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50 YEARS AGO
Webster and Sons of San Angelo bought from John Zurick of Stead, New Mexico, 200 heavy steer calves and short yearling steers at 40 cents a pound. These cattle are expected to weigh around 575 pounds. They also bought 180 short aged mixed calves from Zurick.
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Floyd Brown of Adrian, Texas, sold to Purdue and McKeever, Stamford, 800 steer yearlings at 36 cents a pound to be delivered this week. These are expected to weigh about 550 pounds and will be loaded at Friona, Texas.
Brown also sold, to Bill Graham of Dimmitt, 160 steer yearlings weighing about 700 pounds at $34.75 cwt., to be delivered November 10 to 15 at Adrian.
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Nash Brothers, Guymon, Oklahoma, sold to Richard Robbins, also of Guymon, 235 mixed calves at 40 cents straight across for November 15 delivery; these are estimated to weigh about 375 pounds.
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Frank Hunter of DeKalb, Illinois, has bought 400 two year-old steers at 33 cents a pound from Bill Green to load at Vega, Texas, October 25.
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Otho Drake of San Angelo sold for Harvey Martin of San Angelo 1500 mixed lambs to R.W. Overstreet of Tahoka at 32 cents a pound, these delivered at Fort Stockton last week. Drake sold to W.B. Willingham of Tulia 1300 mutton lambs at 29½ cents a pound, including 800 from Strange and Thomas of Maryneal and 500 from Floyd McMullan of San Angelo.
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Good to prime lamb carcasses were quoted $64 to $66 on the New York wholesale dressed meat trade early this week, with a few selected choice and prime to $68.
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Herman Carter, a partner in Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo, will be a fat lamb judge at the Texas State Fair in Dallas next week. He'll place the lambs Wednesday, October 17. When he was a county agent and vocational agriculture instructor, Herman gained wide notice as an outstanding sheep judge. Now, with the added experience he has gained in handling hundreds of thousands of sheep through the feed yards, he's a nationally recognized authority.
45 YEARS AGO
Lawrence Hagy of Amarillo sold 168 heifer calves and 273 steer calves weighing 365 and 386 respectively at $17 and $20 to Wallace Locke and Foster Pickett of Amarillo, delivered Oct. 5. Hagy said his calves averaged 35 to 40 pounds less than usual as a result of drouth.
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Elmer Melon of Pampa, Texas, sold 125 mixed calves weighing about 425 pounds at $17 and $19 to Hi Alcorn of Amarillo for delivery this week.
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W.E. Schott of Silverton, Texas, sold 125 mixed calves weighing about 425 pounds at $17 and $19 to Hi Alcorn of Amarillo for delivery this week.
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Arthur Coots, Dalhart, recently sold 100 choice quality cows, three to six years old, to O.H. Finch, also of Dalhart, at $80 per head; these are to be topped out of 130 head and are described as the last of one of the best commercial cattle herds in that area.
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Goats at San Antonio were steady to 25 cents higher Monday as receipts were smaller than on recent openings. Most grown slaughter goats sold $3-4.50 cwt., kids $3-4.25 each.
40 YEARS AGO
Pete Caviness, Amarillo, bought around 700 cutback cows weighing 900-1050 at $13.15 cwt. for delivery this month and next, including: 175 from Bell Ranch, Bell Ranch, N.M.; 250 from Reynolds Cattle Co., Dalhart; 100 from J.O. Wells, Canadian; 75 from the Proctor ranch, Channing; and 80 head in the Darrouzett, Texas area. These were bought to go on Panhandle stalk fields.
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Adolph Hill of Hooker, Okla., sold 250 steer yearlings expected to weigh around 775 pounds at $22.75 for Oct. 20 delivery to Colorado Livestock Commission Co., Denver.
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Louis Gex, Dalhart, sold 470 steer yearlings weighing 783 at $23 and delivered them last week to Colorado and Illinois feeders.
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O.O. Turner, Amarillo, sold 160 Angus mixed calves expected to weigh 400-425 pounds at $28 and $30 for late October delivery to Iowa buyers; he bought 66 cutback cows from Ransom Bros., Claude, at $117 per head and received them last week.
