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Quick Bits Bear Conflict

After consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department relocated a subadult male grizzly bear on July 8. The bear was captured for cattle depredation on public lands and relocated to the five mile drainage approximately five miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park.

Judge overturns Trump administration’s ESA rule changes California U.S District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar disposed of the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on July 5. The ESA was originally passed in 1973 by President Richard

Nixon and was designed to protect critically endangered species.

The court’s recent decision will make removal of a species from the endangered species list more difficult. In addition, the gov-

ernment will no longer be required to consider economic impact statements when it comes to listing a species and threatened species will now have the same protections as endangered species.

WWGA hosts 2022 summer membership meeting and tour

Barley production in Wyoming, based on conditions as of July 1, is forecast at 5.05 million bushels, according to the July 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This forecast is down 21% from the 2021 crop.

Estimated acreage for harvest, at 51,000 acres, is down 19,000 acres from the 70,000 acres harvested in 2021.

U.S. beef exports set new volume and value records in May, topping $1 billion for the fourth time this year, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

While pork exports were well below last year’s large totals, shipments were the largest of 2022 in both volume and value. U.S. lamb exports continued to trend higher, led by growth in the Caribbean and Mexico.

SGIT Meeting The next Sage Grouse Implementation Team (SGIT) meeting is scheduled for Aug 2. This meeting will be held in Lander at the Lander Community and Convention Center. There will be an option to join the meeting virtually to listen in only. More information and an agenda will be provided soon at wgfd.wyo.gov/Habitat/Sage-Grouse-Management/Sage-Grouse-Implementation-Team.

Please see ESA on page 7

Recipients Honored

Barley Report

U.S. Exports

ESA changes in 2019 In 2019, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) finalized changes to ESA Section Four and

Patron Award – The Wyoming Wool Growers Association (WWGA) presented the Harold Josendahl Patron Award to John Hines. This award is presented to a sheep producer who has made substantial contributions to the Wyoming sheep industry and WWGA. Left to right, WWGA President Regan Smith and John Hines. WWGA photo

CWC offers new program

Central Wyoming College (CWC) is offering coursework this fall focusing on training a new generation of butchers in meat processing and marketing. The coursework will offer hands-on learning to prepare students for future careers in the meat industry.

“This course started as an idea to help local processing plants train new employees,” says Meat Science Program Director Amanda Winchester. “The industry desperately needs employees – it is one of the biggest issues within the meat processing industry.”

Program details Students will learn how to offer personal service to customers and livestock producers through the program. CWC puts emphasis on internships and professional development by utilizing co-op work experience in the community.

Two different avenues of study are available through the program. Students have the option to get an associate of science degree which stands alone or prepares them for transfer to a four-year institution.

“Through this route, students can move on to own their own processing plant, manage a large industrial packing plant, become a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspector or go into research within the food industry,” Winchester says.

Students also have the option to earn a meat processing certificate through a semester-long program focused on producing well-educated employees.

“Students in this program learn everything from working with the producer, paperwork and understanding Please see CWC on page 7

Wright – The Wyoming Wool Growers Association (WWGA) hosted their annual summer membership meeting July 13-14 in Campbell County. Members met to partake in ranch tours, a business meeting, listen to presentation speakers, welcome new WWGA Executive Director Allison Crane and honor two individuals making an impact on the sheep industry.

WWGA welcomes new leadership On March 31, outgoing WWGA Executive Director Amy Hendrickson announced her retirement from the association.

“I would like to make our heartfelt thanks as the current board chairman and president of the organization for the dignity, honor and pleasure to serve with Amy,” said WWGA President Regan Smith. “Amy didn’t just say, ‘here is my two-week notice, I’m done.’

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Advanced technology ASI hosts EID technology webinar The American Sheep Industry (ASI) sponsored a webinar on June 12 titled “Overview of EID Technology and Its Uses” featuring Sherwell Data U.S. Sales and Support Representative Dan Persons and Allflex Small Ruminant Business Development Manager Brandon Manning. The pair discussed utilizing radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic identification (EID) on the farm and how to implement low frequency tags for flock management and official identification.

Use and benefits RFID is part of a group of automatic identification and data capture technologies allowing producers to automatically identify objects by simply scanning them. An EID tag contains an integrated circuit and coil antenna which transmits the date to the RFID reader via radio waves.

“The biggest thing is the ability to gather data fast and accurately to save labor,” shares Persons.

“And, to be able to intenPlease see ASI on page 13

COUNTY FAIR SERIES Teton County celebrates annual fair The 66th Annual Teton County Fair offers exciting events from Saturday, July 23 through Sunday, July 31 in Jackson.

Expect to see rodeo, Frazier Shows Carnival, live music, 4-H events and many other fair favorites at this year’s fair.

4-H exhibitors Kate Budge and Eliza Wilson are looking forward to presenting their projects and demonstrating their hard work in the show ring.

“I’m excited for my shows,” says Eliza. “I think showing is really fun, and I’m excited to spend time with my friends and my family.”

4-H beginnings Kate became involved with 4-H at a young age and quickly developed a passion for the show world.

“I started going to 4-H meetings before I was a member because my older brother was in 4-H, so I have been around the show game ever since I can remember,” she says. “I started showing and had my first county fair when I was eight.”

Kate is showing her horse Scarlett and steers Blackberry and Raspberry at the fair this year. She is looking forward to

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The Best Of The Best Fair and rodeo season has started in our region and we’re happy to see it. It is a great time of the year to visit with others.

With all the issues affecting us, it is good to have some enjoyment.

The timeframe between the first county fair and the Wyoming State Fair From the Publisher takes close to six weeks – it’s a busy Dennis Sun six weeks. I think the best times are the livestock shows, especially the 4-H and FFA shows. The youth participating are easy to recognize.

They are not sitting in a corner with their iPhones, they are working with their livestock and other projects. They resemble young business people during this time and their livestock and projects are their investment. For some, it pays for more livestock, and for most others, it helps pay for college.

Throughout the years, 4-H and FFA have helped numerous youth in America become great citizens and prosperous business people. Learning to manage livestock and money at a young age provides a great advantage later in life.

The 4-H program was founded around 1912, and for years most of its members were associated with agriculture.

Today, this is not the case as 4-H has diversified its programs to meet the needs of urban youth. It has grown with the times.

There are roughly 6.5 million 4-H members across America. Its members, from five to 19 years old, belong to over 90,000 clubs across America.

The goal of 4-H is to develop citizenship, leadership, responsibility and life skills of youth through experiential learning programs and a positive youth development approach. 4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is to engage youth to reach their full potential while advancing the field of youth development. This goal and mission, along with strong club leadership and dedicated parents, has made 4-H a success all these years.

FFA was founded in 1928 to provide boys in agriculture learning experiences of ag. Today, there are around 735,038 members in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. There is around a 50-50 match of boys and girls and a diverse and inclusive value to fit all races in America.

Since 2010, FFA has seen a near 30 percent increase in membership, averaging over 22,000 new members annually. On average, there are 92 members per chapter.

We all recognize the blue jackets of the FFA. There are probably a huge number in closets across the U.S. that haven’t been worn in many years, myself included. These blue corduroy jackets were adopted as official dress in 1933.

Now, 87 years later, the tradition continues.

In 1930, the first official dress uniform was a dark blue shirt, blue or white pants, blue cap and yellow tie. Currently, more than 50,000 jackets are manufactured annually.

In the beginning of the organization, dues were 10 cents per year. Dues have gone up since 1928 to seven dollars a year today. What a bargain for all the community leadership and business sense learned throughout the years.

We all can be very proud of both 4-H and FFA members, past and present in our communities today. They are the future of our nation. We thank the parents, 4-H leaders, chapter advisors, Extension and land grant colleges across the nation for making these youth great citizens.

GUEST OPINIONS Demand for Organic Meat is Booming, but There's a Shortage of Slaughterhouses

By Laetitia Benador and Carrie Pezzuti As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country over the last two years, a meat shortage emerged. And it wasn’t for a lack of animals.

The pandemic spread quickly in large, crowded slaughterhouses, forcing them to temporarily shutter.

Farmers and ranchers suddenly had nowhere to send their livestock. Grocery store shelves sat empty; meanwhile, animals which had reached maturity were killed and buried in the fields.

Like many fragilities COVID-19 exposed in our food system, the slaughterhouse shortage was a disaster waiting to happen.

Small-scale meat producers have long suffered from a lack of access to processing facilities. Slaughterhouses serving small-scale and organic farmers and ranchers have been in extremely short supply for decades – an issue known as the “meat processing bottleneck.”

This matters because the farmers and ranchers meeting demand for local meat – many of whom adhere to organic practices – deserve support.

They are often smaller businesses with an emphasis on animal welfare, environmental stewardship and selling fresh, healthy foods directly to their communities.

Small-scale slaughterhouses also support the local food supply, generate revenue locally and create jobs which often pay a high hourly wage and promote healthier and more flexible working conditions. Consumers are becom-

ing aware of the many benefits small-scale livestock farming and processing provide, and unsurprisingly, there has been increasing buyer demand for meat produced by these methods.

But these small-scale facilities cannot keep up with demand. They face a range of financial, labor and regulatory hurdles. Meat processing regulations are largely written with large processors in mind and only work for those who have gained such economies of scale. It is nearly impossible for small processors to compete.

This worsens corporate consolidation and creates a marketplace in which largescale facilities slaughter and process the vast majority of meat in our food supply. For example, just four companies now control more than 80 percent of the market for processing beef.

As a result, small-scale and certified organic producers have lost nearly all preference, convenience and flexibility when it comes to when and where they can slaughter their livestock. Without scaling up considerably, these farmers cannot get into the large facilities and currently face a wait time for slots at slaughterhouses ranging from six to 18 months.

Even worse, many must drive for hours and hundreds of miles to reach a facility willing to accept them. These long drives are not only expensive, labor-intensive and environmentally taxing; they are also distressing to animals, a particular issue these farmers with

high animal welfare standards work to avoid. This unnecessary stress on animals also affects the quality of the finished meat these producers take great care in providing.

Organic meat farmers face additional challenges. Due to the National Organic Program’s strict standards, certified organic livestock producers who can’t access certified organic processing facilities are unable to market or label their products as organic or use the U.S. Department of Agriculture Certified Organic seal – even if their animals were raised in compliance with organic standards.

At a time when organic meat is one of the fastest growing organic food categories on the market, this is yet another hurdle for hardworking farmers in communicating the integrity with which their product was produced.

Fortunately, promising legislation is in the works. In February 2021, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Strengthening Local Processing Act in both the House and Senate. The bill provides processing facilities employing 500 workers or fewer with the funds needed to grow and expand to meet both producer and consumer demands.

It also supports a scaleappropriate approach to slaughter and processing – something current regulations do not consider. Many well-established national organizations endorse the bill, including the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, the American Association of Meat Processors, the

Niche Meat Processors Assistance Network and the National Farmers Union. Public input is crucial, and now is the time to contact members of Congress and express support for the bill.

Consumers can also support local and organic producers by buying directly from local farmers and ranchers at farmers’ markets and through community-supported agriculture programs. Some farmers offer herd share programs allowing consumers to purchase an animal in a local herd, pay the rancher to care for the animal and collect the meat when the animal is harvested.

Under this type of arrangement, consumers can confidently purchase certified organic animals, even if the meat cannot be labeled as such due to a lack of access to certified organic slaughterhouses.

From backing policies strengthening slaughterhouse access, to carefully choosing how and where to spend money on meat, support for smallscale and organic meat producers is crucial. It will help to bolster the resilience of our food system in the face of future challenges beyond COVID19, and contribute to building healthy communities from pasture to plate.

Laetitia Benador is a policy research specialist at California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). Carrie Pezzuti worked on slaughterhouse access issues with CCOF as a student clinician at Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. This article was originally published

by Food Tank at foodtank.com.

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NEWS BRIEFS Sysco sues big four

Sysco, the nation’s largest food distributor, filed a federal lawsuit in Texas in June alleging the big four meatpackers of price fixing. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill and National Beef Packing have conspired to suppress the number of cattle slaughtered since 2015 in an effort to drive beef prices higher.

The allegations are similar to those filed in lawsuits filed by grocery stores, ranchers and wholesalers which have been pending in a federal court in Minnesota since 2020.

The suit also cited two unnamed witnesses who used to work in the meat industry who claim there was a conspiracy between the meatpackers. In previous price fixing suits, the meatpackers have defended their actions claiming supply and demand, and not competition, drive the price of both beef and cattle.

“The defendants’ collusive restriction of the beef supply has had the intended effect of artificially inflating beef prices,” the Sysco’s lawsuit alleges. “As a result, Plaintiff paid higher prices than it would have paid in a competitive market.”

