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DEPARTMENTS 10 NMCGA President’s Message

by Bronson Corn, President

12 Just the Facts ... & Then Some

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

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13 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 16 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 26 News Update: New Beef Council Exec, Lean Proteins 31 Food & Fodder

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32 Riding Herd

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34 In Memoriam 43 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

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50 Marketplace 51 Seedstock Guide 55 Real Estate Guide 66 Beef It’s What’s For Dinner Recipe 70 View From the Backside

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17 New Mexico CowBelles Scholarship Winners 18 2024 AQHA Show Rule Changes 25 Ranchers Challenge BLM Rule that Destabilizes Ranching 28 Despite Shifting Sentiment on Immigration, Demographic Trends Will Necessitate A Moderate Path on Immigration Source: CoBank Quarterly

33 The Problem With National Monuments

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35 Supreme Court Blocks EPA’s “Good Neighbor” Air .Quality Pollution Rule

by Amy Howe, Howe on the Court

36 Private Property vs Government Ownership & Control of Land

by Howard Hutchinson, drdansfreedomforum.com

39 FWS Rejects Protections for 2 Rio Grande Basin Fish

by Michael Doyle, Greenwire

40 Roy Gibson Earns Junior Silver Award

by Amber Wahlgren, Angus Communications

40 Maximizing Ag Investments: Master 1031 Exchanges for Farm & Ranch Properties

by Travis Driscoll, Beaverhead Ranch Group

42 Junior Hereford Member Compete for the Top Talk 42 Juniors Illustrate the Hereford Breed in National Photo & Poster Contests 44 Animal Extremism vs. Animal Welfare — There is a Difference Source Protect The Harvest

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48 The Dangerous Delusion of Transition to ‘Just Electricity’

by Ronald Stein and Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center

54 CEI Sues Over Appliance Efficiency Standards

by Ken Lassman, President & CEO Competitive Enterprise Institute

62 New Mexico State Fair Concert Schedule 67 Increasing the Resilience of the Beef Supply Supply: 1. Impact of Drought on Cattle Numbers

by Paul Beck, Oklahoma State University Beef Cattle Nutrition Specialist

68 Assessing Presumptive Nominee Harris’ Meat Record

by Peter Thomas Ricci / meatingplace.com

74 New Mexico Junior High Rodeo Association — Tyan Gonzales

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Bronson Corn NMCGA President

Bronson Corn President Roswell Tom Paterson President-Elect Luna Dave Kenneke NW Vice President Cimarron Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr SW Vice President Datil Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Becky King-Spindle Vice President at Large Moriarty Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Peralta Loren Patterson Immediate Past President Corona

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he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to expand one of our wildlife refuges. The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is currently 6,440 acres, and they plan to expand the boundary to 7 Million acres. The USF&WS is looking to purchase 700,000 acres, this ground will be taken out of production or put into conservation easements, and a lot of this ground is already in the Lesser Prairie Chicken recovery area.

Does the USF&WS not recognize that the ranchers and the oil and gas industry are the reason that the LPC population has increased in the last decade? The conservation practices that the ranchers have done, and the millions of dollars that the O&G industry has poured into these conservation practices are the only reason that we still have chickens.

The environmental groups and the federal government don’t seem to realize that if it wasn’t for the ranchers being good stewards of the lands, there would be no wildlife to speak of in New Mexico. The part that really ticks me off is the fact that they don’t want or care about private property rights. Do they not understand that this is the backbone of our country?

I told a group of environmentalists at a meeting a couple months back that it is equivalent to me going to their house, calling all of my friends for a pool party without their permission, using their grill, using the bathroom in their house, and there isn’t anything that they can do about it!

They don’t care about our private property rights as long as it doesn’t affect them.

This all seems back to the current administration’s 30x30 initiative. The current administration wants to conserve/preserve 30 percent of the land mass, and 30 percent of all surface water in the United States by the year 2030.

Why does the federal government want to wipe the American Farmer and Rancher off of the landscape when we are the ones who are taking care of all the range land in the USA? The United States ranks 5th for the most affordable countries per capita earnings in the world, but inevitability, if they continue sweeping agriculture under the rug, how long will our groceries stay as low as they are? Do you like food security?

The USDA fights tooth and nail to ensure that our beef supply is free from foreign animal disease to ensure that we have an unmatched beef quality supply. Yet, if they continue to pick off our family ranches one by one, where will our food come from? Did you pay attention to what went on in Europe this winter with the farmers?

This is the same initiative as the 30x30 Keep America Beautiful. They pushed so many farmers out of business that they revolted and began pushing back in a very forceful way, which was completely warranted as the UK’s version of 30x30 was 50 percent of the land and 50 percent of the water by 2050. This is a global push that has the potential to bring food shortages to the world that would rival the food shortages of the Great Depression!

