ProRodeo Sports News - June 12, 2020

COWBOYS & BUSINESS

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Steer wrestler Jacob Talley competes in the 2020 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo at Dickies Arena in February.

Talley changes focus to family business BACK WELL TO THE

BY TRACY RENCK O n Feb. 8, Jacob Talley was more than ready to keep rodeoing. The Keatchie, La., cowboy had just won the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo with a 4.0-second time in the finals before a sellout crowd of 9,300 at the new Dickies Arena. Talley earned $20,000 for his finals

which is in the northwest corner of Louisiana on the Texas border. “My great-grandfather started this company almost 70 years ago back in Keithville, La.,” Talley said. “We’ve been drilling water wells for a long time. We used to be mainly oil fields, and then oil fields kind of crashed around here. With all this other junk going on and not being able to rodeo, I figured it was a good time to get back into it and help grow it a little bit.” Talley said Keithville Well Service serves oilfield communities and residential properties. “We do a little bit of everything,”

run and left Fort Worth with $26,640. That pushed him to fourth in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings with $33,508. By mid-March, Talley, who qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2016 and 2018, was on the sidelines – like all PRCA contestants – when the COVID-19 pandemic halted rodeos. Rather than dwell about lost rodeos, Talley focused his energy elsewhere – on his family’s business, Keithville Well Service, in Keatchie,

Talley said. “We dig wells that are 80 feet to 600 feet. We drill community wells for small communities, we will drill oilfield supply wells and then we will do residential house wells. I have always helped (with the business) when I have been at home. Now that I have been at home without

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