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aster is on it’s way. That phrase is usually preceded by a “hippity-hip-hop,” but for me it is not a light-hearted time of year. For me, Easter can be problematic.

I have a weakness for Easter candy. Of all the holidays, I believe Easter produces the best treats around. You can keep your gingerbread men and candy canes, your heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and your chocolate-covered strawberries, your king cake, your shamrock shake, and your candy corn and pumpkin pie. I will take the Cadbury eggs, the deviled eggs, the robin eggs, the peanut butter eggs, and even the Peeps.

I am a shameless Easter candy junkie; I will steal candy from children — and make little promises to myself that I know I’m bound to break. “I’ll just eat

the ears,” I’ll say, knowing fullwell the soon-to-be fate of that chocolate bunny, who, like me, is hollow inside with an emptiness that can be filled only with more Easter candy.

But, as I get older, I realize the danger this poses — not only to my physical appearance, but to my overall health. I imagine it would be difficult to hippity-hip-hop JESSE WRIGHT at all if I lose a foot to diabetes, so I try to scale back. It hasn’t been difficult, because as long as I restrain myself in the grocery store from February through April, I can keep from being surrounded by the sugary snacks. But now I

have children, and my oldest is of Easter-egg hunting age.

I’m not sure how I’m going to handle it. I hate to think I’ll go back down that path, and end up having to tell my children lies about how some chocolate rabbits don’t have ears, and how the Easter Bunny takes bites out of some of the candy he hides.

I just have to make it a few more weeks and then the Easter stuff will be gone and probably they’ll start rolling out the Christmas candy and my demon will go away for another year.

While my vice may increase my blood sugar and my waistline, it is fairly harmless to others. There are those, however, who cross the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior and end up on the wrong side of

the law.

In the cattle business, those people may end up running across the path of a special ranger for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. In our cover story, we tell of special ranger Wayne Goodman and take a look at who he

is, what he does and how he keeps the cattle industry safe.

Hope you enjoy it, and have a Happy Easter! ’Til next time, • For more information about content or advertising, contact Jesse Wright at jesse.wright@theeagle. com.

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News Complicated farm bill will take homework for producers

By Kay LedBetter Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

AMARILLO — Crop producers may feel like they are back in school when they begin to deal with the new farm bill, because they certainly need to do their homework before going to sign up, according to one Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist.

Speaking recently in Amarillo, Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University and an AgriLife Extension economist in College Station, said the new farm bill repeals direct payments, counter-cyclical payments and Average Crop Revenue Election, or ACRE. Producers now must choose between Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage for their program crops.

Producers also are going to have the opportunity to reallocate their base acres to crops planted on the farm at any time

during the 2009 to 2012 crop years.

And, Outlaw said, all cotton base acres are now generic base acres.

“For the safety net to be the most effective, you really need to get your base as close as possible to what you are planting,” he said.

The generic base becomes whatever crop it is planted to each year, Outlaw said. The generic base acres can be assigned to other covered commodities.

“You have to do your own homework,” he said. “Don’t get stuck with something that may or may not be good for you for the life of the bill.”

If producers choose the price loss coverage option, or PLC as it is referred to in the farm bill, they have the opportunity to update their payment yields to 90 percent of the 2008-2012 crop year averages.

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News Upper Gulf Coast Ranch Expo to feature livestock management, ranch bus tours

By Blair Fannin Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

SIMONTON — The second annual Upper Gulf Coast Ranch Expo scheduled May 13 in Simonton will feature several management topics pertaining to beef cattle production, including livestock lease agreements, and a variety of bus tours.

The event, to be held at Twinwood Cattle Co., 4430 Guyler Road.

It will feature bus tours with several Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists discussing beef cattle production, forage production and management, weed control and pecan production.

“We are anticipating a large turnout since this is a regional event,” said Greg Kaase, AgriLife Extension program specialist-risk management in College Station.

“Cattle prices continue their record run and many producers are wanting to learn how to capitalize on these high returns.

Many of the topics will provide key information they can take home and apply to their own operations.”

Cost is $10 by May 6 or $20 for on-site registration. Registration and sponsored booth exhibits open at 7 a.m.

At 8:20 a.m., Pete Gibbs, AgriLife Extension associate director

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Fort Bend County Judge Robert Herbert also will provide opening remarks.

