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2008 JANUARY 10.pmd

Holiday Hangover
Keeping Sheep
Market Queasy
The sheep trade has been
slow since the third week of
December as buyers and sellers turned their attention to
making Christmas bright. San
Angelo sold Tuesday for the
first time this year, and the
market was bearish with weaker undertones on all offerings
except slaughter ewes. Other
markets were in the same situation, post-holiday trading reflecting a weaker undertone.
The market drivers, packers
and feeders, have had reduced
schedules and full pens. Movement to Mexico continues to
help the slaughter ewe market.
Imported lamb for the week
ending November 24 totaled
963 metric tons or about 2.12
million pounds. Domestic production for the same period
was 2.9 million pounds.
Sheep slaughter for the week
ending January 5 totaled
39,000 head compared to
37,000 the previous week and
43,000 head for the same period a year ago.
Feeder lambs at San Angelo, medium and large 50-75
pounds, brought $103-106 and
80-90 pounds $100-101. Fredericksburg had just a few
weighing 66 pounds at $115.
Billings lambs weighing 50-60
pounds were $113-116, 60-70
pounds $120-123.50, 70-80
pounds $105-116, 80-90 pounds
$103-108.50, 90-100 pounds $95102, 100-110 pounds $91.50-97,
115-120 pounds $93, and 123
pounds $90. Feeders at Sioux Falls
weighing 33 pounds made $132,
65 pounds $106, 70-80 pounds
$106-108, 80-90 pounds $9697, 90-95 pounds $94.5097.50, and 110-115 pounds
$86.25-89.75. At Hamilton 6080 pound lambs were $80-95,
100 pounds and up $80-98.
San Angelo’s slaughter market had choice lambs weighing
90-140 pounds bringing $8091, good and choice 40-90
$95-103, 40-60 pound hair lambs
$90-100, and 60-90 pounds
$95-112. Fredericksburg choice
and prime lambs weighing 90110 pounds brought $96-107,
good and choice 40-85 pounds
$112-129. In Missouri, 60-80
pound lambs earned $90-110,
hair lambs weighing 60-70
pounds $120-122. Sioux Falls
shorn lambs weighing 140-145
pounds were $90-90.50, wooled
125-155 pounds $85-88.25. In
Virginia wooled lambs 90-110
pounds were $107, 110-130
pounds $101.50.
Direct trade on slaughter
lambs included 2800 head
weighing 120-145 pounds that
brought $92.16-99.64. The
Eastern Cornbelt reported on
700 head with choice and prime
weighing 110-130 pounds, shorn,
at $92-94 and wooled 110-130
pounds at $88-94, good and
choice 60-90 pounds $115.
Good slaughter ewes at San
Angelo sold for $33-44, utility
and good $44-55, utility $3344, cull and utility $21-33, and
culls $12-20. Fredericksburg ewes
weighing 100-150 pounds were
$40-50, cull 90-110 pounds $1834. Billings had good ewes for
$26-31, utility $18-26 and culls
$12. Hamilton slaughter ewes
were $40-60. Sioux Falls good
ewes were $26-29, good $3136.50. In Virginia good and
choice were $34-40.25, utility
$33.50 and culls $33.25.
According to a piece in the
January issue of Sheep Industry News, New Zealander
Emily Welch, 27, is the new
women’s record holder for
shearing sheep ... 648 of them
in nine hours.
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SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008
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photo taken near Snyder. In the foreground are cattle grazing pasture that is supplemented when necessary with underground water applied through the pivot irrigation system
in the midground. And visible at a distance are wind tur107.75 f.o.b.; for March 520 steers
to weigh 750 at $110.10 f.o.b., bines harvesting energy from the air. All that’s missing is a
260 steers to weigh 800 at pumpjack or two.
$106.35 f.o.b., 525 heifers to
weigh 650 at $105 delivered,
and 490 heifers to weigh 700
at $103 delivered; for February 130 steers to weigh 750 at
$108.35 f.o.b., 325 steers to
weigh 800 at $106.35 f.o.b., Plains direct fed cattle trade Amarillo’s 1803 head were
and 700 heifers to weigh 700 had yet to get untracked at mid- steady. Elsewhere in the state,
at $103.40 delivered; for cur- week after a strong performance Three Rivers called no trend on
rent delivery 140 steers weigh- last week that saw prices jump $3 1387 head and Industry was
ing 700 at $103 f.o.b., 350 to $95 with tops to $95.50.
mum on 1009.
steers weighing 750 at $99 At presstime, feedlots were
Oklahoma City receipts
f.o.b., 122 steers weighing 630 asking $96-97 and packers had came to 12,865 head, the marat $110.20 delivered, and 65 not made a solid bid.
ket $2-5 lower than three weeks
steers weighing 750 at $106 The Texas Cattle Feeders As- ago on feeder weights, steady
delivered, also 119 heifers sociation counted 38,653 head to $2 lower on steer calves and
weighing 595 at $114.20 deliv- on area showlists, up 1530 $3-5 lower on heifer calves. Best
ered and 225 heifers weighing head. Captives were up 2437 400-450 pound steer calves
650 at $102-103.50 delivered. at 37,497 head.
brought $123-131; 450-500
Northwest direct feeder Direct trade elsewhere was pounds $122-129.50; 500-550
cattle trade as confirmed by limited to a couple of thousand pounds $115-125.50; 550-600
USDA totaled 1650 head, all head in Iowa and Nebraska at pounds $109.75-116.50; 600-650
f.o.b. basis for current delivery, $92 live and anywhere from pounds $99-105, a few calves $99including 200 medium and $147 to $151 dressed. Midwest 105; 650-700 pounds $102large 1-2 steers weighing 575 auctions paid $86-89, strictly 105.50; 700-750 pounds $99.50pounds at $105, 200 similar Choice to as much as $93.50. 102.25; 750-800 pounds $99steers weighing 651-670 at Stocker and feeder cattle 102.25; and 800-850 pounds $98$101-102, 400 steers weighing price trends were sketchy as 102.
751-780 at $99-100, 75 steers trading resumed after the long
weighing 800 at $98, and 150 holiday hiatus. Many market FUTURES TRADE
steers weighing 900 at $98, reporters declined to call a
also 200 heifers weighing 575 trend. Among those who did, a CHICAGO — (USDA) —
at $98, 200 heifers weighing few were higher but others Beef futures trading at the close
651-685 at $96-97, 75 heifers found prices generally lower on Tuesday and Wednesday on
weighing 750 at $94, and 150 than at the last comparable test. the Chicago Mercantile ExJoplin, Mo. offered 9350 change:
heifers weighing 840 at $94.
head and found feeder weights
Wed.
Tue.
New Mexico direct feeder steady with three weeks ago,
Feb.
93.28 94.08
cattle trade by USDA count steer calves steady to $2 higher
Apr.
95.88 96.83
came to 2200 head, all f.o.b. and heifer calves steady to $2
June
93.95 94.43
basis for February delivery, in- lower. A roundup of four
Aug.
96.48 96.08
cluding 1470 medium and large Florida auctions with 3687
Oct. 100.65 100.28
No. 1 steers to weigh 725 head between them was $1-2
Dec. 101.10 101.05
pounds at $107.40 and 700 higher on steers and unevenly
Feb. 102.25 102.15
heifer mates to weigh 700 at steady on heifers. La Junta,
Apr. 101.30 101.00
$101.40.
June
98.80 98.95
Colo. called no trend on 2617
Feeder Cattle
USDA reports 850 head of head offered in active trading.
Jan.
100.15 100.23
In Texas, Tulia sold 3444
feeder cattle selling direct off
Mar. 103.40 103.13
Oklahoma range, all f.o.b. ba- head at prices mostly $2-5
Apr. 106.53 106.33
sis, including 525 medium and lower than three weeks ago.
May 108.70 108.30
With
2042
head
on
offer,
Gralarge No. 1 heifers to weigh
Aug. 109.98 109.38
650 pounds at $102 for March ham was $2-3 lower on weights
Sept. 109.50 109.10
delivery and 325 similar steers under 500 pounds and steady
Oct. 109.50 109.10
weighing 775 at $105.85 for to $2 lower on heavier kinds.
Nov. 109.55 109.05
Compared to three weeks ago,
current delivery.
Range Sales
USDA reports 22,100 head
of feeder cattle selling direct
off Texas range, including 80
medium and large No. 1 steers
to weigh 700 pounds at $111
f.o.b. for July delivery, also 70
heifer mates to weigh 700 at
$104; for April 80 similar
steers to weigh 600 at $114
f.o.b., 130 steers to weigh 800
at $110.45 delivered, and 160
heifers to weigh 600 at $107.25-
Slaughter Meat Goat Prices
Mixed In Post-Holiday Sales
Slaughter meat goat prices
were mixed in recent trading as
markets resumed following the
holidays. Goldthwaite was
steady to firm and Junction
steady, but San Angelo quoted
a weaker undertone and Fredericksburg was $5-7 lower. On
the other side of the ledger, New
Holland, Pennsylvania called
prices $5-10 higher per head.
Goat meat imports for the
week ending November 24 totaled 29 metric tons, all from
Australia. Goat slaughter under
federal inspection for the week
ending December 22 totaled
18,725 head.
At Goldthwaite on Friday,
selection 1 kids weighing 4060 pounds brought $114-125
and 60-80 pounds $113-123,
selection 2 40-60 pounds $104110 and 60-80 pounds $100109. Selection 1 nannies 80125 pounds were $33-45, billies 90-175 pounds $80-87 and
muttons 90-110 pounds $100110, selection 2 muttons 100125 pounds $86-88.
New Holland, Penn., selling
by the head Monday, quoted
selection 1 kids of 40-60
$76-102, 80-100 pounds $86110, and 100-120 pounds
$102-120; selection 2 20-40
pounds were $34-48, 40-60
$60-90, and 80-100 pounds
$82-94. Selection 1 nannies 80130 pounds made $76-92 and
130-180 pounds $70-86, selection 2 50-80 pounds $50-72,
80-130 pounds $52-78 and
130-180 pounds $78; selection
1 billies 100-150 pounds were
$110-166 and 150-250 pounds
$130-192, selection 2 100-150
pounds $96-152 and 150-250
pounds $150.
Junction on Monday sold fat
kids for $110-120, small kids
$100-122 and thin kids $92105. Fat nannies were $38-46,
fat muttons and billies $78-104
and straight muttons $90-110.
Also on Monday, Hamilton
kids weighing 20-40 pounds
earned $90-110, 40-70 pounds
$90-110 and 70 pounds and up
$90-115. Thin nannies were
$15-30 per head, medium $2540 and fleshy $45-80, billies
$70-100.
Fredericksburg on Tuesday
reported selection 1 40-60
pound kids at $112-123 and
60-80 pounds $112-121, selection 2 40-60 pounds $106-110
and 60-80 pounds $108-111.
Selection 1 nannies 80-130
pounds were $35-45, billies 100200 pounds $80-88 and muttons
85-125 pounds $112-118.
At San Angelo Tuesday, selection 1 kids weighing 25-40
pounds brought $105-111, 4080 pounds $105-115 and 80100 pounds $100-112, selection 1-2 25-40 pounds $100110, 40-80 pounds $95-105
and 80-100 pounds $95-105.
Selection 1-2 nannies 80-130
pounds were $33-47, 130-195
pounds $37-47 and thin 70-115
pounds $25-34, selection 1-2
billies 80-100 pounds $95-105,
100-150 pounds $80-95 and
150-250 pounds $75-94.
