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-A SEALY NEWS— T
AGRICULTURE
Showing signs of 'normal' spring
Medium Steer Calves
Choice Steer Calves
Medium Heifer Calves
Choice Heifer Calves
Pairs
Bred Cows
Headliner wins inaugural Tuff Hedeman Classic
ABUT
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Weekly Livestock Report
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Packer Sows: Traded mostly $4 higher than last week.
40 - 80 lbs.
$45.00 $60.00
Port City Stockyards - May 9, 2007
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$160-175
$131-136
$126-135
$115-123
$104-109
$66 - 70.5
$61-64
$52 - 57.5
$46-51
$40-45
1. $1025-1175 1. $975-1225
2. $775 - 925 2. $625-900
$142-158
$122-130
$116-124
$109-114
$91-103
$151-160
$141-152
$121-133
$112-119
$104-110
$23.00 $25.00
$21.00 $23.00
$18.00 $21.00
$35.00 $37.00
$33.00 $35.00
$31.00 $33.00
2 - 3 Grade
3 - 4 Grade
$200.00
$150.00
$140.00
$130.00
$122.50
150-300 lbs.
200-400 lbs.
400-500 lbs.
500-600 lbs.
600-700 lbs.
Slaughter
Top Bulls
Medium Bulls
Top Cows
Medium Cows
Thin Cows
$162-171
$154-168
$134-144
$120-125
$111-116
200-300 lbs.
300-400 lbs.
400-500 lbs.
500-600 lbs.
600-700 lbs.
$170.00
$137.50
$130.00
$120.00
$113.00
150-300 lbs.
300-400 lbs.
400-500 lbs.
500-600 lbs.
600-700 lbs.
1 - 2 Grade
2 - 3 Grade
3 - 4 Grade
$34.00
$43.00
$48.00
$56.50
$47.00
200-300 lbs.
300-400 lbs.
400-500 lbs.
500-600 lbs.
600-700 lbs.
Feeder Cattle & Calves
Medium/Large Frame
No. 1 & No. 2 Heifers
$97.50
$95.00
$92.00
$89.00
$83.00
$105.00
$95.00
$92.50
$90.00
$88.00
150-300 lbs.
200-400 lbs.
400-500 lbs.
500-600 lbs.
600-700 lbs.
150-300 lbs.
300-400 lbs.
400-500 lbs.
500-600 lbs.
600-700 lbs.
1 - 2 Grade
2 - 3 Grade
3 - 4 Grade
$20.00
$34.00
$43.00
$47.00
$44.00
Feeder Cattle & Calves
Medium/Large Frame
No. 1 & No. 2 Steers
34 _ Stadium
35 Toll roads
37 Come in
first
40 Like some
chromosomes
4t City on
the Oka
43 Those who
fish with nets
44 Flimsy
46 Hawaiian
tree
48 Oil's
companion
50 Bend
52 Follow
53 Dinner
course
54 in a bash-
ful way
55 Serve a
beverage
56 Geneva,
for one
58 British queen
(1665-1714)
62 Yesteryear s
mail trans
port system
on the
railway: abbr.
63 Take
advantage of
550 - 700 lbs.
350 - 500 lbs
250 - 500 lbs.
230 - 260 lbs.
225 - 275 lbs.
225 • 275 lbs
43 Hound’s
detection
44 Clandestine
meeting
45 Chinese
cloth
47 Robert _
49 Extends the
index finger
51 Except
55 Flexible
57 Banned
item
59 Slangy
denial
60 Furniture
material
61 in a
mistaken
manner
64 Island
music
maker,
for short
65 Wisconsin
college
66 Normal
67 Thing: Lal
68 Range of
perception
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watermelon
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Packer Barrows & Gilts: Sold on a fairly active market
and sold mostly $4-$5 higher than last week.
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Utility Cows
Few Low Yielding Utes
Few High Yielding Utes
Yield Grade 1 & 2 Bulls
Lower Yielding Bulls
High Yielding Bulls
Feeder Steers and Heifers: Sold on an active market
and sold fully steady with last week. Lower quality, lighter
muscled plainer kinds or fat calves and yearlings traded
in the $80 to $95 range on the heavier weights and $95
to $120 on the lighter weights.
