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5:05

Cooking - Tribute to Carol Metcalf

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2025/07/18

When I got married nearly 43 years ago, I won the mother-in-law lottery. Carol Metcalf was a truly amazing person that became my second mom. We were more like best friends than in-laws, and I cherish that. She danced with lymphoma and lupus until the music stopped on July 10. I was lucky enough to spend the last nine days of her life with her. This is my tribute to this truly fine woman. . . When the Trail Forks by Susan Metcalf The day has come to tip our hats to a truly fine matr...

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Agri-Kid of the Week - Knox Arntzen

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2025/07/18

Knox Arntzen, age nine, hailing from Arntzen Angus Ranch in Central Montana, north of Lewistown, helping AI cattle. Photo courtesy of Krista Arntzen. Article Link

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1:34

Letter to the Editor

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2025/07/18

Terra, In regard to your latest editorial {July 10 “It’s Time to Mourn for Texas”}. It was most poignant and right on the mark. I was on the receiving end of one of those phone calls you mentioned. A person’s life is changed forever. It is Divine Intervention, real friends and family, and, in the beginning, Compassionate Friends that will matter the most. Unfortunately, because of all the news on this flooding, the grieving parents will be inundated by people with their own agendas ...

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3:38

Ride Easy Pard - The Mountain Lion and the Shearer

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2025/07/17

We used to shear in the hot days of summer when the “grease” (lanolin) was high. The fleeces were supposed to be heavier. I don’t know if that is true. I tied fleeces for a shearing crew for a couple of summers, and I don’t know if the grease is higher in the summer than in the winter, but I suspect that it is. I do know that wearing leather shoes or boots and handling the fleeces, with the lanolin and dirt in the wool, ruined the leather. Fortunately, Pops told me to wear tennis shoes before...

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7:43

New World Screwworm Advances North, Border Closes Again

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2025/07/17

On June 30, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a tentative schedule for reopening various ports along the United States-Mexico border for cattle, bison, and equines based on perceived risk of spreading New World screwworm. This announcement stated that “good progress” had been made in Mexico to increase vital pest surveillance efforts and boost sterile fly dispersal since May 11 when the border was closed. Based on the Sonoran geography and the “history of effective collaborati...

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5:20

Enhancing Animal Safety Act Seeks to Delist Mexican Wolf

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2025/07/17

On June 30, 2025, Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced the Enhancing Animal Safety Act (H.R. 4255), which seeks to delist the Mexican gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The Mexican gray wolf is a smaller subspecies of gray wolf, and is a non-essential, experimental population currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. They inhabit Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Under the current listing, wolves must meet recovery goals in Arizona, New Mexico...

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4:47

Extensive Greenthread Bloom "Noteworthy"

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2025/07/17

Driving from Limon, Colorado, to Kiowa, Colorado on Highway 86 in the month of June exhibited a spectacular display of thelesperma filifolium, more commonly referred to as greenthread – a type of aster. The Colorado native aster is an annual, but certain years, with the right conditions, create a brilliant display across the rolling plains as entire hillsides turn golden yellow with the blooms. The last time greenthread flowers put on such a display in southeastern Colorado was in 2015 – 10 y...

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2:40

Comments by the Publisher 7.17.25

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2025/07/17

Well, so much for the Mexican border reopening to cattle, bison, and horses! Secretary of Agriculture Rollins closed the border effective immediately upon the discovery of another animal with New World screwworm detected just 370 miles south of the United States border. See our top story this week for more details on this decision and for information about Rollins’ plan to combat an outbreak in the U.S. This closure will have a large impact; we all need to keep in mind that recent years have ...

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Editor's Perspective - A Praise for Dally Hodgens - a...

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2025/07/17

I wanted to start this week off with a huge praise. If you’ll recall, I recently wrote a story about Dally Hodgens, a seven-year-old cowgirl from Buffalo, Wyoming, who was involved in a serious horse accident on June 7. She had significant surgery on her brain, and it was pretty uncertain what life would look like for her in the days, weeks, and months that followed. I reached out to close friends of the family recently to see how she’s been progressing, and I learned that she was able to com...

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3:09

RAAA Rebrands FCCP as Angus Access to Increase Market...

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2025/07/16

The Red Angus Association of America has officially rebranded its Feeder Calf Certification Program as Angus Access. More than just a fresh look, Angus Access reflects a bold evolution of the beef industry's first genetic, age and source verification program – built to USDA-approved standards and trusted by Red Angus producers for more than 30 years. Red Angus cattle undeniably produce high-quality Angus beef, which remains one of the most sought-after beef products among consumers. The new A...

