Country Lifestyles
July 2016 profile- Brian Doty : This Is My Country
By Jessica Crabtree
How often do you come across kids who live in town who’d rather live in the country? Who’d love to be just like the cowboys they watch on tv or be able to hunt or fish whenever they’d like. It happens quite regularly, especially with boys. Brian Doty’s life, early on, paralleled that same notion. Born and raised in the small town of Joshua, although it was small, it wasn’t the rural setting he craved. The oldest of three kids, Doty describes his family as good, wholesome and one of faith.
As a child Doty remembers spending all his time outside in the backyard. Throughout his life, Doty can pin point several people who shaped him. His uncle on his father’s side was an avid calf roper. Doty’s earliest memories incorporate roping the dummy in the back yard, going and watching two cousins rodeo and spending every free weekend he could with them. “I remember going to the Cow Bell Rodeo in Mansfield. It’s the rodeo that everyone from the Metroplex attended. I would go and watch, as a child, cousins rope and as a teenager I would go and watch the bull riders,” Doty said. “For me it was just neat. I loved the people, the lifestyle and for a kid who didn’t have the opportunity to ride, all of it was at Cow Bell,” Doty explained. That propelled him to ride his first bull and begin competing.
At the age of 17 Doty began riding bulls. He admitted first he spent his time behind the chutes watching and listening, observing others. However, riding bulls one year soon turned to calf roping when he received his first horse for graduation. To read more pick up a copy of the July 2016 issue.
This Is Country premiering this fall. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Doty as a child on the right with brother, Brad. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Cord McCoy and Doty filming a segment for This Is Country. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Doty in the arena with son, Hunter and daughter, Presley. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Doty’s cameraman Landon and Doty filming a Western Wishes segment for This Is Country with a wish kid at the CBR bull riding. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Doty beside Texas Country artist, Elana Kay filming a music segment for This Is Country. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Doty modeling for RANK Clothing. (Courtesy of Brian Doty)
Tune in to,”On Air with Brian Doty” by checking for a station near you on his website www.braindoty.com
By Martha Crump
That old adage, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.,” may have some basis in truth when applied to minor situations. However, when what you don’t know is presented in the form of a “Trojan Horse” and is what amounts to an incredible attempt to fleece American property rights, it becomes a different story altogether.
To put this unbelievable tale together, we need to step back to Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order which pledged commitment to help restore balance on public lands and waters, to create jobs, and to provide a path to align the management of America’s public lands and waters with our nation’s climate, conservation, and clean energy goals.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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