Plains Fed Cattle Trade Quiet
After Strong Showing Last Week
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January 10, 2008 400-500 pounds $104-112,
500-600 pounds $94-107, 600Slaughter sheep: lambs, 700 pounds $90-96, 700-800
Angelo Sheep Weak,
choice 2-3 shorn and wooled pounds $86-94.50.
Feeder Cattle Firm
90-140 pounds $80-93, good Heifers: medium and large
SAN ANGELO — (USDA) and choice 1-2 40-90 pounds No. 1 500-600 pounds $102— No recent sheep or goat $90-105, 90-105 pounds $95- 106; medium and large No. 1market trends were available 103, hair lambs 40-60 pounds 2 400-500 pounds $100-112,
due to holiday closings, but a $90-100, 60-90 pounds $95- 500-600 pounds $95-102.50,
weaker undertone was noted 112; ewes, good 2-3 $33-44, 600-700 pounds $95-99; meon slaughter lambs, feeder utility and good 1-3 $44-55, dium and large No. 2 300-400
lambs and all classes of goats, utility 1-2 $33-44, cull and util- pounds $105-110, 400-500
a higher undertone on slaugh- ity 1-2 $21-33, cull 1 $12-20; pounds $91-100, 500-700 pounds
ter ewes. Sheep and goat re- slaughter bucks $20-48.
$85-95.
ceipts totaled 8602 head.
Replacement goats: nannies, Slaughter cows: breakers
Feeder steers and heifers selection 1-2 60-115 pounds 75-80 percent lean 1300-1550
sold firm Thursday, slaughter $50-65.
pounds $43-47, boners 80-85
cows firm, bulls $2-3 higher.
Slaughter goats: kids, selec- percent 850-1550 pounds
Receipts totaled 650 head.
tion 1 25-40 pounds $105-111, $45.50-51, high dressing $53Replacement sheep: lambs, 40-80 pounds $105-120, 80- 55, lean 85-90 percent 800medium and large No. 1-2 50- 100 pounds $100-112; selec- 1100 pounds $43-45, 85-90
75 pounds $103-106, 80-90 tion 1-2 25-40 pounds $100- percent 700-900 pounds low
pounds $100-101; medium and 110, 40-80 pounds $95-105, dressing $36-43; bulls, yield
large No. 2 40-90 pounds $90- 80-100 pounds $95-105, selec- grade 1 1500-2100 pounds
$60-65.50.
100.
tion 2 40-80 pounds $80-95;
Replacement cows: medium
nannies, selection 1-2 80-130 and large No. 1-2 $880-910 per
pounds $33-50, 130-195 head, medium and large No. 2
pounds $37-47, thin 70-115 $740-830, aged 560-660; stocker
BITS•SPURS•CONCHOS•KNIVESand•GUNS pounds $25-34; billies, selec- and
feeder cows, medium and
Johny Weyerts, instructor, tion 1-2 80-100 pounds $95- large No. 1-2 middleaged cows
furnishes GRS equipment 105, 100-150 pounds $80-95, 1000-1200 pounds $49.50-56
and tools during a one week 150-250 pounds $75-94.
cwt.
Steers: medium and large
Representative sales:
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Sheep: Dean McMullan,
teaches eleven times a year in No. 1-2 400-500 pounds $116120, 500-600 pounds $107.50- Iraan, 86 wooled lambs, 66
Alpine, Texas. Detailed info:
114, 600-700 pounds $100- pounds $106.50; Baker Farms,
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106; medium and large No. 2 Lubbock, 77 wooled lambs, 74
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300-400 pounds $119-128, pounds $103; 11 wooled
lambs, 66 pounds $107; E.H.
Brosig, Paint Rock, 15 wooled
lambs, 78 pounds $108; 11
wooled lambs, 65 pounds
$112; Floyd Wilde, Garden
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pounds $104; Denton Farms,
Winters, 73 wooled lambs, 103
pounds $100; 16 wooled
lambs, 82 pounds $106; 146
ewes, 137 pounds $55; 33
Mackey McEntire
ewes, 149 pounds $51.50.
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Sheffield, 32 goats, 48 pounds
$115; 74 goats, 41 pounds
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Angelo, 21 goats, 65 pounds
$105; Brent Heinze, Miles, 25
goats, 51 pounds $115;
Bradshaw Ranch, Paint Rock,
63 goats, 94 pounds $109.
Cattle: Don Young, Carlsbad, three steers, 305 pounds
$128; Hugh Edmondson,
Ballinger, two steers, 430
pounds $120; Lisa Brown,
Menard, four steers, 510
pounds $114; Loyd Mitchell,
Rocksprings, five steers, 585
pounds $110.50; four heifers,
510 pounds $105.50; Y Bar
Ranch, Big Spring, five steers,
603 pounds $108; Darrell
York, Fort Davis, two heifers,
410 pounds $112; two cows,
1095 pounds $55; Billy Reynolds, Eldorado, seven heifers,
569 pounds $102.50; Runge
Ranch, McKavett, four heifers,
483 pounds $109; two heifers,
643 pounds $96; Moore’s
Ranch, Eldorado, seven cows,
1192 pounds $56; bull, 1770
pounds $64; Hill Cattle Co.,
Andrews, cow, 1160 pounds
$53.
Pleasanton Cattle
Receipts 876 Head
PLEASANTON — (TDAJan. 8) — No market trends
were available due to holiday
closings. Receipts totaled 876
head.
No. 1 200-300 pounds $122.50125, 300-400 pounds $102-111,
400-500 pounds $103-111, 500600 pounds $96-105, 600-700
pounds $91-102, few 700-800
pounds $88-89; medium and large
No. 2 300-400 pounds $101-111,
400-500 pounds $105-115, 500600 pounds $101-109, yearlings
$93, 600-700 pounds $94-101,
calves $86-87, few 700-800
pounds $78-82; feeder bulls,
medium and large No. 2-3 700875 pounds $66-80.
Heifers: medium and large
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Replacement sheep: stock
and feeder lambs, medium and
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stock wool ewes, medium and
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pounds $50; Dorper bucks 100140 pounds $79-94; Barbado
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Slaughter sheep: lambs,
choice and prime 2-3 90-110
pounds $96-107, good and
choice 1-3 40-85 pounds $112129; ewes, utility 1-3 medium
flesh 100-150 pounds $40-50,
thin and very thin cull 90-110
pounds $18-34; bucks 150-200
pounds $40-55.
Replacement sheep: nannies,
selection 1 80-130 pounds $4065; billies, selection 1 80-150
pounds $104-131.
Slaughter goats: kids, selection 1 40-60 pounds $112-123,
60-80 pounds $112-124, selection 2 40-60 pounds $106-110,
60-80 pounds $108-111; nannies, selection 1 80-130 pounds
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few 700-800 pounds $83-94;
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$86-91, 600-700 pounds $82-90,
700-800 pounds $77-80; replacement heifers, medium and
large No. 3 760 pounds $114.
Slaughter cows: breakers
75-80 percent lean 1000-1600
pounds $44-47, low dressing
$38, boners 80-85 percent
1200-1600 pounds $47.50-52,
low dressing $54-55, lean 8590 percent 1200-1600 pounds
$47-49.50, high dressing $50, 8590 percent 1000-1200 pounds
$43-44, high dressing $46-47, low
dressing $39.50-40.50, 85-90 percent 800-1000 pounds $4043.50, high dressing $44.5045, low dressing $33-38, 8590 percent under 800 pounds
$37.50, low dressing $27-30;
bulls, yield grade 1-2 12551870 pounds $56-59, high
dressing 1785-2265 pounds
$59.50-64.50, low dressing
1020-1395 pounds $47-51.50.
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35 fancy, open Premium Black Gold Brangus heifers, —
one raising, not carrying any brands or earmarks, OCV,
weight 725-825 pounds. This group is consigned by the
McKinnerney Ranch which has been raising and selling
some of the top Brangus heifers throughout the years —
you won't find them much better than this group, will sort
into uniform groups.
30 Angus heifers, weight 1100 pounds, long bred to proven,
low birthweightAngus bulls, all OCV, very gentle, easy to
handle — this is a good set of bigAngus heifers.
40 one raising set of Angus heifers (going back to Gardiner
bloodlines), long bred to solid black ½ Angus, ½ Jersey
bulls, all OCV, gentle, broke to cake — these heifers will
make someone a good set of mamma cows.
30 Angus heifers, long bred to Jersey bulls for easy calving,
all OCV — a good uniform set , broke to cake.
165 Angus cows along with a few baldies, three to five years
old, long bred to Angus or Charolais bulls — this set is
uniform, gentle and will come to cake. The baldies will
be sorted from the group. You will be proud to take this
group home — these good young cows are becoming
more difficult to find.
25 yellow, red baldy, and Charolais /Angus cross cows,
bred to Angus bulls for spring calving, four to five years
old.
300 fancy, open Angus heifers, weight 675 to 725 pounds.
These heifers, were all raised on three ranches and go
back to Sitz New Design, Sitz Alliance, Traveler and
Jennaway Angus genetics, weaned since October,
OCV. The heifers will be sorted according to the ranch
raising — you won't find them much better than these.
100 choice Angus cows, long bred to Angus bulls with a few
calves possible by sale day, three to five years old, will
come to feed — a good set of gentle, youngAngus cows.
40 big Brangus heifers, long bred to solid black Longhorn or
low birthweight Angus bulls, weight 1200 pounds, will
come to cake, very gentle — there could be a few calves
on the ground.
60 Angus cows, long bred to Angus bulls, a few calves on
the ground by sale day, three to five years old, very
gentle.
35 Hereford heifers, long bred to low birthweight Angus
bulls, OCV, weight 950 pounds, dehorned.
15 Angus and black whiteface pairs — with Angus calves at
side, selling back open for your choice of bulls.
20 Angus and black whiteface heifers, medium to long bred
to low birthweightAngus bulls, OCV, gentle.
16 Brangus heifers, bred to registered low birthweight
Angus bulls to start calving in March, OCV, weight 10001050 pounds.
5 tigerstripe heifers, running with low birthweight registeredAngus bulls for approximately 60 days — selling
as exposed.
20 open Brangus heifers, ready for the bull, weight around
800 pounds, OCV.
65 one raising set of black baldy and blacks with a few red
baldies, long bred to low birthweight Express Ranch
Angus bulls — (the bred heifers also go back to Express
Ranch Angus genetics) — OCV, uniform, will come to
cake, will be sorted into uniform groups.
13 Angus pairs — with calves at side by Angus bulls, three
to four years old.
85 Angus cows, medium to long bred to Angus bulls, three
to four years old with a few fives, pregnancy checked ,
sorted and shaped into uniform groups.
20 open Angus plus heifers, weight around 700 pounds
plus, ready for the bulls, OCV, wormed, Lepto-Vibrio,
and Bovi Shield.
7 first-calf Angus and black baldy pairs — with calves at
side by Angus bulls, sell back open so that you can
breed them to the bull of your choice.
40 Brangus heifers, long bred to either Brangus or
Brangus/Jersey cross bulls, gentle, broke to cake.
30 Charolais heifers, long bred to registered Angus bulls
(Circle A or Gardiner bulls), all one raising, OCV, weight
around 1000 pounds.
20 Charolais cows, long bred to registered Angus bulls
(Bradley or CircleAbulls), three to five years old.
29 Charolais cows, six to seven years old, long bred to
Charolais bulls.
35 Angus and Brangus cows, long bred to Charolais or
Angus bulls, three to five years old.
50Angus cows, long bred to Charolais orAngus bulls, three
to five years old , will come to cake, easy to work.
35 Santa Gertrudis cows with 7 calves at side, balance will
be long bred to Griswold Charolais bulls, solidmouth,
year branded.
