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Sad day.

Lubbock Feeders, a 50,000-head capacity Texas feedyard that helped define cattle feeding on the South Plains, has announced it will shut down once current inventories are finished.

Established in 1955, the yard fed more than 5 million head of cattle over its lifetime and became both an economic engine and cultural landmark for the region. Locals often joked that when you could smell the yard on a warm West Texas day, it “smelled like money.”

The decision follows sustained economic pressure on the Southern Plains feeding sector, most notably the U.S. Department of Agriculture's November 2024 closure of the U.S.-Mexico border to live cattle imports due to concerns over the New World screwworm. While no positive cases have been detected in the United States, the northward movement of the parasite through Mexico prompted federal officials to halt imports. Brief reopenings occurred in early 2025, but the border has remained closed since May 2025.

Read more here: https://www.agdaily.com/livestock/new-world-screwworm-border-shutdown-tied-to-lubbock-feeders-closure/

Resources!

The Owl's Nest

Good “how to.”

How to write an abstract

This is what we did in the late 1980s to promote the CSI Ag Department. We purchased and old sheepcamp wagon and as a department we restored it. Funds for promotion were tight and difficult to get.

The goal of disinformation.

The goal of disinformation isn’t necessarily to convince you that something is (or isn’t) true, but to confuse and overwhelm you until you doubt the very concept of truth itself.

Quote: Garry Kasparov

A real milestone!

Funny.

'Sympathy cards for scientists' ...

Good guidelines.

Useful guidelines to make a research poster

Posters are widely used in the academic community, and most conferences include poster presentations in their program. Research posters summarize information or research concisely and attractively to help publicize it and generate discussion.

Credit: drasmajabeen1

New way to build.

FITTING INTO THE COMMUNITY: Snap Tight Products reinvent building design and construction POCATELLO — Cumbersome and costly construction expenditures may become a thing of the past with the advent of a new design concept offered by Pocatello’s SnapTight Products LLC.