Packer Cows and Bulls: Traded on an active market
and sold mostly steady when compared to last week's
trade.
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3 Venetian
dough
4 Shade
provider
5 Ocean floors
6 Rod on
which meat
is impaled
7 Carries
8 Left Bank
buddy
9 Goes
back in
10 Tried
11 in a
blissful
way
12 Bronchial
sound
13 Greek peak
18 Resort
23 Coffee
maker
25 Binds
27 Herb
Alpert's
"—Of
Honey-
29 Sad song
31 Feels
awful
about
32 Black stuff
33 Prestigious
private
school
Packer Boars: Last sale. Most of the larger
boars sold $5-$10 by the head.
The second week saw prices back off
a buck and a half but saw the choice
cutouts rise to $172.50 before backing
off during the third week. The last full
week of the month saw fed prices sta-
bilize at $96 as the beef continued its
drop-back to about where it started the
month.
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1-2 Grade 40 - 80 lbs. 1
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extremely valuable.
Following the first-place
finish at the Tuff Hedeman
Classic, an offer was accepted
from Wes Bruce of Bruce
Bucking Bulls in Alvarado to
purchase Headliner for
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of almost weekly across the
United States and Canada
— and the system resembles
those preceding it, such as
horse racing and cutting
horse competitions. The vari-
ous associations offer size-
able competition purses and
year-end awards, making
these young prospects
$30,000.
“Headliner was the out-
right winner today and I
believe it won’t be the last
event he wins,” Bruce said,
following the agreement.
“Today is the realization
of 10 years of hard work,”
Scott Davis of Blood Line
said. “All the days of fixing
fence in the rain, hauling
cattle all over the state,
chasing bulls off the neigh-
bor’s place - for all the days
when you question your
goals - this is the payoff.
We’re plenty proud of that
young bull.”
Blood Line Bucking
Stock, LLC has been
breeding and raising buck-
ing bull prospects in Sealy
since 1997.
For more information
visit the company’s Web
site at www.bullshack.com,
contact Scott Davis at
(713) 840-1135 or contact
Creed Roberts at (210)
452-5694.
For more information on
the National Bucking Bull
Association (NBBA) visit
the Web site www.nbbab-
ulls. com.
a stellar field of two-year-old and Cheryl Davis
bucking bull prospects. The Rosenberg.
Lawn improvement program set
Everyone enjoys the look of agement practices when
a nice, healthy lawn in a land- maintaining their lawns,
scape. Not only do lawns Anyone interested in learn-
increase the value of property, ing how to have a healthy and
they help cool the environ- environmentally-friendly
ment and reduce soil erosion, lawn should attend the Turf
It is important that home- Program - Best Management
owners employ certain man- Practices for Home Lawns
40 - 80 bs. $35.00 $45.00
40- 80 lbs. $30.00 $35.00
and did a little catching up on depleted supported by higher beef prices, years started. Maybe we can be lucky
inventories. stronger hide and offal prices and sup- and see moisture throughout the next
On the export scenes near the end of portive futures. Supplies seemed to month to keep crops and grass grow-
the month, for the first time since tighten as slaughter weights were ing. Warmer nighttime temperatures
December 2003, U.S. beef actually down and the weekly carry-over was along with continuing moisture would-
made it to the meat case in Korea as small, n’t hurt us either.
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The Inaugural Tuff champion earned Blood Line “This win has certainly
Hedeman Classic Bucking over $8,500 and the Tuff been a long time coming,”
Bull Futurity took place April Hedeman Championship Blood Line’s Creed Roberts
22 during the 15th Annual Buckle. said. “We knew Headliner
Tuff Hedeman Bull Riding Blood Line Bucking Stock had the potential to win from
Championship Challenge at has been breeding and rais- the very first time we bucked
the Will Rogers Memorial ing bucking bulls in Sealy him; we were just waiting for
complex in Fort Worth. The and Rosenberg since 1997. him to have his day.”
