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The $27 million price tag includes 100 acres (40 hectares) of prime property along the Oklahoma River in a growing city of roughly 700,000 residents.
Lampasas County (/ l æ m ˈ p æ s ə s / lam-PASS-əs) is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 21,627. [1] Its county seat is Lampasas. [2] The county is named for the Lampasas River. Lampasas County is part of the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area.
By 1907, the Stockyards sold a million cattle per year. The stockyards was an organized place where cattle, sheep, and hogs could be bought, sold and slaughtered. Fort Worth remained an important part of the cattle industry until the 1950s. Business suffered due to livestock auctions held closer to where the livestock were originally produced. [3]
The World Livestock Auctioneer Championship is an annual competition of livestock auctioneers who practice the auction chant typical of rural areas in the United States and Canada. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association and was first held in 1963. [1] Brian Curless won the competition in 2017.
Iowa is the fifth largest cattle-producing state and had 630,000 cattle in feedlots on July 1, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA offers disaster assistance that may help ...
Kansas City Stockyards (1909) Kansas City Stockyards with the Livestock Exchange Building (1904) View of stockyards & surrounding area (1940s) The stockyards were built to provide better prices for livestock owners. [citation needed] Previously, livestock owners west of Kansas City could only sell at whatever price the railroad offered. With ...
A lightning strike killed a Colorado rancher and 34 head of cattle over the weekend, officials said Sunday. Mike Morgan, 51, was feeding his cattle from a trailer when he was struck and died on ...
Lampasas (/ l æ m ˈ p æ s ə s / lam-PASS-əs) is a city in Lampasas County, Texas, United States. Its population was 7,291 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the county seat of Lampasas County. [6] Lampasas is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metropolitan statistical area.