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VOL. 106, ISSUE 10

CALIFORNIA CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION

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3841 North Freeway Blvd., Suite 130 Sacramento, CA 95834 PRESIDENT

Steve Arnold, Santa Margarita FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Rick Roberti, Loyalton SECOND VICE PRESIDENTS

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CONTENTS ASSOCIATION PERSPECTIVES

8 CATTLEMEN’S COLUMN 12 BUNKHOUSE 14 DUES DOLLARS AT WORK 20 NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Join us at the 107th CCA & CCW Convention Enthusiasm for promoting agriculture

In depth 2023 legislative recap Fighting for cattle producers from coast to coast

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Beef Council putting checkoff to work online and in person

32 PROGRESSIVE PRODUCER

Assess the operation efficiency of your ranch

34 YOUNG PRODUCER

UC Davis student gets hands-on education through internship

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28 SPECIAL FEATURES

10 CCA & CCW CONVENTION If you haven't yet registered, don't wait to get in on this year's event!

ECONOMY RECAPPED BY COBANK 22 QUARTERLY

Agriculture and rural economies hit by seemingly strong U.S. dollar

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EYE FOR ELECTIONS The CCA ranch family who evolved the election process one product at a time.

36 CATTLEMEN'S REPORT 38 RANCH FAMILY ROUNDUP 40 BUYERS’ GUIDE 46 ADVERTISING INDEX

22 ON THE COVER As fall rolls in full force all over the West Coast, this issue focuses on fall topics from a quarterly economy recap of issues impacting agriculture, elections and, of course, the upcoming CCA & CCW Convention. This autumn cover photo was taken by Witold Photography in Round Valley near Bishop.

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CATTLEMEN’S COLUMN PRESIDENTIAL INVITATION

by CCA President Steve Arnold It is hard to believe I have almost completed my first year as your California Cattlemen’s Association President. I’ve enjoyed the time spent traveling to different counties visiting with California ranchers.

It is a good time to be in the cattle business. It is not often we have abundant grass and good cattle prices. That is a combination rarely seen in my lifetime. Trust me, as CCA President I’m taking full credit for this!

Of course there are always challenges. High interest rates, high fuel prices, high taxes and new regulations have been on the minds of all of us.

People are looking for value and CCA continues to give us a bang for our buck. While California’s hard working ranching families are producing high protein food, the CCA staff is working hard to educate legislators and lobby against harmful regulation. You can review all the success your CCA staff has had fighting for you in Sacramento in the “Your Dues Dollars at Work” article in this publication each month. From water to wolves, this year's legislative session had proposals that could put ranchers out of business. CCA’s efforts to educate policy makers that often have no understanding of how their votes affect the ability to produce food, continue to make an important difference for us all. I want to thank all the members for continuing to support CCA. This is an important time for our producers to stick together and stay informed. I am looking forward to the annual CCA & CCW Convention which is coming up at the end of November.

This year the event will once again be held at the Nugget in Sparks, Nev. If you’ve never been to the annual convention, I urge you to join us. I know you will enjoy the two days of networking, informational panels, and being there to help shape policy for CCA staff to advocate for your interests when the California legislature returns to Sacramento. Discussions include weather, rangeland management, cattle health, marketing, international affairs that may affect the ranching industry and so much more. Two days of seminars

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full of interesting information, as well as a trade show featuring companies that support the cattle industry. The convention is also a great time to take the time to get to know the folks at RTAP, (Rancher Technical Assistance Program). While CCA is working every year to minimize the harm ranchers suffer due to bad legislation, RTAP is here to help ranchers deal with how to comply with the regulations that are enacted. I don’t know about you, but I have been known to struggle with understanding what some of the agencies are asking me to do. The last decade has brought in many more reporting and permitting requirements ranchers must comply with. The California Cattle Council funds the RTAP program through the Cattlemen’s FDoundation. with that dollar we pay for each animal we sell. The RTAP program is free of charge for cattle producers throughout the state to have technical assistance when you need help. The program provides a valuable service helping ranchers get through the permit process, onerous reporting processes, or applying for disaster assistance. While attending the convention take time to chat with the RTAP team, Jack Rice and Noah Lopez. They are a wealth of information and ready to help. I know I feel better knowing their services are available free of charge when I need help navigating government paperwork. These are the kind of services that may be the key to helping families stay on the ranch.

Lastly, I personally want to invite you to the President’s Reception Thursday eventing just before the awards banquet at our convention. All of the information regarding attending this year’s convention can be found on the website: www.calcattlemen.org/events.

I hope to see you there!

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2023 CCA & CCW ANNUAL CONVENTION & TRADESHOW NOV. 2 9 - D E C . 1 | N U G G ET CA S I NO RES ORT | S PA RKS , NEV. 2023 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH

11:00am - 5:00pm CCA Scholarship Interviews 5:00 - 6:00pm CRT Cocktail Reception 6:00 - 7:30pm CRT Documentary Screening

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH

7:00am - 6:30pm Registration Open 7:00 - 8:00am LMRF Meeting 8:00am - 5:00pm CRT Board Meeting 8:30am - Noon CBCIA Strategic Plan 9:00 - 10:00am Mandatory Tradeshow Exhibitor Meeting/Allied Industry 10:00am - Noon CCA Officer’s Meeting 11:00am - Noon YCC Networking in the Tradeshow Noon - 9:30pm Tradeshow Open Noon - 2:00pm California Cattlemen’s Foundation Board of Directors 1:00 - 2:30pm CBCIA Board Meeting 2:00 - 3:00pm CCA Finance and Membership Meeting 2:30 - 4pm CCW Executive Committee 2:00 - 2:30pm Leadership Training 2:30 - 4:00pm Media Training 3:00 - 4:00pm Cattle-PAC Meeting 3:00 - 4:00pm YCC Meeting 4:00 - 5:30pm Opening General Session 5:30 - 6:30pm Allied Industry Wine and Cheese Reception 6:30 - 9:30pm Tradeshow Welcome Party

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH

6:30am - 5:00pm Registration Open 6:30 - 7:30am Prayer Gathering 7:00am - 1:00pm Allied Industry Tradeshow 7:00- 8:00am Breakfast in the Tradeshow 7:00 - 8:00am CCA Fire Subcommittee Meeting 7:00 - 10am Bloody Mary Bar in the Tradeshow 8:00 - 9:00am CCW Executive Committee Training 8:00 - 10:00am General Session #2 10:00 - 11:00am CCW Meet and Greet with Standing Committee Chairs 10:00am - Noon Cattle Health and Well-Being 10:00am - Noon Cattle Marketing and International Trade 10:00am - Noon CCA Federal Lands 11:00am - 1:30pm Cowbelle of the Year Lunch Noon - 1:00pm Lunch in the Tradeshow Noon - 1:00pm Past Presidents Lunch 1:00 - 2:00pm General Session #3 2:00 - 4:00pm Cattlemen’s Poster Session 2:00 - 4:00pm CCA Property Rights & Environmental Management 2:00 - 4:00pm CCA Agriculture & Food Policy/Tax and Credit 2:00 - 2:45pm A CA Cattlewomen Heritage Foundation, Inc. 2:45 - 5:00pm CCW Workshop 3:00 - 4:00pm Social Media Training 3:00 - 4:00pm Tax & Credit (Policy Breakout) 4:00 - 5:00pm CBCIA Cattlemen’s College Session 4:00 - 5:00pm Local Presidents and Secretaries Meeting 5:00 - 6:00pm CCA President’s Reception 6:30 - 10:00pm CCA & CCW Reception and Awards Banquet

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST 6:30 - 7:30am 7:00 - 9:00am 8:00 - 9:15am 9:30am - Noon 9:30am - Noon

CCA Nominating Committee CCW Awards Breakfast Cattle-Fax Breakfast CCA Board and Membership Meeting CCW Board and Membership Meeting

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2023 CCA & CCW ANNUAL CONVENTION & TRADESHOW NOV. 2 9 - D E C . 1 | N U G G ET CA S I N O RES ORT | S PA RKS , NEV. 2023 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH

11:00am - 5:00pm CCA Scholarship Interviews 5:00 - 6:00pm CRT Cocktail Reception 6:00 - 7:30pm CRT Documentary Screening

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH

7:00am - 7:30pm Registration Open 8:00am - 5:00pm CRT Board Meeting 9:00 - 10:00am Mandatory Tradeshow Exhibitor Meeting/Allied Industry 9:00 - 10:30am CCA Officer’s Meeting 11:00am - Noon YCC Networking in the Tradeshow 11:00am-12:30pm California Cattlemen’s Foundation Board of Directors Noon - 9:30pm Tradeshow Open 1:00 - 2:30pm CBCIA Board Meeting 1:30 - 2:30pm CCA Finance and Membership Meeting 2:30 - 4pm CCW Executive Committee 2:30 - 3:30pm Cattle-PAC Meeting 2:30 - 3:30pm YCC Meeting 4:00 - 5:00pm Opening General Session 5:30 - 6:30pm Allied Industry Wine and Cheese Reception 6:30 - 9:30pm Tradeshow Welcome Party

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH

6:30am - 7:30pm Prayer Gathering 7:00am - 5:00pm Registration Open 7:00am - 1:00pm Allied Industry Tradeshow 7:00- 8:00am Breakfast in the Tradeshow 7:00 - 8:00am LMRF Meeting 7:00 - 8:00am Wolf Subcommittee Meeting 7:00 - 10am Bloody Mary Bar in the Tradeshow 8:00 - 9:30am General Session #2 10:00 - 10:45am CCW Workshop with Michelle Miller, Farm Babe 10:00am - Noon Cattle Health and Well-Being 10:00am - Noon Cattle Marketing and International Trade 10:00am - Noon CCA Federal Lands 11:00am - 1:30pm Cowbelle of the Year Lunch Noon - 1:00pm Lunch in the Tradeshow Noon - 1:00pm Past Presidents Lunch 1:00 - 2:00pm General Session #3 2:00 - 4:00pm Cattlemen’s Poster Session 2:00 - 4:00pm CCA Property Rights & Environmental Management 2:00 - 4:00pm CCA Agriculture & Food Policy/Tax and Credit 2:00 - 2:45pm A CA Cattlewomen Heritage Foundation, Inc. 3:00 - 4:00pm Tax & Credit (Policy Breakout) 3:00 - 5:00pm CCW Board and Membership Meeting 4:00 - 5:00pm CBCIA Cattlemen’s College Session 4:00 - 5:00pm Local Presidents and Secretaries Meeting 5:00 - 6:00pm CCA President’s Reception 6:30 - 9:00pm CCA & CCW Reception and Awards Banquet

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST 7:00 - 8:00am 7:00 - 9:00am 8:30 - 10:00am

CCA Nominating Committee CCW Awards Breakfast CCA Board and Membership Meeting

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BUNKHOUSE

EXCITED TO CONNECT

Foundation's Public Policy Director brings enthusiasm for California agriculture to the table

by California Cattlemen's Foundation Director of Public Policy Jared Mandrell

Some of my fondest memories growing up were from my great grandparent’s property in El Nido. The property was bordered with almond orchards on three sides, yielding only to a twolane road with an irrigation canal just beyond it. There was life in every corner of the property, from the worms on the tomato plants beside the house to the dairy cattle in the pasture.

This was all a stark contrast to where I lived in Morgan Hill just south of San Jose.