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Sheep sold on a steady market last week at Roswell Livestock Commission Co.; receipts totaled 6528 head, bulk lambs. Good to choice 80-90 pound wooled fat lambs sold at $15-15.50, fat yearlings $10-12.50, good wooled feeder lambs $12.50-13.50, ewe lambs $13-13.70, buck lambs $10-12, young ewes to $14.75 each, and solidmouth ewes $6 to $8.
35 YEARS AGO
In New Mexico, one carload of late-shorn 12-months heavy shrinking finewool was sold by Artesia Wool Co-Op at 43.75-51.75 cents, or about steady with recent sales in Texas, but several cents below prices paid last spring in New Mexico.
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Junction Warehouse Co. at Junction, Texas, sold 40,000 pounds of eight-months wool at 41.5 to 46 cents, bulking at 43.5 cents.
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B-W Cattle Co. of Clovis, N.M. sold 400 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 550 pounds at $25.50 to a Kansas buyer.
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Henry Cone of Canyon sold 102 Hereford heifers weighing about 500 pounds at $122.50 per head, delivered to John Beckman, Umbarger, Texas.
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Spurlock Cattle Co. of Panhandle, Texas, sold 80 good and choice fed steers weighing 1170 pounds at $25 and delivered them to a Tennessee packer.
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Capitol Cattle Co., Austin, Texas, sold five loads of good and choice Okie fed steers weighing about 1050 at $24.50 out of the Salinas Valley Feed Yards at Gonzales, Calif., to a California packer.
30 YEARS AGO
Iberlin Bros., Buffalo, Wyo., sold 1500 whiteface ewe lambs weighing 70-75 pounds at $27.50 cwt.
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Jim Weaver Livestock Co., Tribune, Kan., bought 400 choice Hereford steers weighing 600 pounds or under at $35 from south of Albuquerque, N.M., to go to his feedlot at Tribune.
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Tom Reed, Amarillo, bought 440 heifers averaging 390 pounds at $33.30 in the Amarillo area.
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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 245 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 80% choice, $32.
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Crockett County Wool & Mohair Co., Ozona, sold about 75,000 pounds of fall wool, a little more than half of it paint wools at 25-26 cents a pound, remainder paint-free at 30 cents.
25 YEARS AGO
SJK Feedyards Inc., Chicago, bought the Stratford Feedyards Inc. 60,000 head feedlot at Stratford for a price in the neighborhood of $2 million, reports a company spokesman.
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Wade Holman, Jacksonville, Texas, sold to Oklahoma buyers 400 No. 1 Okie and crossbred calves weighing a little less than 300 pounds at $28; sold to Texas Panhandle buyers 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 525 pounds at $31.50.
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The Belle Fourche, S.D. auction was strong on 10,000 sheep, heavy feeders around $42-43, lightweights to as much as $47.75. A large string of straight ewe lambs brought $54.
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Reeves County Feeders, Pecos: 250 heifers, 750 lbs., good, $33.50; 180 heifers, 800 lbs., good, $33.50.
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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought and received in the Cheyenne, Okla. area 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 625 pounds at $31.
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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 110 heifers, 975 lbs., 55% choice, $34.
20 YEARS AGO
Guy Allen, Santa Anna, 1980 world's champion steer roper, won the OS Ranch steer roping with a total time of 73.42 seconds on four head. Phil Lyne, Cotulla, was second at 73.99.
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Mrs. V.D. Sawyer, Crossroads, N.M., sold to a local buyer 100 choice Hereford steers of her own raising weighing 460 pounds at $72, also 50 similar heifers weighing 350 at $65.
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Don Kuper, Nara Visa, N.M., sold to an Amarillo buyer 100 choice Hereford and black baldface steers weighing about 800 pounds at $64.75, also 65 similar heifers weighing 725-750 at $59.50.
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Master Feeders II, Garden City, Kan.: 3702 steers, 1125 lbs., 65-75% choice, $66; 2000 steers, 1125 lbs., 65-75% choice, $65.
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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 1510 steers, 1075-1100 lbs., 70% choice, $65; 77 heifers, 975 lbs., 80% choice, $62.
15 YEARS AGO
Sanderson Wool Commission Co. sold 110,000-115,000 pounds of average adult mohair for $2, plus 36,000 pounds of fine adult at $2.06, about 3000 pounds of No. 2 cleanup yearling hair at $2.50 and a little cleanup kid at $5.45.