At 8:45 a.m., Levi Russell, AgriLife Extension economist in Corpus Christi, will discuss “Use of Debt to Finance Herd Expansion.”

Following a break at 9:15 a.m., participants will board buses for tour stops featuring : • Joe Paschal, AgriLife Extension beef cattle specialist in Corpus Christi, beef cattle management/water quality.

• Larry Redmon, AgriLife Extension state forage specialist in College Station, forage production and managemen.

• Paul Baumann, AgriLife Extension state weed specialist in College Station, weed identification and control.

• Monte Nesbitt, AgriLife Extension horticulturalist in College Station, pecan production.

Following a noon meal, Tiffany Dowell, AgriLife Extension economist and agricultural law specialist, College Station, will discuss livestock lease agreements/contracts.

Nesbit will follow with a presentation on alternative horticultural ideas, which will include olives, pomegranates and citrus.

A pesticide training laws and regulations session will be given

by Melissa Barton with the Texas Department of Agriculture.

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ne of the most economical ways to raise beef cattle is to use standing forage as the primary feed source. In areas where soils are tillable, a year-round grazing program can be established utilizing both annual and perennial plants.

If pastures have been grazed at the proper stocking rates, they will contain established warm-season perennial grasses.

Species of grass will vary according to the vegetation area or eco-region. Texas includes these 10 eco-regions: • Post Oak Savannah.

• Pineywoods.

• Gulf Prairies and Marshes.

• South Texas Plains.

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Most of the readers of Land and Livestock Post live in the Post Oak Savannah, Pineywoods, Gulf Prairies and Marshes or Blackland Prairies eco-regions. Warm-season perennial grasses found in these eco-regions are introduced species which include bahia, hybrid bermudas, dallis and natives such as common bermuda, little and big bluestem, Indian, eastern gama, and sideoats grama.

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nual. Examples of cool-season grasses are wheat, rye, barley, oats, triticale and annual ryegrass. All of these plants must be established annually, which is a disadvantage due to the labor and input expense. The establishment cost can be regained easily, however, through reduction or elimination of purchased feeds. These grasses often have enough nutritional value to maintain and grow cattle without supplement.

Wheat grown in the United States for grain and pasture consists of six basic classes: • Hard red winter.

•Hard red spring.

•Soft red winter.

•Durum.

•Hard white wheat.

•Soft white wheat.

In the Land and Livestock Post trade area, hard red winter wheat is the class generally used for grazing. According to The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, soft wheat grown in southern and southeastern Oklahoma and into Texas and Arkansas is usually more productive than hard red winter

wheat when planted early for pasture. Most varieties of hard red winter wheat will produce stockpiled fall forage when planted early, but practically no winter forage regrowth occurs after mid-November. Proven hard red winter wheat varieties produce abundant spring forage and can be planted throughout Oklahoma, Texas and adjoining regions.

Forage specialists at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center at Stephenville recommended an awnless variety of wheat — without the bristly beard that protects the kernel — for grazing. For dual use of grazing and grain plant early, graze for three months (mid-November through midFebruary), take cattle off at first hollow stem, and allow grain production.

In dual use there is approximately 10 percent loss in grain yield and forage is not available for spring grazing.

“Rye is often mixed with other small grains to extend the grazing season,” said Texas A&M forage specialists. “It will head out early (February to March) during a mild winter. If the crop isn’t harvested prior to heading, forage quality drops significantly.”

“Most varieties of small grains are bred and selected for grain production and rye is no exception,” said experts with The Noble Foundation. “Forage production from these crops is considered a by-product; however, there are several good forage varieties of cereal rye: Bates, Bonel, Elbon, Oklon and Maton. These varieties can be expected to produce more fall and winter forage than other small grains. They can grow at a lower temperature, which makes them dependable in a late fall and winter grazing program. Rye terminates spring production the earliest of any of the small grains, so it is not

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Barley is not as widely used in Texas as the other cereal grasses. It is most noted for its tolerance to saline and alkaline soils. Barley does not grow well on sandy soils, but is drought tolerant.

Oats are the least winterhardy of the cool-season annual grasses. They can be planted in early fall and usually produce more early spring forage than most wheat varieties, since their production peaks in early spring. Oats don’t grow well on sandy soils and their forage production is variable. They tolerate wet, poorly drained soils better than other small grains.