While I didn’t know it then, I was extremely fortunate to have parents who worked to make sure we could live comfortably. Despite both growing up in the Central Valley, they had moved to the Bay Area seeking greater opportunity in their respective fields. An unintended consequence of this, was that I became disconnected from production agriculture and the industry as a whole.

Once I entered high school, I found myself signing up for an agriculture class alongside some friends. What started as a mere social activity turned into a deep curiosity and interest.

I began to take every opportunity to participate in leadership and career development events that were available to students. My involvement

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continued to grow throughout high school until I served as the president for the Sobrato FFA Chapter and treasurer for the South Coast Region FFA in my senior year.

As I decided where to continue my education, my interest and appreciation for the agriculture industry played a large role in my eventual decision to attend Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Now, four years later I can honestly say that was one of the best decisions I could have made. This past June I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Communication with minors in Political Science and Law & Society. I was drawn to this specific coursework due to my interest in both government and agriculture. My major allowed me the opportunity to take classes in many different agricultural fields including beef cattle production, horticulture and bioresource engineering. Through the Political Science Department, I was able to learn about and get involved in, the workings of our state and national government.

With my knowledge and experience, I am extremely excited to start my career with the California Cattlemen’s Foundation as the Director of Public Policy. This has given me the opportunity to be on the frontlines of state policy affecting the agriculture industry. Over time, I hope to become a trusted resource as I continue to familiarize myself with rulemaking for organizations like the State Water Resources Control Board and California Fish and Game Commission. I am honored that the work I perform will ensure that ranching will remain a viable and successful industry in California.

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YOUR DUES DOLLARS AT WORK REFLECTING ON THE END OF SESSION RECAPPING CCA’S LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2023

by CCA Vice President of Government Affairs Kirk Wilbur

The 2023 legislative year gaveled to a close on September 14, after which Governor Gavin Newsom had one month to sign or veto bills sent to him by the Legislature. The Governor concluded that work on October 13, allowing CCA to take stock of our lobbying efforts over the past year.

Happily, it was another incredibly successful year for the Association. CCA’s highest priorities this year were to kill an anti-animal-agriculture bill pushed by radical animal rights extremists (AB 554) and to safeguard ranchers from a trio of fundamental threats to their essential water rights (AB 460, AB 1337 and SB 389). CCA had a perfect record among those priorities, killing three of the measures outright and securing substantial amendments to the fourth that fully resolved our initial concerns with the bill.

Below are details of each bill CCA lobbied in the 2023 legislative year.

AB 99 (Connolly) – State roads and highways: integrated pest management CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee This bill would have required the California Department of Transportation to adopt a statewide policy to use “integrated pest management” limiting roadside pesticide application in any county in which the Board of Supervisors has voted to limit or discontinue roadside application of pesticides. Such a policy would have been detrimental to pest management on farms and ranches adjacent to CalTrans-managed roadsides.

AB 408 (Wilson) – The Climate-Resilient Farms, Sustainable Healthy Food Access and Farmworker Protection Bond Act of 2024 CCA-SUPPORTED Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee This $3.65 billion bond bill included several allocations that promote livestock grazing in recognition of its ecological benefits, including $35 million to CalFire for equipment and infrastructure to support prescribed grazing, $80 million to CDFA to promote carbon sequestration through methods including prescribed grazing

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and $40 million for community food production in urban and suburban areas which can include “livestock grazing in open space.” The Legislature has until June of 2024 to pass a bond bill for the November 2024 ballot, and CCA has been actively lobbying for inclusion of these pro-grazing provisions in any bond which goes before voters – whether that measure is AB 408 or a handful of competing climate bond proposals pending in the Legislature as two-year bills.

AB 429 (Bennett) – Groundwater wells: permits CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee AB 429 would have restricted the approval of groundwater well permits in any critically overdrafted groundwater basin in which one percent of domestic wells had gone dry. CCA opposed the bill because it would have reduced the water available to ranchers, increased costs for agricultural producers and would have undermined the local control of groundwater previously guaranteed by the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).

AB 460 (Bauer-Kahan) – State Water Resources Control Board: interim relief CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee AB 460 would have enabled the State Water Resources Control Board to issue new ‘interim relief orders’ to prohibit activities alleged to violate nearly any provision of the state Water Code, including exceeding one’s water right or violating a curtailment order. The bill would have allowed the Board to issue $10,000/day fines for violations of the interim orders – 20 times greater than the maximum daily fines the Board can currently issue. Additional fines of $2,500 would have been authorized for each acre-foot of water diverted in violation of the interim orders, a provision the bill’s supporters justified in part by demonizing cattle ranchers who in 2021 made the difficult decision to violate a curtailment order to provide needed water to their livestock.

AB 484 (Gabriel) – Sentencing enhancements: property loss CCA-SUPPORTED Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee Assembly Bill 484 sought to deter property damage by allowing courts to impose sentencing enhancements when criminals intentionally take, damage or destroy property in the commission (or attempted commission) of a felony. Specifically, the bill would have authorized courts to add two years to a prison sentence where property losses totaled more than $275,000, three years for damages more than $1.75 million and four years where more than $4.4 million in damages occurred. Unfortunately, concerns about state costs relating to prolonged incarceration resulted in the bill being held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 554 (Gabriel) – SPCAs: enforcement of laws CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Assembly Under current law, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCAs) may help district attorneys prosecute alleged violations of “any law relating to or affecting animals” in criminal courts.

AB 554 would have newly authorized SPCAs to independently file such suits in civil courts.

Because California law allows any 20 citizens to incorporate as an SPCA, the bill would have been easily weaponized by radical animal rights groups opposed to animal agriculture. Under the bill, these groups could harm ranchers by filing frivolous civil suits, or worse, they could seek to establish precedent holding routine animal handling practices to be “abuse” (a position held by the bill’s sponsor, the Animal Legal Defense Fund). A concerted opposition effort led by CCA resulted in Assemblyman Gabriel shelving the bill in late May. AB 606 (Mathis) – CESA accidental take: farms or ranches CCA-SUPPORTED – WIN Signed into law This bill reauthorizes a statute providing that a farmer or rancher is not liable for take of a species listed as threatened or endangered under the California Endangered Species Act if the take was accidental and occurred in the course of “routine and ongoing agricultural activities.”

AB 720 (Addis) – California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program CCA-SUPPORTED Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee While not titled the “California Conservation Ranching Incentive Program,” this bill was substantially similar to two prior CCA-supported ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 November 2023 California Cattleman

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 bills that bore that name: 2021’s SB 322 and 2022’s SB 977, both authored by Sen. Laird.

AB 720 would have amended the California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program to establish grants intended to support landowners’ efforts to enhance, restore and preserve California’s private rangelands. While the bill did not pass this year, CCA has been immensely successful in promoting grazing in the State Budget and via administrative policies in recent years.

AB 1197 (Hart) – Local food producers: grant limits NEUTRAL Held in Senate Appropriations Committee AB 1197 would have made grants under the Agricultural Protection Planning Grant Program available for the purpose of maintaining and stewarding “Local food producers.”

Unfortunately, the bill originally limited its definition of a local food producer to an individual who farms or ranches on no more than 500 acres across all properties, rendering almost all ranchers ineligible for such grants. CCA was the sole organization to raise concerns about the provision, taking an oppose-unless-amended position on the bill. AB 1197 was subsequently amended to expand eligibility to individuals who graze livestock on rangelands and who have annual meat sales of under $2 million, allowing CCA to remove opposition to the bill.

AB 1237 (Petrie-Norris) – California Public Interest Veterinary Debt Relief Program CCA-SUPPORTED Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee AB 1237 sought to alleviate the shortage of licensed veterinarians in rural areas and areas identified by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture as suffering a “veterinary services shortage situation” by providing up to $150,000 in student debt relief to veterinarians who practice full time in such a community for at least five years. Several regions of the state are identified

by USDA as having a veterinary services shortage situation relative to “private practice food animal medicine” or “rural area food animal medicine,” so the bill stood to incentivize veterinary practice benefitting cattlemen contending with the shortage of large animal practice veterinarians.

AB 1290 (Luz Rivas) – Product safety: plastic packaging: substances CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Assembly

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This measure would have prohibited the manufacturing, sale or distribution of plastic packaging that contains certain chemicals, pigments or additives. Prohibitions would have included products such as black Styrofoam used in beef packaging. CCA opposed the bill because it undermined agreements CCA struck regarding food safety exceptions in 2022’s plastic packaging reduction bill, SB 54 (Allen).

AB 1337 (Wicks) – SWRCB: water shortage enforcement CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee AB 1337 would have provided the SWRCB statutory authority to curtail all water rights, even in water years in which no drought emergency has been declared (under current law, statutory authority only exists to curtail post-1914 appropriative water rights; pre-1914 and riparian rights may only be curtailed during declared drought emergencies). CCA and a broad coalition of water agencies and agricultural groups opposed the bill because it would have given the SWRCB unfettered authority to curtail water rights even when no scarcity exists, hindering ranchers’ and other water rightsholders’ ability to forecast water availability and plan for the use of water under their rights.

AB 1563 (Bennett) – Groundwater extraction permit verification CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Held in the Senate Governance & Finance Committee A similar effort to AB 2201 (Bennett), which CCA successfully opposed last year, AB 1563 would have required a well permitting agency to post a well permit application on its website for at least 30 days prior to approval and would have conditioned permit approval upon written verification from a Groundwater Sustainability Agency that the well would be consistent with groundwater management plans and was unlikely to interfere with nearby wells.

The bill would have imposed significant (and unnecessary) costs, delays and legal challenges for ranchers seeking well permits.

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 approved by a two-thirds vote of the electorate.

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 proposes reducing that threshold for voter approval to 55% if the tax increase would fund “public infrastructure or affordable housing projects.”

The measure could increase property taxes by allowing the ad valorem tax rate to exceed one percent of the full cash value of a property if the tax is to repay bond debt incurred to fund those public infrastructure and affordable housing projects. ACA 1 passed by the required two-thirds vote in each chamber of the Legislature this session and will now go to California voters on the November 2024 General Election ballot.

SB 253 (Wiener) – Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act CCA-OPPOSED Signed into law The Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act requires any corporation with annual revenues of more than $1 billion which does business in California to annually report all greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the company. Of particular concern to CCA, the bill requires such companies to report their “scope 3” emissions – that is, all emissions related to the corporation’s supply chain. CCA opposed the measure, concerned that corporations’ scope 3 reporting requirements could result in onerous reporting requirements being passed down to ranchers whose products are in the supply chains of major corporations. Unfortunately, despite fierce opposition to the bill, Governor Newsom signed SB 253 into law on October 7.

There is, however, some cause for optimism.

First, corporations will not be required to report scope 3 emissions until 2027. Second, CCA will have additional opportunity to shape reporting requirements when the California Air Resources Board adopts implementing regulations.

Finally, in a signing message Newsom noted “the implementation deadlines in this bill are likely infeasible” and expressed concern about “the overall financial impact of this bill on businesses,” indicating that he’d like to see cleanup legislation in “the Legislature next year to address these issues.” As a result, CCA and other advocates will have ample opportunity to seek to prevent or minimize the bill’s impact on small businesses within corporations’ supply chains.

