Where did the Ft Worth placing steers come from this year?
The first 1/3 of the steers in each class to enter the ring of course. Ba-dum-ching.
But seriously, this really has nothing to do with yesterday's post. It was about seeing how quickly I could generate this map.
What cities, towns, and glorified feedlots produced the steers that branded this year? I’m glad you asked, the correct answer is actually the I-27 corridor.
Click Here for a detailed page with that information. Warning: the map takes forever and a day to load on that page.
That big blue dot is Hereford which had 10 branded steers, twice as many as the next, Lubbock. There’s actually quite a cluster of branded steers there around Lubbock when towns like Abernathy, Idalou, and Slaton are thrown in.
So yes, today’s groundbreaking informative news is that the Texas panhandle is a good place to raise haired show steers.
(47 minutes but only because it was my first try)