They don’t seem to care or understand that when 1.6 percent of the American population directly involved in agriculture are in fear of losing their livelihood’s….THEN WE ALL LOSE!!!

Stay Vigilant, and Make Your Voices Heard! “Ya’ll Have a Good’en!”

Randell Major Past President

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oil out of Colorado’s Uinta Basin and even- We found, after reading the almost 900-page tually connect the fuel to refineries in the document that, as usual, the media has been Gulf Coast. The Seven County Infrastruc- lying to you once again as to what Project 25 ture Coalition petitioned the Supreme Court is all about. to reconsider the case in March, challenging The Heritage Foundation is a right wing

by Caren Cowan, Publisher the need to consider effects that were far think tank who for over 50 years has been New Mexico Stockman removed from the actual construction of the putting out their “wish list” prior to every line itself.

Presidential election. Their most recent wish “The NEPA process needs to be clarified list was released well over a year ago and little and solidified,” said Casey Hopes, the coali- was heard about it then but now all of a tion’s chair. sudden the Democrats are having a cow The Supreme Court has only taken up a about it and are trying to convince everyone etter read the fine print from the New smattering of NEPA cases in the 50 years that it will be the blueprint for a Trump presidency and if adopted “it will “destroy Mexico Construction Industries Divi- since the statute was passed.

America.” sion. All new home and commercial construction are required by regulation to Health News… sorry, but we are all To read the rest of the story (to quote Paul have electric vehicle hookups installed. The here or headed this way Harvey), be sure and see Lee’s front pager in Construction Industries Commission The U.S. Food and Drug Administration the August 2024 Livestock Market Digest.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I have long approved the adoption of new codes address- (FDA) has approved a new blood test for coling this issue at their meeting in early orectal cancer (CRC) screening for use in been a contributor to the Heritage FoundaJanuary. adults ages 45 and older who are at average tion (albeit small). I have also consulted on Little press has covered the issue. risk for the disease, according to a statement some of these documents in the past. from Guardant Health Inc. Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado The approval of Guardant Health’s BLM Conservation Rule Under Fire Not only are natural resource users suing The Supreme Court rejected a state-au- “Shield” test marks the first time that a blood thored settlement in the long-running legal test has been recognized by the FDA as a the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for battle over the waters of the Rio Grande in primary screening option for CRC, offering their Conservation Rule, but states joining late June, siding with the Biden administra- a noninvasive alternative to traditional in the fight.

The states of Utah and Wyoming, where tion’s objections to the deal, according to methods such as colonoscopies and stoolbased tests. federally-controlled land is abundant, filed Greenwire.

The court ruled 5 to 4 to reject the proa joint lawsuit challenging the new BLM Public Lands Rule. The states are suing the posed settlement among the three Western Beef Companies Ask Judge to Halt states named in Texas v. New Mexico and Antitrust Amended Complaint U.S. Department of the Interior and the Colorado over how to account for water use Several of the nation’s largest beef proces- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for sors asked a federal judge to deny plaintiffs’ failure to comply with the National Environin the Rio Grande Basin.

Legal observers have suggested the court’s request to try and get a class of ranchers back mental Policy Act (NEPA).

NEPA requires federal agencies to assess decision could potentially grant the federal in the lawsuit, which accuses the processors government new power to control the flow of fixing beef prices. In May, the Minnesota the environmental effects of their proposed of water in drought-stricken regions — judge dismissed a class of ranchers from the actions prior to making decisions. The BLM finalized the Public Lands Rule without the including the Colorado River Basin — by lawsuit according to meatingplace.com. requiring states to seek the agreement of The court ruled that the ranchers failed required environmental review. This misstep federal water managers when settling to clearly demonstrate they were producers needs correction as the new Public Lands intra-basin disputes. of feeder cattle as defined by the CME Feeder Rule overhauls the BLM’s land management Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson led the Cattle Index and the beef production priorities in ways that the Federal Land Policy & Management Act (FLPMA) does majority opinion supported by Chief Justice industry.

John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, The plaintiffs’ new proposed complaint not allow.

