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Official publication of ... n New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

10 NMCGA President’s Message

by Loren Patterson

Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albu­­quer­que, NM 87194 505-247-0584, Fax: 505-842-1766 Pres­i­dent, Loren Patterson n New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194 505-247-0584 President, James Duffy

12 Just the Facts ... and Then Some

by Caren Cowan

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New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn News Update In Memoriam Riding Herd

by Lee Pitts

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING

36 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

Publisher: Caren Cowan Publisher Emeritus: Chuck Stocks Advertising Representatives: Chris Martinez Melinda Martinez Contributing Editors: Carol Wilson Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson Howard Hutchinson Lee Pitts

by Don Bullis

44 Ranch Food & Fodder

by Deanna Dickinson McCall

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PRODUCTION

Seedstock Guide Marketplace Real Estate Guide View From the Backside

by Barry Denton

Production Coordinator: Carol Pendleton Editorial & Advertising Design: Kristy Hinds

62 In the Arena

by Sage Faulkner

68 Advertisers’ Index

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New Mexico Stockman

15 Overview of the New Mexico Dairy Industry Supply Chain

(USPS 381-580) is published monthly by Caren Cowan, 2231 Rio Grande, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-2529 Subscription price: 1 year - $30 / 2 years - $40 Single issue price $10, Directory price $30 Subscriptions are non-refundable POSTMASTER: Send address changes to New Mexico Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquer­que, NM 87194. Periodicals Postage paid at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and additional mailing offices. Copyright© 2015 by New Mexico Stockman. Material may not be used without permission of the publisher. Deadline for editorial and advertising copy, changes and cancellations is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Advertising rates on request.

27 Book Review: All in A Day’s Riding: Stories of the New Mexico Range

by Stephen Zimmer

30 It’s an EPA “Miracle” – Turning Your “Dry Land” into a “Wetland?”

by Karen Budd-Falen, Budd-Falen Law Office, LLC

37 Ukraine-Russia Conflict and the Implications for Cattle Markets

by James Mitchell, Livestock Marketing Specialist, University of Arkansas from Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter

40 Calling All Cowboys: Stop the Madness and Save Rodeo

by Kendra Santos, reprinted courtesy of The Team Roping Journal

45 Will You Be Paying to Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

by Kent Lassman, President & CEO, Competitive Enterprise Institute

65 New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest Moves to 2nd Phase 66 Mr. NMSU Rodeo

by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson

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by Becky Funk and Jesse Fulton, University of NebraskaLincoln, reprinted from Angus Beef Bulletin Extra

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18 Dairy Max Announces Executive Leadership Additions 21 NMDA Receives Grant to Bolster Mental Health Resources in New Mexico 24 New Antibiotic Restrictions to Become Reality

Meet Jason Rich.“Every painting starts with the horse for me, the way the light catches its gesture and movement.” It’s no wonder, since artist Jason Rich grew up riding, training and drawing horses on a small farm in southern Idaho. Jason’s interest in art was fostered at a young age, which led him to study art at Utah State University where he received Bachelor and Master of Fine Art degrees.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Loren Patterson NMCGA President

Loren Patterson President Corona Bronson Corn President-Elect Roswell Dave Kenneke NW Vice President Cimarron Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr SW Vice President Datil Joe Culbertson Vice President at Large Amistad Shacey Sullivan Secretary / Treasurer Peralta Randell Major Immediate Past President Magadalena Tom Sidwell Past President Quay

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A Poke in the Eye!

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am not sure what else to call the veto of the Junior Capital Funding Bill than just that. Rarely, when the state coffers are overflowing, legislators get the opportunity to send money back to their districts and communities for special infrastructure and projects. This year was one of those rare years. Within the funding bill were projects for Acequia improvements, Domestic Violence Shelters, Ambulances, Libraries, Law Enforcement Equipment, Parks and Recreation, FFA Programs, Real-Time Recording Weather Stations, NMSU Experiment Station maintenance, Food Banks…… and the list goes on and on.

Why on earth would a Governor veto a bill that would touch every New Mexican in every community across the state? Personally, I am extremely thankful for the state’s Oil and Gas industry. With the unprecedented amount of royalties coming into the state, it could be a juggernaut for economic change. Communities could have realized elevated living conditions and improved economic momentum. After two years of the COVID lockdowns, the citizens of this state deserve to have opportunities to get out, back to work and enjoy some community pride. Our own elected Senators and Representatives deserve the opportunity to make a difference, help their communities and address constituents’ needs. I understand the political speculation on the why’s and what the next move on the chess board will be. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see if Democrats are motivated to tie themselves to this Governor or stay home come election time.

“I am Gila Cow” is a phrase being broadcast across the radio waves of an Albuquerque radio station. For nearly three weeks the ridiculous solution for dealing with estray cattle by the US Forest Service has been criticized publicly by media not only here in New Mexico but nationally as well. What has been a surprise is the deafening silence from our Congressional delegation. Representative Yvette Herrell is the only one to make a public statement. Representative Herrell is calling for an investigation and asking for the accountability of those people who made the decision to gun down estray cattle and leave them rotting on the hillsides and in the river. Thank you Representative Herrell!

I was fortunate to see longtime friends at the bull sales this last month. I hope to see everyone after branding season at our Mid-Year Convention in Ruidoso this June 12-14. We have an excellent speaker lineup and plenty to talk about.

Pray your neighbor gets rain!

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JUST THE FACTS ... & THEN SOME

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

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s I sit here the morning of April Fool’s Day, it is my fondest hope that we in New Mexico will not be fooled for much longer. I came across a website that had a photo depicting something good from every state. The photo for New Mexico was the Ship Rock. It is beautiful, but it doesn’t put food on the table.

Our state has the highest unemployment rate in the nation although you don’t walk into a business that doesn’t have a “help wanted” sign. Our state is worst in education in the nation. We are ranked as the 48th state in the nation overall.

None of this is news. We are watching our brightest and best leave the state to better their families and escape the oppres-

sion we are living under.

It also isn’t news that we have a shot at fixing a lot of this. The New Mexico primary election is about 60 days away and the general election is six months out. There is a real chance for change, if we choose to take it.

There are seven candidates for governor.

Now is the time to pick one and get out your checkbook, not only to make donations, but for gas to hit the campaign trail for your candidate.

I don’t know if we have completely tapped out the agricultural vote or if people are so disgusted that they have just bowed out. Either one is devastating.

If we have everyone from agriculture being politically active, we have got to expand our reach. We all have friends, neighbors and even family members outside of agriculture that must vote in both the primary and the general election.

Make sure they are registered to vote NOW. There are a host of new candidates for the New Mexico Legislature. Do you know who is running in your district? If you don’t, please contact me and we can help you out.

We have Better Together New Mexico to thank for generating nearly 300,000 emails to the 2022 Legislature that were instru-

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mental in beating back much of the really bad legislation especially in the area of the environment, energy and elections.

Were you part of that 300,000? If not, why not?

The fact that PNM is forecasting rolling blackouts hit the television news last night.

PNM has extended the use of coal powered energy until September 30, 2022. According to the report PNM “thinks” this will prevent the need for blackouts.

But what happens next winter? PNM says the state uses the most energy during the summer months. All well and good until we hit a deep-freeze winter that comes along every decade or so.

This energy crisis is a result of the Energy Transmission Act passed in the 2020 Legislature that mandates the use of only alternative energy (wind and solar) after June 30, 2022. If anyone ever needed a reason to vote and get out the vote, this is it.

I know, I am preaching to the choir… but the choir needs to stop singing and start yelling.

On a personal note, I was saddened to learn this week that Chad Smith is stepping down from the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau. Chad has been a huge asset to agriculture and a true friend to all. We wish Chad and his family the best as they move on to a bigger and better future.

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details will be upcoming at next meeting.

The dates for the Region VI ANCW meeting in Phoenix, May 12 through 14. The CowBelles Mid-year meeting in Ruidoso will be on June 12 through 14. Nancy has reserved rooms for both events and welcomes company for either or both. Jeni reminded group that applications for Beef Ambassadors are welcome. Each recipient will receive a $500 scholarship. Chamiza CowBelles is in the process of submitting a nominee for Man of the Year. Applications for this award are due March 15. Nancy mentioned seeing some nice stickers on Facebook. Jeni said she and her daughter are able to produce similar ones. This may be another fund raising item for the local.

Jeni won the door prize of free lunch.

Meeting adjourned at 12:37 p.m. Submitted

by Cathy Pierce

wreath made by Carrie Hobbs auctioned.

Officer Duties and by-laws: members to review and report change requests at next meeting. Ag Fest canceled. Scholarship Committee: Stanley Harper donated $1,000 to the Silver Spurs in August 2021. Scholarships given in Mr. Harper’s name in addition to the Silver Spur Scholarships for 2022. It was decided to offer two $500 Stanley scholarships. Discussion requirements and applications for all the scholarships. The committee will meet and make decisions concerning forms. Group decided to offer $500 for the Silver Spur college scholarship and $300 for the Silver Spur trade-school scholarship. NMCB District II: District meeting tabled for now. The state officers will make contact once scheduled. A District II Representative, to attend the NM CowBelles meeting as a voting member who represents multiple CowBelle groups from NE NM. Trina Davis agreed to serve as this representative. Meeting adjourned.

The next meeting will be held at 12 noon on March 24, at Jackie Shaw’s home in Ute Park (29732 Highway 64). Jackie Shaw and Juanita Baker are the hostesses. Submitted

by Trina Davis

s CowBelles, our job of beef promotion should be simple, but there are many issues related to beef that make it difficult. One of the simpler issues we face is making it easier to prepare beef for the dinner table. This is NOT a weighty subject like the other issues that we face as producers, but it still presents a challenge.

In a world of drive-thru windows and microwaves, we need ways to encourage people to put beef back on the dinner table.

We all have to eat! We have recipes we love!

I humbly offer the following and encourage everyone to join me in sharing their recipes and their stories in hopes of inspiring others President, Rachel Ricklefs, called the to put beef back on the dinner table.

Silver Spurs CowBelles’ February meeting One evening, over thirty years ago, to order. Deanna had a request for scholarwhen my daughter was still an infant, I was, ship information. No Treasurer’s report due of course, exhausted, as is anyone with a to the transition of officers. Rachel prepared newborn, and I was struggling with what a letter to IN-Bank identifying new officers. to make for dinner. I had the ingredients for Collection for Cattle Drive for Hunger was a chicken dish I liked, but no chicken, just $30. Juanita received membership for ground beef. I HATED meatloaf, but that Jeannie. Reports: Cattle Drive for Hunger Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the was the only thing that made sense. This $500 in gift certificates for beef issued by home of Sandy McKenna, hostess, on March sweet and savory meatloaf is the delicious Russell’s Grocery before Christmas and 10 with Brenda Copeland, as co-hostess. Ten result and still a family favorite to this day. some redeemed; there is a three-month members were present. Under committee Cranberry Meatloaf: Combine 1 can limit. Certificates also offered in Roy. Jackie reports, Heath Hull will be the speaker for whole cranberry sauce with 1 small bottle questioned as a conflict with the Roy Cow- April and group voted to donate $250 to the of Wish Bone Russian Salad Dressing and Belles’ activities. Rita will check. There is ranches. Beverly Overton gave a follow up set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine general positive response to the beef cer- report on Old Fort Days BBQ will be June 11.

1 pound of raw ground beef, 2 eggs, 1 tificates provided through the Cattle Drive Ft. Sumner Chamber of Commerce is planchopped onion, ½ c. leftover biscuits, for Hunger program. Deanna suggested ning on a four-day event just like in the past breadcrumbs or cornbread, ½ c. of the cran- review use of certificates to assess the and Cattlewomen to serve BBQ. This is the berry dressing mixture, 2 – 3 minced cloves redemption history, with consideration scholarship fundraiser for Ft. Sumner, of garlic, ½ tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp given to pay Russell’s as redeemed rather Vaughn and Santa Rosa students. Any cumin, salt and pepper. In a cast iron skillet, than initial lump sum. The suggestion made student wanting to apply should consult shape meat into a flat round, 2 -3 inches to nominate Russell’s for Beef Backer Award with their school counselor or any cattlethick. Pour remaining dressing mixture over for their efforts in this endeavor. Legislative women member for more information. the meat and bake at 350 degrees for 35 – – Diane gave a review of the status of NM Meeting followed by lunch of stuffed bell 40 minutes. Pair with mashed potatoes and legislative session including bills with a “Do peppers with lots of side dishes and desgarlic-bacon green beans. Enjoy! Pass” recommendation from committee serts. Jim Lyssy, owner of happy bees, then — Jacinda Price, NM CowBelle President and memorials concerning agriculture. presented a program on bee keeping as he These include to study: feral cow issue, how has 60 hives in the area. It was very inforresident Jeni Neely called the Chamiza to respond to wolf damage, and insurance mative and interesting, and he even CowBelles’ March meeting to order for Ag tourism. Yearbook – Changes identi- brought bottle samples to take home as with 10 members and one guest fied, including: calendar, ANCW dues, well as jars for purchase. Very good honey! present. Ag Day will be May 5 at the Sierra District II meeting, and dates for Health and Joan key, secretary County Fairgrounds; Farm Bureau will County Fairs. Christmas Craft Fair and sponsor the event along with a farmers’ Rummage Sale – Rachel reported as sucFrisco CowBelles – Feb. 2022: Budget market and dance in the evening. Chamiza cessful and netted $1,327. Group to send a approved for the 2022 year. Started planCowBelles will provide the ice cream if a thank you card to Todd and Jeannie Tatum ning for 4 July Barbecue, on Sat., July 2 due Dutch oven peach cobbler cook found to for donations to the sale. Annual NM Cow- to the 4th being on Mon. Mar. 2022: Ranch prepare at Ag Day. Volunteers needed to Belles meeting: The potpourri pouches Days will be on April 26-27, 2022. Need to work booth in addition to serving. More prepared by Silver Spurs well received, and get a few more presenters, but things are

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looking good for this event. Signed up for committees. Barbecue update: Need to make new signs to put on the road. The band is booked, and meat purchased.

Scholarship: Applications will send out and notices of the scholarship posted. Discussed helping the local home-economics classes with the purchase of beef. Submitted

by Martha Stewart, Frisco Sect.

Editorial Calendar

Plan your advertisinginfog r JANUARY — Wildlife; Gelbvieh; the com year! Joint Stockmen’s Convention Results

FEBRUARY — Beefmasters; Texas Longhorns MARCH — Limousin; Santa Gertrudis APRIL — Dairy MAY — News of the Day JUNE — Sheepman of the Year JULY — Directory of Agriculture AUGUST — The Horse Industry SEPTEMBER — Charolais; Fairs Across the Southwest OCTOBER — Hereford; New Mexico State Fair Results NOVEMBER — Cattleman of the Year; Joint Stockmen’s Convention Preview; Angus, Brangus, Red Angus DECEMBER — Bull Buyers Guide

Mesilla Valley CowBelles represented the Beef industry at the Annual Cowboy Days at the NM Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum on March 5 with a presentation on the Tools of the Trade of Ranching. Nice crowd and beautiful weather that day. Plans made for various Ag Days in the area. Mary Esther going to Sierra, need someone for Hatch. Mary Esther, Liz and Fita will do the Dona Ana Ag Explora. Janet will put in speaker form for this event. Submitted by Janet Witte Copper CowBelles met on February 15, 2022. Michelle reported that the Mid-Year New Mexico CowBelles meeting will be in Ruidoso June 12-14. Pat shared sad news that John Myers had passed shortly after last meeting. His funeral service will be at February 25. CowBelles will serve the lun-

If you would like to see your breed featured email caren@aaalivestock.com To Reserve Advertising Space email chris@aaalivestock.com or call Chris at 505.243.9515, ext. 2

cheon at WNMU Graham Gym. Kathy and Hazel gave a report on the Heritage Waters Coalition fundraiser. The Cowboy Casino Night will be at the Grant County Convention Center on April 23. Ranch Days will be at the McKeen Ranch on April 26 and 27.