Cargill spokesman Daniel Sullivan told the Washington Post his company “is confident in our efforts to maintain market integrity and conduct ethical business. We believe the claims lack merit and intend to vigorously defend our position.”

Earlier this year, JBS USA paid a $52.5 million settlement in a different lawsuit, though the company did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the deal.

The Sysco lawsuit notes the Justice Department launched investigations into accusations against the big four for price fixing in 2020, though the government has yet to provide updates.

Ag conference announced The Nebraska Women in Agriculture program, along with the Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Program, has announced the second annual Herd That! Conference on Sept. 21, in Broken Bow, Neb. The event will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the One Box Convention Center and the Custer County Fairgrounds.

The one-day conference will bring a variety of speakers and topics for attendees to learn from. During morning sessions, participants will learn from industry experts as well as University of Nebraska Extension professionals. Topics will include market outlooks, livestock insurance, veterinarian practices and more.

The conference will wrap up with a live cattle handling demonstration at the Custer County Fairgrounds.

During this activity, participants will learn about the importance and ease of low-stress cattle handling and facility design.

Registration for the event will open July 25. To register, visit https://wia.unl.edu. The cost to attend is $75 for participants who register on or before Sept. 5. Registration increases to $90 on Sept. 6.

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Update provided on breach Pathfinder Irrigation District (PID) has been working hard to get the canal breach filled in. Since July 7, PID indicated sufficient repairs had been made to the breach to start bringing in water to the canal.

As final repairs are made to the canal and brought up to grade, the flow in the canal will increase to normal capacity of around 2,100 cubic feet per second.

The repairs will be monitored to ensure there is no seepage or leaks.

This main line canal is approximately 95 miles long to the inland lakes. The canal must run at near capacity to be efficient and ensure there is water for the growers all along the canal. PID indicated they hoped growers could start taking water the first of the week, July 11.

Growers and individuals who may have insurable claims need to keep records of their crop management prior to and during the water disruption. Growers must manage their crops as if the water will return. For more detailed information regarding crop insurance, consult a crop insurance agent.

This is a stressful event for growers and communities affected by impacts of the PID canal breach. For additional resources on coping with stress, visit ruralwellness.unl.edu or disaster.unl.edu.

PASS Act introduced U.S. Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduced the Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security (PASS) Act. The PASS Act blacklists countries like China and Russia from purchasing U.S. agriculture companies and ensures the U.S. Department of Agriculture is fully involved in reviewing any foreign acquisition of American companies affecting the agriculture sector.

Recent reports of China acquiring U.S. farmland and agriculture companies is a cause for concern on the foreign influence in American agriculture. Additionally, a Chinese-owned company recently purchased farm land near the Grand Forks, N.D. Air Force Base – home to U.S. military drone technology. Members of Congress have raised national security concerns regarding the convenience for monitoring air traffic flows in and out of the base.

The PASS Act: blacklists China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from purchasing U.S. agriculture companies; includes agriculture and biotechnology related to agriculture as critical infrastructure; adds the secretary of agriculture as a standing member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to consider agriculture needs when making determinations affecting national security; and requires reporting from the secretary of agriculture on the risk of foreign purchases of agriculture companies to the American agriculture sector.

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NEWS BRIEFS UW hosts field day The University of Wyoming’s (UW) Sheridan Research and Extension Center will host its annual field day and open house on July 27. The program is free and open to the public.

The event is a unique opportunity to “interact directly with the people who are doing the research,” says Director of the Sheridan Research and Extension Center Brian Mealor. Families with children are welcome to attend.

Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Watt Agriculture Center. Field tours at the Adams Ranch begin at 9 a.m. During the tours, researchers will give brief presentations on their current projects and answer questions from the audience.

This year, featured topics include grapevine variety trials, bulbous bluegrass control, alternative forage plots, dry bean and pea selection fields and alternative alfalfa weevil control options.

Lunch will be served at noon. The Sheridan Research and Extension Center team will lead a wrap-up discussion during the meal.

For more information or to RSVP, e-mail shrec@uwyo.edu or call 307-673-2856.

Other UW Research and Extension field day events will be held at the Powell Research and Extension Center on July 21 and at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center, near Lingle, on Aug. 10. The Laramie Research and Extension Center will host its annual field day this fall.

ACE awards UW Extension

Two members of the 2021 University of Wyoming (UW) Extension communications team recently received national honors from the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE).

The association recognized Tanya Engel and Steve Miller of the UW Extension Office of Communications and Technology for their outstanding work on two annual publications produced by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

ACE is a professional organization comprising of communicators, faculty and administrators from colleges of agriculture in land grant universities and ag-related industries across the country. Awards were presented at the 2022 ACE Conference in Kansas City, Mo. Reflections, the annual research magazine of the UW College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, received a gold award in the technical publications category. Steve Miller, now retired, was the editor of the magazine and Tanya Engel was the graphic designer.

Downloadable copies of Reflections are available at bit.ly/waes-reflections-magazine.

Engel also earned a bronze award in the enhanced photo category for an outstanding shot of Pistol and Pete, UW’s draft horse team. The photo is the cover image for the 2022 Pistol and Pete calendar and features the two horses standing in the doorway of a historic building at the UW farm in Laramie.

For copies of the 2022 calendar, contact the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station’s main office at aes@uwyo.edu or 307-766-3667.

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NCBA offers webinar The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is hosting a two-day webinar symposium to address concerns regarding the Asian longhorned tick and pests impacting the U.S. cattle industry. The free virtual event will be held Aug. 23-24 from 12-3:45pm, Eastern Standard Time.

“Our goal is to inform and educate cattle producers across the country about this potential threat,” said NCBA Chief Veterinarian Dr. Kathy Simmons.

The two-day webinar is designed to provide cattle producers, state animal health officials, veterinarians and other key stakeholders with current information from industry experts about how to identify and manage the tick. Veterinarians from currently affected states and USDA officials will discuss disease implications as well as possible treatment options and prevention.

The Asian longhorned tick is an invasive exotic pest first found in the U.S. in 2017. Since then, it has spread to 17 states ranging from the South all the way up through the East Coast. The tick is extremely mobile, spreading to new locations by attaching to people, birds, pets and wild animals.

It can survive for up to one year in the environment without attaching to a host. Because it is smaller than a sesame seed, it is difficult to detect.

The tick is extremely aggressive and can cause stress and severe blood loss in cattle. The tick also carries diseases such as bovine Theileriosis, a disease which causes anemia, failure to grow (ill-thrift), persistent infection, reproductive problems and in some cases, death. There is currently no approved treatment against the disease, leaving cattle at risk.

For more information and to register, visit ncba.org.

Inflation continues to rise Effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and Ukraine war continue to reverberate through the global economy.

Food and energy prices remain high. The drop in commodity prices and recent bond yield inversions are sending up red flags about slowing economic activity and a potential oncoming recession.

The Federal Reserve is poised to raise rates until it believes inflation has been tamed. Unfortunately, the risk of over- or under-doing it is high given lag time between action and reaction in monetary policy can be long. For now, the Federal Reserve has the data it needs to move forward with a 75 basis point rate increase in July, and will be poised for another 50 or 75 basis point hike in September.

While agricultural and energy commodity supplies remain tight, shifts in speculative sentiment have brought prices down from their peaks. For agriculture, replenishing grain and oilseed supplies globally will require two growing seasons. And there is no relief in sight for natural gas supplies.

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) has issued fire restrictions on lands owned or managed by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission in Converse and Natrona counties. The fire restrictions are in conjunction with fire restrictions issued by the Bureau of Land Management in Converse and Natrona counties, and are effective immediately.

Under these restrictions, when in an area allowing fires, campfires must be contained within a fire ring centered within a minimum of a 15-foot radius cleared of all burnable materials. Charcoal fires are permitted within enclosed grills. The use of acetylene cutting, electric arc welders or metal grinding must be conducted in a 15-foot radius cleared of burnable materials.

The use of portable stoves, lanterns using gas, jellied petroleum, pressurized liquid fuel or fully enclosed stove and openfire branding activities also must be contained within a cleared 15-foot radius. The commission also prohibits the use of fireworks on all its owned and managed lands at all times.

These restrictions are in effect on all Wyoming Game and Fish Commission-owned and managed lands in Converse County, including Bixby Public Access Area.

The following public access areas in Natrona County do not allow fires at any time of year: Badwater Ranch, Flying “A” Ranch and North Platte River access areas including Pathfinder Ranches, Lusby, By The Way Ranch, Sechrist, Schmitt, Hartnett, Wyoming Flycasters Memorial, Jessica’s Pond, Speck/Bessemer Bend, Robertson Road, Paradise Valley and Mills Bridge.

The following public access areas in Converse County also do not allow fires any time of year: Big Muddy Pond, Big Muddy Bridge, Deer Creek Canyon, Rabbit Hill, Dave Johnston, PacifiCorp, South Douglas and Orin Junction Bridge.

For more information, visit the WGFD fire ban website or contact the Casper Region Game and Fish Office at 307-473-3400.

Crop condition reported Wyoming experienced extremely hot and dry conditions for the week ending July 10, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In most areas of the state, precipitation levels were below normal. Only isolated areas of the North and East received levels of precipitation slightly above normal.

Temperatures were on average five degrees Fahrenheit above normal in many portions of the state. Only parts of central Wyoming saw average temperatures.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor for July 7, the amount of land drought free remained unchanged at 12.8 percent. The amount of land rated abnormally dry was 27.7 percent, down slightly from 27.9 percent the previous week. Moderate drought grew to 33.3 percent, up from 31.4 percent the previous week. Severe drought fell to 22.6 percent, compared to 24.3 percent the previous week. Extreme drought was unchanged at 3.6 percent.

A report from Carbon County indicated some ranchers were hauling water to livestock due to the drought.

Some alfalfa fields hit with frost in early June did not recover well enough for good production. Goshen County was overall very hot and dry, and irrigation was needed in many fields. Scattered rains brought some relief, but dryland fields were expected to fail. Some crops were damaged by a canal breach.

Stock water supplies across Wyoming were rated three percent very short, 27 percent short, 66 percent adequate and four percent surplus, compared to three percent very short, 18 percent short, 75 percent adequate and four percent surplus the previous week.

Lifeline services expand Gov. Mark Gordon announced Wyoming’s suicide lifeline services have been expanded to offer full time, Wyoming-based coverage 24 hours a day, every day.

“Wyoming citizens experiencing a mental health crisis and potentially suicidal thoughts can now be confident that on the other end of the line, they’re talking to someone who – as a fellow state resident – is familiar with our state and cares about our people,” Gordon said.

While the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has been available via phone at 1-800-273-8255 for many years, calls from state residents before 2020 were answered by people outside the state. Wyoming-based services began in 2020, but hours were limited due to funding availability.

The governor asked the legislature to fund the service and expand its availability during the 2022 legislative session and appreciates their support for this initiative.

Wyoming Department of Health Director Stefan Johansson noted a simplified lifeline number (988) will become available across the country on July 16.

For more information, visit health.wyo.gov/publichealth/prevention/wivpp/suicide-prevention/.

In the instance of immediate danger, call 911. For help with suicidal thoughts, call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (which routes to a Wyoming-based representative) at 1-800-273-8255 or text “WYO” to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line.

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Marketing Lambs With Inflated Cost of Production Having just completed a large 1,000 plus mile circle through Wyoming the same week I am writing this article, there were a few things standing out.

I saw a lot of green grass, which was a welcome sight after last year’s brown and grey spring. I also saw several bands of sheep both out on the range and in farm pastures with a good crop of lambs.

Finally, with all the driving time, I heard a lot about the current state of the economy and the issues with inflation on the radio. All of this got me to thinking about how the sheep industry – from the producers’ perspective – will fare with the current challenges of inflation.

The feeder lamb market has been consistently strong with the three-market average price for 60- to 90-pound lambs remaining above $200 per hundredweight (cwt) for more than a year now. The three-market average price for the first week of June 2022 was $248.07 per cwt.

However – despite these strong prices for lambs – cost of production has also been steadily climbing during this same time period. While determining prices received is relatively easy for producers, it can often be more difficult to have a handle on an accurate cost of production.

With this in mind, I thought it would be interesting to look at average costs of production in comparison to the current prices.

The U.S. Baseline Lamb Cost of Production Analysis: 2018 Update is a publication seeking to provide the American sheep industry with periodically updated estimates regarding the onfarm/ranch cost of lamb production. This publication can be found at SheepUSA.org.

In this publication, cost of production budgets were generated by interviewing producers in the Western, Northcentral, Southcentral and Eastern U.S. A national

cost of production budget was also generated from the four regions.

