Health
April 10, 2024
No, Texans Don’t Need to Panic About Bird Flu—Yet
The risk of the avian influenza sparking a pandemic remains low, but viruses evolve, and experts urge vigilance.
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News & Politics
March 6, 2024
After a Wildfire Killed Thousands of Cows, Texas Ranchers Quietly Count Their Losses
On the rolling hills outside Canadian, Texas, where cattle herds were decimated and fertile ranchland has been reduced to a charred wasteland, some things are too painful to discuss.
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September 5, 2023
Meet Me At The Wagon – Episode 5: The Congressional Picnic
Over the last 40 years, Perini Ranch Steakhouse has catered numerous events, but few more memorable than that of September 11th, 2001. In this special episode, Tom and Lisa Perini share their unique perspective from the historic day as they prepared to cater the Congressional Picnic at the White House.
BBQ
June 8, 2023
To Produce the Best Wagyu Possible, This Feedlot Is Downright Spa-Like
Protocol Farms near Bowie takes inspiration from Japanese methods of feeding Wagyu, which includes jazz playing through the speakers and cool pens.
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June 1, 2023
Texas Feedyard Puts Sustainability First: “We’re Always Looking to be Better”
After starting as a feedyard trainee with Cimarron Feeders in Texhoma, Oklahoma, in 1994, Gene Lowrey worked his way up to his current post as general manager of XIT Feeders, a thriving cattle operation that prioritizes sustainability.
Texas Country Reporter
May 30, 2023
Ranger Cattle’s Story Goes ‘From the Battlefield to the Cattle Field’
Josh Eilers is a former U.S. Army ranger who founded Ranger Cattle in Austin, which specializes in pasture-raised Wagyu cattle.
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May 2, 2023
Meet Me At The Wagon – Episode 1: A Sense of Place
Before Buffalo Gap was host to Perini Ranch Steakhouse, thousands of buffalo would make their way through as part of the Great Western Trail. After a long day’s ride, chuckwagons were an essential part to those driving the herds.
Politics & Policy
April 13, 2023
Texas Cattlemen Have Taken Their Beef With Cell-Cultured Meat to the Lege
Scientists have figured out how to grow meat in a lab. Cattle farmers insist it’s not the real thing.
BBQ
January 10, 2023
This Boutique Ranch Focuses on Grass-Fed Wagyu, Tasty in Burgers or as Steaks
Peeler Farms in Floresville hones its niche in the rapidly expanding Wagyu market—and doesn’t compromise service in the process.
BBQ
October 3, 2022
Wagyu Skeptics May Finally Be Convinced by This Ranch’s Beef
At some restaurants, paying more for a Wagyu steak may lead to disappointment. Not so with the products from A Bar N Ranch in North Texas.
Texas Country Reporter
September 19, 2022
Wildorado Cattle Company Is Not Your Average High School Gig
Far in the Panhandle, an upstart ag program at a small-town school has become a start-up business run by the students.
Business
May 10, 2022
The Cattle Trader’s Secret Formula
CEO Jim Schwertner credits the persistent success of Capitol Land & Livestock to a data-driven algorithm.
Texas Country Reporter
April 27, 2022
A West Texas Roundup, Without All That Hoopin’ and Hollerin’
After Becky Smith took over the B-C Ranch in Alpine, her all-women team took a different approach to wrangling cattle.
Texas Country Reporter
April 5, 2022
Forget the Trailer. Weldon Wilson Drove Cattle the Old-fashioned Way.
Across U.S. highways and country roads, Wilson was determined to move cattle in a way that honored the men that came before him.
BBQ
May 9, 2019
Old Cows Are the Newest Thing in Texas Beef
Most American steaks come from young cattle. HeartBrand, in Harwood, is trying to create a market for cuts from more mature animals.
Critters
August 24, 2018
Who’s Killing Buck Birdsong’s Cows?
Life on the ranch was hard enough already, and full of uncertainty. Then a string of dead calves turned up, and everything pointed to murder. But why? And how? A Longview mystery.
Critters
September 12, 2017
This Seventeen-Year-Old Rescued Cattle by Helicopter During Harvey
When Hurricane Harvey hit Hungerford, seventeen-year-old Logan Goudeau and her community came together to save their livestock. By helicopter.
Being Texan
July 21, 2017
Love and Loss on the Great Plains
The day the fire came to the Franklin Ranch.
Business
January 27, 2016
Legal Beef
How a Koch brother and a Texas rancher got crosswise.
