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On the Cover

10 Who Are They Kidding? by Lee Pitts 14 Can Genomic Tests Work for the Commercial Beef Producer

by Burt Rutherford, BEEF magazine 16 Riding Herd by Lee Pitts 18 The Current Beef Checkoff Lawsuit by Heather Smith Thomas 23 On the Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black 23 Why the 2020 Census Matters for Rural Americans by John Green, routefifty.com 25 Profit Tip: Marketing Plans for Your Cattle Operation, by University of Nebraska Lincoln 26 Four Look Forward by Kindra Gorden for the King Ranch Institute 28 The New (Dis)Order in Today's Markets

by Abbie Burnett, 2019 Feeding Quality Forum 29 Bob McCan National Golden Spur Award Recipient 30 Global Warming? An Israeli Astrophysicist Provides an Alternative View that is Not Easy to Reject by nzenews 32 Sell-Buy Marketing Provides Year-Round Cash Flow by Heather Smith Thomas 34 Six Cattle Market Trends Could Make Money by Alan Newport, Farmprogress.com 35 Fake Meat Deserves the Same Regulations, Oversight as Beef

by Missy Bonds, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Director 36 Pasture, Rangeland & Forage (PRF): What you should know

by Brandon Willis, USDA RMA Administrator 2013 - 2017 37 Increasing Economic Efficiency with Genomics by Wes Ishmael, Beef magazine 38 Top 5 Reproductive Failures in Beef Operations & How to Avoid Them

by Ryon Walker PhD, Livestock Consultant, Noble Research Station 39 Consumers Prefer Real Beef Over Alternatives by Greg Henderson, Drovers 40 Increasing Marbling in Beef Without Increasing Overall Fat by Texas Tech University 40 Cattle Trade Update by Derrell S. Peel

by Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist 42 Arizona Cowboy Ed Ashurst Receives RHA Working Cowboy Award 43 CA Mayor Proposes That Gun Owners Carry Insurance for Their Weapons

by Bill Lucia, routefifty.com 43 2019 Preconditioning & Stocker Outlook

by Jason Bradley, Agricultural Economics Consultant, Noble Research Foundation 44 FWS Opens Record Number of Refuges for Hunting & Fishing by Michael Doyle, E&E News 50 Wildfire Tips for Ranchers & Landowners byTexas A & M Agrilife Extension 50 Wildfire Ready Checklist

by M.L. Russell, Assistant Professor of Ext. Range Specialist, Ecosystem Mgt. TAMU Agrilife 51 Repeatability of Calving Difficulty

by Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist 52 Interior Announces Improvement to the Endangered Species Act 53 If You Want "Renewable Energy" Get Ready to Dig by Mark P. Mills, Wall Street Journal 54 The Westerner by Frank Dubois 56 The Future of Beef Marketing 58 View From the Backside by Barry Denton 61 Collector's Corner - Pancho Villa's Knife by Jim Olson

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Who Are They Kidding?

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f you haven’t guessed by now, beef is at war and we are being attacked from all angles and on all fronts. If it’s not wolves laying in wait to attack, it’s Congressmen doing the same thing. If it’s not wild horses taking over more and more of your land it’s rogue bureaucrats from the alphabet agencies like BLM, USDA, USFS, or EPA. If it’s not health issues like anthrax, TB or E. coli trying to kill off your market and your cows, it’s wild-eyed vegetarians and vegans who want the power to dictate to the rest of us what’s for dinner.

Yes, we have issues, but there’s one group more than any other that has the potential to destroy the beef business and the funny thing is... you created it! First with your sperm and your eggs and then by housing them long after they should have been kicked from the nest. I’m referring to the “millennial” generation, which despite the fact we raised and educated them, still remains a deep mystery to us.

FAKE NEWS AND FAKE MEAT

If you’ve read a metro newspaper, or a menu in a high dollar restaurant, you already know that the millennials don’t like us very much. And when I use the term “millennial” I am referring to that part of

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the US population verting to veganism (vegthat’s between the ans don’t consume any ages of 18 and 34 animal products includwhich amounts to ing cheese and eggs) the 80 million consum3 percent population ers. They comprise number for vegetarians nearly a quarter of has changed little over the US population the years. But it’s a very but have much vocal 3 percent. Outside more power than Magazine says, “The milthat because they lennial generation is shapare in the sweet ing America and having a spot of consumerprofound effect on how ism. They aren’t yet and what we eat. Among too old to be living all generations millenin assisted care, nor nials spend the smallest S T IT P

by L E E are they too young share of their food budto still be surviving on an allowance. gets on red meat. Millennials favor veggies You’d think that all 80 million millennials over meat.” are vegetarians to hear fake news reporters These millennials also snack more than crow about the growing “altMEAT” move- they dine, get almost all their information ment, which is how the fake news reporters from the web, demand more labeling on refer to fake meat. (The “alt” stands for their food (or so they say), are extremely self alternative.) By most accounts there are now confident and consider themselves environseven million American vegetarians living mentalists. On their 65 inch televisions they amongst us, or 3 percent of the US popu- watch sports more than they play them and if lation. The fake news reporters claim there they play baseball, football or golf at all it’s are more vegetarians converting to veganism the video game version.

Like it or not, it is this segment of the American population that we have to convince that beef is not all bad.

Outside Magazine is the bible for the more active members of the millennial generation. It calls itself, “America’s leading active lifestyle magazine.” They claim a monthly audience of over two million readers worldwide in print, in magevery day with the number of vegans increas- azine racks in grocery stores and on the web. ing by 600 percent in the last five years.

On July 31 Outside Magazine contributing While there may be more vegetarians con- editor Rowan Jacobsen wrote a feature story

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entitled, “This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry.”

When Rowan wrote, “Cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets,” it was enough to make a cattleman jump off his tallest windmill.

MUNG BEANS ANYONE?

An overwhelming majority of millennials say they want their food to be unprocessed, with no additives or chemicals and they want it clearly labeled. But let’s compare ground beef to Boca’s All American Veggie Burgers.

Whereas beef has one ingredient, beef, Boca’s burgers have 30! And if the millennials would read the labels they’d find a lot of what they say they don’t like. Here’s what’s inside a Boca burger, for example: methylcellulose, soy protein concentrate, reduced fat cheddar cheese pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto, vitamin a palmitate, wheat gluten, dried onions, caramel color, salt, cheese powder cheddar cheese milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, cream, salt, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, natural flavor (non-meat), hydrolyzed corn protein, sesame oil, spices and herbs, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, dried garlic, mannitol, yeast extract and corn oil.

Um, yummy!

Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger has 18 ingredients including water, pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein, natural flavors, cocoa butter, mung bean protein, methylcellulose, potato starch, apple extract, salt, potassium chloride, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, sunflower lecithin, pomegranate fruit powder, beet juice extract.

Beet juice, peas, pomegranates and mung beans? These burgers ought to be sold next to the rutabagas, for crying out loud!

WOOF, WOOF

Polling data shows that almost 40 percent of vegetarians say they want to avoid processed foods and millennials especially say they want their food to be pure, simple and grown locally. Yet they’re all excited about two products now showing up at fast food restaurants and on grocery shelves, the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger, that are the definition of “processed”. In fact, University of California at Davis Professor Frank Mitloehner says the ingredients in those two leading plant-based beef alternatives are so processed that they are similar to dog food. To prove it he went on his Twitter account and asked responders if they could tell by a listing of their contents if they could

guess which was the Impossible Burger, the Beyond Burger and a brand of dog food. The professor reported that he got thousands of responses and “most of them were wrong.”

In August the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) started placing ads in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post highlighting many of the ingredients in fake bacon and fake sausage. CCF also launched a web site, CleanFoodFacts.com, to provide a side-by-side analysis of fake meat products and real meat. The ads and website are part of a larger campaign to show the truth behind fake meat and its supposed health benefits.

CCF managing director Will Coggin said, “Despite what the name leads people to believe, ‘plant-based’ meats are made in industrial facilities, not gardens. Fake meat companies are trying to promote a ‘health halo’ over their products, but consumers should know that imitation meat is highly processed and in some cases has more calories and sodium than the real thing.”

HIGH TECH FOOD

One of the reasons millennials love Beyond Meat is because it was the first California-based startup (Los Angeles) to use technology to make meat profitably. And we all know how much millennials love their

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technology.

According to Outside’s Rowan Jacobsen, “By 2018, sales of both the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger were surging, and the companies began to ink deals with restaurant chains. Beyond Meat got Carl’s Jr. and A&W (as well as supermarket chains like Food Lion and Safeway), while Impossible got White Castle. They’re coming back at Del Taco, too, which launched a Beyond Meat taco in April.

Within two months, it had sold two million, one of the most successful product launches in its history, so it decided to add Beyond Meat burritos as well.

It’s not just beef under assault, as the Digest went to press KFC announced that they would be bringing out plant-based chicken from Beyond Meat in some of their stores.

“And then there’s Burger King,” wrote Jacobsen. “The second-largest fast-food chain in the world rattled big beef’s cage by testing an Impossible Whopper in St. Louis in April.

Resulting foot traffic was so strong that Burger King decided to serve the Impossible Whopper in all 7,200 restaurants, marking the moment when alt meat stopped being alt.”

Jacobsen wrote, “Impossible Foods has performed more than 26,000 blind taste tests on its burger, which is on track to surpass

ground beef in those tests in the near future.” bulls that long ago lost their teeth.

“That was enough to get the meat industry The Outside Magazine contributing editor to snap to attention,” wrote Jacobsen. “This also wrote that, “Cows are not optimized to year is shaping up to be the inflection point make meat; they’re optimized to be cows. when this becomes obvious to everybody else. It takes 36,000 calories of feed to produce Beyond Meat’s products are in 15,000 gro- 1,000 calories of beef. In the process, it uses cery stores in the US, and its sales have more more than 430 gallons of water and 1,500 than doubled each year. On May 2, it held its square feet of land, and it generates nearly IPO, offering stock at $25 and the market ten kilograms of greenhouse-gas emissions. currently estimates Beyond Meat’s worth at In comparison, an Impossible Burger uses 87 close to $10 billion. percent less water, 96 percent less land, and “These companies are no longer little mam- produces 89 percent fewer greenhouse-gas mals scurrying around the feet of the big-beef emissions. Beyond Meat’s footprint is simidinosaurs,” wrote Jacobsen. “And they are larly svelte.” gearing up for an epic head-to-head battle.”

Again, Jacobsen is using the same old wrong numbers to derive at the same old GMO’S ANYONE? false conclusion. He assumes that everything According to Jacobsen, “Part of the appeal a cow eats is feedlot grain while in fact cows of the new burgers is their smaller environ- eat grass that would otherwise go up in mental footprint. Beef is the most wasteful smoke in out-of-control rangeland grass fires. food on the planet,” he contends. “America According to Jacobsen, the core of Beyond gets 97 percent of its beef from feedlots. And Beef is pea protein while Impossible uses soy. feedlots are irredeemable.”

“Beyond Beef gets its bloody color from beet The preceding quote makes you wonder juice; Impossible uses heme—the same molabout the validity of all the rest of Jacobsen’s ecule that makes our blood red—to achieve research. It’s just a repetition of the same old its meaty color and flavor. Impossible Foods’ lie when in fact the animals that were ground breakthrough was to genetically engineer up to make ground beef probably never spent yeast to produce soy heme in a tank, like a day in their lives in a feedlot. They’re either beer,” wrote Jacobsen. barren dairy cows or old range cows and

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Did you catch that? Jacobsen wrote that a genetically engineered yeast is used to produce the heme in the Impossible burger.

I thought vegetarians and other millennials were supposed to be against genetically modified organisms? Talk about a bunch of hypocrites!

THIS IS DEPRESSING

Millennials were taught in school that all beef is bad. Now vegans, vegetarians and millennials think they’re eating healthy because they’re quitting beef. They get on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere on the net and brag to each other about how much healthier they are since quitting red meat. They’re only fooling themselves.

What many in the millennial generation refuse to admit is that a vegetarian diet is deficient in many things the human body needs to function normally. As a result vegetarians are less healthy than meat eaters according to a study conducted by the Medical University of Graz in Austria. Researchers there found that the vegetarian diet carries elevated risks of cancer, allergies and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.

Despite drinking less, smoking less, and being more physically active than the meat eaters in the study, the results shows that vegetarians are almost twice as likely to be suffering from depression. (I’d be depressed too if my hamburgers were made with beet juice.) The vegetarians also are more apt to have lower fertility and many scientists say it is because they are missing the vitamin B12 and some fatty acids found in red meat.

predicts Jacobsen. He says, “Beef is a headache. It comes with a lot of baggage to worry about: antibiotic resistance, E. coli outbreaks, animal welfare, climate change. It’s the kind of icky biological variable that corporate America would love to leave behind—and as soon as beef becomes less profitable, it will.

Recent projections suggest that 60 percent of the meat eaten in 2040 will be “alt”, a figure I think may actually be too conservative,” predicts Jacobsen. “This is a battle for America’s flame-broiled soul. Meat is about to break free from its animal past.”

Time will tell. But one other thing we’ve

learned about the millennials is that as they move out of mom and dad’s house and begin to get better jobs and bigger paychecks one of the first things they do is buy more beef.

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Can Genomic Tests Work for the Commercial Beef Producer?

Beyond helping you know the genetic merit of the bulls you buy, genomic tests could help your management as well

by Burt Rutherford, BEEF magazine

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he short answer to the question posed in the headline is yes, but it depends.

It starts with being able to capture commercial-level data, says Matt Spangler, animal geneticist at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Spangler was speaking at King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management (KRIRM) Lectureship on genetics recently in Denver. The lectureship, sponsored

by Neogen, was held in Colorado through a partnership among KRIRM, Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, and Colorado State University.

Those data can be collected at a packing plant, feedyard or larger commercial cow-calf outfit. “Capturing large volumes of commercial level data not only enables more accurate

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EPDs, but it could also enable relationships spend money on the tests. “It’s discouraging to be quantified between commercial and to have somebody who spent a lot of money seedstock animals assuming both seedstock on testing come up to you after the fact and and commercial animals are genotyped,” he say, ‘Now what to do with it?’ Hopefully that says. Kind of a genomic pedigree, so to speak. question was asked before the investment “This process could provide a much-need- was made.” ed feedback loop of information in the beef Spangler suggests considering parentage industry and, in return, allow for the poten- tests, if you’re a commercial producer who tial of managing commercial animals based wants to dip your toes in the water of genomon genetic potential. I think that’s where we ics testing. This will help you select the need to head from an industry perspective.” heifers to keep back by determining which Clearly, however, not all commercial cow- ones are out of AI sires or sires that are more calf ranchers have the resources to link their ‘maternally’ oriented. genetics with downstream partners like a There are also benefits for your steers. feedyard or packer. But there’s plenty of There are several online feeder profit calcuinterest in getting pull-through demand for lators that use the genetic makeup of your improved genetics. herd to validate the predicted feedlot sucSpangler states that coordination as men- cess of your feeder calves. Among them are tioned above is a work in progress. However, the International Genetics Solutions Feeder commercial producers can leverage the Profit Calculator and AngusLink. power of genomics today by simply buying Bottom line, Spangler says, is that the bulls with genomically-enhanced EPDs. “If value of genetics extends far past the seedwe just know the sire, we’ve accounted for stock sector and the selling of bulls. Similarly, a quarter of the additive genetic differences the value of collecting data to use in genetics between animals.” evaluations extends beyond the seedstock But, he cautions, if commercial producers sector as well. Large gains in system-wide are going to step into the genomics realm, efficiency could be achieved with improved they need to have an idea of what they’re information and data sharing to enable going to do the information before they more accurate selection and management decisions.

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

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he big thing in ranching currently is in discovering profit centers on your ranch that were previously lying dormant. I’m talking recreational ranching where you charge dudes who want to be western for a week. Ranching dudes is nothing new, Howard Eaton started the first one in 1881 and Oscar Wilde later came up with the term by combining the word “dud” with “attitude.”

You may think that because you’re ranching in Freezeout, Mud Flats or Suckertown that you have nothing to offer, no world class fishing stream, rustic cabin, or herd of elk for the gunsels to shoot at. But just because your ranch isn’t near Jackson Hole doesn’t mean you can’t cash in; simply turn your negatives into positives.

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Mining the Miners head to toe. And there will be no time-consuming snags or fish to clean afterwards.

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Same with hunting. The dudes won’t have to buy lots of ammunition, or get dirty skinning any exotic game because there hasn’t been as much as a forked horn on your place in a hundred years. Guests probably don’t even need a license because they’re just going to get skunked. And do you know how expensive taxidermy can be? Dudes won’t have to get up early either because no matter what time they go hunting they aren’t going to find anything. So sleep in.

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There’s no need to hire a cowboy to break the broncs or get the kinks out of your mares that have been running wild. Kill two birds with one stone and let the dudes do it.

(Perhaps that’s a poor choice of words.) Let them wear their hats on backwards and their angora chaps in the middle of summer. Who cares if your guests couldn’t ride a mountain without holding on to a tree, or have never been closer to a cow than a Big Mac? You don’t need an Olympic size pool either, your guests can go skinny dipping in your pond. Who needs to be wrapped in seaweed when they can be wrapped in pond scum? The dudes will want an “authentic western experience” so let them pick up rocks, grub mesquite, feed the cows, re-roof the barn and string wire. Instead of massages and hot rocks on their backs let them lay naked on your rock pile when it’s 109 outside.

Who needs a chemical peel when they’ll be scabbed from head to toe after trying to ride your renegades.

You don’t need some five-star resort, just let your guests sleep outside under the stars.

When it gets 20 below and they’re banging on your door, let them sleep on your couch for a small upcharge. It’s called “mining the miners.” If you live in Douglas or El Paso you can charge extra for eco-tours to the border where your guests can pick up the trash left by your previous guests... the illegal ones.

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with the packers—Beef Industry Council--to become the NCBA) was in financial distress and saw the Beef Checkoff as a way to solve their financial woes. And unfortunately, the beef promotion agenda by the new NCBA was and still is global rather than promoting beef raised by American producers.

In 1996, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) became the main contractor of the Checkoff Program, receiving most of the approximately $80 million collected annually. Soon after that, however, many Checkoff-paying cattlemen became

dissatisfied with the program because of against USDA in Montana federal district The plaintiffs claim that the state beef its generic promotion of beef (regardless of court, attacking the constitutionality of the councils are private entities which are not where it came from, rather than promoting Beef Checkoff Program by claiming that since subject to federal oversight and therefore U.S. beef) and the manner in which the half of the federal assessment stays with the not protected under the government speech NCBA was handling the funds under its Montana Beef Council (MBC), this forces doctrine. The state beef councils are private control.

R-CALF members and other Montana cattle actors. R-CALF takes issue with Montana Constitutionality of the federal government producers to subsidize speech of a private Beef Council’s advertising campaigns which financing promotion of agricultural promote both domestic and foreign products has been reviewed by the beef. The plaintiffs only wish to Supreme Court several times, but On June 21, 2017, the Montana district promote domestic beef. The whole government speech is exempt from purpose of the checkoff in the first First Amendment scrutiny. Because place was to promote the U.S. beef court granted the plaintiff’s motion the Beef Board was subject to fedproducers’ product. eral oversight, the Supreme Court On June 21, 2017, the Montana for a preliminary injunction preventing the ruled that the promotional messages district court granted the plaintiff’s by the Beef Board were government Montana Beef Council from using any funds motion for a preliminary injuncspeech and the Checkoff program is tion preventing the Montana Beef constitutional.