SB 361 (Dodd) – Water resources: stream gages CCA-SUPPORTED Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee SB 361 sought to require the Department of Water Resources and State Water Resources Control Board to reactivate, upgrade or install stream gages in watersheds throughout the state. Expanding the state’s stream gage network would have benefitted cattle 18 California Cattleman November 2023

producers by improving the accuracy of drought monitoring tools that impact federal agricultural assistance programs and state curtailment orders, among other regulatory decisions.

SB 389 (Allen) – SWRCB: investigation of water right NEUTRAL (AS AMENDED) – WIN Signed into law As introduced, SB 389 would have allowed the SWRCB to investigate any pre-1914 claim of right and to revoke that water right if it believed the claim was invalid. CCA was strongly opposed to the bill on two grounds. First, it would have placed the evidentiary burden of proof in an investigation upon the water rightsholder, rather than upon the Board which alleged invalidity of the right (this burden of proof would be challenging to meet given that state law did not require recording or reporting under pre-1914 water rights until 2009). Second, the bill would have authorized the revocation of a water right even when there is no competing claim to the right, a reversal of current court precedent. Both provisions were amended out of the bill in the Assembly, resulting in a bill which only slightly expands the Board’s existing investigatory powers and allowing CCA to remove opposition.

SB 485 (Becker) – Methane emissions: livestock feed additives CCA-OPPOSED – WIN Later gut-and-amended to an election worker protection bill As introduced, SB 485 required the California Air Resources Board to create targets for the adoption of methane-emissions-reducing feed additives in animal feed. CCA succeeded in limiting the program to dairies, allowing the Association to remove opposition. Working with Western United Dairies, CCA also succeeded in removing bill language that would have allowed CARB to set adoption targets for the use of these feed additives (as those targets could later morph into legislative or regulatory mandates).

Sen. Becker eventually chose to gut-andamend SB 485 into an election worker protection bill. While the 2023-24 Budget Bill allocated funding for an incentives-based methaneemissions-feed-additive program, that program will be housed at CDFA, not CARB, which should ensure that the program is truly incentives-based and tailored to benefit livestock producers.

SB 592 (Newman) – Labor standards information and enforcement CCA-SUPPORTED Failed passage in the Senate Labor, Public Employment & Retirement Committee SB 592 would have provided that, in judicial or administrative proceedings, employers could

not be liable for costs (except for the restitution of unpaid wages) or otherwise punished for violations of statutes or regulations if the violation resulted from the employer relying upon a published opinion letter or enforcement policy of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

SB 703 (Niello) – Employment: work hours: flexible work schedules CCA-SUPPORTED Failed passage in the Senate Labor, Public Employment & Retirement Committee This measure would have allowed a nonexempt employee to request a flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek and would have allowed the employer to implement that employee-selected schedule without the obligation to pay overtime compensation for those additional hours in a workday.

SB 780 (Alvarado-Gil) – Feed additives or ingredients: safety CCA-SUPPORTED – WIN Signed into law

recent legislative proposals seeking to involve the agency in the business of promoting certain livestock feed additives (see SB 485, above). SB 780 clarifies that the California Department of Food and Agriculture has primary oversight of any additive fed to livestock, including those which make environmental claims.

Looking Ahead The Legislature is currently in its “Interim Study Recess,” and will resume for the second year of the 2023-24 Legislative Session on January 3. CCA has already begun to work on the Association’s 2024 budget and policy priorities for the coming legislative year and plans to hit the ground running when the Legislature resumes.

Ranchers can expect to see more legislative proposals regarding water rights and animal rights next year – potentially including some of the bills above, which may become ‘two-year bills’ – but CCA remains ready to protect California’s ranchers against these continued attacks.

In recent years, the California Air Resources Board has become increasingly active in regulating livestock methane emissions, with

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NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE KEEPING UP THE FIGHT

by National Cattlemen's Beef Association Chief Executive Officer Collin Woodall We like to fight, and for 125 years fighting has been one of this association’s badges of honor. We take on the virtuous fights against fake proteins, animal extremists, regulatory attacks and the daily barrage of misinformation about cattle production.

Taking a stand and putting up a fight is why our association has been successful and enjoys the reputation it does. However, we rarely take the time to lay our fights aside and take stock of what we have accomplished and where we have taken our association and this industry. Our fights have resulted in some amazing wins that we need to take credit for and appreciate.

As we continue to celebrate the 125th anniversary of NCBA, I believe this milestone is the best start to appreciating our accomplishments.

I am not sure that longevity was on the minds of the livestock producers who attended the first convention in 1898, but the foundation they set was firm and one we have built upon. Think about all the industry issues which have divided us across the years. Regional issues, marketing issues, trade and more. Any one of these could have dissolved our association, but the internal fights led to actions and policies which made us better. The simple fact that we are here and still putting up wins for cattle producers is something we need to be proud of.

On the policy front, our tenacity and fortitude are serving us well. This year’s Supreme Court decision on the definition of Waters of the United

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States included arguments made by NCBA on what should, or should not, be considered a WOTUS. After close to two decades of fighting against this brazen show of EPA overreach, the Supreme Court decision proves that fighting for the right thing is worth every year and dollar we spent to protect your property rights. This is just one of many victories we have had in the environmental arena. When President Biden signed an executive order on climate change his first day in office, we knew we were going to be plagued with bad rules based on the wrong information about our impact on the environment. For close to three years, we have kept the administration at bay by showcasing we are part of the solution, not the problem, when it comes to greenhouse gases and environmental stewardship. Regarding green house gas regulations, NCBA can still win even when the political environment is unfriendly. The President’s 30x30 initiative also concerned us, especially when it came to our right to graze public lands. Even with an effort to rebrand 30x30 as “America the Beautiful,” NCBA played a role in marginalizing that

initiative and burying it deep.

We can deliver these wins because of what we stand for and how we operate. Members of Congress and executive branch departments and agencies know that when NCBA knocks on the door, we are working on issues you have identified as critical to your ultimate success. That is why we were successful in getting Congress to include the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine bank in the 2018 bill and why they are supportive of maintaining it in the new Farm Bill we are working on.

Our influence and success does not stop at the border. As a result of NCBA’s officers engaging with the Canadian Cattle Association during their conference last year, the Canadians established their own FMD vaccine bank. This year, the NCBA officers pushed the Mexican cattlemen’s association, CNOG, to do the same.

Our international engagement has also focused on the European Union and the United Kingdom as we continue our work to open new markets and eliminate barriers to export our beef.

NCBA’s efforts have also been successful in ensuring our consumers remain beef fanatics.

Our engagement to expose plant-based, or fake meat, products has thwarted the efforts of

brands like Impossible Foods or Beyond Meat from relegating us to the discount bin. Our work fighting lab-grown protein provided a win by ensuring that these products are inspected by USDA, just like we are. There is nothing like beef the way nature intended, and our consumers see it that way, too.

There will always be things that challenge us, but through it all, there is a lot of good news and optimism in our industry, much of which is due to the victories NCBA has achieved working on your behalf at home and abroad. We are committed to staying the course, fighting the fight, and winning the tough battles to keep America’s cattle and beef industry strong.

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COBANK QUARTERLY HIGH INTEREST RATES, STRONG U.S. DOLLAR TAKING TOLL ON AG AND RURAL ECONOMIES An exceprt from CoBank's Quarterly Report

The combination of high interest rates and a strong U.S. dollar is beginning to take a disproportionate toll on rural industries like agriculture, forest products, mining and manufacturing. Most international transactions are still conducted in dollars, and a strong dollar makes U.S. exports more expensive and imports cheaper. That disproportionally hurts the backbone of the rural economy, according to a new quarterly report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange.

While the U.S. economy is outperforming expectations, the rest of the world—Europe and China in particular—has fallen short. As a result of the U.S. economic position relative to other countries, the dollar has gotten much stronger than previously anticipated. The expectation that interest rates will remain high for the foreseeable future has also contributed to the strengthening dollar.

“The challenge for agriculture and other rural industries that rely heavily on global markets is their export partners simply can’t afford to buy U.S. products,” said Rob Fox, director of CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange. “When you combine the loss of exports with a general slowdown in the U.S. economy, it’s a double whammy for many businesses operating in rural America.”

The disruptive geopolitical and economic events in recent years resulted in the historically irregular situation where commodity prices and the dollar were both moving upward in tandem.

But those events are now fading as market drivers.

The fundamental inverse relationship between the broad array of commodities and the dollar has largely returned.

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Farm Bill negotiations will take a back seat while the House of Representatives attempts to select a new speaker and Congress works to pass its annual appropriations bills before the Continuing Resolution expires on Nov. 17. The most likely outcome is an agreement by year-end to extend the current Farm Bill by a few months or up to a year or more.

Grains, Farm Supply & Biofuels Historically low water levels on the Mississippi River are limiting grain movement heading into peak fall harvest season. Higher barge rates on the river are pressuring interior basis values for corn and soybeans. The combination of a strong U.S. dollar and robust export competition from Brazil and Russia are creating major headwinds for the U.S. grain and oilseed export program.

Winter wheat planting is underway in the U.S. with acreage expected to be down slightly as prices languish below expected breakeven costs of production.

Fertilizer prices continued to weaken in the third quarter. Anhydrous ammonia and potash prices fell 30 percent and 15 percent, respectively.

Prices for natural gas, used as a both feedstock and production input, dropped by about 7 percent. The fall fertilizer application season should be reasonably normal for regions that are seeing an orderly harvest. While the outlook for the 2024-25 planting season is cloudy, less fertilizer usage is expected as acres shift from corn to soybeans.

Fuel ethanol production was very strong during the third quarter, averaging 16.1 billion gallons compared to 15.4 billion during the second

quarter of 2023. A strong summer travel season and attractive fuel ethanol prices were the key demand drivers. Profitability was also favorable, exceeding 50 cents per gallon vs. 20 cents per gallon in the year ago period. Renewable diesel and other biofuel capacity continues to grow, having increased by 26 percent or 800 million gallons since January 2023.

Animal Protein & Dairy Limited supplies of market-ready cattle suppressed beef availability throughout the third quarter. USDA estimates total U.S. beef output will be down 5 percent in 2023 and expects an additional 7 percent decline in 2024. Tight supplies continued to churn the wholesale beef market. The composite boxed beef cutout climbed to record highs in June and July, averaging a 16 percent premium year-over-year for the quarter. But with fed cattle prices up 30 percent compared to last year, packer margins came under pressure. Despite the rising price environment, consumer demand for beef has remained steadfast.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold California’s Proposition 12 spurred a rally in the pork market. Pork cutout values increased 41 percent from May-July, countering weak prices earlier in the year. Hog prices also rallied, with nearby hog futures climbing 36 percent from late May through early August. With production rising and seasonal interest fading, markets have since cooled. USDA’s latest hogs and pigs report suggests that while the industry is making efficiency gains, production levels will continue to teeter on meager profit expectations.

Chicken markets were tepid at the beginning of the third quarter. Breast meat values were unseasonably low and wings hovered around $1 per pound. While elevated consumer price points may have contributed to soft disappearance, the burden of elevated surplus was difficult to offload. Severe margin compression combined with high input costs caused some producers to reconsider longer-term production goals. Any growth will be limited given the announcements of six plant closures this year.

Strong cheese production and slowing dairy exports combined to pull Class III milk prices down to a paltry $13.77 per cwt. by midsummer.

