Where have all the cowboys gone?

First there was the story that nobody could figure out how to contain a heavily pregnant heifer at a fair in California without using lethal force (It's call a rope, people).  Then the news that a bunch of people at the Royal Adelaide Show (Australia) standing in a hot tent with lots of cows could not work out why their eyes were all itchy.  (It's called cow pee.  Cow pee + heat = ammonia).

To quote the singer Paula Cole: where have all the cowboys (and girls) gone?