These budgets represent an average of the producers interviewed, while a producer’s own cost of production might be very different from those reported. These budgets should not be used to calculate individual profit projections, but can be useful in looking at national averages.

In 2018, the total cost of production estimate for each region was the following: Western – $160.50 per ewe; Northcentral – $157.44 per ewe; Southcentral – $134.13 per ewe; and Eastern – $180.59 per ewe.

The national average cost of production from those four regions was $157.07 per ewe.

Returns were also estimated for each region using a singular set of pricing assumptions for lambs and wool. It is important to note individual producer returns could be significantly different from these estimates given differences in market timing, weights, end points, etc. The assumptions were standardized to create consistency in the budget analysis.

With this said, the return projections on a per ewe basis was the following: Western – a loss of $15.67; Northcentral – a gain of $16.47; Southcentral – a loss of $1.55; and Eastern – a loss of $22.77. The national return was estimated at a loss of $6.20. The prices used to calculate these returns were the three-market average feeder lamb price of $1.81 per pound and the greased wool price of $1.75 per pound.

Using the estimated returns, I calculated a breakeven price per pound for 75-pound feeder lambs in each region. Using the regional budgets, the average price needed to breakeven in 2018 ranged from $1.61 per pound to $2.13 per

pound. The price needed to breakeven using the national average budget was $1.90 per pound.

So, what does 2022 look like? The U.S. Baseline Lamb Cost of Production Analysis has not been updated, but we all have a sense of rising costs of production. While it is difficult to accurately reflect the new cost of production without doing a full update of this publication, another simpler approach is to adjust the costs for inflation. This simple inflation calculation is a good approximation, but again, might not reflect actual costs of production.

However, by using this simple calculation, producers can see costs have likely increased significantly. The adjusted cost of production (2018 dollars to 2022 dollars) on a per ewe basis for each region is the following: Western – $186.74; Northcentral – $183.18; Southcentral – $156.05; and Eastern – $210.11. The estimate for the national average cost of production in 2022 would be $182.74 per ewe.

I thought it would be helpful to go back to those same 2018 budgets and adjust the cost of production with the new estimates to determine the new breakeven price for each region. I updated the cull ewe prices and wool prices to current 2022 prices to focus in solely on the price needed for lambs to provide a breakeven.

Using the regional budgets, the average price needed to breakeven in 2022 ranges from $1.86 per pound to $2.47 per pound. The price needed to breakeven using the national average budget was $2.17 per pound.

This represents approximately a 13 percent increase in the price needed to breakeven from 2018 to 2022.

Again, a producer’s individual breakeven will be different from these estimated values. Producers can utilize the templates provided in the

U.S. Baseline Lamb Cost of Production Analysis to determine their own actual cost of production.

Once producers have this number, they can then calculate the price needed to breakeven on their own lambs. However, this analysis is useful in helping to understand there has likely been at least a 13 percent increase in the price needed to breakeven.

The three-market average price for the first week of June 2022 on 60to 90-pound feeder lambs was $248.07 per cwt.

This was down from the last week of April high of $315.38 per cwt.

As of the June 6 forecast, the Livestock Marketing Information Center was still projecting a strong fall with prices for the threemarket average in quarter three ranging from $272 to $279 per cwt and quarter four ranging from $270 to $278 per cwt.

While these projections remain above the estimated breakeven prices, it is also evident with the rising cost of production there is less room for error. Producers

certainly will need to keep a close eye on their costs to maintain positive returns.

Wool outlook After a couple of weeks of losses in the Australian Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) in May, the EMI strengthened in early June.

After a loss of 14 Australian cents per kilogram clean the week of May 25 and a loss of six cents per kilogram clean the week of June 1 with the market closing at 1,414 Australian cents per kilogram clean or U.S. $4.59 per pound, the EMI increased 24 cents to close at 1,438 Australian cents per kilogram clean or U.S. $4.71 per pound in week 49 of the current market year on June 8.

This was the highest weekly value posted since March 2020. At the time this article is printed, the industry will be through the final week of the marketing year and starting on next year.

The Australian EMI report showed prices on an upward swing across all micron levels for the week ending June 10. Price increases ranged from U.S. 15 cents per pound to U.S. 18 cents per pound for

micron levels between 17 and 22 as demand for fine wools remains strong this year. Micron levels of 26 and 28 saw the smallest gains of U.S. two cents per pound and U.S. three cents per pound, respectively, as the demand for coarse wool remains sluggish.

There is much uncertainty with the current economic environment and its potential impact on consumer demand for wool.

The exchange rate between the Australian dollar and the U.S. dollar will continue to influence the wool market as the international economy adjusts to rising inflation.

If price inflation continues as forecasted, consumers’ willingness to pay for wool products could change as any slowdown in the world economy could also cause a reduction in the demand for wool.

This article is courtesy of University of Wyoming Interim Associate Director Bridger Feuz. It was featured in the July 2022 Sheep Industry News, Volume 26, Issue 7. Send comments on this article to roundup@ wylr.net.

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OBITUARIES

We welcome obituaries. Obituaries are printed free of charge and can be sent to roundup@wylr.net.

Cleon Vinton Kimberling July 17, 1930 – June 21, 2022

On July 17, 1930 Cleon, born to Cora and Leon Kimberling, made his appearance onto this planet with the aid of a neighbor lady. His father was in the middle of harvest in the hot wheat fields of western Nebraska driving a 12 head hitch of beautiful draft horses pulling what was then called a header.

His education to animal behavior and health started in those early years being surrounded with the typical array of horses, cattle, swine, chickens, turkeys, geese, the barn cats and dogs.

All of these animals contributed to the livelihood of the farm family.

Early in this educational process he experienced firsthand an outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis. This technical term was implanted into his vocabulary at about the third grade level when attending the one room country school along with his sisters Garneta and Oneta.

At about the same level, another traumatic educational event happened when the entire Poland China swine operation experienced an outbreak of hog cholera, now an exotic disease. As this educational process continued, he lost his favorite saddle horse to an impaction, which was beyond the ability of the local veterinarian to correct.

Later on, his favorite heifer was left with an obturator paralysis due to improper and excessive traction. This was probably the sequence of events

prompting his pursuit of an education in veterinary medicine.

While growing up in Nebraska, Cleon met Betty Leech. He was a country boy, and she was a town girl, but they fell in love and got married in 1953. They then started their life together on a small patch of land in Nebraska.

Cleon served in the U.S. Army and aided in the Korean war; however, he was never one to boast about his service as he humbly worked to make the world a safer place.

When he had breaks from service, he was able to travel Europe and see many countries.

Cleon went to Colorado State University (CSU). He earned a bachelor’s degree in animal science from CSU in 1951, and a degree in veterinary medicine in 1959.

While in Colorado, he ended up purchasing a plot of land in Weld County which later on has

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been jokingly referred to as the “Kimberling Family Compound” and at its peak occupancy had seven members of the Kimberling clan living together.

Education and work were not the only thing keeping Cleon busy while in Colorado. With the purchase of land and a new home, he and Betty started their own family.

Their oldest child Kirk was born in 1960 and Beth was born in 1964.

Both of them attended Windsor High School and later carried on the family tradition of going to CSU. Cleon himself continued to work at CSU as well. For 40 years, from 1965 to 2005, he was a faculty member in CSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and during this time also worked as a CSU Extension veterinarian. During his time at CSU, he spent three years in Nairobi, Kenya with Betty, Kirk and Beth.

Later on, Cleon was blessed with welcoming William Francis and Karen Kimberling into the family as the spouses of Beth and Kirk respectively. He was then gifted with three grandchildren; John and William from Beth, and Kayla from Kirk. Kayla and her husband Nate added to the family with their chil-

dren Jace, Kaden and Emeylnn.

At the age of 65, Cleon was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Instead of giving up, he decided to be even stronger and did a bicycle trip from Oceanside, Calif. to Bar Harbor, Maine.

Later, after his retirement, he cycled the perimeter of the U.S. He always said it is important to keep making goals.

At age 81, he began working with Optimal Livestock Services, a Fort Collins-based company specializing in sheep health, reproduction and management.

He was also an active member throughout all of his time in Colorado with First Presbyterian Church and increased his involvement post retirement. Not only did he work to unite the church during difficult times, he also helped with the McBackpack program which is housed at the church and helps deliver food to children in need. In addition to this, he also helped the church build its current live streaming system which has been integral with the aging congregation and COVID-19 pandemic.

At the age of 85, Cleon volunteered with the Christian Veterinary Mission in Mongolia and helped invent a solar pow-

ered microscope which is still used in the field today. Cleon also supported many other causes including the Food Bank of Larimer County, CSU Scholarship and Extension, Highlands Presbyterian Camp and others.

Visiting over 60 countries in his lifetime, Cleon never stopped traveling and each year he would make a custom calendar featuring his many photographs, another one of his talents. After he stopped traveling in 2019, he revived his old photos he used to develop on film to make a calendar commemorating his time in Africa.

In the last few years of his life, Cleon continued to be active with photography, bike riding and helping others. All of his favorite things. Everyone who has known Cleon has known him to be generous, accepting, positive, energetic and a friend to all.

His one favorite quote sums up everything perfectly, “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming WOW – WHAT A RIDE.” – Hunter S. Thompson.

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ESA continued from page 1 Seven. Section four deals with adding or removing a species from the endangered species list and Section Seven covers consultations with other federal agencies.

Trump’s modifications changed the criteria and procedures for establishing protections for threatened species; the listing and delisting of species and the designation of critical habitat; and the interagency consultation process, which is used to determine whether a federal action would jeopardize a listed species.

Trump’s ESA modifications were published in the Federal Register on Aug. 27, 2019 and took effect Sept. 26, 2019.

Overturned rule changes One of the Trump administration’s rules covered how the FWS and NMFS designate critical habitat for newly listed species. Trump’s rule only applied to future decisions to list species as threatened or to reclassify a listed species from endangered to threatened.

The rule did not apply to a species listed.

Trump’s regulations for interagency cooperation changed how the agencies work with federal agencies to prevent proposed agency actions which could harm listed species or their critical habitat.

Another Trump rule

eliminated FWS’s former policy of automatically extending to threatened species the protections against “take,” which the law automatically provides for endangered species.

A third rule change dealt with how FWS and NMFS work with federal agencies to prevent proposed agency actions potentially harming listed species or their critical habitat. Trump’s modifications changed how the agencies add, remove and reclassify endangered or threatened species and the criteria for designating species’ critical habitat.

The ESA had originally required listing decisions to be made “solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available” and “without reference to possible economic or other impacts of such determination.”

Trump’s modifications eliminated the latter phrase – allowing economic impacts to be considered when listing a species as endangered.

Section four (d) of the law allows the agency to establish special regulations for threatened species. In 1978, FWS used this authority to extend the prohibition of take to all threatened species. This was known as the blanket four (d) rule, and it essentially means threatened and endan-

gered species enjoy the same protection.

Trump had modified this rule to pertain only to endangered species, with threatened species having separate rules and regulations.

Given the recent court decision to retract Trump’s modifications to ESA, the agriculture community is concerned and disappointed.

Wyoming organization perspectives “ESA rule changes were something the ag industry wanted for years.

One particular change allowed for economic statements to be considered when enlisting a species or designating a critical habitat,” shares Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) Executive Vice President Jim Magagna. “WSGA was thrilled when president Trump made this change. They still had to stay focused on the species, but economic impacts were allowed to be considered.”

“The loss of these changes are certainly a loss for producers and the agriculture industry,” he added.

The changes could be appealed in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in California but given resources and outcomes in California courts, many agriculture organizations are weighing their next move.

“One thing making this so complex is deciding what to do, because prior

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to the court’s decision, the Biden administration was undergoing a process to make ESA changes,” mentions Magagna. “The most significant impact with the court’s decision is now these ESA rule changes are reinstated immediately.”

“It’s fine to have the law to save a species from extinction, it’s another thing when the law becomes a tool to keep the species protected forever – that’s what is happening,” says Magagna.

“All of us in agriculture are pretty disappointed by the recent federal court decision,” shares Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation Executive Vice President Ken Hamilton.

With these recent changes, the American Farm Bureau Federation will be working on providing comments, Hamilton notes.

“Currently, roughly 1,300 species are listed as threatened or endangered, and only a small percentage has been recovered,” mentions Hamilton. “For me, this would indicate something is broken in the act and I think the biggest part of it is, the ESA wasn’t set up to work with landowners or to recognize a landowner’s role in protecting those species and in fact it penalizes them.”