Council from using any funds from from the Beef Checkoff program to fund With the Supreme Court ruling the Beef Checkoff program to fund that the program is “Government advertising campaigns without conadvertising campaigns without consent of Speech” this made the funds colsent of the payer. In April 2018, the lected (under the program) govern9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the payer.” ment funds rather than beef cattle the injunction. If producers wish producer funds. This change in designation council. R-CALF’s position is that producers for the money to go back to their state, they had significant implications regarding the shouldn’t be forced to pay into a private must fill out a consent form. Otherwise the administration and accounting of these funds group that engages in speech with which they entire amount will be sent to the Cattlemen’s both at the federal and state level, since they disagree—such as the generic promotion of Beef Board. That injunction applied only to were now a tax. beef, no matter where it is actually produced, the Montana Beef Council’s ability to use the On May 2, 2016, R-CALF USA filed suit such as in other countries. checkoff funds in advertising.

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Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF, says this taking any money away from the purpose it is with the state beef councils and these state case hinges entirely on a constitutional ques- meant for. Our lawsuit’s goal is to empower beef councils send the NCBA some of that tion. “We are defending the First Amendment the individual producers in their own state to money. The states have been sending NCBA rights of every producer, and that’s the right choose whether they wish to continue fund- $10 million per year that is not subject to not to be compelled to fund the private ing the state beef council. What our lawsuit the same level of oversight as the money that speech of private entities when the produc- does, if it is successful, will hold those state goes to the national Cattlemen’s Beef Board,” er does not agree with the message being beef councils accountable to the payers—to Bullard explains. spoken. These private entities are promoting do what they are supposed to be doing with “We knew that the state councils were generic beef. They are telling consumers the money. And if the state beef councils are functioning as pass-through routes. The to just buy beef. It doesn’t matter where it doing it right, doing a good job, producers federal dollars require that NCBA submits comes from. They are saying that beef is beef will likely support them—given the fact that proposals and win a contract, in order to and it’s all the same,” he says. they have to pay the money anyway,” he says. receive checkoff dollars. But the money that That message is contrary to the interests “This just gives producers a choice as to flows from the states to the NCBA is unenof R-CALF members (and most cow-calf whether they want the state to keep half or if cumbered by that process. It’s a direct passproducers in the U.S.) who wish to promote they want all the money to go to the national through (with no strings attached). It’s not and advertise their USA-produced beef that Cattlemen’s Beef Board. If the state is doing just funneled to the NCBA. It also goes to is the highest quality and safest beef in the a good job and the producers recognize that the U.S. Meat Export Federation and to the world. “Our producers strive hard to have a good job, producers have the option to allow U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, which good, healthy product, produced under the the state to keep half the money the produc- is a private entity consisting largely of meat very best of conditions. packers and the meat Yet we cannot use our packing lobby,” he says. checkoff dollars to pro“That’s what is We are defending the First Amendment rights of every mote our product, and wrong with the current this is fundamentally system. The states are producer, and that’s the right not to be compelled to wrong. This is why we funneling money to fund the private speech of private entities when the producer initiated this lawsuit,” these other entities that he explains. are not subject to the does not agree with the message being spoken. These “This should be the same oversight as the end of the discussion. dollars that flow to the private entities are promoting generic beef. They are telling If the court determines Cattlemen’s Beef Board that this is a violation of at the national level.” consumers to just buy beef. It doesn’t matter where it comes the Constitution—for Many producers don’t these private entities to realize this. from. They are saying that beef is beef and it’s all the same.” take half of the produc“There is a pay-toers’ dollars mandated play scheme that the by the checkoff act—this should be the end ers are required to pay to the checkoff. It give NCBA has created, in that the states have to of it. We don’t want to do anything that vio- producers a choice they would otherwise not pay tens of thousands of dollars for a seat on lates our constitutional rights, and R-CALF have. As a result, for the producer, there is the NCBA’s federation division. The states is defending the constitutional rights of every less government involvement,” he says. can buy as many seats as they want, in order producer who pays any one of these states, “As an analogy, R-CALF is a purely volun- to have a greater presence in the NCBA fedand we now have 15 states that are joined in tary organization. If our members don’t like eration. Some of those seats cost hundreds this lawsuit. Four of these states have joined what we are doing, they don’t support us with of thousands of dollars. States like Nebraska, the case as an intervening party.” their money. If they do like what we are doing, for example, send more than a million dollars they support us. This keeps us accountable, per year to the NCBA. We call that a pay-toMISUNDERSTANDINGS and it’s purely voluntary. That’s how a free play scheme,” explains Bullard.

It’s a complex issue that has murky market should be working, as opposed to the edges because many producers don’t fully government mandating that producers fund DIVERSIONARY TACICS BY NCBA understand what the lawsuit is about or why something they may not believe in,” says The NCBA has much to gain by having R-CALF sued USDA in the first place, taking Bullard. the states continue to funnel money from the issue with the Montana Beef Council’s use of “This suit does not do what some people state portion of checkoff funds, and does not checkoff money. For instance, some ranchers think it does. It does not stop an individual want R-CALF to win this lawsuit. NCBA and in other states wonder why R-CALF wants producer from continuing to support his/ opponents of the lawsuit have been trying to to “stop” the checkoff in their states where her own state beef council. The producer has put R-CALF in a bad light, even to the point they have paid checkoff dollars and are every right to do that, if we prevail in our of claiming that R-CALF has ties with animal happy with the job their state is doing with lawsuit. We want producers to have the right rights groups like HSUS, and questioning that money, promoting beef. They feel that to choose,” he says. where the money is coming from to fund the R-CALF wants to take their “free speech” The NCBA is opposed to R-CALF’s suit lawsuit. There have also been rumors that away. This perception of the lawsuit is a total because the NCBA benefits monetarily from the R-CALF CEO has a huge salary, implying misunderstanding, according to Bullard. the beef checkoff—a mandatory tax that the that this is somehow a mismanagement of its “This is a misinterpretation of what we are states can siphon off from every dollar col- members’ support. doing,” says Bullard. “First of all, we are not lected. “The NCBA has close relationships “The truth about where our money comes

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from is that we are a voluntary membership organization. All of our funds come from our membership dues or contributions above the dues by some members. We are an independent private corporation. Regarding salaries, there are many other agriculture groups whose CEOs have higher salaries,” says Bullard.

In late 2017 the publication Agri-Pulse published an article about CEO salaries in the Farm, Food and Energy sectors. It listed the salaries of 120 CEOs of various non-profit organizations, including R-CALF USA. “The R-CALF USA salary falls in the lowest 13 percentile, meaning the R-CALF CEO receives less compensation than most all of the other CEOs that represent organizations that attempt to do what R-CALF USA does for their respective members,” he explains.

R-CALF USA and the NCBA both compete for the same cattle-producing members, but NCBA pays their CEO and staff much higher salaries. These salaries are all public information and a person can see what they are. “For instance, looking at the schedule of compensation for several NCBA employees in 2008, over a decade ago, shows that in 2008 their CEO, Terry Stokes, was earning over $289,000, and 10 of his staff members were earning more at that time than I earn today. Terry Stokes is the CEO I debated in 2004 and NCBA has refused to debate with R-CALF a second time. The total compensation paid to NCBA staffers who work for the NCBA’s CEO receive much higher salaries than do R-CALF USA staff,” says Bullard.

He also clarified the accusation the NCBA has been making regarding a link to HSUS— an animal protection group that actively attacks animal agriculture and promotes a vegetarian lifestyle. “The ‘link’ is that for many years, R-CALF worked closely with the Organization for Competitive Markets.

In more recent years, that organization has partnered with the HSUS. They asked us to do the same; they asked R-CALF to join with them in a lawsuit that the HSUS is funding on a Freedom-of-Information Act issue. Our board declined, stating that we do not wish to work with the HSUS. We parted company and do not work as closely now with the Organization for Competitive Markets, as a result. We do not want any involvement with HSUS, and we have none. Yet when people look back and say, ‘You worked with OCM,’ they try to make a connection,” Bullard says, attempting to put R-CALF in a bad light with beef producers.

“The fact of the matter is that OCM may still be working on some of the same issues that are important to our members. In those

cases we may join on a letter with them in support of an issue that our members are trying to win. We are not going to jeopardize our members’ abilities to achieve their goals, if in order to accomplish those goals we need to work with other groups. We work with a large number of other groups, but we don’t work with OCM like we used to, because of their HSUS involvement. But we have no direct involvement whatsoever with HSUS; it’s just the relationship we have had in some instances with OCM—a group that continues to have a relationship with HSUS,” says Bullard.

“We are far less connected with HSUS than the NCBA is to the World Wildlife Fund, an organization that is trying to reduce meat consumption in developed and high-income countries like the U.S. It is an interesting argument that NCBA is making about R-CALF, when they themselves have partnered with a global environmental group whose stated goal is to reduce red meat consumption,” he says.

“The NCBA attack on R-CALF is simply a distraction, to get people thinking about something else, because they don’t want to focus on the constitutionality of what they

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WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

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ach year the Operating Committee of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) approves their Plan of Work for the following year. “Last September they released their budget for 2019 and how the $40-plus million they collect will be divided up, subject to the USDA’s approval,” stated Lee Pitts in his February 15, 2019 article.

“To apply for money from the Beef Checkoff, a proposal for funding (called an Authorization Request) must be submitted to the Beef Board. For 2019 the CBB received 14 Authorization Requests submitted by only seven contractors, totaling $45 million and the CBB came up with a $43.9 million dollar budget,” said Pitts.

Here’s where your “beef bucks” will go this year: “The NCBA had five of their proposals approved by the Beef Board for a total of $27.4 million (62 percent of the Beef Board’s total budget). The U.S Meat Export Federation got one proposal approved for $8.3 million but it was only as a subcontractor to the NCBA, meaning the NCBA controls $35.7 million or 81 percent of the checkoff!”

“Gathering up the crumbs were the North American Meat Institute (four proposals for $1.9 million), Cattlemen’s Beef Board (one proposal for $1.7 million), American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (one proposal for $700,000), Meat Import Council of America (one proposal for $417,000) and the National Livestock Producers Association (one proposal for $60,000),” wrote Pitts.

“By the way, the North American Meat Institute represents the interests of U.S. packers and processors of beef, pork, lamb, veal and turkey. So if you add their checkoff dollars to that of the NCBA’s you come up with 86 percent of the Beef Board’s bucks going to entities that don’t support country of origin labeling and have proven to be bigger cheerleaders for the packers than they have for ranchers… And the packers, who are the biggest beneficiaries of the checkoff, are not required to contribute to the beef checkoff. Also included in the Beef Board’s budget was $800,000 paid to the USDA for their oversight, which should tell us why the USDA has always been such big supporters of the checkoff programs they collect money from.”

Checkoff advertising focuses on increasing the demand for beef. Pitts asks the question: “What good does increased demand for beef do for ranchers if they don’t get their fair share of any profit? All those dedicated individuals who have donated for so many years to the beef checkoff (building demand for beef) may just as well have been working directly for the packer.”

When asked about the projects funded by Checkoff dollars (the money that gets funneled to NCBA, USMEF, NAMI, etc.) Pitts said that these groups spend a lot of money on research that benefits the packers. “In fact they are like the research arm of the big packers, who aren’t required to pay the checkoff. That’s one reason they have the support of academia; a lot of the money goes to universities to do studies and research. You don’t hear of much money being spent to help the ranchers,” he said.

“They don’t spend a single dime promoting USA beef because the packers have such a big influence on them and the packers want to be able to source their beef from wherever it’s the cheapest in the world. It’s hard to know the specific programs the NCBA spends money on. That’s the problem; there’s no transparency and it’s very difficult to find out exactly where the money does go. Most of the “advertising” goes to tell what a great job they are doing so the ranchers will continue to support it.”

Pitts said, “The ‘Beef: it’s what for dinner’ campaign is old and I’ve always had a big problem with it because it suggests the eating of beef at dinner, whereas most beef is consumed as hamburger and much of that is at lunchtime.”

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are doing.” They don’t want a spotlight on the real issue, so they get people stirred up about some possible side issues.

“Back to the question about why the NCBA is so upset over this lawsuit: NCBA has come out with producer-satisfaction surveys showing a high level of satisfaction with how the NCBA is carrying out the checkoff objectives.

But the best test as to whether or not producers are satisfied is to give them the choice as to where they want their money to go. I think the NCBA is fearful that many producers are not satisfied with how their dollars are being spent.”

There have been incidences of misappropriation of checkoff funds. “In 2010 the NCBA was found to have misappropriated $216,000 and the only disciplinary action by the government was to make them pay it back.” The producers simply want to be able to know where their money is going and be able to trust that it is being used appropriately.

Most beef producers are not against the Checkoff, but a growing number of ranchers are against the way it is being administered— with concerns that the program’s largest contractor, NCBA, is mismanaging the majority of the beef checkoff funds.

STATUS OF LAWSUIT TODAY

Bullard says the parties in the case have completed the discovery process and R-CALF USA has filed a motion for summary judgement, meaning it has asked the court to grant R-CALF’s request for a permanent injunction based on the undisputed facts that surfaced during the discovery process. The government and the intervening states likewise filed motions for summary judgement, asking the court to rule in their favor. Briefings for the summary judgement motions are nearly complete; the court has scheduled a hearing on those motions for October 2, 2019.

“Like our original case that was limited to the Montana Beef Council, the court has assigned our expanded case (that now includes 15 states) to a magistrate judge, who will preside over the October hearing and make findings and recommendations to the district court judge. This will effectively extend the time that the court will consider our case because after the magistrate judges makes his findings and recommendations, the district court judge will decide whether to accept the findings and recommendations when issuing his final ruling,” says Bullard.

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE

by Baxter Black, BaxterBlack.com

Trolling for Buffalo

The herd went crazy and followed the calf hounds chasin’ the mechanical rabbit! through some primitive protective instinct.

“Wow!” I said, as the light dawned, He actually had to get the tractor into 4th “Trolling for buffalo. So that’s what you high to stay ahead and get out of the gate! advised your caller from West Virginia.”

“Bring that dead calf over here. I want to “Yeah. I don’t know if it’ll work, though,” try somethin’.” said Bob. “His buffalo is loose in a lady’s back The farmer complied, even though it was yard on the nice side of town. a Hereford cross. Bob stationed a man by the trap gate and circled the herd draggin’ the dead calf behind his pick-up. The buffalo cows went berserk and started chasin’ the calf. Bob made a couple more circles stirrin’ ‘em up and on the third pass drove straight into the trap. The herd followed like grey-

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uffalo Bob took the call on his cellular phone. I caught the last of the conversation, “and if that don’t work try a shot.

No . . . not a tranquilizer, a 30-30. At least you’ll be able to eat the meat.”

“Escaped buffalo pose a problem,” he said after hangin’ up. “That fellow was callin’ from West Virginia. I told him a trick that worked for me . . . trolling.”

Bob explained that a few years back he and Dave bought 12 head of buffalo from a grain farmer on the plains of Colorado. Bought’em over the phone. The price was right. They arrived in the small town of Flagler and took a motel room. Three days later they were still tryin’ to gather the twelve head.

The first day they built a trap out of panels in the 1/4 section pasture. The trap was big enough to fit the U.S.S. Eisenhower. They baited it with alfalfa and spent all afternoon tryin’ to coax, drive and trick the suspicious buffalo herd into the trap. They ignored it like fat trout in a well-fished stream.

That night they called a noted wildlife veterinarian who had buffalo experience. The vet arrived the next day armed with a tranquilizer gun and enough ammo to put Yellowstone Park to sleep for a fortnight. They drove out to the herd and re-enacted the stampede from Dances with Wolves, but hit nary a buffalo.

Concerned with the expense of the tranquilizer, Bob and Dave built a buffalo blind outta tumbleweeds.

They parked the vet with his trusty musket behind the tumbleweeds and chased buffalo by him for two hours. Unfortunately ‘Dr. Dead Eye’ couldn’t hit the top of his head with a chafing dish. Not one bullseye.

The third morning found Bob and Gary making excuses to the grain farmer. “Well,” he said, “do what you can. They’re yours. I’ve got to go to dad’s place and haul a dead calf to the dump.”

A light flickered somewhere in Buffalo Bob’s desperate brain. He remembered tryin’ to drag a dead buffalo calf out of a field.

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Why the 2020 Census Matters for Rural Americans

by John Green,The Conversation / www.routefifty.com

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s director of the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, I regularly talk to people about how they can use data to help their communities thrive.

The decennial census is particularly important – and the next one is less than a year away.

People living in rural and small town America in particular have much at stake in the 2020 census. Unfortunately, census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.

Our research network – including the State Data Center of Mississippi, Mississippi Kids Count Program and the Southern Rural Development Center – has been working to better understand potential barriers to census participation.

mine government funding for rural development, infrastructure and health initiatives.

Census counts are also used to determine what places are considered rural or urban and where counties fall along the rural-urban continuum.

Researchers focusing on rural America, like myself, are concerned with many issues that census data can help us to understand.

For instance, the rate of population loss in rural America has declined and even slightly reversed in recent years. However, there can be vast differences between regions. As noted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s John Cromartie and Dennis Vilorio, “People moving to rural areas tend to persistently favor more densely settled rural areas with attractive scenic qualities, or those near large cities. Fewer are moving to sparsely settled, less scenic, and more remote locations, which compounds economic development challenges in those areas.”

2020 census data will help to improve demographers’ calculations of similar statistics to show rates and patterns of net migration. This information can be used to help leaders better understand and plan for population shifts.

an average of 68% for non-metropolitan counties, compared with 75 percent for metropolitan counties.

Analysts have been trying to better understand why some populations are harder to count. There are numerous barriers to participation in decennial censuses. Many people have limited knowledge about the census.

Others distrust the government and are concerned about the confidentiality of their information.

Although rural America tends to do better on some indicators used to predict potential census participation, people who live in poverty and are isolated may be at a particular disadvantage.

In 2020, for the first time, the census will offer an avenue for online participation, with the hope this will make it easier for people to complete the questionnaire more efficiently.

This is promising, but some rural places have limited access to broadband internet service.

ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION

Our research network cross-referenced Census Bureau data with data on family and poverty characteristics to identify communiVALUABLE DATA ties we thought would be likely to have lower Legally mandated by the U.S. Constitution, participation in 2020. the census is an effort to count all people liv- LOW RURAL TURNOUT Identifying two rural places and one ing on American soil for the primary purpose If many people don’t participate in the urban, we held workshops with local stakeof apportioning political representation in census, the data will be far less accurate. And holders, including teachers, nonprofit leaders the federal government. Census data are also rural people are less likely to take part. and clergy. We discussed challenges and used for drawing political boundaries for In 2010, an average 73 percent of house- opportunities for participating in the 2020 local, state and federal elections. holds returned the mailed version of the census, messaging that would resonate in Government agencies must use decennial form. My analysis of mail response rates by their communities, and strategies for further census data, often coupled with data from the the rural-urban continuum codes showed engagement.