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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma buyers one load of No. 1 Okie steers and a few bulls weighing 330 pounds at $80.50, also one load of similar steers and bulls weighing 362 at $77.
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National Farms Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 163 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $96 in the beef; 100 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $96.
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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 421 steers, 1125 lbs., 75% choice, $62; 462 steers, 1125 lbs., 75% choice $61; 455 steers, 1150 lbs., 65% choice, $60.50.
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Uvalde Producers wool and mohair has been selling some average adult at $2.
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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 104 heifers, 750 lbs., $58.
10 YEARS AGO
Ozona Wool & Mohair Co. sold about 145,000 pounds of paint-free eight-month ewe wool at 80-90 cents for the better lines, another 25,000 pounds of paint-free fall lamb wool at 65-75 cents, and 34,000 pounds of average fall 12-month wool for mostly 60-80 cents, some lots to 85 cents.
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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 285 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $88, also 450 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 750 at $85 and 300 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 775 at $85.
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Hereford Feedyard Inc., Hereford: 85 steers, 1073 lbs., 50% choice, $71.
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Alta Verde Industries, Eagle Pass: 90 steers, 1175 lbs., $70.
5 YEARS AGO
Small grain fields are showing good growth in Texas and providing attractive grazing, but some fields have been hit hard by armyworms, which can devastate a field in a few days.
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Ozona Wool and Mohair Company and Wool Growers Central Storage offered around 212,000 pounds of wool and found little buyer support. Prices were down in sympathy with the declining world market situation, observers said.
An offering of around 140,000 pounds of short wool met prices ranging from 33 cents to 75 cents, the bulk 56-71 cents. Around 20,000 pounds of lamb wool, shorn after the rains, brought 76.75 cents, and 12-months wools brought 74-76.5 cents.
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Nortex Feedlot, Dalhart: 174 heifers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $71; 152 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $71.
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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Oklahoma grass one load of No. 1 or better Brahman cross steers and bulls weighing 346 pounds at $72.90.
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Webster and Sons of San Angelo bought from John Zurick of Stead, New Mexico, 200 heavy steer calves and short yearling steers at 40 cents a pound. These cattle are expected to weigh around 575 pounds. They also bought 180 short aged mixed calves from Zurick.
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Floyd Brown of Adrian, Texas, sold to Purdue and McKeever, Stamford, 800 steer yearlings at 36 cents a pound to be delivered this week. These are expected to weigh about 550 pounds and will be loaded at Friona, Texas.
Brown also sold, to Bill Graham of Dimmitt, 160 steer yearlings weighing about 700 pounds at $34.75 cwt., to be delivered November 10 to 15 at Adrian.
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Nash Brothers, Guymon, Oklahoma, sold to Richard Robbins, also of Guymon, 235 mixed calves at 40 cents straight across for November 15 delivery; these are estimated to weigh about 375 pounds.
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Frank Hunter of DeKalb, Illinois, has bought 400 two year-old steers at 33 cents a pound from Bill Green to load at Vega, Texas, October 25.
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Otho Drake of San Angelo sold for Harvey Martin of San Angelo 1500 mixed lambs to R.W. Overstreet of Tahoka at 32 cents a pound, these delivered at Fort Stockton last week. Drake sold to W.B. Willingham of Tulia 1300 mutton lambs at 29½ cents a pound, including 800 from Strange and Thomas of Maryneal and 500 from Floyd McMullan of San Angelo.
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Good to prime lamb carcasses were quoted $64 to $66 on the New York wholesale dressed meat trade early this week, with a few selected choice and prime to $68.
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Herman Carter, a partner in Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo, will be a fat lamb judge at the Texas State Fair in Dallas next week. He'll place the lambs Wednesday, October 17. When he was a county agent and vocational agriculture instructor, Herman gained wide notice as an outstanding sheep judge. Now, with the added experience he has gained in handling hundreds of thousands of sheep through the feed yards, he's a nationally recognized authority.