Brittany Gunn is the editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

Bureau of Land Management approves wild horse gather The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lander Field Office has released a decision record approving future wild horse gather, removal and fertility control operations in the North Lander Wild Horse Complex.

The North Lander Complex in southeast Fremont County is made up of the Conant Creek, Dishpan Butte, Muskrat Basin and Rock Creek Mountain herd management areas. The complex’s appropriate management level – the point at which the wild horse population is consistent with the land’s capacity to support it and other mandated uses of those lands – is 320 to 536 horses. The BLM estimates there are more than 2,000 horses in the complex.

A gather in the North Lander Complex is not currently on the BLM’s national gather schedule, but it’s possible a gather could be scheduled for later this year.

The decision approves a plan to achieve and maintain the appropriate management level in the complex by using a combination of gathers, selective removals and fertility control over a 10-year period. The decision approves the implementation of population growth suppression methods including gelding or vasectomizing

stallions; reducing the reproducing population through adjusted sex ratios; using flexible intrauterine devices on mares; and using the fertility control vaccine GonaCon-Equine.

The environmental assessment was made available to the public Jan. 20 and more than 600 comments were received from individuals, organizations and agencies during the public review period. Public comments

have been addressed and incorporated into the environmental assessment and decision record.

The environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact and decision record are available at eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ project/2014081/510.

The decision is subject to administrative review through the appeal process, which is outlined in the decision record.

For more information, contact BLM Wild Horse and Burro Specialist Clay Stott at 307-332-8400.

CWC continued from page 1 USDA requirements to learn all aspects of the meat industry from harvesting, fabricating and knowing meat cut and quality – all of the aspects of being a well-educated employee,” Winchester says.

The program offers a unique hands-on learning experience. The majority of class time will be spent in the lab with real-life scenarios.

“Students have a little bit of classroom time, but the majority – about 75 percent of the time – is spent in the lab,” Winchester says. “They develop the muscle memory to be able to go into the industry and know what they’re doing beyond the textbook. That’s what makes this program unique.”

“It’s a very handson program, where most other programs in the U.S. are online courses,” she adds. “Students need to have the muscle memory for going out into the workforce.”

Locally sourced Winchester notes the program provides benefits for local producers.

“We will keep the animals local and provide food for our local community through the program,” she says.

“By working with local producers, we can know where our food comes

from.

CWC’s Meat Science program works with local producers to help them keep more money in their pockets and provide a great product for our local community.”

Winchester says CWC will run the Rustler Cattle Company meat lab all year long.

“We are offering local producers more opportunities to get their livestock processed,” she says.

CWC staff are looking forward to offering this unique training opportunity for students interested in meat science.

“I am really excited about this program. I really feel it’s needed for the industry,” Winchester says.

“I have processors all over the nation calling asking me if I have students ready to come work for them, so I really feel this is a great tool for the industry. I am excited and passionate about this program.”

Classes begin Aug. 22, and there is limited space available for students.

Winchester is anticipating five to seven students will enroll in the program this fall.

For more information, contact Winchester at awinches@cwc.edu or 307-855-2258.

Kaitlyn Root is an editor for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

“CWC’s Meat Science program works with local producers to help them keep more money in their pockets and provide a great product for our local community.” – Amanda Winchester, Central Wyoming College

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EXTENSION EDUCATION

By Chance Marshall, UW Extension Educator

Cull Cow Considerations Like many things in the world right now, the annual costs of maintaining a beef cow is much higher than normal.

Sources indicate it takes at least $750 per year for most cow/calf operations to “keep a cow.”

This number may seem ridiculously high; however, once the many expenses required to maintain her such as feed, equipment, labor, vet expenses, etc. is considered, costs can add up quickly. Producers should consider the ele-

vated impacts of decisionmaking for culling cows this year. While the market for feeder cattle may be out of producers’ control, the decisions made within cowherds are controllable.

Impactful decisions Most cow/calf producers (including myself) are probably guilty of keeping one of their favorite cows for “one more year” after she comes up open. Most times, these decisions are made because of sentimental reasons. Many of these operations also have cows 13 plus years old and even though they are still pro-

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ductive, they are starting to show signs of aging.

These decisions can be impactful when studied from a business perspective.

Receipts from cull cows make up about 15 to 20 percent of gross income for cow/ calf operations; however, the costs of maintaining a nonproductive cow can be the real difference maker.

Culling decisions directly affect the quantity and quality of calf production and, ultimately, influence profitability.

The truth is, putting cows on the truck with sentimental attachments and/ or have been some of our most productive herd members in the past is hard. But knowing when it’s time to make these tough decisions can be very impactful to genetic progress and producers’ bottom line.

How do producers know when? With profitability in mind, here are a few key things to consider when developing a systematic process for culling cows all members of the herd should be exposed to.

Pregnancy status Pregnancy status is probably the most obvious factor when determining whether to keep a cow or

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not. It’s recommended producers determine how long they want their breeding and calving periods to last.

Forty-five to 60 days is usually ideal. It is recommended to cull cows that aren’t pregnant after the 45 to 60 day timeframe.

If she’s not producing a calf, she is costing hundreds of dollars per year to keep her around. It’s important to ask the question, how much are producers willing to pay to keep an open cow?

Structural soundness Many producers in Wyoming have high expectations for cows to graze and perform in harsh, vast environments.

Cows remaining sound enough on their feet to maintain body condition, calve and rebreed every year is imperative.

Structure issues tend to only get worse with time and eventually will catch up with them. Identifying structure problems early should always be a priority.

Body condition Body condition is a huge indicator of reproductive success. Cows lacking body condition have higher probabilities of being open cows. Additionally, thin cows have greater chances for calving difficulty.

Even if thin cows are getting bred during the breeding season, it may be possible she is calving a few days later each year, her calf weights are declining and she will eventually fall out of the 365-day ideal calving window.

Udder quality Not only is milk production important for calf growth, but so is the structure and quality of the udder. It’s important to consider if her udder is still adequate to meet the needs of her calves going forward.

Does she have four good productive udders with good teat attachments? Will her calves be able to easily access the milk they need? Selection for udder quality is a moderately heritable trait,

so maintaining dams with good udder attachment should be included in the selection criteria.

Mouth The cow needs to have enough teeth to graze and ruminate effectively. Aged cows may lose teeth or wear them down enough to negatively impact their ability to maintain the demands of pregnancy and her environment. A bad mouth can affect digestibility and intake, putting her at risk of being an open cow.

Disposition It always seems the meanest cows breed back every year and raise some of the best calves. However, maintaining cows with attitude problems will likely mean future generations with attitude problems.

Even if these crazy calves do well in a range setting where they are not handled much, they will likely struggle to gain as much in the feedlot compared to their gentle herd mates.

Additionally, meat quality in temperamental cattle is often less desirable.

Other health issues A cow’s history of various health issues can cost producers money and may cost more in the future.

Cows with incidences of retained placentas or prolapses are at risk for reoccurring issues and should be strong culling candidates.

Also, cows having dealt with infections, lump jaw and other issues are also at risk. Consider selling these females while they are recovered, more valuable and before they are sick again.

Making the reasonable decisions to cull cows is not easy, but these decisions are an important piece of the profitable production puzzle. Hopefully these considerations will make those decisions a little bit easier.

Chance Marshall is a University of Wyoming Extension educator based in Fremont County. He can be reached at cmarsha1@uwyo.edu or 307332-2363.

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By Paul Dykstra

Market update The cash fed cattle market trend this summer has been quite positive in relation to history. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, cattle feeders could count on cattle supply and beef demand factors aligning to set annual price highs in the spring of the year. April was typically the target month for the high, but realistically any time from April through mid-June would capture the annual high.

So far, the 2022 market has followed a relatively flat pricing pattern. Unlike the stereotypical pattern described above, the yearto-date high was posted just two weeks ago with $146 per hundredweight (cwt) edging out the spring high of $143 per cwt. The relatively late arrival of higher prices continues to be spurred by fewer market-ready, premium grading cattle in the most active cash trading area in the North.

Beef demand is proving to be more resilient than expected. While it is lower than recent years, it appears to be leveling off. Inflationary impacts are certainly a factor as retailers and distributors have held beef prices on a higher plane to accommodate increased input costs.

Carcass cutout values have traded in a very stable pricing environment since late April. The Choice cutout has moved little with a range of $257 per cwt to $267 per cwt during this time.

Similarly, the Certified Angus Beef (CAB) cutout has traded from $272 per cwt to $284 per cwt for the period. The latest Choice cutout value is eight percent lower than a year ago and the CAB cutout is 11 percent lower.

Entering mid-July, lower beef prices are predicted through the dog days of summer. The traditional lower

price trend for this period tends to translate into summer lows sought in the market through the first week of August.

Last week’s CAB cutout was slightly lower than the prior week with a $4.25 per cwt decline. Given May and June wholesale beef prices did not undergo the tremendous spikes seen in the past two years, the transition to July has not generated significant price declines so far.

However, ribeye and strip loins have finally given up some of their June value, as both items were the notably cheaper cuts in last week’s boxed beef trade.

Carcass weights find annual low Since the COVID-19 onset, carcass weights have been on a short list of market-influencing talking points in the cattle sector. In May 2020, national average weights rocketed to as much as 48 pounds heavier than the year before. Since this devastating period, weights have struggled to find significantly lower levels.

A final push of backedup supplies of fed cattle in the first quarter of 2021 saw carcasses continue to mark new highs. Cattle numbers in the following quarter brought more current and weights dropped 18 pounds in two weeks to match the weekly average of the year prior.

Jumping ahead to 2022, a slow packing sector pace kicked off January with a quick recovery to more impressive daily harvest levels in February. Carcasses still tracked a heavier path than the prior year from February through early May, finally pulling lower.

The annual average carcass weight low appears to have been made during the week of June 13, with steers averaging 879 pounds and heifers averaging 810 pounds. Heifers declined yet

another pound in the following week’s data, but steers increased four pounds that week to move the average upward again.

Weights now begin their steady climb to their expected November annual heaviest. Reviewing cattle placement in feedlots this year suggests fewer fed cattle supplies expected in the fourth quarter along with much higher costs of gain will hold carcass weights below a year ago. This will be dependent on the basis trend (cash minus futures price) which guides cattle feeders’ decisions regarding marketing timing.

End-user demand for premium quality grade carcasses remains sharp today, given the premium spreads between grades including CAB carcasses. While impossible to perfectly project carcass values months in advance, the supply and demand evidence we see today suggests fourth quarter premiums for quality could shape up to be quite strong.

Angus youth achieve carcass excellence The National Junior Angus Show, conducted annually in July, is best known as a place where

junior Angus members display breeding heifers in the show ring. However, it’s the carcass steer competition, possibly less famous as far as junior cattle shows are concerned, bringing the level of competition to new heights this year.

Forty-two registered Angus steers were harvested in this year’s contest.

This exemplary set of cattle graded 30 percent Prime, 60 percent CAB brand (calculating both Prime and Premium Choice) and just seven percent Select. The Prime carcass percentage more than tripled the recent indus-

try average and the CAB share was almost double the brand’s recent average.

The real highlight in this set of steers is the fact nine head, or 21 percent of the carcasses, were Prime, beef carcass yield grade two’s.

It appears in the data they would also have qualified for CAB Prime. It’s a fairly special set of cattle that can hit such a lofty marbling achievement while remaining this lean in terms of their finish, with the Prime yield grades averaging a mere 0.36 inches of backfat thickness.

Readers may quickly recognize backfat measures

in commercial fed cattle today are more commonly or well above 0.5 inches. While these steers could have been fed longer in a commercial setting, we might argue they were fed to their most feed-efficient endpoint in the hands of these junior Angus exhibitors. Our congratulations to this group of exhibitors for setting their sights on excellence and achieving it.

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farm’s sources and uses of cash, income, and expenses as well as the monthly inflows and outflows of cash. The accrual-adjusted

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the relationships between the financial statements and financial performance of the business. The tool uses a step-by-step approach that allows the user to enter their own data or modify pre-existing example data.

RD Financial generates four financial statements from the information entered: an income statement, cash flow statement, balance sheet and statement of owner equity. It also produces a set of financial ratios, based on the data entered. The tool includes help functions and allows users to save their information or reset and start over. For a detailed presentation on the RD Financial Tool, select “Tool Support” from the opening menu or view an online presentation at RightRisk.org.

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line for the year. The statement of owner equity provides the details required to calculate changes in net worth from year to year.

RD Financial helps users see the interaction of information

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IMPORTANT FINANCIAL RATIOS RD Financial generates a set of 16 financial ratios based on the financial statements. These ratios are divided into five

entered across the financial statements; the statement of owner

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profitability, repayment capacity and financial efficiency.

