Holy Cow! Pig Raised By 15-Year-Old Sells For World Record $505,000

Kate Meadows. (1/3)

A 15-year-old Texas boy sold his champion pig for a record $505,000 at the Houston Livestock Show and gets to keep about 10%. Wyoming FFA's Stacy Broda says although the money is always fun, raising livestock is more about teaching responsibility.

It’s an everyman story: How a 15-year-old boy from Oglesby, Texas, sold off his 8-month-old pig, Eddie to area businesses at the 2026 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo last weekend.

At least that’s how Chyla Mabry, mother of the 15-year-old, Landry, sees it.

On March 20, Landry Mabry’s Grand Champion Junior Market Barrow pig sold for $505,000 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, beating last year’s record of $501,000. His was the top pig of 2,200 pigs in the show.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the largest livestock show in the world.This year’s junior auction sales brought in a staggering $35,217,099 — money that largely goes toward agricultural education and scholarships. Major livestock shows and auctions are seeing a consistent trend of record-breaking sales prices,with elite champion animals like Eddie selling for massive sums.

Mabry himself will keep less than 10% of his winnings. The rest will go toward funding FFA and 4-H scholarships for youth agriculture education and support the continued work of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

“I will apply for a scholarship in the future,”Mabry said.

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More Than The Money

Stacy Broda is the state FFA advisor for Wyoming. She told Cowboy State Daily that, while no one in Wyoming is selling livestock for that kind of money, Wyoming’s FFA and 4H members do well at the state’s county fairs and the National Western Stock Show in Denver.

“Most of our county fair sales are bringing (4H and FFA) members more than market price,” Broda said.

But raising and showing livestock is about far more than money, she said. While there is a financial aspect to learn, understanding what goes into purchasing an animal, buying feed and calculating travel expenses — raising and showing livestock is also about teaching youth long-term life skills.

“For most of our students, (raising livestock) is considered their summer job,” Broda said. “(They learn) to take care of their animals and work with animals on daily basis. It’s a commitment. It teaches them responsibility.”

Mabry spoke to that commitment.

“It’s (work) every single day,” he said. “You can’t skip feedings.”

With the responsibility comes a practice of selflessness. Broda said the youth who raise the animals quickly learn that the animals often need to be fed before they themselves can eat.

“We’re raising animals, but we’re also raising kids to be contributing members of communities in Wyoming,” she said.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/03/26/pig-raised-by-15-year-old-sells-for-record-breaking-505-000/

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Early Start

Mabry has been raising and showing pigs since he was young — “probably (age) 5,” he said.

His dad raised show pigs during his childhood.

“One day he just asked me, ‘Do you want to start showing pigs?’” Mabry said. “I said, sure, I would try it.”

So began his journey of learning how care for pigs and show them.

“It definitely is not one person,” Mabry said. “It takes a family to do it.”

Having people to turn to for second opinions, such as how much feed to give the animal, was one key to his success, he added.

Showman’s Secrets

Mabry said his family’s motto for raising and showing livestock is, “Control what you can control.”

He has learned how to make his pigs catch show judges’ attentionparticularly with their skin and hair.

The Mabrys purchased what would become the record-setting pig from a show pig operation in Seminole, Texas. The pig was about 8 weeks old.Mabry named the pig Eddie, because “he reminded us of Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” Mabry said.

As he was raising Eddie,Mabry brushed the pig every day with a hard brush to remove dead skin. Then, he moisturized the skin with what he called “sheen.”

“It’s almost like putting lotion on your skin,” he said.

He washed Eddie about three times a weekwith a hose, using regular soap, shampoo and conditioner.

The cleaning ritual helpsmake his pig look healthy, he said.

“Presentation is a big part of (showing),” he said, and a healthy pig “catches the judge’s eye.”

The Win

Mabry described his big win like being at the top of a rollercoaster.

“Time stops,” he said. “Everything’s just silent. Everything’s out of body. It’s a really weird feeling.”

He continued: “It’s a rush of adrenaline.And then all of a sudden, it’s over. It’s a sense of relief, almost.”

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Feeding The World

For Mabry and his family, agriculture is life.

“I really couldn’t imagine life without it,” he said. “It would be weird.”

His mom agreed.

“He lives and breathes it,”she said.

