“Wildorado,” a documentary about a high-school agriculture class in the Route 66 town of Wildorado, Texas, that establishes its own cattle company, will screen next month on television and online.
Here’s a trailer for the intriguing film:
The company the students established is the Wildorado Cattle Co. More about the company’s origins can be read here. The company can be found on Facebook here.
Scenes of abandoned businesses along Route 66 can be seen in the trailer. Wildorado isn’t known much by roadies except that place where the huge cattle feedlots on the east edge of town stink up the place if the wind is in the wrong direction.
The trailer makes it clear there were a lot of naysayers about the notion of a student-led cattle firm. However, I’ve learned in my two years in New Mexico that ranching kids are tough and smart. I wouldn’t have underestimated them.
If nothing else, these students’ experiences will make them much more marketable to future employers — especially in the burgeoning beef industry in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Not to mention these kids will have more real-life experience if they want to run their own ranches.
Here’s a report from one of the television stations in nearby Amarillo:
“Wildorado” will screen Dec. 26 on cable channel RFD-TV or the Angus TV channel on YouTube.
(Hat tip to Rory Schepisi; screen-capture image from the “Wildorado” documentary trailer)