Lee Pitts

I'm a shop rat. Always have been. If I wasn't working on my cattle or other FFA projects I was more than likely to...

These electronic auctions that are flooding the Internet are missing a very integral part: An auctioneer, often referred to as a Colonel. (Why auctioneers...

Thanks to EPD's we've really improved the quality of beef we're producing. We've come a long way from the days when a rancher would...

People have been going on diets long before Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers or Oprah Winfrey. The first diet was probably William the Conquerer's all-alcohol...

There's lots of talk about how the beef industry needs more small processing plants to combat the power of the Big Four beef packers....

I must admit, I'm not a big cat lover although I begrudgingly admit that cats have a few advantages over dogs. They clean up...

I had many lasting impressions of our year in Australia but the fellow on the phone wasn't one of them. Some people have a hard...

Have you ever wondered why there are so many white pickup trucks on the road today? For awhile I thought it might be illegal to...

I know many cattlemen will think less of me but I confess, I used to raise sheep, Oh sure, I raised cattle too but...

I was reading a "Legends and Lies" book about the old West and it stated that the toughest town west of Chicago was Palisades,...