Much help needed so volunteers should sign up soon. The Grant Count Fair will be September 7-10. This is a date change. Laura Frost gave a report on the Grant County Cattle Growers. Ryan McCauley is president this year. Laura also delivered an envelope of thank-you notes to the Copper CowBelles from the youth involved in the Junior Rodeo. Submitted by, Kim Clark New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every month.

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Overview of the New Mexico Dairy Industry Supply Chain

by Dairy Farmers of America: David Shelton, President and CEO – And Western Dairy Transport, LLC and Jason Ables – Director of Logistics, Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.

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New Mexico ranks 9th overall in the United States in milk production with raw milk output of 8.1 BB pounds in 2020.

The 130 dairy farms of New Mexico rank 1st overall in the US for average herd size of 2,357 cows per farm with the State’s overall herd size of approximately 350,000 cows.

New Mexico ranks 5th in the nation in cheese production, making 962,449,000 lbs. in 2020. New Mexico is home to the world’s largest cheese factory, Southwest Cheese LLC, in Clovis, NM, which processes as much as 300 loads per day of raw milk into various cheese products.

The NMSU Extension Service estimates the NM dairy industry’s combined economic impact for the state is $2.6 BB with over 20,000 total industry jobs in its workforce.

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throughout the US. These loads consist of finished cheese products, cream, non-fat dry milk (NFDM), among others. An additional 10 to 15 million miles are travelled annually on New Mexico roadways in the distribution of these finished dairy products.

Dairy feeds and feedstuffs that nourish New Mexico’s dairy herd account for nearly 100,000 full truckloads of inputs annually for New Mexico dairy farmers. While a portion of these loads, such as haylage and roughage are grown on farms, most of the loads feeding New Mexico dairy cattle are shipped moderate distances across the state from growers throughout the grain belt.

There are roughly 1,750 jobs directly tied to New Mexico’s dairy industry supply chain. The vast majority of this workforce are vehicle operators engaged in transporting milk from New Mexico’s dairy farms to processors. The balance of the workforce are support roles for this manpower and machinerymaintenance technicians, dispatch operations personnel, etc.

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Wages earned by drivers in this industry nearly double that of New Mexico’s per capita income. Drivers hauling milk in this state should expect annual earnings between $60k and $70k annually. The nature of the relatively short average lengths of haul in the NM dairy industry provides an unparalleled quality of life experience for our workforce compared to other industry supply chains with longer lengths of haul and interstate distribution.

The inflows from fuel tax, property tax, permits and other forms of governmental revenue, the New Mexico Dairy Industry’s supply chain and motor carriers produce statebased revenues that total in the multiple millions of dollars for the state.

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New Mexico’s stagnant population growth presents our industry with unique challenges supplying the workforce. In fact, the two largest dairy producing counties in New Mexico have negative population

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Approximately 450 loads of raw milk (50k lbs.) are shipped daily from NM’s dairy farms to dairy processors, primarily within the state. However, there are several specialty loads and marketers, such as organic milk, that are shipped to markets throughout the United States.

With the state’s average processing capacity of approximately 550 loads per day, New Mexico is a raw milk importer. The balance of New Mexico’s raw dairy inputs not produced within its borders are sourced primarily from Texas.

An estimated 50 to 55 million miles are travelled annually on New Mexico roadways on the raw side of New Mexico’s dairy industry supply chain.

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growth. The rural nature of dairy farming locates our dairy producers in remote regions of this state with already scant populations.

The limited amount of skills development and training options to prepare commercial motor vehicle operators for very lucrative careers in milk hauling further constricts this available workforce. While efforts are being made by New Mexico’s state universities and community colleges, the geographies where instruction takes place prohibit much of the workforce’s ability to attend classes.

The majority of carriers in this industry sourcing drivers have restricted options from an underdeveloped workforce in commercial vehicle operation in an underpopulated region of this state.

Weight laws and limitations for commercial motor vehicles in New Mexico pale in comparison to other rocky mountain states such as Colorado, Utah and Idaho, where dairy production surpasses New Mexico’s dairy industry. Vehicle configurations in these states permitting quad-axle milk tank trailers and tri-axle tractor drive axles allow these states dairy industry to move more milk with half the manpower.

The standard payload of milk in New Mexico weighs between 48 to 52,000 lbs. The aforementioned state’s dairy industries are permitted to deliver payloads of milk weighing 70 to 75,000 lbs. This allows carriers with similar area workforce population challenges to better and more rapidly serve these states growing dairy industry.

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Not only are degraded pavement conditions costly in the maintenance of the very class VIII diesel trucks whose fuel tax monies are justly designated for roadway and infrastructure upkeep, they are safety hazards for passenger vehicles alike.

A second infrastructure item of concern common among all members of the transportation industry as a whole is the lack of suitable parking for large commercial vehicles. As the old American Trucking Association slogan goes, “if you got it, a truck bought it.” Large scale parking for trucks with products derived from both New Mexico producers and products crossing New Mexico’s’ borders is inadequate on interstate and state maintained major thoroughfares and seemingly non existing on much of the area where both milk and energy are produced.

As our legislature discusses continued infrastructure development on the roadways across New Mexico, the provision of safe parking for trucks provides safe passage for passenger with our families and loved ones.

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Dairy MAX Announces Executive Leadership Additions

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onprofit regional dairy council Dairy MAX, which represents more than 900 dairy farmers in eight states, is pleased to announce that Marty McKinzie has been promoted to chief growth officer of the organization, responsible for business development, industry image and relations, sustainability and organizational development.

Dairy MAX has additionally hired Kay Johnson Smith as chief operating officer, leading key areas of the business including consumer marketing, corporate communications, issues management, health and wellness and school marketing. McKinzie and Johnson Smith will report to Chief Executive Officer Mike Konkle, who has served

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McKinzie joined Dairy MAX in 2008 as director of industry image and relations and currently is the vice president of industry image and relations. He and his team are the conduit connecting Dairy MAX with the dairy farmers it serves, helping them build trust with communities through connections with farm tours, sharing checkoff program successes with youth inside and outside of schools and building relationships with business partners and health professionals. McKinzie has played a critical role in development of industry relationships, fostering growth and understanding through communication and annual oneon-one farm visits.

Johnson Smith joins Dairy MAX from the Animal Agriculture Alliance, based in Arlington, Virginia, where she served originally as executive director, then president and chief executive officer for nearly 28 years. In that role, she was tasked with managing the organization’s operations, providing strategic guidance to the agriculture and food industry regarding farm animal issues and engaging stakeholders about the importance of modern animal agriculture.

“Dairy councils are an asset to farmers every day, supporting them in their efforts to provide and market dairy products to Americans,” said Mike Konkle, CEO of Dairy MAX. “The way we see it, dairy farmers have both tough and incredible jobs––and it is our responsibility to meet their expectations and serve them well. The addition of these two roles will help us to be positioned for continued success in the coming years.

We look forward to Marty and Kay’s contributions.”

Dairy MAX is part of a nationwide effort to promote dairy, develop new dairy foods, provide educational information and increase consumption. It does so with a team of experts in dairy farming, business, education and health and wellness, working with organizations such as the National Dairy Council (NDC) and Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP). The organization is a longtime supporter of the Animal Ag Alliance, a nonprofit working to safeguard the future of animal agriculture, and looks forward to continued engagement with the organization into the future.

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BEEF R EPR ESEN T ED AT S TAT E DI ET ET IC S CON F ER ENCE The New Mexico Beef Council participated virtually in the joint New Mexico Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (NMAND) Conference and New Mexico Diabetes Advisory Council (NMDAC): Caring for the whole person conference on March 3, 2022.

Kate Schulz, NMBC’s consulting dietitian, presented the latest Beef research to the 48 participants attending from around the state. Kate’s presentation touched on including beef in a heart-healthy diet as well introducing beef as a complimentary first food for infants. “Choosing Beef: New Diabetes and Heart Health Research” helped the attendees understand the latest research with a reminder that all of the information presented could be accessed on beefitswhatsfordinner.com. Participants were offered a swag bag of materials, including a meat thermometer and educational resources to use with their audiences. 

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AgriFuture aims to connect, inform and inspire the next generation of farmers, ranchers and all people involved in agriculture. Don’t miss out on the farm-to-table reception, breakout sessions, educational agricultural speakers, dinner with mentors, networking opportunities and more.

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2021 BEEF EX P ORTS SH AT T ER PR EV IOUS R ECOR DS U.S. beef exports greatly exceeded previous volume and value records in 2021, surpassing $10 billion for the first time, according to year-end data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). Pork exports finished slightly below the record volume reached in 2020 but set a new value record, topping $8 billion for the first time.

December beef exports totaled 121,429 metric tons (mt), up 1% from a year ago, while value climbed 33% to $991.8 million – the third largest month on record. These results pushed 2021 volume to 1.44 million mt, up 15% from a year ago and 7% above the previous record set in 2018. Export value soared to $10.58 billion, up 38% from 2020 and shattering the previous record (also from 2018) by 27%.

“The beef export results are truly remarkable, especially considering the COVID-related obstacles in the global foodservice sector and all the supply-side and logistical challenges faced by the U.S. industry,” said USMEF President and CEO Dan Halstrom.

“Obviously our large Asian markets accounted for much of the growth, but it really takes broad-based global demand to reach

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these impressive levels. So this success story is not just about Korea, Japan and China – but also a strong performance in Taiwan, excellent growth in Central and South America and a rebound in Mexico and Southeast Asia.” 

HOW DO I PAY INTO THE CHECKOFF?

A: By law, all producers selling cattle or

calves, for any reason and regardless of age or sex, must pay $1 per head to support beef/ veal promotion, research and information through the Beef Promotion and Research Act.

Q: HOW CAN I BE INVOLVED IN THE BEEF CHECKOFF?

A: For many producers, the best place

to get involved is by attending state board meetings or even becoming a member of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB).

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WHAT IS THE CATTLEMEN’S BEEF BOARD? WHO SERVES? HOW ARE THEY PAID?

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Nominating organizations represent beef and dairy producers in 32 individual states and six state units, where states are grouped together to form enough cattle numbers for a seat, based on the number of cattle in each state. Importer appointments are drawn from nominations by importer associations. The number of Board members is established according to the number of cattle in the state or region; 500,000 head for the first Board member and 1,000,000 head for each additional member. Importer numbers are established in the same manner. Members serve without pay, but may be reimbursed for travel and direct business expenses associated with serving on the CBB.

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NMBC DIRECTORS:

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VICE-CHAIRPERSON Dina Chacon-Reitzel Cole Gardner (Producer) 505-841-9407 575-910-5952

Dan Bell (Producer) 575-799-0763

Jim Hill (Feeder) 575-993-9950

CHAIRPERSON Zita Lopez (Feeder) 575-447-1117

Matt Ferguson (Producer) 575-491-9025

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BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR Boe Lopez (Feeder) 505-469-9055 FEDERATION DIRECTOR Zita Lopez (Feeder) 575-447-1117 USMEF DIRECTOR

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NMDA Receives Grant To Bolster Mental Health Resources In New Mexico USDA-funded program to assist local agriculturalists

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he New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) received a grant for the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network program in an effort to enhance a network that connects individuals who are engaged in farming, ranching and other agriculture-related occupations to stress assistance programs.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the grant to NMDA. Projects funded through the program must initiate, expand or sustain programs that provide professional agricultural behavioral health counseling and referral for other forms of assistance as necessary through farm telephone helplines and websites; training programs and workshops; support groups; and outreach services and activities.

A total of $500,000 was awarded, and it must be used by Aug. 31, 2022. NMDA has partnered with the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Cooperative Extension Service to allocate these funds across multiple platforms.

NMDA plans to leverage NMSU’s Southwest Border Food Protection and Emergency Preparedness Center (Center), which is a collaborative effort between NMDA and Cooperative Extension Service, to enhance existing efforts aligned with achieving the goals of the stress assistance network.

Center Co-Director Marshal Wilson is excited about the potential possibilities that stem from the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network and its funding.

“The Southwest Border Food Protection and Emergency Preparedness Center and our partners are pleased to support our state’s agricultural producers through this network,” said Wilson. “This funding allows us to expand the programs we’ve already worked to build and extend our ability to benefit New Mexico agriculturalists even further. The well-being of farmers and ranchers is of upmost importance, and we

hope this program will be beneficial to them.”

Wilson also serves as assistant director of NMDA’s Agricultural and Production Services Division.

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examples of how funding from this grant can positively impact the state’s agriculturalists.

“New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau is proud to be a partner in the ‘Stronger Together Campaign,’” said Smith. “The funding provided through the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network grant will allow our partners to really amplify this campaign and others like it and assist with getting the much-needed resources spread across the state and in the hands of those who need them.”

NMSU Cooperative Extension Service Livestock Specialist Marcy Ward believes the program serves as a vital opportunity to positively impact agriculturalists by using the program to educate and inform.

“The Cooperative Extension Service provides an educational outreach opportunity to reach producers in our state,” said Ward.

“With the help of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network, we can provide resources to help them deal with the added stress they experience related to working in the agriculture industry at the local level.”

The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network website, www.heretohelpnm.com, provides information about stress prevention, wellness and health resources, or you may contact Marshal Wilson at 575/646-7243 or mwilson@nmda. nmsu.edu.

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New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau CEO Chad Smith said the Stronger Together campaign and other programs are perfect

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NEWS UPDATE

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US Farm Groups Push To Sow On Protected Land US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said the move is premature

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arm groups are urging the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow farmers the ability to plant on acres set aside for conservation, to help fill the absence of Ukrainian corn, wheat and sunflower oil, reported Reuters.

In a letter to US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in late March, seven agriculture lobbying organizations representing US farmers, feed producers, grain exporters, millers, bakers and oilseed processors asked the USDA to provide flexibility to farmers to plant crops on more than four million acres of “prime farmland” currently enrolled in the Farm Service Agency’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) without penalty.

The program pays farmers to fallow land for a 10-year period.

“It remains unclear whether Ukrainian farmers will be able to safely plant crops this spring,” the letter said. “Time is of the essence.

The planting window in the United States has already opened.”

If those acres are planted, at 2021’s average corn yield, that could mean an additional 18.7 million tonnes of grain produced.

The letter, signed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grain and Feed Association and others, echoes an 8 March request by US Senator John Boozman of Arkansas, as well as calls from agriculture economists.

“This is an emergency, wartime situation,” said University of Illinois agricultural economist Scott Irwin. “It’s very clear to me that the world needs acres of corn and wheat this spring, and where are we going to find them?”

Some farmers are skeptical about the approach. CRP acres are often set aside because they are difficult to farm, have poor soil, or are environmentally sensitive.

“In my area, everything that is farmable is farmed. We have very little CRP in my neck of the woods. It’s only in places you don’t want to farm,” said Kevin Scott, a corn and soybean farmer in southeastern South Dakota.