Critters
April 27, 2015
A Herd of Central Texas Cows Braved Friday’s Floodwaters
In the midst of a storm that brought heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of Central Texas, a herd of cattle was swept away from their pasture.
Agriculture
October 17, 2013
Kids for Sale
For the last several centuries, Texas was cattle country. Now, with worldwide demand for goat meat growing, and drought threatening to put cattle ranchers out of business, should Texas be goat country?
January 21, 2013
Cyanide-Producing Grass Kills Cattle, Fuels GMO Debate
Did a genetically modified grass kill a herd of Texas cattle, or were they just another casualty of the ongoing drought?
January 21, 2013
Texas Business Report: Texas Ranchers Again Investing in Cattle
With demand for beef high and herd sizes still low, ranchers are looking to buy more cows.
January 21, 2013
Texas Sees Largest Drop in Cattle Numbers in State History
And it will affect the steak-loving citizens of the state, as beef prices could jump up to ten percent this year.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Turkey, TX, Gets Another Offer to Rename Itself
Washington D.C.’s Pork Barrel BBQ strikes back at PETA by asking the small Panhandle town to rename itself “Barbecue” instead of “Tofurky.”
Texas History
January 21, 2013
When the Sky Ran Dry
Bad as the current drought is, it has yet to match the most arid spell in Texas history. Nearly two dozen survivors of the fifties drought remember the time it never rained.
Being Texan
January 20, 2013
The Last Empire
The King Ranch saga: how one family conquered, tamed, loved, toiled on, and fought over a great piece of Texas.
The Culture
July 31, 2011
Cowgirl Up
The word probably makes you think of rhinestone-studded jeans, floppy-brimmed hats, and Nashville queens, but “cowgirl” ought to stand for the tough pioneer women who built ranches and went on cattle drives and the hardy rural women who are out there today doing their fair share of the work, usually invisibly,
True Crime
April 30, 2006
The Last Rustler
If he was asked what he did for a living, Roddy Dean Pippin would smile and say something about the cattle business. But he didn’t exactly buy and sell cows. He stole them. And right up until he was caught, he was as good as any such thief had ever
Politics & Policy
December 1, 2002
The Secret History
Did Richard King cheat his partner's heirs out of a chunk of the King Ranch nearly 120 years ago? He may have—and if the Texas Supreme Court permits Chapman v. King Ranch, Inc., to go to trial, the past could come back to haunt the state's most storied spread.
Business
July 31, 1998
When We Were Kings
For the first time in its history, the world-famous King Ranch is being run by someone other than a descendant of its founder. Can the mythic institution survive a changing of the guard?
Business
March 1, 1998
How the West Was Won Over
The verdict is in: Oprah loves Texas—and Texas loves Oprah. The queen of daytime talk swept into the Panhandle, turned the tide of public opinion, and had courtroom watchers asking, Where’s the beef?
Business
August 31, 1996
Nerd Herd
The drought drives cattle ranchers online.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1996
Beef Choice
PITY THE POOR COWMAN. All his life he has been told to raise bigger and better cattle. More meat on the hoof meant more dollars in his pocket—which is why Texas ranchers have turned away from smaller British breeds like Angus and Hereford in favor of heftier continental breeds like
Business
April 30, 1996
Cattle Call
The Federal Express of the cattle business.
Art
March 1, 1995
Cattle Auction, San Angelo, 1940
In no other state were the turbulent thirties documented as exhaustively as in Texas, where Farm Secirity Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee took more than five thousand pictures of Depression and pre-war life . When the agency became the Office of War Information, some of its
News & Politics
July 31, 1992
Cattle Recall
John L. Guldemann scorns claims that Longhorns damage the natural area.
Being Texan
February 1, 1986
Texas Primer: The Grand Champion Steer
Tastes in livestock are as whimsical as tastes in fashion. This year petite is in.
News & Politics
September 30, 1984
Dust to Dust
The cattle are dying, the grass is gone, the ranchers are selling their land. The center of Texas is in a drought that may be the worst in a hundred years.
Being Texan
April 30, 1984
Texas Primer: The Cattle Guard
You may have played on one when you were a kid, but it’s no fun for cows.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1983
The Cow’s in the Corn
Or, my life as a Texas gardener.
Texas History
November 1, 1978
The End of the Trail
At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.
Business
January 31, 1974
Sold American!
Selling a herd of prime cattle can be tricky business. And it takes professionals to do it right.