Mabry’s father served as an FFA state officer for Texas, and Mabry has grown up around show pigs and cattle.

“Our main job is to feed the world,”he said. “That’s really cool to me. We are providing for our community in that way.”

That’s another benefit to involving youth in agriculture programs early, Broda said:Kids understand that, when they are selling market animals, they are contributing to the overall food supply.

“There’s a big responsibility with that,” Broda said. “I feel that the kids in our program understand the importance of feeding our communities and contributing to (the food supply)in a safe and healthy manner.”

Eddie will be harvested and his meat will fulfill what Mabry has taken on as his mission: “Our job is to feed the world.”

“Going into it, we know that’s the end,”the 15-year-old said. ==“We try to make the most of it with each and every pig.”•=

Mom Chyla, who is also her son’s high school ag teacher, said she never dreamed Landry would win Grand Champion at Houston.

“There are 2,200 kids who came (to Houston) with the hope that they would win,” she said. “(Winning) feels unattainable because it’s so hard.But anyone with willingness to ask questions and do what those mentors tell you (has a chance).

“We’re just a normal family with ag teachers and feed salesmen,” she said. “This year the everyman got to win Houston. We’re a normal family who works really hard.”

Kate Meadows can be reached atkate@cowboystatedaily.com.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/03/26/pig-raised-by-15-year-old-sells-for-record-breaking-505-000/

U.S. Central Command

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For decades, Iranian naval vessels have threatened and harassed global shipping in regional waters, but those days are over.

9:38 AM · Mar 28, 2026

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https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2037887086955553161?s=20

Drone Warfare Has Come to the United States

March 23, 2026 Glen VanHerck, and Ramon Marks

An apparent drone swarm near a US Air Force base unveiled numerous vulnerabilities in homeland air defense.. (1/2)

Amid the raging conflict in the Middle East, the astonishing events at Barksdale Air Force Base earlier this monthhave attracted only limited media attention.

It is reported that swarms of unidentified drones repeatedly loitered over Barksdale between March 9 and 15, drawing no publicly known effective response from the military or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Barksdale is theheadquarters of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, which isresponsible for the nation’s nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bomber forces, including B2, B1, and B52 aircraft.

The base is home to the 2nd Bomb Wing B52s and is the central hub of communications and logistical supportfor coordinating and directing those forces.

The fact that potentially threatening drones were able to operate over such a critical complex with apparent impunity over several days, after a similar event,spanning 17 days, occurredmore than two years ago at Langley AFB, is astonishing. Reports indicate that Barksdalepersonnel were repeatedly ordered to take cover as drones roamedover buildings and aircraft.

That there was no reported effective response to that incursion comes as no surprise to those who have been calling for an overhaul of how the US homeland is protected. The truth is that homeland defense today remains largely centered on deterring nuclear threats, such as ballistic missiles and bombers, flying over northern polar regions, launching ordinance into North America.

Decades ago, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM) were organized primarily to deter a strategic attack utilizing weapons of mass destruction. Protected by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the homeland was widely regarded as invulnerable to non-strategic threats.

Beginning first with 9/11, and now with theadvent of unmanned aerial systems (UAS)—including military-style drones, and such long-range precision weapons as cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles launched from space, air, land, sea, and subsea—that comfortable “safe haven” assumption no longer holds.

What happened at Barksdale is not an anomaly but a forerunner of a new era in warfare. Defense of the homeland has become, and will continue to be, a far more complex challenge.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/drone-warfare-has-come-to-the-united-states

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At Barksdale, as at Langley AFB, the government apparently lacked effective technology to identify and counter the drones. Even if counter-UAS capabilities (C-UAS) were available, a decision to use them was likely complicated by concern over potential collateral injury to military personnel and civilians, and property damage. Some reports indicate that Barksdale attempted to employ C-UAS jamming, but without success.

The inability to jam could indicate that Barksdale was facing a threat with autonomous or effective anti-jamming capabilities. If accurate, this would suggest that a sophisticated foreign actor was behind the incursion rather than a drone hobbyist.

Further complicating the picture is that Washington has not clarified responsibility and authority over UAS policy on dealing with and countering drones.For a national-level response to a strategic attack, NORAD and NORTHCOM have elaborate, well-known, detailed decision-making protocols for the National Command Authority.