45 YEARS AGO
Lawrence Hagy of Amarillo sold 168 heifer calves and 273 steer calves weighing 365 and 386 respectively at $17 and $20 to Wallace Locke and Foster Pickett of Amarillo, delivered Oct. 5. Hagy said his calves averaged 35 to 40 pounds less than usual as a result of drouth.
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Elmer Melon of Pampa, Texas, sold 125 mixed calves weighing about 425 pounds at $17 and $19 to Hi Alcorn of Amarillo for delivery this week.
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W.E. Schott of Silverton, Texas, sold 125 mixed calves weighing about 425 pounds at $17 and $19 to Hi Alcorn of Amarillo for delivery this week.
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Arthur Coots, Dalhart, recently sold 100 choice quality cows, three to six years old, to O.H. Finch, also of Dalhart, at $80 per head; these are to be topped out of 130 head and are described as the last of one of the best commercial cattle herds in that area.
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Goats at San Antonio were steady to 25 cents higher Monday as receipts were smaller than on recent openings. Most grown slaughter goats sold $3-4.50 cwt., kids $3-4.25 each.
40 YEARS AGO
Pete Caviness, Amarillo, bought around 700 cutback cows weighing 900-1050 at $13.15 cwt. for delivery this month and next, including: 175 from Bell Ranch, Bell Ranch, N.M.; 250 from Reynolds Cattle Co., Dalhart; 100 from J.O. Wells, Canadian; 75 from the Proctor ranch, Channing; and 80 head in the Darrouzett, Texas area. These were bought to go on Panhandle stalk fields.
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Adolph Hill of Hooker, Okla., sold 250 steer yearlings expected to weigh around 775 pounds at $22.75 for Oct. 20 delivery to Colorado Livestock Commission Co., Denver.
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Louis Gex, Dalhart, sold 470 steer yearlings weighing 783 at $23 and delivered them last week to Colorado and Illinois feeders.
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O.O. Turner, Amarillo, sold 160 Angus mixed calves expected to weigh 400-425 pounds at $28 and $30 for late October delivery to Iowa buyers; he bought 66 cutback cows from Ransom Bros., Claude, at $117 per head and received them last week.
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Sheep sold on a steady market last week at Roswell Livestock Commission Co.; receipts totaled 6528 head, bulk lambs. Good to choice 80-90 pound wooled fat lambs sold at $15-15.50, fat yearlings $10-12.50, good wooled feeder lambs $12.50-13.50, ewe lambs $13-13.70, buck lambs $10-12, young ewes to $14.75 each, and solidmouth ewes $6 to $8.
35 YEARS AGO
In New Mexico, one carload of late-shorn 12-months heavy shrinking finewool was sold by Artesia Wool Co-Op at 43.75-51.75 cents, or about steady with recent sales in Texas, but several cents below prices paid last spring in New Mexico.
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Junction Warehouse Co. at Junction, Texas, sold 40,000 pounds of eight-months wool at 41.5 to 46 cents, bulking at 43.5 cents.
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B-W Cattle Co. of Clovis, N.M. sold 400 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 550 pounds at $25.50 to a Kansas buyer.
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Henry Cone of Canyon sold 102 Hereford heifers weighing about 500 pounds at $122.50 per head, delivered to John Beckman, Umbarger, Texas.
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Spurlock Cattle Co. of Panhandle, Texas, sold 80 good and choice fed steers weighing 1170 pounds at $25 and delivered them to a Tennessee packer.
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Capitol Cattle Co., Austin, Texas, sold five loads of good and choice Okie fed steers weighing about 1050 at $24.50 out of the Salinas Valley Feed Yards at Gonzales, Calif., to a California packer.
30 YEARS AGO
Iberlin Bros., Buffalo, Wyo., sold 1500 whiteface ewe lambs weighing 70-75 pounds at $27.50 cwt.
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Jim Weaver Livestock Co., Tribune, Kan., bought 400 choice Hereford steers weighing 600 pounds or under at $35 from south of Albuquerque, N.M., to go to his feedlot at Tribune.
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Tom Reed, Amarillo, bought 440 heifers averaging 390 pounds at $33.30 in the Amarillo area.
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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 245 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 80% choice, $32.
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Crockett County Wool & Mohair Co., Ozona, sold about 75,000 pounds of fall wool, a little more than half of it paint wools at 25-26 cents a pound, remainder paint-free at 30 cents.