American Community Survey, to help deterThe Census Bureau assigns each area a ‘low response score,’ a predicted rate of how many people will not respond to the census.

People can promote participation in the 2020 census by discussing it with family members, neighbors, church members and work colleagues. Materials available from the U.S. Census Bureau can help.

What really matters for profitability in the grass-based production of beef calves?

We also emphasize that people can form Fertility, Efficiency, Mothering Ability and Longevity—the rest is just talk. or join Complete Count Committees which promote an accurate count of the population Let’s talk about Longevity in their communities. For example, particIt’s simple: Bulls need to breed a lot of cows for a long time, and cows need to have ipants might coordinate census promotion a calf every year for a long time. Below is an example of a profitable Beefmaster. campaigns within churches, or develop comIf you’re tired of genetics that flame out before munity celebrations that feature the civic duty they turn a profit for your outfit, please join us: of census participation.

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f you are selling a replacement heifer or cow, you need to determine the target age, as well as whether she will be open or pregnant at time of sale.

Ranchers spend countless hours raising, breeding, and feeding cattle. The strategy used for selling these livestock remains equally important in the production process.

For those individuals who do not have a clear direction and goals for marketing their cattle there may be lost income opportunities causing the livestock to be sold at a less than desirable pricing level.

To meet and achieve these goals every producer should develop and maintain a marketing plan. These plans can range from simple to complex, depending on your situation and level of detail. They need to be flexible and easily updated as things change. As you look at creating a marketing plan, you need to answer these five questions: 1) What are you going to sell?

If you have a current operation, this can be easy to come up with. For instance, you already know whether you are producing for a niche market (i.e., all natural, organic, etc.) or a commodity market. If you have a spring calving herd, you should already know the number and sex of the calves you plan to sell.

You also need to determine the target weight you want them to reach at time of sale. If you are selling a replacement heifer or cow, you need to determine the target age, as well as whether she will be open or pregnant at time of sale.

2) Where are you going to sell?

Within the beef industry, there are several options. Auction barns have had a long tradition of selling cattle and calves. Market animals can also be sold through online forums or video auctions, as well as direct marketed to local feedyards. Some have even been known to post sales on Craigslist. It is important to identify your target market and explore all the options available to you to sell your product.

3) When are you going to price or sell that product?

When do you plan to physically market the animals? Establishing your price may occur at a different time than when you

physically market the animal. You should feel comfortable with the methods of selling and pricing your cattle. Some producers may only use cash markets or cash forward contracts, while other producers may feel comfortable using the futures market or options market.

Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Insurance is another option to consider when pricing your cattle. You should find an acceptable level of risk and a pricing method you can be happy with. The best pricing methods may change from year to year and what your neighbor did may not be the best choice for you.

4) What are your goals and objectives?

Given current market conditions and price expectations, what are the goals and objectives you seek to accomplish with your marketing plan? Keep in mind, seeking only to get the highest price can expose you to more risk than you can handle or feel comfortable with. Your goals should be a combination of getting a good price and controlling the risk associated with the market place.

5) How can you accomplish your marketing goals and objectives?

Identify specific strategies and tools that can help you reach your marketing goals and objectives. Specify actions you need to take and deadlines you need to meet in order to

put yourself on a timeline that keeps you proactively implementing your plan and managing the market risk.

Conclusion Planning is essential. Creating a marketing plan can help alleviate stress as well as emotion in implementing your marketing strategy.

Understanding your cost of production will help establish your pricing objectives and the triggers that make the marketing plan more valuable. Make sure you continually evaluate your plan and establish contingency or backup plans you can implement if there are price or market changes that differ from your original expectations.

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come. these areas. The beef industry is a complex Garrett Stribling – Born and raised in business with complex problems and it’s my Scurry, Texas, Garrett Stribling attended hope that I can help find the answers to some Texas A&M University and graduated with of these issues.” a degree in animal science in 2016. He comLong-term, Stribling says he aims to serve pleted some graduate course work at Texas as leader in the cattle industry and through

by Kindra Gordon, for the King Ranch A&M before joining 44 Farms in Cameron, KRIRM, learn skills not taught on the ranch.

Institute Texas, as a nutrition manager in the fall “From finance and accounting to personnel n 1910, former U.S. president Theodore of 2016. During his time with 44 Farms, management and solving the complex probRoosevelt delivered a speech with a mes- Stribling transitioned to assistant manager of lems faced by the industry today, I believe sage that offered inspiration to those cattle operations and eventually manager of KRIRM will be instrumental in my ability to positively impact the cattle industry.” trying to make the world a better place. In cattle operations.

Stribling shares that he was aware of the “The Man in the Arena” Roosevelt said, “…

Cody Richardson, Jr. – Cody Richardson, credit belongs to the man who is actually KRIRM program since being a student at Texas A&M, and “kept the institute in mind Jr. also has Texas roots. He grew up west of in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; for the future.” This winter, he and his wife Amarillo on the Scharbauer Ranch where who errs, who comes short again and again, Emily, who is also a 2016 animal science his dad worked for the well-known family. because there is no effort without error and graduate and has a master’s of science in Richardson says that upbringing – where shortcoming; but who does actually strive to ruminant nutrition from Texas A&M, decided ranch work was done on horseback – infludo the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, it was a good time to apply. Stribling says, “I enced his interests in the ranching industry. the great devotions; who spends himself in a was at the point in my career that I wanted to He attended Sul Ross State University in expand my knowledge of finance, accounting Alpine, Texas, where he studied business and worthy cause…”

Four new students are “stepping into and managing people, and the KRIRM pro- also took animal science and natural resource management courses. He was active on the the arena,” so to speak, as they begin their gram is the best way for me to do that.”

Additionally, Stribling says, “I hope to ranch horse team, serving as president and journey with the King Ranch® Institute enhance my understanding of the finannamed university man of the year. for Ranch Management (KRIRM) Master cial aspects of the industry.

Generating new Since graduating in 2017, Richardson of Science in Ranch Management program. revenue streams and managing costs are worked on local ranches, and most recently Each one shares a passion for the ranching industry and is eager to serve in future roles fundamental in running a successful opera- was a camp man on the Frying Pan Ranch. He to better that industry for generations to tion, and I intend on sharpening my skills in decided to leave that role and pursue a mas-

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Dylan Denny, Lubbock, Texas; Grady Dickerson, Paradise, Kansas; and Baxter Knapp, Bloomfield, owa.

green jackets and can’t believe he is now going to be wearing one. He says the strength of this Angus breed is the leaders and producers who strive to continuously improve.

He is currently attending and love.”

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We manage our own Kansas cow herd with ter’s at KRIRM and says, “I believe that we the industry I know Get to Know the NEWand NJAB says hemajoring isn’t minimal supervision. have a responsibility a duty as ranchers experiences in tourism, State Bronson University in management food science with You thelearn out the idea of operating his owninguest become extremely efficient with your time stewardisoura natural resources in an ethical goal of working food to distribution.

Tyler toBush sixth-generation Angusruling breeder ranchinfluwith a working ranch side. Knapp is and how to handle livestock inAngus a low stress, responsible manner ensure that ranchBaxter a second-generation nd said and a major aspect oftothe NJAA that has Relocating to Kingsville with Bronson are efficient manner.” es can be passed down to future generations. nced him has been the mentorship program. Cur- breeder and said his goal is to bring more connecKillpack says, “After working on ranches, It was this passion that pushed me to take the his wife Aubrey, a Utah native whom he met ently attending Hutchinson Community College tions at the state level through the mentorship proleap of faith and leave the industry to deepen and married while in Hawaii. Their family I started to realize the value in education.” especially.

Currently a sophomore at Illinois majoringmyinknowledge agribusiness andandminoring animal Oliver gram, (5), Cricket (4) and Daphne Specifically, he wants to strengthen his busiin the science business of inincludes animal science/agriculcience, ranching.” and his goal is to judge collegiately before Central College majoring (6 mo). ness in skills, and shares, “I am excited to undertural business, he will be transferring a four-year eturning toRichardson his family’s Angusforward operation. stand what goes on to behind the scenes and is looking to netKord Killpack – Kord Killpack was raiseda career makes that ranch successful. I’ve been lucky working with other ranchfrom industry leaders university to pursue in the agriculture indusKeegan Cassady is not a farm background; in southeast Idaho, where his father worked enough to work with great managers and see and is eager to gain new perspectives in et, when her dad purchased her first Angus heifer, try with emphasis on the Angus breed. for the sheriff’s department.

On his days off, a variety of ways to manage, and I hope different ranching approaches to challenges While these new six join the green coat team, to he was hooked on the breed and the Association. travelsix around and day style oftheir management.” such as drought and managing employees. he and Kord would officers stepenhance downmyfrom roles with he is currently a junior at Oklahoma State Universi- the old Among his goals, Killpack says, “LongHis long-term goals include building a family work for local ranchers. “This is when I first bittersweet emotions, their final activities being the y majoring in animal science, emphasis in business, ranching operation and serving the industry developed my love for ranching,” Killpack term I hope to be able to preserve and Leaders Engaged in Angus Development (LEAD) re-law option, planning to pursue a careertells. in Young agri- Killpack then spent many sumprotect ranches like the ones I grew up on. with integrity.

Conference August 2-5, in Billings, Montana.

Those this ultural policy. mers working for those local ranchers learn- It’s important to me that we preserve who are completing their time with the NJAB Caroline Cowles had her first American Angus Ross Bronson – An Idaho Falls, Idaho, ing all aspects of running a ranch. After high lifestyle for future generations.” are: school, a year traveling, rodeoing, Killpack moved toWill Kingsville with his wife native, membership Ross Bronson grew riding horses Butler, Vincennes, Indiana; Pohlman, Association® atupthe age of five andheisspentMadison working forPrairie a local rancher; spent Destiny their daughter McKallVir(10 mo.) and helpingtoneighbors.

He more credits his dad,theand Grove,then Arkansas; CatieandHope, Berryville, ooking forward engaging with confertwo years mission Corbin trip. He graduated concludes, “Family is part of the reason I who wasthrough initially a the dairyman, for instilling Cowles, He Rockfield, Kentucky; Jordyn nces offered NJAA. She currently at-on a ginia; – Idaho, love ranching so much. I love having family the importance of education in Ross and his from Brigham Wagner, Billings, Montana; and Michaela Clowser, ends Oklahoma State University majoring in animal Young University siblings. When it was difficult for his dad majoring in agriculture business, in 2017. A by my side helping me. I also think it’s a great cience with a focus on biotechnology and hopes to Milford, Nebraska. to make ends meet as a dairy producer, he college internship with Rex Ranch in western lifestyle to raise your kids; they learn a lot juniors of the are grateful allandthe nter a career oraspharmaceuticals. full-time job with the NJAA about responsibility, hard for work, critical was ableintomedical secure a job a quality control Nebraska, led to aThe time, hard-work and dedication of these past six Dylanchemist Denny grew up with strong Angus influthinking.” at a nuclear waste facility – because ranch upon graduation. greenincoats andKillpack are eager to see the new six step up nces despite beingdegree. raised thegraduating suburbs ofOfTexas his experiences Nebraska, of his college Thus,inafter to the exciting years they are about to enter into. tells, “We in an extremelytwo intense from high Bronson had an nd currently hasschool, his own herd ofinterest cattlein totaling 65run cows

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His ranch experience through the years has largely derived from the tourism and hospitality industries in West Yellowstone, Montana, and Hawaii. In Hawaii, Bronson’s role with a large cattle herd included selecting breeding stock, creating a pasture management plan, and helping create a grass fed local has been T H market.

E E Since D G 2014, E OBronson F on a resort ranch in southwest Colorado, M MON SENSE where he has also had the opportunity to run his own herd of cattle. www.baxterblack.com Bronson’s introduction to KRIRM came from attending a lectureship and pursuing the certificate program. “As I spent more time at Any community that did not the Institute and saw who supported it and discourage muggers, was involved in it, as well as what buglers, they were murderers, purse doing, I felt driven to arsonists, be a bigger part of it.” snatchers other assorted Looking ahead,and Bronson wants to enhance hispredators understandingwould of accounting as it relates be given into creased ranching. He is also eager for the federal dollars. networking opportunities among other students Police expenses would be and cut ranchers and being exposed to the efforts of drastically. Courts would close progressive and successful ranches. at noon. Lawyers would desert Ultimately, Bronson says he wants to the community.

Tours make a difference and continue to be acould voice be scheduled that allowed senfor the industry. “Being in tourism, I come sitive patrons to see predators in contact with so many people who are not directly associated with agriculture, I get in their natural habitat and rolling to winos, dispel myths, educate, and advocatesellfor mugging passers-by,

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The New (Dis)Order in Today’s Markets Why cattle ranchers have one of the most positive outlooks

by Abbie Burnett, 2019 Feeding Quality Forum

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conomic and political order has become disorder,” said AgResource president Dan Basse, in market analysis comments at the 2019 Feeding Quality Forum in Amarillo, Texas.

In a third of the world’s economies today, Germany included, banks charge you to keep money in savings “—you pay them, they don’t pay you. How many times in 5,000 years… this is really rare,” he said.

The pressure is on to put money to work in those economies, even to the point of devaluing the money.

“In agriculture, everybody is dropping their currencies so they have a competitive edge in producing more supply,” Basse said. “This is what’s giving us a supply bear market in the grains.”

Disincentives to save brought world economic debt to record levels, and the U.S. at $23 trillion holds the largest share of the $243 trillion total.

“It’s really why interest rates cannot rise,” said Basse. “So, we are kind of locked into this environment of debt and low growth.”

Enter the Chinese economy. Growth there and in India will see median annual incomes of at least $20,000 rising to 150 million people.

“That’s why this trade war, if you will, or trade debate is so centered on China— because they have the money to spend over the next six to eight years,” he said.

In the next four to seven years, China will become the leading economy in the world and at some point after that, India will become second largest.

The longer this trade war goes on, the more worldwide structural production habits change, Basse said: “Someone is going to produce what we don’t, and sell to China.”

In the midst of these trade negotiations, China is dealing with a major blow to its agricultural industry. African swine fever is reducing the world’s largest hog herd, which

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he said will decline from more than 600 million to 340 million head by year’s end. “[China] is of course stepping up their beef imports,” he said. “They are so hungry that they’re now turning to Africa to see if they can bring in some beef to fill their needs.”

Basse said if we had a Chinese free trade agreement today, “We couldn’t keep beef and pork on the shelf.”

But still, overall U.S. beef export commitments are good.

“There’s a solid demand for our beef, both in terms of the domestic market and the export market,” he said. “We think USDA is understating U.S. beef trade, so there’s a real argument of a demand bull market that’s developing as U.S. cattle prices tighten.”

The record-high domestic beef quality grades now are partly a result of U.S. consumer demand for better beef, and one reason premium-quality Angus branding has done well, Basse said.

“Everybody is looking for that higher quality cut,” he said. Record strong demand now and for “many years to come” suggests a clear advantage for producers of that higher quality.

“I think it’s a good investment,” Basse said. “Consumers will reward you with bigger demand going down the road.”

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He doesn’t have the same optimism for grain farmers. With fewer porcine mouths to feed in China, there’s less need for soybeans and corn.

African swine fever in China amounts to a loss of 20 million metric tons per year, compared to the total world meat trade of 7 million metric tons. As bullish as that is for meat, it’s bearish for world soybean demand, and leads to an extra billion bushels a year likely remaining in the United States.

Basse’s not worried about having enough corn, for now. An adequate supply going into winter should mean a stable spread of $25 or $26 per hundredweight between feeder cattle and fed cattle, but that may widen to the $35 range in early 2020.

“I don’t have a long-term bullish outlook for the feed producer or the corn-soybean farmer,” he said. “But I would take coverage if you see a real dilemma in South American weather.”

Climate change and the warming northern oceans have led to more “angular” jet stream patterns so that weather can settle into one region, sticking around longer than usual.

If the Southern Hemisphere growing season is disrupted by “stuck” weather patterns, China would be forced to buy from the U.S., despite the tariffs, creating an inflammatory market, Basse said.

U.S. weather bears watching as well, because delayed planting put acres at risk of an early frost.

“So you want to be protected maybe at current prices,” he said, “but I really have difficulty getting corn too much above $4.20 a bushel relative to spot futures in Chicago.”

If weather holds steady, a year from now, corn could be trading at $3 or below, he said.

For cattle, Basse said the cash bottom could be in and fed supplies will tighten into March. The market will turn bullish, normal weather advancing prices to the $122 to $128/cwt. range for the 2020 first quarter.

“I want the cattlemen and the grain farmers to think of profit margins down the road,” Basse said. “Always be protective of them because our real goal in9 this game is to stay in business, expand when our neighbors aren’t and to look for opportunities.”

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Bob McCan Receives Nat’l Golden Spur Award Ranching and Livestock Industries Present Top Award to Victoria, Texas Cattleman

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ob McCan, a descendent of a Texas cattle-ranching family that can trace its roots to 1877, has been named the 2019 National Golden Spur Award recipient in recognition of his accomplishments in the ranching and livestock industries.

“This award recognizes iconic industry leaders whose devotion to land and livestock has earned them the notable respect and admiration of their peers,” said Jim Bret Campbell, executive director of the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas.

“It is the most prestigious honor given to one person by the ranching and livestock industries.”

McCan was honored during the National Golden Spur Award dinner in Lubbock in September. He is the 42nd recipient of the award, which was established in 1978 and is jointly sponsored by the American Quarter Horse Association, National Cattlemen’s Foundation, Ranching Heritage Association, Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Texas Farm Bureau and Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

McCan is co-owner and general manager of McFaddin Enterprises, a family-owned land and cattle company operating on three separate land parcels located in Victoria, Refugio and Bee counties. McCan has served as president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) and president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA).

Since the early 1990s, the Victoria native has held leadership positions in state organizations and various conservation boards and advisory committees. Both his grandfather and great uncle were TSCRA presidents and his father was a TSCRA director.

Five generations of his family accumulated the lands that became known as the McFaddin Ranches. James A. McFaddin, a Civil War veteran, purchased land in Victoria County in 1877 at the confluence of the Guadalupe and San Antonio rivers. McFaddin saw his first Brahma bull at the Chicago Fair in 1893 and was so impressed with the animal’s ability to

handle the oppressive breed has thrived Chicago heat that he along with game decided to import the birds. McCan overfirst herd of Brahmas sees the cattle operto Texas. ations and recreMcFaddin’s son Al ational hunting and and grandson Claude wildlife operations K. McCan began for his family’s experimenting with company.

Hereford-Brahman McCan grew up crosses to improve the as a fifth-generation quality of beef. They cow-calf producer eventually developed in a family envithe Victoria Braford ronment of advobreed, a high-grade cacy for the cattle beef animal that is industry. He gradespecially resistant to uated from Texas the heat, insects and A&M University in diseases of the Texas 1980 with a B.S. in coastal plains. Bob Range Science. He McCan’s grandfather is married to the Bob McCan, Golden Spur devised a planned, sysformer Julie Ann Award Winner tematic crossbreeding Hartman, and their system at a time when purebred breeding was children—Robert August (Augie) and Mary the more accepted approach.

