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Normally at this time of year we'd be selling our Vintage 2007 females (our bulls go in October and February), but we canceled a few weeks ago due to drought conditions. I know, I know--if you were reading along last month, you're aware of how I gushed about the wildflowers and declared this a spring of so much promise. Well, then came a late freeze and no follow-up rain. That's Texas weather for you.
Canceling is no fun, but the good news is that, in the grand scheme of things, this won't be too big a hit for the ranch. That's because, unlike our bulls, the cows can stay in the herd; we'll just have more production units than we'd planned. Don't get me wrong. We're still encouraging anyone to come and buy private treaty. But we called the auctioneer, told our vet not to come, sent out some seven hundred "canceled sale" postcards to the folks on our mailing list, and pulled our ads from the cattle magazines....
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