The war in Ukraine threatens around 7 million hectares (17.3 million acres), nearly half the nation’s planned spring planting region, Agriculture Minister Roman Leshchenko said. Some farmers cannot access farms in conflict zones, while others struggle to find adequate fuel and fertiliser, and exporters are blocked from shipping grain by Russian forces.

The European Union has already eased restrictions on fallow land, offering financial incentives for farmers to plant additional acres.

The USDA-FSA said it had no immediate plan to relax CRP rules, while Vilsack, in a 10 March town hall, did not rule it out.

“I think it’s a little premature to make that call, because we really don’t know precisely what’s going to happen,” said Vilsack.

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Much like when the VFD was put in place in 2017, some of these businesses may simply pull these products from store shelves and decline to offer products as they do not have the framework in place to meet the legal burden of acting as a “pharmacy,” which requires the ability to review veterinary authorized prescriptions and track refills of those prescription products.

For those that do continue to stock these products, producers will have to produce a prescription prior to purchasing.

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While the definition of a valid VCPR does vary from state to state, Nebraska’s definition of a valid VCPR is outlined in the Nebraska Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act as follows:

Veterinarian-client-patient relationship means that: 1. The veterinarian has assumed the responsibility for making clinical judgments regarding the health of the animal and the need for medical treatment, and the client has agreed to follow the veterinarian’s instructions; 2. The veterinarian has sufficient knowledge of the animal to initiate at least a general or preliminary diagnosis of the medical condition of the animal. This means that the veterinarian has recently seen and is personally acquainted with the keeping and care of the animal by virtue of an examination of the animal or by medically appropriate and

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timely visits to the premises where the animal is kept; and 3. The veterinarian is readily available or has arranged for emergency coverage and for follow-up evaluation in the event of adverse reactions or the failure of the treatment regimen.

Furthermore, Beef Quality Assurance programs (BQA) recommend that you have a written documented VCPR form filled out with your herd veterinarian and that you get a copy of all documented prescriptions.

These records should be maintained for at minimum two years.The Nebraska BQA offers a VCPR form on their website under the “resources” tab that producers can print off and fill out with their veterinarian. This VCPR form should be updated or reviewed annually. To the nitty-gritty, what product availability will be changing, and when will this happen? The following are some products that will be seeing label changes to prescription-only status: Oxytetracyclines: • Injectables: Liquamycin® LA-200®, Noromycin 300 LA, Bio-Mycin® 200, Agrimycin® 200, etc.

• Boluses: Terramycin® Scours Tablets, OXY 500 Calf Boluses

Penicillins (penicillin G procaine, penicillin G benzathine): • Injectables: Penicillin Injectable, Dura-Pen, Pro-Pen-G®, Combi-Pen 48®, etc.

• Intramammary tubes: Masti-Clear®, go-dryTM, Albadry Plus™ Sulfa-based antibiotics (Sulfadimethoxine, sulfamethazine): • Injectables: Di-Methox® 40%, SulfaMedTM 40% • Boluses: Albon®, Sustain III® Cattle & Calf Boluses, Supra Sulfa® III Cattle & Calf Boluses Tylosin • Injectables: Tylan® 50, Tylan 200 Cephapirin, cephapirin benzathine: • Intramammary tubes: ToDAY® and ToMORROW® Additionally, several swine medications fall under the new guidance: Lincomycin: • Injectables: Lincomix® 100, Lincomix 300, LincoMed® 100, LincoMed 300 Gentamicin • Injectables: Garasol®, Gentamicin Piglet Injection

Two-year transition When Guidance #263 was published on

June 11, 2021, it was structured with a two- ucts used after the expiration date are less year phase-in for manufacturers of these effective and may not work as intended. products to make label changes and come This may lead to higher incidences of treatinto compliance with the guidance so they ment failure. would be able to continue marketing their Disposal of expired antimicrobials can products without interruption. All products present challenges, as well. In the long run, covered under Guidance #263 are to be it is easier and safer to purchase products removed from OTC availability by June 11, only when needed under the guidance of 2023. The expectation is that producers will a veterinarian. see familiar products start to disappear Additionally, this guidance affects only from store shelves as OTC products over the medically important antibiotic products. next 14 months because manufacturers will Antiparasiticides, injectable and oral nutrifinalize label changes and refine their mar- tional supplements, oral pro/prebiotics, keting and distribution channels to assure and topical non-antibiotic treatments will compliance with prescription requirements. not be affected and will remain available It is important to remember these criti- through OTC marketing channels just cal products are not being removed from as before. the marketplace, but instead being brought Now, more than ever, producers need to under veterinary oversight to combat establish a VCPR with a trusted veterinarian overuse/misuse due to OTC access. Further- to provide input on antibiotic selection for more, producers should not stock up on their operations. This ensures the best treatthese products to avoid needing a prescrip- ment options can be selected with tion once this change takes effect. Again, antibiotic stewardship, animal welfare, and these products will still be readily available. livestock economics — all important deciAnimal health products have expiration sion-making factors. dates and are sensitive to storage time and conditions. Purchasing large quantities of Editor’s note: Becky Funk is an extension veterinary teaching animal health at the University of animal health products may lead producers specialist Nebraska’s Great Plains Veterinary Education Center. to have an excess of products unused by Jesse Fulton is an extension beef educator and the the date of the product’s expiration. Prod- director of Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance.

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BOOK REVIEW

by Stephen Zimmer Available on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle

All In a Day’s Riding: Stories of the New Mexico Range

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his book is an authentic portrayal of a cowboy’s life in the New Mexico cattle frontier in the late 1800s. The author goes into great detail describing the profitability of the cattle business when New Mexico was acquired as a territory in 1846.

The life of a cowpuncher often included the harsh reality of working during blizzards, high winds, floods, stampedes, outlaw horses and cattle, wolves, mountain lions, rustlers and raiding Indians. Yet they were rewarded by the culinary excellence of tender steak and fluffy biscuits, good weather, unforgettable animals and the beauty of the unspoiled countryside.

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excerpts he shared from books written by because of its honest portrayal of ranch life ten cattlemen who were drawn to the New and the heroes who made it happen.

Mexico cattle frontier from all over the United States and British Isles. Agnes Morley About the Author: Stephen Zimmer comes from four Cleaveland was a highly respected “cow- generations of West Texas cattle ranchers. Beginning puncher on a sidesaddle”. James H. Cook in 1976 he spent 25 years as Director of Museums at New Mexico’s Philmont Scout Ranch. He has been was ambushed by Geronimo and his band studying the history of the New Mexico cattle frontier who had broken away from the reservation for more than 30 years. He has driven through or where they were being held prisoners. I was ridden horseback in all kinds of weather over the land intrigued by animal stories of wild horses where outfits ran cattle in the last decades of the 19th century in order to better understand what life was who chose to jump off a cliff and a steer like for the men and women who worked the range. who drowned himself rather than lose their He lives outside of Cimarron, New Mexico on his freedom. Would we do the same? Then Double Z Bar Ranch where he writes about western and cowboy life. His articles have appeared there was the unforgettable lead steer art in “Cowboy Magazine,” “Western Horseman,” “New named Lew Wallace who stole my heart. I Mexico Magazine,” and “Wild West” among others. didn’t know that cowboys worked at night “Parker’s Colt: A Novel of New Mexico Ranch Life” and and a good horse could bring them back to “Cowboy Days, Stories of the New Mexico Range,” were also published by Sunstone Press. camp in the middle of it.

We recommend All In a Day’s Riding

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39th Annual NMSU Cattle Sale & Horse Expo & Sale

BULLS FOR SALE after APRIL 25, 2022 • Recent drought has caused a significant reduction in animal numbers across NMSU ranches • We will be offering 15 yearling Angus bulls that boast some of the lowest birth weigh EPDs in the industry along with some of the highest $EN • An offering of 8 Brahman bulls with strong desert adapted genetics will be available • More detailed animal data and pictures will be posted on Department website and Facebook as it becomes available • Cattle are available to view in the pens on the corner of Gregg Street and Sam Steele Way • Check department website for online sale information for specific sale date and time

HORSE SALE and OPEN HOUSE: April 30, 2022 • Open house starts at 9am NMSU Horse Center, 400 W. Union Mesilla Park, NM – Opportunity to visit with Equine program faculty and students and check out educational facilities, stallions, and learn more about our horse program • 4 2-year Fillies, 4 2-year Geldings, 3 2-year Stallions, and 2 Broodmares • Horse Sale preview 10:30am to 12pm • Online Horse Sale will start at 1pm to 4pm Conducted by Integrity Livestock Auctions (see Department webpage for more info) FOR CATTLE INFO CONTACT Cattle viewing: ejs@nmsu.edu Angus: Eric Scholljegerdes 575-646-1750 ejs@nmsu.edu Brangus and Brahman: Andrew Cox 520-210-1338

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FOR HORSE INFO CONTACT Joby Priest 575/646-1345 priest@nmsu.edu

2022 Sale Report: Bradley 3 Ranch – Home of the Wide Body Sale

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radley 3 Ranch continued their tradition of bringing innovative ideas to their bull buyers. Friday 2/11/22, Dr. Ky Pohler who is Associate Professor and Chair of the Pregnancy and Development Programming Area of Excellence in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University gave a presentation on understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms that control reproductive efficiency in cattle and the role

bulls play in such efficiency.

Saturday was a beautiful day as bidders from 16 states registered for the sale. When the final gavel fell, 173 Angus Bulls had sold for an average of $6,387. Top selling bull was Lot 40 that sold for $16,500 to a Texas buyer. Lot 151 was the second high selling Lot, at $15,000 also to a Texas Buyer. Lot 62 went to a New Mexico buyer for $14,500 and Lots 11 & 12 went to a Texas buyer for $13,500 and $13,000 respectively.

The Charolais offering had 87 bulls and averaged $6,131. Top selling Lot was 176 for $12,000 for ½ interest to a Texas buyer and Lots 225 and 237 brought $11,500 going to Texas and Missouri respectively. Lots 186 and 189 Sold for $10,000 and are going to east Texas and Wisconsin.

Twenty-seven Bred Angus heifers sold

to a Texas buyer for $2,800 and 33 open Angus heifers sold to two Texas buyers for an $1,864 average.

Mark your calendars for the 65th anniversary Bradley 3 Ranch Wide Body Sale to be held February 11, 2023.

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2022 Horse Sale and Open House New to NMSU

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AQHA Stallion sired

by Palo Duro Cat (full brother to Sophisticated Cat), out of an own daughter of Docs Oak.

April 30, 2022 Open House 9am - 10:30am Sale Preview 10:30am - 12pm Online sale starts 1pm - 4pm Catalog and Pictures will be posted to NMSU Horse Farm on Facebook and on Animal and Range Sciences Website

Will Offer For Sale • Four 2-year-old geldings • Three 2-year-old stallions • Four 2-year-old mares • One broodmare due to foal in 2022 • Open broodmare that is broke to ride Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NMSUHorseFarm

For more info on breeding fees or sale, contact Joby Priest / priest@nmsu.edu / 575-202-3646

Animal & Range Sciences www.anrs.nmsu.edu| 575-646-2514 aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs New Mexico State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educator. NMSU and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating.

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It’s an EPA “Miracle”—Turning Your “Dry Land” into a “Wetland?” by: Karen Budd-Falen, Budd-Falen Law Office, LLC

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emember the story from the Bible where Jesus turned the water into wine? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can also perform miracles— turning dry land into a wetland under the Clean Water Act (CWA). In fact, according to the EPA, a “wetland” can be private property that has NO surface water but has water beneath the surface that then flows under a paved street into a small manmade ditch that goes past other homes and eventually flows into a lake (a navigable water).

Because the EPA has defined this dry land as a “wetland,” placing dirt on that property is regulated by the agency. The case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the federal government can determine that dry land is a wetland or a “Waters of the Unite d States” ( WOT US) under the CWA.

In April 2007, the Sackett family broke ground to build a home on a lot that they purchased in a residential subdivision. The lot is bordered by a county-paved road on one side and residential houses on the other three sides. After the houses, there is a lake. Shortly after they began construction, the EPA sent investigators to inspect the job site for CWA compliance. Without doing any of the technical measurements required under the law, the EPA announced that the Sacketts were violating the CWA by putting additional dirt on their land without a federal permit. The EPA then sent the Sacketts an Order stating that their lot was a “federally regulated wetland” and commanded them to restore the lot to its natural condition and fence it for three years, or face tens of thousands of dollars Karen Budd-Falen in daily fines. The EPA Order was based on the property being adjacent to a small ditch manent water flow, (2) there is a continuous across the street that eventually drained surface water connection between the into a navigable lake. wetland and a relatively permanent waterThe U.S. Supreme Court has now taken body, and (3) it is difficult to determine this case. The landowners are arguing that where the wetland begins and the permathe Court should clarify its decision in a nent navigable water ends (called the prior CWA case from 2006. In that case, four “connected waters” test). In contrast, four Supreme Court Justices held that the CWA Justices argued that the definition of a only grants federal authority over a WOTUS WOTUS should be determined by the if the wetland (1) exhibits a relatively per- federal government as the CWA “experts.”

The “tie” was broken by Justice Kennedy who said he would define a WOTUS to include a wetland if it bears a “substantial nexus” to a navigable water.

Based on the Supreme Court split, every President has issued a markedly different rule defining a “WOTUS.” Obama expanded the authority of the EPA over private property justified by the “substantial nexus” test.

Maintenance, Rust Trump repealed Obama’s rule and devel& Worry Free... oped his own definition based on the Livestock & “connected waters” test. Now Biden is Wildlife Tanks writing his own rule likely favoring greater authority for the federal government to Fresh & Potable govern the use of private property.

Water Tanks The ruling soon to be issued by the U.S. Feed & Fertilizer Tanks Supreme Court will hopefully give landowners an answer as to what lands should AGRICULTURAL be federally regulated under the CWA. This PETROLEUM firm will be supporting the private landENVIRONMENTAL owners in this case because while I believe CUSTOM that Jesus did and can perform miracles, Tanks approved for under the U.S. Constitution, the federal NRCS Cost Share Program government should not have that same power.

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Jean Emily Lee, the pioneering matriarch of our family at Hat Ranch gained her angel’s wings and flew to heaven on March 3, 2022. She was surrounded by family and in peace at her home in Alamogordo.

Born Jean Emily Althaus in Fort Bayard on April 9, 1929 to Mrs. Emily Joughin and Harry John Althaus Sr. Jean was one of four children of this couple, attending school at Fort Bayard until 8th grade graduation. She attended high school in Silver City and then obtained a bachelor’s degree in physical education at Western New Mexico University. While attending college Jean participated as a cheerleader and on the women’s baseball team. From an early age she helped her father maintain the golf course at Fort Bayard and learned to play golf.

While at college Jean married the love of her life, Charlie T. Lee. Upon graduation this couple moved to the family ranch in the Sacramento Mountains. After the condem-

nation of the ranch in 1958 by McGregor Range the couple moved to where the present-day Hat Ranch is located. Jean and Charlie had one daughter, Linda J. Lee and a son, Don L. (Bebo) Lee. Jean began homeschooling Linda for one year when she was instructed by the New Mexico Secretary of Education to “do like the other country women and move to town for your children’s education”. This was written in a letter Jean still has. Jean did in fact come to Alamogordo with her children where she was active in Sierra Elementary PTA, Girl Scouts of America, and Alamogordo 4-H. Jean still maintained the books for Hat Ranch and went to the ranch every weekend and school break.