42 good Brangus or Brangus type cows with a few baldies,
long bred to Angus bulls with a few calves on the ground
by sale day, gentle — will be a good set of calf raisers.
18 Brangus or Angus heifers, selling open for bull of your
choice, running on wheat for 60 days, OCV, weight 750
pounds — will sort according to kind.
7 Angus/Beefmaster cross heifers, weight 750 pounds —
selling as open heifers, OCV, running on wheat for 60
days.
13 one raising set of Angus heifers, long bred to low
birthweight Polled Herford bull whose calves average
60 pounds — heifers are OCV, have had Viro Shield 6
with VL5, 8-Way Black Leg, dewormed, gentle, will
come to feed.
10 one raising set of Angus heifers, long bred to low
birthweight Polled Herford bull whose calves average
60 pounds, OCV, have had a Viro Shield 6 with VL5, 8Way Black Leg, dewormed — easy to work.
34 Brangus and Brangus type cows with 20 calves on the
ground by Angus or Charolais bulls, balance long bred
the same way, three to five years old.
2 tigerstripe pairs — with Angus calves at side, three and
four years old.
4 Charolais cross pairs — with Angus and Charolais
calves at side, four to five years old, not been running
back with bulls.
15 open Brangus heifers, weight 700-750 pounds, OCV,
very gentle, will call anywhere.
75 Angus cows with a few black whiteface cows, three to six
years old — approximately 25 Angus calves at side,
balance medium to long bred to Angus bulls, gentle —
will follow you anywhere.
45 red and red baldy cows, three to six years old —
approximately 15Angus calves at side, balance medium
to long bred to Angus bulls, will come to cake, easy to
handle — will be shaped and sold in uniform groups.
15 Charolais cross cows, three to six years old, with a few
calves at side, balance medium to long bred to Angus
bulls — a good set of ranch cows.
8 Charolais cows, three to five years old with a few calves
at side, balance long bred to Charolais orAngus bulls.
9 one raising, second-calf cows, 7 Angus and 2 black
whiteface, long bred toAngus bull, young and gentle.
2 registered Angus pairs — with bull calves at side by
Pinnacle which is one of the top sires in theAngus breed,
six to seven years old, papers will be furnished.
11 Brangus and baldy heifers, open and ready for the bulls,
OCV, four are baldies with the balance being black,
gentle, come to feed.
15 Angus and black baldy cows, long bred to Angus bulls,
three to five years old.
25 Charolais/Angus cross cows along with some red and
yellow baldy cows, long bred to Angus bulls, three to five
years old — will be sorted into uniform groups.
40Angus plus heifers, long bred to low birthweight Angus or
Brangus bulls, OCV.
42 tigerstripe F1 cows, long bred to Dink Wilson Ranch
Angus bulls, mostly five, six and seven years old (just in
the prime of their life), all dehorned as heifer calves, will
come to a horn and cake — this consignment will make
someone a good set of calf raisers.
20 Angus heifers, long bred to solid black ½ Angus, ½
Jersey bulls, some babies could be at side by sale day.
10 black and black whiteface heifers, medium bred to black
bulls.
50 tigerstripe cows, short to medium bred to Charolais
bulls, recently had big calves pulled off of them in
November, mostly six and seven years old, will be sorted
into uniform groups, broke to cake and a horn.
10 black baldy (English) heifers, long bred toAngus bull.
14 home raised tigerstripe heifers, long bred to proven low
birthweight RedAngus bulls, OCV, will call anywhere.
10 one raising set of tigerstripe heifers, shortbbred to
proven low birthweight Red Angus bulls, home
raised,easy to handle.
8 Angus plus heifers, short bred to low birthweight Red
Angus bulls, OCV — will fit any herd.
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January 10, 2008 chase of livestock in commerce, charge, demand or collect from the seller in the form
of commission, yardage, or
other service charge,” says the
regulation. It was published
Dec. 28 (1962) in the Federal
Register and is to become efin a
fective 60 days from that date.
A P&S spokesman in Washington told this writer over the
telephone that the new regulation was prompted especially
by practices at various hog
buying stations in the Cornbelt.
Choice gleanings from 45- ers and make livestock traders It seems buyers at the stations have
a habit of paying a certain price
plus years of Unregistered fighting mad.
The most recent regulation, for a farmer’s hogs, less certain
Bull.
The USDA’s Packers & Stock- called Section 201.98, prohib- “service charges” such as yardyards Division may be falling its livestock packers and deal- age, commission, etc.
behind in its work since it has ers from charging sellers for The regulation says: “A
become so much more active any “service” rendered in con- packer or livestock dealer who
in recent years, but it’s doing a nection with their purchase. maintains his own yardage fagood job of enacting regula- “No packer or dealer shall, cilities to conduct buying options designed to help produc- in connection with the pur- erations does so for his own
benefit, not for the benefit of
producers. Charging a fee for
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an unfair practice in violation
of the P&S Act.”
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280 Pounds
400 Pounds
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cattle dealer in the range country remains to be seen.
However, the man in Washington said this: An operator of
a stockyards facility or a
packer buyer who goes out to the
country and buys livestock at a
certain price “less a commission” is violating the regulation.
Thus, if you’re a packer or
if you have a set of pens and
you say to some old boy, “I’ll
give you $18 less 25 cents
commission,” you’ve had it if
the P&S people catch you. Presumably you could send an independent commission man
out to buy the stock for you,
but you can’t do it yourself.
Maybe you could sidle up to
the seller and say, “I’ll give you
$17.75 net,” and get away with
it. But as any trader knows,
“$18 less 25 cents commission” sounds better to some
people than “$17.75 net.”
This sort of thing is bound
to make traders quiver with
rage; or, to quote Roget’s Thesaurus on other synonyms for
being hot under the collar:
“storm, rave, rant, bluster,
carry on, fume, stew, foam, boil
at the mouth, breathe fire, stand
on one’s hind legs, chafe, fret,
burn, seethe, simmer, sizzle,
smoke, smoulder, have a conniption ...”
A man who’s gone to the
trouble and expense of building his own pens and who now
finds himself unable to buy
livestock and pocket the standard commission is likely to do
everything Roget mentions,
plus using language Roget
can’t publish.
Maybe it won’t be so bad as
it sounds. It depends on how it
will be enforced. But if everybody is held strictly to the letter of the regulation, those hog
buyers in the Cornbelt who
brought it on will earn the sincere hatred of a host of sheep
and cattle operators out west.
However, far be it from me
to be too critical of the Packers & Stockyards people.
They’re for the producer, and
I’m a producer, of sorts. Producers are in the majority, you
see. Every once in a while I try
grazing or feeding a little dab
of steers. It looks to me like
when I buy them, even from a
good friend, I get hooked
around something awful, and
the same thing happens when
I sell ‘em. Apparently friend-
ship ceases when trading begins. Like other producers, I’m
a simple-minded, incompetent,
naive character who needs a
guardian. The P&S stands between us producers and the
unprincipled traders with
whom we have to do business.
Me, I’m looking forward to
the time when I’ll have a P&S
man with me when I go to buy
Aussies, Kiwis Claim No Fear
Of U.S. Beef’s Japan Return
By Richard Smith
TOKYO — Beef exporters
in Australia and New Zealand
are not afraid of the return of
grain-fed U.S. beef to the Japanese market, while the 20month anti-BSE age limit
makes Canada a small player.
Last year’s Australian exports of 405,000 tons here was
a historic high, from a normal
of 280,000 to 300,000 tons a
year. Australia exported 159,280
tons of grain-fed and 191,444
tons of grass–fed beef to Japan
through November, a total of
350,724 tons.
Australia is continuing to
pursue Japan’s grain-fed beef
market, but the country’s
drouth is hampering efforts to
increase grain-fed production,
acknowledged the Japan
deputy regional manager for
Meat and Livestock Australia.
“The drouth is obviously having a strong effect,” Travers
Nicholas said.
Feedlot capacity has expanded considerably, but grain
prices, which rose to AU $500
a ton (US $439) from a normal of AU $230-$240 (US
$202-$211), forced producers
to reduce the number of cattle
on feed, Nicholas explained.
As Australians are now seeing the arrival of a “La Niña,”
which would bring better than
average rainfall, they expect a
better harvest next year.
“Healthy crops, healthy grain
prices, are going to equal better grain-fed product into the
feedlots,” Nicholas said.
Japan’s banning of beef from
the U.S. in December 2003
because of BSE caused a shortage here of grain-fed, marbled
beef, Japan’s retail consumer
favorite.
Stepping into the void, Australia significantly shifted production to grain-fed beef.
In production year 2006/2007,
Australia produced 2.67 million grain-fed cattle, 570,000
more than in 2002/2003.
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“The increase is 27 percent,
which was almost solely to provide additional product to Japan, and to a degree the
(South) Korean market,” Nicholas said. “The 200-day and
300-day (feedlot time) product
is certainly meant for Japan.”
As a result, Australia monopolized at one point 91 percent of the import market. “We
still do not have the final results for 2007, however, we
estimate Australia to now supply approximately 84 percent
of the total import market,”
Nicholas said.
The fact that New Zealand
grass-fed beef export volumes
here trebled in the past four
years shows the meat has secured a greater marketplace
presence, explained Meat and
Wool New Zealand’s Japan
representative.
“I think a lot of people who
traditionally did not look to
New Zealand as a viable supply option, now at least have
New Zealand on their radar
screen, if not actually buying
the product,” John Hundleby
said.
Hundleby said New Zealand exported 38,158 tons of
beef and offal to Japan in production year 2006-2007, a 10
percent reduction from the previous year’s 42,280 tons. Is
U.S. beef pushing the New
Zealand meat out?
No, Hundleby said, the decline occurred primarily because of strong demand in
other markets. South Korea, at
certain times in the past year,
provided strong demand and
was prepared to pay higher
prices than the Japanese market.
“At certain times of the year,
product that could have conceivably come here was being
sold to (South) Korea,”
Hundleby said.
High exchange rates haven’t
helped. “In the Japanese market, there is a great reluctance
on the part of end users to increase prices,” Hundleby said.
Canada faces the same problem, as its strengthening
loonie, which even rises over
the U.S. buck, makes it difficult for Canadian beef to compete here.
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As Canadian cattle in the
proper 20-month and younger
age bracket is limited, only
3785 tons (1864 tons chilled
and 1921 tons frozen) of Canadian beef came in last year
through October.
With such modest volumes,
no way can Canada supply bigcity supermarket chains, so
the Canadian Beef Export
Federation is concentrating its
efforts on regional, smallerscale chain stores. “Now, we
are knocking at the door of supermarket people one by one,”
CBEF Japan marketing manager Shoji Nomura said.
Far from fearing the competition from U.S. beef, Australian and New Zealand exporters
to Japan are welcoming the meat’s
return. “The more confidence
people in this market have in beef
again, the more everybody will
benefit from it, including the
domestic product,” MLA’s
Nicholas said.
Edinburg Sells 582
Head Of Cattle
EDINBURG — (TDA-Jan.
5) — No market trends were
available due to holiday closings. Receipts totaled 582 head.
No. 2 200-300 pounds $110-120,
300-400 pounds $100-109, 400500 pounds $90-100, 500-600
$82-87, 700-800 pounds $72-82.
No. 2 200-300 pounds $110117, 300-400 pounds $100110, 400-500 pounds $87-97,
500-600 pounds $83-88, 600700 pounds $75-85.