With ample cheese and strong milk production, Midwest spot loads of Class III milk bottomed out much lower than the five-year average. Faced with low milk prices and high feed costs, dairy farmers sent more cows to slaughter to take advantage of record-high beef prices. Futures markets indicate that the final quarter of the

year could be much better, with projected Class III milk prices at $17.30 per cwt. The biggest wild card for milk prices is China, the world’s leading dairy-product importer, which is facing an economic downturn.

Food & Beverage Inflation-adjusted annual food spending hit a record high in 2022, according to USDA. The increase follows a trend dating back 25 years, with the number increasing 70 percent from 1997-2022. Current food spending trends reflect a continued consumer interest in eating experiences that save time and money. Those behaviors are expected to continue and intensify as heightened inflation and difficult economic conditions persist. Frozen products are especially well-positioned to capitalize on consumers’ desire for convenience and cost savings.

However, inflated prices still appear to be taking a considerable toll on each segment of the frozen case.

Power, Water & Communications U.S. crude oil prices increased 30 percent in the third quarter, with WTI futures rising from $71 at the start of July to $95 by the end of September. And while the post-pandemic, post-Russian invasion market had already breached the $100 per barrel threshold in early 2022, the 2023 rally is different. High prices this time around are marked by an important reordering in global supply, intransigent producers and a global economy that simply won’t slow down. Without greater demand side destruction, transportation costs are likely to remain elevated through 2024.

Telecommunication companies are continuing the aggressive pursuit of fiber network assets. Competition to capture the firstmover advantage for fiber-to-the-home service is intensifying. Studies have shown that first-tomarket fiber providers in rural and underserved markets garner the majority of the market share and typically see less competition. Gaining access to capital quickly can make the difference in being the first market entrant. That is leading operators to get creative in their approach to raising capital, with some issuing bonds backed by their existing fiber networks and customer contracts.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This quarterly report from CoBank only includes the report's details that were felt to be pertinent to readers of this publication. To view the report in it's entirety, visit the news section of www.cobank.com.

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COUNCIL COMMUNICATOR CHECKING IN ON YOUR BEEF CHECKOFF TOGETHER WE BRING MORE

by California Beef Council Director of Producer Communications Mackenzie Neves The California Beef Council (CBC) recently completed its latest integrated marketing campaign, “Together We Bring More," a fall lifestyle-focused program in partnership with E.&J. Gallo/Franciscan Estate wines. You may have noticed this is different from the CBC’s past fall tailgating campaigns. The new program extended the concept launched by Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner., focusing on a deeper emotional connection with audiences by celebrating life’s milestones, and how beef can transform our experiences, big or small, into meaningful moments. Creating new campaigns like this one allows the Beef Checkoff to stay current with changing consumer preferences, demand drivers and market trends.

For this campaign, the CBC focused on the events and leisure activities available throughout autumn in California, From simple

backyard barbecues to picnics, wine tasting, and other outings, all with a focus on friends, family, and food.

Running from Sept. 7 through Oct. 18, the campaign included broadcast radio spots, digital streaming and locationbased display ads to drive target consumers to the TogetherWeBringMore.com landing page, which featured money-saving offers on the purchase of beef, a sweepstakes to win a Napa getaway for two, influencer videos, and beef recipes. The two beef offers consumers could take advantage of included: The CBC’s Checkout 51 offer to save $2 when they spent $10 or more on fresh beef; and Franciscan Estate’s text-to-save offer of $3 off one 750ml bottle of Franciscan Estate wine when purchasing beef.

Franciscan Estate fully funded its offer, providing an additional way for consumers to save on beef while also stretching California’s Beef Checkoff dollars.

As an addition to this campaign, the CBC partnered with Chicory on a new retail element. ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

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HOLT TO REPRESENT HEREFORD BREED ACROSS THE WEST The American Hereford Association (AHA) is pleased to welcome its newest team member, Emilee Holt, Caldwell, Idaho, as the Western region field representative.

In her position, Holt will attend Hereford sales and events and assist breeders with their marketing and genetic selections. She will also help educate members and commercial producers about AHA programs and other beef industry opportunities.

Holt is an Idaho native and lifelong Hereford enthusiast. She grew up raising and exhibiting Hereford cattle and was a 15-year member of the Idaho Junior Hereford Association.

“The versatility of the Hereford breed adds a lot of value for both seedstock and commercial operations,” Holt says. “I’m excited to continue promoting Hereford genetics in this new role while assisting breeders in my home region.”

A 2019 Kansas State University (K-State) animal sciences and industry alumna, Holt has worked for NJW Polled Herefords for almost four years, while assisting her family with their Hereford herd.

Holt has experience in both the commercial and

seedstock sectors of the beef industry.

She completed internships with Wagyu Genetics and Boise Valley Feeders under the Agri Beef Company, where she assisted with analyzing DNA and feedlot management. Holt was also a member of the livestock judging and meat evaluation teams at K-State.

“We are excited to have Emilee join the AHA team. She brings a wealth of Hereford knowledge and experience to the AHA and seedstock producers in her territory,” says Joe Rickabaugh, AHA director of seedstock marketing. “Emilee is a vibrant person who enjoys Hereford cattle. We welcome her to Team Hereford.”

Holt officially began her duties Oct. 25. She can be contacted at 208-965-3130, or eholt@hereford.org.

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 This partnership included a six-week e-commerce campaign which aimed to reach consumers online, encouraging them to order beef in the e-commerce, online grocery space through California’s major retailers.

Chicory is a media network comprised of thousands of independent blogs and recipe sites with the capability to serve ads within and alongside recipes, driving awareness and engagement for beef. Using targeted beef-focused keywords in recipes (i.e., ground beef, steaks) as well as recipes that pair well with beef (i.e., one pot meals, comfort foods), the CBC’s beef ads were placed within those recipes. Whenever an online user viewed a CBC-targeted recipe on a blog or recipe site, Chicory displayed a CBC beef ad within that recipe.

The Chicory campaign included two types of ads. InLine ads showed the exact cut of beef that was highlighted in

the recipe being viewed; Pairings ads showed a plated beef meal within a recipe that would pair well with beef. Both ad types featured a “Shop Now” call-toaction (CTA). If an online shopper clicked the CTA button, they were directed to choose their preferred retailer to complete the transaction. All major large chain retailers in California are included in the platform, allowing online shoppers to easily add beef to their shopping carts.

In a rapidly evolving consumer landscape, the CBCs ability to adapt and innovate allows them to continue to reach target audiences where they are, in a way that resonates, all with the goal of driving continued beef demand. Campaign results will be shared with producers via the CBC’s monthly e-newsletter when metrics are received.

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INDICATIONS: NOROMYCIN 300 LA is intended for use in treatment for the following diseases when due to oxytetracycline-susceptible organisms: Beef cattle, non-lactating dairy cattle, calves, including pre-ruminating (veal) calves: NOROMYCIN 300 LA is indicated in the treatment of pneumonia and shipping fever complex associated with Pasteurella spp., and Histophilus spp. NOROMYCIN 300 LA is indicated for the treatment of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (pink eye) caused by Moraxella bovis, foot-rot and diphtheria caused

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Swine: NOROMYCIN 300 LA is indicated in the treatment of bacterial enteritis (scours, colibacillosis) caused by Escherichia coli; pneumonia caused

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Consult with your veterinarian prior to administering this product in order to determine the proper treatment required in the event of an adverse reaction. At the first sign of any adverse reaction, discontinue use of the product and seek the advice of your veterinarian. Some of the reactions may be attributable either to anaphylaxis (an allergic reaction) or to cardiovascular collapse of unknown cause.

Shortly after injection treated animals may have transient hemoglobinuria resulting in darkened urine.

As with all antibiotic preparations, use of this drug may result in overgrowth of non-susceptible organisms, including fungi. The absence of a favorable response following treatment, or the development of new signs or symptoms may suggest an overgrowth of non-susceptible organisms. If superinfections occur, the use of this product should be discontinued and appropriate specific therapy should be instituted.

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Intramuscular injection in the rump area may cause mild temporary lameness associated with swelling at the injection site. Subcutaneous injection in the neck area may cause swelling at the injection site.

ADVERSE REACTIONS: Reports of adverse reactions associated with oxytetracycline administration include injection site swelling, restlessness, ataxia, trembling, swelling of eyelids, ears, muzzle, anus and vulva (or scrotum and sheath in males), respiratory abnormalities (labored breathing), frothing at the mouth, collapse and possibly death. Some of these reactions may be attributed either to anaphylaxis (an allergic reaction) or to cardiovascular collapse of unknown cause.

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ELECTION ENGINEERING

CALIFORNIA RANCHING COUPLE EMBRACES LIFE’S UNANTICIPATED CAREER JOURNEY

by Managing Editor Stevie Ipsen

It goes without saying that farmers and ranchers across our great country are the salt of the earth. They are among some of the most patriotic, honest and humble of our nation’s citizens. For longtime Napa Valley ranchers John and Judy Ahmann, the cattle business wasn’t their initial career venture. But their love of country and their strong belief system was instrumental in the way their family businesses molded their lives.

We live in a world where “manufacturing elections” means something completely different than it did to John in 1966, when he went to work for Silicon Valley-based tech giant IBM. At that time, the newlywed Ahmanns, who were also fresh college graduates, saw their move to San Jose’s IBM headquarters from Southern California as a terrific prospect. For John, who had been working in the autonautics division for North American Aviation, the job offer from IBM meant the direct opportunity to put his mechanical engineering degree and business experience to use. And working at IBM – the mecca of technology evolution – meant he would have access to the greatest technological projects available in the world.

When first arriving at IBM, John was tasked with helping IBM produce ballots for punch card voting machines. This type of work may not have been the dream project John had in mind for his budding new career but having always been a hard-working person who never backed down from work he said, “You do the job that has to be done, whether you like it or not,” and that was a mantra that has served him well.

Within about three months of John starting his Silicon Valley job, IMB bought the patents for

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the punch card voting system – the Votomatic – from its original developer, which meant IBM would also take on the responsibility of the voting systems that were already existing in precincts.

According to IMB archives, “in the privacy of the voting booth, the IBM Votomatic was used to register selections on a specially designed punched card ballot. The voting device weighed approximately six pounds and sold for 185$ in 1965. The Votomatic's low cost meant that enough units could be placed in each polling place to reduce waiting time.”

John subsequently had the idea for a similar voting booth that was contained within a suitcase. At that point in time, IBM moved the Ahmanns to Dayton, N.J., to further develop the voting system and fill voting needs across the country. During that transition, IBM sold the Votomatic to Los Angeles County. The Ahmanns were facing a family transition of their own as their first baby girl was on her way. Judy said it was a time in their life she will never forget.

Partially because it was exciting and partially because it was terrifying.

“I had very little experience with babies and here I was in the hospital with my first child,” she laughed. “John came to see the baby, kissed me on the forehead and said he needed to get to Los Angeles for work. I told the hospital they were going to need to keep me there for a week because I had no idea how I would manage on my own. But like in many of the unexpected twists and turns of our journey, we were always fortunate to be surrounded by good friends and neighbors who pitched in when our families could not.”

With seven different Los Angeles area

warehouses to train workers in, IMB made the decision to send the Ahmanns back to the West Coast, where they fortunately still had a home in Southern California.

As expected, election season was John’s busiest as he guided election officials in setting up and carrying out successful elections. But with the expected sometimes comes the unexpected.

During the 1968 presidential primary election in California, it was all hands on deck for John as the hotly contested primary race was the only headline people were watching. A frantic John called Judy and instructed her to get a babysitter.