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Global Warming?

An Israeli Astrophysicist Provides Alternative View That Is Not Easy To Reject Source: nzenews.com

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he U.S. auto industry and regulators in California and Washington appear deadlocked over stiff Obama-era fuel-efficiency standards that automakers oppose and the Trump administration have vowed to roll back – an initiative that has environmental activists up in arms.

California and four automakers favor compromise, while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the president’s position that the federal standards are too strict.

The EPA argues that forcing automakers to build more fuel efficient cars will make them less affordable, causing consumers to delay trading older, less efficient vehicles.

Complicating matters is California’s authority to create its own air quality standards, which the White House vows to end.

However the impasse is resolved, the moment looks ripe to revisit the root of this multifactorial dustup: namely, the scientific “consensus” that CO2 emissions from vehicles and other sources are pushing the earth to the brink of climate catastrophe.

In a modest office on the campus of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, an Israeli astrophysicist patiently explains why he is convinced that the near-unanimous judgments of climatologists are misguided. Nir Shaviv, chairman of the university’s physics department, says that his research and that of colleagues, suggests that rising CO2 levels, while hardly insignificant, play only a minor role compared to the influence of the sun and cosmic radiation on the earth’s climate.

“Global warming clearly is a problem, though not in the catastrophic terms of Al Gore’s movies or environmental alarmists,” said Shaviv. “Climate change has existed forever and is unlikely to go away. But CO2

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emissions don’t play the major role. Periodic doctorate, afterward completing post-doctorsolar activity does.” al work at California Institute of Technology Shaviv, 47, fully comprehends that his and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical scientific conclusions constitute a glaring Astrophysics. He also has been an Einstein rebuttal to the widely-quoted surveys show- Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Study ing that 97 percent of climate scientists agree in Princeton. that human activity – the combustion of fossil In other words, he knows tons more about fuels – constitutes the principle reason for science than Donald Trump or Al Gore. climate change.

As for politics “in American terms, I “Only people who don’t understand sci- would describe myself as liberal on most ence take the 97 percent statistic seriously,” domestic issues, somewhat hawkish on he said. “Survey results depend on who you security,” he said. Nonetheless, the Trump ask, who answers and how the questions are administration’s position on global climate worded. In any case, science is not a democ- change, he said, is correct insofar as it racy. Even if 100 percent of scientists believe rejects the orthodoxy of the United Nations something, one person with good evidence Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can still be right.”

(IPCC). The IPCC’s findings and conclusions History is replete with lone voices toppling are updated every six years; the latest report, scientific orthodoxies. Astronomers deemed released this week, noted that deforestation Pluto the ninth planet – until they changed and agribusiness are contributing to CO2 their minds. Geologists once regarded tecton- emissions and aggravating climate change. ic plate theory, the movement of continents, In 2003, Shaviv and research partner Prof. as nonsense. Medicine were 100 percent Jan Veizer published a paper on the subject certain that stomach resulted from stress and of climate sensitivity, namely how much spicy food, until the earth’s averan Australian age temperature researcher Based on the increase of solar would be expectproved bacteria ed to change if the culprit and activity during the twentieth the amount of won a Nobel CO2 in the atmocentury, it should account for Prize for his sphere is doubled. efforts.

Comparing geobetween half to two-thirds of all Lest anyone logical records dismiss Shaviv and temperature, climate change.” on the basis the team came up of his scientifwith a projected ic credentials or supposed political agenda, change of 1.0 to 1.5 degrees Celsius – much consider the following: He enrolled at Israel’s less than the 1.5 to 4.5 degree change the Technion University – the country’s equiv- IPCC has used since it began issuing its alent of MIT – at the age of 13 and earned reports. The reason for the much wider an MA while serving in the Israel Defense variation used by the IPCC, he said, was that Force’s celebrated 8200 Intelligence unit. He they relied almost entirely on simulations returned to Technion, where he earned his and no one knew how to quantify the effect of clouds – which affects how much radiant energy reaches the earth – and other factors.

“Since then, literally billions have been spent on climate research,” he said. Yet “the conventional wisdom hasn’t changed. The proponents of man-made climate change still ignore the effect of the sun on the earth’s climate, which overturns our understanding of twentieth-century climate change.”

He explained: “Solar activity varies over time. A major variation is roughly eleven years or more, which clearly affects climate.

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“Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change,” he said. “That, in turn, implies that climate sensitivity to CO2 should be about 1.0 degree when the amount of CO2 doubles.”

The link between solar activity and the heating and cooling of the earth is indirect, he explained. Cosmic rays entering the earth’s atmosphere from the explosive death of massive stars across the universe play a significant role in the formation of so-called cloud condensation nuclei needed for the formation of clouds. When the sun is more active, solar wind reduces the rate of cosmic rays entering the atmosphere. A more active solar wind leads to fewer cloud formation nuclei, producing clouds that are less white and less reflective, thus warming the earth.

“Today we can demonstrate and prove the sun’s effect on climate based on a wide range of evidence, from fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old to buoy readings to satellite altimetry data from the past few decades,” he said. “We also can reproduce and mimic atmospheric conditions in the laboratory to confirm the evidence.

“All of it shows the same thing, the bulk of climate change is caused by the sun via its impact on atmospheric charge,” he said.

“Which means that most of the warming comes from nature, whereas a doubling of the amount of CO2 raises temperature by only 1.0 to 1.5 degrees. A freshman physics student can see this.”

Nevertheless, the world of climate science has “mostly ignored” his research findings.

“Of course, I’m frustrated,” he said. “Our findings are very inconvenient for conventional wisdom” as summarized by the IPCC. “We know that there have been very large variations of climate in the past that have little to do with the burning of fossil fuels. A thousand years ago the earth was as warm as it is today. During the Little Ice Age three hundred years ago the River Thames froze more often. In the first and second IPCC reports these events were mentioned. In 2001 they disappeared. Suddenly no mention of natural warming, no Little Ice Age. The climate of the last millennium was presented as basically fixed until the twentieth century.

This is a kind of Orwellian cherry-picking to fit a pre-determined narrative.”

Shaviv says that he has accepted no financial support for his research by the

fossil fuel industry. Experiments in Denmark with Prof. Henrik Svensmark and others to demonstrate the effect of cosmic rays on cloud formation were supported by the Carlsberg Foundation. In the U.S. the conservative Heartland Institute and the European Institute for Climate and Energy have invited

wants to be a sinner?”

Any scientist who rejects the UN’s IPCC report, as he does, will have trouble finding work, receiving research grants or publishing, he said.

In Shaviv’s view, the worldwide crusade to limit and eventually ban the use of fossil fuels isn’t just misguided “it comes with real world social and economic consequences.”

Switching to more costly energy sources, We know that there have for example, will drive industry from more industrialized countries to poorer countries been very large variations that can less afford wind turbines and solar panels. of climate in the past that have “It may be a financial sacrifice the rich are willing to make, he said. “Even in devellittle to do with the burning of oped countries the pressure to forego fossil fossil fuels. A thousand years ago fuel puts poor people in danger of freezing during the winter for lack of affordable home heating. The economic growth of third the earth was as warm as it is world countries will be inhibited if they cannot borrow from the World Bank to develop today. During the Little Ice Age cheap fossil-based power plants. These are three hundred years ago the River serious human problems in the here and now, not in a theoretical future.”

Thames froze more often.”

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Sell-Buy Marketing Provides YearRound Cash Flow

cows when they are 6 or 7 and still have good time left in them, before they start to lose value, and replace them with something that in theory is genetically superior—which is their daughters, raised on your own place.

You can keep more heifers than you can cows, because they eat less, especially if they are developed inexpensively the way we do it.”

SELL-BUY MARKETING

This is different than the traditional view of marketing. People in the livestock business tend to think in terms of buying, increasing weight or number of animals or value, and then selling, to make a profit. This is a buy-sell philosophy. “By contrast, in sell-buy

by Heather Smith Thomas marketing you determine what is overvalued rt McElroy grazes cattle on sever- and undervalued in the marketplace. You al thousand acres in southern only deal in animals that you can handle and Saskatchewan. It was a mixed farm increase their value. I never buy animals with a lot of crop land when he bought it, but weighing more than 800 pounds because I am during the past 20 years he seeded everything not in the feedlot business. I might buy anyto grass and started custom grazing about thing between 250 pounds and 700 pounds, 1200 yearlings for his neighbor because he or some cows, pairs or heifers,” says McElroy. had more grass than his own cow-calf herd “With every sale you can figure out what could utilize. High-density rotational graz- is overvalued and undervalued in the maring has tremendously ketplace by determinimproved the soil and ing the value of every pastures. “In our own Never let an animal increase in weight gain. herd we usually have It took me a little while between 150 and 200 start to lose value ...” to learn how to figure head of cows because out what was overvalthey come and they go, and I also run my own ued and undervalued, but you can just use yearlings,” says McElroy.

50-pound weight breaks or 100-pound weight “As our family learned to think holistical- breaks and divide the increase in the dollars ly, to understand the relationship between by the weight gain, to see what the market plants and soil and the people and the financ- is paying for every one of those increases in es, we continued to make progress. Our weight,” he explains. exposure to Bud Williams’ livestock handling “You’ll always find that the lighter calves and sell-buy marketing, and getting some bring the most value per pound. If the next grass-based genetics also improved the cattle end of it,” he says.

“I can no longer buy the kind of replacement heifers I want. I can raise better heifers T than I can buy, because they are more suited R S to this environment. Any heifer that we keep now as a replacement is the most expensive cow we’ll ever have in the cow herd because of her value as a calf (what she’d have been worth to sell), but if we are going to continue in the cow business we have to keep replacements. They are our future and will do much a better job for us than any heifers we can go Registered & Commercial out and buy,” he explains.

“One thing Bud Williams taught in his sellPOLLED buy marketing strategy was that you never let HEREFORDS an animal start to lose value. When you have a cow that’s 6 or 7 years old, in a normal Tom 719-688-2334 market this is when she starts to depreciate a 719/456 -1149 little and lose value,” says Art. 34125 Rd. 20, McClave, CO “Bud encouraged people to start selling robbherefords@gmail.com

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increase in weight, whether it’s 50 pounds or 100 pounds is only worth $1 or $1.50 you can begin to see whether you should hold the animals and if you are being paid to put more weight on them or not. If you are not being paid to put more weight on, then you need to sell those animals and replace them with something that is undervalued, that you will be paid to put more weight on,” he says.

“It’s easy to know exactly what all your costs were on that turn of cattle, and through some simple arithmetic determine what you can afford to pay back for different weight prices and still cover all of your costs on that turn of animals. So you are buying a profit as you are replacing your animals,” McElroy says.

“Your net worth could be constantly going up and down, but it’s your cash flow that you have to be concerned about all the time, and this is where you end up with cash flow— with what’s left over between the sell and the buy price,” he says.

“Another thing I am learning to do is buying pounds of gain for less money than what it costs me to put it on. There are always some animals out there that you can buy with the money from your last sale. You can actually take home 50 to 100 pounds or even 150 pounds for very little money, and sometimes you can take them home with a few dollars of cash in your pocket, from your last sale,” he explains.

“As we watch the marketplace, the signals that it constantly sends are fascinating. When you go to replace animals, if you can’t replace them at a profit, you leave your money in your pocket. You not only keep your money, but you also keep the feed that the animals would have eaten, whether it’s grass or stored feed. You have to determine what has the most value to you—the animals, your money, or your feed. What is the point of feeding animals if you are not being paid to put pounds of gain on them that would add value to the feed, whether it’s grazing or stored feed?”

Otherwise you are just giving away your feed and your time.

“This is a unique system that Bud Williams figured out while he was at VT Feeders in Alberta for 10 years. His daughter and sonin-law, Richard and Tina McConnell, are still teaching this method. This is a very good system and you don’t have to do it in large numbers, and it’s not wise to do it with borrowed money. You build your numbers gradually.” Richard and Tina will teach anybody under the age of 18 for free because they feel so strongly that young people need to learn how to do this.

“It’s been very good for us, though it’s

taken me a few years to get my head around amounts of money more consistently. By a lot of it. I was still thinking in terms of 40 grazing instead of cropping or haying, we to 50 years of Buy-Sell marketing, when I was don’t have big fuel bills or expensive tractor trying to make a living in the cattle business repairs. If we want to sell cattle we can do that way. It’s a play on words, between Buy- that nearly any day of the week and by private Sell and Sell-Buy, but once you get your mind treaty on Sundays.” Cattle can be sold at any around it, you can see it makes sense, and it time, compared with a crop you have to plant works,” he says. and harvest.

Erik and Mary “We don’t Beth Tucker have been borrow any ranching in Colorado money for By contrast, in sell-buy for many years and also cattle anyuse the sell-buy methmore.

Most marketing you determine od. “We buy anything bankers don’t that looks like it might understand what is overvalued and make some money. how our proWe’ve bought stockers undervalued in the marketplace.” gram works. I and lots of pairs—for talked to sevourselves and for a customer. This year pair eral bankers a couple years ago and told them prices were anywhere from $300 to $900 a I wanted to buy some short-term thin cows pair higher than they were last year so we’ve because we had a lot of rough forage pasture been buying more yearlings to put on grass,” that would have worked nicely to put some says Tucker. weight on them. My plan was to add some This method gives the flexibility to buy weight, condition and quality to those cattle what’s undervalued or discounted at the and resell them in 60 days. All three bankers moment and later make a profit. “We’ve had I talked to concurred in thinking that this was some cow herds of our own and also for cus- a good idea, but they were too worried about tomers. We do anything that looks like it fits,” the market. They wondered what I would do he says. He started out with a cow-calf operation and then was in the feedlot business for 20 years. Ten years ago he decided to go back to raising cattle and grazing them rotationally to improve the land and pasture.

“At first we were trying to aim for cattle performance but are now aiming also for grass. We run stocker cattle and I consider everything stocker cattle--that can be bought, traded or sold at any time. When we need cash we trade cattle,” he explains.

His current inventory is steers, heifers and some pairs. “We bought some cheap thin cattle to put out on pasture. We’ve been studying stockmanship and marketing and are wide open to just about anything with cattle. We want them out on pasture as much as possible so we move them twice a day,” says Tucker.

He wants to have as many cattle as he can, all the time, but also has a destocking plan in case of drought. “We are selling cattle all the time when they become overvalued. When prices are good, we sell, and then move on to the next deal. This creates good cash flow for us. We just wish we’d started doing this many years earlier. Economically, ranching is very sound, but financially it can be a train wreck if you don’t do things right. If a person is able to move in and out of cattle deals, and can have the flexibility to get into and out of any situation, it works,” he says.

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if the market went down. I told them I would just buy more cattle if the market went down.

That’s what a person should do when any market goes down—buy more cattle while they are cheap,” says Tucker. Eventually there would be a good profit.

But the bankers didn’t understand that philosophy. “They wanted me to buy a load of steers instead, and finish them. I felt that was a really bad idea because when the market goes down on fat cattle there’s not much you can do with them. On cows, however, if the market went down and I had good cows, I could sell those good cows and buy a lot more cheap cows.”

“Thin cows at the time I wanted to buy them were priced at $300 and the steers were $800. The steers were too much investment and too much gamble. I proved it on paper but that wasn’t what the bankers wanted me to do. So I got tired of asking the bank and worked on some other deals on our own because we know we can make money with cattle. Working with the bank doesn’t work for us so we moved away from that. We’d rather work with other people who like to do what we like to do. We partner with them, become the managing partner, and take care of everyone’s cattle. If anyone wants to join in with us we make a plan that will work.

As long as we can keep the cattle in one big herd, and graze them properly, it works out perfectly,” he says.

He personally prefers to buy high-risk cattle because they are inexpensive. With good stockmanship and nutrition, the high-risk cattle work nicely. “High-risk cattle are just anything that nobody else wants. We can buy those cattle and take good care of them and they make a substantial amount of money,” he explains.

It’s a unique cattle business because it’s not cow-calf or stocker cattle or feedlot cattle, but instead a little bit of everything. “On a cash flow analysis basis we figured out what kind of cattle numbers we should have, and we keep up with the sales at the sale barns and buy cattle as much as we can, to keep the balance,” he says.

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Six Cattle Market Trends Could Make Money

by Alan Newport, Farmprogress.com

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f you understand these six cattle market trends, it can help you make better marketing decisions.

In the larger scheme of things, these six trends are less important than daily market intelligence, but they can be key to understanding possible market directions, or seasonal buying or selling opportunities, says Wally Olson, a rancher, livestock investor and marketing instructor from Claremore, Oklahoma.

One of the key principles Olson is pressing here is contrarianism. He says when cycles overprice particular cattle, you want to be selling them or avoiding them, not buying them alongside everyone else.

1. THE 10-YEAR CATTLE CYCLE

There was a time not too long ago when the 10-year cattle cycle ticked like a clock.

Then things changed and we had a 20-year cattle cycle (or thereabouts) due to drought destocking and cheap money and who knows exactly what else. Now again we’re now seeing the cattle cycle still appears to exist, as we watch the national herd building and cow prices ratcheting down. Sometime soon we can expect to see cow numbers shrink back to an unknown degree and cow prices climb back up for an unknown timeframe. The point is, Olson thinks, to understand where things stand with this cycle and whether prices appear to be ratcheting up or down, on the average, for the coming year.

2. GRASS FEVER IN THE SPRING

Grass fever actually starts soon after Christmas, with 450-pound calves bringing high prices as backgrounders and stocker operators start winding up for that 575- to 600-pound calf summer grazing managers seem to consider the perfect animal. The price bulge seems to roll up through the weights as the beginning of grazing season approaches and beef producers plan to get that perfect-sized grass calf. If you have steers that match these rolling specifications in the winter and spring, look for selling opportunities

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3. WHEAT-PASTURE FEVER

It’s the opposite-season twin of grass fever, except that perfect calf is judged to weigh 350 to 400 pounds for the lush wheat pasture and there is less time or opportunities for planning, Olson says. Still, the point to understand is the price bulge often hits those lighter calves at weaning time, coming into wheat pasture season in October or early November. Many times this is why lighter calves pay much higher prices per pound in the fall.

Remember, too, a weaned calf carries a big premium because people don’t like to wean calves. This is especially true since many ranchers are getting old, he adds.

4. FEEDER CATTLE RELATIONSHIP TO APRIL LIVE CATTLE CONTRACT

Feeder cattle that feed into the April live-cattle contract (and to some degree in recent years the February contract), normally price better than the surrounding weight classes, Olson says. For fat cattle this typically is the high point at the end of winter.

Therefore, big cattle selling in December and January will price better. Big cattle coming off wheat pasture and coming out of grow yards in March usually drop significantly in price, as they are more likely to hit the summer price downswing in fed cattle. This relationship also traces back to the large number of cattle that are weaned in the fall and enter the stocker-backgrounder-feeding system.

Keep in mind, also, the opportunities to sell big feeders at a good price often come before and after that March pig passes through the marketing python, Olson says.

An important lesson here is that feedlots drive feeder-cattle marketing; pay attention to what they are doing.