Jean became a founding member of the Otero CowBelles in 1972 an advocate group for beef. During this endeavor she was also a lifetime member and officer of various positions in the state-based New Mexico CowBelles and nationally in American

National CattleWomen. In addition Jean served as a secretary to Senator Charlie Lee during the years 1981-1984 in Santa Fe when secretaries were not provided to the legislators. Jean served as governor-appointed member of the Board of Regents for the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired from 1978-1998. In 1993 Jean received the New Mexico CowBelle of the Year award.

Jean is preceded in death by two brothers, Louis H. and Harry F. Althaus. Her husband Charlie of 54 years, one daughter Linda J. Lee and one granddaughter Heather R. Davis.

Jean is survived by her son, Bebo and his wife, Madalynn; her grandson, Colton Lee (Katelin Spradley) and granddaughter, Dalton and husband, Brian Lamczyk all of Alamogordo; grandson, Shawn and wife Nicole Williamson, Etiwanda, California; granddaughters, Mist y (Sean) Orr, Alamogordo and Amber (Wade) McClain, Tularosa; great-grandchildren are Morgayne Smith, Kamrynne Davis and Kimberlee Orr, Alamogordo and Jordan Walker, Tularosa.

Jean is also survived by one sister, MaryJane McDowell, Nixa, Missouri and two nieces, Jody (Ted) McMurry, Ozark, Missouri and Roxanne Althaus, Lubbock; a nephew, Brian

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(Deb) Althaus, Albuquerque; as well as great-nieces and nephews.

Jean was a caring and kindhearted person that treated everybody the same.

The ethics that she lived by impressed on her children and grandchildren. She was always supporting and encouraging to all that she encountered. If you knew her “quiet” voice, you knew the beautiful blue eyes and a smile that would melt your heart were soon to follow. Her next question might even be, “When are we going back to the ranch?” Here’s Mrs. Big John signing off.

We would like to give a special thanks to the caregivers for treating “grandma” like part of their family always throughout the years. We also would like to thank Kara and the team at Encompass Home Health in Ruidoso for an excellent job and their support.

Paul H. Costa went to Heaven on March 9, 2022 in Amarillo, Texas while his family held his hands. There has never been a husband, father, Papa or friend more loved than this precious man.

Paul was born in El Moro, Colorado to Alex and Arlene (Ames) Costa on April 30, 1936. Paul lived in Trinidad with two sisters and two brothers. He moved with his family at a young age to Springer, where he graduated high school. He then went on to college at Highlands University in Las Vegas for one year, then transferred to New Mexico State College in Las Cruces where he graduated with an AG/Education Degree in December of 1959. During his time in Las Cruces, he met and fell in love with Janie Upton. They started their life together on the ranch in La Cinta Canyon on June 11, 1960.

On top of being a full-time rancher, Paul wore many hats. From hauling cattle to hauling dry ice, from teaching Ag/Ed to becoming County Agent of Harding County.

Paul was also a member of AGR fraternity, the New Mexico National Guard, the New Mexico Mounted Patrol, as well as a trustee on the Springer Electric REA board for over 30 years. He received the New Mexico CowBelle Man of the Year Award in 1993 and was an active member of Harding County, dedicating his time, knowledge, and support to helping the community he lived in for over 60 years.

Paul is survived by his wife of 62 years Janie (Upton) Costa of Solano; son Mike Costa and wife Rose, Farmington; daughter Lylene Marguerite, Amarillo, TX; daughter Melanie Friemel and husband Jim, Dawn,

Texas. He is also survived by grandchildren Wayne and Michael Costa, Christopher, Callie, and Corey Fischbacher, Landon, Maxine, Laramy, and Cydney Friemel, Stacy, Mindy, Aric, and Megan Costa. In addition, Paul is survived by 34 great-grandchildren and one brother; Donnie Costa and wife Dee of California.

In lieu of flowers and gifts, the family suggests that any donations be made to the Harding County Fire Department or the Harding County Fair Board.

Gary Ziehe (1960-2022) passed away on March 4, 2022. Gary served as the regional range program manager in the Southwestern Regional Office, Wildlife, Fish, Rare Plants & Rangeland Management staff since 2014. Gary leaves behind his wife, Anne Kathryn, and two boys, Wyatt and Warren.

Gary had many dear friends in the agency and his friendship to us all and his contributions to our mission will be greatly missed.

Gary was a devoted alumnus of Texas A&M University and a proud member of The Corps of Cadets. He received his B.S. degree

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in 1982 and M.S. degree in 1989 from Texas A&M University. He continued his education at Oklahoma State University where he earned a Ph.D. in 1993 in the field of Animal Genetics.

Gary began as a Congressional Science Fellow, served in the office of Senator Pete Domenici in Washington, DC, as a Legislative Assistant, and later as Senior Analyst for Agriculture and Energy on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. Working together with his future wife, he developed the legislation creating the Valles Caldera National Preserve, and he became its first Executive Director in 2001. Gary began employment with the Forest Service in 2004 and served in various positions, including on the Santa Fe and Lincoln national forests, before returning to Albuquerque and the Southwestern Regional Office in 2014.

As a lifelong public servant, Gary approached his work with the utmost professionalism. He was transparent and always willing to sit and talk with employees and permittees. Gary approached his work seriously, but didn’t take himself seriously, and he possessed a keen sense of humor. No matter how difficult the issue, Gary was always a calming influence. He served as a mentor for many range profes-

sionals across the agency. In his leisure time, Gary enjoyed playing golf with his sons, was enthusiastically involved with their baseball, swimming and Boy Scout activities, and enjoyed watching Texas Aggie football.

Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com.

Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The New Mexico Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers.

If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

Foiled Again

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swear, sometimes I think a lobotomized Suffolk sheep has more brains than our public servants. Have you seen the Forest Service latest answer to saving our national forests?

While the KNP Complex fire in California was raging out of control it burned and killed 20 percent of the world’s old growth Sequoia trees. As the fire got close to one of the world’s oldest trees, a tree called General Sherman, the U.S. Forest Service knew exactly what to do and raced into action. They wrapped the base of General Sherman in aluminum foil to protect it from the flames. So now instead of managing our forests properly I suppose USFS stands at the ready with tin foil in hand to save our forests. The way our national forests have

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been burning every summer and autumn you might want to buy stock in Reynold’s Wrap® before next fire season.

The insanity is everywhere. I live on the edge of a state park where greenies ride their electric bikes with wheels about the same size as those on the old Honda 90’s that environmentalists got banned from the same trails. Funny thing is, those electric bikes with their oversized tires make the same ruts as the fossil fuel powered Honda 90’s did but the Honda 90 riders were seen as despoilers of Mother Earth while the bike riders are seen as green because their bikes run on batteries instead of fossil fuel.

Sometimes I wonder what we’re gonna do with all those batteries when they go deader than a roadkill armadillo and start oozing whatever it is that ruins countless alarm clocks and flashlights? I suppose we could just stack all those old batteries next to all the spent uranium 235 nuclear rods we have no idea what to do with which have a radioactive half-life of only 700 million years.

There is yet another nearby state park where I frequently walk where the trails are cluttered with trees that blew down in a violent windstorm years ago. After the windstorm park employees cut the trees into 30 inch lengths and then just left them there to rot. An acquaintance loaded up one of these chunks in his pickup that he intended to use as a base for his anvil. On his way out of the park he was pulled over by a park cop and given a ticket and a hefty fine and was told to put the wood back where he picked it up. On my last walk I noticed that chunk of wood is still decomposing and providing a nice home for bugs and termites which emit carbon and contribute to climate change.

In my county you have to get a permit to cut down a tree on your own property even if it’s a pine tree slowly turning brown because the bark beetles are trying to kill them all. Because few people want to go through the hassle of getting a permit, not to mention paying for one, there are far too many rotting trees which just attract more beetles and all the deadfall will serve as kindling for the next massive wildfire to decimate western forests.

In yet another move to save our forests the National Park Service has made it illegal to climb on any tree in all U.S. national parks.

Many state parks and several municipalities have also banned tree climbing even though I’ve yet to hear of a single tree dying due to an adolescent tree climber.

We’re doing all these ridiculous things in

the name of climate change and to reduce the amount of CO2 in the air, you know that stuff that every human on earth expels all day, every day for the duration of their life?

You know, CO2, that stuff that plants need in order to grow?

While our government is busy devising new ways to tax and regulate everyone’s carbon footprint to prevent the temperature of the earth from going higher, or lower, one or two degrees, (like it has done countless times in the history of the earth) there is a simpler solution. If everyone

would just stop breathing for four minutes the cancer that is humanity would be cured instantaneously. But don’t forget to wrap yourself in tin foil or your dead body could still emit carbon as you decay.

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz

Union County Deputy Murdered at Grenville Dance – Suspect Arrested The Union County Leader reported the sad story:

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he quiet little village of Grenville was startled Saturday night [October 23, 1937] when Raymond Baum, a young ranch hand, walked into the community dance hall about 1 o’clock in the morning and threw down on the dance floor his own bloody revolver and then another one that he said belonged to Deputy Sheriff J. V. Cogdill. In a braggardt [sic] and dramatic manner he commanded “Some of you S of Bs take me to the county jail at Clayton for I have just killed old man Cogdill.” The

dance broke up and the dance manager and a friend hustled Baum into a car and started for the county seat. Immediately a search for the officer was started and in a short while his dead body was found near Baum’s flivver car on a side street at the rear of the Central Hotel…. At first it was presumed Baum had shot and killed the officer but the nearness to the hotel caused… (some) doubt…. Later investigations disclosed that Cogdill had been stomped to death. The head and face were terribly mutilated.

“It is believed Baum took an hour or so to decide his course after he realized what he had done. The victim’s body was cold and the blood on his face had dried when he was found. As only a few minutes elapsed from the time Baum made his announcement at the dance hall until the body was found it is believed Baum took the time to decide whether to flee or give himself up.

“There is also conjecture as to how it came that the officer was at the car owned

by Baum. As Baum had shown a disposition to make trouble at the dance it seemed reasonable to suppose the officer took Baum in charge and led him to his car and ordered him to go home. This Baum resented and made his attack…. Fearing

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The Department also offers pre-veterinary studies – our graduates have a high acceptance rate into veterinary medicine programs. We offer graduate degrees at the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy levels.

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the officer might be able to reach for and use his gun there in the darkness his fear knew no bounds until he had committed one of the most brutal murders in the annals of crime…. The balance of the story will be written by the grim officers of the law and then the curtain for Raymond Baum.”

District Attorney V. A. Doggett charged Raymond “Pard” Baum, 20 years old, with first degree murder on the following Monday. Baum entered a plea of not guilty claiming that he’d been drunk at the time and had no recollection of anything that had happened. He was ordered held without bond.

Baum’s trial in March of the following year was a contentious affair and a jury pool of 108 was required over two days before a panel of twelve was seated. District Attorney Doggett sought the death penalty claiming that Baum had given some thought to killing the deputy, thus indicating premeditation. Baum’s motive was that Cogdill previously ejected him from the dance on the night of the murder. Defense attorneys opposed that assertion claiming that Baum was very drunk at the time Deputy Cogdill was killed and was thus unable to form specific intent to commit the crime. Other witnesses testified in support of that claim, although one of the witnesses asserted that Baum had a tendency to be aggressive when he was drinking.

The jury convicted Baum of second-degree murder and Judge Livingston N. Taylor immediately sentenced him to 90 to 99 years in prison. He was paroled from prison to Kingman, Arizona, in November 1946 after serving nine years. He was pardoned and restored to citizenship in December 1952 by New Mexico Governor Ed Mechem.

Two other men, Dale Cherry and Charles Oldham, were tried in September, 1938 for aiding and abetting in the murder of Deputy Cogdill. No news story of the day was clear in describing just how these men participated in the crime. Juries seem to have been likewise unclear; Cherry was acquitted and the jury could not reach agreement regarding Oldham.

Born in North Carolina in 1869, J. V. Cogdill moved to Texas at a young age and then to New Mexico in 1910. He became a Union County deputy sheriff in 1915. His wife, Mamie, and children Elbert, Myrtle and J. V. Jr. survived him. He was interred at Grenville.

J. V. Gogdill was the first Union County, New Mexico, peace officer to be killed in the line of duty.

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Ukraine-Russia Conflict and the Implications for Cattle Markets

tracts are trading at a premium to deferred futures. As my colleague Andy McKenzie likes to say, “…an inverted market tells market participants that we want corn now!”

There are also long-term concerns for

Ukraine’s infrastructure, creating further logistical challenges for grain exporters.

In 2021, Russia was the largest net exporter of oil and natural gas. Approximately 4 percent of Russia’s crude oil

grain markets. Specifically, will farmers in Ukraine be able to plant? Even if Ukraine can plant a new corn and wheat crop, will they be able to export? There is potential that the current conflict will damage

exports were to the United States. Sanctions on Russian oil and gas and the prospect of a complete ban on Russian oil have sent oil prices surging. Prices from Bloomberg show Brent Crude and WTI

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In this article, I want to discuss the far-reaching implications of the Ukraine war for cattle markets. Inflation, grain markets, and energy markets are the main focus.

Fertilizer is another big one. There are also domestic beef demand concerns that we need to discuss. Cattle markets are reacting to all of these.

Perhaps the most noticeable impact of the conflict in Ukraine, at least initially, is market volatility. Uncertainty equals price volatility. The war in Ukraine presents markets with a significant degree of uncertainty. As new information arrives, markets incorporate it into prices. What we know today is different from what we will know tomorrow, next week, next month, etc.

Markets are trying to work through that information. Evidence that markets are working.

Volatility makes it harder to manage price risk. I have been asked several times about what producers should do to manage the price swings that we are currently observing. Scenarios like this one are why we use price risk management tools. This is similar to considering price risk management during March 2020. To be blunt, it is hard to manage price risk when you are in the middle of a high price risk situation.

There are still things we can do to manage elevated price risk. The best advice is to be as flexible as your operation will allow. Put pen to paper and work through several scenarios.

The immediate impact for grain markets is on old crop cash and futures prices.

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Crude trading at $105/barrel and $103/ barrel, a modest decline from the prior week. Higher oil and natural gas prices mean higher energy costs. These higher energy costs will span the entire beef supply chain. It takes energy to run a meat processing plant. Transportation costs for wholesale and retail will increase. On-farm fuel costs will also increase.

Higher grain, fuel, energy, and fertilizer prices will impact inflation. Food and energy are the most volatile prices included in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which is one measure of inflation. Food and energy prices are also the most heavily impacted by the war. So, it should be no surprise that we will continue to observe historically higher inflation. The most recent data shows inflation reaching 7.9 percent in February. Because food and energy prices are so volatile, a better measure to track the price level in the economy is the CPI less food and energy, which is referred to as core inflation. Core inflation reached 6.4 percent in February. The degree to which inflation impacts consumer spending will depend on, among other factors, whether the wage growth rate tracks inflation. We know that inflation has outpaced growth in wage rates over the past few months. We expect changes in consumer spending.

There are no immediate beef export demand concerns. Russia is largely self-sufficient in meat production. The only concern for U.S. beef exports would be if other countries became directly involved in the conflict. There are domestic meat demand concerns. As has already been mentioned, inflation will impact consumer spending, provided wage growth does not track inflation. Consumers will also experience higher prices at the gas pump.