The suit includes a motion for a prelimiElena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh. Justices excludes the initial cow-calf ranchers and Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel introduces a different class definition, which nary injunction that seeks to prevent the Alito and Amy Coney Barrett dissented. the defendants argue is a strategic shift BLM from implementing the rule which It is hoped that negotiations will continue rather than a legitimate amendment. The went into effect in Jun. to resolve the case. defendants claim that the new complaint fails to address the core issues identified in On the other hand…

NEPA next on the docket? previous dismissals and continues to lack a Environmental groups trying to couch The Supreme Court granted a new peti- plausible connection between the alleged themselves as “conservation groups” have filed a motion to intervene in the Utah/ tion — Seven County Infrastructure Coalition conspiracy and the plaintiffs’ injuries. v. Eagle County, Colorado — challenging the Wyoming suit. The Southern Utah Wilderamount of analysis required under the Project 25, according to Lee Pitts ness Alliance (SUWA), The Wilderness National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Like me, you’ve probably been hearing Society (TWS), and the Conservation Lands and is among the first environmental cases about something called Project 25 or Project Foundation (CLF) filed a motion to interthe Supreme Court has agreed to hear next 2025. You might also have heard that it is a vene in federal court to defend the Bureau of term, according to Greenwire.

Trump’s scheme that he’ll use to destroy Land Management’s recently finalized The case addresses the 88-mile Uinta democracy. We decided to dig a little deeper Public Land Rule.

Basin Railway designed to carry waxy crude and find out what Project 25 is, and is not.

JUST THE FACTS ... & THEN SOME

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BEEF Council ROCKS! 7th Annual 94 Rock BBQ Contest Beef Brisket, Beef BBQ Shake and Beef Tenderloin with cornbread were just a few of the tasty dishes sampled by the judges in June at the 7th Annual 94 Rock BBQ Contest in Albuquerque. Amateur backyard chefs delivered their dishes to the 94 Rock Studio where each was tasted, discussed and judged on the air during the station’s morning show.

LIVE! On the 94 Rock Morning Show Judges weigh in on the flavor frenzy as they savor a variety of mouthwatering samples.

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Judges Nevin Montano from DISC-IT and Theo Robinson from Nomad’s BBQ were joined by NMBC’s Beef Specialist, Tom Bertelle in sampling fourteen submissions.

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Dr. John Wenzel, Extension Veterinarian at New Mexico State University, shared his expertise and techniques based on National BQA standards. Producers gained insights into integrating these practices into their ranch operations. Belinda Lavender, New Mexico Beef Council Director, represented NMBC at the event. She praised the training program, describing Dr. Wenzel as an outstanding presenter. Belinda expressed gratitude to the Chaves County Cooperative Extension team and Dr. Wenzel for the opportunity to sponsor a meal and participate in this valuable program for producers.

Fig. 1: President Ann Sleep (L) and Treasurer Carol Thorpe (R) of Powderhorn Cattlewomen. Fig. 2: Waiting in line for a delicious BBQ sandwich, courtesy of the NM Beef Council–– let the deliciousness begin!

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Fort Sumner Celebrates

Old Fort Days

Ann Sleep of the Powderhorn Cattlewomen remarked that this year's Old Fort Days in Fort Sumner was highly successful. She expressed gratitude to the New Mexico Beef Council for sponsoring the beef used in serving BBQ Beef Sandwiches during the event, which served as a fundraiser for scholarships benefiting students from De Baca and Guadalupe counties. Ann highlighted that the support from NMBC not only facilitated the BBQ fundraiser but also promoted beef to all attendees during the lunch. She noted that the educational materials such as handouts, coloring books, crayons, rulers, and displays were well-received and garnered positive feedback.

1209 Mountain Road Place NE, Suite C Albuquerque, NM 87110 505-841-9407 nmbeef@nmbeef.com

Country Night and at the Cow Bells

Triumphant Milestone

Dairy Consortium Completes Year 16

Graduates 48 Students During Challenging Times

In February of 2024 the Dairy Consortium had accepted what would have been the largest number of students in its 17-year history, when in early March the word about sick cows in Texas and subsequently in New Mexico filled the airways, way before we even knew about HPAI in cattle. As producers responded with enhanced biosecurity measures and limited access to their operations, it appeared for some time we were not going to be able to have a program in 2024, much like 2020 during the height of the COVID situation.

In the latter part of March, the students were advised of the issue and given the option for a 2025 raincheck or stand by to see how things would evolve. When in April it became clear that much of the issues surrounding bird flu in our area had ‘come and gone,’ and after receiving the green light from Texas A&M’s office of risk management, we consulted with all of the producers, the heart and soul of part of the Consortium program. Producers overwhelmingly responded with , “Yes please have a program, especially in a year like this,” and “These students need to learn about this,” “There are lessons in all of this we should be sharing with the next generation.” We did step up biosecurity measures, a great lesson for students in and by itself, which included: minimizing direct contact with cows, milk and mammary tissue (no “udder lab” this year), washing vans between dairy visits, the use of rubber disposable shoe covers for dairy visits, the use of clean safety vests and clothes for every dairy visit and disposable coveralls when requested, and considering a predetermined tour order during a dairy visit. This year’s USDETC cohort received an additional and practical lecture on how to still be able to function in a dynamic dairy business while practicing a sense of heightened biosecurity.