Cattle grazing studies show that oats are more palatable than wheat, wheat is more palatable than rye, and rye is more palatable than barley.

Triticale is a man-made cross between wheat and rye and its forage production generally exceeds that of wheat. The cross has characteristics of both parental lines that may make it the most widely adapted of the small grains. Because of triticale’s advantages, acreage is increasing in Texas.

“Annual ryegrasses are an excellent choice for Texas, Arkansas, and the southeastern two-thirds of Oklahoma,” said Noble Foundation experts.

“They can be easily established as pure stands in clean tilled fields or in closely grazed bermudagrass. These grasses provide excellent forage from March to June and there are several excellent varieties. Marshall is a proven winter-hardy variety with high production.

Other good varieties are Ribeye and Jackson.”

“Ryegrass is adapted to a wide range of soil types, growing better on wet soils than most other cool-season annual grasses,” said Jeffrey Stapper, Texas A&M AgriLife. “It can be easily established by simply

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broadcasting seed on the soil surface or on grass sod. Establishment is better when a short grazed pasture is lightly disked prior to broadcasting the seed “Production occurs late in the season; so a greater amount of ryegrass forage is usually available later in the spring than from the small grains.

This is an advantage of annual ryegrass because mixtures with small grains can extend the grazing season.

“Due to later maturity, it is important to keep annual ryegrass grazed short to prevent competition with warm-season grasses when it is overseeded into permanent pastures,” Stapper said.

Late maturing annual grass that extends winter pasture through early spring normally gives the warm-season grasses time to develop sufficient forage for grazing. Cool-season annual or perennial legumes can be planted with an annual grass to increase forage nutritive value and add nitrogen to the soil. Examples of cool-season annual legumes include: annual medics, Persian clover, Arrowleaf clover, Ball clover, Rose clover, Crimson clover, annual sweetclover, vetch, Berseem clover, Subterranean clover and Austrian winter peas Some of these legumes are prolific seeders and can reestablish themselves every year.

Cool-season perennial legumes include alfalfa, red clover and white clover.

There are many forage species and varieties from which to choose when selecting plants for winter pasture. Factors to consider are cattle nutritional needs, suitability for the ranch management systems, soil texture, rainfall patterns, expected temperature ranges and the grazing plan.

Selection recommendations can be obtained from the county agricultural extension agent, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and private consultants.

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News Law, from Page 4 they will have to decide if they are going to choose the agricultural risk coverage, which covers losses in income for a commodity relative to a benchmark guarantee, or go the price loss coverage route. And then there are more choices within each of those options.

For the 2014-2018 crop years, all producers on a farm must make a one-time, irrevocable election to obtain either price loss coverage under section 1116 on a commodity-by-commodity basis or agricultural risk coverage under section 1117. Price loss coverage is a set reference price and the payment is made if the market price falls below that.

“You can do part ARC and part PLC, unless you choose ARC individual,” Outlaw said. “But the fine print is if the producer and the landowner can’t come to a decision, then the farm will not be in the program for 2014, but

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All decisions will need to be made on a crop-by-crop basis for each farm, he said.

Additionally, a new area-wide insurance program, a supplemental coverage option, will be available to all producers beginning in 2015 and is designed to protect them against losses that normally would fall within their insurance deductible range.

“We are working on educational materials and tools to assist producers with all these decisions,” Outlaw said.

The decision guide, once available, will help with the many decisions that must be made, he said. It will include a lot of information about the specific choices and about crop insurance.

For more information about the farm bill or to find the decision aide once it is available, go to The Agricultural and Food Policy Center website at www. afpc.tamu.edu.

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One ranger, many crimes Special lawman stays the on trail of cattle rustlers STEVE CAMPBELL Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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UBLIN, Texas — Like a beat cop working the streets, Wayne Goodman is marking his turf and showing his badge as dozens of stock trailers unload hundreds of cattle at the Dublin Livestock Auction.

Goodman looks like Texas law, with a cowboy hat and twin silver belt buckles, one for his jeans and the other for his Model 1911 .45 pistol. Handcuffs are riding on the back of one belt, and the silver badge of a special ranger for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association is pinned on his blue shirt and embossed on his green windbreaker.

When Goodman, 57, walks into the sale barn, a tall cattleman eyes that big pistol with elk antler grips, then steps back and swings open the door.