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CREDIT SCORING RD Financial includes a credit-scoring model intended for educational purposes. This section gives two examples of how a lender might evaluate the creditworthiness for two different loan models: operating and term loans. The tool generates a credit score for each loan type, based on the information provided. The operating loan model relies on four financial ratios, each with a score from 1 to 5 (1=excellent, 5=high risk). For the example farm, low debt levels help to offset the rather low profitability numbers to rate the operating loan score at 1.6. This feature offers the user a way to identify and address problem financial areas before meeting RD Financial ratio screen

with a potential lender.

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James Sedman is a consultant to the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and John Hewlett is a farm and ranch management specialist in the department. Hewlett may be reached at (307) 766-2166 or hewlett@uwyo.edu.

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FAIR continued from page 1 having a fun time with her 4-H friends – playing card games and socializing in their free time – and competing in livestock shows.

“When you are a livestock kid, you are in the Heritage Arena every day, all week, so we hang out and play cards during the fair, which is a highlight for me,” she says.

Eliza has also been showing since she was eight years old, and this year will be her final year in 4-H, as she recently turned 18. She is showing a lamb named Tom Cruise and a pig named

Peaches this year.

“I just want to do as well as I can – hopefully win – and have a lot of fun doing it since it’s my last year,” she says.

Life lessons Kate and Eliza are both grateful for the many skills 4-H has provided them through the years.

“I think the biggest skill 4-H members learn is leadership and developing the personality to be able to succeed,” says Kate. “We can persevere through anything.

Being able to talk in front of people and lead a group is

“I just want to do as well as I can – hopefully win – and have a lot of fun doing it since it’s my last year.” – Eliza Wilson

Show time – Kate Budge proudly shows her steer during the livestock sale. Courtesy photo

a really important skill 4-H teaches everyone.”

“The senior members in our group are outstanding,” she adds. “They can get in front of a group of people and lead a presentation because they have those leadership skills.”

4-H helps develop responsibility, says Eliza.

“It’s a lot of responsibility to take care of animals,” she says. “I have to take care of them every day if I want to do well. I also spend a lot of time working with my animals.”

She also says 4-H members value sportsmanship.

“You don’t always do as well as you want to,” Eliza says. “Even if I don’t do as well is I hoped, I still congratulate the winners and everyone else I show with because they tried their best too.”

Past accomplishments and goals for this year Kate and Eliza share they have many proud 4-H accomplishments and they hope to have even more at the end of this year’s fair.

“In my first year competing in the senior horse division, I showed my horse to win the all-around horse and rider which was a really exciting moment,” says Kate. “I got to compete against my older brother and the older group of 4-H’ers.

It was a really close competition between all of us, so it was a really proud moment when I won.”

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Family tradition – The Budge family enjoys spending time together during the week of the Teton County Fair. Pictured left to right, Joey Budge, Kate Budge and Nicole Budge. Courtesy photo

Eliza says her proudest 4-H accomplishment was making it to the Wyoming State Fair in 2021.

“I went to the state fair last year which was a really cool accomplishment, and I won fifth in my market class at the fair,” she says.

Kate says aside from competing, she hopes to enjoy time with her friends and family at the fair this year.

“One of my biggest goals is to relax and have a good time,” she says. “It’s really easy to go into shows and have big goals but I think having a good time is what it’s all about. It’s easy to get caught up in the show day and week and get frustrated, so just relaxing and having a good time with my friends is going to be a goal for me.”

Upcoming county fairs There is no shortage of fun-filled county fairs taking place in the Cowboy State this year.

4-H friends – One of Kate’s favorite parts about 4-H is the lifelong friendships she’s made through the club. Pictured left to right, Kate Budge, Bailey Chamberland and Riley McFarland. Courtesy photo

Upcoming county fairs include the Converse County Fair in Douglas, July 16-24; the Weston County Fair, July 23-31, in Newcastle; the Washakie County Fair in Worland, July 23-30; the Crook County Fair, July

23-31, in Sundance; the Park County Fair in Powell, July 26-30; and more.

Kaitlyn Root is an editor for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@ wylr.net.

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ASI continued from page 1 sively manage both larger and smaller flocks.”

“The labor savings go both ways,” he adds. “If producers only have a few hours on a weekend to work sheep and need the process to be extremely productive – RFID allows producers to do so.”

In addition, RFID allows producers to follow animals through the supply chains of major meatpackers.

“With RFID being an electronic radio frequency, the tag does not have to be in a line of sight,” he says. “The tags can be read through tissue in the ear and the animal can be moving – producers don’t have to restrain the animal in order to visually read an ear

tag.”

Manning shares several benefits of EID management tools include adding a second form of identification, having a faster way to collect data of animals being worked, using an electronic version versus pen and paper and saving labor and time.

For producers who manage animals individually, EID provides more accurate data per ewe or lamb, cuts labor and ties in with software, scales and other management tools to increase speed and accuracy. It allows ease of individual data collection for growth, wool and other traits, says Manning.

“When producers are manually managing data,

For more information or to watch the full webinar and find other topics related to the sheep industry, visit s h e e p u s a . o r g /g r o w o u r f l o c k resources-educationalwebinars.

by Lee Pitts Home Court Advantage Most purebred bull and female sales are held on the ranch because breeders want customers to meet the family, see the cowherd and partake in a beef barbecue or pre-sale party. Many big outfits have invested heavily in auction facilities, while others just clean out a hay barn or tractor shed. A growing number of sales are held at a local restaurant where animals are sold via video, while breeders on a tighter budget with fewer bulls sell them at

an auction market.

Selling at the local sale barn is a great way to sell because they already have the facilities, the sound system, the restaurant and the clerking. One downside is some people get their feelings hurt.

Take the sale barn auctioneer, for example. He can be a world champion auctioneer, know all the buyers and may even own the auction market, and still the breeder will bring in a professional purebred auctioneer who wears a sports coat, tie, $800 hat,

How Drought Affects You The “d” word may refer to many different taboo words across school yards in the U.S., but in ranching and farming, the “d” word makes agriculturists shudder more than any curse word could – “drought.”

Last year, we experienced a lengthy drought in Big Timber, Mont. and this year, my family back home in Rosalie, Texas, is experiencing a drought.

Agriculturists experiencing drought is not uncommon, it happens from time to time in different spots around the globe. It’s talked about frequently and recorded for the history books.

However, what’s not often discussed is how drought affects more than just those who rely on agriculture to pay their bills. The agriculturists reading this right now probably know every-

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there is human error,” he says. “With EID, producers can cut back on the potentional for human error.”

RFID components There are several different components to a RFID system. The first is RFID devices – ear tag, implant or bolus – have a chip in them which can be read, Persons explains.

“There are two different types of RFID tags – a passive and an active tag,” mentions Manning. “The passive RFID does not have an internal battery – they are powered by the reader while the active RFID are powered by a battery.”

There are two main different styles of ear tags. A button-style tag consists of a large coil copper of wire serving the antenna and a small microchip attached to the antenna talking back and forth to a reader.

There are also barrellike shaped EID chips of very tightly wound copper, antenna and a microchip all incased in a tube of glass.

“This style can be very small and lightweight and placed into many different

configurations,” Persons says.

RFID devices can be purchased as a scrapie tag, he says. These are commonly referred to as an RFID 840 tag.

“To order the electronic scrapie tags, producers must have a scrapie flock identification number and a national premise number,” he says. “The RFID 840 tag will have a 15 digit RFID number printed on it.

This number is mandated to be printed on the outside of the tag.”

The RFID chip number must start with the number 840 – the U.S. code worldwide.

“If producers ship animals from the U.S. to any other country, and they read the tag, it will start with an 840,” he says. “The RFID number will be linked to producers’ scrapie flock number within the databases of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

The next component of an RFID system is an EID reader. There are several different varieties including stick readers, data loggers

and panel readers, shares Persons.

There are also various different devices to go along with EID, says Persons. These include sorters, panel readers and scales.

“This way, producers can weigh lambs without having to type in a weight and without having to type in an ear tag number,” he says.

The last component is software to manage all of the data the producer gathers, mentions Persons.

“This can be anything from a basic system with spreadsheet-style software or complete flock management software which can keep lifetime records and genetic lines sorted out and separate,” he says. “Good software makes the data collection much more valuable.”

“Software is the key to traceability,” mentions Manning. “Multiple software companies can be used to provide access to the data for all parties and producers with packers as the book ends – the producers are the ones applying the RFID tag and the pack-

ers read the tags.”

Using the data Persons encourages producers to use RFID data to determine poor performing and top performing ewes.

In addition, producers can use the data to monitor death loses, track antibiotic use for natural lamb production, track daily gains, assess ram effect on finishing average daily gains, transfer data to the National Sheep Improvement Program for estimated breeding value calculations, select replacement ewe lambs and conduct on-farm trials.

“EID allows producers to gather enough information to determine what works best for their flock,” Persons says.

“In addition to all the benefits RFID can provide as a management tool, the tags can also meet the requirements of the scrapie program,” concludes Manning.

Brittany Gunn is the editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

ostrich boots, a diamond stick pin and looks as out of place as ice cream on a cow pie.

During the sale, the guy who sells every week on the stool now filled by the foreigner will continually turn down the sound system because the purebred auctioneer always turns it up too high, even when buyers are stuffing their ears with cotton. The regular guy will do everything in his power to mess up the imported prima donna from out of state.

Then there are the ring men. I’m qualified to speak on this subject because for 40 years I traveled the country as a ring man who worked purebred sales if the customer spent enough money on advertising to justify my presence. Whenever I worked an auction market sale, even if I knew the regular crew and preferred

their company to the ring men I traveled with, I got the feeling my presence was as welcome as a crying baby at a wedding or funeral.

I especially remember an auction at a sale barn I regularly frequented to buy and sell cattle. John (not his real name) is the best ring man I’ve ever seen. He opened and shut the hydraulic doors and rapidly moved the cattle in and out, all while catching bids from inside the sale ring.

John stood behind the bull board right in front of the auctioneer who sat at an elevated position.

On the very first animal to sell, John was catching bids going unnoticed by dressed up guys outside the sale ring. The auctioneer stopped his chant to say to John, “You don’t have to do that son, we have professionals here to

do that today!”

I saw steam coming out of John’s ears as he dipped the end of his whip in fresh cow manure, popped his popper and “professionally” splattered cow manure all over the sports jacket and tie of Mr. Fancy Pants auctioneer who may have also swallowed a speck or two.

Chalk one point up for the home team. The war was on and I knew it wasn’t going to end well.

When the auctioneer sold a bull to a local rancher, John would let the ring man climb all the way up the stairs to fetch the buyer’s name and right before he’d announce it, John would smirk and say, “Oh, that’s Mr. Jenkins,” or, “That’s the Draggin’ S Ranch.”

As previously mentioned, John also controlled the in and out gates which he started to

open and close faster and faster until Mr. Fancy Pants could barely keep up. He looked as winded as a fat guy trying to run a marathon.

John waited for his final “coup de grâce” until the very last bull.

As I previously mentioned, back when this happened, John still utilized a whip instead of a plastic paddle and John was so good with the whip, he could hit a fly in midair.

So, when he shaved one-sixteenth of an inch off the end of the auctioneer’s nose on the last bull, he said it was an accident and apologized profusely, but I think the only thing he was sorry about was his whip didn’t cut as deep as the auctioneer calling him “son” in front of the home crowd and implying he wasn’t a professional.

thing I’m about to share, but I encourage them to share it with the people in their life who may not be educated on this issue.

In simple terms, a drought is when there’s an extended period of water shortages and land dries up. You’ve probably heard of drought in your grade school science classes or scoffed at it when you saw there was a burn ban in place in your hometown, but drought impacts way more than missing out on a bonfire or two.

Drought affects every single sector of the ag industry, which in turn affects the number of crops and livestock produced and sold.

This affects prices and stock at every level of

the food supply chain; which leads to consumers seeing a major fluctuation and price change on some of their favorite food items at the grocery store.

For example, I saw lengthy Fakebook posts showing a long line of trucks and trailers outside a livestock market in Texas. The trailers were full of cattle, waiting to be sold because ranchers don’t have the water to produce enough grass to graze or can’t get their hands on enough grain to feed their cows. No water equals no grain to harvest; minimal grain equals a price increase.

Cattlemen selling their cows will get more money, so it must be a good thing. Right?

WRONG. If cattlemen sell more of their herd than they usually do each year to accommodate for feed shortages, they’ll have less cattle to sell next year and the year after.

Furthermore, they’ll have less cows producing heifers and steers which would be sold in the next few years. By selling off 50 or so extra cows in 2022, they’ll see the long-term effects of this income loss in the years to come.

