Why it matters: The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo begins ... The city and the Stock Show spent $40 million to upgrade the livestock barns and build a new show arena as part of a plan to refurbish ...

The Stock Show’s seventh president in more than a century is ready to hand over the reins. The man they call, Mr. Barnes talked exclusively to NBC 5’s Deborah Ferguson.

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo set an attendance record ... "Last year was way worse," one man in the cattle barn says. ...