25 YEARS AGO
SJK Feedyards Inc., Chicago, bought the Stratford Feedyards Inc. 60,000 head feedlot at Stratford for a price in the neighborhood of $2 million, reports a company spokesman.
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Wade Holman, Jacksonville, Texas, sold to Oklahoma buyers 400 No. 1 Okie and crossbred calves weighing a little less than 300 pounds at $28; sold to Texas Panhandle buyers 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 525 pounds at $31.50.
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The Belle Fourche, S.D. auction was strong on 10,000 sheep, heavy feeders around $42-43, lightweights to as much as $47.75. A large string of straight ewe lambs brought $54.
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Reeves County Feeders, Pecos: 250 heifers, 750 lbs., good, $33.50; 180 heifers, 800 lbs., good, $33.50.
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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought and received in the Cheyenne, Okla. area 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 625 pounds at $31.
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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 110 heifers, 975 lbs., 55% choice, $34.
20 YEARS AGO
Guy Allen, Santa Anna, 1980 world's champion steer roper, won the OS Ranch steer roping with a total time of 73.42 seconds on four head. Phil Lyne, Cotulla, was second at 73.99.
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Mrs. V.D. Sawyer, Crossroads, N.M., sold to a local buyer 100 choice Hereford steers of her own raising weighing 460 pounds at $72, also 50 similar heifers weighing 350 at $65.
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Don Kuper, Nara Visa, N.M., sold to an Amarillo buyer 100 choice Hereford and black baldface steers weighing about 800 pounds at $64.75, also 65 similar heifers weighing 725-750 at $59.50.
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Master Feeders II, Garden City, Kan.: 3702 steers, 1125 lbs., 65-75% choice, $66; 2000 steers, 1125 lbs., 65-75% choice, $65.
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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 1510 steers, 1075-1100 lbs., 70% choice, $65; 77 heifers, 975 lbs., 80% choice, $62.
15 YEARS AGO
Sanderson Wool Commission Co. sold 110,000-115,000 pounds of average adult mohair for $2, plus 36,000 pounds of fine adult at $2.06, about 3000 pounds of No. 2 cleanup yearling hair at $2.50 and a little cleanup kid at $5.45.
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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma buyers one load of No. 1 Okie steers and a few bulls weighing 330 pounds at $80.50, also one load of similar steers and bulls weighing 362 at $77.
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National Farms Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 163 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $96 in the beef; 100 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $96.
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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 421 steers, 1125 lbs., 75% choice, $62; 462 steers, 1125 lbs., 75% choice $61; 455 steers, 1150 lbs., 65% choice, $60.50.
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Uvalde Producers wool and mohair has been selling some average adult at $2.
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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 104 heifers, 750 lbs., $58.
10 YEARS AGO
Ozona Wool & Mohair Co. sold about 145,000 pounds of paint-free eight-month ewe wool at 80-90 cents for the better lines, another 25,000 pounds of paint-free fall lamb wool at 65-75 cents, and 34,000 pounds of average fall 12-month wool for mostly 60-80 cents, some lots to 85 cents.
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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 285 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $88, also 450 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 750 at $85 and 300 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 775 at $85.
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Hereford Feedyard Inc., Hereford: 85 steers, 1073 lbs., 50% choice, $71.
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Alta Verde Industries, Eagle Pass: 90 steers, 1175 lbs., $70.
5 YEARS AGO
Small grain fields are showing good growth in Texas and providing attractive grazing, but some fields have been hit hard by armyworms, which can devastate a field in a few days.
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Ozona Wool and Mohair Company and Wool Growers Central Storage offered around 212,000 pounds of wool and found little buyer support. Prices were down in sympathy with the declining world market situation, observers said.
An offering of around 140,000 pounds of short wool met prices ranging from 33 cents to 75 cents, the bulk 56-71 cents. Around 20,000 pounds of lamb wool, shorn after the rains, brought 76.75 cents, and 12-months wools brought 74-76.5 cents.
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Nortex Feedlot, Dalhart: 174 heifers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $71; 152 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $71.
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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Oklahoma grass one load of No. 1 or better Brahman cross steers and bulls weighing 346 pounds at $72.90.
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