Consumers might be more hesitant to make that last-minute trip to the grocery store. As I’ve said in early articles, beef demand will depend on what retail beef prices do relative to chicken prices, pork prices, and consumer income.

Cattle markets have certainly reacted to the events of the past few weeks. Last Friday, May feeder cattle futures were down 7.5 percent compared to mid-February. We can all think through the implications for cattle feeding dynamics, hay production, and production costs for cattle producers.

Fortunately, the same supportive supply dynamics that analysts have discussed the past few months remain in play. Tight cattle supplies that we expect to get tighter. Yes, this means we have fewer cattle to sell, but it also means higher cattle prices and the potential for improved profitability.

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oad to the Horse 2022 made its triumphant return to the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena for the first time since 2019. Master colt-starters Brandi Lyons, Mike Major, Pat Parelli and Glenn Stewart treated fans to an educational journey and an amazing display of horsemanship as they formed partnerships with horses from the 6666 Ranch. Ultimately, Mike Major, Bowie, Texas, took home top honors claiming the World Championship of Colt Starting title and his share of the $125,000 purse aboard Yellowhouse Canyon.

“Every moment was magical,” stated Texas horseman Mike Major. Major let his horsemanship take priority throughout the competition. “I let the horse lead me to where we’re going. It gets easy, when you listen to the horse and let that horse tell you exactly what you need to do next. Road to the Horse is such a great production and this win means a lot to me.”

Mike Major claimed both Round 1 and Round 2 victories receiving a $5,000 bonus for each round win. Canadian horseman Glenn Stewart displayed a strong finish on Championship Sunday, adding a $5,000 Round 3 bonus check to his earnings. In total, Mike Major finished the event with $85,000 in earnings. Glenn Stewart finished in second place, adding $20,000 to his $5,000 Round 3 winning, for a $25,000 total payout. Pat Parelli was awarded $10,000 for his third-place finish and Brandi Lyons, $5,000 for her fourth-place finish.

The Road to the Horse 2022 Remuda from the 6666 Ranch featured 11 threeyear-old colts, representing the world’s best AQHA bloodlines. Brandi Lyons selected the red roan gelding Guthrie Mayor (#3), Pat Parelli picked Natural Stylish (#11), and Glenn Stewar t selec ted Metallic Wrapper (#2).

Additionally, Dr. Glenn Blodgett was tasked with the honor of selecting the Jack Brainard Horsemanship Award Winner, in memory of the late legend Jack Brainard. Dr. Glenn Blodgett selected Mike Major of the recipient of this inaugural award for his outstanding ability to observe, analyze and apply horsemanship methods that best suited his colt.

“Road to the Horse 2022 was packed with

talent. From our Championship Competitors, to our entertainers and guest clinicians, fans were treated to world-class horsemanship from start to finish,” stated Morris Equine Group President Tina Battock. “It was a privilege to watch each horseman and woman perform. The event was an amazing reflection of everyone’s unyielding love of the horse.”

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Calling All Cowboys: Stop the Madness and Save Rodeo

by Kendra Santos Reprinted courtesy of The Team Roping Journal

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ur Western way of life is under attack.

There is an ordinance gaining traction in Los Angeles that is a serious threat to the sport of rodeo and all Western sports—bull riding, barrel racing and yes, even team roping jackpots included. While the most common reaction to this is to sling insults toward “the left-coast crazies,” that will only play into these people’s hand, confirm their fiction-based accusations about those who wear cowboy hats and sink our own beloved Western-world ship.

We all must act now, and in a calm, united, professional and proactive manner while proving our points, which include the genuine love the cowboy community has for our livestock, and the positive cultural and financial impacts the sport of rodeo has on our society today.

The Basics You can read the vague, broad language of the proposed ordinance amending Section 53.00 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code to add a definition for “a rodeo” and adding LAMC Section 53.39.2 to prohibit the use of harmful practices, techniques and devices at rodeos for yourself. Certain types of tie-downs, spurs and “lariats or lassos” are specifically named.

This may all sound silly, and like it doesn’t apply to those of us who do not live in Los Angeles. But make no mistake—the threat is real. There is crossover between the people with rodeo in their crosshairs and those who ended the circus. And if you can’t easily see how a ban on rodeo and virtually all Western activities in Los Angeles could spread straight north to Sacramento and result in a statewide ban, and with that precedent head domino-style to urban centers the likes of Denver, Houston, San Antonio and New York City—well, wake up.

Please. Before it’s too late.

The Latest Given the 2-22-22 Call to Action to Save Western Sports in Los Angeles, it’s the perfect time for our cowboy community to have this conversation and get in gear.

“It was amazing to see all of the organizations—the PBR (Professional Bull Riders), PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association), charros, actors, rodeo committees, influencers and fans—come together in a stance to stop the ban that the LA County Commissioner is trying to put in place,” said five-time World Champion Steer Wrestler Luke Branquinho, who’s lived his whole life on the Central Coast of California. “These small thinkers (who are trying to shut rodeo and Western events down) don’t understand the positive impact the Western and equine way of life have on people.”

“Every kind of cowboy was there, which was pretty cool,” Luke said. “Based on attendance, it’s obvious that cowboys from every part of our American culture realize and understand how important our Western way of life is to this state, our country and the world.”

Rodeo Committee Contributions The first California Rodeo Salinas was held the summer of 1911, and Big Week remains one of the greatest time-tested traditions in the Golden State. Sadly, this cowboy committee has been burdened with expensive legal fees for many years in defense of animal-rights attacks. In fact, the ultimate team roping rodeo has spent a fortune defending that event itself. They are now expending every possible effort and resource to fight the threat to our sport’s very existence.

I’ve talked to countless cowboy people on this subject over the years. I recently paid close attention to a Cowboy Channel panel discussion moderated by my longtime friend, colleague and television producer Jeff Medders. One guest was Tim Baldwin, who serves as California Rodeo general counsel and also chairs the committee’s livestock welfare committee.

“Anytime you see new ordinances passed that restrict, or in this case ban rodeo, it’s something we’re very serious about,” Baldwin said. “This ordinance in LA goes much further than the term ‘rodeo,’ including three or more events, and would encompass stand-alone team ropings and barrel races. The device ban would make team roping unlawful. As a recreational team roper, I’m really upset that LA is trying to make team roping against the law.”

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relentless attack from those trying to end our cowboy way of life. Members include the PRCA and PBR. Scott Dorenkamp comes from a legendary Colorado rodeo family, and currently serves as the PRCA livestock program & government relations manager.

“The circus ban started in California, then moved across the country,” Dorenkamp said. “It starts in LA or San Francisco, then migrates out to the suburbs, then statewide, then to the national level. The PRCA has over 70 livestock welfare rules to protect our animals. The animal rights activists’ ultimate goal is no human interaction with animals. If rodeo goes by the wayside, all other equestrian sports, including reining and cutting, are next. If this ban goes through, rodeo, the economic impact rodeos bring to town and our Western heritage are gone.”

The PBR also has taken a strong stand.

“We have a better message on our side, because it’s based on truth and reality, as opposed to fiction and lies,” said PBR Commissioner and CEO Sean Gleason. “When you have the truth on your side, you usually just have to communicate that. The problem is that as Western sports and Western lifestyle enthusiasts, we’re not always the most vocal about these issues.

We tend to walk away and hope problems will resolve themselves.”

The PBR holds events in Los Angeles and New York City, and has proved hugely popular in large urban areas worldwide.

“I have a lot of people tell me we should

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Fourth-generation California cowboy Taylor Santos carried the state flag at last December’s National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.

leave New York and LA, and let the radicals have them,” Gleason continued. “But last time I checked, they’re both parts of America, and we’re not giving up on any part of America. We are the best animal advocates there are on the planet. Our stock contractors live with and care for these animals every day.”

Western Justice Western Justice is a non-profit, membership-based organization with a mission “to unite the Western industry into a collective voice preserving and protecting the Western lifestyle, livelihoods and industry events.”

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“About a year ago, one LA councilman started on this proposed ordinance that will ban ‘torture devices, such as flank straps (certain types of) spurs, wire tie-downs, etc,’ most of which nobody uses in rodeo anyway,” Duquette stated. “We put this culturally diverse coalition together to stop this ordinance, and the animal rights groups went out and touted that they got a 15-0 vote to push this thing forward, which was actually more of a courtesy vote just to have the city attorney draft it. We’ve put together fact versus fiction, and sent it to the city council.

“This ordinance is being pushed by a group called Last Chance for Animals, which is headed up by a guy who in his own bio states that he’s never owned a dog or cat or any other kind of animal.”

A Call to Cowboy Action If you haven’t done so already, please go straight to WWW.WesternJustice.Info, see the Save Rodeo Petition and Comment On the City Council Page action tabs.

“Your comment can be as simple as ‘please don’t ban rodeo’ or you can get as involved and intricate into your comment as you want,” Duquette said. “There will be an automated email sent back to you where you have to confirm your email address.

Make sure you confirm it, or your comment won’t count. Not nearly enough of us have commented.

“We’re the NRA of the Western Lifestyle.

The Western industry is a $122 billion a year industry. We’re 12 times the size of the NFL. If everyone involved in this lifestyle works together, we’ll be unstoppable.”

Cowboy Crusaders This fight is nothing new, and cowboy people stepping up is why the Western way

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of life is still standing today. ProRodeo Hall Bucking Tradition “I’ve watched these animal rights activof Fame steer wrestler Jack Roddy spent Our Golden State is a beautiful one with ists my whole career,” said Motes, who much of his 25 years on the Rodeo Cowboys deep rural and ranching roots. There’s so competed at the 2022 La Fiesta de los Association board of directors fighting this much more to California than LA and San Vaqueros in Tucson, Arizona, as a 49-year very fight, with fellow California cowboys Francisco, as the laundry list of tradition-rich PRCA member. “From what I’ve seen, most like my veterinarian dad by his side. rodeos the likes of Oakdale, Red Bluff, Clovis, are paid and wear leather shoes. It’s sad that National Finals Rodeo tie-down roper Santa Maria, Redding and San Juan Capist- they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Joe Parsons has served professional rodeo rano still attests. Oakdale, California will If anyone in rodeo even thinks about misin several capacities, including being one always be the Original Cowboy Capital of treating an animal, the rules kick in. of the original ProRodeo Hall of Fame board the World, and the Salinas Valley is known Cowboys don’t tolerate animal abuse. members; PRCA vice president; 15 years on as “the salad bowl of the world” for its “Cowboy code includes common sense, the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund board; and extensive produce production. and peer pressure is big in our culture. We the PRCA animal welfare committee for “When I was young, California is where don’t let people do stupid stuff around us, over 20 years. cowboys came from,” said two-time World and abusing an animal is not tolerated. In “Animal welfare was an issue back in the Champion Team Roper Walt Woodard, who rodeo, we say our prayers and stand up for 1930s and ’40s at Madison Square Garden spent the first 50 years of his life in French the National Anthem. We also stand up for in New York, and it’s never stopped,” said Camp, California—25 miles from Oakdale— our animals. Showing respect is the cowboy Arizona cowboy Parsons, 65. “It’s always before moving to the current Cowboy way, and that includes our animals, who are been a small fringe with tactics that are Capital of the World in Stephenville, Texas. part of the rodeo family. We love and need based on emotion instead of facts. It’s only Much of the cowboy migration has been our animals. That’s just how it is.” a small group of people pushing this, but based on California’s financial realities. The The time is now, rodeo family. Let’s all they push the buttons of people who don’t weather can’t be beat, but the cost of step up, stand up, speak up and save rodeo want to do their own homework. living is crazy. and our Western way of life.

“All most people see is the sensationalWoodard’s a three-time California Rodeo ized side of most issues in our society today. team roping titlist. Arizona native and 1977 People who don’t come from our rural World Champion Team Roper David Motes culture don’t understand our world. Mod- owns an unmatched collection of 12 Salinas ern-day rodeo and ranch cowboys are an buckles. He, too, lives in Texas now, but educated group of people who need to spent 25 years living in California’s San step up for our lifestyle and way of life. Joaquin Valley.

Don’t call people names. Invite them to come see what we do and how we live.”

That simple, common-sense approach is actually very effective.

“I went to Madison, Wisconsin 40 years ago when I was PRCA vice president, and met with the city council in 1982, because they were having trouble with this issue there then,” Parsons said. “The rodeo’s still going on today, because one person took the time to educate them about the truth.”

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e all love our peppers, in a lot of different ways. I think chile rellenos are many folks’ favorites. Relleno actually means stuffed or filled and is not limited to the cheese filled, fried favorite on so many menus. I love them as much as

anyone. Many of us grew up eating bell peppers stuffed with rice and ground beef.

I hated the taste of bell peppers growing up. I also disliked the yellow-green color and the limp, boiled to death texture. I would eat the filling and leave the pepper behind, if I could, without getting caught.

They could be wadded up in a paper napkin if you were careful. If that wasn’t possible, they could be stuffed into a jean pocket and disposed of later. I learned at an early age the ranch dogs weren’t interested in the empty peppers, either.

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The following recipe can be adapted to your tastes, made milder or hotter according to which chorizo you use and the amount and variety of chile powder. The addition of corn is optional, I don’t add it if I am serving some kind of corn or corn dish with it. The assembled peppers can also be frozen and is one of our favorite “ranch fast foods” for those of us living in more remote areas.

Ingredients About 10 big green chiles, lightly roasted 1 lb. ground beef 1 12-to-16-oz. tube of chorizo 1 cup Monterey jack cheese shredded ½ to 1 can of refried beans 1 TBS. chile powder 1 tsp. cumin ½ cup canned or frozen corn (optional) 2 cups red enchilada sauce Shredded sharp cheddar cheese Lightly roast the green chiles. You don’t really need to peel them, and you want them to have a little body. Set aside and let them cool down. While they are cooling begin making the filling.

Brown the beef and chorizo and drain some of the fat off. Stir in the beans, shredded cheese, chile powder, cumin, and corn, if using it. Add about half of the enchilada sauce. Cook a few minutes to allow the flavors to blend and spices to dissolve.

Make a long split in the chiles and remove the seeds. You can leave the stems on if you like. Fill each pepper with the meat mixture and place on a baking sheet. After all the chiles are filled sprinkle with the cheddar cheese, and spoon enchilada sauce over them.

You can freeze them at this point or continue with baking them. Bake at 350º ~30 min. until bubbling.

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Will You Be Paying to Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

by Kent Lassman, President & CEO, Competitive Enterprise Institute

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et’s be honest, how many of your daily consumer choices are guided by a company’s climate-related disclosure activities? Most of us will likely answer little to none. Under a new proposal a group of unelected financial regulators would force all publicly traded companies to tediously report on activities related to greenhouse gas emissions, and other political objectives. Businesses would need to not only report on their own operations and the energy they consume, but in some cases even that of their supply chains and customers.

As Competitive Enterprise Institute Research Fellow Richard Morrison points out in a new piece for Real Clear Policy, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest power grab will impact private as well as publicly traded companies. The expansion in regulation is controversial within the corporate world because it will increase compliance costs and expose firms to new legal risks—and shareholders will shoulder these costs.

“The SEC claims that focusing on climate-related risk is about protecting investors, but that is clearly a secondary concern. The real goal is to create a framework by which corporations can be pressured, threatened, and cajoled into adopting operations consistent with the political demands of climate change activists. New disclosure requirements will be expensive and complex and generate greater legal risk for public companies.”

