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Just Your Standard Bull-May 26, 2023
published: May 26th 2023 by: Michael Sturgess source: Southern Livestock Standard
As we wind down a super Spring sale season, we are reminded that it takes a great deal of people and effort, all pulling in the same direction, to achieve the outcome we desire. Conducting a successful sale is no easy task, and it is best accomplished with the assistance of many qualified professionals....
Texas Trails-May 26, 2023
published: May 26th 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
What Stanley Walker saw Legendary journalist and editor Stanley Walker is best known for his time in New York City but his roots and values were firmly set on the Lampasas County ranch where he grew up and where he returned when the urban life he chronicled so well became too much for him....
ICA News-May 26, 2023
published: May 26th 2023 by: ICA source: Southern Livestock Standard
From the Exectuive Vice President I hope everyone has enjoyed the recent rains many have been blessed with these past couple of weeks and let’s pray it continues. ICA has been busy working the legislative session in Austin, monitoring farm bill discussions in Washington and preparing for our upcoming 49th Annual Convention and Tradeshow being held July 7th- 9th in San Marcos....
Weighing the Market-May 12,2023
published: May 14th 2023 by: Wes Ishmael source: Southern Livestock Standard
Fed cattle prices set record Supply and demand fundamentals were on full display last month. Fed steer prices — weekly weighted average five-area direct — surged to a record high $173....
Texas Trails-May 12, 2023
published: May 12th 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
The Mysterious Death of Bobby Fuller The day that Bobby Fuller died (July 18, 1966) was the same day that he planned to quit his popular band, the Bobby Fuller Four, break his record contract and go solo— all while the band’s song, “I Fought the Law (And the Law Won)” was riding high on the charts....
Texas Side of Things-May 12, 2023
published: May 12th 2023 by: Jim Banner source: Southern Livestock Standard
I would like to think that all of you have had momentous occasions, special memories that we will always remember during our lifetime. Maybe it’s when we graduated from high school or college, or when we got married, had our first child or when the first grand baby was born....
Texas Trails-April 28, 2023
published: April 28th 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
I see by your outfit… The old folk song “Streets of Laredo” has the line “I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy.” There is no mention of discerning from a stranger’s outfit that the subject is something other than a cowboy, which would have made for a whole different kind of song....
ICA News for May 2023
published: April 28th 2023 by: ICA source: Southern Livestock Standard
From the EVP, Cooper Little ICA’s 49th Annual Convention & Tradeshow on July 7-9Th is coming together nicely. State and industry leaders are lining up to address our membership....
Just Your Standard Bull-April 28, 2023
published: April 28th 2023 by: Michael Sturgess source: Southern Livestock Standard
When the dust settles in April, through both flying and driving, I will have set my feet on the ground of the following states: Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida....
Texas Trails-April 14, 2023
published: April 14th 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
Legend of Bosque John The Keechi Indians were known to early settlers of Central Texas primarily as thieves, but they could be as ruthless and violent as any other tribe, including the Comanches....
DC News-April 14, 2023
published: April 14th 2023 by: Martha A Hollida source: Southern Livestock Standard
President Joe Biden on Thursday, April 7th vetoed a congressional resolution that would have overturned protections for the nation’s waterways that Republicans and ag organizations have criticized as overly intrusive....
Texas side of things April 14, 2023
published: April 14th 2023 by: Jim Banner source: Southern Livestock Standard
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter last Sunday. Now, it’s time to get some spring work done before summer hits and temperatures rise once again. My column this week is all about inspiration and hopefully, good times for cattle producers in 2023....
DC News-March 31, 2023
published: March 31st 2023 by: Mary Hightower source: Southern Livestock Standard
A federal court has halted implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule defining waters of the United States on March 22nd and two more injunction requests are pending in cases involving 25 states, including Arkansas, said Brigit Rollins, National Agricultural Law Center staff attorney....
Just Your Standard Bull-March 31, 2023
published: March 31st 2023 by: Michael Sturgess source: Southern Livestock Standard
Remember—your phone is listening! I really don’t pretend to know how it works. People call it algorithms. Again, I’m not sure what math has to do with it, but I will admit there is some strange, even creepy stuff that happens....
Texas Trail-March 31, 2023
published: March 31st 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
The town that never existed There once was a town that never existed though it was platted, mapped and thousands of lots were sold. It was called Progress City and was located, allegedly but not actually, in the Santiago Mountains....
Texas Trails-March 17, 2023
published: March 17th 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
Deaf Smith, accidental patriot A native New Yorker named Erastus Smith and son-in-law Hendrick Arnold were headed home to San Antonio after a hunting trip in 1836 when members of Santa Anna’s Mexican army refused to let them enter the city....
DC News-March 17, 2023
published: March 17th 2023 source: Southern Livestock Standard
Pluger introduces bipartisan food and agriculture cybersecurity act Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) introduced the Food and Agriculture Industry Cybersecurity Support Act, which will create a one-stop shop for the cybersecurity needs of American farmers and ranchers....
Texas Trails-March 3, 2023
published: March 3rd 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
Balloons over Texas In November of 1944, in the waning days of World War II, the Japanese military began arming more than 9,000 hot air balloons with bombs and releasing them in the general direction of the United States....
Just Your Standard Bull-March 3, 2023
published: March 3rd 2023 by: Michael Sturgess source: Southern Livestock Standard
The famous comedian Jeff Foxworthy has amassed a small fortune in his career, based mostly upon the sentence that begins with “You might be a redneck if…” To clarify, he also used the same phrase at the end of his punchline as well....
Texas Trails-Feb. 17, 2023
published: February 17th 2023 by: Clay Coppedge source: Southern Livestock Standard
America’s first war correspondent The man for whom Kendall County is named was America’s first war correspondent, the father of the sheep business in Texas and a survivor and chronicler of the ill-fated Santa Fe Expedition....
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