1000-1200 pounds $51-54.50,
boners 1000-1600 pounds $5155, high dressing $57-58.50, low
dressing $41.50-46.50, lean 12001600 pounds $43.50-44, 10001200 pounds $44-48, high dressing $48, low dressing $39.50-43;
bulls, yield grade 1-2 1790-2235
pounds $61-65.50, low dressing 1205-1285 pounds $55-55.
and large No. 1-2 young to
middleaged cows 1005-1225
pounds 3-7 months bred $6472.50, aged cows 945-1160
pounds 2-5 months bred $51-54;
cow-calf pairs, medium and large
No. 1-2 young to middleaged
cows 1265-1355 pounds with
calves 100-200 pounds $800850 per pair, aged cows 9201100 pounds with calves 100150 pounds $490-790.
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much deeper level. One man,
one horse, one bovine. We
know how it feels, how hard it
is, and how good the contestants have to be to get there.
They represent the best of what
we stand for, for all the world
COMMON SENSE to see. Sometimes it sends
chills down my spine.
they’ve got on the line. Man Víva Las Vegas!
touches beast, leather touches
hair, silver touches hide. The
Three Rivers Sells
noise and lights, the fireworks
and carnival atmosphere fade 1387 Head Of Cattle
into the rafters as we, in our THREE RIVERS — (TDAminds, nod our head, throw our Jan. 7) — No market trends
rope, rock and fire, turn the were available due to holiday
barrel, take our dallies and land closings. Receipts totaled 1387
on our feet right there beside head.
them...to the applause of the Steers: medium and large
adoring crowd. That’s...what No. 1 few 200-300 pounds $130145, 300-400 pounds $115brings us back.
That and the remembrance 122.50, 400-500 pounds $107of our youthful attempts, of 119, 500-600 pounds $97-109,
horses we’ve known, of friends 600-700 pounds $92-102, 700we’ve rode with. We see Billy 800 pounds $82-89, few 800-900
Etbauer, our Mickey Mantle, pounds $73-82; medium and large
Walt Woodward, our Nolan No. 2 few 200-300 pounds $116Ryan, Trevor Brazile, our Ti- 119, 300-400 pounds $108-117,
ger Woods, and Taos Muncy, 400-500 pounds $103-115, 500600 pounds $92-101, yearlings
our LaBron James.
We support rodeo because it $85-89, 600-700 pounds $94-101,
is ours, no matter how it 700-800 pounds $73-77.
changes. If it takes Las Vegas
to make it a major sport, we No. 1 300-400 pounds $103105, 400-500 pounds $92-99,
welcome it, glitz and all.
But we gray-haired fans 500-600 pounds $92-98, 600from America’s Outback, 700 pounds $89-92; medium
where we still punch cows and and large No. 2 400-500
team rope on Thursday night, pounds $100-103, 500-600
appreciate the animals and pounds $91-96, yearlings $82contestants at the NFR on a 86, 600-700 pounds $82-86.
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ON THE EDGE OF
Hunter S. Thompson, in his
book “Fear And Loathing in
Las Vegas,” said, “Circus, Circus (a big casino in Las Vegas)
is what the world would be like
if the Third Reich had won!”
Las Vegas is the equivalent
of endlessly switching the
cable channel on your television anytime between midnight
and 2 a.m.!
Las Vegas has changed rodeo. It has been a great host to
the National Rodeo Finals
since 1985, literally launching
rodeo into orbit somewhere
between Haley’s Comet and
Dancing with the Stars! It has
also drug us middleaged and
Social Security veterans, who
have the most money to spend
on Dodge pickups and fancy
Justin boots and make up the
vast majority of repeat NFR
ticket buyers, into the whirlwind world of show business.
Each performance at the
NFR begins like the 4th of July
and roars non-stop, leaving the
audience spellbound, breathless and deaf. When it is over
you feel like you’ve ridden or
roped every wild domestic animal that ran, circled or crashed
into the arena! It exhausts you.
Watching rodeo is not like
watching baseball or golf.
There are no pensive, thoughtful moments as the steer wrestler ponders the angle of the
horns. There are no no-hitters,
no left fielders dozing off. Rodeo is more like hockey played
with hambones and a whale
bladder! Or tennis played with
an orchestra and paint gun
balls!
But the umbilicus, the lifeline that holds baby boomers
and seniors to the sport and
gets them through the roller
coaster hyperspace of the Thomas and Mack Arena, is the
intimate moment we watch
when each competitor puts all
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Llano, Texas
Sale Time: 10 a.m.
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1845C skid loader; Cat DW20 pad foot roller; Bomag pad foot roller;
Wacker double drum roller; scissor lift; I-R 250 air compressor; skid
loader attachments; truck tractors; dump trucks; asphalt trucks; water
tanks and flatbeds for trucks; storage van; assorted gooseneck
equipment and stock trailers; horse trailers; lots of utility trailers; a
large selection of late model pickups and cars including a classic 1956
Ford pickup; farm tractors and implements; squeeze chute; manure
spreader; batwing shredder; portable panels; pipe; creep feeders;
cube feeders; round bale haulers; antique horse drawn equipment;
motorhome; travel trailers; boats; golf carts; four-wheelers; lots and
lots of miscellaneous tools; mowers; pumps and generators; many
more items too numerous to list!
Auction conducted by:
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January 10, 2008
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75-80 percent lean 1000-1600
pounds $46-49, high dressing
$52-54.50, low dressing $3842, boners 80-85 percent
1000-1600 pounds $46-53,
lean 85-90 percent 1200-1600
pounds $48.50, high dressing
$53.50, 85-90 percent 8001200 pounds $41-45.50, high
dressing $48-48.50, low dressing $36.50-39, 85-90 percent
under 800 pounds $36.50-38,
high dressing $41.50, low
dressing $33-34; bulls, yield
grade 1-2 1415-1590 pounds
$58-63.50, high dressing
1605-1620 pounds $64-65.
and large No. 1-2 young to
middleaged cows 1170-1255
pounds 5-6 months bred $740870 per head, middle-aged to
aged cows 910-970 pounds 58 months bred $450-580.
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JUNCTION — (Jan. 7) —
Nannies sold weaker, other
sheep and goat classes steady.
Receipts totaled 1305 head.
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Angora goats: babytooth
nannies $45-52; muttons $5070; shorn kids $105-114;
slaughter nannies, shorn thin
$17-27, fat $35-40.
Meat goats: Spanish stocker
nannies $60-80, fat nannies
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January 10, 2008 case involves important issues
of statutory construction (pertaining to Chapter 36 of the
Texas Water Code), not the
least of which is the meaning
of historic use.”
By Colleen Schreiber
number of people who tried to The question before the
AUSTIN – Oral arguments watch the oral arguments live court, Patterson told listeners,
for what is touted to be the on the Internet was so great that is whether the district’s rules
most important water case to it reportedly caused an over- with respect to transfer permits
discriminate against Guitar and
reach the Texas Supreme Court load of sorts in the system.
since the 1999 Sipriano case The case merited enough at- other ranchers who do not have
were heard recently.
tention that oral arguments historic use.
Guitar v. Hudspeth Co. were replayed in their entirety “Guitar argues that the
UWCD No. 1 is the first case at the recent Texas Water Law district’s rules unlawfully proaddressing the powers of Institute Conference sponsored tect the existing and historic
groundwater districts covered by the University of Texas use of groundwater for irrigation purposes, that it in fact
by Chapter 36 of the Water School of Law.
Code to rise through the courts, “This is a big case and a big grants the farmers a preference
therefore much attention has fight over a minor aquifer that — to them an unlawful preferbeen paid to this case by essentially pits the farmers ence — to transfer and market
groundwater districts through- against the ranchers,” re- water,” Patterson said.
out the state and by state marked Third Court of Appeals The key issue before the
policymakers as well. The judge Jan P. Patterson. “The Supreme Court appears to be
whether when Chapter 36 authorizes protection of historical use, is referring to a volume of use or a particular purpose of use.
The Hudspeth Co. UWCD
P. O. Box 71 — Hamilton, Texas 76531
No.
1, referred to from here
Office: 254/386-3185 • Fax: 254/386-3576
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rules establishing a permit system whereby landowners had
to acquire a permit before drilling, equipping or altering the
size of a well. The rules also
allowed landowners to apply
for a certificate validating an
existing well, regardless of
when it was drilled, by providing information identifying the
location of the well. Furthermore, the rules gave all landowners five acre-feet of water
per acre per year regardless of
the proposed use. However, the
rules placed a strong limitation
on the right to transfer groundwater out of the district.
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legislature made sweeping
changes to water regulation
with the passage of Senate Bill
1 and later SB 2. Specifically,
these bills made significant
changes to Chapter 36 of the
Water Code. The long and the
short was that with the passage
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district’s rules were no longer
valid because they conflicted
with the changes made to
Chapter 36 with respect to
transfer. In 2002 the district
repealed those rules and established a new set.
The new rules designated a
historic use period from 1992
through 2002. Landowners
who could prove use during
that designated timeframe
could apply for a validation
permit. However, unlike the
old rules, in which the amount
potentially allocated depended
on surface acreage, the new
rules said that the amount the
landowner was entitled to depended on whether or not and
to what extent the land had
been irrigated.
The petitioner’s brief on the
merits of the case explains this
more clearly.
“For every acre the landowner irrigated during that period (historic and existing use
period) the rules allow him to
withdraw as much as four acrefeet per year, and guarantee
him an annual irrigation allotment of at least three acre-feet.
By contrast, if a landowner did
not irrigate this land, but instead used groundwater for any
other non-exempt use, the
amount of water he is entitled
to produce is the maximum
amount of water he beneficially used in any one year during the Existing and Historic
Use Period.”
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show that they’d used groundwater during the historical period could apply for an operating permit. This permit is
based on surface acreage, but
as the petitioner’s brief points
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The new rules also require
anyone wishing to export water out of the district to obtain
a transfer permit. To obtain a
transfer permit, however, landowners must first have either a
validation permit or an operating permit. In addition, the
amount of water that can be
exported is linked to the
amount authorized in the operating permit or validation
permit. Therefore the rules
heavily favor the validation
permit holder because, as the
petition’s brief states, the validation permit holder “is entitled to a transfer permit to sell
as much as 2.8 acre-feet of that
groundwater per year (the
maximum amount that may be
transferred is 70 percent of the
guaranteed four acre-feet). By
contrast, land that was not irrigated receives no guaranteed
allocation if the average water
elevation of the Aquifer does
not exceed the threshold value
of 3580 feet.”
Guitar owns more than
38,000 acres. The family traditionally has been involved in
ranching, not farming. Therefore their historic use during
the defined period was minimal. Several of the amicus
briefs filed on their behalf contend that they were conserving
the water, and because of that
they are now being penalized
by the district’s rules. Guitar
applied for permits under the
district’s old rules and was
granted the right to transfer 162
acre-feet per year.
However, three other applicants, Cimarron, CLM, RBB
and Triple B, all farming operations owning far less acreage than Guitar, were collectively given the right to transfer 38,057.23 acre-feet of water per year, more than 60 percent of all the annual available
groundwater as defined by the
district. The district determined that only 63,000 acrefeet of water available from the
aquifer could be used annually,
either for consumptive use or
for transfer outside the district.
Guitar filed four lawsuits
against the district which were
consolidated. The first challenged the rules; the other three
were appeals of permit decisions of the district under the
new rules.
The trial court upheld the
validity of the district’s rules
but denied the district’s request
for attorney fees and litigation
expenses; the court upheld the
validation and transfer permits
the district issued to Cimarron,
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dered the district to refund certain administrative deposits to
Guitar. Finally, the court upheld the validation and transfer permits the district issued
to Triple B.
Guitar appealed. Again the
district prevailed. In a unanimous published opinion, the
court of appeals upheld the
validity of the district’s rules.