5. SUMMER SLUMP IN BRED COW PRICES

When summer hay season arrives, it seems to bring low bred-cow prices. Although the conventional wisdom correctly says the yearly low for cull cow prices normally comes in the fall, summer doldrums may really drive down cow volume and prices for a time each year, especially for bred cows. Olson says this means two things: ❚❚ If you are buying bred cows, the period from about May 15 to August 1 might be a good time, although the volume of sales is typically low. ❚❚ If you are selling bred cows, this is not the time to do it.

Here’s an exception: July 4 is summer vacation for sale barns, with a normal shutdown for a week or two. That means prices

can be pretty good on either side of the shutdown.

Incidentally, for those people who calve in the true spring — meaning May and June — Olson says December is not the time to sell these cows. Winter them through to March and they sell just fine.

6. LAST STEER TRIPPED IN CHEYENNE

This refers to the mid-summer slump in feeder-cattle prices, which happens about the third or fourth week in July, and coincides with the rodeo at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The saying is, “You need to have everything sold by the time the last steer is tripped in Cheyenne.”

Olson says he picked up this saying from Clark Victory, a cattle buyer from Chelsea, Oklahoma.

This is the timeframe when most feedyards get their pens full, Olson says. Once they’re full, feeders quit buying. It’s also a testament to the power of the cattle feeding industry in the overall marketing scheme of the beef industry.

You also need to have your cull cows marketed by this time, because the number of them coming to market starts to increase after that. Often this is fall-calving cows from fall-calving herds, but also hay season is ending and open spring-calving cows will be coming to market soon.

KEEP THE BIG-PICTURE VIEW

These are important trends to keep in mind, Olson reiterates, but they are not ironclad marketing plans.

“You still need to deal with the market today,” he says. “These things don’t always play out.”

The point is that knowing these trends can offer marketing ideas in the future for cattle you buy or hold in your inventory. For example, if you can prepare to sell big feeder calves in December or January, there’s a chance you can pull in a strong price. Along the way and before that time comes, however, you may find other options that pay well above the cost structure you have invested in those cattle.

In addition, your local markets may offer selling or buying opportunities that don’t commonly appear in other markets. Be on the lookout. Check the markets daily. Know the value of your inventory and your cost to produce it.

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Fake Meat Deserves the Same Regulations, Oversight as Beef

by Missy Bonds, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association director

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mitation is defined as a thing intended to simulate or copy something else. It has many synonyms: fake, forgery, reproduction, and impersonation, to name a few.

As consumers, we sometimes seek out these imitation products as a cheaper or more readily available alternative to the original, but most often we would prefer the real deal.

After all, the name itself implies that the original is better than the fake version.

Whether you are at the jewelry store or the grocery store, it is important that manufacturers and retailers clearly differentiate between these real and fake products so we can make an informed decision before we head to the cash register.

With the current discussion surrounding plant-based imitation meats and cell-cultured protein, also known as lab-grown meat, transparency is more important than ever.

Since our ranch is next door to the Dallas/ Fort Worth metroplex, we are no strangers to touring chefs, journalists, and others. We are proud to share our methods of raising cattle and producing beef with a curious public.

Having operated with this kind of transparency for decades, my family and our fellow members of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) are concerned about the push for these fake beef products.

I hear many of the same people who are proponents of unprocessed, organic, and non-GMO foods, pressuring the public to accept these imitation products that are cobbled together in a laboratory.

One of the leading plant-based imitation meats has 21 ingredients, with the main one being soy protein concentrate, which is heavily processed in and of itself. Cell-cultured meats are “grown” in a laboratory using things like fetal bovine serum.

Real beef, though, has only one ingredient, 100 percent beef, and it is grown using things like grass in sunny pastures.

While plant-based fake meats are already ulatory framework for lab-grown fake meat available, the lab-grown product is still being that will give both agencies oversight of difdeveloped, but it is likely not far from being ferent aspects of production. offered to the public.

FDA will regulate the process before cell Fake meat industry representatives have harvest, to include cell collection, cell banks made a lot of claims, but the corporations and the like. USDA will have oversight after developing these lab-grown meats are reluc- the cells are harvested and will regulate tant to provide details on their production things like labeling, inspections and ensuring methods or product. Those products also a level playing field in the market. have not been analyzed by independent sciWhile they have established the basic entists, which means there are still many framework, there are still many details to questions about food safety risks and compo- be determined. Both agencies will likely be sitional and nutritional properties. creating guidance documents and rules to That’s why it is essential that consumers, define more clearly the food safety evaluation cattle producers, and government regulators process, nomenclature and labeling terms, come together now, before the product comes grading standards, and more. to market.

Whether you are a consumer or rancher, I We must ensure that fake meats are prop- urge you to stay engaged. Demand that regerly vetted and regulated to protect the health ulators clearly and carefully label imitation and well-being of consumers and prevent products, so we know what we are buying. false or deceptive marketing.

Cell-cultured meat is not the same beef Unfortunately, some of this deceptive mar- that my family and I produce. These new keting has already begun, with supporters products must be defined and properly regof fake meat calling it “clean” meat. They ulated to ensure we can continue to benefit acknowledge that “clean” is not a legal from the safest and most abundant food term. They use this description because “it is supply in the world. the expression that elicits the most positive response in potential buyers,” according to David Banis, a contributor to Forbes.com in a Dec. 14, 2018, article.

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Pasture, Rangeland & Forage (PRF) What You Should Know.

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Whether you keep replacement heifers out of your calf crop or buy them, the focus on genetics and genomics will likely increase over time. In fact, a growing number of commercial cowcalf producers are finding an advantage to getting genomic data on their replacement heifers. The more accurately you know genetic potential, and the sooner, the more opportunity there is to build on the top and cleave from the bottom.

by Wes Ishmael, BEEF Magazine

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thousand days here, a thousand days there, and pretty soon you’re talking some real time.

That’s how long it takes to feed and see the results of a replacement heifer’s first progeny.

That’s why Ryan Noble of Noble Ranch LLC at Yuma, Colo.rado, used genomics to help identify replacement heifer prospects most likely to merit the investment.

Among other things, Noble reduced the average three-year culling rate of his replacements to two percent from 15 percent to 17 percent, after adjusting bull selection based upon genomic data.

Incidentally, according to a BEEF survey of commercial cow-calf producers this year, a third of the respondents say they buy at least some of their bulls based on genomic.

While 52 percent expect their seedstock suppliers to provide genomic profiles of the bulls they sell, 41.8 percent use genomic profiling for at least some of their breeding decisions; 10.8 percent said The value and cost of time is why Jared Decker, Extension beef genetics specialist at the University of Missouri, encourages commercial producers to consider estimates of cow lifetime productivity when selecting bulls.

These are estimates like the Stayability EPD offered by some breeds, which looks at

the genetic difference of the probability that a bull’s daughters will remain in the herd to at least 6 years of age. More recently, the American Hereford Association introduced an EPD for Sustained Cow Fertility, which predicts a cow’s ability to continue calving from three years old to 12 years old, having first calved as a two-year-old.

“Given the cost of developing or buying replacement heifers, if those females drop out of the herd in two or three years, we’ve made lots of investment with little return. These tools help identify females that are fertile and will stay in the herd longer,” Decker explains.

Keep in mind that whatever EPD you’re talking about, for almost every widely used breed of cattle, EPDs — long the gold standard of estimating genetic merit — are even more accurate now than 12 to 18 months ago.

That’s thanks to a revolutionary way of calculating genomic-enhanced EPDs (GE-EDPs) by which pedigree, genotype, phenotypic information and progeny performance are incorporated into the calculation at the same time.

These GE-EPDs address time as well, providing a level of prediction accuracy for a nonparent animal that is on par with already

knowing the performance of 10 to 20 progeny, depending on the trait in question.

The more accurately you know genetic potential, and the sooner, the more opportunity there is to build on the top and cleave from the bottom.

“There are two things that really drain profit out of a cow herd,” Noble says. “One is the cost of developing replacement heifers.

The other is depreciation of cows.

What causes cows to depreciate? “Mostly, it’s open or underperforming cows that end up going to town. That alone can represent a noncash cost of $150 or more per cow per year on an average ranch.”

Moreover, Decker is a proponent of using economic selection indexes to move toward herd-specific goals without inadvertently leaving something important behind. These economic selection indexes account for the traits associated with a particular breeding objective, with each of those traits weighted for their relative economic performance.

“Economic selection indexes are genetic predictions [i.e., EPDs] for profitability,” Decker explains. “Economic selection indexes weight each EPD trait by its economic importance and combine them into one number. They allow us to use multiple trait selection, focusing on our economic well-being.

Selection indexes also simplify our decisions, because they combine all of the information into one number on which to rank cattle.”

Decker reminds that various indexes have different purposes. For instance, some focus mostly on end product value, others on replacement heifers and maternal values. It pays to know what traits make up a specific index and how they’re weighted.

By embracing available tools, combined with good old-fashioned cow sense, it’s remarkable what some commercial producers are achieving when it comes to cutting herd costs, increasing revenue and expanding economic efficiency.

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Top 5 Reproductive Failures in Beef Operations & How to Avoid Them

by Ryon Walker, Ph.D., Livestock Consultant, Noble Research Institute

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chieving high pregnancy rates is an important goal in every cow-calf operation. After every breeding season, we are either satisfied with the results or wondering why our pregnancy rates were so low and focusing on ways to improve them.

Traditional thinking trains us to be satisfied with our results when we have met the industry average, or are as good as, if not better than, our neighbor’s pregnancy rates.

Nontraditional thinking should redirect our focus more on the causes of some of these failures and on correcting or minimizing the problem.

Reproductive failures can occur in any cow-calf operation and account for a significant chunk of the financial loss incurred from a poor calf crop. Let’s take a look at the top 5 reproductive failures that I believe are often seen in a cow-calf operation, beginning with No. 5.

is lowly heritable, we can select for fertility within your management through a shorter breeding season. “Defined” is the key word in a defined calving season.

4. INFECTIOUS CAUSES OF REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE

A good herd health program is invaluable.

It helps prevent certain diseases such as blackleg, pink eye, and respiratory diseases, as well as some diseases that can cause reproductive failure at differen t stages of pregnancy. Infection by these pathogens (viruses, bacteria, and protozoa) can significantly reduce your calving rate through abortions and stillbirths. Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus can cause abortion if the cow is infected in the first three months of gestation and is transmitted through horizontal transmission (animal to animal) or vertical transmission (dam to fetus). Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus can cause abortion from four months of gestation to term and is transmitted horizontally through direct contact or airborne. Brucellosis (Bang’s disease) is a bacterial disease that causes abortion at any stage of pregnancy and is transmitted

5. LEAVING THE BULLS IN TOO LONG

I can already tell that some of you are shaking your head “yes” in agreement with this statement. This is not scientific but rather common sense. The longer we leave the bulls in with the cows, the more likely we are to shift some of the herd to calve later in the season. This ultimately causes some of the cows to fall out of the herd because they come up open. We have trained some of those animals that it is OK to go through several attempts to get bred. Sometimes when those animals are stressed prior to or during the breeding season, it makes it that much easier for that animal to fall out of the breeding season.

There are also other pitfalls to leaving your bulls in too long, including lack of uniformity in your weaning date, weaning weight and marketing of calves. Although fertility

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through direct contact of milk or via the aborted fetus, afterbirth or other reproductive tract discharges. Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that causes abortion within one to three months after infection and is transmitted directly between animals or indirectly through the environment. Vibriosis is a bacterial venereal disease that causes abortion between four and seven months of gestation and is transmitted to the bull from breeding infected cows and then passing the bacteria back to naïve cows during the breeding season. Neosporosis is a protozoal disease that causes abortions during mid-gestation and is transmitted by other host such as canines.

Trichomoniasis is a protozoal disease that causes abortion during the first three months of gestation and is transmitted to the bull from breeding infected cows and then passing the protozoa back to naïve cows during the breeding season. In order to reduce the incidence of infectious disease in your herd, maintain proper nutrition (including a good mineral program), minimize stress, maintain a good vaccination program, and properly control internal and external parasites.

3. POOR NUTRITION

Most people would say that nutrition is the most important factor contributing to poor fertility, and I agree to an extent. Cows need to be in good body condition at calving to speed up uterine involution (recovery process) and reduce the days to first estrus.

If a cow starts off in a low body condition at calving, the increase in nutrient demands during and after calving can delay a cow’s ability to recover from calving sooner and begin cycling again. Good management practices allow a producer to increase nutrient availability during the last month of gestation, depending on the nutritional status of the cow at that time, to ensure those cows are maintained at a body condition score of 5 to 6 at calving. Cattle that calve in a poor body condition can still conceive during a longer breeding season; however, those cattle will typically conceive later on in the breeding season, eventually falling out of the herd because she was open.

2. FORGETTING THE BULL

Bull management is overlooked most of the time and often comes second to cow management when it should be the other way around. Fertility issues with one cow only affect one calf. Fertility issues with one bull could affect up to 30 calves, or lack thereof. Breeding soundness exams are a cheap investment when compared to the alternative with a sub-fertile bull. A study conducted at

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Kansas State showed that pregnancy rates dropped more than 6 percent in cows serviced by bulls that did not have a breeding soundness exam conducted compared to bulls that passed a breeding soundness exam prior to the breeding season. Statistics show that 1 out of 5 bulls are sub-fertile across a random population. We are sometimes guilty of not paying attention to the bulls when they have their work clothes on, meaning when they are out with the cows. Problems with the bull during the breeding season are often not detected until after the breeding season by Greg Henderson, Drovers or pregnancy diagnosis at weaning, and then September 10, 2019 it’s too late. It is always a good practice lternative protein products may have to monitor each bull’s behavior throughout drawn rave reviews and national headthe breeding season and to make sure he is lines this year, but consumers still breeding cows. There are multiple reasons prefer real beef produced on real farms. why a bull may not be servicing cows, such That’s the conclusion of a survey of about as lameness, disease, other mature bulls, or a 1,800 U.S. food consumers conducted by lack of libido. Libido is a measureable trait Purdue University’s Jayson Lusk, Ghent and measures how aggressive a bull is at University post-doctoral research fellow Ellen servicing a cow, regardless of any manageVan Loo and Michigan State University agriment or environmental factors that may get cultural economist Vincenzina Caputo. in his way. While we spend a lot of time on The study asked consumers to make a managing our cows, we need to spend more number of simulated shopping choices. With time managing and observing our bulls and each choice they had five options: convenhow they perform during the breeding season. tional farm-raised beef, a plant-based burger 1. UNCONTROLLED INFERTILITY made with pea protein, a plant-based burger made with animal-like protein, lab grown Probably the biggest contributor to repromeat, or they could choose not to buy any of ductive failure is one we cannot control, and the products. that is embryonic mortality during early pregHolding prices constant, the authors found nancy. Up until recent years, early detection 72 percent of respondents chose farm raised of pregnancy was limited due to method of beef, 16 percent plant-based meat alternadetection (ultrasonography and blood test tives, 7 percent plant-based animal-like provs. rectal palpation alone). In addition, survival rates early on during pregnancy were difficult to diagnose until recent findings.

Recent work has reported that early embryonic survival in beef cattle at seven days after breeding is approximately 95 percent. That means almost all cattle conceive and have a live embryo within the first seven days of gestation. By day 28, embryonic survival has dropped to approximately 70 percent.

There is a 25 percent loss in embryo survival from day 7 to day 28 of gestation. By day 42, embryonic survival is approximately 62 percent. Why there is such a drop in embryonic survival is still not understood. Is it management, environment or genetic?

These five contributors to reproductive failure should be evaluated every year. With this in mind, identifying what contributed to a failure is the first step to improving the results of an outcome. Once we accept that, we can react on that and reduce or eliminate the failure.

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tein, and 5 percent lab grown meat.

“Adding brand names (Certified Angus Beef, Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, and Memphis Meats) actually increased the share choosing farm raised beef to 80 percent,” the authors said. “Environment and technology information had minor effects on conditional market shares but reduced the share of people not buying any meat (alternative) options, indicating information pulled more people into the market.”

Consumers also strongly objected to the use of the term “beef” on the label of a plantbased product, according to the resulting report, “Consumer Preferences for FarmRaised Meat, Lab-Grown Meat, and PlantBased Meat Alternatives: Does Information or Brand Matter?”

Further, the survey found that even if plant- and lab-based alternative experienced significant (50 percent) price reductions, farm raised beef maintains a majority market share.

“Vegetarians, males, and younger, more highly educated individuals tend to have relatively stronger preferences for the plant- and lab-based alternatives relative to farm-raised beef. Respondents are strongly opposed to taxing conventional beef and to allowing the plant- and lab-based alternatives to use the label ‘beef.’”

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Cattle Trade Update

by Derrell S. Peel, OK State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist

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otal cattle imports in July were down 4.1 percent with year-to-date total cattle imports up 14.7 percent year over year for the January through July period.

Cattle imports in 2018 totaled 1.9 million head, including 66.8 percent Mexican cattle and 33.2 percent from Canada. Feeder cattle imports (from Mexico and Canada) accounted for 77.5 percent of total cattle imports with slaughter cattle (from Canada) adding another 21.8 percent of the total. Breeding cattle imports made up less than one percent of total cattle imports.

Data for July showed that monthly cattle imports from Mexico were down 7.4 percent compared to July 2018. Year-to-date cattle imports from Mexico for the first 7 months of the year are up 12.5 percent year over year.

Thus far in 2019, feeder heifers made up 19.8 percent of Mexican cattle imports and steers accounting for 80.1 percent of Mexican cattle imports. The proportion of steers and heifers is unchanged from 2018 levels. A total of 1.27 million head of Mexican cattle were imported in 2018, equivalent to 3.5 percent of the 2018 U.S. calf crop.

July cattle imports from Canada were up 2.5 percent year over year, contributing to a 19.0 percent year-to-date increase in total Canadian cattle imports for the first 7 months of this year. For the January to July period, Canadian cattle imports consisted of 33.0 percent feeder cattle and 61.8 percent slaughter cattle. Feeder cattle imports from Canada included 76.7 percent heifers, up 19.5 percent year over year. Year-to-date feeder steer imports are down 18.0 percent with total Canadian feeder cattle imports up 8.0 percent. Canadian feeder cattle imports in 2018 totaled just over 205 thousand head, equal to 0.6 percent of the 2018 U.S. calf crop.

Canadian slaughter cattle imports thus far in 2019 are up 26.7 percent year over year and include 66.2 percent slaughter steers and heifers and 33.8 percent slaughter cows and bulls. Year-to-date slaughter steer and heifer imports are up 45.5 percent year over year.

2018 slaughter steer and heifer imports from

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Canada totaled 239,317 head, and represented 0.9 percent of total yearling slaughter in the U.S. Year-to-date imports of Canadian slaughter cows and bulls are up 1.0 percent year over year. Total imports of slaughter cows and bulls in 2018 were 175,495 head and accounted for 2.6 percent of total U.S. cow and bull slaughter.

Cattle exports from the U.S. were down 3.4 percent in July with a year-to-date total of 128,050 head, up 21.3 percent year over year. Cattle exports consisted of 84.9 percent to Mexico with another 10.1 percent to Canada.

