Strong beef demand, cheap grain and a small calf crop could carry the upswing in the cattle market well into 2001, extension market analysts say. Abilene's unemployment rate remained relatively stable in March, declining a tenth of a percentage point. The rate was 3.6 percent in March. Independent Bankshares Inc. reported a slight increase in net income and an 8-cent cash dividend for stockholders Thursday. San Angelo Extension agent Allan McGinty must get hundreds of calls each year from farmers and ranchers asking about pastureland brush control.
American workers assigned to foreign countries face unique challenges.
They have to find a way to fit into the culture of their foreign home. The National Labor Relations Board has postponed a ruling on a unionization request by meat market employees at Abilene's Wal-Mart Supercenter. There's been a lot of talk about forming an underground water district for Fisher and surrounding West Texas counties, but little done in the way of forming one. Union and Wal-Mart lawyers closed their arguments Tuesday before a National Labor Relations Board hearing officer in Abilene. It'll take a lot more than a few showers to help Texas farmers recover from the drought conditions.