Sensibly Bred and Raised Brahman Cattle Sugie Sartwelle J. D. Sartwelle III

979-877-4239 361-500-5792

Email: sartwellej@gmail.com

SATTERFIELD RANCH

at LOST PRAIRIE LAKE • Palestine, Texas

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Registered Gray Brahmans Dr. Scott & Nancy Satterfield 410 ACR 376 • Palestine, TX 75801

830-613-1492 www.satterfieldranch.com

Cullin Smith

Contact Regional Manager Radale Tiner: 979-492-2663 rtiner@angus.org

(409)779-9872

Private Treaty Welcome!!

STEVE & GINGER OLSON © 2020-2021 American Angus Association

www.thicketycreekfarm.com

Hereford, TX | (806) 676-3556 Steve@olsoncattle.com

Double Creek Farms Angus Bulls for Sale – At all Times

BLACK HEREFORD

Matthew Domel Cell: 254-749-3253 Mike & Barbara Domel – Meridian, TX Office: 254-435-2988 • Cell: 254-749-2240 www.mlslivestock.com Bob Funk, owner Jarold Callahan, president Yukon, Oklahoma 800.664.3977 Angus & Hereford

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Bill Carr

Steve & Laura Knoll

405.880.3866

Casey Beefmasters

Web site: deteringredbrahmans.com

littlerobe www.2barangus.com

Jarrod Payne

fax: 210-732-7711 www.beefmasters.org

Watt M. Casey/Watt Jr. 325-668-1373 Albany, Texas 76430 www.CaseyBeefmasters.com

DALE & BRENDA JENKINS, DONNA JENKINS 806-852-2485, 806-255-8873

Tracy Woods

P.O. Box 3790 Bryan, Tx 77805

210-732-3132

Janet, Steve and Carlton Partin 3159 FM 837 • Montalba, Texas 75853 903-549-3000 • partin.partin@aol.com Quality Janet Partin: 903-922-3689 Brahman Carlton Partin: 407-709-0297 Cattle www.heartbarranch.com Since 1936

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Liendo Plantation, 38653 Wyatt Chapel Rd. Hempstead, TX 77445 Will Detering, owner 281.989.8965

Robert L. Hogue M.D. • Judy Hogue 6 Spring Hollow, Brownwood, Texas 76801 Ranch: 10108 CR 237 • Phone: 325-643-2225 Cell: 325-647-9168 • Fax: 326-643-6235 Email: rlhmd@familymedical.us

ANGUS

PRIVATE TREATY ANGUS BULLS AVAILABLE

BRAHMAN

ROEDER ANGUS RANCH Rick & Mikelle Roeder, Stonewall, Texas 479-409-2248 QUALITY REGISTERED ANGUS CATTLE

BRANGUS

Mike & Carla Bacica 11707 FM 2868 Flint, TX 75762 Mike: 903-520-0390 mbpga@aol.com Registered Black Herefords Carla: 903-530-8551 bacicafarms.com wtnca@aol.com

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EVERY DAY IS SALE DAY AT

Farris Ranching Company “West Texas Tough”

NEEL POLLED HEREFORDS

HEREFORD

contact us

Brangus and Ultrablack Bulls

Curtiss Nipp 580.513.3555 email: NIPPCHAROLAIS@YAHOO.COM

Danny & MB Farris Tuscola, TX 325.669.5727

BAR J BAR HEREFORD RANCH Texas’ Only Hereford Operation West of the Rio Grande Jim Cell 915-479-5299 • Sue Cell 915-549-2534

QUALITY CHAROLAIS BULLS & HEIFERS

REGISTERED + GENTLE

D.P. OWEN + GROESBECK, TEXAS 254-729-8644

Super Baldie Bred Heifers Available Fall to Early Spring

Brangus Bulls

For Sale Year Round ™ P.O. Box 253

Jim and Sue Darnell

TEXAS RANCH:

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OKLAHOMA RANCH:

County Hwy 50 7 miles north of Hwy 64 Freedom, Okla.

ABLA SPAÑOL

5 Paseo de Paz Lane El Paso, Texas 79932

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Ranch located six miles north of Big Lake, Texas on Highway 137.