Futurity was sanctioned by Ownership in the LLC initi- In 2001, the first Bucking
the National Bucking Bull ated with two Sealy residents Bull Futurity was held in
Association. and former college room- Weatherford as a marketing
When the dust settled, con- mates Scott Davis and Creed tool to showcase young buck-
testant no. 138, Headliner, Roberts. In 2006, the compa- ing bull prospects. Since that
owned by Blood Line ny expanded to a full-fledged day, the system has expand-
Bucking Stock, LLC of Sealy, family partnership when ed to involve multiple age
had scored 90.25 points with Creed and Scott’s parents groups and different levels
a great outing and had fin- joined in: Toby and Patty and types of competitions,
ished almost two points atop Roberts of Houston and Al These events are now held
presentation by the Texas
Cooperative Extension of
Waller County, on May 15 at
the Legendary Oak Country
Club. The workshop lasts
from 6-8 p.m. and includes a
question-and-answer section.
CEUs will be offered to pri-
vate applicator license hold-
ers who need one IPM and
one general. Dinner will be
available on-site at the
expense of individual atten-
dees.
For more information or to
RSVP call (979) 826-7651 by
May 11.
County Extension agent
Cody Dennison has scheduled
Dr. David Chalmers,
Extension turf grass special-
ist from Texas A&M
University, to speak on weed
identification and control, fer-
tilization and identification of
turf grass pests and diseases.
For more information on
upcoming Extension pro-
grams, visit http://waller-
tx.tamu.edu/.
Individuals with disabili-
ties who require an auxiliary
aid, service or accommoda-
tion in order to participate in
any Extension activities are
encouraged to contact the
office for assistance seven
days prior to activity.
April was a more normal kind of a
spring month from the moisture stand-
point and maybe a little abnormal from
the temperature standpoint.
April started wet in most areas and
will end wet over a large portion of our
state. It isn’t so in the southeast where
spring moisture conditions are not the Koreans finally agreed to relax var-
favorable and they can’t seem to buy a ious restrictions on our beef. U.S. trade
rain. representatives are headed to Korea to in the feed yards where supplies are
Markets were good throughout the continue discussions on allowing all expected to be tight in the next few
month, even with a few gyrations in U.S. beef products to enter their coun- weeks. Perhaps an increase in export
the fed and wholesale meat trade and try. trade and the grilling season might
there were even some small breaks on There was even progress with the keep demand in place.
the export scene. Japanese when we agreed to allow In the county and at the markets,
It seemed that most of the month, them to conduct additional audits of short numbers and optimism from the
there was moisture activity somewhere our beef plants and they agreed that fed complex and lowering grain prices
and some of it even got rough. Hail in when the audits were completed, they kept upward pressure on calf and
the south plains and other places and would stop requiring that 100 percent yearling prices. Short numbers of
winds in other areas created big prob- of our boxed beef have to undergo calves at the market received a lot of
lems for folks. All in all, for the first inspection. Good news instead of bad. attention as upward price pressure
time in several years, moisture seems On the political scene, The Horse continued. Calf prices ended the
to be making conditions in most areas Slaughter Prevention Act was getting month a little higher than they started
more like a normal spring. plenty of attention in Senate hearings, after seeming to falter for about a
Most areas will need continuing as well as beef industry competition in week. Slaughter cow and bull prices
spring moisture to keep crops and both the House and Senate commit- remained fairly steady throughout the
grass growing into early summer when tees. The end of month saw the Horse month as only moderate numbers
moisture usually slows down a bit. Cool bill voted out of the committee and came to town.
nights and the Easter-plunge in tern- headed to the Senate. They don’t seem In the pork complex, the weekly kill
peratures didn’t help crops or grass to have a clue. dropped below the 2 million head mark
and in the northern areas, even wiped In the feed yards, the month started and showed strength as the month pro-
out some of the grains that had already on a very good note as fed cattle prices gressed. By month’s end, top weights in
been planted for the second time. jumped $4-$5 to sell a handfull of cat- the northern areas were over the $50-
Throughout the month folks got a lit- tie as high as $100.50 per cwt. Volume mark.
tie hay made between showers or rains was excellent and prices seemed to be We have the best spring in several
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Eddleman, Mike & Dang, Tracy. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 2007, newspaper, May 11, 2007; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1616823/m1/8/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.