The Houston Livestock Show is one of the biggest and best in the country. Skip Wagner is the President and CEO. From Wikipedia: “The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™, also called RodeoHouston™, is the world’s largest livestock exhibition as well as the richest regular-season PRCA rodeo event. In 2007, attendance…
In 1966 the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) established Standards for Grades of Slaughter Cattle and Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef that created uniform categories in quality and composition for different types of beef. This allowed consumers to know what they were getting and beef producers/packers to know how…
There are many really good silversmiths these days and one of the best is Joe Spiller in Wingate, Texas. Joe’s wife is Baru. Joe operates a one-man shop and painstakingly hand-crafts each order individually. He will not sacrifice his quality workmanship and attention to detail to do rush orders and…
From Wikipedia: “Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet,…
The charreada is a type of rodeo developed in Mexico based on the working practices of charros (cowboys). There is a long historical tradition but in recent times there has been a lot of criticism of some of the events because they seem especially harmful to the livestock. The skills…