Don and Kathy Schill 903-388-1342 • Donie, Texas

Steve Wayne Coates Box 645 Mertzon, TX 76941 325/835-2531

THOMAS CHAROLAIS, INC.

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940-736-5502 Dale

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THE BOLD BREED

Mitch Thomas: 956-535-0936 Tonnyre Thomas Joe: 956-535-0942 thomasra@gte.net www.thomascharolais.com

Registered Polled Herefords www.DoubleDiamondHerefords.com McDade, Texas 512.970.1595

Rusk, Texas 512.970.3588

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“Quality Registered Herefords” Est.1921 – Bulls for sale at all times out of good milking cows

Office: 512-446-6200 Cell: 979-218-0065

Powell Herefords

James L. Powell • Arthur Uhl • James Uhl 36 W. Beauregard, Ste. 301 • San Angelo, Texas 76903

O: 325-653-1688 • F: 325-653-3573 www.powellranches.com powellranches@gmail.com

David Neal, Ranch Manager

Britt Mynatt, Herd Manager

325-456-0669 or 325-651-2826 325-853-2202 or 325-340-2121

Redbird Ranch

Herefords • Golden Certified F1s Harlen Merks, Mgr ph 361.649.1717 Nopal, TX • 11 mi. N of Yorktown

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Kevin Warnken 979-743-0619

ROCKIN’ W POLLED HEREFORDS Drawer 29, Schulenburg, TX 78956 979-561-8867 fax • rockinw@cvctx.com

Elegance & Improved Water Quality!

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40 years of selective breeding/performance testing for… Easy Calving… and… Explosive Growth

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Caleb Boscamp 830-857-5189 Julie Boscamp 830-857-5129 julieboscamp@yahoo.com

FOR SALE

Contact: Nina Neel Sanders 214-454-8587 • Brady, TX

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ROLLING O FARMS

Registered Polled Herefords & Black Baldies

cell: 830-591-3110 P.O. Box 1039, Sabinal, TX 78881

Lee & Jacqui Haygood

923 Hillside Ave. Canadian, TX 79014 806-323-2906 lee@indianmoundranch.com www.indianmoundranch.com

Sell your equipment in our next online auction, your location or ours

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APPRAISALS

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Joey and Susan Skrivanek, owners 407 W. Mustang • Caldwell, TX 77836 • Cell 979-224-4698 Office 979-567-3131• J.SKRiVANEKRANCH@outlook.com Nine miles east of Caldwell on Hwy. 21 or 15 miles west of Bryan-College Station on Hwy. 21

J.T. Echols DVM P.O. Box 709 • Breckenridge, TX 76424 Of: (254) 559-9739 • Cell: (254) 559-0156

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Registered Herefords

7611 State Hwy 94 • Lufkin, Texas 75904

Pete Johnson owner

PH: 936-465-1672 www.sunnyhillranchherefords.com

TEXAS HEREFORD ASSOCIATION 4609 Airport Freeway Fort Worth, Texas 76117 817/831-3161

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HELP

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PROFESSIONAL JUSTIN Agency SERVICES

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INSURANCE

Gentle Foundation Blue Roan Quarter Horses

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www.MesaTRanch.com Director of Operations Cody Webb

Operations Manager Tony Martinez

Barnhart, Texas

325.835.2025

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Serving Texas for 20 years

NEW LISTING! YESO EAST RANCH – De Baca Co., NM - Hwy. 60 frontage. 6,307± deeded, 1,556± State Lease and 40± uncontrolled acres. Terrain is gently rolling with good grass and is divided into three pastures. Wildlife includes antelope, some mule deer, quail, etc. The ranch has good improvements (including home) convenient access and has been well managed.

VAUGHAN RIVER RANCH – 11,628.76 ac. +/- deeded - a scenic, live water ranch on the Pecos River south of Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. Excellent example of a southwestern cattle ranch with wildlife to boot all within minutes of the convenience of town. Call us to take a look!

UNION CO., NM – This 1,966 +/- acre ranch located just south of Clayton, New Mexico is in some of the most sought-after grazing land in the Continental U.S.A. The ranch will be excellent for a yearling operation, with high quality grass, good fences and water.

UNION CO., NM - 2,091.72 ac. (1,771.72 Deeded, 320 ac. -/+ State Lease), well watered w/three wells, two sets of steel pens. Well located just off of the Clayton/ Springer hwy. on Barney Road.