He needed help counting ballots. Judy recalls the night and says as she was hurrying to get a neighbor to come babysit, John called back. The headline news had changed. The election was no longer the priority, “Forget it. You don’t need to come,” he said. “Go turn on the television.”

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy had been shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968.

A career whirlwind that had ramped up quickly for the Ahmanns had suddenly changed course. With so much attention on elections, the liability that came with it led to IBM ultimately making the decision to get out of the voting business.

With many new promising projects on the horizon, IBM gave John the option to relocate, this time to where he and Judy wanted to go.

“Though our first move to the Santa Clara Valley was brief, we had thoroughly enjoyed it,” Judy said. “So moving back to the San Jose area was what we decided and we settled on a small property in Morgan Hill.”

John and Judy’s small Morgan Hill property was in need of some maintenance and they were advised that a couple of cows might be just what they needed. While going into the ranching business wasn’t necessarily a goal, they invested in a few cows and a bull to help them care for the property, foreshadowing a future love that they would both embrace.

FAMILY AFFAIR While improving voting processes may not have been a long-sought goal of John’s prior to joining IBM, it was something he found a lot of promise in. Along with a few other colleagues who had worked with the Votomatic in L.A., John left IBM to form the company Computer Voting Systems.

While at Computer Voting Systems, John helped develop the first self-contained voting booth – the precinct voting counter. In 1976, they sold the booths to Chicago, a major voting market that needed to be tapped into. With a lot

of growth in a short time, some management discrepancies between the partners led John and Judy to take a plunge into going out on their own in 1978 as owners of Election Supplies, Inc. Judy said the prospect was scary but since she had played a role in each of John’s prior jobs, the prospect of them being partners and doing the work themselves was exciting.

“We already had a firm handle on the demand for the products and voting materials we could offer. It was just going to take a lot of manpower to cover the ground that needed to be covered,” Judy explains. “I called every state with paper voting to find the election superintendents to propose our products to.”

As John and Judy expected, the job of developing their business and also being the boots on the ground proved to be a challenge.

But with the help of many, it was not more than they could handle.

“I remember our children helping collate and staple the materials. They got paid of course but it took all of us to keep up with the demand,” Judy said. “At this point, 65 percent of the country was using our voting booths. We traveled as a

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John Ahmann's self-contained suitcase style voting booth. The leg folded up into the booth. IBM's Votomatic voting system was a table-top station that is seen within this suitcase station.

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...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 family to state political conventions because to get business done, we had no choice back then but to meet people face to face.”

John also is a consummate musician and Judy said it even took many of his musician friends to keep up with the business.

In 1988, a Texas corporation became interested in the business and it made sense for John and Judy to scale back all the work they were doing and sell their company under an agreement to run their plant in Napa for a short while before officially retiring. Like most things in life, the plan didn’t go exactly as planned.

“At the point when we were close to retiring.

A fellow who was in charge in Dallas came out to help make the transition. Unfortunately he brought some fresh green business majors who made a feeble attempt to move the rest of the business to Texas,” Judy said. “We had signed a non-compete agreement so our hands were tied even though we were disappointed in the way the transition ultimately went.”

The day the non-compete was over, the Ahmanns got together with a friend who wanted them to get back to work on a voting machine rather than just voting materials, which had most recently been their main focus. At this point in time it was 1992. The Ahmanns had just bought a ranch in Oregon so their time was split. But Judy said with the help of reliable employees, all their bases were covered on both their cattle operations and in the voting equipment business.

“We just couldn’t stay away. When you have something you are passionate about and there is a need for, it is hard to stop doing it,” Judy said. “A

John Ahmann testifies of the integrity of his voting system in the 2000 Bush/Gore post-election hearings.

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lot like the ranch actually. We loved it and couldn’t leave it. Fortunately, we had the help we needed in both locations to make it work.”

HONESTY – THE ONLY POLICY For those who remember the cumbersome days of the recount debate, the simple words “Florida 2000,” may conjure up eyerolls and sighs and the words “hanging chads” might cause heartburn. For John and Judy Ahmann, the George W. Bush and Al Gore election was just another part of their “adventure,” as Judy calls it.

The presidential election in 2000 had much of the country fixated. But for the Ahmanns, by the time election day came, their hard work was done and long hours had all been put in leading up to the election. It was time for vacation.

“We were out of the country at a timeshare on Super Tuesday. We knew in advance it would be close, we had no idea how close,” Judy recalls. “We were welcomed home by voicemails from both Bush and Gore attorneys who needed answers about what to do.”

For John, the issue wasn’t which side to be on, but rather just an issue of verifying the integrity of the system, a system he had spent much of his life fine-tuning. As the recount process ensued, John’s testimony was eventually required in Florida.

For readers who don't remember the situation in Florida, it was claimed that one reason ballots weren't counted was that the perforated squares or "chads" were not punched through completely or hung onto the ballot - hence the term "hanging chads". Voters in some counties complained they couldn't punch their ballots cleanly.

John testified that the Votomatic couldn't have produced thousands of paper ballots that counting machines couldn't read, citing improvements that were made over the years. After a back and fourth battle between judicial bodies, the recount didn't happen and George W. Bush won the presidency.

The results in Florida were minuscule, possibly only a few hundred votes.

“John never cared how the election turned out, for him it was always important that the elections were ran properly,” Judy said. “Though he spent a lot of time in Florida during that process, his message was always the same – if there are all these issues at the precincts and it is this close, you must do a hand count.”

“Honesty has always been essential to John and he always felt that our election system should be fair and transparent,” Judy explained, saying that prior to each election, John took painstaking effort to ensure every election official knew everything about their voting materials. Judy tells of a specific instance in Palm Beach in the spring

of 2000 when she and John were training a new election supervisor.

“She was very young and despite repeated efforts to be sure she understood every ballot process inside and out, the warehouse manager insisted they needed no further assistance from us,” Judy said. “It turned out that that was the very area we saw problems in during the general election.

Not to say it was her or that precinct specifically but it was an indication that corners were likely cut.

We could have fixed any of the problems had we known. But short of being there in person at every ballot box, there is no way to be certain that every punch card lined up perfectly with the punch card template.”

In addition Judy said there were circumstances where a new voter might not know how to punch the card and didn’t seek help to do it correctly.

“There were underlined candidate selections, circled names, arrows drawn and without a hand count, those ballots may never have been counted,” she said.

An independent journalist investigation later found that the highest rates of uncounted ballots in Florida came from the counties that used paper ballots filled in with pencils rather than counties that used the punch card system.

As John ages and his memory fades, Judy says one silver lining is that he doesn’t fully comprehend the circus our recent and upcoming elections have become.

“Throughout his career, from North America Aviation to IBM to his own businesses, John was specific, detailed and regimented,” Judy said. “He would be horrified to see what has become of the system today after he made it his life’s work to be sure it was meticulous and everyone had

All of the Ahmann famliy enjoy time on their ranches together.

a chance for their voice to be heard. Any time we see something suspicious in an election it is disheartening.”

RANCHING AND BUSINESS TODAY Most recently, John and Judy Ahmann worked on manufacturing lamps and aluminum legs for voting booths. They did that up until 2021 and just like much of their business in the 1990s and 2000s, it was done right at home on the cattle ranch in Napa. In his 40 years in the voting realm, John has invented voting machine improvements, obtaining 11 patents.

Early in John’s career, the lessons he learned in autonautics carried through his career and later spilled over and enhanced his ability to be a great cattleman.

“Conservation was something John learned about and implemented solutions for early in his career. When he worked in autonautics, it was his job to make sure nothing went to waste. Everything useable was used and reused and he’s been like that ever since,” Judy said. “Those lessons made him a meticulous cattleman. Conservation was a passion and our conservation efforts at our ranches were something he took great pride in.”

As an engineer, Judy explains that John was always intrigued by elections because specifics and exactness was always important to him.

“Ranching was relaxing compared to the technology world,” Judy said. “I initially thought he was crazy to have an interest in farming and ranching because I knew how hard the lifestyle could be. I was raised in a hardware store in rural Nebraska and was very aware of the challenges agriculture life presented.”

But like many of the brilliant ideas John had, the dream of becoming ranchers also panned out quite well. From a 3-acre property in Morgan Hill, to a bigger location near Napa where the Ahmann’s businesses blossomed and their daughters Christina, Anna and Erica were raised, the journey onto a second ranch in Harney County, Oregon has been nothing if not exciting.

For those who have known John and Judy through their time as members of the California Cattlemen’s Association and California CattleWomen, Inc., their vigor might lead you to assume the cattle business was their life’s work.

But the cattle business is just another testament to their work ethic and desire for success. Nothing in the Ahmann Family is done half-heartedly. As John would say, “You do the job that has to be done…” And as Judy would say, “It’s been a great adventure.”

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PROGRESSIVE PRODUCER A TOOL DEVELOPED BY CALIFORNIA RANCHERS, FOR CALIFORNIA RANCHERS

by Rebecca Ozeran, Royce Larsen and Bill Tietje for University of California Cooperative Extension In 2008, UC Cooperative Extension collaborated with ranchers on the Central Coast to create what was then called the Ranching Sustainability Self-Assessment, or RSA. The RSA was a paper document used for ranchers to rate themselves on their management practices across several topics: livestock, forage, pest management, soils, monitoring, economics, biodiversity and more. After rating themselves, the ranchers had space to reflect on current practices and write plans for improvement as needed. The assessment was driven by ranchers, with scientific support from UCCE and stayed away from any regulatory frameworks. Many ranchers told UCCE that one of the biggest values of the RSA was the structure to start important conversations with family members and employees about managing the ranch.

The latest version of this RSA was updated in 2014, and as a paper document, its reach was limited generally to the Central Coast. Several years later, the core RSA team revisited the concept and developed an updated version. Most importantly, the new assessment is available online! We call the updated tool the California Rancher Sustainability Assessment, or CRSA. What’s new in the CRSA? Streamlined topics The CRSA contains five assessment modules: Forage Management, Soil Health, Drought Management, Wildlife Management, and Generational Succession. Some of these updated

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modules combine topics from the original RSA. Other topics may be added to the site in future depending on rancher interest.

Standardized ratings The original RSA asked ranchers to give themselves a rating out of seven points on how well they were doing for various ranch practices.

Because it was subjective, this rating method was difficult to use consistently over time. The CRSA now includes multiple-choice questions with standard options that are assigned a rating relative to best possible practices. This way, the rancher selects the option that best fits their management practices. The options are designed to cover a broad range of situations. Consistent ratings associated with each option make it easier to track ranch management practices and sustainability of ranch resources over time.

Immediate feedback The CRSA is set up as an anonymous quiz.

Ranchers can take any of the assessment modules whenever they want and will get immediate feedback on how they are doing based on the practices they use. Each module’s results provide one-click access to resources on best management practices and what to keep in mind when considering ranch management.

Resource access In addition to the new digital format, the CRSA includes resources that couldn’t be included

in the paper RSA. The CRSA has an online Resource Library with free, scientifically backed resources that connect to the assessment questions. For instance, when a rancher completes the Forage module, there are questions about grazing planning for the forage base and beneficial non-forage plants. Results of the modules link to library resources, such as grazing management guidelines for annual and perennial systems, and guidelines and a video on how to measure Residual Dry Matter (RDM) in annual grass systems.

Give feedback!

