February 2020 Angela & Albert Myres “We’re just the typical American family,” insists Angela Myres of A & A Land and Cattle Company of Raywood, Texas. Angela and her husband, Albert, purchased the land for their Liberty county ranch in 1993 as a young married couple, even prior to owning their first home. The foresight…

January 2020 Jimmy Holub Texas Beef Team member, Whitney Dutton, wrote the following email to pay tribute to her grandfather, Jimmy Holub. Please read on to learn about this dedicated rancher and retired dairy farmer from Moulton, TX. “Good afternoon! I wanted to reach out because my grandpa (the most amazing man and cowboy I…

Nov/Dec 2019 Nate Wolf Nate Wolf was smitten by ranch life early on, as a youngster growing up on the Illinois acreage of his father, a first-generation rancher. Today he runs his own cow/calf and stocker operation in Canyon, a town of about 13,000 in the Texas Panhandle. He’s also a long-time advocate and educator…

October 2019 Jake and Caitlin Richards Jake and Caitlin Richard are from Stamford, a small agricultural community in north-central Texas, about 40 miles up the road from Abilene. Here, the couple are raising an adorable young son, named Graham, all while tending to about 7,000 acres that includes a cow-calf operation with about 110 cows…

September 2019 Austin Brown III If I was writing “The Great Texas Novel” and needed a modern cowboy hero, I don’t think I could conjure up any better main character than the real-life Austin Brown III. Part hard-working steward of the land, part chivalrous gentleman, part savvy businessman and staunch advocate for the beef community,…