Frankie Robinson works quickly to adhere back tags to each animal headed to the sale ring.


while one of the deCordovas hops on the running board to take a close look at the load. “We’re a livestock market, that is traditional with a


touch of innovation,” Russ deCordova says. “We receive cattle any day of the week, but basically most cattle are brought in Thursday afternoon, Friday and then Satur- day morning and we sell cattle on Saturday at noon.” DeCordova purchased the Buffalo Livestock Mar-


keting, LLC, in 2006 and he has seen fi rst-hand how drought has affected ranchers in East Texas. The fi rst couple of years he and his family owned


the sale barn, “we ran from 69,000 to 72,000 head through the barn. Then, it crept up to 80,000 and


We try to treat people the way we like to be treated.


Family and friends help keep Buffalo Livestock Marketing, LLC, running. Seated from left are Debbie Read and Stephanie Reed. Standing are Emily deCordova and Jennifer deCordova.


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85,000. Of course the drought year (2011), we had more than 90,000 head sell,” he says, and the num- ber of cattle sold in 2012 dropped about 30 percent to 62,000. DeCordova says 2012 was the lowest year they’ve ever had. Fortunately, numbers are coming back up. “Last


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