I talked about some of the local influences last week. This week I am going to talk about a person that has had much more influence on a national and world scale with horsemanship.
~ Curt Pate
The subject this week is stockmen of the past. This picture is of me demonstrating how to rope and lay a calf down calmly and safely. The way the calf is calmly laying there, the other calf and my horse are pretty interested in what I am doing, and at least from this picture it looks as if you can rope and lay a calf down with out much stress, even though some say it isn’t possible. All of the stockmen of my past, good and bad, have influenced and inspired me, and this week I pay tribute to all good stockmen.
~ Curt Pate
This is the place I grew up on. It is presently a golf course and a housing development. You can see the property to the left is still producing agricultural products. The property on the right is dry land grain but has never produced much. It looks like the golf course and housing development would have been better placed across the road. This week I will use this place as an example of “sustainable” agriculture.
~ Curt Pate