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(800) 545-8308 • bubanfinancial.com

Ben G. Scott - Broker • Krystal M. Nelson - NM QB 800-933-9698 5:00 a.m./10:00 p.m.

REAL ESTATE

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RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE

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CRAIG BUFORD

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RED ANGUS

325-655-3555

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Registered Red Angus Kyley DeVoe 940-367-4708

Judy Kay Ferguson 214-536-6902

redangus3k@mac.com flyingk3cattle@mac.com 320 West Main Street • Lewisville, Texas 75057

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RED BRANGUS American Red Brangus Association 512-858-7285

www.americanredbrangus.org

From The Home of SANTA GERTRUDIS “Reputation” CATTLE Breeding Santa Gertrudis Since 1936

JOHN MARTIN RANCHES

Box 869, San Diego, Texas 78384 Ranch: 361-701-5683

Traylor Division San Roque Division San Carlos Division Bloomington, TX Catarina, TX Rio Grande City, TX

Joe Jones-Manager • 361/897-1337

Black or Red Simbrah • SimAngus HT • SimAngus

Performance Tested Beef Type Santa

Gertrudis

Harris Riverbend Farms

P.O. Box 691 Cleburne, TX 76031

Glen Rose, TX

Home (817) 641-4159

David Harris Office (817) 641-4771

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Stonewall Valley Ranch

Registerd Texas Longhorn bulls, cows, heifers, roping steers, trophy steers, semen, mounts skulls for sale.

Overnight accommodations available on the ranch.

WAGYU

Joe & Beth Mercer 327 CR 459, Lott, TX 76656 • 956-802-6995 bethmercer1974@gmail.com • www.filegoniacattle.com

Office: (806) 652-3351 / Fax: (806) 652-3738 fosterbros@att.net / www.fosterbrosfarms.com David & DarLee Foster

(806) 652-3824 (806) 983-7221 mbl.

Jody & Shawnda Foster

(806) 652-2383 (806) 983-7225 mbl.

100% Wagyu Bulls + Beef for Sale The Ultimate in ... Calving Ease, Price Premium, and Carcass Quality Kevin & Jessica Moore 2929 Oak Hill Rd., Alvarado, TX 76009 Kevin: 817-822-7109 • Jessica: 817-822-7402 Kevin@m6ranch.com • www.m6ranch.com

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FILEGONIA

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TEXAS LONGHORN

P.O. Box 1417 Victoria, Texas 77902 361/573-7141

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Simmental & SimAngus

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In key locations across Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, Helena has branches staffed with people who can provide landowners, ranchers and wildlife enthusiasts with all their management needs.

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Upcoming Events

MARK YOUR CALENDAR DECEMBER

SATURDAY, DEC. 2

Special Replacement Female Sale Where: Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba When: 10 a.m.

TUESDAY, DEC. 5 BQA Training

Where: Hale County Extension Office, Plainview When: 9 a.m.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6

TSCRA Landowners Rights Along the Border Where: Pearsall Livestock Auction, Pearsall When: 9 a.m.

Where: Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba When: 10 a.m.

JANUARY 2024 MONDAY, JAN. 1

Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo: Registration Opens

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3

Where: Hemphill County, Canadian When: 9 a.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 7 – SATURDAY, DEC. 9 Tulsa Farm Show

FRIDAY, JAN. 5

Where: Cattlemen’s Congress, Oklahoma City

THURSDAY, JAN. 11 Wichita Falls Luncheon

Where: McBride’s Steakhouse, Wichita Falls When: 11:30 a.m.

FRIDAY, JAN. 12 – SUNDAY, FEB. 4

Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

SATURDAY, JAN. 13

Where: Sage Net Center, Tulsa When: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Fort Worth Stock Show: Ranch Rodeo Gathering & Pin Pickup

FRIDAY, DEC. 8

Where: Dickies Arena When: 5 p.m.

TSCRA Landowners Rights Along the Border

TUESDAY, JAN. 16

Where: Triple G Livestock Auction, Rio Grande City When: 9 a.m.

Ranching 101: Health Schedules

SATURDAY, DEC. 9

THURSDAY, JAN. 18

Where: Desdemona When: 12 p.m.

