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(Scroll down to view entire page) 300 Brangus Cows with 180 calves  at Cattleman's Brenham Livestock Auction on Monday, May 12th  Click on for details UPCOMING...Equipment Sale...Saturday, May 17th, 10 A.M. Sealy Livestock Auction  Click on for Switzer Auction Website Port City names NEW GENERAL MANAGER for its Sealy operations Click on to read about Josh Lockhart

G. D. “Scooter” Scott, III, Port City Vice President, has recently been elected First Vice President of the 130 year old Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raises Assn. 

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn. Names new ExVP.  Eldon White brings 28 years of ag-related association management experience to the job.  White was ExVP of the National Agri-Marketing Association.

Sugie Sartwelle, Port City, in her fifth year on the Cattleman’s Beef Board was re-elected to its Executive Committee and also serves as the Committee Chairperson of the Producers Education Committee.

Tom Ramey named by the Cattleman’s Beef Board to take the reins as CEO, replacing Monte Reese who served for 17 years as the CBB CEO.

The dairy industry is poised for another “dairy buyout”.  Some 45,000 cows will move to slaughter markets from the end of March to mid-June.

Dr. Ron Dehaven, USDA’s top vet and administrator of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has resigned and will become the ExVP of the American Veternary Medical Association.

Texas has petitioned USDA for Brucellosis “Free” status.  The status should be granted by year’s end with no further cases in the state.  Once status is obtained, market testing of bovines will continue for two years.

Corn planting intentions released on March 30 indicate that 90.5 million acres of corn will be planted this crop year which is some 12 million acres more than last year.  Soybeans will be down 8.4 million acres, while cotton will be down 3.1 million acres.

Supermarket chain in Japan will offer U.S. beef.  The Seiyu chain with four hundred stores offered U.S. beef at the end of the month.

Ground work has been laid for reopening trade with Russia.  The U.S. and Russia have an agreement to work out inspection issues.

Federal judge in Washington ruled that USDA lacks the authority to to prevent Creekstone Farms Premium Beef from performing BSE test on all cattle harvested.  The ruling was put on hold until June 1 to allow USDA to appeal the decision.

Animal Rights activists are celebrating a victory with Burger King’s commitment to buy eggs and pork from suppliers that do not keep their animals in cages or crates.