Guitar filed a petition for
review before the Texas Supreme Court. That review was
granted.
In oral arguments before the
Texas Supreme Court, Guitar’s
attorney, Russ Johnson, told
the court repeatedly that the
case is not about challenging
the authority of the legislature
or the provisions within Chapter 36. Nor is it about individual water districts’ right to
protect and preserve historic
use.
“This case is not about undoing the groundwater regulatory framework that the legislature has provided in SB 1, 2
and 3. In fact, it is just the opposite,” Johnson told the court.
“This case represents an opportunity for the court to advise groundwater districts of
the extent of the authority and
the limits on that authority, and
in this case the specific limit
on the authority to protect or
preserve historic use.”
Guitar also charges that the
water district’s rules violate the
equal protection clause with
their specific provisions allow-
ing the conversion of preserved
historic use to a new use of
transfer when every other new
user is treated differently.
“Chapter 36.122(q) says that
a district can’t adopt a rule that
says if you want to export you
only get one acre-foot but if
you want to use it in-district
you get two or three acre-feet,”
Johnson told the court. “They
cannot make a distinction in
terms of a new application
based on where the water is
going to go.”
In his opening remarks,
Renea Hicks, attorney for the
water district, argued that Guitar is in fact challenging the
structure set up in Chapter 36
by the legislature.
“When you look behind
what I consider the impenetrable statutory argument, this
case really asks the court
whether it meant what it said
in 1999 in Sipriano.”
In Sipriano the court upheld
the rule of capture. Justice
Enoch delivered the opinion
for a unanimous court. Justice
Hecht filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice O’Neill
joined.
Enoch wrote that “Sipriano
presents compelling reasons
for groundwater use to be regulated. But unlike in East, any
modification of the common
law would have to be guided
and constrained by constitutional and statutory considerations. Given the Legislature’s
recent efforts to regulate
groundwater, we are not persuaded that it is appropriate
today for this Court to insert
itself into the regulatory mix by
substituting the rule of reasonable use for the current rule of
capture.”
In saying that the Guitar
case is really about Sipriano,
Hicks was really pointing to
the final paragraph of the opinion in which Enoch refers to
the legislature’s recent efforts
to regulate groundwater.
Hicks argued that the
district’s rules follow Chapter
36 precisely in terms of recognizing historic use. Giving
preference to those with historic use, he said, is a way to
recognize those who have “invested in the community.
“This is in the desert. We
have to have some basis for
allocating this water. So we
said if you produced water —
pumped it up and used it, it
doesn’t matter how — it just
so happens here it’s mainly
agriculture irrigation. If you
used it in the defined period,
you get a permit to produce it
in the future essentially keyed
to what you used before —
four acre-feet per acre.”
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granting him the exclusive
right to protect a resource that
is shared by everybody.”
During oral arguments the
justices seemed to focus on a
couple of key points, one being this definition of “use.”
Before the Guitars’ attorney
could even finish his opening
line, Justice David Medina
asked for an explanation of
“use.”
Johnson responded that
“use” is used throughout Chapter 36 in the context of both the
type — to what use does one
put the water — and also the
amount of use.
Johnson commented that the
Chapter 36.116(b) of the Water Code clearly gives groundwater districts the power to
exempt existing or historic use.
However, pointing to
36.113(e), Johnson insisted
that in making changes to SB
2 the legislature clearly intended that when a permit
holder changes its use or
changes the character of the
protected use, it is to be considered a new use.
Hicks argued that “use”
means an amount, not a purpose of use or kind of use.
Justice Harriett O’Neill,
however, pointed to another
January 10, 2008
provision of Chapter 36 which
basically says specific to transfer of water out of a district that
all users must be treated the
same.
“We treat users the same,”
Hicks assured. “We have said
that if you were an in-district user
that was an irrigator, which is
nearly everyone out there, you
essentially get to use up to 70
percent of the water that you
pump when irrigating crops.
“To treat exporters the same
as in-district users we say you
have to produce, that’s natural.
Then if you want an export
permit you can export 70 percent of what you can produce,
which is equivalent to the consumption that you used if you
engaged in and produced it inside the district,” he explained.
To which Justice O’Neill responded: “I understand the
rules, but this does sort of create a franchise for prior users
to use water in a different way.”
Justice Nathan Hecht offered a similar comment.
“The troubling thing about it
is that transfer was not a historic use,” Hecht said.
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Hicks was argumentative,
countering again that “use” is
not a “kind” of use.
Then, as if to remind the attorneys whose courtroom it
was, Justice O’Neill said,
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to decide.”
“Well, it isn’t the only thing
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use… if you look at the way
the definitions are set up, it
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and the purpose of the use. It
talks about use for a beneficial
purpose and then it defines
what the purposes are which
are agricultural, municipal and
so on, but it distinguishes use
from purpose.”
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district is evaluating an application to move water out of a
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at the amount and purpose of
use. In SB 2, however, he reminded, the legislature changed that provision to say that a
district can no longer look at
purpose of use.
“In 36.001(29), which was
added in 2005, they specifically talk about use as an
amount. It only makes sense if
you talk about it as an amount,
not the kind of use.”
It was clear that O’Neill
wasn’t the only justice who had
expressed concerns about the
impartiality of the district’s
rules.
“It appears to me that the
way the scheme is set up now
is that it doesn’t give all landowners equal access to the
January 10, 2008 a farmer, if he had a transfer
permit, he could decide today
water,” Justice Medina reto stop all farming and transmarked. “It actually seems to
fer out of the district at least
discriminate against ranchers
70 percent whereas a rancher,
or big property owners.”
there’s no way he’d be able to
“It does not burden them
do that under the district’s
(big landowners),” Hicks responded. “You have to under- regulatory scheme.”
stand. We are mandated to per- “That is exactly correct,”
mit exports and we are man- Johnson responded.
dated to conserve the aquifer. The continuation of his reThose are our two mandates, marks, however, once again
but we are permitted to recog- focused on use.
nize historic use. That is the “I think it points out the fallegislative permission, and it is lacy of the approach. There is
dictated that if we permit we no preservation of the historic
then can’t turn around and say use in that scenario, in fact,
for export we are doing it dif- quite the contrary. Use is converted to an entirely new use,
ferently.”
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That seems to me to be a violation in terms of the equal protection law,” Jefferson commented. “It just seems rather
unfair.”
“It’s only unfair if the ability to produce is unfair, if the
rules of production are unfair
or illegal,” Hicks countered.
Hecht interrupted Hicks,
saying that the district was putting the cart before the horse.
“They can’t get the water out
under your scheme, so they
can’t produce,” Hecht pointed
out. “So basically, what it comes
down to is they can raise cattle or
cantaloupes, and the rancher,
he doesn’t need as much water, so in a sense he is conserving water by not utilizing it.”
Medina then stepped into the
fray.
“So let’s say I’m not trying
to transfer water, I’m trying to
get an operating permit, and
that depends on the level of the
aquifer, which for the conceivable future is probably really
not going to let me use that
water. Isn’t there something
wrong with that as well,
whereas he (someone with a
validation permit) gets a guaranteed amount?”
“There is only something
wrong with it if there’s something wrong with the very context of being able to protect
historic use,” Hicks insisted.
The discussion looped back
around to this definition of
“use” again when Justice
O’Neill countered, “Unless we
interpret historic use to be a
type of use.”
“But then you would be ignoring what the statute says,”
Hicks stressed. “You don’t go
there. If you interpret it that
way you’re forcing this district
and other districts to treat indistrict users differently from
exporters. You’ll force us to.
“If we had done that, if we
(the district) had passed a rule
that said what the Guitars said
it should be, that all the irrigators — the people that had validation permits — then everyone that had historic use would
be saying you can’t treat
people differently for purposes
of export than you treat for
purposes of production and
you’re treating us differently
because we have a historic use
…”
Again O’Neill refocused on
how “use” is defined.
“If it’s a new use, all you’re
asking them to do is apply for
an operation permit,” she
pointed out.
“But it’s not a new use because the use is not talking
about the kind of use,” Hicks
reiterated. “You cannot find in
the statute any basis for concluding that.”
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ports before, then why is export not a new use?” she asked.
“Export is not a use. Export
is where you’re moving water
to,” Hicks replied. “It doesn’t
tell you how you’re using it …”
There was also discussion
about the linking of the validation permit to the right to
transfer. Guitar argued that in
allowing districts the right to
preserve historic use, irrigation
for example, the legislature intended that preservation be just
for that use and not a conversion to an entirely new use.
Transfer should not be permitted as an existing use, Johnson
said, and therefore validation
permit holders should be required to apply for a transfer
permit and comply with the
same rules as all others wishing to transfer water out of the
district.
The market and how it was
to work also came up a couple
of times. There seemed to be
some concern about how requiring the irrigators to apply
for a transfer permit to export
water out of the district would
in essence force them to continue to farm to keep from losing their historic rights, and
how in the end that might impact the water market.
The appellant’s attorney argued that the market would
wire around that without any
problems.
“The market would still operate. It would just operate
fairly because everyone could
participate,” Johnson insisted.
“El Paso would pay those
farmers not to farm so that
more water would then be
available for the district to allocate among all the landowners. They would have to pay
enough farmers enough money
to free up a sufficient amount
of water for export to El Paso.”
Justices Nathan Hecht and
O’Neill seemed to concur.
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might have to decide which
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transferring water or retaining
it for irrigation,” Justice Nathan Hecht commented, “and
it might depend on how desperate El Paso was and the
price of cantaloupe.”
“If transferring water out of
the district became more lucrative than farming, then an irrigator could give up the irrigation purpose and apply to the
same pool for an operational
permit as everyone else,”
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At the tail end there was
some discussion about the emphasis the legislature has put
on local control specific to the
design and implementation of
a groundwater district’s rules.
“The legislature went to all
that trouble to give this authority to a local government. Why
shouldn’t one leave it to the
discretion of the local parties
involved?” Justice Medina
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“Because this district has
exceeded the authority that the
legislature granted to Chapter
36 districts, and it’s done so in
a way that is discriminatory to
landowners who have conserved their water rights and
who in essence have come up
with a scheme where a limited
number of landowners benefit
from a shared resource,” Johnson responded.
Medina also asked how the
board members are chosen for
these local groundwater districts.
“They are elected,” Johnson
responded, “but keep in mind
that you’re talking about a very
small population centered
around the irrigation community in Dell City. All the board
members are farmers.”
“That sounds like they have
a lock,” Medina added. “I
would have said that it looks
like they could change this by
election of board members.”
“It’s difficult to do,” Johnson confirmed.
A ruling is not expected any
time soon. In fact, it could be
as long as a year before the
court issues an opinion.
Imported Meat Total
16.6% Below Year Ago
WASHINGTON — (USDA)
— Imported meat for the week
ending November 24 totaled
18,939 metric tons. This compares to 22,709 metric tons for
the same period last year and
is a 16.6 percent decrease. The
following figures represent
metric tons.
Totals included the following: Argentina 176, Australia
5816, Brazil 883, Canada
8073, Chile 57, Costa Rica 97,
Denmark 527, France three,
Ireland 70, Israel 23, Italy 49,
Japan two, Mexico 615, Netherlands 28, New Zealand 1305,
Nicaragua 597, Northern Ireland 46, Poland 260, Spain 12,
Sweden 27, and Uruguay 275.
Fresh beef imports totaled
9639 with Australia 4936,
Canada 2490, Chile 25, Costa
Rica 97, Japan two, Mexico
248, New Zealand 1009, Nicaragua 597, and Uruguay 235.