Most of the cattle sold at the sale barn will likely go to feedlots which will also have issues finding enough grain to feed said cows.

With minimal grain to feed the influx of cattle, this will mean the cat-

tle leaving these feedlots won’t be as fat as they should be.

Eventually, feedlots will sell their cattle to large packing houses who will then sell to retailers and restaurants for a higher-than-normal price. By the time a pound of burger gets to the consumer, the price they would usually pay for ground beef is a thing of the past.

This is just one example. It’s the same way across the entire agriculture industry right now.

From lima beans to lamb chops, the ag industry is hurting and ultimately, this will hurt you.

The solution?

Rain, and that’s something only the Big Man upstairs can fix.

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CALENDAR

EVENTS Aug. 17

Submit your events to: Editor, Wyoming Livestock Roundup, P.O. Box 850, Casper, WY, 82602, or e-mail to roundup@wylr.net.

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Converse County Fair, Douglas. For more information, visit conversecountyfair.com.

National High School Finals Rodeo, CAM-PLEX, Gillette. For more information, visit nhsra.com/nhsfr.

Weston County Fair, Newcastle. For more information, visit westoncountyfair.com.

Washakie County Fair, Worland. For more information, visit washakiecountyfair.com.

Crook County Fair, Sundance. For more information, visit crookcountyfairgrounds.com/p/fair.

Teton County Fair, Jackson. For more information, visit tetoncountyfair.com.

Park County Fair, Powell. For more information, visit parkcountyeventsandfair.com/park-county-fair.

Goshen County Fair, Torrington. For more information, visit goshencountryfair.org.

UW Sheridan Research and Extension Center Field Day, Sheridan. For more information or to RSVP, e-mail shrec@uwyo.edu or call 307-673-2856.

Sublette County Fair, Big Piney. For more information, visit sublettecountyfair.com.

Uinta County Fair, Evanston. For more information, visit uintacountyfair.org.

Red Desert Roundup Rodeo, Sweetwater Events Complex Outdoor Arena, Rock Springs. For more information, visit rdrrodeo.com.

Niobrara County Fair, Lusk. For more information, visit facebook.com/ niobraracountyfair.

Campbell County Fair, Gillette. For more information, visit facebook.com/ ccwyfair.

Platte County Fair, Wheatland. For more information, visit plattecountyfair.com.

Sheridan County Fair, Sheridan. For more information, visit sherfair.com.

BLM Wild Horse and Burro Adoption, 5 p.m., Lions Park, Cheyenne. For more information, visit blm.gov/whb or contact the national information center at wildhorse@blm.gov or 866-468-7826.

Hot Springs County Fair, Thermopolis.

Albany County Fair, Laramie. For more information, visit albanycountyfair.org.

Carbon County Fair, Rawlins. For more information, visit carboncountyfairgrounds.com.

Fremont County Fair, Riverton. For more information, visit fremontcountyfair.org.

Johnson County Fair, Buffalo. For more information, visit johnsoncountyfairgrounds.com/fair.

Sweetwater County Fair, Rock Springs. For more information, visit sweetwaterevents.com/p/wbs.

Big Horn County Fair, Basin. For more information, visit bighornfair.com.

Sage Grouse Implementation Team Meeting, Lander Community and Convention Center, Lander.

Laramie County Fair, Archer Complex, Cheyenne. For more information, visit laramiecountyfair.com.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Field Day, Harvard, Neb. For more information, e-mail shachtel1@unl.edu or call 402-762-3536.

Lincoln County Fair, Afton. For more information, visit lincolncountyfair.info.

2022 Nebraska Grazing Conference, Younes Conference Center, Kearney, Neb. For more information or to register, visit grassland.unl.edu/nebraskagrazing-conference-registration.

East Campus Discovery Days and Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb. For more information, visit discoverydays.unl.edu/vendors.

Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo, Douglas. For more information, visit wystatefair.com/.

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1 CharX Cow, 1480# ...................$8550 1 Blk Cow, 1325#.........................$8050 Horton, Duane - Otto 1 Blk Cow, 1395#.........................$9300 BULLS Split Rock Land & Cattle - Worland Vigil, Michael - Manderson 50 1 Blk Cow, 1290#.........................$9150 1 Blk Bull, 2220# ........................ $111 1 Blk Bull, 2020# ........................$10700 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1570#...............$8400 00 1 Blk Cow, 1395#.........................$8400 1 Blk Bull, 1735# ........................$103 Doyle McKim & Sons Inc. - Manderson Diamond Tail Ranch LLC - Greybull 50 4 Blk Cows, avg. 1231#...............$9000 1 Blk Bull, 2075# ........................$104 Gasvoda, Gretchen - Greybull Doyle Ranch Inc. - Hyattville 1 Blk Bull, 1860# ........................$10450 1 Blk Cow, 1620#.........................$8850 1 Blk Cow, 1550#.........................$8700 Bentley, Larry - Thermopolis 1 Rd Bull, 1520# ........................$10400 Nicholas Ranch - Fort Washakie 1 CharX Cow, 1270# ...................$8800 Ring Tail R Cattle Co. - Rawlins 1 Hrfd Bull, 1790# ......................$10400 4 Blk Cows, avg. 1334#...............$8350 1 Hrfd Bull, 1740# ......................$10350 1 Blk Cow, 1560#.........................$8350 1 Blk Bull, 1695# ........................$10200 Horton, Darrell - Greybull 1 Hrfd Bull, 1775# ......................$10100 1 Blk Cow, 1515#.........................$8800 Bain, Joy - Crowheart Ready, Michael - Thermopolis 1 Char Bull, 1645# .....................$10400 1 Hrfd Cow, 1755# .......................$8800 Forshee Ranch Trust - Hyattville Larsen Ranch Co. - Meeteetse 1 Blk Bull, 1945# ........................$10400 1 Blk Cow, 1330#.........................$8800 Lyman Ranch Co. - Ten Sleep Durbin Creek Ranch - Thermopolis 1 Hrfd Bull, 1880# ......................$10350 1 Blk Cow, 1440#.........................$8750 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1518#...............$8700 Split Rock Land & Cattle - Worland 1 Blk Bull, 1670# ........................$10300 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1505#...............$8650 Otter Creek Grazing Assoc - Ten Sleep May, Russell - Basin 1 Blk Bull, 1955# ........................$10200 1 Red Cow, 1870# .......................$8750 1 Blk Bull, 1765# ........................$10100 J & J Baling - Manderson 1 Blk Cow, 1260#.........................$8700 Pitchfork Ranch LLC - Meeteetse 1 Blk Bull, 1875# ........................$10200 1 Blk Cow, 1400#.........................$8650 Givens, Hollis - Lander J & J Baling - Manderson 1 SimX Bull, 1585# ....................$10200 1 Blk Cow, 1500#.........................$8650 1 Blk Cow, 1345#.........................$8350 Boardman, Jared - Frannie 1 SimX Bull, 1650# ....................$10200 1 Blk Cow, 1375#.........................$7900 Borre, Gene - Burlington Caines Land & Livestock - Hyattville 1 Hrfd Bull, 2385# ......................$10200 1 Blk Cow, 1485#.........................$8600 1 Blk Bull, 2195# ........................$10200 Vigil, Michael - Manderson 1 Blk Cow, 1495#.........................$8600 Diamond S Ranch LLC - Hyattville 1 Blk Bull, 1435# ........................$10100 3 Blk Cows, avg. 1467#...............$8450 4 Blk Cows, avg. 1413#...............$8150 Scolari, Shawn - Thermopolis 1 Brindle Bull, 1580#..................$10000 Haun, Bill - Worland 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1440#...............$8550 Forshee Ranch Trust - Hyattville 1 XBred Bull, 1755#...................$10000 1 Blk Cow, 1495#.........................$8450 Hillberry, Dee - Thermopolis COWS 1 RWF Cow, 1285# .....................$8550 Herman Livestock LLC - Hyattville 1 Blk Cow, 1225#.........................$9800 TD Farms Inc. - Worland 1 XBred Cow, 1385# ...................$8700 1 Blk Cow, 1475#.........................$8500 Hook, Jace - Thermopolis Schlattman, Dean - Greybull 4 Rd/Blk Cows, avg. 1115# .........$9400 1 Blk Cow, 1310#.........................$8500

Bain, Joy - Crowheart 1 BWF Cow, 1485# .....................$8500 Lyman Ranch Co. - Ten Sleep 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1505#...............$8450 Rios, Armando - Basin 1 Blk Cow, 1420#.........................$8450 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1538#...............$8200 1 BWF Cow, 1295# .....................$8100 Durbin Creek Ranch - Thermopolis 3 Red Cows, avg. 1295#.............$8400 4 RWF Cows, avg. 1210# ...........$8200 3 Hfrd Cows, avg. 1398#.............$7800 Pitchfork Ranch LLC - Meeteetse 1 XBred Cow, 1655# ...................$8350 1 XBred Cow, 1375# ...................$8300 Baird, Jack - Thermopolis 1 Red Cow, 1570# .......................$8300 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1425#...............$8200 Redland, Mark - Ten Sleep 1 Blk Cow, 1340#.........................$8300 Caines Land & Livestock - Hyattville 2 BWF Cows, avg. 1528# ...........$8200 Dewey, Jesse - Otto 1 Blk Cow, 1335#.........................$8100 Darling, Chanse - Hyattville 1 Blk Cow, 1760#.........................$8000 1 Blk Cow, 1490#.........................$7950 Barent, Dean - Worland 1 Red Cow, 1140# .......................$7800 Greer Land & Livestock - Hyattville 1 Red Cow, 1300# .......................$7800 Love, Valerie - Thermopolis 1 Blk Cow, 1270#.........................$7800 HEIFERS Hampton Sheep Co. - Worland 21 Blk Hfrs, avg. 710# ...............$16400 Pitchfork Ranch LLC - Worland 24 XBred Hfrs, avg. 710# ..........$15800 Doyle McKim & Sons Inc. - Manderson 2 Blk Hfrs, avg. 723# .................$15200

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Aug. 27

Wyoming Ag Hall of Fame Award Ceremony and Picnic, 5 p.m., Riverside Park, Douglas. For more information, call 307-234-2700.

Kip Fladland Horsemanship Clinic, Circle T Arena, Hermosa, S.D. For more information, contact Lori at loripendleton1@gmail.com or call 605-415-8701.

Public Lands Council Annual Meeting, Cody. For more information, visit publiclandscouncil.org.

Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust Annual Roundup Fundraiser and BBQ, Berger Ranch, Saratoga. For more information, visit wsglt.org/annualroundup-bbq-2022.

SALES July 18-20 July 18-20 July 23 July 30 Aug. 1-5 Aug. 9-10 Aug. 15-16 Aug. 22-23 Aug. 22-26 Aug. 28 Sept. 2-4 Sept. 3-4 Sept. 5 Sept. 9-11 Sept. 13 Sept. 15 Sept. 16-17 Sept. 18 Sept. 19 Nov. 29 Feb. 20

Northern Livestock Video Auction Summertime Classic, 866-616-5035, northernlivestockvideo.com National Targhee Show & Sale, Sweet Grass County Fairgrounds, Big Timber, Mont., 702-292-5715, ustargheesheep.org SDSGA Premium Yearling Ewe Sale, Magness Livestock Auction, Huron, S.D., 406-581-7772, sdsheepgrowers.org South Dakota’s Elite Horse Sale, Martin Arena, Sturgis, S.D., 605-5150503, southdakotaselite.com Superior Livestock Auction Video Royale XXX, Winnemucca, Nev., 800422-2117, superiorlivestock.com Cattle Country Video Oregon Trail Classic Sale, Gering Civic Center, Gering, Neb., 888-322-8853, cattlecountryvideo.com Western Video Market, Little America, Cheyenne, 530-347-3793, wvmcattle.com Northern Livestock Video Auction Early Fall Preview, 866-616-5035, northernlivestockvideo.com Superior Livestock Auction Big Horn Classic XVIII, Sheridan, 800-4222117, superiorlivestock.com RQHBA Horse Sale, Besler’s Cadillac Ranch, Belle Fourche, S.D., 605-3473294, 605-733-2427, rqhba.com Northern Premier Invitational Horse Sale, Roundup Rodeo Grounds Arena, Belle Fourche, S.D., 605-210-3329 PRQHBA 45th Annual Futurity and Horse Sale, Powder River County Fairgrounds, Broadus, Mont., 406-427-5420, 406-671-5100, sales@prqhba.com Proffit Ranch 21st Annual Labor Day Horse Sale, Diamond X Ranch, Evanston, 307-723-5857, proffitranch.com Centennial Select Horse Sale, Mac Equipment Inc Indoor Arena, Loveland, Colo., 603-714-1160, casauction.com/horse-sale Western Video Market, Haythorn Land & Cattle Co., Ogallala, Neb., 530347-3793, wvmcattle.com Cattle Country Video Sandhills Roundup Sale, Cheyenne Frontier Days Event Center, Cheyenne, 888-322-8853, cattlecountryvideo.com 26th Anniversary Van Norman and Friends Production Sale, Elko County Fairgrounds, Elko, Nev., 775-756-6508, 775-934-7404, vannormansale.com 20th Annual Sugar Bars Legacy Sale, Sheridan County Fairgrounds, Sheridan, 605-347-8120, sugarbarslegacy.com Northern Livestock Video Auction Fall Premier, 866-616-5035, northernlivestockvideo.com Western Video Market, Silver Legacy, Reno, Nev., 530-347-3793, wvmcattle.com Weaver Ranch 38th Annual Production Sale, at the ranch, Fort Collins, Colo., 970-568-3898

POSTCARD from the Past

Compiled by Dick Perue rrichardperue@gmail.com

History of Steer Roping The history of steer roping, according to a program distributed at the First Annual Platte Valley Steer Roping held July 18, 1948, in Encampment, is reported to be: Steer roping began in the early days with the round-up wagon. In those days it was necessary to rope and throw steers for branding as they had reached an age and size which proved them hard to handle otherwise.