We want to continuously improve the CRSA. Input from ranchers is vital to ensure that the CRSA is functional, accessible, and useful. The CRSA has a feedback form where ranchers can comment to help direct the future of the CRSA, including to suggest new or different modules.

Access the CRSA online at: https://crsa.cnr.berkeley.edu/.

The CRSA material was developed with

support from Mark Brunson (Utah State University) and several UC Cooperative Extension advisors: Sheila Barry, Julie Finzel, John Harper, Brooke Latack, Fadzayi Mashiri, Devii Rao, Matthew Shapero, and Jeff Stackhouse. Website development was funded by a UC ANR Renewable Resources Extension Act (RREA) grant, Project #20-6284. Many thanks to Maggi Kelly, Shane Feirer, and Robert Johnson of UC ANR IGIS, and Judi Young of YoungDigital for their work in digitizing the CRSA. California ranchers provided critical insights to make the CRSA a useful tool, for which we are very grateful.

To access the California Rancher Sustainability Assessment, use the QR code at right. For questions about the assessement, contact Rebecca Ozeran at: (559) 241-6564 or rkozeran@ucanr.edu.

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YOUNG PRODUCER Working and Learning: A College Student's Summer Internship Experience at CDFA

by UC Davis Student Alexis Avila As students pass through their four years of college, all end up choosing a career in a field of employment in which they have personally experienced the most impact from. For me, it has been a collection of experiences that has led up to spending the summer with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).

My name is Alexis Avila and I am a fourth year student majoring in Animal Science and Management and minoring in Communications at the University of California, Davis. This past summer, I had the opportunity to complete an internship program with the Animal Care Program (ACP) under the Animal Health and Food Safety Services (AHFSS) branch at the CDFA to gain relevant experience in the livestock industry to aid in my educational goals of working within a government program that supports livestock production. Ever since I was a young girl, I have had a deep passion for the agriculture industry and throughout my educational journey, I have been determined to explore different career opportunities that allowed me to work with livestock. My interest in the ACP began with an animal welfare course at UC Davis that briefly touched on how governmental agencies are involved in the livestock production industry, and after that course I made it my priority to land a summer internship within the CDFA. As many know, the CDFA plays a vital role in the agriculture industry to ensure consumers have a sustainable, humanely raised, and healthy plate of food on their table at the end of the day.

The ACP is a new program within the AHFSS branch that started in 2018 when Proposition 12 was enacted into legislation. The program is led by Dr. Elizabeth Cox in which the program’s mission is, “To serve animal agriculture producers and California consumers by promoting and protecting the welfare and care of animals in agriculture in order for Californians to have access to food that is sourced from humanely and sustainably raised animals.”

While Proposition 12 has many logistical standards, the Animal Care Program’s goal is to ensure that breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves are raised in a suitable environment

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that meets or exceeds the minimum confinement standards. For breeding pigs, this means they are required to be housed in an environment that allows them to turn around freely, stand up, and fully extend all limbs without restriction of a structure or another animal, as well as a minimum 24 square feet of usable floor space requirement per breeding hog. In egg laying hen enclosures, there are various styles of housing systems but all must provide the hen with 1-1.5 square feet of usable floor space, the ability to fully extend all limbs, stand up, turn around freely, as well as other necessary enrichments. Lastly, veal calf enclosures must have at least 43 square feet of usable floor space with more space as the calf grows, the ability to stand up, fully extend all limbs, and turn around freely.

Producers who raise these covered animals in the state of California must comply with these standards and have their facility audited by CDFA or other certified third party auditors on an annual basis. Producers and/or distributors who have the intention to sell whole meat products or eggs from covered animals in California, whether they are from in state or out of state, fall under the Proposition 12 criteria. The audit process entails a walk through of the facilities in which covered animals/covered products are housed in, as well as a review of relevant documentation of these animals/products.

Throughout the summer, I had been assigned multiple projects that allowed me to learn in depth about the logistics of Proposition 12 and how the ACP operates. One of my first projects was to discuss with the program’s

environmental scientists (auditors) and staff about the common misconceptions they receive from producers and distributors about the logistics of Proposition 12. After discussion, I had created guidance documents on the different covered animals that provided a better clarification on Proposition 12, as legal jargon can often be confusing. In further detail, I worked closely with a few of the ACP’s team members in the production of an educational video for 4H and FFA swine exhibitors and stakeholders for the 2024 fair season. This production involved the creation of a script, video footage of interview and b-roll from various industry professionals and students from the Sonoma County Fair, Yolo County Fair, UC Davis Swine Facility, and the Davis Senior High School. After the collection of video footage began the lengthy and detail oriented editing process that eventually made its presence on the ACP’s website, YouTube channel, and social media platforms. Alongside the production of the guidance video was a poster for distribution to California fair CEO’s about the upcoming requirement of obtaining a certificate of compliance for show hogs at the county fairs.

Another task was to perform data entry actions to move data on California certified distributors into a new data system that allows the CDFA to easily access producer or distributor information in the chance of an infectious disease outbreak of any covered animals. Lastly, my favorite part of the summer was shadowing the audit process of two California covered animal production and distribution facilities.

Before the start of the summer, I had very little knowledge about the implications of Proposition 12 and the Animal Care Program other than the fact that they were involved with animal welfare. But boy was I in for a ride in the livestock industry rollercoaster for education on animal welfare! Although the stereotype of “mean” and “scary” comes with the idea of a governmental program, that was not the case with how the ACP approached producers and distributors. The employees of the ACP are a passionate group of individuals that truly care for the livestock and agriculture industry, and are here to ensure and educate others on animal welfare housing standards. They understand that California is mostly composed of small family farms and ranches compared to the large productions across the US, and want to support these small businesses in any shape or form.

Throughout the summer, I was able to learn that while California is one of the top agricultural states, it is mostly composed of small family farms when it comes to the hog and poultry industry.

It was an exciting experience to be able to view the different types of production facilities and the passion these people upheld for the agriculture industry even though the lifestyle might not be easy. Another fun fact that I learned is that Proposition 12 not only includes egg laying chickens, but it also includes egg laying ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowl!

One of my biggest takeaways from this summer was how the agriculture industry has so many career opportunities to offer young collegiate students looking to enter a career field in which they are passionate about. Most importantly, I have learned that to us producers or others involved in the livestock industry, animal care is always our number one priority, but the ordinary consumer might not realize that we share the same love and compassion for animals as they do. This is why it is important to have programs such as the Animal Care Program or Ranchers Connecting Ranchers to ensure consumers that this industry in which we all have so much passion for, is led with the utmost respect and compassion for our animals.

After completion of the internship with CDFA’s Animal Care Program, I have been provided with an idea of how many career opportunities there are within agriculture that support my deep passion for the livestock industry. From a girl who was raised behind the redwood curtain of Humboldt County to UC Davis with some knowledge of the agriculture industry, I have learned more than I could imagine of what agriculture entails during the last 3 years of college. Whether or not I will end up with a career in the beef cattle industry, I have the “outside of the classroom” experiences to thank for supporting my educational journey. Without these blessings, I wouldn't have been given the opportunity to look at many viewpoints of the agriculture industry, the passion behind family operated farms, the change on the world of large production facilities, or support that the governmental programs provide to the agriculture industry. With these experiences in mind, I look forward to pursuing a career within a governmental agency or a third party auditing company for livestock production upon graduation in June of 2024.

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IN MEMORY ROBERT D BARCA

Robert D Barca, born Sept. 12, 1929; passed away on September 19, 2023 at the age of 94. Robert was born in Santa Maria where he attended Orcutt Union Grammar School, Santa Maria High School, Alan Hancock College with an associate's degree, and a semester at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He played high school football and baseball and some Hancock sports.

Robert comes from a proud Swiss family heritage. His grandfather Bartolomeo Barca immigrated from Aurigeno, Ticino, Switzerland in 1878 and purchased the home ranch in 1904 on San Antonio Road, in Orcutt.

His first job was with the farming company of Ferini & Ardantz and ran the cattle operations in Betteravia, CA. Followed by 12 years at a propane distribution company. Bob took over the family cattle operations after his father died in 1972 and again worked the herds for the Ferini & Ardantz Families. He enjoyed cattle ranching until he could no longer physically do it the age 83.

Bob loved hunting, fishing, and the greater outdoors. He was a champion horseshoe player, team-pen roper, and trophy deer hunter being

awarded many belt-buckles which he proudly displayed in his trophy case. He enjoyed the sport of trap shooting up to the time he could no longer hold the weight of his shot-gun. He was very proud of being recognized as cattlemen of the year in 2011. He had been an Elk for over 50 years and had been involved in nearly all aspects of Elks rodeo, but enjoyed working the roping shoots the most. Bob had been involved on the boards of the Santa Maria Sportsmen Association, the Santa Maria Gun Club, the Santa Barbara County Cattlemen's Association, and a member of Rangeland Improvement Association.

Robert is survived by his sister Dorothy Centeno, son Richard and wife Karen, son-in-law Victor Evans Jr, (4) grandchildren Jason Barca, Kristen Barca Keckeisen (Brett), Heidi Evans Rowell (Shane), Shelley Evans Pratt (Andy) and (5) greatgrandchildren Carson & Kyler Rowell, Joseph & William Pratt, Eilah Barca, and baby Keckeisen.

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CALIFORNIA CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION

Buyer's Guide

SERVICES FOR ALL YOUR ON-THE-RANCH NEEDS

ANGUS

Ranch THANKS TO ALL OUR BULL AND FEMALE BUYERS. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT YEAR!

Thanks for supporting our program in 2023!

925-250-5304 Anselmo, Nebraska

BAR BAR KD KD RANCH RANCH Elevating Angus to Greater Horizons

Look for our “Distinctly Different” Angus bulls annually at Red Bluff and Modoc Bull Sales!

KENNY & DIANNE READ

CALL US FOR INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PRIVATE TREATY CATTLE OR OUR ANNUAL BULL SALE!

1485 SW King Lane • Culver, OR 97734 Ranch: (541) 546-2547 Cell: (541)480-9340 E-mail: barkdranch@msn.com visit us online at: www.barkdangusranch.com

Thanks to all who attended our bull sale in Wilton. Join us again next year!

Angus

Join us for production sale: Annual Bull upcoming Sale: Sat., September 1, 2018

FEMALE SALE:Sale: OCT. 7, PORTERVILLE Inaugural Female Mon., October 15, 2018

VISIT US AT WWW.DONATIRANCH.COM!

916.712.3696 • 916.803.2685 jj@barrangus.com

RAnch

Thanks to all our 2023 bull buyers!

SEPT. 9, 2021 • WILLIAMS, CA

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Tim & Marilyn Callison............................... Owners Chad Davis ..................................... 559 333 0362 Travis Coy ...................................... 559 392 8772 Justin Schmidt................................ 209 585 6533 Ranch Website ................. www.ezangusranch.com

• Calving Ease with Growth • CONTACT US ABOUT SEMEN FROM THESE IMPRESSIVE SIRES...

O’Connell Aviator 7727

Hoffman Bomber 8743

VDAR PF Churchhill 2825

VDAR Mirror Image 6207

SIRE: Musgrave Aviator MGS: R B Tour Of Duty 177

SIRE: VDAR Churchill 1063 MGS: VDAR Really Windy 4189

LOOK FOR US AT LEADING SALES IN 2023.