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The new SEC proposal puts narrow but powerful political interests ahead of you. As

an investor, what matters is your ability to put money to work growing the companies that have earned your confidence. It is more important to consider your goals, like retirement, educational savings, family security, or even a philanthropic legacy, than it is to prioritize an ever-changing set of climate goals. If you want to invest in climate change technologies, or the companies inventing them, you should. However, government agencies shouldn’t make us all pay more because of their favored political causes.

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Federal Appeals Court Sides with Beef Manufacturers in Ranchers’ Lawsuit Over ‘Product of the U.S.A.’ Label

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federal appeals court ruled 2-1 to affirm the dismissal of a case brought by cattle ranchers over the alleged mislabeling of beef as a “Product of the U.S.A.” The class-action lawsuit was brought by New Mexico ranchers Robin Thornton and Michael Lucero on behalf of a class of beef consumers against Tyson Foods, Cargill Meat Solutions, JBS USA Food Company, and National Beef Packing Company. The plaintiffs argued that it is unfair for beef to be labeled “products of the U.S.A.” when the cattle involved are raised overseas, and brought to the U.S. only for slaughter.

As attorney A. Blair Dunn explained the issue during oral arguments, cattle are brought onto American soil where they stand for minutes or hours, “Then they’re still receiving that same label, even though they didn’t really breathe much of the air here in this country, or eat much of the feed here.” That label, in turn, allows the “American” beef to fetch a premium price—a practice that is unlawfully deceptive under New Mexico law.

The legal issue central to the appeal, though, was whether the plaintiffs had the right to bring their state misleading labeling claims when defendants’ actions complied with federal regulations. A threejudge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the lower court’s decision, ruling that the plaintiffs’ argument was preempted by federal law, as it amounted to a desire to create standards “different from what the Food Safety and Inspection Service has already approved as consistent with the Federal Meat Inspection Act.” Circuit Judge Nancy Moritz, a Barack Obama appointee, authored the 21-page opinion, which was joined by George W. Bush appointee Chief Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich. Moritz rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that New Mexico State law and federal law were sufficiently different as to allow a state law mislabeling claim to proceed even when defendants complied with USDA regulations. Moritz wrote: In sum, each of plaintiffs’ state-law labelcontinued on page 57 >>

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GUIDE ST. JOHNS OFFICE P.O. Box 1980, St. Johns, Arizona 85936 Ph. 602-228-3494

LITTLE COLORADO RIVER RANCH: Located in central Apache County, Arizona, a short 10 minutes from Springerville, this ranch has lots of water! 200 AU ranch, 1,650 deeded acres, 13 sections Arizona state lease, fully improved with a nice headquarters. The ranch includes 400 acres of irrigated or sub-irrigated meadow and farm land, improved with permanent pasture for grazing. Irrigation is provided by decreed surface water rights from the Little Colorado River and supplemented by two irrigation wells. Live, year-round livestock water is supplied by 3 miles of river running through the ranch, 6 spring-fed ponds, 3 wells and 4 miles of pipeline. This ranch is being sold turn-key; 190 head of adult cows/bulls and ranch equipment, including and several ranch trucks, trailers, tractors and farm equipment. The ranch includes a gravel pit which could provide additional income. This is an extremely rare property due to the abundance of live water and being located in a mild southwestern climate, within minutes’ drive of the White Mountains, home to prime hunting, trout fishing and winter snow skiing. Price: $4,000,000 CHEVELON CANYON RANCH: 728 AU with 821 deeded acres, state, BLM and private leases in Navajo County between Heber and Holbrook, Arizona. The ranch also is only 40 miles west of Snowflake, AZ. This is a well improved ranch with 13 wells, 12 miles pipeline, large storage tanks and tire drinkers. Most of the wells produce 20+ gpm. Two sets of pipe shipping corrals with large holding traps for weaning calves and retaining heifers are located at opposite sides of the ranch for ease of operation. Corral locations each have large barns for hay/feed storage.

The ranch has numerous cool season and warm season grasses providing grazing diversity.

Elevation varies from 5,600 to 6,300 feet. Mild winters without the need for feeding hay, this is a sizable operation which is easy to run. Price $4,000,000 $3,500,000 OLD GREER RANCH: West of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 1,330 deeded acres with 1,300 acres state lease and 360 acres private lease for a total of 42 animal units yearlong.

There are several live springs on the deeded land providing nearly 40 acres of naturally irrigated and sub-irrigated meadow. The main block of the ranch is behind locked gate providing the owner with great privacy and seclusion while being only a five minute drive from town.

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SCOTT MCNALLY www.ranchesnm.com 575/622-5867 575/420-1237 Ranch Sales & Appraisals

Serving New Mexico in Farm, Ranch, Residential & Commercial

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CUERVO, Mesita Pass Road, 148.13 acres of land in Mesita Ranch Subdivision. Perfect for a new home site or grazing. $85,000 FENCE LAKE, 295 Pine Hill Road, 60 acres with over 2300 sq. ft. log home, corral, outbuildings. $250,000 SAN MARCIAL, Willow Springs Ranch, Winchester Road. 432 acres at the foothills of Chupadera Mountains $390,000 RIBERA, 340 CR B41E, SALE PENDING, 32.6 acres with 3bd/2ba home on Pecos River, Hay Barn and outbuildings. Just over 20 acres in alfalfa and grass hay production. $695,000 Paul Stout, Broker

575-760-5461 cell 575-456-2000 office officeoffice

WANTED: Farms and Ranches — Broker has over 45 years experience working on and operating a family farm and has been a farm owner since 1988.

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DOUGLASS RANCH A quality ranch property located in northeastern Chaves County, New

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Mexico approximately 20 miles northwest of the small community of Elida. Acreage includes 4,700 +/- deeded acres, 640 acres NM State Lease acres and 320 of Uncontrolled acres. Livestock water is provided by three wells and approximately four miles of pipeline. The ranch is fenced into four pastures and one small trap. Grazing capacity is estimated to be 80-100 AUYL. This place has had excellent summer rains and has not been stocked since last year. It’s as good as it gets, come take a look or call for a brochure. Price: $1,620,000

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Tanya Yaste Associate Broker Cell: 575-703-1417 Office: 575-748-1311

PIE TOWN, Goat Ranch Road Access, South of Wild Horse Ranch Subdivision. 20 acres $12,000, 40 acres $24,000. Beautiful views.

DATIL, Herrington Canyon Road Access, Two tracts, 40 acres $24,000, 44 acres $27,000

COWBOY DRAW RANCH Excellent small cattle ranch located in southeastern New Mexico approximately 50 miles northwest of Roswell on the Chaves/Lincoln county line. 7,455 total acres with 2,600 deeded with the balance federal BLM lease acres. Permitted for 151 animal units yearlong with an additional 30 animal units on a temporary nonrenewable basis. Watered with two wells and several miles of water pipeline. Two larger open draws run through the ranch that provide overflow areas to enhance grazing. The terrain is open and rolling with good turf. The ranch has had good summer rains with no cattle since last spring. The ranch is in excellent condition. Call for a brochure and come take a look. Price: $1,350,000

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3RD & 4TH GENERATION NM RANCHERS SEEKING PASTURE & CARE FOR 50-300 COWS WITHIN 2-3 HOURS OF MORIARTY, NM

PLEASE CONTACT JOHN AT 505-379-8212

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APACHE MESA, LAS VEGAS, NM: 227 acre parcel off Hwy 84 has two stock tanks, rim rock views, quiet & private location off Hwy 84. Overhead power & high speed internet available as well. Price is $354,400 and owner may carry.

CONCHAS LAKE RANCH: 7,050 total acres w/4,694 deeded acre base includes NM State & BLM grazing leases. Currently a mother cow operation but can handle yearlings. Price is $2,190,000 – Under contract!

WILLARD, NM: Truly a central New Mexico ranch location. Selling approx.

2 sections of pastures w/submersible well, pipeline drinker(s), perimeter fences & mostly open gramma grass pastures. Historically a good mother cow operation! Priced at $660,000 DEMING, NM: Clabbertop Road off I-10 ~268 acres has airstrip & large red iron metal hanger, cold water well & overhead power w/2 septic tanks & 3 RV pads! Located 10 miles west of Deming off I-10 frontage road. Asking $329,900 VILLANUEVA, NM: 87 deeded acres off CR B29A. Includes 3 legal lots of record. Has 3 shares of a 100 gpm shared well. Power on site & fenced on 3 sides. Priced at $142,500. CR B29A is county maintained access!

SOUTHERN SANTA FE COUNTY: Buckboard Rd parcel has level 80 acres w/ power onsite! Price at $89,900. 640 acre parcel on Calle Victoriano next door has water well & power for $548,900 – No restrictions & mfg. homes ok.

PEÑA CANYON: 540 acres is located just north of Villanueva, NM off CR B29A. Grassy mesa tops, huge rocky canon bottom, side canyons, off the grid parcel has plenty of pinon & cedar tree cover w/tall pines in the canyon bottom. $340,000 is a Great Price!

DILIA, NM: 20-acre hay farm off Dilia Loop Road has perfected water rights.

Currently planted in sorghum w/excellent 2021 hay production. Price is $225,000. Under contract!

KEN AHLER REAL ESTATE CO., INC. 300 Paseo Peralta, Suite 211, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Office: 505/989–7573 • Toll Free: 888/989–7573 • Mobile: 505/490–0220 Email: kahler@newmexico.com • Website: www.SantaFeLand.com

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■ 6435 S. Hwy. 28, Las Cruces, NM: 12 acres +/- one Irrigation well, EBID water rights, house w/casita. $825,000 “Home of Roberts MRM Registered Red Angus Cattle Breeders” ■ Pecan & Pistachio Orchards, Hatch, NM: 51 acres of farmland w/ 550+/- Pecan trees, 150+/- Pistachio trees, home, barn, 2 irrigation wells, EBID water rights. $925,000 ■ 9125 SE Hwy 549 Deming, NM: 920+/acres of pasture 510+/- acres NM state land, 410+/- acres private w/80 acres of Water Rights, 2 irrigation wells & one windmill. $795,000 ■ Cedar Grove Ranch: 37 section cattle ranch Deming, NM. 23,714± total acres, 1280± acres deeded land, 2632± acres state land, 19,802± acres blm, 2 houses, barns, excellent water system, 7 solar wells, 333 AYL $2,900,000

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Ben G. Scott – Broker Krystal M. Nelson – NM QB 800-933-9698 5:00 a.m./10:00 p.m.

Brad DeSpain 520-429-2806 Tobe Haught 505-264-3368

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RANCHES/FARMS 200-300 Head Cattle Ranch, Marana, AZ – Abundant yearround no cost water makes this ranch a true oasis in the desert, situated along the Santa Cruz River just 20 minutes north of Tucson. 129+/- Deeded ac; 150+/- ac of permanent pasture, 3,700+/- ac of desert sublease, 30 +/- ac of farm fields, and well improved headquarters with excellent access off a paved road situated on State land with 342+/- ac of lease. Second manufactured home on deeded.

Two sets of good steel pipe corrals under covered work areas with squeeze chute, and tub. $3.5M *NEW* 260 Head Cattle Ranch, Virden, NM – Solid working cattle ranch with excellent water distribution, good mix of grass and browse ranging in elevation from 4,000’ to 5,800’. Takes in scenic Vanderbilt Peak, Mount Royal, and stops just short of Steeple Rock. $2.8M *SOLD* 2,373+/- Acre Farm, Animas, NM – Custom 2560 +/- s.f. home built in 2008.

20-Acre pivot, 40’ x 60’ shop, 40’ x 50’ hay barn, fruit trees, chicken coop, garden area. Pivot produced 9.5 tons/ac of alfalfa in 2020. 300 gpm well. 5 pastures with water piped to 2 storage tanks and drinkers in all pastures. Historically has run 40 head of cattle yearlong. $1.3M

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**MOTIVATED SELLER – MAKE OFFER** 240+/- Acre Farm, McNeal, AZ – Drought proof your cattle operation with 76 acres of irrigated pasture. 56 Acres under two Zimmatic pivots and 20 additional acres of irrigated. Custom ranch home, guest house, workshop, garage, green house, two large steel and block barns, large loafing/hay shed, covered horse pens, steel corrals, arena, mature trees, and expansive mountain views. $1.1M 1,578 Acres of Land, McNeal, AZ – Currently used as grazing land for an adjacent ranch.

Fenced with 2 wells. Seller will split. $500 per acre for all or $650 to $700 per acre for smaller parcels. located near the McNeal Farm we have listed above, and could be used as an additional pasture; purchase for investment or build your own ranchette. *SOLD* 68+/- Head Three Brothers Ranch, Tombstone, AZ – Good starter or retirement ranch in the San Pedro River valley with sweeping views, good access, grass, browse and water. 320+/ac. deeded, 5,403+/- ac. State lease, 2,961+/- ac. BLM permit.

Easy terrain with access from Hwy 82 and Tombstone. 3 wells, 2 storage tanks with drinkers, 2 dirt tanks, set of wood & wire corrals. Adjoins Orduno Draw Ranch also offered by Stockmen’s Realty, LLC. $600,000

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*NEW* 120 +/- Acres of Farm Ground, Willcox, AZ – Located NW of Willcox in a good groundwater area. 2 wells. Center pivot. $468,000 Call Harry Owens HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *SOLD* 40+/- Acre Last Stand B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ – An exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue. The Territorial, twostory 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. $1,675,000

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*SOLD* 90+/- Acre HP Bar Ranch, Benson, AZ – Perfect gentlemen’s ranch or private get-away. Backs up to USFS for endless riding possibilities. Fully fenced for cattle. 2 BR, 1 BA home; garage; steel barn w/two horse stalls, tack room & large hay storage; corrals; workshop.

Expansive views. $595,000

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■ CEDARVALE, NM – 7,113 acre ranch (5,152 ac. +/- Deeded – 1,961 ac. +/- State Lease) well fenced & watered w/good pens, new barn.

■ REVUELTO CREEK RANCH – Quay Co., NM – 2,920 ac. -/+ (2,800 Deeded, 40 ac. -/+ NM State Lease, 80 ac. -/+ Private Lease).

■ NEW LISTING! ELK CANYON RANCH #2 - Harding Co., NM – 3,880 ac. -/+, older home, cattle pens, hunting/cattle ranch. Please call for details!

■ COLFAX COUNTY NM GET-AWAY – 1,482.90 ac.+/- grassland (1,193.59 ac. +/Deeded, 289.31 ac. State Lease), great location near all types of mountain recreation.

■ RIMROCK RANCH - BUEYEROS, NM 14,993.49 total acres +/- (12,157.49 deeded acres +/-, 2,836 +/- New Mexico State Lease).

Live water with five miles of scenic Ute Creek. Elk, deer and antelope to go along with a good cattle ranch! SIGNIFICANT PRICE REDUCTION! ■ SARGENT CANYON RANCH (Chaves/Otero Co.) – 18,460 +/- ac. - 200 +/- deeded, 2,580 +/- State, 11,200 +/- BLM, 4,480 +/- Forest permitted for 380 AUs year-round, well watered, good headquarters, very nice updated home, excellent pens & out buildings. Scenic ranch!

■ PRICE REDUCED! “RARE FIND” LAJUNTA, CO – Otero Co, CO, 400 +/- acres. 3.5 mi. east of LaJunta, just 65 miles from Pueblo, CO! Home, barns, pens, fenced, good access, close to town.

