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By Phillip Kitts
Closing out a rodeo season can be nearly as traumatic as the ups and downs of running the rodeo road for months on end.
Everyone who follows the sport of rodeo hears all the year-end talk about who made their way to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, who fell short, and who will have their eyes set on the yellow bucking chutes for the next year. The fact is just like all sports, the focus is probably just where it needs to be with the athletes that become the faces of the sport.
However, let’s take a moment and discuss the inner workings of a long list of just as important people who may not compete in a traditional sense but compete just the same all year long. It is probably not common knowledge that outside of the two-legged athletes, many other athletes and individuals fight their way to the yellow chutes of Las Vegas, starting with the animal athletes. For 12 months, hundreds of animal athletes travel up and down the same roads as the cowboys and for eight seconds at a time they do the one thing they were bred to do. They buck, run, and perform to the best of their ability.
To read more, pick up a copy of the January issue of NTFR Magazine. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
By Krista Lucas Wynn
Each year, when the professional rodeo season wraps on Sept. 30, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association announce the Nutrena Horse of the Year, presented by the American Quarter Horse Association, in each event. This is a prestigious award, voted on by the members of the associations. To be named Horse of the Year by fellow competitors is a high honor only a few achieve.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Heather Welper
Husband and wife duo, Heather and Calvin Welper, are the Co-Owners and Operators or Two C Livestock, located in Valley View, Texas.
The pair’s operation has a show cattle focus where they raise and sell purebred heifers of all breeds and club calf Hereford steers.
When it comes to show cattle, the Welpers know a thing or two including how to prepare for the cold winter months and the Texas major show season run.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Tony Dean
Snow on the Mountain is an annual forb that is part of our landscape almost every year.
It is adapted to most of Texas and grows north to Montana and Minnesota and south to Mexico.
Although is seems to be most adapted to clay soils, this plant can be found on a wide variety of soil and moisture conditions.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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