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0:36

Alan Sears' 2024/2025 Sale Season Recap

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2025/07/16

Congratulations and thanks to all Western Ag Reporter customers in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. It is a true privilege to work with so many industry-leading seedstock producers and successful marketers of livestock. The volume and price levels reflect what we have all been seeing across the beef complex: less cattle, higher prices. The increase in prices paid for quality herd sires is the most dramatic number. A true testament to the seedstock industry's commitment to quality and ...

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3:40

Protecting Your Land, Your Herd, and Your Neighbors

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2025/07/02

National Forage Week is recognized by the American Forage and Grassland Council each year. For ranchers across the United States, maintaining a healthy food source is critical. Livestock depend on an abundance of healthy forage for grazing and growing, and ranchers depend on healthy forage as a cost-effective way to feed and grow their herd. Additionally, when the root systems of desirable plants are strong, it promotes soil health, reduces erosion, and increases water retention – all critica...

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2:32

Comments by the Publisher 7.3.25

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2025/07/02

CALL TO ACTION…We must UNIFY! I hope you all have a great and safe Fourth of July Weekend celebrating the birth of our amazing nation. I really need all of you to do something for me that has real potential to keep this nation amazing – especially for those of us and our families in the ranching and farming industries here in the United States of America. Please take the time and look over both sides (front and back) of the insert that is in this week’s issue. I know everybody is busy, but it...

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3:42

Editor's Perspective - I Disagree, Tomi Lahren

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2025/07/02

I’m going to touch on a hot-button topic this week: illegal immigration. I was listening to a recent episode of one of my favorite conservative podcasts “Tomi Lahren is Fearless,” and for the first time in a while, I really disagreed with Tomi. In sum, she said the argument that illegal immigrants are vital in filling voids in labor-intensive jobs, like in the crop and meat processing sectors, is moot, and that they can easily be filled domestically if employers would be willing to pay U.S. w...

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1:39

Celebrating Service and Community: Veteran Farmer Award

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2025/07/01

The American Farm Bureau Federation, with support from Farm Credit, is seeking applicants for the Veteran Farmer Award of Excellence. The award recognizes U.S. military veterans or service members for excellence in farming or agriculture and positively impacting local communities. The honoree will receive a ,000 cash prize plus reimbursement in travel and other expenses incurred for him/her and one guest to attend the American Farm Bureau Convention in Anaheim, California, Jan. 9-14, 202...

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1:36

Teamsters Authorize Strike at Tyson

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2025/07/01

Teamsters Local 577 members at Tyson Foods of Amarillo, the largest beef processing plant in the United States, have voted by a 98 percent margin to authorize a strike. The Teamsters represent 3,100 workers in slaughtering and processing at the facilitywho are demanding higher wages and improved benefits. “We are bargaining with one of the most repulsively greedy and amoral corporations in the entire country. Last year, Tyson’s CEO made 525 times that of the median worker,” said Al Brito, Pre...

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3:05

It's Time to Get Involved in CattleCon 2026

Western Ag Reporter Podcast ·

2025/07/01

CattleCon 2026 is heading to the heart of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, February 3-5, and it’s time to get involved in the largest cattle industry event of the year. Applications are being accepted for the NCBA National Anthem Contest, sponsored by Norbrook®, internships and scholarships. National Anthem Contest The 13th annual NCBA National Anthem Contest, sponsored by Norbrook®, is accepting entries through Oct. 15. The contest winner will perform the “Star-Spangled Banner” at the event’s ...

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0:05

Sign On to the Common Ground Summit for Chance to Win...

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2025/06/30

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5:49

Cooking - The Sacagawea Expedition

Western Ag Reporter Podcast ·

2025/06/27

As a writer, I love to read. The problem is that I never have time to finish a book. In fact, since the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration back in 2004, I have been trying to read Undaunted Courage. My copy is dog-eared only from being drug around in my car for two decades. I spend the summer driving back and forth between Bozeman, Big Timber, and Musselshell, Montana, and I vow every summer that I am going to actually finish the book, but I never do. I use it for ballast in my suitcase...

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Agri-Kid of the Week - Walker Dockery

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2025/06/27

Walker Dockery, age three of Parkman, Wyoming, watching the branding from the hood of the pickup- wishing he was big enough to use his rope on the calves! Photo courtesy of Whitney Dockery. Article Link

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