The decision-making chain is clearly established, reaching all the way to the president. It is designed to operate within minutes.The decision-making process today for responding to a UAS threat or another kind of conventional attack is murkier and nowhere near as settled, often involving several cabinet departments. The military is not even necessarily responsible for taking the lead.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/drone-warfare-has-come-to-the-united-states

Drone Warfare Has Come to the United States

March 23, 2026

By: Glen VanHerck, and Ramon Marks. (Reposting clean copy)

An apparent drone swarm near a US Air Force base unveiled numerous vulnerabilities in homeland air defense.. (1/2)

Amid the raging conflict in the Middle East, the astonishing events at Barksdale Air Force Base earlier this monthhave attracted only limited media attention.

It is reported that swarms of unidentified drones repeatedly loitered over Barksdale between March 9 and 15, drawing no publicly known effective response from the military or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Barksdale is the headquarters of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, which is responsible for the nation’s nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bomber forces, including B2, B1, and B52 aircraft.

The base is home to the 2nd Bomb Wing B52s and is the central hub of communications and logistical support for coordinating and directing those forces.

The fact that potentially threatening drones were able to operate over such a critical complex with apparent impunity over several days, after a similar event, spanning 17 days, occurred more than two years ago at Langley AFB, is astonishing. Reports indicate that Barksdale personnel were repeatedly ordered to take cover as drones roamed over buildings and aircraft.

That therewas no reported effective responseto that incursion comes as no surprise to those who have been calling for an overhaul of how the US homeland is protected. The truth is that homeland defense today remains largely centered on deterring nuclear threats, such as ballistic missiles and bombers, flying over northern polar regions, launching ordinance into North America.

Decades ago, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM) were organized primarily to deter a strategic attack utilizing weapons of mass destruction. Protected by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the homeland was widely regarded as invulnerable to non-strategic threats.

Beginning first with 9/11, and now with the advent of unmanned aerial systems (UAS)—including military-style drones, and such long-range precision weapons as cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles launched from space, air, land, sea, and subsea—that comfortable “safe haven” assumption no longer holds.

What happened at Barksdale isnot an anomalybut a forerunner of a new era in warfare. Defense of the homeland has become, and will continue to be,a far more complex challenge.

At Barksdale, as at Langley AFB, the government apparently lacked effective technology to identify and counter the drones. Even if counter-UAS capabilities (C-UAS) were available, a decision to use them was likely complicated by concern over potential collateral injury to military personnel and civilians, and property damage. Some reports indicate that Barksdale attempted to employ C-UAS jamming, but without success.

The inability to jam could indicate that Barksdale was facing a threat with autonomous or effective anti-jamming capabilities. If accurate, this would suggest that a sophisticated foreign actor was behind the incursion rather than a drone hobbyist.

Further complicating the picture is that Washington has not clarified responsibility and authority over UAS policy on dealing with and countering drones. For a national-level response to a strategic attack, NORAD and NORTHCOM have elaborate, well-known, detailed decision-making protocols for the National Command Authority.

The decision-making chain is clearly established, reaching all the way to the president. It is designed to operate within minutes. The decision-making process today for responding to a UAS threat or another kind of conventional attackis murkier and nowhere near as settled, often involving several cabinet departments. The military is not even necessarily responsible for taking the lead.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/drone-warfare-has-come-to-the-united-states

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

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Today, for the first time in close to a 1/4 century, 5 members of Congress (bipartisan) met with 5 members of the Russian Duma to discuss peace and bilateral relations. As representatives of the world’s two greatest nuclear super powers, we owe our citizens open dialogue, ideas, and open lines of communication. We will continue to foster this dialogue and push for peace in support of this admins push for peace, as well as economic opportunity. 🕊️==

2:11 PM · Mar 26, 2026

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https://x.com/RepLuna/status/2037230857556287594?s=20

Real America's Voice (RAV)

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“WE SAVED THE MIDDLE EAST”

"And I think I really believe we saved the Middle East. We saved not just Israel, we saved the Middle East. And it was proven by all those rockets that fired down upon you. Saudi Arabia got hit a lot. You all got hit, and nobody expected any missiles to be wasted…As President of the United States, I would never allow the world's number one state sponsor of terror to obtain a nuclear weapon. I said that for a long time.”