Cattle from several outfits would mix and graze on the same range and to ready the cattle for market, ranchers would throw in together with their round-up wagons and cowboys. For many days, from dawn to dark, the cowboys would ride ridges and draws searching for steers and throwing them with the big bunch.

These steers, all wild, nervous and restless, were difficult to control and should one break away from the bunch, there was a cowboy hot on his trail to

put him back. Many times, it became necessary to rope and bust these steers to encourage him to stay with the herd. Should an unbranded steer be seen, he was roped, thrown and branded and then turned to the wild bunch.

After years of such round-ups, these cowboys became proficient in their work of roping and tying, and some were nat-

urally more skillful at the work. Thus, it came about that each outfit had its tophands and when outfits gathered for the round-up, these cowboys, stirred on by the spirit of competition, would challenge each other in a match roping.

These matches became so popular that in 1883 at Pecos, Texas, the first cowboy contest was held and the public was invited to attend. In 1888 on the Fourth of July at Prescott, Ariz., a cowboy tournament was held. Cheyenne Frontier Days was born in 1897.

For many years, the only roping event was steer roping, but that’s another tale to be told in our next “Postcard from the Past.”

Cowgirl jumping for joy after roping and tying a steer at a rodeo in the 1920s. Photo from the internet. Historical Reproductions by Perue

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MARKETS

LIVE CATTLE FUTURES SETT PRICE

Month

Compiled from USDA Market News Service information and other sources

Location Volume

400-500 600-700 700-800 UnUnder 400FOR THE500-600 WEEK ENDING

Steers Heifers

PAYS

No Report

Centennial

No Report

Crawford

No Report 180.50

171.50

St. Onge

198-203 169-171

184-193 163-169

159-179 150-162

160-172 105-150

79-122 71-89.50

178.90 181.63 183.83 185.20 185.38

Volume

Feeder Lambs

Slaughter Lambs

2925

127-230

115-170

Slaughter Ewes

Stock Ewes

52-78

71-80

Daily Grower Bids Region Price US #2 Yellow Corn Southeast WY 7.0000-7.0500 US #1 HRWW Southeast WY 7.8225-8.1225 US #1 Black Beans Min-Dak 45/cwt US #1 Dark Red Kidney Beans Min-Dak 52/cwt #1 Great Northern Beans Den-Rate 35/cwt US #1 Pea (Navy) Beans Min-Dak 44/cwt US #1 Pinto Beans Min-Dak 45-48/cwt Den Rate 44/cwt Source: USDA AMS Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News, Torrington Source: USDA AMS Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News, Greeley, CO National Wool Review As of July 8, 2022 In Australia this week, the Eastern Market Indicator was down 23 cents at 1407 cents per Kg clean from the sale a week ago. A total of 48,860 bales were offered with sales of 82.2 percent. The Australian exchange rate was stronger by .0109 at .6796 percent of the U.S. dollar. Australian wool prices are quoted US Dollar per pound, delivered, Charleston, S.C. The current freight rate is .15 cents per pound clean.

Clean Del Price Change from 75-85 Percent Micron US Grade in U.S. Dollars Previous Sale of Australia 17 > 80s 8.42 - .26 6.31-7.16 18 80s 6.76 - .25 5.07-5.74 19 70-80s 5.43 - .22 4.07-4.61 20 64-70s 4.69 - .14 3.51-3.98 21 64s 4.50 - .18 3.37-3.82 22 62s 4.41 - .18 3.31-3.75 23 60-62s 4.37 + .11 3.28-3.71 24 60s 4.16 + .05 3.12-3.54 25 58s 2.96 + .23 2.22-2.51 26 56-58s 2.32 + .01 1.74-1.97 28 54s 1.42 - .02 1.07-1.21 30 50s 1.17 - .04 0.88-0.99 32 46-48s 0.85 + .00 0.64-0.72 Merino Clippings 2.96 - .07 2.22-2.51 Eastern Market Indicator was down 23 cents at 1407 cents per kg clean. Australian exchange rate was stronger by .0109 at .6796 percent of the U.S. dollar.

Source: Colorado Dept of Ag Market News Service, Greeley, CO Wyoming Hay Summary As of July 14, 2022 Compared to last week good quality alfalfa sold 5.00 higher on the east with premium horse quality 25.00 higher. Hay in the west sold fully steady. Demand was good for all kinds and types of forages.

Contacts have been fielding a lot of calls in the last week on what do you have to sale, what will it cost and when can I pick it up or when will it be here? Most dry conditions prevailing in many areas of the state. Some areas have had a little shot of rain most areas report windy conditions. Tonnage a little lighter than many had hoped for on first cutting. Some producers have started second cutting in the eastern side of Wyoming.

Eastern Wyoming Alfalfa - Good Large Square 225 Alfalfa Pellets Suncured 320 Alfalfa/Grass Mix - Premium Large Square 300 Western Wyoming Alfalfa - Premium Large Square 275 Small Square 290-300 Alfalfa - Good Large Square 200-240 Alfalfa - Fair Large Square 160 Alfalfa Cubes 350 Grass - Premium Large Square 275 Orchard Grass - Premium Small Square 300 Sorghum Large Square 150-160

45-54

+6.42 +5.58 +4.50 +3.52 +3.53

Week Prev

This Week

8.24 8.36 8.52 8.65

7.94 7.95 8.13 8.30

Week Prev

This Week

7.47 6.09 5.96 6.02

6.95 6.05 6.01 6.08

JULY SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH Slaughter Bucks 58-115

45

Colorado Hay Summary As of July 14, 2022 Compared to last week: Comparable trades of baled hay sold mostly steady. Trade activity moderate, supply limited and demand good to very good for horse hay, feedlot and ranch hay markets. A short break in monsoonal rains in the San Luis Valley allowed many producers to bale first cutting alfalfa, quickly followed by more precipitation and more rain in the forecast.

Producers in the Northeast are busy with the first cutting of grass and the second cutting of alfalfa, with spotty showers throughout the region. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor’s High Plains Summary for July 12, 2022, The scattered nature of the rains left many dry, though, as summer thunderstorms were hit or miss in the region. Some improvements were made in Nebraska and central Kansas as well as on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming this week where the short-term wetness helped to alleviate concerns. Exceptional drought was removed in southeast Colorado and extreme drought was reduced this week. According to the NASS Colorado Crop Progress Report for the week ending July 10, 2022, 1st cutting alfalfa harvested is 93 percent, and 2nd cutting alfalfa is 20 percent. Stored feed supplies were rated 4 percent very short, 25 percent short, 70 percent adequate, and 1 percent surplus. The next available report will be Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Northeast Alfalfa - Premium/Supreme Small Square 275 220 Alfalfa - Good/Premium Large Square Alfalfa - Premium Small Square 14/bale Prairie/Meadow Grass - Good Premium - Delivered Large Square 250

-0.30 -0.41 -0.39 -0.35

Change -0.52 -0.04 +0.05 +0.06

OATS FUTURES SETT PRICE

Month

Week Prev

This Week

6.60 4.66 4.42 4.32

6.54 4.67 4.43 4.32

JULY SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH

Straw - Barley Large Square 130 Source: USDA AMS Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News Torrington Nebraska Hay Summary As of July 14, 2022 Compared to last week alfalfa in large square bales in the western area of the state sold 5.00 to 10.00 higher. Alfalfa steady in all other areas on a thin test. Ground and delivered hay steady. Buyer inquiry picked up as range conditions are deteriorating in many areas and livestock owners are putting a game plan together on how much hay they will have to procure. Some talks of weaning calves early to help save grazing pressure from pairs. Hot, windy days continue for the next week with slim chances of rain showers. Some reports of grasshopper infestations and some contacts have started to spray the hoppers. Second cutting tonnage especially on dryland alfalfa cutting 1⁄2 of a normal year. Several reports on native meadows less tonnage than previous years. So in short, overall tonnage on forages is less than normal years in most areas of the Cornhusker state.

Central Alfalfa - Premium Large Square 250 Oat Large Round 100 Eastern Nebraska Alfalfa - Good Large Round 150-160 Brome Grass - Good Small Square 8/bale Grass - Good Large Round 165 Medium Square 200 Rye Grass Large Round 75 Platte Valley Nebraska Alfalfa - Delivered Ground 205-210 Pellets Dehydrated 305-310 Corn Stalk - Delivered Ground 125 Western Nebraska Alfalfa - Premium Large Square 250 Alfalfa - Good/Premium Large Square 240 Alfalfa - Good Large Square 225 Alfalfa - Delivered Ground 225 Source: USDA AMS Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News, Kearny, NE

Change

SETT PRICE

Month

No Report 101-148

Change

CORN FUTURES

79.50-117 $1350-$2400

96-119 65-94

1477

172.48 176.05 179.33 181.68 181.85

JULY SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH

WEEKLY SHEEP AUCTIONS

Centennial

This Week

SETT PRICE

100-111.50 78-98

238

PAYS

Week Prev

WHEAT FUTURES

92.50-136 71-107 152-164

+0.85 +0.08 +0.82 +0.95 +0.83

SETT PRICE

Month

Big Horn Basin 7-14 565

Auction

135.40 139.93 146.30 151.13 154.23

Change

FEEDER CATTLE FUTURES

101-112.50 82-101.50

No Report

Billings 7-14 1120

134.55 139.85 145.48 150.18 153.40

AUGUST 5EPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER JANUARY

St. Onge 7-8 700

Buffalo 7-13

Stock Cows Pairs

Month

Riverton 7-12 393 Torrington

Over 800 Sltr Bull May 24, Sltr 2019 Cows

This Week

AUGUST OCTOBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY APRIL

FOR THE WEEK ENDING July 15, 2022 WEEKLY CATTLE AUCTIONS

Week Prev

Change -0.06 +0.01 +0.01 NC

SOYBEAN FUTURES SETT PRICE

Month

Week Prev

JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER

This Week

15.91 14.85 13.83 13.65

16.10 14.72 13.60 13.41

Change .+0.19 -0.13 -0.23 -0.24

CUTOUT VALUES CUTOUT VALUES Primal Rib Primal Chuck Primal Round Primal Loin

This Week

Prior Week

Last Year

261.30 381.73 216.75 211.29 358.88

260.97 389.34 214.34 210.25 353.91

278.31 400.67 229.82 231.89 375.81

5 AREA WEEKLY WEIGHTED CATTLE PRICE Live Steer Live Heifer Dressed Steer Dressed Heifer

This Week

Prior Week

Last Year

144.35 141.73 232.22 232.22

146.16 144.05 233.96 234.09

122.16 120.48 198.33 198.31

San Luis Valley Large Square 220 Southeast Alfalfa - Premium Small Square 11/bale Prairie/Meadow Grass - Premium Small Square 12/bale Southwest Alfalfa - Supreme Large Square 345 Grass - Premium Small Square 14/bale Grass - Good Small Square 10/bale Orchard Grass - Premium Small Square 20/bale Source: USDA-AMS Dept of Ag Market News Service, Greeley, CO Alfalfa - Good/Premium

The latest markets data can be found by visiting USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service at

https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news

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YOUNG MCNAB’S NEEDING WORK!! Exposed to cattle and sheep. Taking care of aging family members and the dogs aren’t getting the attention they need. Family raised. Current on vaccinations and DNA tested.

