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When a City Girl Goes Country
By Annette Bridges
I hope it doesn’t take you 40 years to become comfortable with your life.
It was the summer of 1980 when I was first introduced to the strange new world of cattle ranching. If you’ve been reading my columns then you know how foreign my new home felt to this city girl once upon a time. I felt uncomfortable, inadequate and unprepared. I was too shy and intimidated to admit my feelings to my husband or his parents who were my next-door neighbors on the cattle ranch we shared.
So what did this young city girl do? She stayed in her house and tried to do her best at making her new residence feel like home. She learned to cook for her sweet country boy who loved to eat.
She was ready to help anytime she was asked. But she was terrified to offer her help because of her uncertainties about her abilities to do the job anyone expected of her. To be very honest with y’all, I would say she quickly desired motherhood so she had someone to spend her lonely days with indoors. She believed she could be a good mamma and longed to feel proficient at something!
To read more, pick up a copy of the January issue of NTFR Magazine. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
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AQHA Horse of the Year
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.
Farm & Ranch
Managing Show Cattle Through The Winter
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.
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Grazing North Texas- Snow On The Mountain
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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