after a very dry March with little or no rain & snow on the Plains and very little of the white stuff falling over the Rockies. So far this season just over half of normal snowfall measured in the High Country.
Here in Nashville,TN covering the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Convention along with the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.
Looking forward to coming your way on your favorite Radio Station in 2012 and beyond, and out and about at a meeting or convention in your area.
as we’re starting to get that golden glow from the trees turning colors.
Harvest of many crops continues in full swing. Yields have been good overall, thanks to irrigation here in the West.
Choping corn, threashing beans, digging potatoes, putting up hay, picking peaches to name a few of the crops being harvested.
Flying our Mooney 252 over some of our broadcast coverage areawith irrigated circles of green alfafa & the contrasting gold fields of stubble and standing grain, in Colorado to Idaho.
Prices running $20 to 30 cwt. above a year ago at the Sales we have attended at Ogallala, Western Video Market and the Superior Livestock Video sales.
We get “out and about” for first hand coverage.
Till next time, “all the best”.
This is an excellent time for folks to get together and check up the on the news around the area and see the youngsters show and sell their animals. I stopped by the Weld County fair on my way to Cheyenne for Frontier Days. Plan to cover additional county fairs as well as the Wyoming and Colorado State Fairs.
The winter wheat harvest here on the Central High Plains turned out better than many had expected, nevertheless we were down about a third with yields averaging in the 40s North of I70 up into Nebraska and Southeast Wyoming.
In Florida for the National Beef Cattlemen’s Association and the Cattlemen Beef Board Summer Conference in Kissimmee. I took away the plans and hopes to cooperate and coordinate more closely. Yes,there was sweetness and light.
We’re off to Yuma, for the Colorado IRF show, and then to Sheridan for the Superior Livestock Video auction.
In Cheyenne, last week for the Western Video Livestock Auction with cattle and calves selling $20 to $30 a cwt. above last year. Yes, the market is HIGHER, HIGHER.
Till next time, all the best.