SIRE: Casino Bomber N33 MGS: S A V Final Answer 0035 SIRE: W R A Mirror Image T10 MGS: BCC Bushwacker 41-93

Nathan, Melissa & Kate Noah (208) 257-3686 • (208) 550-0531

Joe Sammis • (530) 397-3456 122 Angus Rd., Dorris, CA 96023

O’Connell ranch Gerber, CA

Thanks to all our 2023 bull buyers!

Contact us year-round to see bulls and females available on the ranch!

Registered Angus Cattle Call to see what we have to offer you!

H

Scott & Shaleen Hogan

R (530) 200-1467 • (530) 227-8882

DAN & BARBARA O’CONNELL 3590 Brown Rd, Colusa CA (530) 458-4491

O’NEAL RANCH You can take to the bank!

PERFORMANCE-TESTED EFFICIENT, QUALITY ANGUS BULLS NOW AVAILABLE!

h

— Since 1878—

THANKS TO OUR 2023 “PERFORMANCE PLUS” BULL BUYERS!

O’NEAL RANCH BULLS OFFER THE COMPLETE PACKAGE GROWTH • PERFORMANCE ADAPTABILITY • CARCASS Gary & Betsy Cardoza

(775) 691-1838 • honeranch@frontier.com HONERANCH.COM

PO Box 40 • O’Neals, CA 93645 (559) 999-9510

YOUR BUSINESS COULD BE HERE!

CALL MATT MACFARLANE AT (916) 803-3113 TO LEARN MORE.

Offering bulls at California’s top consignment sales!

Call today about private treaty offerings!

RED RIVER FARMS 13750 West 10th Avenue Blythe, CA 92225 Office: 760-922-2617 Bob Mullion: 760-861-8366 Michael Mullion: 760-464-3906

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THANKS TO ALL OUR 2023 BUYERS! WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2024.

Registered Hereford Cattle & Quarter Horses

Annual Sale First Monday in March 42500 Salmon Creek Rd Baker City, OR 97814 OFFICE@VINTAGEANGUSRANCH.COM WWW.VINTAGEANGUSRANCH.COM

Ranch: (541) 523-4401 Bob Harrell, Jr.: (541) 523-4322

RED ANGUS Thanks to all this year's bull buyers!

Contact us any time to see how we can help you with your bull and female needs.

(530) 385-1570

E-mail................................tehamaranch@gmail.com

MCPHEE RED ANGUIS Call us today for information on private treaty bulls or females.

14298 N. Atkins Rd • Lodi, CA 95248 Nellie, Mike, Mary, Rita & Families Nellie (209) 727-3335 • Rita (209) 607-9719 website: www.mcpheeredangus.com

HEREFORD

A FAMILY TRADITION

To lean more about the association, contact western regional field representative colt cunningham at 918-978-8779

Angus and SimAngus Cattle John Teixeira: (805) 448-3859 Allan Teixeira: (805) 310-3353 Tom Hill: (541) 990-5479 www.teixeiracattleco.com | cattle@thousandhillsranch.com

11500 N Ambassador Drive, Suite 410 | Kansas City, MO 64153 | (816) 842-3757 | aha@hereford.org

SEEDSTOCK PRODUCER SINCE 1978

P.W. GILLIBRAND Cattle Co.

Horned and Polled Hereford Genetics

Private treaty bulls available or watch for our consignments at Cal Poly!

Dwight Joos Ranch Manager P.O. Box 1019 • Simi Valley, CA 93062 805-520-8731 x1115 • Mobile 805-428-9781 dwight.joos@pwgcoinc.com Simi Valley, CA

pwgillibrandcattle.com

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF OUR MODOC BULL SALE IN 2023! JOIN US IN OROVILLE OCT. 21 FOR OUR BUTTE BULL SALE EVENT CONTACT US FOR CATTLE AVAILABLE PRIVATE TREATY OFF THE RANCH

Oroville, CA LambertRanchHerefords.com

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE Top performance Hereford genetics —Horned and Polled—

Leading Angus & Ultrablack© Genetics Bulls and females available private treaty!

Thanks for your support in 2023!

To view bulls and females available at the ranch, contact us anytime!

Greeley Hill, CA • La Grange, CA Stephen Dunckel • (209) 591-0630 www.tumbleweedranch.net twd@tumbleweedranch.net

Chris Beck, Manager • 618-367-5397 Bob Coker • 916-539-1987 visit us online at: www.genoalivestock.com

TUMBLEWEED RANCHES

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“THE BRAND YOU CAN COUNT ON”

Call us about our upcoming consignments or private treaty cattle available off the ranch.

BARRY, CARRIE & BAILEY MORRELL Barry: (530) 6825808 • Carrie: (530) 218-5507 Bailey (530) 519-5189 morrellranches@yahoo.com 560 County Road 65, Willows CA 95988

YOUR BUSINESS COULD BE HERE!

CALL MATT MACFARLANE AT (916) 803-3113 TO LEARN MORE.

MULTI BREED

OFFERING HEREFORD BULLS BUILT FOR THE COMMERCIAL CATTLEMAN Jim Mickelson (707) 481-3440

Bobby Mickelson (707) 396-7364

BRANGUS

California’s Leading Producers for Brangus, Ultrablack & Brangus Optimizers

Call a breeder near you today for more information!

BALD MOUNTAIN BRANGUS, SONORA (209) 768-1712

DEER CREEK RANCH, LOS MOLINOS (541) 817-2335

RUNNING STAR RANCH, LINCOLN (916) 257-5517

THE SPANISH RANCH, NEW CUYAMA (805) 245-0434

SUNSET RANCH, OROVILLE (530) 990-2580

GLASGOW BRANGUS, SANTA YSABEL (760) 789-2488

TUMBLEWEED RANCHES, GREELEY HILL (209) 591-0630

CHAROLAIS SPANISH RANCH Your Source for Brangus and Ultrablack Genetics in the West!

ANIMAL HEALTH

Feedlot • Rice • Charolais 2015 AICA Seedstock Producer of the Year

Jerry & Sherry Maltby

Reliable products you are looking for with the dependable service you need.

Vaccines Mineral Medicines Supplements ...and more!

Antonia Old • (209) 769-7663

antonia.old@animalhealthinternational.com

THE DOIRON FAMILY Daniel & Pamela Doiron 805-245-0434 Cell doiron@spanishranch.net www.spanishranch.net

THD ©

PO Box 760 Williams, CA bbr@citlink.net

Mobile: (530) 681-5046 Office (530) 473-2830 www.brokenboxranch.com

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NUTRITION

MARKETING M3 MARKETING

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SALE MANAGEMENT & MARKETING PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY ORDER BUYING PRIVATE TREATY SALES PRODUCTION SALE RING SERVICE Proudly Featuring Conventional ADVERTISING 

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Williams, CA Matt Zappetini (530) 526-0106 mzappetini@baraleinc.com

Non-GMO

Certified Organic

Sales Representatives: Matt Zappetini (530) 526-0106

M3CATTLEMARKETING@GMAIL.COM (916) 803-3113 Tracy Lewis (530) 304-7246

Ranch Deliveries Available with our Truck and Forklift!

1011 Fifth Street Williams, CA. 95987 888-473-3333 info@baraleinc.com WWW.BARALEINC.COM

We also offer custom formulations to meet your specific nutritional needs!

FENCING

GENETICS

We offer blends that contain: Molasses - Zinpro® Performance Minerals - Availa® 4 - Added Selenium Yeast - Rumensin® Available

Watkins Fence Company

Over 25 years serving California, Utah and Southern Idaho

specializing in oil pipe • chain link • barb wire

3300 Longmire Drive• College Station, TX 77845 (800) 768-4066 • (979) 693-0388 fax: (979) 693-7994 e-mail: info@bovine-elite.com

(805) 649-1568 Lic # 773420 shane@watkinsfence.com

REAL ESTATE KNIPE

WANT TO SEE YOUR BUSINESS ADVERTISED HERE?

LAND COMPANY EST 1944

Mores Creek Ranch - Idaho 83± acres in a mountain setting, 30 minutes from Boise, Idaho. Includes a large main home, several cabins, a barn, and irrigation rights. $6,499,999 Owyhee River Ranch - Oregon 205± acres with 1.4± miles of river frontage. 114± acres irrigated in row crop. Farm and bird hunting.

Price reduced! Now $2,495,000 (208) 345-3163 knipeland.com

KEEP YOUR BUSINESS LISTING IN FRONT OF YOUR DIRECT AUDIENCE YEAR ROUND. ONE-TIME ANNUAL PAYMENT. CHANGE YOUR AD ANYTIME. RESERVE YOUR BUSINESS SPACE TODAY!

CONTACT MATT MACFARLANE (916) 803-3113 OR E-MAIL: M3CATTLEMARKETING@GMAIL.COM 44 California Cattleman November 2023

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION 3841 N. Freeway Blvd., Suite 130 Sacramento, CA 95834 916-444-0845 (Office) · 916-444-2194 (Fax) www.calcattlemen.org

NAME(S):

RANCH/BUSINESS NAME:

ADDRESS: CITY:

STATE:

ZIP:

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

PRIMARY PHONE:

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ DO YOU WANT TO RECEIVE OUR WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE E-MAIL BULLETIN?

Yes

No

Recruited By_________________________

Step 1: CCA Membership Pඋඈൽඎർൾඋ Mൾආൻൾඋඌඁංඉ

Fਏ਒ ਃਁਔਔ਌ਅ ਏਗ਎ਅ਒ਓ ਁ਎਄ ਔਈਏਓਅ ਓਅਅ਋ਉ਎ਇ ਁ ਖਏਔਉ਎ਇ ਍ਅ਍ਂਅ਒ਓਈਉਐ ਌ਅਖਅ਌

Cattle Numbers 2500 & Over 1600-2499 1000-1599 800-999 500-799 300-499 100-299 0-99  

Dues $1,765 $1,275 $970 $725 $615 $460 $325 $240

Calves under 6 months of age are not counted.

Stockers pay at ½ the total number of stockers owned each year or minimum dues, whichever is greater.

Aඌඌඈർංൺඍൾ Mൾආൻൾඋඌඁංඉ

Fਏ਒ ਔਈਏਓਅ ਗਈਏ ਓਕਐਐਏ਒ਔ Cਁ਌ਉਆਏ਒਎ਉਁ ਃਁਔਔ਌ਅ ਐ਒ਏ਄ਕਃਔਉਏ਎ ਂਕਔ ਄ਏ ਎ਏਔ ਏਗ਎ ਃਁਔਔ਌ਅ Nਏ਎-Vਏਔਉ਎ਇ Mਅ਍ਂਅ਒ਓਈਉਐ ਌ਅਖਅ਌

Statewide Allied/Feeder Associate $220 (includes Feeder Council Associate, Allied Industry membership and second membership.

Second membership does not include Allied Industry voting rights.)

Statewide Stewards of the Land

Nൺඍංඈඇൺඅ Cൺඍඍඅൾආൾඇ’ඌ Bൾൾൿ Aඌඌඈർංൺඍංඈඇ

REGULAR MEMBERSHIP

Cattle Numbers 2001 + 1751-2000 1501-1750 1251-1500 1001-1250 751-1000 501-750 251-500 101-250 0-100

Dues $2,027 + fair share* $2,027 $1,760 *Fair Share is $1,493 base dues plus $1,227 incremental dues over 2001 $960 head at $$.4053 $693 per cow/calf $480 $320 $160

ASSOCIATE INVESTMENT: $160

Cൺඅංൿඈඋඇංൺ Bൾൾൿ Cൺඍඍඅൾ Iආඉඋඈඏൾආൾඇඍ Aඌඌඈർංൺඍංඈඇ

MEMBERSHIP

CBCIA is an affiliate of CCA and is a producer driven organization that fosters beef cattle improvement and economical production based on information and education.

