You are invited to the Dickinson Cattle Co., Customer Appreciation day, Sept 26, 2020. It is coming fast so get your hotel reservations, clean the hay strings out of the pickup seat and make a plan. Gather up your corona masks, goggles or hip boots -- it may get deep. Every guests is believed to be intelligent -- your call on all safety precautions.
Watching a Texas Longhorn steer's horns grow is not like watching paint dry, but more like the speed of watching thieving looters run with wide screen TVs.
In the 2016 Hudson/Valentine Stock Yards Sale, Lazy J's Bluegrass fetched a final bid of $49,000. He was consigned by Lazy J Longhorns in Kansas and purchased by John Viskup of Oklahoma. Is that the established appraisal value of a really nice Texas Longhorn steer? It certainly was on that day.
Our family had an early grade A dairy, milking about 20 cows. I was age 8. We would return from some local trip and find cows all over the yard with fences in disrepair. Cattle would be mixed together that weren't supposed to