Despite many transitions in hogs and industry
“There’ve been lots of changes in hogs in my lifetime, but the hogs we’re producing now are the best I’ve ever seen.” Since he started showing home-raised pigs when he was eight years old, Mike Bond is speaking from firsthand experience as he’s seen and produced lots of pigs. Today, with his wife, Debra, and […]
Twelve-Year-Old Cowboy brings home big checks roping steers
He’s not even a teenager, yet, but this cowboy’s one of the best paid around. Certainly, calculated on an hourly basis, Camden Hoelting’s wages come right up there with the highest paid of any profession. The 12-year-old returned to his Olpe ranch home Sunday night $5,765 richer than when he left Saturday morning.
There’s really nothing to gripe about
“Quit complaining. It doesn’t do any good.” Others have insisted that to us recently, and we frequently must remind our self of the same. We truly have nothing whatsoever to gripe about, but we do. It’s a habit, a rut, we seem to get into, and that’s the only excuse there is, even though that’s […]
Rabbits offer family-oriented project, business, hopping sport and supper, too
“Here comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail.” That ole familiar Easter time tune came to life during the recent Youth Rabbit Show at Cico Park in Manhattan. And, the sport of rabbit hopping is rapidly increasing in popularity throughout the country, according to Lil Peck, who attracted considerable attention with a demonstration of […]
First Flint Hills leasing report in four years reveals all-time high pasture rent rates
Flint Hills pasture lease rates are higher than they have ever been. Well, certainly the highest on record, according to the Bluestem Pasture Release – 2013, issued May, 7, 2013, by Kanas Agricultural Statistics at the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Dale Rodman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said funding has not been available […]
Missouri high school math teacher is cowboy producing area bull riding events
“Cowboys have to have success to feel confidence. Success breeds confidence.” “That’s true of anything and especially in rodeos and bull riding, but it’s also most essential to build the younger generation of cowboys.” It’s those philosophies coupled with an inbred, lifelong cowboy adrenalin that keeps Charlie McDonald at a near dead run pace week […]
Wholesome family entertainment objective of C. R. McKellips Rodeo Company
“Rodeo is all about entertainment and good bucking stock.” “We are privileged to offer both at our rodeos,” emphasized Chuck McKellips of C. R. McKellips Rodeo Company at Raymore, Missouri. In a return engagement, McKellips, his wife, Regan, and their largely family-operated; certainly family-oriented entertainment rodeo operations are contracting and producing the 43rd Annual Santa Fe […]
Entertainment at its best promised for live bull riding series this summer
“The most dangerous sport participated in by man is coming to Junction City.” “Everybody around here loves cowboys and the cowboy way of life, and nothing gets peoples’ adrenalin flowing more than cowboys riding big, mean, colorful, rank bucking bulls,” declared Carl Corey at Corey’s Country Corral in Junction City.
Cowgirl Drill Team expresses appreciation for freedom and those who protect it
“Thank you for preserving our precious freedom.” A deep appreciation for those who protect their freedom and the red, white and blue representing that God given right, coupled with a “dear love” for horses, are the heartfelt reasons for a new cowgirls’ patriotic drill team.
Some help better than none
“Watch the hole.” “Which one?” is the bewildering question in our mind, but at least we know better than to ask. Anyway, it’s already too late, the cow “went in the hole,” and the wrong one, “again.”