Processed beef totaled 1376,
including Argentina with 176,
Australia 19, Brazil 883,
Canada 223, Mexico five, New
Zealand 30, and Uruguay 40.
Fresh pork totaled 4024 with
Australia 20, Canada 3310,
Chile 32, Denmark 468, Ireland 70, Mexico 24, Netherlands 28, Northern Ireland 46,
and Sweden 27. Processed
pork totaled 1281 with Canada
775, Denmark 59, Italy 49,
Mexico 126, Poland 260, and
Spain 12.
Lamb totaled 963 with Australia 790 and New Zealand
173. Veal totaled 321 with Australia 21, Canada 207 and New
Zealand 92.
Goat meat imports totaled
29, all from Australia. No mutton imports were reported.
Miscellaneous meats totaled
134, with Canada 106 and
Mexico 28. Poultry totaled
1171 with Canada 961, France
three, Israel 23, and Mexico
184.
Red Meat Production
4.2% Above Last Year
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week and 526,000 for the same
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1305 pounds, 1308 and 1298,
respectively. Cumulative beef
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Livestock Weekly
January 10, 2008 clude cattle, cotton, wheat, hay
and hunting operations, management is the key, along with
his supportive wife, Susan, and
a detailed record-keeping system.
were more valuable in prepar- “Susan will sit here and keep
ing him for managing his op- the books,” Davidson says,
eration than any agriculture walking along the working
class could have been. He’s pens he built among the four
been able to take advantage of paddocks of one of his intenopportunities that came his sive grazing programs. “I run
way and think in broad busi- the chute. I started using a
ness terms rather than think of young vet there at Clarendon.
himself just as a cotton farmer Guy Ellis is his name. I really
like him.”
or cattle rancher.
In fact, he describes himself Davidson will have two or
three people on the chutes with
as a grass farmer.
him and a couple of people on
At 65, he spends more of his
horseback.
time in the cab of his pickup
All the cattle are tagged, and
or big Dodge feed truck than
Davidson knows exactly what
on horseback, but with a boyhe wants to do with each aniish grin, he still talks fondly of
mal and has it all written down.
the horses he’s had.
“As we work them,” he says,
With different farms that in“we can shoot the bred ones
that are staying here thataway
and the others come back
here.”
Davidson has six farms and
ranches spread out across the
southeastern Texas Panhandle.
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Mike Davidson runs a diversified farming and ranching operation east of Estelline in Hall
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it goes dormant.
“I can basically run one cow
unit per six acres,” he says.
Since changing from cotton
to grass, Davidson has about
doubled the income off the dryland farms he’s bought and
turned into intensive grazing
operations.
A smaller place down the
road is where he puts his heifers every year.
Out of that group of calves,
he’ll pick his replacement heifers.
Looking out across the pasture in early December, he says
it’s kind of like the wheat in the
Panhandle at that time of year.
There’s not much of it showing, but with the recent rains
and snow, he expects it to take
off as Christmas approaches.
“That’s really a help,” Davidson says.
Part of his heifer pasture
used to be a lake.
“It can be underwater,” he
says.
But the water usually is below ground level, giving him a
sub-irrigated pasture.
“I used to raise hay here every year,” Davidson says.
“This year I went in there and
sowed it in this fescue.”
Some of it has come up, but
Davidson hopes most of it will
wait until spring.
“This stuff, because it’s a
winter grass, the ground temperature has to be 65 degrees
or lower for it to germinate,”
Davidson says. It won’t germinate in warm ground.”
This year, September was
hot.
“I sowed this stuff the first
of September,” he says, “and
we got an inch and a half or
two inches of rain, which is
plenty to get it up, but it
wouldn’t come up because the
ground’s so hot.”
By the time the ground temperature cooled, it turned dry.
“It’s one of those things
where you don’t know what to
pray for,” Davidson says. “I’m
afraid that if it does sprout now,
that before it develops a good
root system, we’ll have some
severe cold and it’ll kill it.”
He says he’ll come back to
this pasture with his heifers in
about two weeks.
One end of the pasture,
where it’s sub-irrigated, is
fresh and green. As Davidson
turns and drives uphill toward
an old barn, the bright green
turns to duller shades.
“It’s the quality of ground,”
Davidson says. “The better the
ground here, the better it does.”
Traditionally, farmers will
plant a crop on their best
ground and turn their worst
ground over to grass. That can
be a mistake, Davidson says.
The old dry lakebed holds
the moisture better, too, he
notes.
B-Dahl bluestem does well
in this country, even in the
sandy soils that alternate with
the moisture-preserving sandy
loams.
Davidson’s cattle, like most
intensive grazing operations,
are used to being handled and
come running to the feed truck.
When he opens the gate to the
next paddock or even if he
takes them down the road, they
are more than happy to follow
him.
“In the wintertime, when
you’re caking,” Davidson says,
“they’ll knock you down.”
Most of the time, Davidson
and his dog Burr handle the
move themselves.
The one problem with Burr,
says Davidson’s wife, is that
when Davidson drives off in
the feed truck without Burr, the
dog pouts.
“He pouts worse than I do,”
Susan laughs, “and I’m a good
pouter.”
Davidson also leases almost
all his land to hunters.
“The intensive grazing program complements the hunting
program,” he says.
Nowadays, grass is worth
more than good cultivated
ground, he says. While good
ground put into grass is growing
in value, land farmers used to ignore is also becoming more
valuable.
The rougher the land, the
more valuable it is for hunting.
Davidson points to a patch
of rough country neighboring
his pasture and says it leases
for $600 or $700 an acre for
hunting.
“Farmland that will produce
something won’t bring that,”
he says.
He cited one place he bought
in the 1980s for $70 an acre. He
recently sold it for $500.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that’s the
smart thing to do,” Davidson
says.
At the time, Davidson says
he was still sowing wheat on
that place, and he hadn’t done
much grazing on it. To get the
place he sold up to where he
could run six acres per cow
unit, he was going to have to
spend $150 an acre putting in
grass and fertilizing.
“You always have to heavy
fertilize it,” Davidson says.
“This is really sandy.”
It made a lot more sense to
sell that place, he says, than to
try to convert it to fit his other
grazing systems.
Over the years, he managed
to buy a couple of other places.
The places he’s been buying
have been old dryland farms.
Davidson’s been able to put his
farming skills to work and
plant grass and expand his intensive grazing operation.
What makes his operation
unique is that he doesn’t rely
on a calendar to tell him when
to move the cattle but rather the
conditions.
The weather here varies
widely, and over a year’s period, temperatures can vary
more than 100 degrees. Like most
farmers and ranchers here, he values moisture highly.
On what little cotton land he
still has, Davidson says he
started minimum tilling about
eight years ago and inter-seeding wheat in the cotton.
“I was doing the same thing
our granddaddies did,”
Davidson says. “We’d quit rotating, but it really pays off.”
Davidson grew up on a stock
farm with a dryland cotton operation about two miles across
the road.
“Dad had a few cattle,”
Davidson says. “He raised registered Herefords during the
1950s.”
After earning a bachelor’s in
business administration degree
with an emphasis in marketing
from West Texas A&M University in 1966, Davidson went
to Navy Officer Candidate
School at Pensacola, Fla.
He spent a year and a half
on Guam before joining the
Brown Water Navy on the
Mekong River just below
Cambodia at the height of the
Vietnam War.
“I was a Navy liaison officer,” Davidson says.
He was part of a special operation that combined the
Navy’s patrol boats, Air Force
reconnaissance aircraft and
Army Special Forces to block
Viet Cong traffic coming down
the river.
“It stretched about 100
miles,” Davidson says.
It was divided into two areas and there was a Navy liaison officer in charge of each
area.
He was sent to Bien Thuy
down in the Mekong Delta and
then up to a Special Forces B
Camp at Moc Hoa, or as it was
affectionately known, “Mortar
Junction.”
Davidson returned to civilian life on March 25, 1970,
after earning a bronze star.
“Susan and I married April
18, 1970,” Davidson says. “We
were engaged the year I was in
Vietnam.”
Davidson laughs and says
they dated eight years, but only
went out seven times.
“We knew each other that
long,” he says. “We’d have one
or two dates, then I’d be gone.”
A Hall County girl, she was
in high school when he was in
college. Then she was in college when he was in Guam and
Vietnam.
“We knew each other better
than most people getting married,” he says.
Coming out of the Navy,
See Davidson
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January 10, 2008 tion.
The place he and Susan
Davidson
him, but Davidson wasn’t the
bought
and began to farm soon
Continued From Page 11 same person he was when he’d
after they were married is now
Davidson had talked with left the farm four years before.
all cattle.
Cessna about working in the
In 1972, Davidson’s father
In the mid-1990s, Davidson
aircraft business and had inter- announced that he was retiring,
says he began to change his
viewed with the FBI in Wash- and Davidson took over the
operation and switched the
ington, D.C., but he went back operation.
emphasis to cattle. While some
to farming with his father.
“He realized that I was probmight say the mid-90s was not
“It was a little difficult for ably going to leave if he didn’t
a good time to get into the
the first couple of years,” he retire,” Davidson says. “Anycattle business, Davidson says
says. “You’ve been in a posi- way, we decided to stay here.”
it was better than farming in the
tion of being your own boss Susan was teaching at the
1980s.
and having this authority.”
time. She’s since retired from
“The decade of the 1980s
Davidson says he loved his the classroom and helps run the
was a real lesson,” Davidson
father and had great respect for farming and ranching operasays. “It was a lesson to banks,
and it was a lesson to farmers.”
They faced inflation and
high interest rates. Equipment
and fertilizer prices soared.
He was raising sheep and
had a cattle operation. He built
a greenhouse and raised tomatoes, but still farmed a lot of
acres. He still maintains that no
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His momma cows are basically a commercial herd with
a strong Angus influence. Because of the rugged territory
and the heat in the summer,
there is some Brahman blood
in the mix.
“In our heifer program
we’ve used half-Jersey bulls,”
Davidson says. “Right now,
we’re using Braunvieh and
Gelbvieh bulls.”
The Brown Swiss breed was
bred from the Braunvieh, he
says.
“It’s a German milking breed,”
Davidson says, “and it also has
an extremely deep ribeye. The
feedlots like them.”
In 2000 they really began to
expand their cattle operation.
“We had already developed
a summer program of grass
with the B-Dahl,” Davidson
says. “In the winter pasture, we
were using wheat.”
It’s always been desirable,
he says, to have something that
would be dependable in the
wintertime to replace row
cropping.
Originally, Davidson says he
was going to do some
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“I had three or four different ideas for the wintertime,”
he says. “Then I contacted the
Experiment Station at Woodward, Okla.”
He went up there to see what
they were doing with winter
grasses. The varieties he saw
were dependable on good
ground, but they weren’t dependable on average ground.
“On good ground or sub-irrigated ground,” Davidson
says, “they will hold their
stand.”
He tried several different
grasses, but they weren’t
drouth tolerant.
Davidson says he ended up
being directed to Dr. Dariusz
Malinowski at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at
Vernon.
“He gave me the number of
the Pennington Seed representative in Henderson, Texas,”
Davidson says.
Davidson tried a tall fescue
named Flecha.
“I tried 11 acres at first,”
Davidson says.
The fall of 2004 turned out
to be the perfect year to put it
in. There was good moisture.
The next year was dry, but
2006 was wet.
“2005 was dry from the fall
all the way nearly to the next
fall, July 2006,” Davidson
says. “Then it started raining.”
It rained until the fall of
2007, when it turned off dry,
but now it appears that there
will be some winter rain and
snow bringing good moisture
back to the area.
The fescue worked really
well with the moisture. It
wasn’t great in drouth condi-
tions, but it did survive and
came back with some rain.
