Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Texas twins blaze ranch, rodeo trail
Laycee and Levi Littlefield, 13-year-old twins, are living the American dream. This dream includes caring for cattle and horses in fair weather and foul weather, maintaining excellent grades in school, and training to be competitive barrel racers and team ropers. Long range goals include studying to be a veterinarian for Laycee and owning a small ranch and learning a trade, like welding, for Levi. And they both aspire to continue competing in rodeo. Their parents, Chris and Dee Ann, say Levi and Laycee are learning a lot about the value of hard work on the Henrietta, Texas, ranch.The ranch includes 120 head of Red Angus and Charolais cross cattle and seasonal stocker calves on wheat pasture, as well as cattle for roping. They also breed horses from an AQHA 7S Big Valley lineage Chris started. He also trains roping horses...more
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