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Increasing Marbling in Beef Without Increasing Overall Fatness Source: Texas Tech University

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he desire to find the juiciest piece of beef, be it a steak or ribs or roast, isn’t limited to just the restaurant and how it is seasoned or cooked. It starts well before that. It begins when the cattle are still alive, still being raised and fed, and how and what they are fed. The more ranchers can increase the marbling in beef cattle, the better the beef and the higher the price it can fetch at auction or when it is sold. But increasing the marbling in beef is a tricky undertaking with numerous factors in play.

Brad Johnson, the Gordon W. Davis Regent’s Chair in Meat Science and Muscle Biology in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences at Texas Tech University, hopes to unlock one of those secrets to beef marbling without making the cattle fatter and unhealthy.

Thanks to a $239,693 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Johnson, a professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, and other researchers hope to identify the

means by which development of intramuscular adipose tissue, or marbling, can be promoted without also increasing subcutaneous adipose tissue, or back fat.

The grant is sponsored by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service and the Texas AgriLife Research.

“This research would improve the sustainability of beef production worldwide if we can find novel ways to improve marbling without increasing the obesity or adiposity of the cattle,” Johnson said.

The key, according to Johnson, could lie in activating a key receptor, the G-coupled protein receptor (GPR43), that is significantly present in intramuscular adipose tissue but not in subcutaneous adipose tissue.

“If we can find the ligands that bind to the receptors that activate the response in intramuscular adipose, it won’t have the same effect in subcutaneous because it is lacking that receptor,” Johnson said.

In recent research, Johnson and fellow researchers have discovered that oleic acid, a fatty acid that has been shown to have positive effects on human health, such as controlling cholesterol and reducing cardiovascular issues, strongly affects GPR43 activation.

They hypothesize that oleic acid could be the key ligand that binds to the GPR43 receptors, therefore increasing lipid accumulation in adipose tissue, or increasing marbling in beef without activating subcutaneous adipose tissue.

For this research, Johnson will use different models to test the hypothesis, both in the laboratory with cell culture models and also with cattle themselves during different stages of growth. Johnson’s lab has the ability to grow both intramuscular adipose tissue and subcutaneous adipose tissue in order to test the theories.

“We will do a lot of comparing and contrasting of different factors and look at different novel compounds,” Johnson said. “We will see how they respond and are able to turn on marbling adipose. It is a multifaceted approach using beef cattle and also cell culture techniques.”

If successful, Johnson said, an increased understanding of the differences between the two types of adipose tissue could lead to specific technologies that would increase marbling without compromising the health of the cattle, and do so in a way that is financially advantageous for cattle ranchers and beef producers.

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Arizona Cowboy Ed Ashurst Receives RHA Working Cowboy Award

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d Ashurst, an Arizona cowboy who has gathered cattle and horses on more than 7,000 square miles of the American West, received the 2019 Working Cowboy Award during the 42nd Annual National Golden Spur Award dinner at the Overton Hotel in Lubbock, Texas.

“This award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily horseback caring for livestock on a daily basis,” said Jim Bret Campbell, director of the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) in Lubbock.

The Ranching Heritage Association (RHA), a non-profit membership organization supporting the work and mission of the NRHC, sponsors the annual award to honor a working cowboy skilled in all aspects of

ranch work and respected by the ranch crew and ranching community.

Ashurst started working on a 300-section Arizona ranch the morning after his high school graduation in Wickenburg, Ariz. “Every cowboy but me was from Chihuahua, Mexico,” he said. “They taught me Spanish, how to cook Mexican food and how to cowboy.”

Since then Ashurst has accumulated 50 years of experience working on 20 different ranches in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. He has spent the last 22 years running the 86-section Ten X Ranch about 35 miles northeast of Douglas, Ariz. He worked 15 years Bob & Jean Ann Ashurst. for Babbitt Ranches and if he were to Bob is the 2019 Working Cowboy Award recipient stop long enough to compile a resume, his ranch list would read like the A-list “That was a real rough-country ranch,” of great Southwestern ranches.

Ashurst credits a legendary old-timer Ashurst said, noting that he was only 20 named Whistle Mills on the O RO Ranch as when he worked with Whistle at the tail end being a major mentor in his life. Located in of the old-timer’s career. “If you didn’t gather northern Arizona 50 miles from Prescott, the the cattle right, they would be wild. He was ranch has no power lines or telephone poles a master at that. He knew how to gather and unmarked dirt roads connect the remote rough-country wild cows better or as good cow camps to headquarters. To some people, as anybody.”

As a result, it should be no surprise that the O RO is the crown jewel of Arizona the award nominating committee describes ranches.

Ashurst as “outstanding at gathering wild cattle in rough country.” In addition, he’s considered a superb bronc-rider and excellent roper.

Like many cowboys, he also has a rodeo history and is one of the main participants and backers of the Arizona Cowpunchers Rodeo held annually in Williams. He has served numerous times as president of the organization and also been a rodeo contestant.

Ashurst may be unique among cowboys in regard to how he spends his time when he comes in at night after a day on the ranch.

Instead of turning on the television, which he doesn’t have, he takes his ballpoint pen and a yellow legal pad and writes for an hour.

Then he gives his writing to his wife, Jean Ann, to type and edit. He writes consistently enough that the two of them crank out one book a year, and all the books can be found on amazon.com.

Ashurst has published eight books and will debut his ninth book shortly before he receives the Working Cowboy Award. His fourth book, Stealin’ From the Neighbors, was his first work of fiction and was awarded the Hillerman Award for Fiction at the 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in Albuquerque.

The first RHA Working Cowboy Award was presented in 2018 to Boots O’Neal of the Four Sixes Ranch in Guthrie, Texas.

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CA Mayor Proposes Gun Owners Insurance

By Bill Lucia, www.routefifty.com

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irearm owners in San Jose, CA, would be required to have liability insurance for their weapons under a slate of proposals that the city’s mayor is backing with the hope of reducing the harm and public cost of gun violence.

But Mayor Sam Liccardo’s plan highlights some of the difficulties in mandating insurance for gun owners. Not only because of opposition from gun rights advocates, but also because the insurance industry has typically offered narrow liability coverage for shootings.

The coverage that does exist tends to apply to accidents and an industry expert says that there’s been little interest among insurers in covering intentional acts of gun violence.

“I haven’t seen any groundswell among insurers to offer that kind of a product,” James Lynch, chief actuary and vice president of research and education at the Insurance Information Institute, told Route Fifty.

“You can require someone to buy insurance, but you can’t require an insurance company to sell the product,” he added.

But at least one law professor sees a path where state regulators—though not necessarily cities—could push the insurance industry toward providing expanded coverage for shootings.

That said, past proposals similar to Liccardo’s at the state and federal level haven’t gone anywhere.

Liccardo envisions a requirement for liability insurance that would cover accidental shooting incidents, as well as intentional acts by people who steal or borrow a gun from a gun owner. “Intentional conduct” by the policyholder would not be covered.

“Under current Supreme Court rulings, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms,” Liccardo said in a statement. “However, the Constitution does not require taxpayers to subsidize that individual choice.”

Liccardo noted that with car insurance, the insurance industry encourages and rewards safe driving behavior. And he pointed out that tobacco is taxed to discourage risky behavior and to help offset the public health costs of smoking-related illnesses and deaths.

“These successful public health models inspire a similar ‘harm reduction’ approach for firearms,” he said.

Text for the legislation the mayor is proposing is expected to be released on Thursday, according to a city official.

The draft ordinance calls for mandating the insurance requirements for city residents.

But if approved by the City Council, the requirements would not be implemented right away. Instead, the proposal would direct city staff to explore the specifics of how the requirements might be implemented and to come back to the council with recommendations.

Liccardo’s measure would also call on staff to look into establishing a fee that gun owners could pay as an alternative to carrying the required insurance coverage, or in the event the coverage is not available. Fee proceeds would go toward helping to cover public costs tied to gun violence, like emergency medical services.

The proposed ordinance would also direct city staff to examine the possibility of a ballot measure that would ask voters to decide on imposing a tax on firearms and ammunition.

Two children from San Jose were among three people killed by a gunman in July at a festival in Gilroy, CA. A funeral for the youngest, 6-year-old Stephen Romero, was held.

Since the Gilroy shooting, a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, TX, and another shooter killed nine people in an entertainment district in Dayton, OH—two separate mass shooting incidents over one weekend.

2019 Preconditioning & Stocker Outlook

by Jason Bradley, AG Econ Consultant, Noble Research Institute

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hey say time flies when you’re having fun.

I must be having a great time because it’s hard to believe it’s already time to start looking at how fall preconditioning and stocker cattle outlooks are shaping up.

In the 10/18 Noble News and Views article “Gauging the Current Outlook for Preconditioning Cattle,” I discussed Value of Gain (VoG) and Cost of Gain (CoG) and how to calculate them. I won’t go into much detail on how to calculate them here, but we will be using them to calculate this year’s outlook.

OBBS R BRANGUS

PRECONDITIONING

This year’s preconditioning outlook looks to have tighter margins than what we’ve seen in the past couple years. A couple of factors may be the cause of this. In the last year, the price of cattle has dropped close to $10 per hundredweight. Combine that with corn prices that are around $1 per bushel more, and cowcalf producers are seeing their profitability slowly dropping. As we move into fall, forage availability will become an issue as more of the area is starting to develop drought conditions.

That’s not to say there aren’t opportunities available.

This year’s preconditioning outlook looks to have tighter margins than what we’ve seen in the past couple years.

By managing costs and keeping an eye on the markets, backgrounding cattle for more than 45 days in a preconditioning program looks to be profitable.

As of this writing (August 5), a 500-pound steer at weaning in mid-September is estimated to bring a total of about $750, based on the Oklahoma combined average. By preconditioning that steer for 60 days with an average daily gain (ADG) of 2.5 pounds, that steer should end weighing about 650 pounds. The estimated value of this animal is now close to $950 per head. The increase of $200 per head less an estimated cost of preconditioning at $90 per head leaves about $110 per head to be made.

WINTER WHEAT

You should have some winter wheat available by now. Winter stocker cattle looks to be as profitable as backgrounding.

At an ADG of 2.5 pounds for 120 days, a steer starting at 650 pounds would finish at 950 pounds. This 950-pound animal in midMarch is now worth an estimated $1,225. If we use the same value for the 650-pound steer as we did in the preconditioning estimate ($950), the increase in value is $275 per head. Dividing this by the 300 pounds the animal gained, the VoG is about 90 cents per pound. Last year, we saw an average CoG for winter stockers of 50 cents per pound. Using the same CoG as last year, every pound is looking to pay you about 40 cents. This would come out to a net of about $120 per head.

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These examples are based on averages and estimates. Every operation is unique and has its own set of challenges. If you decide you want to precondition your cattle or run stocker cattle, look at your production history and go through everything to make sure it’s worth your time. If the margins are too slim for you, maybe you can pass on it this year and look at other opportunities.

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FWS Opens Record Number of Refuges for Hunting & Fishing

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Paul Bottari, Broker men and sportswomen onto U.S. Fish As part of the rule setting, FWS prepared & Wildlife Service (FWS) lands.

In a final rule that became effective on a detailed impact analysis that estimates, for August 29, 2019, the agency opened or instance, that 20 ducks, 10 woodcocks, five 521 West Second St. • Portales, NM 88130 expanded new hunting and/or sport fishing geese and one snipe will be killed annually by 575-226-0671 or 575-226-0672 fax opportunities on over 1.4 million acres at 92 hunters at the Mashpee reserve.

The revisions bring the number of units in Buena Vista Realty refuges and hatcheries nationwide. the National Wildlife Refuge System where Qualifying Broker: “This is the largest number of openings and is allowed to 381 and the number A.H. (Jack) Merrick 575-760-7521 expansions the Service has proposed in a sin- hunting www.bottarirealty.com www.buenavista-nm.com gle rule, and is the result of a national effort where fishing is permitted to 316.

The new rules have won praise in some cirto increase access for hunters and anglers on cles, with the 50-state Association of Fish & Service lands and waters,” FWS stated.

Wildlife Agencies declaring that it “applauds The 681-page package of “station-specific” the Department of the Interior for its efforts hunting and sport fishing regulations is an to increase access to, and optimize recreation annual production, and much of it continues On the Plaza on, our nation’s public lands.” business as usual for FWS properties. Under Others are more skeptical.

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PROVEN SUPERIOR 116 Plaza the final rule, but remain concerned that “President Trump has made increasing PO Box 1903 RED ANGUS Socorro, NM 87801 public access and streamlining government the Trump administration’s rush to increase GENETICS www.socorroplazarealty.com functions priorities of his administration, hunting and fishing” could threaten wildlife. dbrown@socorroplazarealty.com 14298 N. Atkins Rd., Lodi, CA 95240 “In a time of budget austerity and and this new rule delivers on both fronts,” decreased law enforcement capacity on ref209/727-3335 Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a uges, the excessive emphasis on hunting and statement.

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Payments Scheduled on 25 Years 575-226-0671 orupdate 575-226-0672 fax wildlife refuges that are currently closed to Buena Realty hunting and Vista sport Call fishing.

TheseVista include Buena Realty at 575-226-0671 or the listing agent Lori Bohm 575-760-9847, or Melody Sandberg 575-825-1291.

Qualifying Broker: the likes of the 342-acre Mashpee National Many good A.H. (Jack) Merrick 575-760-7521 Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts, forpictures which, on MLS or www.buenavista-nm.com www.buenavista-nm.com as with other refuges, specific rules are set.

“We allow the use of dogs to retrieve Joe Stubblefield & Associates game,” the Mashpee rules state, but they ban 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX “an organized or planned effort to pursue, 806/622-3482 • cell 806/674-2062 drive, chase, or otherwise frighten or cause joes3@suddenlink.net Nara Visa, NM • 575-403-7970 deer to move in the direction of any person(s) who is part of the organized or planned hunt.”

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Fifteen miles southeast of Corona, NM in Lincoln County. 11,889 Deeded Acres, 1,640 Federal BLM Lease Acres and 2,240 NM State Lease Acres. Grazing Capacity estimated at 300 AUYL. Water provided by five wells and pipelines. Improved with two residences, barns and corrals. The ranch had a good summer with abundant grass. Good mule deer habitat. Call for a brochure or view on my website. Price: $4,400,000 $4,100,000 COCHISE RANCH – Ranch property located just west of Roswell, NM along and adjacent to U.S. Highway 70/380 to Ruidoso, NM. Comprised of 6,607 deeded acres and 80 acres of NM State Lease acres. Water is provided by three solar wells and pipelines. Fenced into several pastures and small traps suitable for a registered cattle operation. Improvements include two sets of pens, shop, and hay barn. Price: $2,500,000 Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 • Cell: 575-420-1237

P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714 • 575/376-2341 • Fax: 575/376-2347 land@swranches.com • www.swranches.com

CHICO CREEK RANCH, Colfax County, NM. NEW LISTING. 6,404.26 +/- Total Acres, Located approximately 10 miles east of Springer New Mexico.

3,692.60 +/- deeded acres with balance in state lease. Excellent grass and water. Two plus miles of the Chico Creek meandering through the center of the property. Additional wells and dirt tanks. Nice historic head quarters privately located with shade trees and excellent views of the property. Shipping pens in central portion of property. $2,837,318

CIMARRON ON THE RIVER, Colfax County, NM. 7.338 +/- deeded acres with 4.040 acre-feet per annum out of the Maxwell-Clutton Ditch. Custom country-chic 2,094 +/- sq ft home. Owns both sides of river in places. Horse/cow/chicken/vegetable garden/ greenhouse/orchard set up. Country living at it’s finest, in town, but in a world of your own. Very special on river. Appointment only. $599,000

RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres in 2 parcels with excelWAGON MOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, lent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar NM. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres, a substantial holding view at the end of a private road. $489,000. Also with good mix of grazing land and broken country off listed with the house and one parcel for $375,000 rim into Canadian River. Has modern water system MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM quality 2,715 located 17 miles east of Wagon Mound off pavement sqft adobe home, barn, grounds, fruit trees and then 3 miles on county road. Two bedroom historic mature trees. Extremely private setting. REDUCED house, once a stage stop. Wildlife include antelope, $355,000. This is a must see. Also listed with same mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000 house with 10 +/- deeded acres for $310,000 MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Very MAXWELL 19.50 ACRES, Colfax County, NM quality private approx. 4,800 sq ft double walled adobe extensive remodeled two bedroom, one bathroom 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many custom home with water rights, outbuildings for livestock in features, 77.50 +/- deeded acres with water rights NE NM. Great south facing porch for sipping iced tea and large 7 stall barn, insulated metal shop with own cooling off at 6,000 ft elevation. Would make great septic. Would suit indoor growing operation, large summer getaway and winter ski base. $260,000 hay barn/equipment shed. $1,375,000 MORA COUNTY 160 +/- ACRES, 12 miles south FRENCH TRACT FARM, 491.55 +/- deeded acres, east of Wagon Mound, remote, excellent solar well Colfax County, NM two pivots, some gated pipe, 371 good mix of sub irrigated and range. Small cabin. irrigation shares in AVID, House, barn, close to exit $154,000 419 off I25 on HWY 58. All in one contiguous parcel with access on all sides. $700,000

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• 270 acre Mitchell County, Texas ranch. Investors dream; excellent RIVER RANCHES ESTATE,West Call Buena Vista Realty at 575-226-0671 or the listing agent cash flow. Rock formation being of Sumner Lake - Three lots Lori Bohm 575-760-9847, or Melody Sandberg 575-825-1291.

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ONE OF TEXAS’ BEST – 840 ac, Hunt Co., TX. 20 miles to McKinney, 30 miles to Dallas, 8 miles to Greenville. Beautiful modern 4,000 sq ft home sets high on hill with view to all of 31 years in the ranch business - see www.ranch-lands.com for videos & brochures with Middle Rio Grande the ranch. 20 lakes, and dirt Conservancy District water & DIXIE McGARVA RANCH: •DUANE 840 Immaculate, Hunt Co,approx.

TX. 985 acres Likely, CA. with about 600+ acre gravity flood tanks, excellent grass, barns, cat$69,000 rights, $75,000 irrigated pastures PLUS private 542 AU BLM permit. About 425 acres so of the irrigated are level to flood excellent pastures with balance good flood Ranch.

Pastures, 40 tanks, andirrigated pastures. NO PUMPING COST! Dryland is perfect for tle pens, nice barn, apartment, expansion to pivot irrigated alfalfa if desired. Plus BLM permit for 540 AU is fenced into 4 fields on about lakes.

Beautiful home, barns, 18,000 acres only 7 miles away. REDUCED ASKING PRICE - $3,125,000 8 pastures. All this 3.4 million.

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Someacres - with 2,700 deeded acres plus contiguous USFS & BLM 142 Webb Ranch Road, North Owner ready to retire.

BEAVER CREEK RANCH: about 82,000 31 years in the ranch business - see www.ranch-lands.com for videos & brochures permits for 450 pair; 580+acres irrigated alfalfa, pasture, and meadow from Beaver Creek water rights and of Pie Town Corner lot at minerals, galore.