“What it didn’t do was that
the new crops that I sowed that
dry year, I didn’t get a stand
on any of it,” Davidson says,
“but the existing stand held.”
He seeded some more in
those areas and improved the
stand.
Davidson says that with an
intensive grazing operation the
key is using a good perennial
grass. With fuel costs, seeding
an annual is just too expensive.
“The reason you use this
stuff is so you don’t have to
sow it every year,” Davidson
says, “like you do with wheat.
There wouldn’t be a great advantage to it if it wasn’t a perennial.”
Davidson, it turned out, was
the only rancher who tried the
fescue. Others had an acre or
two and were experimenting
with it.
“What my statement has always been,” Davidson says, “is
that it’s got to compete with
wheat. If it won’t produce the
tonnage that wheat will, it
won’t work.”
Davidson says it matches
wheat because the growing
curve of the fescue in an average year will produce grazing
in September. That won’t work
in a drouth, he concedes, but it
will in an average year for
moisture.
“It comes out of dormancy
the first of September,” Davidson says, “and you’ve got this
grass four or five inches tall.”
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year, December, January and
February, it drops off a little.
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great amount.”
Davidson says it will go on
into the summer where wheat
will mature and go dormant.
“In May and June, this stuff
will stay green,” Davidson
says.
He warns that one year he
had a hot May and the fescue
went dormant.
“If you have three weeks
with no moisture and temperatures in the 100-degree range,”
he says, “it’ll go into dormancy.”
Davidson says that last year
on his better ground, it never
went dormant because he had
plenty of moisture and a cool
summer.
“It does like fertilizer,” he
says. “It’s not something you
can’t fertilize.”
The B-Dahl, he says, doesn’t
need the fertilizer the fescue
requires.
“It does like good strong
ground,” Davidson says.
It’ll grow in sand, he says,
but takes a lot of fertilizer and
a lot of water.
The water at Davidson’s
home is underground stream
water that comes off the Caprock.
“These wells here are 200 to
300-gallon wells,” Davidson
says. “They are not big wells
at all.”
Davidson was so impressed
with the fescue that he has gone
into the grass seed business. He
revamped his greenhouse for a
drying and packing barn for his
grass seed and sells it to nearby
ranches.
Davidson says that with intensive grazing programs and
improved grasses, he weans a
lighter calf, but he makes up
for it with a six acre per cow
unit.
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Marketings:Arizona 27,000, up
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800-900 pounds $101-101.50;
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calves 600-700 pounds $100102, 700-800 pounds $100103.50, 900-975 pounds $92;
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January 10, 2008 He has people knock on his
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FALFURRIAS, Texas — spected. You could trust them,”
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where
is this. It’s
Things have changed in South says Durham.
Texas between the ranchers With this new crowd, no- too damn dangerous.”
and the illegal aliens. Not too body knows for sure who they Just a few weeks ago
long ago most of the immi- are because they can’t catch Durham and his wife were in
bed when they heard a helicopgrants traveling through were enough of them to know. The
ter close to the house. They
respectful of property and had ranchers are nervous now,
looked out and saw the helia good relationship with the Durham says, because they can
copter only 100 yards away.
landowners, but that isn’t al- feel the change taking place.
“I didn’t want to go out there
People are scared to leave at midnight and disturb whatways the case today. There is
an increasingly brazen crimi- their wives at home alone, even ever in the hell they were donal sort that is keeping South during the day.
ing. The next day I went out
Texans on edge.
“This is dangerous, nowa- there and saw all the tracks, and
Lavoyger Durham runs the days, out at the ranch. You’ve I figured they got 50.”
El Tule Ranch here, and he has got to keep in contact with your Durham called the Border
seen this change take place. wife and family all the time. Patrol the next day and asked
“I’m not against Mexicans. You can’t just leave them out if they had been working at El
My mother was Mexican, and there like you used to. You Tule. They said they had, and
I work with those guys. My used to go out and fix wind- that they caught 43 people.
grandparents on my mother’s mills or check cattle or what- “Like I said, that was a hunside came from Mexico,” ex- ever and come back and see dred yards from my house.”
plains Durham.
them at night.”
“That happens all the time.
“It’s a different breed of “You can’t do that now. You Everybody’s got horror stories.
people, now. Before, these can’t trust that scenario any- Everybody’s got them,”
oldtimers would come and more. All these ranchers will Durham reiterates. He knows
work for a year or two, go back tell you the same thing, espe- of ranchers being fired upon,
and see their families and then cially overnight,” says Dur- ranch security guards being
beaten or held at gunpoint, and
ham.
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dangerous. The Border Patrol
will tell you that they used to
just apprehend Mexicans, but
now they’re from all over.
“I could sit here all day and
tell stories about pregnant
women coming across, guys
getting beat up by coyotes and
they crawl for a mile. I’ve
found about 10 or 15 dead in
the 18 years that I’ve been
here. You’ve got to get to them
quick or else the buzzards eat
them up. That’s true.”
It is common for the illegals
to become dehydrated, and the
coyotes, or human smugglers,
won’t wait on them.
The Border Patrol told
Durham that within a five-mile
radius of his ranch, 200 to 300
aliens pass through each night.
The criminals have become
much more organized, and
Durham says the show and the
rodeo are being played on this
side of the border now. The
drug business isn’t just in
Mexico now. Gangs like the
Mara Salvatruchas, or MS13s,
are here now.
Human smuggling has become big business, and those
involved aren’t shy about
breaking a few U.S. laws. Drug
lords are involved with human
smuggling, Durham says, and
it’s all extremely organized and
synchronized. In some areas
aliens must pay a toll just to
cross the river.
Last year Durham testified
before the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittees in a joint hearing between the Subcommittee
on Terrorism, Technology and
Homeland Security, and the
Subcommittee on Immigra-
CASH FOR USED
tion, Border Security and Citizenship.
“I was scared, because after
you gave your speech you were
fresh meat for questions,”
jokes Durham.
Durham was asked to testify
because he has lived on a ranch
his entire life. He testified to
the hardships and dangers
brought upon the ranches by
the current situation in South
Texas.
The human smugglers are
risk addicts as well as being on
dope, he says, and they’ve got
to be crazy or high to have the
courage to do all the things
they do and drive the way they
do.
“Those sumbitches will
drive like crazy; they don’t
care.”
When the Border Patrol
finds a load of aliens and gives
chase, if the smuggler can’t
outrun them he will drive
through the fence along the
road and everyone will bail
out, Durham explains. The human smuggler will toss his
phone and any identification
and intermingle with the illegal aliens.
The smuggler cannot be
identified unless the Border
Patrol is right there and can
pull him off the wheel, which
rarely happens.
The Border Patrol, in Durham’s opinion, just does not
have enough manpower. Each
time he reports aliens to the
Border Patrol, they immediately ask him if that is visual,
or is it tracks.
“If it was tracks they might
be in Houston having a Tecate
beer by the time they get out
there. If it’s visual, and they’re
not busy, then sometimes
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they’ll come out and catch
them.”
Though the traffic has supposedly slowed down, Durham
doesn’t believe it. The tracks,
personnel and people he has
seen, as well as what his neighbors have told him, prove otherwise.
“Can you imagine two Border Patrols chasing 20 guys in
the middle of the dog days of
August out on the sand pit trail
and they go up there and catch
them, then the next day they’ll
be out there on the damn street
hitching a ride going somewhere?
“It’s very demoralizing for
the Border Patrol.”
When Lavoyger Durham
began the South Texans’ Property Rights Association they
had a meeting that the Border
Patrol was invited to attend.
The woman in charge agreed
to come if he guaranteed not
speak ill of them, and Durham
assured her that he knows the
Border Patrol is doing the best
they can with what they have.
“They were all there, and it
was very successful. We kind
of found out what the heck was
going on. They’re just overpowered.”
Durham explains that the
current rate is $3000 to $4000
for an illegal to get from Mexico to Houston. It takes five
coyotes. There are two in
Mexico; one is the recruiter.
“’You want to go to the
United States or Houston? Do
this and this. You can only
carry this and this.’
“That’s the recruiter. Then
you’ve got the guy that brings
them across.”
After they cross the river,
there are two more coyotes, a
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driver and the leader. Everyone
gets in a vehicle and drives up
near whichever Border Patrol
checkpoint is in their path.
Then the leader and the illegals
get out, jump the fence and
take off cross-country to go
around the checkpoint. The
driver goes back for another
load.
“The leader walks around to
the north, where there’s another guy. One honk, ‘I’m
around.’ Two honks, ‘come
on.’ Three honks, ‘I’m gone.’
Five coyotes and they all get a
piece of the action.”
Durham says there are three
zones in South Texas for illegal aliens. The first zone,
which he calls the nilly-willy
zone, is in the Valley. Aliens
can mingle with the residents
and the Border Patrol doesn’t
know who has green cards and
who doesn’t.
“They don’t catch many
people there in the Valley.
They’ve got to catch them
coming across the river.”
From there the coyotes take
them north and they enter what
he calls the catch-me-if-youcan zone, and it is here that the
aliens walk around the Border
Patrol checkpoints and cause
trouble for area residents.
“Once they walk around the
Border Patrol station, they get
to a highway with too many
fingers on it, and the Border
Patrol can’t check all that stuff.
They go up there to Houston
and it’s kind of like a sanctuary city. That’s the can’t-touchme zone. They’re more or less
free.”
Durham doesn’t know what
the government can do to help.
The government can get all the
technology they want, he says,
but there will still have to be
someone out there to pick up
the aliens.
“Maybe they ought to bring
the National Guard back down
or triple the numbers on all the
law enforcement that we have
now,” Durham advises.
“In my opinion, the politicians and everybody else have
to make up their minds whether
they want the border secure or
not. It looks like they’ve got a
pretty good start putting up a
fence.”
Durham believes the border
fence will help, and that the
border must be secure before
anything can be done with the
aliens already here. It’s a big
cycle, he says. After the bor-
der is secure is when talk of
things such as the guest worker
programs should begin.
“It’s a different game now,
and the border is wide open.
That’s what’s scary.”
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ProRodeo Tour is expanding
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the 2008 season, including
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money rodeos sanctioned by
the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association — Cheyenne
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The 26 rodeos in this year’s
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in 2007 and will project at
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in 2008, without taking into
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SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo in Odessa, Texas, Jan. 412. It will be followed by the
National Western Stock Show
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Black Hills Stock Show Rodeo, in Rapid City, S.D., Jan.
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1-16. The Tour again concludes with the Dodge City
(Kan.) Round-Up, in early
August.
Contestants choose which
15 of the 26 rodeos they want
to have counted toward their
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finishers in each event qualify
for the first round of the fourtiered Playoffs, along with the
winners of the Dodge National
Circuit Finals Rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho, in March.
Participating rodeo committees have until 120 days before
the beginning of their event to
finalize dates.
Standings by event:
Bareback riding: 1. Billy
Wall, Morgan, Utah, $8219; 2.
Wes Stevenson, Kaufman,
Texas, $6644; 3. Josh Cole,
Quitman, Texas, $4617; 4.
Brian Bain, Culver, Ore.,
$4347; 5. Clint Cannon, Waller, Texas, $3630.
Steer wrestling: 1. Joey Bell
Jr., Athens, Texas, $6526; 2. TRoy Orr, Lebanon, Tenn.,
$6136; 3. Ted Gollaher, Cascade, Mont., $5988; 4. Bill
Pace, Stephenville, Texas,
$5478; 5. Glen Clark, Granbury, Texas, $5429.
Team roping (headers): 1.
