The Hemphill County Beef Conference is coming up next week and one of the speakers will be Dallas Mount, owner of Ranch Management Consultants out of Wheatland, Wyoming.

Mount will speak on ‘ranching for profit’ and he said those keys have been the same for decades. “Know and understand your business and have a handle on what are the things you’re doing that are economic drivers to your business and what are some of those economic roadblocks that your business is facing. Then, coming up with strategies to take advantage of the things you do well and address the weaknesses,” he explained to KXDJ’s Chris Samples.

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The 2024 Hemphill County Beef Conference will be held Tuesday, April 23 and Wednesday, April 24 at the Jones Pavilion in Canadian. Other than Mount, speakers include Troy Applehans with Cattle Fax, Matt Makens, atmospheric scientist, Con. Ronny Jackson and Kayleigh McEnany, former White House spokeswoman under Pres. Trump. For ticket information, click here.

Michael Martin Murphey and Lyle Lovett will perform at a wildfire relief benefit concert in Amarillo on Sunday.

KXDJ’s Chris Samples had a chance to interview Murphey on the KXDJ Perryton Today Show Tuesday. He asked Murphey about his history and how he got into the music business.

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Samples also asked Murphey about his musical training and he said he is actually learning a lot currently from his son.

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Today, more on the status of our water supply. Kirk Welch is the assistant general manager at the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District and recently told KXDJ’s Chris Samples, “Nothing new here in that the Ogallala continues to decline. There are obviously a myriad of strategies that everybody’s looking at to try and slow the decline. But certainly, south of our district, we see a much more extreme decline and here in our area, clearly from one section to another, there can be a significant difference. That is a characteristic of the aquifer itself.”

More can be heard here.

Welch added, “Without a doubt, the formation itself yields more water in some places than it does in others.”

As we well know, the Biden administration’s open border policy is causing major impacts in Texas and across the nation.

Chris Hegstrom, formerly of Perryton, is now a political consultant in Arizona and he said they are seeing tremendous issues in the Grand Canyon State.

“It’s extremely expensive. We have one of the major corridors where the drugs come across. They hit I-10 and away they go. Fentanyl is a huge issue, child and sex trafficking is happening a lot. The way the government has been the last several years, we are having issues finding law enforcement that want to stay in the profession. So, being able to curtail some of that has been difficult as well,” he told KXDJ’s Chris Samples.

Click here to listen to more from them.

While many want to call Arizona a purple state, Hegstrom believes they will return to a red state this November.

There was one arrest on Thursday, April 18. Erick Efrain Ruiz, 28, was arrested on a warrant for assault causes bodily injury on a family member and was being held as an illegal alien.

Local elections will be held on Saturday, May 4 in Texas. We have a number of contested races around our listening area and will be hosting candidate forums for a few of them.

Our first forum will feature the six candidates vying for three spots on the Perryton ISD board. Candidates include incumbents Bryce Hale, Wes Beal and Chris Lingo as well as challengers Kevin Pshigoda, Nuno Rodriguez and Jeff Schollenbarger.

KXDJ’s Chris Samples moderated the forum and after giving the candidates time to share why they are running, he asked them about the good and bad when it comes to Perryton ISD, their thoughts on the bond, teacher retention, and more.

You can listen to the forum in its entirety at the link below.


Early voting will run Monday, April 22 through Tuesday, April 30. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4.

The Perryton City Council will have two different races on the May 4 ballot.

KXDJ’s Chris Samples hosted a candidate forum with the four candidates running to fill two regular terms. Those candidates include incumbents J Aston and Greg Good as well as challengers Erika Hernandez and Silvia Garcia.

Samples asked the candidates about their reason for running, how they feel the city has done with tornado recovery, and the plans for restoring downtown Perryton.

You can listen to the forum in its entirety below.




The other race is for two unexpired terms and those candidates include Brad Herring, Jesse Trejo, Oscar Hernandez and Brady Burdick.

Early voting will run Monday, April 22 through Tuesday, April 30. In Perryton, you will early vote for the Perryton ISD board race at the administration office. For the city council races, you will early vote at City Hall at 417 S. Amherst. On election day, all precincts for both races will vote at Perryton High School.

The Perryton City Council will have two different contested races on the ballot on Saturday, May 4. One race will be to fill two unexpired terms that were vacated by Shirley Howard and Shae Cunningham.

The candidates in that race, Jesse Trejo, Brady Burdick, Brad Herring and Oscar Hernandez, joined KXDJ’s Chris Samples for a candidate forum on April 4.

Samples asked the men about why they were running, what their take was on the steps the city has taken thus far regarding tornado recovery, and more.

You can listen to the forum in its entirety below.



The other contested race is for two regular terms. Candidates in that race include incumbents J Aston and Greg Good as well as challengers Silvia Garcia and Erika Hernandez.

Early voting will run Monday, April 22 through Tuesday, April 30. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4.

National Rankings have been finalized for the season and INKS Gym in Perryton is proud to announce that Cheer Xtreme Elektra is ranked 2nd in the Nation.

After receiving a full paid bid, Elektra competed at Lake Tahoe Super Nationals over the weekend and brought home the National Title for their Division.

Elektra will head to Orlando for The Open National Championship at the end of April, where they will compete against qualifying teams from across the Nation.

Michael Crain, a former state investigator, joined KXDJ's Chris Samples for installment number nine in their series on the Tom Brown case recently.

Crain has been looking closely at the case out of Canadian and he agrees with all of the investigators from the state of Texas on down that believe Tom committed suicide and there was a coverup. He has now taken the steps to become a licensed private investigator as well.

He has found many inconsistencies in the story from the family as well as statements made by the private investigator they hired, Philip Klein of Klein Investigations and Consulting.

In this episode, Crain shares more from Klein and his multiple versions of parts of the case as well as information he received from Trace Sargent, the handler for the cadaver dog that was used in the case.

Listen to Episode 9 below.



If you are interested in listening to previous episodes, they are all linked below.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

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