Allbarns, for $1.35 one irrigationgame well. 3 homes, 2 hay 4 feedlots each w/ 250 ton barns, 2 large reservoirs, can run up to 240 AC GAME & RETREAT 20.067 & REDUCED ASKING PRICE - DUANE & DIXIE McGARVA RANCH: approx. 985 acres Likely, CA. with about 600+ acre gravity flood 500-600acres cowsw/electricity YEAR ROUND. $5,400,000. million. well. Horse corrals & small irrigated pastures PLUS private 542 AU BLM permit. About 425 the irrigated Lakes, are level towoods, flood thatacresissoaof dream.

BEAR CREEKcabin RANCH: Approx. 1,278 acres winter range ground and recreational property. on Bear excellent pastures with balanceLocated good flood irrigated pastures. NO PUMPING COST! Dryland is perfect for $75,000 Creek and accessed from South Cow Creek Valley Road. Should be greattohunting for deer,alfalfa wild turkey, wild Plus BLM permitmeadows, gameintogalore, miles expansion pivot irrigated if desired. for 540 AU is fenced 4 fields on35 about pigs, quail & owner states good trout fishing in Bear Creek. Deeded thru neighbor ranches.

18,000access acres easement only 7 miles away.

REDUCED ASKING PRICE - $3,125,000 No improvements & very private inside the ranch. out of Dallas, Kaufman Co. FENCE LAKE, 295acre Pine Now onlyPriest $700 per - Hill $894,600 Joe Real Estate BEAVER CREEK RANCH: about 82,000 acres with 2,700 acres plus contiguous USFS & BLM WANTED: Farms and million 1deeded Road, 2bd/3ba home on 60 permits for 450 pair; 580+- acres irrigated alfalfa, pasture, and meadow from Beaver Creek water rights and officeoffice

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NEW LISTING! Baker Property – Deming, NM *$3,970,000* T\The Baker Property contains +/-3,966 deeded acres just north of I-10 on the west end of Deming, New Mexico. The property is located within the adjudicated Mimbres Underground Water Basin but lies mostly outside the Critical Management Area. The property has 2,200 plus or minus acres of adjudicated surface rights from the intermittent flood waters of the Mimbres River. Historically the diversion of surface water was used to flood irrigate native grasslands. With the transfer of underground water rights, the property offers an excellent agricultural opportunity. Historically, portions of this property have been developed into a large farming operations producing cash crops such as onions, chilis and hemp. The class I Mimbres Silty Clay Loam soil provides excellent growing opportunity. There is a beautiful 3,500 sq. ft. custom home located on the farm that was built in 2006 and will steal your heart. With 3 bedrooms, 3 1⁄2 baths, a large open living area, walk in pantry and separate office/game room it makes a great farm home for a large family.

NEW LISTING! Gold Trap Ranch – Ashfork, AZ *$2,999,000* The Gold Trap Ranch is located in the Coconino National Forest just north of Ashfork, Arizona. The headquarters is 12 miles north of I-40 on a well maintained forest road and surrounded by National Forest.

2,122 SF home, livestock barn, equipment barn, working corrals, 15 ton scale, outbuildings and a 500 gallon water storage tank. This working cattle ranch carries 267 head CYL and is a combination of 7,947 deeded acres with state and forest leases on over 40,000 continuous acres. Livestock water is provided by numerous dirt tanks filled by Partridge Creek and surrounding drainage.

NEW LISTING! West Clem Ranch, La Paz County, AZ *$575,000* The West Clem is primarily a seasonal desert ranch with a 5,600 Acres BLM Allotment; 8,500 Acres State Grazing Lease and; 11,000 Acres of Adverse Deeded. The house, range improvements and shipping facilities are in very good condition. The ranch is well watered with 8 permanent waters. The shipping corrals and traps are new along with all water lots. Perimeter fencing has been recently rebuilt. Shipping corrals are easily accessed by cattle truck and include 5 ton livestock scales.

The ranch is perimeter fenced with holding traps at the shipping pens.

Most of the livestock waters are within a large trap and have triggers.

The adverse grazing and ephemeral increases have allowed up to 250 AUMs. NEW LISTING! Bar S Ranch – Wikeup, AZ *$5,950,000* The Bar S Ranch is located in west-central Arizona. With over 3,300 deeded acres and 152,655 total BLM and State Grazing this ranch runs 445 CYL plus large ephemeral increases. With three homes, barn, corrals and equipment this ranch is a large outfit that is well watered and maintained.

Deep Creek Ranch, Glenwood, NM *$1,189,000* The Deep Creek Ranch is nestled in the beautiful Gila Forest with a live year-round creek running through the headquarters of the ranch. With 106 deeded acres and the 6,288 acre Whiterock Allotment, this is the perfect gentleman’s ranch with a carrying capacity of 45 CYL. Adorable

3 bedroom/2 bath cabin, corrals, barn and three shallow wells on the deeded property. With wildlife in abundance – this ranch would be perfect for an outfitter operation.

Judd Ranch, Alpine, AZ *$3,850,000* The historic Judd Ranch located in the beautiful mountain community of Alpine, Arizona consists of 208 +/- gorgeous acres bordering the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Alpine, Arizona is full of clean mountain air and abundant wildlife. There are six cabins nestled into the pines along the historic Coronado Trail. The property includes the unique feature of Judd Lake on the San Francisco River. With 150 acre feet irrigation rights and open meadows surrounded by tall Ponderosa Pines, this property has abundant investment possibilities or just a beautiful mountain home.

The ranch has been used by the Judd family since the 1800s and has historically run 100 head seasonally from May to October.

REDUCED! White Mountain Ranch, Show Low, AZ *$775,000* The White Mountain Ranch is a working cattle ranch located in beautiful northeastern Arizona along the Mogollon Rim near Show Low, Arizona. The ranch consists of 42.65 acres of deeded land with BLM and State grazing leases and adverse deeded grazing. The carrying capacity is rated at 200 head in a cow/calf operation. There is a three bedroom, two bath 1,680' cozy main house. This ranch is outlined with over 75 miles of fencing and includes three sets of working corrals.

PENDING! End Of The Road Ranch, Snowflake, AZ *$429,000* End of the Road Ranch includes a 2,844 sq ft single story home on 259 acres of deeded land well watered with three deep wells including one large irrigation well rated at 1,500 gpm. No pumping restriction and no metering to irrigate approximately 200 acres of tillable pasture. With three matched metal-sided barns and a spacious garage/workshop this ranch is a turnkey property ideally suited for a small farm, livestock breeding outfit, personal roping facility or self-sufficient hide-a-way.

PENDING! The Wild Bunch Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ *$1,299,000* The Wild Bunch Ranch is located in Eastern Arizona and runs 311 CYL plus 48 head of hold-over yearlings and 8 horses. Offered turn-key: ranch improvements, permit, cattle and horses.

PENDING! La Cienega Ranch, Yucca, AZ *$1,690,000* The La Cienega Ranch is located in west-central Arizona in the community of Yucca and has a carrying capacity of 490 CYL. 3M Ranch – Central AZ Moore Farm – McNeal, AZ Bar U Ranch – Deming, NM 3C’S Ranch – Ashfork, AZ Tom Lockett Ranch – Ashfork, AZ TT Ranch – New River, AZ Indian Springs Ranch – Ashfork, AZ

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RANCH PROPERTY DUANE & DIXIE McGARVA RANCH: approx. 985 acres Likely, CA. with about 600+ acre gravity flood irrigated pastures PLUS private 542 AU BLM permit.

About 425 acres of the irrigated are level to flood excellent pastures with balance good flood irrigated pastures. NO PUMPING COST! Dryland is perfect for expansion to pivot irrigated alfalfa if desired. Plus BLM permit for 540 AU is fenced into 4 fields on about 18,000 acres only 7 miles away. Reduced asking price - $3,125,000 BEAVER CREEK RANCH: about 82,000 acres - with 2,700 deeded acres plus contiguous USFS & BLM permits for 450 pair; 580+- acres irrigated alfalfa, pasture, and meadow from Beaver Creek

water rights and one irrigation well. 3 homes, 2 hay barns, 4 feedlots each w/ 250 ton barns, 2 large reservoirs, can run up to 500-600 cows YEAR ROUND. Reduced Asking Price $5,400,000.

160 AC HORSE RANCH: Anderson, CA. One of a kind 160 acre horse ranch with a Custom Home just east of Anderson & Redding, CA. Rolling oak foothills, Custom owners residence, huge horse barn, arena, round pen, equipment barns, livestock barns, private shooting range. Wonderful riding trails throughout your ranch, underground utilities with Solar System. Asking Price - $1,499,000

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■ PLEASE CALL – for details on this choice ranch for hunting/cattle production, located between Clayton & Raton, NM, information being prepared, great Elk hunting & 40 ac. w/nice home!

■ POST, TX – 6,376.92 acre ranch in Kent Co., TX on pvmt. & on all weather roads w/a virtually brand new custom built home, really nice guest/hunting lodge, state-of-the-art barns & pens, a complete line of farm & ranch equipment, a registered Red Angus herd of cows, mineral income w/potential for commercial water sales & secluded, beautiful areas w/bluffs & meadows around every turn in the road, an excellent supply of stock water from subs & windmills, deep year round dirt tanks & The North Fork of the Brazos River through the ranch.

■ TOP OF THE WORLD II – Colfax Co., NM – 7402.09 ac. +/- (4,789.69 Deeded – 2,612.4 State Lease) w/historic “POINT OF ROCKS” monument on the Santa Fe Trail, attractive improvements, all weather access!

■ EAST EDGE OF FT. SUMNER, NM – immaculate 7.32 ac. +/- w/a beautiful home, a 900 hd. grow yard & other improvements w/a long line of equipment included, on pvmt.

■ MIAMI SPECIAL – Colfax Co., NM – 40 ac. +/- w/ irrigated pastures, great cattle working & handling facilities & a beautiful home, on pvmt., irrigated from Miami Lake.

■ TOP OF THE WORLD – Union Co., NM – 5,025.76 +/- ac. of choice grassland w/state-of-the-art working pens, recently remodeled bunk house, barbed wire fences in very good to new condition, well watered, on pvmt.

■ UNION CO., NM – 955 ac. +/- w/excellent improvements for a stocker or cow/calf operation, modern ¼ mi. sprinkler, all-weather roads on three sides, 374 ac. +/- CRP. ■ WE CAN NOW DIVIDE THE PAJARITO RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM as follows: 3501.12 ac. +/- of grassland w/a commercial water well located adjacent to I40 w/ capability of producing large incomes together w/a great set of pens, a 17,000 gal. water storage tank, overhead cake bin, hay barn & other stock wells. 700.89 ac. +/- of grassland can be purchased in addition to the 3501.12 ac. The beautiful, virtually new custom built home w/all amenities and a large virtually new metal barn w/an apartment inside on 40 ac. can be purchased separately or w/the ranch. Adjoins the Boylan Ranch if more acreage is desired.

■ THE BOYLAN RANCH – Newkirk, NM - 2,360 ac. +/- w/ useable house & pens, a large domestic well for lvstk./wildlife watering w/potential for commercial water sales, all weather road. Adjoins the Pajarito Creek Ranch if more acreage is desired.

■ PECOS RIVER RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM – Scenic, 968 +/- ac. deeded & 519 +/- state lease acres, live water ranch on both sides of the Pecos River (strong flow daily) between Santa Rosa & Ft. Sumner; wildlife, paired w/water & cattle for the buyer looking for top tier assets in a rugged New Mexico ranch!

■ LOGAN/NARA VISA, NM – 980 ac. +/- w/940.6 ac.

CRP, irrigated in the past, land lays good & is located on the north side ofHwy. 54.

■ SANTA ROSA, NM – 78 ac. +/- heavily improved for horses, cattle & other livestock w/virtually new barns, pens.

RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 440 Head Spanish Stirrup Ranch, Deming, NM – The historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch dates back to the 1870’s and is rich in native artifacts and lore. Situated in the stunning Florida Mountain Range it contains 663+/- deeded acres, 16,963+/- acres BLM grazing permits; 5,184+/- acres of State grazing lease; and 12+/- sections of adverse grazing. This is a traditional working cattle ranch with rolling to somewhat mountainous terrain, good browse and grass, excellent water with storage tanks and drinkers. There are 13 wells all with new pumps and equipment within the past three years. The headquarters include a 3 BR, 1 BA remodeled historic brick/ rock home; carport; garage; tack house; set of newly constructed shipping corrals; and horse and hay barns. There are five additional sets of working corrals on the ranch. $2,250,000

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*NEW* 322+/- Head Historic Ohaco Ranch, Aguila, AZ – This historic working cattle ranch is thirty minutes from Wickenburg, with 50+/- deeded acres, 77,331+/- acres BLM grazing permits, and 11,035+/- acre State lease. Headquarters has two homes solar powered with backup generators; bunk house, tack house, barn/shop and good set of working corrals. There are also steel pipe horse facilities including an arena, two round pens, six pens and 15+/- acre horse pasture. This is a well-watered ranch with 10 wells, 11 dirt tanks, 6 water tanks, and 7 drinkers. Good variety of grasses and browse. A scenic and well-maintained ranch. List of equipment included in the sale will be provided. Cattle may be sold by private treaty. $1,925,000 *REDUCED* 250+/- Head Turkey Creek Ranch, Greenlee, AZ – In Apache National Forest, 108+/- deeded ac, and 32,000+/- ac Pigeon Allotment. 499 head Allotment currently permitted for 250 head in 2019. Headquarters is situated along scenic Turkey Creek, has a 3 BR Ranch house, a 1 BR Cabin, 2 BR Bunk house, barn, tack room, Shop and corrals.

There is also a fenced garden area, mature fruit trees, hen house & animal pens.

Solar powered with back-up generator.

Two wells on the deeded, and 16+/- dirt tanks and several springs water the ranch.

Horseback country with good access to the headquarters. Good grasses and browse with cedar, pine, mesquite and oak. There are six pastures. **200 Head included in the offering. $2,000,000 $1,700,000 *REDUCED* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Located in beautiful Apache National Forest with 56.6+/- acre deeded inholding, and 23+/- section USFS grazing permit. A well improved and maintained horseback ranch, with $70k thinning project for increased fire protection recently completed on deeded land. The headquarters is located in a scenic valley setting with solar power; two homes; barn with tack room, hay storage, horse stalls; shop; corrals with crowding pen and squeeze chute; root cellar/cold meat storage; hen house, irrigated gardens and orchard. The permit and HQ’s are watered by springs, creeks and dirt tanks. On the allotment are a line cabin, two sets of corrals, one with a loading chute at the highway. $1,100,000 $995,000 *PENDING* 30 +/- Acre Farm & Ranch, Sheldon, AZ – Pasture for 10 hd, gated pipe irrigation; alfalfa, pecan trees.

Two wells, roping arena; Comfortable Palm Harbor triple-wide manufactured home, 2X6 construction, stucco exterior, set on cement slab; 1-car garage. Property is fenced for cattle. Good location with views, near the Gila River and quick access to Highway 75. $350,000

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*SOLD* 98+/- Acre Farm, Pomerene, AZ – 70 plus irrigated acres with an 800 gpm well that has a 16” casing, records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and fenced. Suitable for crops, pasture, or nut trees. Located close to I-10, town, schools and services.

Great value at $350,000 *REDUCED* 30+/- Head Orduno Draw Ranch,Tombstone, AZ – Small desert ranch in the San Pedro Valley of Cochise County, Arizona. 320+/- ac. deeded, 2,780+/- ac. State lease, and 560+/- ac. BLM Allotment. Easy terrain, gentle hills with mesquite, acacia, and creosote, and several major draws with good browse and grassy bottoms. Has one well that needs equipping, a dirt tank, and is fenced. Borders the San

Pedro River National Conservation Area and has easy access from Highway 80.

This would make a great starter or hobby ranch or complement to a larger holding. $350,000 $335,000 *SOLD* 60 Head Desert Ranch, Deming, NM – Nice starter or retirement ranch with easy access and gentle country.

65+/- deeded ac, 18,766+/- ac. BLM, State, & City Leases, with uncontrolled adverse lands. 5 wells, 4 sets of corrals, 2 large pastures and one smaller good for weanlings; all fenced. Easy browse and grass country. Several good sites for a home on deeded. $287,000

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The Territorial, two-story 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. A true destination property w/a pool & two cabana guest rooms, 3 casitas, event barn, horse facilities, roping arena, recreation room w/ racquetball court, and fishing pond. Neighbors public conservation land with trails.

Powered by 80 solar panels connected to the grid, one well w/pressure tank & storage, also fenced for livestock. Mature landscape & fruit trees. Property could also be converted to a vineyard/winery. $1,975,000 $1,799,000 *SOLD* +/-103 Acre Horse Property, St. David, AZ – Lovely custom 2,298+/s.f. 3BR, 2BA home near the San Pedro River on a hill with valley views. Has one domestic well. Space for horse facilities.

Property is fenced for livestock. Includes a large 2-bay garage/shop and artist’s studio building. $470,000

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Wildfire Preparation Tips for Ranchers & Landowners Source: AgriLife Today

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ith the wildfire season really heating up, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is offering several fact sheets to help homeowners prepare for and mitigate wildfire damages.

“We had a fabulously wet spring, we grew a lot of grass and now it has been dry,” said Tim Steffens, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension range management specialist in Canyon. “These little rains we’ve been having aren’t going to change that until we have a good snow on the ground.”

Wildfires burning in the thousands of acres have already dotted the High Plains, Rolling Plains, Central, West Texas and California as well as other states.

“Fire is an imminent danger, and people need to get ready for it, understanding that any particular day they could have a fire come their way,” Steffens said.

Two publications covering wildfire behavior and emergency responses that can help protect property and lives when wildfire occurs are offered by Steffens and Morgan Treadwell, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension range specialist, San Angelo.

Wildfire Behavior and Emergency Response and Safeguarding Against Wildfire are available in the AgriLife Extension Bookstore ( https://www.agrilifebookstore. org/) under the search term “wildfire.”

Steffens said ranchers can start with fuel breaks of any kind.

“Grazing them in, with the use of temporary fencing, is really my preference,” he said.

“Disking or blading opens the land up to more erosion than if you graze it out, but it is better than nothing. These will stop small fires start-

ing out in the ditch along the roadway, but when high winds and low humidity combine to push a wildfire, a 20- to 30-foot firebreak won’t stop it.”

Steffens said doing some strategic grazing and moving cattle from one pasture to another will help manage fuels one pasture at a time.

“This will make sure your cattle will have somewhere to go for protection,” he said.

“Moving them into a pasture they just came out of when a fire occurs allows them to get away from the high heat and flames.”

He said the best plan is to “plan ahead,” so if you have cropland as well as rangeland when March and April come around, the livestock can be pastured near a plowed field where they can escape a wall of fire onto dirt.

“That way you have somewhere for them to go pretty quickly,” Steffens said.

Another piece of advice is to start fireproofing the headquarters as much as possible. Put in gravel where possible, keep the weeds low and make sure nothing is piled alongside the house or buildings. More information is offered in the publications.

“In our bulletin, we talk about how you need to have a lot of caliche if you can, where there is nothing growing around the headquarters,” Steffens said. “If you can get all the equipment there, then the fire may burn around it, but those items can be safe. Also, if the fire season really heats up, it won’t be a bad idea to get family heirlooms gathered up and put things where you can grab them up and get out quickly.”