David Key, Caldwell, Texas,
$6810; 2. Luke Brown, Rock
Hill, S.C., $5685; 3. Reese
Kerr, Comfort, Texas, $4751;
4. Robert Pixley, Livingston,
Texas, $4207; 5. Travis Tryan,
Billings, Mont., $4125.
Team roping (heelers): 1.
Richard Durham, Morgan
Mill, Texas, $5685; 2. Kory
Koontz, Sudan, Texas, $5567;
3. Jesse Echtler, Huntsville,
Texas, $4751; 4. Michael
Jones, Stephenville, Texas,
$4541; 5. Trey Cruz III, Montgomery, Texas, $4207.
Saddle bronc riding: 1. Cody
DeMoss, Heflin, La., $7422; 2.
Jeff Willert, Belvi-dere, S.D.,
$5132; 3. Morgan Forbes,
Kaycee, Wyo., $3620; 4. Isaac
Diaz, Davie, Fla., $2954; 5.
Justin Arnold, Santa Margarita,
Calif., $2824.
Tie-down roping: 1. Blair
Burk, Durant, Okla., $6463; 2.
Cole Bailey, Okmulgee, Okla.,
$6337; 3. Ryan Watkins,
Stephenville, Texas, $5944; 4.
Jerrad Hofstetter, Portales,
N.M., $5243; 5. Shay Good,
Midland, Texas, $4691.
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Gatesville, Texas, $2708; 4.
Scott Snedecor, Uvalde, Texas,
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Barrel racing: 1. Libby
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$8420; 2. Cassie Moseley,
Farwell, Texas, $7000; 3. Susan Smith, Hodgen, Okla.,
$5660; 4. June Holeman,
Arcadia, Neb., $5274; 5. Lisa
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Bull riding: 1. Kanin Asay,
Powell, Wyo., $6048; 2. Brandon Sartin, Zachary, La.,
$5616; 3. Seth Glause, Rock
Springs, Wyo., $4891; 4. J.W.
Harris, May, Texas, $4828; 5.
Jeremy Kolich, Norco, Calif.,
$4806.
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$2,500
$2,500
$1,500
$1,500
$3,500
$2,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$2,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$1,500
$2,500
$2,500
$1,500
$2,500
$2,500
$1,500
BONUS
CASH*
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$750
$1,750
$1,750
$750
$750
$750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$1,750
$750
$750
$1,750
$750
$1,750
$750
$1,750
$750
$1,750
$750
$750
$750
$750
SALE PRICE
$33,779
$27,797
$22,414
$17,499
$22,199
$45,519
$31,228
$35,547
$29,494
$39,841
$35,821
$29,509
$24,999
$31,499
$43,228
$37,099
$44,849
$42,647
$43,529
$37,939
$40,939
$46,369
$34,551
$29,219
$32,779
$32,326
$28,994
$25,466
$34,592
$24,999
$28,873
$23,298
$28,376
$38,810
$43,831
$42,989
$40,549
$36,595
$43,299
$38,517
$33,842
$33,145
$36,883
$30,240
$38,515
$37,389
$35,198
$27,748
$33,649
$28,217
$32,149
$25,539
$22,599
$25,686
$28,536
$26,391
$22,672
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
+TTL
TOTAL
SAVINGS
$5,901
$4,038
$1,716
$2,091
$2,591
$8,231
$5,512
$6,687
$4,345
$7,158
$6,708
$4,072
$3,468
$4,221
$7,244
$7,198
$7,978
$7,538
$7,668
$7,268
$7,456
$8,248
$6,832
$4,673
$6,958
$6,790
$6,963
$4,593
$7,257
$4,516
$4,921
$4,464
$4,811
$6,250
$5,684
$7,176
$6,766
$4,694
$7,491
$5,238
$3,777
$4,779
$6,811
$4,605
$7,429
$6,125
$6,676
$4,322
$6,431
$4,124
$4,670
$4,506
$4,251
$4,313
$4,642
$4,722
$4,033
Ü
2007
VEHICLES
or
1.9%
—
72
MOS
(In Lieu Of Factory Rebate)
0% — 60 MOS
*Includes applicable incentives. Tax, title, license, dealer fees and [other] optional equipment extra.
BAYER
MOTOR
CO.
INC.
H
800/843-5230 • 325/356-2541
218 East Grand
COMANCHE
WE ARE PROFESSIONAL GRADE.
[email protected]
www.bayermotor.com
BAYER FORDBAYER
- MERCURY, INC.
January 10, 2008
USED TRUCKS
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20076.0L,
CHEVY
2500 REGULAR CAB
Auto, 40K Miles. Stk # 27991
$17,900 + TTL
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2006
CHEVY 3500 REG-CAB
Duramax, 6-speed Manual, 52K Miles.
$26,900 + TTL
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2007
DODGE 2500 QUAD CAB
Diesel, Six Speed, Loaded, 4K Miles. Stk. #
$29,500 + TTL
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2007
CHEVY 3500HD EX-CAB 4x4
Duramax, Leather, 14K Miles. Stk # F10360
$38,500 + TTL
2006
CHEVY 2500HD REG CAB
4x2, 6.0, Auto, 20K Miles. Stk. # 26915
$19,500 + TTL
20058100CHEVROLET
3500 FLATBED 4x4
V-8, Auto, 300 Miles. Stk. # 26699
$28,500 + TTL
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P
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I Auto, Diesel, Lariat, 112K Miles. Stk # F10250
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2005
CHEVY 2500 HD REGULAR CAB 4x4
6.0L, Five Speed, 46K Miles. Stk. # 28364
$16,900 + TTL
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2004 FORD F-350 CREWCAB 4x4
$25,500 + TTL
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2004 DODGE
3500 QUADCAB 4x4
Diesel, Auto, 84K
$25,900 + TTL
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2003
DODGE 2500 REG-CAB 4x4
SLT, Diesel, Auto, 96K Miles. Stk. # 28332
$19,900 + TTL
P
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I 4x4, LS, 7.4 V-8, Auto, 85K Miles. Stk. # 19770
C
E
2000 CHEVY 2500 EXT-CAB 4x4
$11,500 + TTL
2008 FORD F-350 2008 FORD F-250 2008 FORD F-350 2008 FORD F-250
CAB/CHASSIS 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CAB/CHASSIS 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$38,800
$4,000
$2,646
2003 DODGE
2500 QUAD CAB
Diesel, Auto, Only 29K
$22,500 + TTL
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$42,420
$2,000
$3,417
P
R
I XLT, 6.8L V-10, Auto, 88K Miles. Stk. # 27073
C
E
1999 FORD F-250 REG-CAB FLATBED
$10,900 + TTL
Additional Rebates For Farmers, Ranchers and Other Commercial Customers May Apply.
Additional $500 Available To TSCRA Members Or PHCC Members. If We Don’t Have What You
Want, We Can Locate It For You!! All Used Vehicles Come With A 90-Day Limited Warranty.
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$39,805
$2,000
$2,651
DRW • DIESEL
XL • AUTOMATIC
STK # F10381
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$40,995
$4,000
$2,857
DIESEL • AUTOMATIC
XL • POWER W&L
STK # F10373
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$41,760
$2,000
$3,334
XL • POWER W&L
STK # F10376
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$42,675
$2,000
$3,490
DRW • XL • POWER W&L
STK # F10351
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$42,940
$3,000
$3,138
DRW • DIESEL
XL • AUTOMATIC
STK # F10374
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$43,120
$4,000
$3,076
$37,003+TTL
$37,185+TTL
$36,802+TTL
$36,044+TTL
REG-CAB 4x4 SUPERCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x2 CREWCAB 4x4
DRW • XLT
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
STK # F10379
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
XLT
STK # F10350
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
XLT
STK # F10313
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
XLT
STK # F10091
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$43,365
$3,000
$3,442
$45,255
$3,000
$3,748
$45,710
$2,000
$3,825
$45,895
$2,000
$3,699
$36,923+TTL
$38,507+TTL
$39,885+TTL
$40,196+TTL
CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
LARIAT
STK # F10096
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
FX4
STK # F10243
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
LARIAT
STK # F10270
DRW • LARIAT
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
STK # F10264
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$50,255
$2,000
$4,225
$50,370
$2,000
$4,342
$50,945
$2,000
$4,314
$52,310
$2,000
$4,429
$44,030+TTL
$44,028+TTL
$44,631+TTL
$45,881+TTL
CC/CHASSIS 4x2 CREWCAB 4x4 CC/CHASSIS 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4
DRW • LARIAT
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
STK # F10383
KING RANCH
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
STK # F10378
DRW • LARIAT
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
STK # F10382
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$52,430
$3,000
$4,065
$53,475
$2,000
$4,773
$56,665
$3,000
$4,525
XL • AUTOMATIC
GASOLINE
STK # Fj0031
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$32,445
$2,000
$1,719
$45,365+TTL
$46,702+TTL
$49,140+TTL
$28,726+TTL
CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$37,900
$2,000
$2,264
XLT • DIESEL
SIX SPEED MANUAL
STK # Fj0074
XL • GASOLINE
SIX SPEED MANUAL
STK # Fj0097
DIESEL AUTOMATIC
XL
STK # Fj0099
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$36,410
$2,000
$2,011
$30,955
$2,000
$1,466
$39,340
$2,000
$2,868
$33,636+TTL
$32,399+TTL
$27,489+TTL
$34,472+TTL
CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4
REG-CAB 4x4
XL • DIESEL
SIX SPEED MANUAL
STK # Fj0107
2003
FORD F-650 REGULAR CAB
Cummins Diesel, Six Speed, 218K. Stk. #
$19,900 + TTL
XLT • AUTOMATIC
GASOLINE
STK # F10384
$32,154+TTL
$35,154+TTL
$34,138+TTL
$36,426+TTL
CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CC/CHASSIS 4x4 CAB/CHASSIS 4x4
XL • AUTOMATIC
GASOLINE
STK # Fj0052
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XL • POWER W&L
STK # F10375
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2006KingFORD
F-250 CREWCAB 4x4
Ranch, Leather. Stk. # F10074
$38,500 + TTL
CALL TOLL FREE
DRW • DIESEL
XL • AUTOMATIC
STK # F10032
2006 DODGE 3500 QUADCAB
Diesel, Dually, 6-speed Manual, 43K Miles.
$29,500 + TTL
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COMANCHE, TEXAS
714 E. CENTRAL — COMANCHE, TEXAS
1-800-968-1877
Livestock Weekly
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$37,850
$2,000
$2,615
XLT • DIESEL
FIVE SPEED
STK # Fj0109
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$44,795
$2,000
$3,413
XLT • DIESEL
SIX SPEED MANUAL
STK # Fj0112
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$43,305
$2,000
$3,160
XL • DIESEL
AUTOMATIC
STK # Fj0117
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$34,935
$3,000
$2,410
$33,235+TTL
$39,382+TTL
$38,145+TTL
$29,525+TTL
REG-CAB 4x4
CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4 CREWCAB 4x4
XLT • DIESEL
AUTOMATIC
STK # Fj0119
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$38,675
$3,000
$2,785
$32,890+TTL
XLT • DIESEL
AUTOMATIC
STK # Fj0120
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$43,765
$2,000
$3,311
$38,454+TTL
XL • DIESEL
SIX SPEED MANUAL
STK # Fj0123
XLT • AUTOMATIC
GASOLINE
STK # Fj0127
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
MSRP
REBATES
BFM DISCOUNT
$36,930
$2,000
$2,524
$32,406+TTL
Photos For Illustration Purposes Only
$36,870
$2,000
$2,162
$33,708+TTL
Additional Discount Available For Current Super Duty Owners.

2008 JANUARY 10.pmd

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