Regular Members: Associate Members: Young Cattlemen:

$35 $35 $5

LOCAL ASSOCIATON MEMBERSHIP: (Circle up to four below) Humboldt-Del Norte $15.00 Inyo-Mono-Alpine $25.00 Kern County NA Lassen County $20.00 Madera County $30.00 Mendocino County $30.00 Merced-Mariposa $30.00 Modoc County $25.00



Must own fewer than 100 head of cattle.

Must be 25 years of age or younger or a full-time student

$100

if over 25 years of age Applicant’s expected date of Graduation:

- OR -

Step 3: Total Payment

(Individual supporting members without cattle )

Amador-El Dorado-Sac $20.00 Butte $10.00 $10.00 Calaveras Contra Costa -Alameda $25.00 Fall River-Big Valley $25.00 Fresno-Kings $20.00 Glenn-Colusa $20.00 High Desert $25.00



$ 25

Applicant’s Birth Date:_______________

(Available to non-producers who support the industry.)

Step 2: Other Optional Dues

Nਏ਎-Vਏਔਉ਎ਇ Mਅ਍ਂਅ਒ਓਈਉਐ

Young Cattlemen’s Committee

$150

(Available to non-producers that own land on which cattle could or are run.)

CCA Supporting Member

Yඈඎඇ඀ Cൺඍඍඅൾආൾඇ Mൾආൻൾඋඌඁංඉ

Monterey County $25.00 Napa-Solano $20.00 Plumas-Sierra $10.00 San Benito $20.00 San Diego-Imperial $10.00 San Joaquin-Stanislaus $5.00 San Luis Obispo $30.00 Santa Barbara $25.00

CCA

$

NCBA

$

CBCIA

$

Payment Options:

□ Check payable to CCA

Local (All) $ TOTAL

□

$

□

Card #___________________________________ Exp______/________ CVV__________________ Name on Card ____________________________ Signature ________________________________ Santa Clara Shasta County Siskiyou County Sonoma-Marin Tahoe Tehama County Tulare County Tuolumne County

$25.00 $20.00 $10.00 $10.00 $15.00 $20.00 $5.00 $10.00

Ventura County Yolo County Yuba –Sutter

$35.00 $25.00 $25.00

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Advertisers’ Index

Amador Angus................................................................................................40

Matt Macfarlane Marketing...................................................................44

American Hereford Association.......................................................... 42

McPhee Red Angus..................................................................................... 42

Animal Health International.................................................................. 43

Morrell Ranches............................................................................................. 42

Bar Ale .................................................................................................................44

Norbrook Noromycin...........................................................................67, 27

Bar KD Ranch..................................................................................................40

O'Connell Ranch............................................................................................. 41

Bar R Angus......................................................................................................40

O'Neal Ranch..................................................................................................... 41

BovineElite LLC...............................................................................................44

P.W. Gillibrand Cattle Co........................................................................... 42

Broken Box Ranch........................................................................................ 43

Pacific Trace Minerals.................................................................................44

Buchanan Angus Ranch..........................................................................40

Red River Farms.............................................................................................. 41

Byrd Cattle Co..................................................................................................40

Ritchie Manufacturing.................................................................................21

Cattlemen's Livestock Market................................................................. 2

Schohr Hereford Ranch............................................................................ 43

Chico State College of Ag........................................................................ 43

Shasta Farm and Equipment............................................................... 36

Conlin Supply Co., Inc.................................................................................. 19

Sierra Ranch...................................................................................................... 43

Dal Porto Livestock......................................................................................40

Sonoma Mountain Herefords............................................................... 43

Dixie Valley Angus........................................................................................ 47

Spanish Ranch................................................................................................ 43

Donati Ranch...................................................................................................40

Stanislaus Farm Supply.............................................................................33

Envu/Rejuvra......................................................................................................13

Stepaside Farm................................................................................................ 41

EZ Angus Ranch............................................................................................40

Steve Basolo....................................................................................................... 17

Freitas Rangeland Improvments....................................................... 38

Tehama Angus Ranch................................................................................ 42

Fresno State Ag Foundation................................................................. 43

Teixeira Cattle Co........................................................................................... 42

Genoa Livestock............................................................................................. 42

Tumbleweed Ranches............................................................................... 42

Harrell Hereford Ranch............................................................................. 42

Turlock Livestock Auction Yard............................................................... 5

Hogan Ranch.................................................................................................... 41

Vintage Angus Ranch........................................................................42, 48

Hone Ranch....................................................................................................... 41

Watkins Fence Company........................................................................44

Kessler Angus................................................................................................... 41

West Coast Brangus Breeders............................................................. 43

Knipe Land Company.................................................................................37

Western Livestock Market.......................................................................... 3

Knipe Land Company................................................................................44

Western Poly Pipe........................................................................................ 38

Lambert Ranches......................................................................................... 42

Western Stockman's Market.................................................................... 9

Lipha Tech...........................................................................................................25

Wraith, Scarlett, Randolph Insurance............................................. 39

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Watch for a strong selection of yearling and 18-month -old bulls

AT THE 2023 GREAT BASIN BULL SALE — JOIN US FEBRUARY 17 IN FALLON, NEVADA —

Name

Reg No.

DOB

CED

BW

WW

YW

SC

CW

MILK

MARB

RE

$B

$C

Sterling Whitewater 2142

20589011

8/8/22

3

2.4

95

172

0.49

90

38

1.44

1.09

229

351

Sterling Deadwood 2149

20446875

8/21/22

6

1.5

79

148

0.89

83

29

1.15

0.71

214

318

Sterling Enhancer 2168

20483081

10/09/22

0

3.2

80

149

0.9

58

20

1.51

0.87

206

323

Sterling Father 2183

20590319

8/18/22

7

0.6

78

140

0.63

57

31

0.93

0.77

173

273

Sterling Bond 2188

20539075

8/21/22

9

0.7

82

151

1.11

66

28

0.7

0.9

169

300

Sterling Father 2192

20539565

8/23/22

5

5

107

174

1.19

91

11

1.2

0.91

228

331

Sterling Greater Good 2193

20557817

8/23/22

1

3.6

88

154

0.21

79

24

0.87

1.13

198

307

Sterling Deadwood 2207

20539077

8/26/22

10

0.5

72

125

1.28

61

18

1.13

0.73

196

289

Sterling Father 2215

20539563

8/31/22

9

1.8

84

147

1.52

73

35

1.34

0.46

195

305

Sterling Father 2217

20539560

8/31/22

-3

5.5

102

181

2.52

84

23

1.33

1.03

222

331

Sterling Iconic 2224

20559586

9/08/22

9

0.5

71

120

0.63

50

30

1.24

0.68

161

277

Sterling Chatooga 2230

20539081

9/12/22

9

3.9

93

172

1.11

83

26

0.93

0.64

189

317

Sterling Deadwood 301

20678747

2/7/23

10

1.1

72

138

1.24

81

18

1.26

0.86

232

329

Sterling Carity 302

20680021

2/12/23

12

0.8

85

158

1.33

81

21

1.47

0.82

222

356

Sterling Whitewater 305

20678737

2/17/23

3

2.9

91

160

1.56

78

25

1.36

1.2

208

324

Sterling Craftsman 310

20681139

2/23/23

2

3.9

73

127

0.89

63

30

0.72

1.01

174

318

Sterling Deadwood 318

20678743

3/7/23

7

0.8

82

145

0.62

88

16

1.22

1.35

241

356

STERLING VERSATILE 2152

STERLING VERSATILE 2152 WAS THE 2023 OVERALL MULTI-TRAIT ANGUS CHAMPION AT CAL POLY! Baldridge Versatile X Basin Payweight 1682

CED

BW

WW

YW

Milk

Marb

RE

$M

$W

$F

$G

$B

$C

6

2.0

99

181

27

1.16

0.71

55

80

132

77

209

326

1%

1%

5%

1%

10%

2%

3%

10%

THANK YOU TO ALL THE BUYERS WHO BOUGHT AND BID ON OUR BULLS AT THE 2023 CAL POLY BULL TEST SALE!

WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT OF OUR PROGRAM! Lee Nobmann, owner Morgon Patrick, managing partner

(530) 526-5920 • morgon@nobmanncattle.com www.dixievalleyangus.com • follow us on facebook!

Private treaty bulls always available on the ranch.

Montague, CA

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THANK YOU!!!

TO ALL THE VINTAGE ANGUS CUSTOMERS VINTAGE ANGUS RANCH

VINTAGE ANGUS RANCH

BULL SALE

FEMALE SALE

Grossed $2,287,000

Grossed $2,499,750

SPECIAL THANK YOU TO Triple A Farms, Milan, TN. for their selection of:

SPECIAL THANK YOU TO Nowatzke Cattle Co., Michigan City, IN. Maple Lane Farms, Michigan City, IN. Deer Valley Farms, Fayetteville, TN for their selection of:

LOT 202 VAR FIRE LINE 2667

LOT 9B VINTAGE FANNY 2651

85 LOTS

223 LOTS

OCTOBER 8, 2023

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

CARCASS

CARCASS

GB Fireball 672

18690054

G A R Sure Fire 6404

G A R Sure Fire

MARB

1.73

G A R Complete N281

RE

1.07

FAT

1.009

TEND

66

G A R Anticipation

GB Anticipation 432

GB Ambush 269

Vintage Commader 4152 Vintage Rita 8089

19034729

SJH Ten X of 6108 4715

G A R Prophet K263

Beal Breakthrough

19829112

H P C A Sure Fire S6

VALUES

Rito 9M25 of Rita 5F56 Pred Sandpoint Blackbird 8809 A A R Ten X 7008 S A DRMCTR 1I1 Rita 6108

$M

63

$W

82

$F

123

$G

114

$B

237

V A R Power Play 7018 Orphan’s Fanny 9530

19649711

Black Gold Fanny R713

MARB 0.98

G A R Prophet Chair Rock 5050 G A R 1131 G A R Sure Fire H P C A Ingenuity A372

RE

1.49

FAT

-0.049

TEN

72

VALUES

$M

Basin Payweight 1682 Sandpoint Blackbird 8809 V A R Discovery 2240 2 Bar 28 Ambush 1735

92

$W

86

$F

149

$G

86

$B

235

$C

397

$C

370

CED

BW

WW

YW

DMI

DOC

CEM

MILK

CW

CED

BW

WW

YW

DMI

DOC

CEM

MILK

CW

15

0.3

91

165

1.79

24

19

26

81

12

2.5

107

190

2.24

33

21

113

102

THE $210,000 TOP SELLING BULL

JIM COLEMAN, OWNER DOUG WORTHINGTON, MANAGER BRAD WORTHINGTON, OPERATIONS MIKE HALL, BULL SERVICES

THE $250,000 TOP SELLING FEMALE

(209) 521-0537 2702 SCENIC BEND, MODESTO, CA 95355 WWW.VINTAGEANGUSRANCH.COM OFFICE@VINTAGEANGUSRANCH.COM