@POTUS

https://x.com/RealAmVoice/status/2037649389968404818?s=20

DHS stopgap set for quick House action after Rules Committee vote

(Freaking useless traitors)

Republicans opted for a fast-track “deem and pass” provision.

Katherine Tully-McManus

KATHERINE TULLY-MCMANUS

03/27/2026, 6:15PM ET

The House Rules Committee advanced a measure Friday evening that would fund the entirety of the Homeland Security Department through May 22 — without setting up debate or a separate vote on the funding bill itself.

The panel, after a raucous meeting that devolved into shouting at multiple points, voted 8-4 on party lines to advance the measure to the floor.

The rule includes a “deem and pass” provision, a tactic that allows legislation to be passed by the House automatically once the rule itself is adopted. While there will be one hour of floor debate and a vote on the rule, there will not be a standalone House vote on the DHS spending bill.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) described himself as needing “a neck brace” from the whiplash of hearing Republicans argue for hours that the Senate’s early-morning voice vote on a different DHS funding measure was “shameful” for lack of transparency and accountability.

House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) accused the Senate of moving their bill “in the middle of the night, with the smell of jet fumes in the air,” lamenting that the House was left “to take it or leave it.”

House leaders,McGovern suggested, have chosen a similar path by fast-tracking the eight-week DHS stopgap.

“You’re in charge,” he told Rules Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). “You can do whatever the hell you want to

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/27/congress/dhs-stopgap-rules-committee-00849287

TSA workers will start getting paychecks again

The Trump administration said Friday that workers will start getting paid as early as Monday, even as the DHS shutdown drags on.

ORIANA PAWLYK03/27/2026, 3:39PM ET

The Trump administration said Friday that Transportation Security Administration screeners who have been working without pay should start receiving paychecks again as soon as Monday.

The agents who screen baggage and provide security at airports had been missing paychecks ever since a partial government shutdown began Feb. 14. Congress has thus far failed to come to an agreement on a funding deal.

“Today, at the direction of President Trump and the Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin,TSA has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce,” a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.“TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30.“

DHS continued to blame Democrats for the ongoing turmoil, saying workers are experiencing “financial catastrophes” as lawmakers remain at an impasse. House Republican leaders on Friday rejected the Senate-passed DHS funding bill,which omits funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Border Patrol and some other parts of Customs and Border Protection.

Trump on Thursday called the ordeal an emergency, saying he had directed Mullin to immediately fund the workers.

TSA lines across airports showed no signs of reprieve Friday.Passengers continue to suffer through hourslong delays at airports as the spring break travel season is in full swing.

The callout rate for TSA workers at some airports has ballooned to nearly 50 percent.Roughly 500 security screeners have quit since the start of the shutdown, according to TSA.

(This is so hideously evil they should lose every election for all time.)

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/27/congress/tsa-workers-will-start-getting-paychecks-again-00848891

Why Boys Need To Overcome Suffering to Become Real Men with Real Confidence, with Jesse Kelly

Jesse is great in this, sorry it’s with Megan Kelly. But Jesse is always truthfully funny!

13:00

https://youtu.be/irgMU_8WFzI

New Reporting on JD Vance vs. Netanyahu Over Failed Predictions While Israel CENSORS American Press

(Bibi being asked a question by a well known U.S. press member, and the Bibi/Israel turned off the sound off his question he asked on Tv.)

Megyn Kelly begins the show by reacting to new reporting on tensions between VP JD Vance and Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's failed predictions about the Iran war, Israel censoring American media, and more.

(Vance is pissed at Bibi for promising and lying this war would be easy to Trump)

Good for Vance we’ve all been saying this, Trump doesn’t need the Israel pressure and propaganda.

9:50.

https://youtu.be/hRKkW2ZzeEk

Failure CNN is Experimenting With New Bizarre Method to Reverse Ratings Disaster, with Jesse Kelly

Ok this is funny CNN numbers in the toilet and they are trying to get better by making the news people look better,How in the hell is going to work? Why don’t the do honest news?They key demo there is only a 100,000 watching. The most they get is 400,000 viewers, but you’d never know because it’s on fake TV.

10:59

(MAGA should have an event like J6 in front of their headquarters in Atlanta. That would be fun. Peacefully and Patriotically of course. Except Kemp has made downtown ATL 10x more dangerous than 6 years ago.)

https://youtu.be/EB2F-aBAP6I