Where: Byars, Oklahoma

GKB Cattle & Barber Ranch Hereford Female Event

TUESDAY, DEC. 12

Ranching 101: Sharing Our Industry Where: Online When: 1 p.m.

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Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show Where: Orlando, Florida

San Angelo Stock Show

National Angus Bull Sale

BQA Training

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31 – SUNDAY, FEB. 2

THURSDAY, JAN. 4

Shady Oak Farm Charolais & SimAngus Bull Sale

THURSDAY, DEC. 7

Where: Karnes County Livestock Exchange, Kenedy When: 9 a.m.

Where: Ashland, Kansas

FEBRUARY 2024

Where: Cattlemen’s Congress, Oklahoma City

Where: Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba When: 10 a.m.

TSCRA Landowners Rights Along the Border

MONDAY, JAN. 22

Gardiner Angus Ranch: 7th Annual Early Bird Bull Sale

Linz Heritage Angus: GMC & Denim & Diamonds

TSCRA Ranch Gathering Where: Edinburg When: 5:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY, DEC. 14

Leachman Cattle: Texas Fall Profit Sale

Where: Online When: 1 p.m.

Linz Heritage Angus: 8th Annual Bull Sale

SATURDAY, JAN. 20

Special Replacement Female Sale Where: Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba When: 10 a.m.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 1 – SUNDAY, FEB. 18 Where: San Angelo

SATURDAY, FEB. 3

South Texas Hereford Association: Bull Sale Featuring Case Ranch

Where: Beeville Livestock Commission LLC

THURSDAY, FEB. 8

Martin-Bruni Brangus & STS Ranger Registered Angus Bull Sale Where: Jordan Cattle Auction, San Saba When: 10 a.m.

THURSDAY, FEB. 8 – SUNDAY, FEB 25

San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Where: San Antonio

SATURDAY, FEB. 10

Bradley 3 Ranch: The Wide Body Sale Where: Estelline

WEDNESDAY, FEB 14

San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo: All Breeds Bull & Female Sale Where: Auction Barn, San Antonio When: 10 a.m.

TUESDAY, FEB. 20

Ranching 101: Top Tricks to Negotiating an Alternative Energy Contract Where: Online When: 1 p.m.

THURSDAY, FEB. 27 – SUNDAY, MAR. 17

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Where: Houston

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Ad Index 2 Bar Angus ............................................................... 72 3K Land & Cattle ..................................................... 74 44 Farms ......................................... 72, Back Cover 701x Autonomous Rancher .............................. 33

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Amber Luedke, CPA ............................................. 74 American Angus Assoc. ..................................... 72 American Red Brangus Assoc. ...................... 75 Arrowhead Ranch ................................................. 73 Artesian Cattle & Farming LLC ...................... 72

B

Bacica Farms ............................................................ 72 Bar G Feedyard ........................................................ 17 Bar J Bar Hereford Ranch ................................. 73 Beefmaster Breeders United .................... 3, 72 BioZyme Inc. ............................................................. 52 Borchers Southern Y Ranches LP ................ 75 Bradley 3 Ranch ..................................................... 59 Buban Financial Services................................... 74

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Cactus Feeders ........................................................ 71 Case Ranch Herefords ........................................ 57 Casey Beefmasters ............................................... 72 CattleMax .................................................................... 41 Charles S. Middleton ............................................ 74 Chip Cole & Associates ....................................... 74 Coates Ranch Co. ................................................... 73 Coldwell Banker ..................................................... 36 Cox Concrete Products ....................................... 17

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Dan W. Kinsel III ...................................................... 74 Dennis Charolais .................................................... 73 Detering Red Brahmans ................................... 72 Doak Lambert ......................................................... 74 Double Creek Farms ............................................ 72 Double Diamond Herefords ............................ 73 Double Diamond Ranch .................................... 72 Dudley Bros. ............................................................. 73

E

Envu Range & Pasture ........................................ 37 Express Ranches .................................................... 72 Express Scale Services ....................................... 46

F

Farris Ranching Co. ............................................... 73 Filegonia Cattle Co. .............................................. 75 Fishpondaerator .................................................... 73 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo .................. 31 Foster Bros. Farms ................................................ 75

