It's that time of year where the cattle are getting old enough contractors will be catching hell over their quality and of course, some will be buying new herds. In other words the complaints on cattle are rising. Same cycle this time every year, so we really appreciate you guys that recognize it coming, decide to stay at home or just go ahead and rope (without the gripes). A lot more requests for reruns, and with that a lot more silly rerun requests, again thanks to those of you that have retained your integrity. Overall roping satisfaction has still been above average.
August -Williams, AZ - Fuller Productions
Rained out no plan for make up.
August - Guthrie, OK - Mackey Tully
Good turn out, just so hot the air conditioners were plenty droopy by mid afternoon. Took quite a few more complaints on this one than is normal for Mackey. Most of the complaints were cattle related, ropers reporting cattle were average to below.
August - Kamuela, HI - Schutte
Roping was cancelled
August - Albuquerque, NM - Shelley Productions
Biggest turnout yet in Albuquerque. Ropings were extremely soft. Keith Wilkerson and crew attacked the sorting on the Mathews cattle. Kind of two herds mixed there, half were above average other half below, overall impression was average. Took quite a few complaints on one flagger here.
August - Longmont, CO - Nelson
Good production - poor turn out. There was some question that we scheduled this too close to Cheyenne. Guess they were right.
August - Athens, TX - Phillip Teague
Really good roping considering that this occurred one week after Waco. A lot of new members, suprisingly still many Texans just hearing about us.
Gonzales, LA - Natie Johnson
Word was good, turn out was light. This was the fourth of four new ropings in Lousiana, each of the ropings were light, but we are getting the word out one group at a time. Louisiana is "all in" on the big payouts, everything should double there next year.
