Category: Latest Issue
Gypsy Wagon: June July 2025
By Betty Jo Gigot Publisher If we were a daily newspaper, we wouldn’t be able to report all the news of the day these days.
Cowboy, Tip Your Hat
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor Mounting my iron steed for another road trip to the Gulf Coast, my radio evidenced that the Doohickeys’ All Hat,
Food for Thought
By Betty Jo Gigot Publisher A recent trip to my former home, Garden City, Kan., after two years, was a total surprise. The town is
Economic Considerations for Extended Days on Feed Adding Days on Feed Past Industry Average Comes With Economic Risk
By Burt Rutherford Contributing Editor It’s a decision as old as cattle feeding itself – “If I hold ‘em, will the market get better?” Even
The Dollars and Sense in Silage Bagging
Improved feed management involves much more than how to store it. Expanding your thinking can save tens of thousands of dollars annually while enhancing nutrition
Borders
By Chris McClure Borders They say good fences make good neighbors And I suppose the saying is true. They’re good for keeping the unwanted out
Only the Words Are Different Cattle Producers Are Pretty Much the Same Everywhere
By Burt Rutherford Contributing Editor “It’s the same. We just use different words.” Of the many things Mia Doering saw and learned during her time
TSCRA CONVENTION Members Take on New World Screwworms, Toast Special Rangers
By Larry Stalcup Contributing Editor Due to the continued northward spread of New World screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, U.S. Ag Sec. Brooke Rollins announced May
Smoke Inhalation Mitigation Strategies
By Patti Wilson Contributing Editor Fires have been top-of-mind this year; many of us have already lived through devastating blazes of our own or
Seeking Intelligent Life
By Chris McClure Contributing Editor “The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.” – Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace. “Intelligence is the ability