One female age 4, 2 females age 15 months. For more information, call 970-879-5260 ................. 8/6

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Angus

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PRIVATE TREATY

120 Yearling Bulls • 80 Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls 120 Replacement Heifers

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Call for an application or to find out more 605-341-0800 (office)

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REGISTERED RED ANGUS BULLS FOR SALE: Have 2-year-olds and yearlings.

Trich and fertility tested. Ready to go to work!! Delivery available. For more information, call CLR Red Angus, Dan Robertson, 307-431-1013....... 7/23

Going, Going, Gone Longhorn

REGISTERED TEXAS LONGHORNS FOR SALE: Gentle pairs, trophy steers, heifers, solid and colorful bulls. Foraging, hardy, low-maintenance cattle. Horn Showcase championship lines for show, beef and pasture ornamentation with traffic stopping colors and excellent horns. Easy cattle accustomed to simple handling, great for youth. Westhaven Ranch in California, 209-274-9917, email swestmoore@gmail.com or visit www.westhavenlomghorns.com. To view photos, go to www.wylr.net in the classifieds ..................................7/16

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2-year-old registered Limousin Bulls

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Horses

Horses

ranch horses - rope horses - prospects - trail horses

CENTENNIAL

Select

HORSE SALE

Joe Freund 303/341-9311 Joey Freund 303/475-6062

Pat Kelley 303/840-1848

September 9-11 Loveland, CO Mac Equipment Inc Indoor Arena 603-714-1160 www.casauction.com/horse-sale Friday

Open Muley Roping & Concert Sale horse check in & vetting

Saturday

COWN Stockhorse show

COWN Stockhorse Show Sale Horse Competition Open Preview Meet & Greet Horse Sale @ 6:00 PM

Dairy Cattle

Saddles & Tack

Goats

FOR SALE 4 BRED FULLBLOOD JERSEY HEIFERS bred to full-blood Jersey bull.

ALSO, have 2 open Jersey heifers. Delivery considered. For more information, call 970-3267372..................................7/23

BOOTS, BOOTS, BOOTS!!!

HONDO, BOULET, JUSTIN WORK BOOTS, TWISTED X (boots and shoes) and more!!

Large SELECTION of quality TACK at reasonable prices.

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DWARF NIGERIAN KIDS FOR SALE: Breeder since 2010, has a large selection of kids, with colorful markings, fun personalities and dairy characteristics.

Disbudded, wormed and vaccinated. Delivery arrangements available.

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Sunday

Custom Feeding FEED AND FACILITIES FOR ALL CLASSES OF LIVESTOCK: Conveniently located on I-90 between Mitchell and Sioux Falls, S.D. Cedar Creek Feedyard, Salem, S.D., call 605-770-8189 ...................7/16

Meat Processing BEARMOUNTAIN BEEF INC, IN HAWK SPRINGS, WY has USDA and custom exempt processing slots available. All product is vacuum sealed for extended freezer life and quality appearance. Give us a call to book your slot at 307-3382751 or check out our website at www.bearmountainbeef.com .......................7/16

Leatherwork LS CUSTOM LEATHER: Belts, tack, cell phone cases and much more!! Can personalize belts. Contact Lester, 307-631-1053, leave a message ............................. 7/23

Sheep

REGISTERED AQHA HORSES: Mostly colts. Yearlings, 2-year-olds, some weanlings.

Mostly Skipper W and running blood. Very nice colts. For more information, call 308-384-1063 or 308-380-3314 ............... 8/6

ATTENTION LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS: Winter your cattle on Nebraska’s finest hay meadows with natural prairie hay.

500 acres of hay meadows with 1,000 natural prairie hay bales, 1,600 lbs. Bids taking place now for your cattle to be on the meadows Nov. 15, 2022 through Feb. 25, 2023. Please contact the Slaymaker Haymakers, David and Renée, 507-250-4420 or 480-414-5984 .................... 7/23

TWO WELL TRAINED TENNESSEE WALKING HORSES, 15 and 16 years old, $3,000 each. ALSO, TWO PUREBRED WELSH CORGI tri-colored male puppies, 3 months old, asking half price $700 each. For more information, call 406-224-1806 ........... 7/23 COLT STARTING SEASON IS HERE!! CALL SWANEY HORSE & CATTLE CO., for all your horse training needs, Brit Swaney, 307-391-0628 ....7/16 HORSES: BUY, SELL, TRADE. Will pick up. Call Dennis Black, 307-690-0916 ...................7/16 MINIATURE HORSES FOR SALE: Pretty lawn ornaments, sweet and gentle.

One stallion, 2 mares and 1 yearling colt. ALSO, 2 Sicilian donkeys, both Jennies, keep together as a pair, one is free.

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2022 AND 2021 HAY FOR SALE: Alfalfa, alfalfa/grass and grass mix. ALSO, alfalfa/oats, alfalfa/oats/millet and straight millet. All in netwrapped round bales. Semi load delivery available. Call for pricing, 701-690-8116, please send a text if no answer or keep trying ....... 7/30

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From the Kitchen Table

By Lynn Harlan Summer Life Check for miller moths in the coffee pot before you pour in the water. Shut all the open windows from the night to keep the house cool.

We got all the ewes and lambs to the mountain shortly after the Fourth of July. We’re taking a breath.

Summertime isn’t too easy on a ranch in the Rocky Mountains. It’s a crazy marathon to utilize all the good things about four or five months of the year.

The stock drive on the mountain was beyond gorgeous. The wildflowers were in their prime.

Yellow arrowleaf balsamroot, purple-bluish lupine, white phlox and green grass waist high.

Waist high on my border collie anyway.

Our long trail from the flats to the mountain summer pastures is always amazing and exhausting.

This year we had plenty of water along the way and grass keeping even the little crippled lambs at the back full and fat.

We took along our four-year-old grandson for the last few days on the trail. We are making good memories I hope. Falling

asleep on the four-wheeler with GrandBob, a couple of campfires, eating all of a brook trout, a trip to the lodge for ice cream, catching millers in a bowl of soapy water under the light at night.

He kept us entertained playing “spaceship” with the small Dyson vacuum knockoff Bob bought for the camper. The canister detaches or has “liftoff” before going into a flat spin and crashing.

Bob should have bought the two dollar warranty. Oh well, grandkids make life grand.

Coming home to view hay in windrows down by the road. A couple of thunderstorms come by of course, one with soft hail which we watched with trepidation.

Will it hail hard enough to buy us a new car? Nope.

Just as well.

The moisture is keeping the weeds green anyway. I’m going to have to find someone to come in and swath the backyard.

The year is half over.

Winter feeding, calving, shearing, lambing, branding, docking, trailing and summer trucking is over for 2022.

A night at the College

National Finals Rodeo, Chris LeDoux Days, the upcoming Sheridan rodeo and some meetings for Bob fill out our social schedule.

A special night at the Wyoming State Fair to honor Bob’s childhood friend Scott Keith is also on the agenda.

I have a teacher friend who is trying to mark each summer day, and to make it go as slowly as possible.

She is well suited to teaching, but dreads the long commute every day. Seems like summer goes fast, as the days and seasons pass so quickly.

Try to simmer down and enjoy the days and nights of summer. Have a cold beer, or glass of lemonade, so cold it drips with condensation.

Enjoy a barbeque with friends or an exhilarating jump into the Buffalo pool, one of the largest outdoor pools in the country, fed by the cold mountain waters of Clear Creek.

There is still plenty of work to do. I need to go back and spray those thistles I missed earlier. Try to keep the cows with water and take out the bulls here shortly. Keep salt and mineral tubs full on the mountain and check for lion and bear kills.

I wish the folks out haying all the luck with their equipment and fingers crossed the air conditioning runs in the tractors.

Countdown to county fairs is approaching and best wishes to all participants and parents. Good luck to all of the National High School Rodeo Association

Finals Rodeo participants in Gillette.

A friend and I took the opportunity to visit Shell this last weekend. We went to a celebration at the Shell Hall.

It was built in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration. The hall had a renovation of a new floor and some foundation work. It was done with community donations.

Near and dear to me is the Barnum Hall, built in 1907 with community labor and donated materials. It’s had some work done in this century – a new roof, windows, refinishing of the wood floor and a new furnace. It lives on with occasional weddings and wakes and the traditional Barnum Christmas party.

There are community halls all throughout Wyoming and other rural states – they are the glue holding us together. The party at the Shell Hall had all the requisites of a fun time – tables groaning with everyone’s best side dish, kids racing through the crowd, music you could dance to, or tap your feet anyway, wonderful conversations with old friends and air conditioning!

Hold on to and savor Wyoming’s short-lived summer.

Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’, and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich, and your ma is good lookin’ So hush, little baby….

Don’t you cry.

Composed by George Gershwin in 1934.

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WWGA continued from page 1 She came in with dignity and pride and she left the same way.”

Crane has been selected to serve in her position and she is looking forward to representing the sheep industry and Wyoming.

“I’ve waited to be here basically my entire life,” said Crane. “I’m so happy to be here and I can’t wait to get to know the individuals who make up this great industry.”

Crane, an Alabama native, found a passion for the sheep industry after doing research in her undergraduate at Berry College in Mount Berry, Ga. “I really fell in love with the industry in Georgia and this is where I decided what I wanted to do – work with sheep, the sheep industry and sheep producers,” she said.

Crane finished her post-secondary education at North Dakota State University and worked for Hettinger Extension Research Center through her masters and PhD. “Wool production is really what got me going in the sheep industry and what I’ve come to love,” said Crane. “Sheep are incredible creatures, and this is one of the most

incredible places to raise them.”

“I’ve always wanted to end up here and I’m really happy to be here. I will do anything I can for the association and to keep pushing the association forward,” concluded Crane.

Smith wanted to again thank Amy Hendrickson for her commitment, dedication and work to the association.

“There is not a doubt in my mind she moved us forward from where we were at,” mentioned Smith.

“And, there is not a doubt in my mind Allison can do more than that.”

“We found a young gal extremely excited about being in Wyoming and we’re excited to have her,” he said.

Compadre Award The WWGA Compadre Award recognizes industry contributions from a professional in a position or field related, either directly or indirectly, to sheep production. Recipients of this award show a strong and significant contribution to the industry, its organization and its producers, above and beyond what is called for in their professional capacity.

Incoming WWGA President Mike Curuchet announced Wyoming Sen.

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Dave Kinskey received the award.

“We all know the last three years have been tumultuous at best,” he said. “We went through some tough times and as small as this industry is, sometimes we need help in big places.”

Curuchet noted Kinskey has stepped up to the plate time and time again.

“He always acts on calls, he always gets producers information if he doesn’t have it at hand – he always fights the fight for this industry,” Curuchet said. “It’s my great pleasure to thank, honor and hopefully to continue the relationship with Sen. Kinskey.”

“Thank you very much, I’m really moved,” said Kinskey. “I undertook public service and don’t really expect anything or recognition. The job is to get the job done like this industry does every single day.”

“Agriculture people are, by nature, conservative,” he mentioned. “They don’t ask for a whole lot and when they need help, they need help in a big way and it’s my job to help them and that’s what I’m going to continue to do down in Cheyenne. Thank you and God bless.”

Patron Award The WWGA presented John Hines with the WWGA Harold Josendahl Patron

Compadre Award – On July 13, the Wyoming Wool Growers Association (WWGA) presented Wyoming Sen. Dave Kinskey with the Compadre Award. This award recognized industry contributions from a professional in a position or field related, either directly or indirectly, to sheep production. Left to right, incoming WWGA President Mike Curuchet and Wyoming Sen. Dave Kinskey. WWGA photo

Award. This award is presented to a sheep producer who has made substantial contributions to the Wyoming sheep industry and WWGA, and has exhibited dedicated volunteer commitment and service above and beyond the call of duty.

“John Hines is the real deal,” said Smith. “He has dedicated his life to the state of Wyoming and the state of Wyoming has been his livelihood and drive.

“He is a true statesman and he is what we need as a leader, both locally and

nationally, and it’s a great honor to recognize him as this year’s recipient,” Smith said.

“Thank you WWGA – I’ve been very involved with all of the leaders, and the wool growers have been really helpful to me,” Hines said. “I certainly never have been a public speaker but I learned from going to state and national WWGA meetings. I’ve been fortunate to represent Wyoming and I try to represent agriculture to the best of my ability wherever I go.”

For over 30 years, Hines represented Campbell County and parts of Converse County in Cheyenne in the state legislature.

“I’m glad I’ve been able to do a little to help the industry and if there is anything I can do to help in the future, I will be willing to help. Thank you all very much,” he concluded.

Brittany Gunn is the editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

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