■ TEXAS PANHANDLE - Let’s look at this 6,000 hd. permitted feedyard w/953 ac. +/-, a recently remodeled owner’s home, 2 residences for employee housing, addtl. home on 6 ac., 5 pivot sprinkler irr. circles, truck scale, cattle scale, excellent perimeter fencing, located on pavement & all weather road, currently in full operation.

■ SUPER OPPORTUNITY! One of the best steak houses in the nation just out of Amarillo & Canyon at Umbarger, TX., state-of-the-art bldg., turn-key w/complete facilities.

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

■ QUAY CO, NM. – 142 ac. +/-, 120.5 ac. +/CRP, very nice site-built home & barn, located on all weather road.

*SOLD* 20+/- Acre Equestrian Property, Sonoita, AZ – Established horse training and boarding facility on +/-20-acres adjoining BLM land, panoramic mountain v iews. Two mfg homes, 36’ x 160’ horse barn, barn/shop, equipment shed, hay shed, 10 shades/loafing sheds with corrals, +/-70’ x 90’ dressage and 160’ x 170’ fenced arena. There are also RV spaces with septic, a fire pit and a well. $650,000

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PAUL McGILLIARD Murney Associate Realtors Cell: 417/839-5096 • 800/743-0336 Springfield, MO 65804

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CROWN C RANCH Well-located, 280 head ranch in SE Arizona with guest ranch capability in a moderate 4-season climate, 20+ inch precipitation zone on 485 deeded acres and over 20,000 National Forest grazing lease. $4,700,000

AG LAND LOANS As Low As 3.5% OPWKCAP 3.5%

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Joe Stubblefield & Associates 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX 806/622-3482 • cell 806/674-2062

SPRING VALLEY CATTLE & RANCH 6,360 deeded acres, this environmentally

sound and fully sustainable registered Black Angus cattle ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, located between Bassett and Burwell. $10,995,000

joes3@suddenlink.net Michael Perez Associates Nara Visa, NM • 575-403-7970

RODEO FARM, RODEO NM — 470 Acre total w/267 acres irrigated. Two homes. Farm has not been in production for many years. All improvements are in need of attention.

Priced @$300,000

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CORNAY RANCH Scenic big game hunting and working cattle ranch which

encompasses 9,521 acres of both deeded and state lease lands. The ranch is located in northeastern New Mexico. $6,500,000

TYLER RANCH/FARM — York Az, 544 deeded with 173 irrigated, along with 14,000 state and Blm lease land. 300 head mother cows yearlong. Priced @$2,300,000

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SMITH DRAW, SEPAR, NM — 7760 deeded, 11,275 State, 2560 BLM runs 300 head yearlong. Good strong country nice improvements. Priced @$3,100,000

SADDLE UP RANCH Located in Patagonia Arizona, known as some of the best cattle country and rainfall in the Southwest includes 270 +/- deeded acres ranch with a ranch headquarters and a 8,319-acre Forest allotment. $2,950,000 303-536-7571 sales@ranchland.com

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RS RANCH GLENWOOD NM — 44,233 total acres consisting of 119.6 deeded acres and 44,113 acres Gila National Forest Grazing Allotment. Ranch will run 650 head mother cows yearlong and 18 horses. San Francisco River Runs through the Ranch, great improvements. Priced at $4,900,000 If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call ...

Sam Hubbell, Qualifying Broker 520-609-2546

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214.701.1970 jamessammons.com jsammons@briggsfreeman.com 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd. | 4th Floor Dallas, Texas 75219

“Ranchers working for Ranchers - it’s not just a business, it’s our way of life” NEW LISTING! Sliding Diamond, Kingman, Arizona The Sliding Diamond Ranch is a working cattle ranch with good feed, excellent water and well-maintained improvements. +/- 15,680 acre state lease located in a checkerboard configuration providing an equal number of acres available for adverse grazing at no cost to the ranch. The state leased parcels are permitted for 231 CYL. With the adverse and an adjoining available private lease this ranch currently runs 460 CYL. The ranch is well watered with 11 wells and 28 natural springs. A must see! Priced to sell with cattle $2,995,000 CASH.

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SOLD! Stud Horse Ranch - Ash Fork, AZ The Horse Stud Ranch located just west of Ash Fork, Arizona is a working cattle ranch consisting of a total of 44 acres of deeded acres and 7 sections of deeded grazing rights and mineral rights on adverse private properties. With a grazing capacity of 56 cattle year long the Stud Horse Ranch makes for a great starter ranch, bull pasture or weaning pasture. Its gentle topography, good feed, plentiful water and easy access toI-40 make it the ideal small ranch. Improvements include a 1,600 sq. ft. manufactured home, corrals, fencing and dirt tanks. Cattle are available through private treaty. Offered at $650,000.

Witch Well Ranch – St. John’s, AZ The Witch Well Ranch is a working cattle ranch consisting of a total of +/- 23,985 acres of deeded, state lease, and private lands with a grazing capacity of 266 CYL. Its gentle topography, good feed, plentiful water and easy access make it the ideal cattleman’s ranch. The Witch Well Ranch is located north of St. John’s, Arizona. Access is provided by Highway 191. Many small dirt roads provide excellent access to the interior of the ranch. Cattle are included in the sale.The ranch is perimeter fenced with two main pastures and two traps. There are five main wells equipped with Grundfos pumps. Three pumps are solar and one is run by a generator. Additional seasonal catchments provide additional water sources. The improvements include perimeter fencing, dirt tanks, water storage tanks, livestock drinkers, and working corrals. Topography is tree covered gentle, rolling hills, ridges and open valleys. Offered at $1,825,000.

REDUCED! Sierra Azul Ranch – Hatch, NM The Sierra Azul Ranch is located in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. This nice little ranch has been in the same family for over 50 years. The ranch runs 50 CYL and 2 horses on two sections of state land with over four sections of BLM and 520 deeded acres. The deeded land includes a beautiful 160 acre inholding with water and solitude. Good little ranch with good water, great feed throughout the rolling hills and canyons. With locked access and land-owner hunt permits, the ranch presents an excellent Mule Deer hunting opportunity. Offered at $875,000.

Middle Prong Ranch - Eastern Arizona SECLUSION, PRIVACY, SECURITY and SELF-SUSTAINING, this turnkey homestead/ranch is located in a remote area of Eastern Arizona. The 40+/- acre deeded inholding is in the heart of the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. The headquarters includes a three bedroom, two bath house, 10’x12’ greenhouse, carport/machine shed, shop, walk-in box/cooler, 20’ cargo container for storage, and barn with a tack room. Ten acres can be cultivated as well as 3 potential helicopter pads for quick access by air. A gravel airstrip is nearby. Middle Prong Creek is seasonal and runs approximately 100 feet from the house where it then flows into Eagle Creek. The property contains 3 wells with registered water rights. This ranch is located in the popular Arizona game management hunt unit 27. This remote property offers an excellent opportunity to base a hunting operation. Elk, deer (mule deer & white-tail), turkey, bear, lions, javelina and small game are plentiful. Record-book animals were recently taken on the surrounding USFS land making this hunt unit increasingly popular. Offered at $725,000.

Baker Property – Deming, NM The historic Baker Property is located seven miles west of Deming, New Mexico north of I-10 and south of the prominent Black Mountain. This property consists of 2,666 +/- deeded acres. Full private access to every part of the ranch is made with ease due to its gentle terrain. This unique property lends itself to multiple uses with a unique setting for farming, an equine facility, and solar energy production. Close to the comforts of town, but secluded from town life. Offered at $1,999,500.

REDUCED! F Bar Farm - Taylor, AZ. The F Bar Farm is a 330+/- acre parcel located on the outskirts of Taylor, Arizona in Navajo County. The parcel contains 2 irrigation wells and 3 stock water wells which have serviced 150 acres of irrigated land. Three phase electric power is at the well heads. With shallow water and good soil, this farm sitting at 5,700 feet in elevation provides a cost-effective opportunity for growing hemp, pasture grass, alfalfa, corn or other cash crops. Alternatively, its excellent building sites and proximity to town also make this the perfect opportunity for a beautiful gentleman’s ranch with irrigated pastures and great views. Offered at $1,296,000.

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UNDER CONTRACT! Grey Falcon Springs, Mohave County, Arizona Grey Falcon Springs is one of Arizona’s most unique properties. This 162 deeded acres of desert oasis has an abundance of running water from an artesian well and four s prings. There is a beautiful home and manager’s home, three fish ponds, a variety of fruit trees, a green house, barn, irrigated fields and much more to adore about this property. With unlimited water, paved access, electric service, privacy, good soil, mild climate - the possibilities are endless. This one-of-a-kind property offers endless potential opportunities as the perfect self-sustaining property, horse facility, wedding venue, RV resort, horse motel, corporate retreat or family hide-a-way. Offered at $2,850,000, cash or owner may carry.

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JANUARY — Wildlife; Gelbvieh; Joint Stockmen’s Convention Results FEBRUARY — Beefmasters; Texas Longhorns MARCH — Limousin; Santa Gertrudis APRIL — Dairy If you would like to see your breed featured email caren@aaalivestock.com To Reserve Advertising Space email chris@aaalivestock.com or call Chris at 505.243.9515, ext. 28

MAY — News of the Day JUNE — Sheepman of the Year JULY — Directory of Agriculture AUGUST — The Horse Industry SEPTEMBER — Charolais; Fairs Across the SW OCTOBER — Hereford; State Fair Results NOVEMBER — Cattleman of the Year; Angus; Brangus; Red Angus: Joint Stockmen’s Convention Preview DECEMBER — Bull Buyers Guide

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Lovington Horse Farm Lea County, NM

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The Lovington Horse Farm in comprised of 40 acres and is located between Lovington, NM and Hobbs, NM on the corner of Norris and Knowles Rd. This is a wonderful horse training facility, perfectly set up for any horseman’s needs; but with space enough to grow. It offers the owner a wealth of opportunities.

40 deeded acres 20 acres irrigated under pivot 3 bdr 2 1/2 bath home Multiple barns and Stalls

Scott Burton (575) 760-8088

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

CIMARRON PASTURE, 6.26± deeded acres. $139,000. Sold separately, 3.1116± acres irrigated off 1870 Maxwell-Clutton Ditch. $45,000.

Water meter, well. 3 phase power. Next to Cimarron River.

this unique one of a kind water property. 2 bedroom 1 bathroom cabin, year round access off Hwy 64. $599,000

CIMARRON BUSINESS, Frontage opportunity, house, big shop and office buildings, easy view off Hwy MAXWELL ESCAPE, 440 Elm Tree 64. Formerly known as “The Porch.”

Rd. Nice 2-story home plus park $295,000 model home, horse barn, many other buildings, shade trees, private, 34.2 CAPULIN FAMILY COMPOUND, irrigable acres, 45± total deeded acres. Union County, NM. 40.88 +/- deeded acres with stunning 3,000 sqft plus $575,000 main home with attached apartment MAXWELL 2ND HOME, 2nd Home over large garage. Pinon/juniper, two 461 Elm Tree Rd. 2-story, 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home with usable out- wells, short gravel drive off blacktop. buildings, barn, storage, 22.22 irriga- $725,000

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ble acres, 42.02 total deeded acres. COLFAX TAVERN & DINER, Colfax $500,000 County, NM. Aka “COLD BEER”, turn UTE PARK RIVER PLACE 6.83 +/- key legendry regional icon and destiACRES, 450 +/- feet of the Cimarron nation, with anchor staff/team willing River and more than that of Ute Creek to stay on. Prime business on front are the south and east boundaries of range. $1,500,000

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FEDERAL << cont from page 50 ing claims—unjust enrichment, breach of warranty, violation of the UPA, and violation of state antitrust law— attempt to establish a labeling requirement different than that imposed and approved by the USDA and the FSIS under federal law.

Moritz’s opinion, however, was not without its criticism of the current labeling standards. She pointed out that those standards are a recent change that has been extremely problematic: Notably, this permissive interpretation of what qualifies as a “Product of the U.S.A.” has not always been the governing standard; from 2008 to 2015, Congress took a more restrictive approach to country-of-origin labeling. Specifically, in 2008, Congress implemented a new law that established four categories for country-of- origin labeling: United States origin, multiple countries of origin, imported for immediate slaughter, and foreign country of origin. But this new law generated several years of international-trade issues with Canada and Mexico, including two disputes before the World Trade Organization and more than $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs imposed against the United States.

Circuit Judge Carlos Lucero (a Bill Clinton

appointee who is unrelated to the plaintiff of the same surname) dissented, in what he humorously referred to as, “a meaty question of statutory interpretation.” Lucero wrote that Congress could not have intended to foreclose state regulation of false and misleading meat labeling, and argued that the applicable statute “expressly creates concurrent state jurisdiction” with federal regulations.

Lucero called the case “a paradigmatic example of the federal-state balance Congress intended” in enacting the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). He continued, arguing that if consumers are, indeed, deceived by the label “Product of the U.S.A.,” then that label violates both the FMIA and the USDA’s regulations. In that context, Lucero wrote, “Congress most assuredly could not have intended to rubber stamp deception as to the national origin of beef.”

Attorneys for the plaintiffs filed a motion for rehearing en banc, arguing that the case warrants reconsideration because the court’s ruling conflicts with binding precedent and Congressional intent.

Attorneys for the defendants did not respond to request for comment.

Editor’s note: This piece was updated from its original version to include plaintiffs’ motion.

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Clayton Basin Ranch Eddy County, NM

The Pardue and North Ranch of the McCutcheon holdings are being offered together as Clayton Basin Ranch. The ranch is currently permitted for 1,131 animal units annually, making it economically feasible in terms of cattle operations. The livestock facilities are in good condition, with feedlot capabilities as well as pens and corrals as needed for a working ranch.

This property has significant presence of both the potash industry as well as oil and gas activity. Cooperative agreements regarding interruption of livestock activities and ancillary income from sand, borrow and caliche material contribute additional revenue streams to the property. Additionally, the property is improved with buildings and barns that are available for office space, conference center and/ or event space. There are three homes on site, as well as guesthouse and quarters.

Rated at 1,131 AU 94,084 acres

Laura Riley (505) 330 - 3984

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VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE

by Barry Denton

Pay Up Suckers!

(The views expressed in this column are not necessarily the views of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association or this publication.)

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cannot say that watching the “State Of The Union Address” impressed me much.

I felt like they should have turned the teleprompters around and let us read it and it might have been understandable, to say the least. I was impressed that the President could actually stand up for 65 minutes straight. Of course, he did have the podium to hang on to. The other thing that confuses me is it Joe or Jill that is the President?

I hope everyone is enjoying the new fuel prices and double digit inflation. See, now that COVID has subsided the Progressives have found a new way to control your life.

Remember in, “Let’s Go Brandon’s” campaign speeches he promised that he would not raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 per year. What he didn’t tell you was he would more than double the fuel price causing the cost of all goods to skyrocket. Control, control, control!

Stop and think about this. On his first day in office, Slow Joe did four things to create this mess. Number 1 is he eliminated fossil fuel subsidies. Number 2 he tripled regulations on the fossil fuel industry. Number 3 with Executive Order #14057 he determined that the United States has to be carbon neutral by 2050. Number 4 he quit extending any federal oil leases. Just think, with the stroke of a pen Slow Joe could ease the fuel prices permanently.

TOUGH ENOUGH FOR BISON-TOUGH ENOUGH FOR CATTLE

We met up with Brock Toler with Back Forty Bison and asked him a few questions about his opinion on the effectiveness of the Lewis Cattle Oilers.