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Gardiner Angus Ranch ....................................... 72 GKB Cattle ............................................................. 7, 72 Grandin Livestock Systems ............................. 59

H

Hall & Hall ................................................................... 74 Harlow Cattle Co. ............... Inside Front Cover Harris Riverbend Farms ..................................... 75 Head Honchos LLC ............................................... 74 Helena Agri-Enterprises LLC ........................... 75 Herbster Angus Farms ................................ 20, 21 Hi-Pro Feeds .............................................................. 51 Hilltop Ranch Beefmasters ............................. 72 Hogue Cattle Co. .................................................... 72 Howard Herefords ................................................. 73

I

Indian Hills Ranch ................................................. 73 Indian Mound Ranch ........................................... 73 IO Ranch Processing LLC .................................. 28 Isa Beefmasters ...................................................... 72

J

J.D. Hudgins Inc. ..................................................... 77 John Deere ................................................................ 47 John Martin Ranches .......................................... 75 Johnson Cattle Marketing ................................ 74 Jordan Cattle Auction ......................................... 27 Jorgensen Land & Cattle .................................... 81 Justin Insurance Agency .................................. 74

K

Kaddatz Equipment ............................................. 73 King Ranch Institute ............................................ 29

L

Lawrence Family Limousin .............................. 74 Leachman Cattle ................................................... 82 Lee, Lee & Puckitt .................................................. 74 Linz Heritage Angus ............................................ 53 Littlerobe Angus Ranch ..................................... 72 LRB Ranches ............................................................ 75

M

M6 Ranch .................................................................... 75 Mallett Simmentals .............................................. 75 Mesa T Ranch ........................................................... 74 MK Ranch ................................................................... 73 Moly Manufacturing ......... Inside Back Cover Moore Angus ............................................................ 72 Morgan Stanley/Mark McAndrew ................ 74 MP Brangus .............................................................. 73 Muleshoe Ranch ..................................................... 73

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Neel Polled Herefords ......................................... 73 Nipp Charolais ......................................................... 73 No Bull Enterprises ............................................... 59 Noack Herefords .................................................... 73 Noble Research Institute .................................. 66 Nu Wagyu .................................................................. 75

O

Olson Land & Cattle ............................................. 72 Outfront Cattle Service ...................................... 74

P

Parker Friedrich Marketing & Consulting ...... 74 Partin & Partin Heart Bar Ranch .................. 72 Peacock Angus Ranch ....................................... 72 Powell Herefords ............................................ 67, 73

R

Ramro LLC/RJ Cattle Co. ........................... 45, 73 Redbird Ranch ................................................. 32, 73 Rocker b Ranch ....................................................... 74 Rockin’ W Polled Herefords ............................ 73 Rocking Chair Ranch ........................................... 49 Roeder Angus Ranch .......................................... 72 Rolling O Farms ...................................................... 73 Rusty’s Weigh Scales .......................................... 28

S

Sartwelle Brahman Ranch ............................... 72 Satterfield Ranch ................................................... 72 Schneider Brahmans ........................................... 72 Scott Land Co. ......................................................... 74 Skrivanek Ranches ............................................... 73 Stonewall Valley Ranch ...................................... 75 Sunny Hill Ranch Herefords ............................ 73 SW&S Cattle Co. ...................................................... 73

T

Texas Christian University ................................ 77 Texas Hereford Assoc. ......................................... 73 Thickety Creek Farm ............................................ 72 Thomas Charolais Inc. ......................................... 73 TSCRA Cattle Raisers Insurance ...................... 9 TSCRA Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo ....... 79 TSCRA Education ................................................... 43 TSCRA Holiday Gift Guide ......................... 38, 39 TSCRA Membership ............................................. 34 TSCRA Sponsors ..................................................... 35

U

United Country/Craig Buford ......................... 74

W

Wesley Theuret Herefords ............................... 74

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A Look Back

DECEMBER 1923 Warm holiday wishes from this darling cowboy, Fred Rodway III of Sarita.

A century ago, the magazine reported Texas rangelands were in excellent condition. With lush, plentiful grasses and an abundance of water, what more could be on a cattle raiser’s Christmas list?

The Texas Livestock Report was hopeful grazing conditions would hold strong throughout the coming winter months. Generations later, the same wish remains. CT

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