“I let people with guns go first,” he says.

Goodman’s one of just 30 of a unique brand of public/private “cow cops” who investigate agricultural crimes across Texas and Oklahoma.

The special rangers employ 19th-

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century skills such as tracking but also use DNA technology to identify stock or whip out smartphones to tap into the Fort Worth-based association’s database of cattle sales.

Goodman, a former North Richland Hills detective whose territory covers eight counties is no stranger to technology.

As a police detective, he specialized in computer crimes and often played the part of “the 13-yearold girl on the Internet” when targeting child predators.

Since 1877, when a group of rustler-plagued ranchers in Graham first put them on patrol, the state-certified special rangers have investigated cases that run the gamut from tractor and trailer thefts to fence cuttings (a felony in Texas) and, of course, cattle and horse thieves.

Rustling is as old as the Texas frontier, and it hasn’t ridden off into the sunset.

But it has changed. Instead of driving cattle off the lonesome range, modern thieves with portable pens and gooseneck-style trailers are more likely to target absentee “weekend ranchers,” whose habits

Special Ranger Wayne Goodman works from a catwalk at the Dublin LivestockAuction in Dublin, Texas.Since 1877,special rangers with theTexas and Southwestern Cattleman’sAssociation have been a private, but fully state certified brand of lawman charged with solving crimes involving Texas’ cattle industry, including cattle rustling.

On the cover: Special Ranger Wayne Goodman wears a double belt with double belt buckles designed from his badge, as well as a Model 1911 .45 pistol.

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are all too predictable and who are less likely to brand their stock, said Larry Gray, who oversees the law enforcement program.

In the past 10 years, special rangers have investigated nearly 10,000 cases with a market value of more than $44 million, according to the association’s records.

During that period, 32,823 cattle and 587 horses were stolen, as well as 198 saddles and 117 trailers. Of of 365 cases filed, offenders have been sentenced to 1,723 years of confinement.

Last year, the special rangers investigated 770 cases with a value of $3.74 million — a sizable drop from 2005, when they tackled 1,111 cases worth $6.45 million.

A big reason for the decline is that record beef prices have made ranchers more vigilant about protecting their stock, Gray told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (//bit.ly/O5yLlk).

But with the cash flow of many ranchers pinched by a three-year drought, the rangers are spending more time on complicated “whitecollar” or fraud crimes.

“That’s where somebody maybe borrowed $500,000 from a bank on a

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News Lawman, from Page 10 set of cattle and then sold them out of trust,” Gray said. “We’ve worked a whole lot of those. It’s very time-consuming. Our special rangers just about have to be accountants to figure those out.”

The drought has put a lot of ranchers in a squeeze, Goodman said.

“People that have been in the business a long time have sold off bank-owned property,” he said.

That situation often turns into a “rob Peter to pay Paul thing, when a note comes due,” Gray said.

“He gets behind on some of his other bills and sells a few off and then it happens again and they continue to do it until those cattle are gone,” he said.

In Texas, that’s called hindering a secured creditor.

“We’re having a record number of cattle involved because of some of these cases involving 600 to 700 cattle. Our number of cases has dropped, but we’re seeing bigger cases,” Gray said.

For more than two years, Goodman worked one Northeast Texas case involving up to 2,500 cows worth $2.5 million.

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10,374 10,293

7,013 6,772

6,813 6,755

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3,586 3,410

9,873 9,975

6,561 6,654

6,673 6,680

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6,159

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6,408 6,296

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6,218

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News Ranger, from Page 11 calf-raising program commonly referred to as “feed on the gain.”

“He would take on cattle to graze on his property and he would sell your herd off, but not before he had another herd. He would sell off a herd and pay off some dividends,” Goodman said. “They were playing a shell game.”

The “eyes and the ears” of the special rangers are market inspectors with the cattle raisers association who work at the 98 cattle auctions in Texas, Goodman said.

In a normal year, inspectors will record brands and descriptions of 3.5 million cattle, as well as the names, addresses and vehicle license numbers of sellers, all of which is fed into a database.

The $1.3-million-a-year law

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enforcement program is fully funded by the association’s 16,500 members, who pay on a sliding scale depending on the number of livestock they own.

The minimum is $100 a year for up to 50 head, said Gray, a former Fort Worth police officer who has overseen the special ranger program for 32 years.

