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Ethan Wilkinson riding in cowboy mounted shooting competition

Ethan Wilkinson’s Journey to Level 6 and Beyond in Cowboy Mounted Shooting

Earlier this year we shared a story on Ethan Wilkinson, an accomplished and impressive young cowboy mounted shooter. He has continued competing, and wanted to provide you with an update regarding how he’s been doing. This May, Ethan won the Albequerque State Competition, and became the youngest Level 6 in the sport of Mounted Shooting …

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cadets and instructor in the field at Texas Brigades

Texas Brigades – Teaching Youth Leadership and Conservation

While most summer camps may feature the sounds of kids playing sports, or swimming; the signature sound of the Texas Brigades is marching feet, and ringing cadences. Why marching? “It’s not a military thing,” assures Kent Mills, President of the North Texas Buckskin Brigade. “A major tenet of the Brigades is teaching kids leadership and …

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Cattle in Feedyard - Canada

Live Cattle and Feeder Futures: What the Charts are Telling Us

In this edition we want to update you on the development of a possible important low for live cattle and feeder cattle futures. If we are right with our analysis of futures markets, cash markets could also form bottoming formations in some areas of Canada and the US. We concentrate today’s analysis on the charts. …

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Can I Feed Distiller’s Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) to my Horse

By Matt McMillan, Ph.D., Equine Nutritionist, Hi-Pro Feeds Distiller’s Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) are the by-products produced from the manufacturing process of ethanol. These products have been readily available in recent years because of the increase of domestic ethanol production. DDGS have many favorable properties including price, as well as adequate energy and protein values. The utilization of DDGS as a feed ingredient in …

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Black Angus Cattle on hay

A Review of the Last Six Months: What we said, and what happened

This week let’s look back over the past six months, reviewing what was said in these columns and offering an update. Jan. 11, 2016: What was said: The long-term cattle price cycle points down. A long-term 10-12-year cycle peak for prices and profits occurred about a year ago. The next low for the cycle is …

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black and brown cattle in feedlot

No Business but Plenty of Potential in China for U.S. Beef Exports

The word ‘potential’ may be overused, but American cattle producers no doubt see plenty of it in the China market. That’s because the Asian giant – which is already the largest buyer of U.S. soybeans and a major purchaser of American pork – remains in the midst of significant downswing in domestic cattle numbers and …

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Cows Grazing

Improving Pasture Conditions Fuel Increase in Cattle Numbers

By John DePutter & Dave Milne, DePutter Publishing Inc. Market prices have plenty to say about when ranchers expand their cattle herds but so too does Mother Nature. And over the past couple of years, Mother Nature has given the go-ahead; supplying the southern U.S. Plains with enough moisture to bolster the pastures that are …

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