Treadwell said prescribed burning can be an effective tool to protect headquarters or structures from future wildfires.

“Decreasing and/or removing fine fuel loads surrounding homes, barns, hay storage or other structures is one of the most effective ways to combat wildfires, especially fast-moving, wind-driven fires,” she said.

Prepping roads or perimeter fire breaks with burnout operations widens the fire break

and provides an extra buffer from lofting embers from an active fire.

But Treadwell warns that any prescribed fire or burnout operation this time of year needs to be thoroughly thought out and successfully executed within appropriate weather conditions.

“Start early and have adequate personnel and equipment to handle the planned operation,” she said. “Proper notifications to county and state resources need to occur and, always check for local county burn ban status.”

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Wildfire Ready Checklist

by M.L. Russell Assistant Professor & Extension Range Specialist – Ecosystem Science & Management, Texas A & M Agrilife Extension

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hen wildfires are approaching your property or you see smoke on the horizon, the situation can become chaotic. Preparing for wildfire response ahead of time is one of the most important steps a landowner can take. Correctly identifying property at risk, resources available, and existing wildfire barriers can greatly enhance the effectiveness of first responders.

Preparation can also improve overall communication when making critical fire decisions. The following are general recommendations for information you need to have ready before wildfire response teams arrive. It can also be very helpful to discuss the questions below with your local volunteer fire department.

However, this checklist is only starting point. You should develop ranch guidelines and information for first responders that are specific to your property. The answers to the questions below will be instrumental in building operations, tactics, and general firefighting techniques. A carefully thought out wildfire ready checklist is an excellent foundation for improved communication and relationship building during wildfires.

TACTICS

❚❚ How do you manage your fine-fuel forage? ❚❚ Are you ok with burnout operations to fight the fire? ❚❚ Are there existing barriers, such as roads, fields, bladed areas, caliche pad sites, etc., from which to anchor firing operations?

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❚❚ Do you have any concerns about bulldozing the fire edge to bare mineral soil, displacing the top soil? ❚❚ Are you a weed-free area or request that trucks be washed before arrival on your ranch? ❚❚ Are you ok with any fence being cut or laid down?

PROPERTY AT RISK

❚❚ Are there any high-fenced areas that are prioritized? ❚❚ Are grazing livestock near the fire or in the potential path of the fire? ❚❚ Are there any aggressive exotic wildlife species? ❚❚ Where are the structures located? ❚❚ What is the priority of those structures?

LOGISTICS

❚❚ Do you grant permission to use on-site water to fight a fire? ❚❚ What are the types of water sources? ❚❚ What type of access is there to water sources? ❚❚ What volume of water is available? ❚❚ How deep are the water sources?

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❚❚ That type of ranch equipment is available to use? (e.g. sprayers or heavy equipment) ❚❚ Are there any personnel or neighbors available to assist responders?

❚❚ Are there damaged cattleguards? ❚❚ Are there any rested pastures with volatile fuel loads? ❚❚ Are there any deer blinds with propane tanks in them?

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Repeatability of Calving Difficulty

by Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist

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n Oklahoma cow-calf producer once asked about the repeatability of calving difficulty in young cows. He had a 2-year-old heifer that endured a very difficult delivery. After the event is over and the cow and calf are doing well, the rancher can’t help but ask the question: “If a heifer has calving difficulty this year, what is the likelihood that she will have trouble again next year?” That question is followed by the thought of the money invested in this young heifer to grow her to a two-year old. Should she be culled next spring at weaning because of calving difficulty this fall?

A look back through the scientific literature sheds some light on this subject.

Research conducted by Colorado State University and published in 1973 looked at parturition records of 2733 Hereford calves sired by 123 bulls and born to 778 cows/heifers. (Source: Brinks, et al. Journal of Animal Science 1973 Vol. 36 pp 11-17). A repeatability estimate was obtained from heifers calving both as 2- and 3-year-olds. The repeatability

estimate was a lowly 4.5 percent. Of 195 heifers which had no difficulty in calving at two years of age, 7.2 percent had difficulty as 3 year olds. Of the 77 two-year old heifers which experienced calving difficulty, 11.7 percent had difficulty again as 3-year-olds.

However, repeatability of calving difficulty may not tell the whole story. Heifers that experienced calving difficulty as 2 year-olds weaned 11 percent fewer calves of those born the first year and 14 percent fewer calves per cow exposed the second year compared to contemporaries that had no difficulty at first calving. The calves from 3-year-olds that had calving difficulty at 2 years of age were born an average of 13 days later and were 46 pounds lighter at weaning than calves from 3-year-old-dams that experienced no difficulty at 2 years of age.

From this research we learned that calving difficulty as a 2-year-old had a profound effect on productivity. The likelihood that calving difficulty will happen again next year is only slightly greater than in heifer counterparts that calved unassisted this year. Proper heifer development to a body condition score of 5.5 or 6 at calving, along with breeding heifers to bulls with a higher calving ease direct EPD should help reduce calving difficulty in two-year olds.

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❚❚ Do you have hard copies of aerial imagery or maps with property roads and gate locations clearly marked? ❚❚ Do you have gate lock codes? Are all gates on the property already open? If not, are you comfortable sending someone to facilitate emergency access? ❚❚ Do you have your neighbor’s contact information or gate lock codes? ❚❚ Do you have absentee landowner neighbors? If so, have you made previous contact with them and exchanged information so that they can be notified and or asked about access during an emergency?

HAZARDS

❚❚ Are there oil and gas lines? - Any report of H2S or other toxic gases on the property? ❚❚ Are there any rough roads not suitable for responding equipment?

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Interior Announces Improvements to the Endangered Species Act

Interior announced the repeal of the so-called blanket section 4(d) rule, which ignored the different needs of listed species and failed to encourage efforts to recover species.

“This is the most significant gain for prop-

erty rights under the Endangered Species Act in decades,” said Jonathan Wood, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, research fellow at Property and Environment Research Center, and author of The Road to Recovery: How restoring the Endangered Species Act’s two-step process can prevent extinction and promote recovery. “The previous rule treated critically endangered species the same as those facing only remote risks. Because an endangered species’ recovery meant no change in regulation, the rule undermined property rights and denied property owners any reward for helping that recovery. Species paid the price, with a recovery rate less than three percent.

“The new rule aligns the incentives of landowners with the interests of species.

This promises to significantly boost the rate at which we recover endangered species, because the primary challenge for recovering species is protecting and restoring habitat on private lands.”

The elimination of the blanket section 4(d) rule was prompted by two petitions that PLF filed asking Interior and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to rescind the regulation.

The Department of the Interior also announced changes in the way that critical habitat designations are made. All currently occupied habitat must be designated as critical habitat before unoccupied habitat can be considered for designation. Any unoccupied habitat must also meet at least one of the biological needs of the endangered species.

Additionally, property owners can express interest in having their property set aside for conservation efforts.

In 2018, PLF represented a Louisiana property owner in Weyerhaeuser v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court found that FWS regulators overstepped their authority when they declared 1,500 acres of land to be a critical habitat for a frog that couldn’t survive there.

This change is in direct response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Weyerhaeuser.

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If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic.

by Mark P. Mills, Wall Street Journal

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emocrats dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries.

Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste.

“Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they wear out. Old equipment must be decommissioned, generating millions of tons of waste. The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that solar goals for 2050 consistent with the Paris Accords will result in old-panel disposal constituting more than double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste.

Consider some other sobering numbers: A single electric-car battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. Fabricating one requires digging up, moving and processing more than 500,000 pounds of raw materials somewhere on the planet. The alternative? Use gasoline and extract one-tenth as much total tonnage to deliver the same number of vehicle-miles over the battery’s seven-year life.

When electricity comes from wind or solar machines, every unit of energy produced, or mile traveled, requires far more materials and land than fossil fuels. That physical reality is literally visible: A wind or solar farm stretching to the horizon can be replaced by a handful of gas-fired turbines, each no bigger than a tractor-trailer.

Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of nonrecyclable plastic. Solar power

requires even more cement, steel and glass— not to mention other metals. Global silver and indium mining will jump 250 percent and 1,200 percent respectively over the next couple of decades to provide the materials necessary to build the number of solar panels, the International Energy Agency forecasts.

World demand for rare-earth elements— which aren’t rare but are rarely mined in America—will rise 300 percent to 1,000 percent by 2050 to meet the Paris green goals.

If electric vehicles replace conventional cars, demand for cobalt and lithium, will rise more than 20-fold. That doesn’t count batteries to back up wind and solar grids.

Last year a Dutch government-sponsored study concluded that the Netherlands’ green ambitions alone would consume a major share of global minerals. “Exponential growth in [global] renewable energy production capacity is not possible with present-day technologies and annual metal production,” it concluded.

The demand for minerals likely won’t be met by mines in Europe or the U.S. Instead, much of the mining will take place in nations with oppressive labor practices. The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces 70 percent of the world’s raw cobalt, and

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The Sydney-based Institute for a Sustainable Future cautions that a global “gold” rush for minerals could take miners into “some remote wilderness areas [that] have maintained high biodiversity because they haven’t yet been disturbed.”

What’s more, mining and fabrication require the consumption of hydrocarbons.

Building enough wind turbines to supply half the world’s electricity would require nearly two billion tons of coal to produce the concrete and steel, along with two billion barrels of oil to make the composite blades. More than 90 percent of the world’s solar panels are built in Asia on coal-heavy electric grids.

Engineers joke about discovering “unobtanium,” a magical energy-producing element that appears out of nowhere, requires no land, weighs nothing, and emits nothing. Absent the realization of that impossible dream, hydrocarbons remain a far better alternative than today’s green dreams.

Mr. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund, and author of the recent report, “The ‘New Energy Economy’: An Exercise in Magical Thinking.”

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Another issue being raised by the opponents is a federal statute that says, “all offices attached to the seat of government shall be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere, except as otherwise provided by law.” In response, Interior wrote, “all offices attached to the seat of government” should be interpreted as “an executive department, a term defined elsewhere in the U.S. Code to include the Department of the Interior, but not its component parts.” Interior also pointed to other entities, such as the Food and Drug Administration, which are located outside of D.C. The Public Lands Foundation, a group of retired BLM employees, is opposing the reorganization and have written to the Senate

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horseshoers didn’t want to work past noon in trouble. He and the other cowboy were going the summer, but I always put in a full day so I to ride after some cattle and would be back VIEW FROM would fill in gaps for the older guys. around noon. I had six head to shoe, so they THE BACKSIDE One day I got a phone call from a Mr. ought to be back around the time I was done

by Barry Denton Smith that had eight head to get shod at his as it was 6:00 a.m. now. ranch. I told him that I could be there early so Shoeing the horses was uneventful. They he gave me some instructions on how to get all behaved rather well, but they were all big there. I knew the area very well, but had not stout Hancock bred Quarter Horses, so they been to this place before. were very heavy on me and got very insulted The instructions were to leave Wickenburg if you got after them a little. going west on Rt. 60 toward California. Go They all had hammer heads and enough about seven miles past mile marker 164, look bone to hold up a railroad bridge. I just decidf you are old enough to have grown up for a steel gate on the right. Next, go through ed to take my time in the heat to get around in the 1960s chances are a Sunday night the gate and follow the road 14 miles to the them. I also remember those tough, dry, large hooves they had. This is back when Quarter family ritual might have been watching ranch.

I’ll never forget the road as it was a pretty Horses still had great feet.

The Wonderful World Of Disney. That’s back When you got done with one of those you when Disney was a hallmark that promoted rough two track. It took me about an hour stories with a moral lesson and family values, and fifteen minutes to go the fourteen miles were sure that you had just shod another a far cry from where they are today. However, to the ranch. When I got there every tool in Clydesdale. They took number 3 horseshoes this article is not a judgment on Disney, but the back of my truck was upside down and I in the front and number 2’s on the hinds.

However, in those days, I was so thankful to an appreciation of an old time television thought I was being careful.

The ranch was pretty typical as I have horses to shoe that you didn’t have to program.

One Arizona summer when I happened to approached it going over the last hill. There tie down on the ground or scotch hobble a be about 17 years old, I was shoeing horses was a small white adobe house with a rock back leg.

Along about noon those two cowboys between Phoenix and Salome, Arizona. A fireplace and chimney on one end. Adjacent 1957 Chevy pickup was my shoeing rig at the to the house was a set of pipe corrals and a came riding back in. I was just finishing up time. Nearly every time I would make that barn made from corrugated steel roofing pan- the rear hooves on the last horse, but my God, trek to the Salome ranches I would have to els. An old Catahoula type ranch dog came I felt like I had shod 20 between the heat and those big stout horses. Mr. Smith came by stop at the grocery store there and buy a can out to greet me as I pulled in.

I swung up to the corrals and I could see a after he had unsaddled his horse and turned of Durkee’s Black Pepper. Then I would pour it out. He asked it in the radiator to stop the leaks, so I could lean-to coming off one end of what he owed me get home. and then went to My truck had a nice metal flake paint the barn. I figJust as I was finishing up the the house to get job and it also had great looking wheels. ured I would set some money.

However, keeping it running was a problem, up there, where last foot the other cowboy Just as I was but I always looked good when I was broke at least I would have some finishing up the down. wandered over and said, “How’d you last foot the At that time it was mostly ranch horses, a shade. About other cowboy few rope horses, and even a few race horses that time two get along son?” wandered over on my docket. As you can imagine during cowboys came the winter that was a pretty good route, but out of the house. One of them came over to and said, “How’d you get along son?”

When I heard that voice I was shocked, summer time was brutal due to the over 100 me and the other went to get the two horses then he kept on talking to me and I knew degree temperatures everyday. However, it they had already saddled.

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ing stories throughout the years, it is gen- regime, who was in power at the time. erally accepted that his father passed away After a while, Villa escaped from the army COLLECTORS when Doroteo Arango was but a teenager. and returned to the life of a bandit. Then, CORNER After his father’s death, it is reported Arango in 1910, circumstances brought him into

by Jim Olson started hanging out with the “wrong” crowd. the tumultuous times of the revolutions in He soon fell in with a group of bandits and Mexico. For several years, Villa fought both it wasn’t long before young Doroteo was a for and against various regimes who were fugitive from the law. vying for the control of Mexico. One of the It was during these years of him being reasons Villa is well-remembered is because a common bandit, he understood the avoiding the law, power of the press that Doroteo startand manipulated ed using the alias, the American press A lot of folks do not realize it, but Francisco “Pancho” to his advantage. the famous Mexican Revolutionary, Villa. “Pancho” is At various times Pancho Villa, was originally, short for “Francisco” he entertained Doroteo Arango. in the Spanish lanU.S. reporters and guage. About 1902, even contracted osé Doroteo Arango was born on June the Federal “Rurales” with a Hollywood 5, 1878, in San Juan Del Rio, Durango, police force arrested film production to Mexico. His father was a farm worker Pancho on assault record some of his named Agustín Arango and his mother was Pancho Villa’s knife. and theft charges. battles and other Micaela Arámbula. He grew up around the Because of his conmilitary moveRancho de la Coyotada, a large hacienda in nections with a local politician, who had ments along the border region of Northern the state of Durango where his father worked. allegedly been the recipient of goods stolen Mexico. It is these recorded events that made The original family residence now houses the,

by Villa, he was spared a prison or death Villa a household name in America.

Casa de Pancho Villa, historic museum in San sentence. However, Pancho Villa was forcibly After many years of revolutionary fighting, Juan del Rio. drafted into the Federal Army, a practice Villa made peace with the Mexican governAlthough much of his early life is shroudsometimes adopted under the Porfilio Diaz ment in 1920 and was granted amnesty. He ed in mystery, and Villa himself told conflictwas also given a large Hacienda and a pension to retire on (in exchange for his agreement to cease any kind of revolutionary activities).

Then, on July 20, 1923, under cloudy Show a Rin to g 8 N 1 ear You – 20 2011 S circumstances, Pancho Villa was assassinated Coming tallio in broad daylight as he rode in his car down n the streets of Parral, Mexico. Today, the Francisco Villa Museum is located near the site of his assassination. Pancho Villa remains one of Mexico’s colorful, historical characters.

It is still debated to this day whether he was a common bandit or a “Robin Hood.” Whether he was a champion for the poor people or an outlaw with political aspirations. Was he a General or a Mercenary? Needless to say, Pancho Villa is a legend.

Recently, a cased, bowie style knife, with the name Doroteo Arango inscribed on the ion for 2020 Release blade and also on the top of the leather oduct r P In box it came in, was sent to us. Imagine our excitement!

It is a hand-forged knife, with no maker’s hallmarks (a blacksmith somewhere likely ITS JUST ABOUT BANJO made it).

It has a full tang, a handmade brass Its Just About Me x Kit Cat Kaboom guard and handmade wood handles. The NCHA $300,000 | AQHA ROM leather covered box also appears handmade.

Overall, it is nice workmanship and all appears to have been made in the late 1800s or very early 1900s. It shows the appropriate | Shiner Named Sioux x Miss Cielo | Finca patina and age to be from that era. del Rio | Shipped Cooled Semen $1,000 | Standing at Simpson Stables, Wickenburg, AZ | Ranch, After receiving it, we called the owner to | 1226 W.Petersen Road | Camp Verde, AZ 86322 | 602-944-0044 | find out what he had in mind. He informed

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us he wanted to sell the knife and donate documentation describing how he had origthe funds to two of the people injured at inally acquired the pistol. This Pancho Villa the Gilroy, CA., Garlic knife was said Festival (on 7-28to be acquired 2019) who are friends

by Helin from of his. He instructed us the same to send the proceeds source as the from the sale directly pistol. to them. He informed The Gary us the knife was Helin collecacquired from the reltion also conative of a well-known collector named Gary Helin (1940-2001) from Kansas. When Pancho Villa was a connoisseur Helin passed away, of fine weapons. various items from his collection were offered to family and also Gary’s widow sold many tained several items from the collection to various collec- other authentors. tic “Pancho A Smith and Wesson revolver with Villa’s Villa” items birth name, Doroteo Arango, inscribed on the which have back strap was also part of the Helin collec- been docution. This revolver sold within the last couple mented and of years at auction and was well-documented sold at various auctions over the last several as also belonging at one time in the William years. The fact that this knife came from that M. Locke (1894-1972) collection. Locke was well-known collection is good provenance. another well-known collector and had old Our seller signed a statement stating who he

had purchased the knife from and the family story that was given to him when he bought it.

As further assurance, we believe that if anyone was going to “fake” a knife and try to sell it as a piece of “Pancho Villa” memorabilia, of course they would inscribe, “Pancho Villa” on it, and not his lesser known birth name. After doing quite a bit of research, and thoroughly inspecting the knife and box, we feel confident that this knife is the real deal.

We are not only excited to see how this great piece of history does at auction, but the fact that the proceeds are going to help a couple of innocent victims who are going through some very tough times, is an added bonus.

Western Trading Post is proud to be a part of the process.

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B&H Herefords Registered Herefords Phil Harvey Jr. P.O. Box 40 • Mesilla, NM 88046 Cell: 575-644-6925 philharveyjr@comcast.net • www.bhherefords.com

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