Country Lifestyles
June 2017 Profile – A tribute to Bobby Seals: For the Love of Roping
By Jessica Crabtree
A lifetime passes by faster than most want to admit, especially if you live your life for few second runs. All athletes, even in rodeo, become captivated to their sport, something they desire to do over and over. Becoming the fiercest of competitors doesn’t happen over night. It comes with years of practice and experience.
Bobby Seals lived life, really enjoyed his life, on the back of a horse behind a steer. His passion, enjoyment and love language was roping. Throughout his 70 years on earth, he never missed an opportunity to expand on that love, whether through a kid needing lessons, offering help to his grandchildren or even educating men in another country.
His career in rodeo brought him countless titles, buckles, saddles, trinkets and more; however, he didn’t care about the materialistic things. He only cared to be on a good, fast horse with a rope in his hand perfecting his sports, calf roping and team roping.
Seals was raised on a farm west of Ponder, Texas, with a brother and two loving and nurturing parents. Living in rural Ponder and growing up in the ’50s, rodeo was a favorite pastime, a way of life. In the Denton Record Chronicle from August 1990, Seals was quoted as saying, “I just begged Dad to take me to the rodeo. He finally let me go. I won a pick-up. He thought I was crazy!” Seals explained how he nervously asked his father to compete in his first rodeo at the age of 20 in 1952.
Starting out around Denton County, Seals competed in various rodeo events like most, even rough stock until he found his niche. Don McLaughlin, a friend of Seals’ offered advice and helped the young cowboy refine his skill in calf roping. It soon became his event of expertise.
The ’50s and ’60s were filled with rodeo after rodeo, mile after mile for Seals as he traveled all over the states competing in calf roping and occasionally steer wrestling and team roping. Article after article reveal Seals’ fast times, which left him typically in the top three per rodeo.
To read more pick up a copy of the June 2017 NTFR issue. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
Seals roping during the fourth go-around at the 1960 NFR, then held in Dallas. (Courtesy photo)
Seals calf roping during the eighth go-around of the 1960 NFR. (Courtesy photo)
By: Martha Crump
Most cattle producers can tell you quite a lot about balancing cattle diets for energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals based on the specific needs for their herd and type of operation.
A key factor, and one that is often overlooked, is that how your animals perform is also directly affected by their water intake.
Now many of you may already be thinking “well of course water is necessary, anybody knows that!”
In many years, as September marches into October, we are beginning to experience some return of rainfall. But as many of us know, that is not always the case. Often we are still experiencing hot and dry weather, and water supplies are dwindling.
When we find ourselves experiencing those types of fall conditions, it is critical to not only understand the daily water requirements for cattle, but also the impact that the quality of water can have on herd health and development.
To read more, pick up a copy of the October edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By: Annette Bridges
A friend and I were recently talking about our husbands. She made a comment that I felt also perfectly described me and my hubby.
“He slows me and I hurry him. I’m sure that is why we do well together,” she said.
“Precisely!” I thought. Why?
Because when two different worlds collide, it can be magical.
No matter what those two different worlds are- a man and a woman with very different personalities, beliefs, or backgrounds, two partners with contrasting passions, strengths, or talents, or when a country boy marries a city girl.
To read more, pick up a copy of the October edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
Watauga, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, is known for its rich history as a railroad stop, but over the course of the last year, one teen girl has put it on the map for agriculture as well. Emma Harvey has lived in Tarrant County her entire life. Despite being highly involved in her local 4-H chapter, she still felt there was more she could do. In the spring of 2023, she stepped up to the plate to take over the title of Tarrant County Teen Miss Agriculture USA.
“It all started when I put in an application for the teen title here in Tarrant County,” explained Harvey.
The Miss Agriculture USA program is a national non-profit, age-inclusive pageant program that offers both competition and non-competition titles to women dedicated to the promotion of agriculture.
Read more in the October issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available online and in print. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive NTFR in your inbox each week.
Photo by Hannah Claxton.
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