Brock is the ranch mana er for Back Forty Bison near Dadeville, MO. Brock was skeptical, at first, on the durability of the Oilers. qBison are notorious for tearin thin s up....flippin thin s over....To bison, everythin ’s a toy! To this date, they haven’t tipped one over! The durability has really been surprisin ”.

The bi est thin that Brock loves about the Oiler is the efficiency.

“In the bison industry, the oiler pays for itself in one year” -Brock Toler, Back Forty Bison "They are so efficient! With the fact that they are not gravity fed, I’m not losing a bunch of product on the ground! The pump administers only the amount that needs to be put out on the animal! With the Lewis Cattle Oiler, there is no waste. I can fill up the 8 gallon tank, on the Oiler, and it will last all summer long with the bison scratching on it ALL the time!”

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Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine and the US finally quit buying Russian oil, Slow Joe is blaming Russia for the high fuel prices. Any normal person would be getting the Keystone pipeline and American oil production back up to normal, but not Joe or Jill.

Even Elon Musk the owner of Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, has called for increased US oil production and the reopening of nuclear plants in Europe. He stated, “That extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.” The next thing Mr. Musk did was call out Vladimir Putin, “I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat. Stakes are Ukraine.”

To me, I can’t figure out why the leaders of these countries can’t fight it out instead of having a war that harms people that have nothing to do with politics. It’s never the people that start wars, it is governments that enjoy watching people suffer.

Stop and think about it. History teaches us that war does nothing but cause pain and suffering. I can see no reason for any future war. Yes, there will always be “bad guys” that we made need to eliminate, but let’s keep it to eliminating them.

Something else to think about is that three percent of our energy in the US comes from solar and five percent comes from wind. That leaves 92 percent coming from fossil fuels which we have an abundance of.

Ask any energy engineer what the prospects are of running an industrialized nation on wind energy. They will laugh at you as it is an impossibility at this stage. My gosh, just do the math at what it takes to power one small business with three-phase electricity. How many windmills do you think that will take? Whoever wants to see one? Has anyone considered that the charging stations for electric cars are powered by fossil fuels?

The entire climate change hoax is so insulting to intelligent people. Stop and look around at the world that we live in. Our world is so full of intelligent design that we cannot comprehend 90 percent of it.

For example, look at how complex your eye is, or a plant, or an animal, or a season, etc. These politicians and their paid scientists think they have the solution for saving the world. They cannot even save themselves. This climate change hoax is only to control the masses. If you continually put your faith in the gloom and doom of politicians then we don’t have much hope. Stop and think for yourself.

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We have been raising phenomenal Limousin and LimousinXAngus Bulls for over 50 years. A breed second to none, our cattle have been raised at high altitudes 8,000 feet and above. They are pap and fertility tested and are ready for your cattle.

These bulls will be sold by Private Treaty and will be available after February 1st.

Visitors are always welcome anytime.

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Minimum Wolf Population is at 196 in 2021 Count

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ccording to the 2021 annual count, the U.S. population of Mexican wolves has increased by five percent since the previous year, raising the total number of wolves in the wild to a minimum of 196 animals. This marks the sixth consecutive year of growth in the wild population.

From November 2021 through February 2022, the Interagency Field Team (IFT) conducted ground and aerial counts of Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. According to the IFT, the population is distributed with 112 wolves in New Mexico and 84 in Arizona. In 2020, the team documented a minimum of 186 wolves. The slower growth in 2021 is attributed to low pup recruitment in the wild population.

Among the 2021 findings: ЇЇ A minimum of 45 packs (including new pairs) were documented at the end of 2021: 28 in New Mexico and 17 in Arizona. A wolf pack is defined as two or more wolves that maintain an established territory. ЇЇ A minimum of 144 pups were born in 2021, with at least 56 surviving until the end of the year (a 38 percent survival rate). ЇЇ The IFT recorded a minimum of 25 breeding pairs (13 in New Mexico, 12 in Arizona) with pups in 2021. A breeding pair is defined as a pack that consists of an adult male and female and at least one pup of the year surviving through December 31. ЇЇ There were 92 collared wolves in the wild at the end of the year, which is nearly 50 percent of the wild population. These radio collars use satellite technology to accurately record wolf locations on a frequent basis. Biologists on the IFT use this information to gain timely information about wolf behavior in the wild and assist with management of the wild population. ЇЇ The IFT documented 25 mortalities in the wild population of Mexican wolves in 2021, which is similar to the mortality rate in 2019 and 2020. ЇЇ Mexico celebrated its 10th anniversary of releasing wolves to the wild and reported at least 40 wolves in the wild at the end of 2021. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked with Mexico to release four adult wolves into Mexico in 2021.

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IN THE ARENA

by Sage Faulkner

NM Junior High and HighSchool Rodeo Association Results, Socorro #1, March 18-20, 2022

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ocorro started off the spring season for the NMHSRA and NMJHSRA. Youth will return in early April for another Socorro rodeo, to be followed by Lovington and Farmington, and NM State Finals will be held in Lovington.

Nice job to all the volunteers who put on a benefit team roping Saturday evening after the Saturday rodeo, for NMHSRA member, Louk Thomas, who sustained injuries in an accident in February. $3,600 was raised and everyone is wishing Louk a speedy and full recovery!

Congratulations to Treyden Gonzales and Cason Hatley, who won the average at the benefit, and Braxton McKinley and

NMHSRA B oy/G irl All Around will be determined after completion of the cut ting contes t, which has not happened as of printing.

Champion Light Rifle - Zane Cline Champion Trap Shooting Dalli Cain Reined Cow Horse Sterlin Mitchell Team Roping Lucan Gonzales/ Cason Hatley Barrels Quincy Sullivan Steer Wrestling Reese Polk Girls Breakaway Tiffanie McCormick Poles - Shaeden Marr (top) Hardy Osborn winning NMJHSRA Steer Saddle Bronc at Socorro.

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(bottom) Dillon Mathis winning NMHSRA Calf Roping at Socorro, photos thanks to Bobby Rosales.

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Boys All-Around - Devon Eakin Girls All-Around - Caydence Roberts Champion Light Rifle - Zoey Cline Team Roping - Tylee DeHerrera/ Phillips Barrel Racing - Baye Boutwell Ribbon Roping - Dawson Mathis/ Avery Henard Poles - Clair Biebelle Boys Breakaway - Devon Eakin Girls Breakaway - Sydnee Wilson Calf-Roping - Reno Scribner Girls Goat Tying - Wacey Trujillo Boys Goat Tying - Devon Eakin Steer Saddle Bronc Riding Hardy Osborn Bull Riding - Noah Gonzales

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New this spring:

Donate your state tax refund to New Mexico’s Healthy Soil Program

to support farmers and ranchers in soil health stewardship! The benefits of doing this are immense.

Go to

NMhealthysoil.org to learn how and why to participate

If you are due a refund on your New Mexico Personal Income Tax, you have the opportunity to donate all or part to the Healthy Soil Program using the PIT-D, Schedule for New Mexico Voluntary Contributions, when you file your taxes.

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New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest Moves to 2nd Phase

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he New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder contest is to teach youth about commercial beef production. Youth are learning how to raise beef from start to finish, while also developing leadership skills and advocating for the beef industry.

The contest is designed to align with the New Mexico beef industry, with a focus on how producers manage the economic choices of beef production.

The primary goal of the Youth Beef Feeder contest is to enhance the educational value of the traditional 4-H and FFA beef projects by providing an affordable option that rewards production merit and carcass value of the market animal, along with accurate and complete record keeping, industry knowledge, and public engagement by the participant. This commercial beef project places an emphasis on the economic strategies to feed and develop livestock for markets, with a focus on feed costs, average daily gains, feed conversions, and management strategies. The contest also includes leadership and public engagement opportunities such as a speech, informational poster, and promo tional video.

The intended impact of the program is to increase access to and diversity in the traditional 4-H and FFA beef project. Participants are expected to substantially increase their knowledge about the beef industry and develop important life skills.

The program will allow for an assessment of the expense involved in this alternative beef project format and a comparison of what the economic savings are. Lastly, the program collects carcass data that can be returned to participating producers to help inform breeding programs.

This program amplifies extension and outreach by providing youth an alternative option for getting involved in a beef production contest. The contest has allowed collaboration between numerous NMSU departments to create a variety of connections with stakeholders.

This is the first year of this contest. This year, 20 participants from 12 different New Mexico counties signed up. Survey results report that 96 percent learned a new fact about animal health, 99 percent learned new record keeping skills, and 88 percent are more confident in public speaking.

Participants just finished the first phase

of the contest. The participants dropped their calves off at the NMSU Tucumcari Research Center on Saturday, March 19 to track their individual calf’s performance using the GrowSafe technology. The calves will be in the feedlot until September.

At drop off, the participants processed their cattle by giving them vaccinations and ear tags. The kids turned in a record book using Excel and gave a speech relating to the beef industry.

The results from the first phase of the contest: ЇЇ Economic Performance ChampionGavin Morrow Animal Performance ChampionЇЇ Talynn Wood ЇЇ High Point Record Book ChampionsTalynn Wood and Kyle Wood ЇЇ Senior Speech ChampionGavin Morrow ЇЇ Junior Speech ChampionKierra Neudorf ЇЇ 5th place overall high point individual ($500 NMSU ACES Scholarship)Kiera Neudorf ЇЇ 4th place overall high point individual ($500 NMSU ACES Scholarship)- Kyle Wood ЇЇ 3rd place overall high point individual ($500 NMSU ACES Scholarship)Trippton Angell ЇЇ Reserve high point individual ($2,000 NMSU ACES Scholarship Gavin Morrow ЇЇ Champion high point individual ($3,000 NMSU ACES Scholarship Talynn Wood This new livestock project is been collaboratively undertaken by New Mexico State University (NMSU) Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, NMSU Department of Animal and Range Sciences, NMSU Cooperative Extension Service, NMSU Agricultural Science Center at Tucumcari.

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(top) Scholarships to NMSU College of ACES were awarded to the high point individuals. Grand Champion - Talynn Wood, Reserve Champion - Gavin Morrow (not pictured), 3rd place – Trippton Angell, 4th place - Kyle Wood, 5th place - Kierra Neudorf (2nd from top) 2021-2022 cohort of the New Mexico Youth Beef Feeder Contest. Left to right - back row: Koren Neudorf, Belita Martinez, Trippton Angell, Kyle Wood, Dr. Marcy Ward, Halee Prather, Amanda Hibbard, & Dr. Frannie Miller. Front Row: Kierra Neudorf, Gavin Wallace, Talynn Wood, and Adan Marta. Not pictured: Gavin Morrow & Dr. Craig Gifford (3rd from top) Kierra Neudorf was the Junior Division Public Speaking winner with an outstanding talk on Herefords. Dwight Bell, Miami, NM, presented the buckle. One of the goals of the contest is to connect young farmers with those who have a bit more experience.

(above) Trippton Angell processing his steer. All the kids attended a BQA training session as part of the contest.

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Mr. NMSU Rodeo

by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson

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rank DuBois has worn many hats throughout the years – husband, father, New Mexico Secretary of Agri-

culture, legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, and staunch advocate for agriculture and the Western way of life - just to name a few. Since 2000, he has been raising funds to build and support the rodeo team at New Mexico State University, putting a lifetime of hard work and experience to work to build a championship rodeo program.

DuBois, who grew up spending summers on the ranch homesteaded by his grandfather near Corona, became New Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture in 1988 and was

diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990, just a year after he started riding and roping again. “When I turned 40, I decided to go be a cowboy again, got out from behind my desk, joined a roping club,” DuBois said. “I knew things weren’t quite right health-wise, but I kept on roping, winning four trophy saddles and seven buckles.”

“I always thought I would be smart enough to know when to stop, but I wasn’t,” he continued. “Eventually, I suffered an injury and realized that with my diagnosis I would not be able to rope any more. After I sulked for four or five months, I decided to try something new.”

DuBois who rodeoed in college, earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New Mexico State University (NMSU).

“I had always been one who was critical of NMSU for its lack of support for rodeo athletes,” he noted. “If you looked around, you saw other colleges with coaches, scholarships, and practice stock for their rodeo teams. NMSU had none of that, and I just decided that I needed to do something about it.”

“You don’t talk about NMSU rodeo without Frank’s name coming up,” said NMSU rodeo coach Brice Baggarley. “He has been a great ally to the program and does anything and everything he can to help. If you need something, or have a question, if he can’t do it or doesn’t know, he will find out or find someone to make it happen.”

DuBois put his plan in motion, raising money through mailers, dinners, and word of mouth. In 2000, he was able to award two scholarships to rodeo athletes, and the next year he awarded four. At the same time, he went to the New Mexico State Legislature for funding for a coach, then practice stock,

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and worked with NMSU to create a coaching position. “Within two or three years, we had 80 student athletes. We became men’s and women’s champions in the Grand Canyon Region, and had a number of individual championships and All-Americans - rodeo athletes who maintain a 4.0 GPA,” DuBois noted.

Jim Dewey Brown was hired in August of 2002 as NMSU’s first full-time rodeo coach and held that position for thirteen and a half years. Although NMSU has had a rodeo team for many years, and was one of the founding members of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA), the team didn’t have the organization or direction that DuBois established with getting a coach hired, Brown explained.

“Establishing scholarships was huge.

That’s what it takes to recruit talent - especially the caliber that I was looking for - good students and good rodeo athletes,” he continued. “You have to have the money to dangle out there to get those students to choose to attend NMSU over another school. We were successful from the get-go.

Both the men’s and women’s teams won the region that first year, and that success helped us recruit the next set of champions to build the program. The kids were my best recruiters, and it was definitely Frank’s initial planning that made it all happen.”

Brown is currently serving as Commissioner of College Rodeo, overseeing college rodeo at a national level. “Frank is a great supporter of the program and of myself. As long as NMSU Rodeo is around, Frank will be there to help.”

DuBois has continued to advocate for the NMSU Rodeo program, establishing an All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl Award for the team, determined by NIRA points.

Recipients receive a bronze with artwork donated by New Mexico sculptor Curtis Fort. He also started an award for the team’s Outstanding Student Athlete, based on both NIRA points and their GPA. Fundraising continues, including a new effort between DuBois, the Lineberry Public Policy Center, and the Dubois Western Heritage Foundation April 21 through 24 will be a big weekend for the NMSU Rodeo Team. The Aggie Cowboy Gathering is set for April 21 in Las Cruces. First held to honor members of NMSU’s original rodeo team, it has become an annual event. The Frank DuBois Rope - NRide, featuring tie-down roping, bronc riding, and new this year - breakaway roping - will be held April 22 to raise money for the rodeo team. NMSU’s NIRA rodeo will

round out the weekend on April 23-24, 2022.

Baggarley first came to NMSU as a student in 2011. “Since taking this job in May, I have learned that if I mention an idea to Frank, whether I am ready or not, he will put it in motion. His heart is 1000 percent with NMSU rodeo. There is no question, he just wants to see NMSU’s rodeo program succeed. And he does it without asking anything in return – his support is unconditional.”

With the successes the team has seen the past few years and the growth of the

program, DuBois’ investment is paying dividends in a big way. The future of NMSU’s rodeo program is super bright, according to Baggarley. “From the top to the bottom, seniors to new members, everyone is raring to go. My kids are recruiting, I am recruiting, and next year will be even more exciting than this year has been.”

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