But a membership isn’t required when a farm or ranch is victimized.

“The attitude of our membership is that if they steal from a nonmember, they will steal from a member as well,” he said.

The membership amounts to affordable and effective insurance, said Evelyn Dunn of Cleburne, whose “text-beautiful” sorrel horse was stolen in January from a sale barn where her husband works.

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News Cattle, from Page 12 “In less than 22 hours from the time I called Mr. Goodman and sent him pictures, I had my horse back,” Dunn said. “He’s very thorough and polite and very good at his job.”

Goodman also likes the variety. He’s been on the trail of an only-in-Texas sort of crime — a counterfeiter who has been knocking off high-dollar custom spurs.

“I haven’t nailed that guy yet.”

The Dublin sale is a microcosm of the big-money Texas cattle industry: 800 or so cows changed hands in just hours.

With the U.S. beef herd at its lowest level since the early 1950s, cows are going for $1,000 to $1,500 or more.

Those prices make rustling tempting, said Goodman, who is based in Godley.

Not to mention that thieves in Texas can get market value for a cow because sellers don’t have to prove ownership at a sale barn.

“If I break into your house, I might get 5 to 10 cents on the dollar on a TV set. Right now, you can get $1,000 or more for a cow. When you sell it, you get full market value. You get a pen of cattle and you have a whole pocketful of money,” Goodman said.

The most active areas for cattle theft are East and Northeast Texas and southeastern Oklahoma, Gray said.

Special Ranger Wayne Goodman keeps an eye on cattle from a catwalk at the Dublin Livestock Auction in Dublin, Texas.

“Absentee ownership is the reason for a lot of it. They might live in Dallas and they only see those cows on the weekend.

Those thieves figure that out fast,” he said.

Another problem is that small operators in eastern Texas often are negligent about branding or identifying their cattle, he said.

Exacerbating the problem in Northeast Texas is that Oklahoma has no brand inspection, said special ranger Toney Hurley, whose district covers 11 counties.

There’s a $10,000 reward connected to the theft of 60 cattle from multiple operators over two years in Hopkins County, he said.

“We’ve got one victim that is probably $40,000 in the hole.

He’s been victimized three times,” Hurley said.

The high prices are inviting for thieves.

“When you have a 3-weekold calf that could bring $400, that’s a pretty good profit for somebody who can just drag that calf under a fence. I’ve seen them put calves in the back seat of cars,” said Hurley, a former sheriff’s deputy.

Cattle thieves are seldom novices, Gray said.

“You very seldom see a city boy start stealing cattle. It’s somebody who has a back-

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Protect, from Page 13 ground in agriculture who knows the system,” he said.

The same goes for special rangers, who were mostly farmor ranch-reared, Gray said.

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Like a game warden who loves fishing, Goodman loves the cattle industry and a job that often puts him in the saddle to round up strays.

“I’ve had a horse my whole life. This was the job I always wanted.”

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News LIVESTOCK MARKET REPORT Buffalo Results of the Buffalo Livestock Market’s March 22 sale: Head: 973 Steers: 150-200 lbs., $255-$290; 200-300 lbs., $230-$275; 300-400 lbs., $225-$275; 400-500 lbs., $200-$250; 500-600 lbs., $190$230; 600-700 lbs., $170-$217; 700-800 lbs., $160-$178.

Heifers: 150-200 lbs., $225$285; 200-300 lbs., $200-$266; 300-400 lbs., $190-$235; 400500 lbs., $180-$230; 500-600 lbs., $160-$217; 600-700 lbs., $155$187; 700-800 lbs., $140-$166.

Slaughter bulls: $100-$138.

Slaughter cows: $65-$122.

Bred cows: $975-$1,675.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,100-$2,075.

Brazos Valley Results of the Brazos Valley Livestock Market’s March 25 sale:

Head: 515 Steers: 200-300 lbs., $250-$300; 300-400 lbs., $220-$280; 400-500 lbs., $195-$240; 500-600 lbs., $180-$220; 600-700 lbs., $170$190; 700-800 lbs., $165-$176.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs., $225$255; 300-400 lbs., $204-$235; 400-500 lbs., $185-$215; 500600 lbs., $174-$205; 600-700 lbs., $155-$184.

Slaughter bulls: $98-$136.

Slaughter cows: $83-$120.50.

