Audie Browning, 7, on his horse Nanner Puddin鈥�, and Tucker Drake, 8, on his horse Heartache, work together to move cattle through the corral for loading into the livestock trailer at a ranch in eastern New Mexico on Wednesday.
Lacey Davis counts cattle after they are weighed with a livestock scale at a ranch in eastern New Mexico. Jimmie Fitzgerald, who runs De Baca Land and Cattle, says rising beef prices have helped his business get its 鈥渉ead above water.鈥�
Cattle are moved into a livestock trailer bound for Missouri. "This is the first time the cattle industry has been truly profitable since the '80s," said Bronson Corn, president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association.
Seth Bohannon rides his horse, Stanley, alongside Adam West on Kawliga as they guide cattle into a livestock trailer to be shipped to Missouri for slaughter at a ranch in eastern New Mexico.
Audie Browning, 7, on his horse Nanner Puddin鈥�, and Tucker Drake, 8, on his horse Heartache, work together to move cattle at a ranch in eastern New Mexico.
A livestock trailer pulls into the ranch with Della Fitzgerald, 6, atop her horse Biggie.
Audie Browning, 7, on his horse Nanner Puddin鈥�, helps move cattle being weighed in preparation for shipment to Missouri for slaughter.
Lloyd Haneline waits inside his livestock trailer as cattle are loaded to be shipped off to Missouri.
Cattle are weighed with a livestock scale at a ranch in eastern New Mexico.
Jimmie Fitzgerald, owner of De Baca Land and Cattle, prepares for cattle to be loaded into a livestock trailer.