Bred cows: $950-$1,400.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,100-$1,375.

Caldwell Results of the Caldwell Livestock Commission’s March 26 sale: Head: 303 Steers: 200-300 lbs., $250-$300; 300-400 lbs., $235-$295; 400-500 lbs., $220-$250; 500-600 lbs., $190-$215; 600-700 lbs., $180-

$200; 700-800 lbs., $165-$175.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs., $200$260; 300-400 lbs., $210-$230; 400-500 lbs., $200-$225; 500600 lbs., $190-$200; 600-700 lbs., $170-$190; 700-800 lbs., $150-$165.

Slaughter bulls: $90-$132.

Slaughter cows: $76-$125.

Stocker cows: $1,150-$1,650.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,525-$1,975.

lbs., $170-$185.

Slaughter bulls: $111-$130.

Slaughter cows: $83-$122.

Stocker cows: $1,150-$1,900.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,300-$2,300.

Jordan Results of the Jordan Cattle Auction Market Sale on March 27 sale: Head: 953

Steers: 200-300 lbs., $220$260; 300-400 lbs., $210-$247.50; 400-500 lbs., $190-$232.50; 500600 lbs., $180-$257; 600-700 lbs., $170-$193; 700-800 lbs., $165$180.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs., $200$227.50; 300-400 lbs., $200-

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Groesbeck Results of the Groesbeck Auction and Livestock Exchange’s March 27 sale: Head: 364 Steers: 300-400 lbs., $230$295; 400-500 lbs., $210-$270; 500-600 lbs., $180-$210; 600-700 lbs., $175-$197.

Heifers: 300-400 lbs., $185$250; 400-500 lbs., $175-$230; 500-600 lbs., $170-$215; 600-700

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News Livestock, from Page 16 $227.50; 400-500 lbs., $190-$226; 500-600 lbs., $180-$206; 600-700 lbs., $160-$191.50; 700-800 lbs., $145-$169.

Slaughter bulls: $100-$131.50.

Slaughter cows: $99-$117.

Stocker cows: $1,000-$1,425.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,700-$1,750.

Milano Results of the Milano Livestock Exchange’s March 25 sale: Head: 228 Steers: 300-400 lbs., $132-$247; 400-500 lbs., $120-$219; 500-600 lbs., $125-$203; 600-700 lbs., $120-$189.

Heifers: 300-400 lbs., $130$211; 400-500 lbs., $125-$207; 500-600 lbs., $117-$201; 600-700 lbs., $111-$185.

Slaughter bulls: $101-$126.

Slaughter cows: $75-$115.

Stocker cows: $1,100-$1,600.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,725-$1,900.

Navasota Results of the Navasota Livestock Auction Co.’s March 22 sale: Head: 254 Steers: 150-300 lbs., $175-$320; 300-400 lbs., $160-$290; 400-500 lbs., $150-$260; 500-600 lbs., $140-$215; 600-700 lbs., $125$185.

Heifers: 150-300 lbs., $150$270; 300-400 lbs., $150-$225; 400-500 lbs., $140-$225; 500600 lbs., $135-$200; 600-700 lbs., $125-$180.

Slaughter bulls: $85-$131.50.

Slaughter cows: $75-$115.

Stocker cows: $950-$1,575.

Cow/calf pairs: $1,300-$1,775.

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By Paul SchattenBerg Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

GEORGETOWN — Whether you have one pecan tree in the backyard or 1,000 trees, you will benefit from the Central Texas Pecan Field Day to be held April 19 at Georgetown Pecan Co., 1300 County Road 150 in Georgetown.

The day-long program begins with registration at 8 a.m. and includes speakers, lunch, a grafting workshop and vendors.

The fee is $20 per person and the deadline to preregister is 5 p.m. April 16.

Preregistration is required to ensure each participant a lunch.

The registration fee is to be paid

at the AgriLife Extension office for Williamson County. 3151 S.E. Inner Loop, Suite A, Georgetown.

After lunch, attendees will tour the Perz orchard. The final field day activity will be a g rafting workshop, presented by a local pecan grower.

Two Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units will be available for licensed pesticide applicators — one integrated pest management and one general.

For more information, contact Fred Hall, AgriLife Extension agent for Williamson County, at the AgriLife Extension office at 512-943-3300 or fmhall@ag.tamu. edu.

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