We truly appreciate the incredible support we have received from all cooperating producers who live and practice daily the adage to make lemonade when receiving a load of lemons.

On Friday, June 28th, Elia Encinias (left) and Natalie Smith (right), New Mexico CowBelle Beef Ambassadors, hosted a table full of BEEF educational materials and promotional items for kids that were provided by the New Mexico Beef Council in partnership with the New Mexico CowBelles.

The kids enjoyed playing games to win prizes and the adults loved the BEEF recipe cards. The first 3,000 fans through the gates received a cowbell courtesy of the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau.

The New Mexico Beef Council is a long-time sponsor of the Dairy Consortium.

Growing Leaders

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Winning Team

NM Youth Ranch Management Camp (NMYRMC) was held in June at the CS Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. Youth, ages 15-19, learn about the ‘why’ behind ranching. During NYRMC, high school-age students are introduced to the many aspects of running a ranch, from financial statements and marketing strategies to producing quality beef and managing natural resources and wildlife.

BEEF Day

Judges

College-level hands-on curriculum provided participants with information to develop a ranch management plan for a scenario similar to the host ranch. NM Beef Council has been a long time sponsor of NMYRMC with current and past Council Directors volunteering their time judging the student teams on ranch management knowledge and skills gained over the course of the camp.

Executive Director Dina Chacón-Reitzel 505-841-9407

(L to R): Albert Burton, NE NM Rancher neighboring the CS Ranch; Cole Gardner, NMBC Director; John Heckendorn, Former NMBC Director.

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NMBC DIRECTORS Joe Chavez Feeder 505-486-3228

Marjorie Lantana Producer 505-860-5859

BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR

Vice Chairperson

Cole Gardner Producer 575-910-8952

Belinda Lavender Purebred Producer 505-714-3094

FEDERATION DIRECTOR

Sarah Fitzgerald Feeder 830-739-3450

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(L to R): Shayly Cummings, Cuchillo; Raquel Corral Miramontes, Chihuahua, MX; Eli Turner, Deming; Thomas Grummert, Alamogordo; Dylan Garcia, Bernalillo.

Kimberly Stone Producer 202-812-0219

Secretary

Nancy Phelps Producer 575-740-0957

Justin Knight Producer 505-490-3455

Joel Van Dam Dairy Representative 575-714-3244

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JINGLE JANGLE

Hello Members!

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f you weren’t able to join us for our Monthly Member Zoom Call on July 11, you missed a lot of valuable information. We were lucky to have access to the wealth of knowledge shared with us by NMCGA President Elect Tom Paterson on what happened the last legislative session, and what we can expect in 2025. We are very fortunate to have such a great working relationship with New Mexico Cattle Growers, and their support as we work to advocate for the beef industry in New Mexico and beyond.

There were three items that were the focus of the meeting. Compiled by Mr. Paterson and NMCGA Staff: the Powerpoint gave a synopsis of what happened during the last legislative session, what to expect in the next session, and results of a survey asking/ looking at what rural New Mexico residents feel are the needs of our state; the Word document gives us guidance for the 2025 session and legislative priorities; finally, the Legislative Scorecards show us how our legislators voted during the 2024 session by regions, and what bills we can expect to see in the upcoming 60-day session.

If you have suggestions in terms of needs for rural New Mexico, please forward those responses to me at president.nmcb@gmail. com. I will send those on to Tom. Your opinions do matter.

Biggest take away is that we have to be a VOICE for our industry. We have to ADVOCATE, and also be willing to ask for what we need, rather than be on the defense for the things that will adversely affect our industry and way of life. The second big take-away is that we have to get out and VOTE, and take a friend.

Voter turnout in the primary election in June was abysmal, and the number of unregistered rural voters is worse. We have to get registered, get your friends to register, go to the polls, and cast our ballots.

Thank you for continuing to be a voice for the New Mexico Beef industry. Just like our Creed says: “Believing that the livestock industry is of basic importance to world

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existence, we the New Mexico CowBelles dedicate ourselves....to promote it through information and publicity”.

By reaching out to our legislators during the 2024 session, we showed ourselves and others that we are a powerful voice when united to make sure that our industry gets what it needs. I am very proud of you all for answering those calls to action.

I look forward to hearing from you. In the meantime, I continue to pray for gentle rains to heal our parched rangelands, I pray for our nation in a time of turmoil, and for each of you as we head into fair season and fall.

In your service, –Michelle Greeman NMCB President

sent a thank you note for the scholarship and his proof of enrollment. Ann will deliver his check to him on Sunday at church. Scholarship Monies- It was decided to give $1000 next year instead of $750. The next meeting will be Sept. 12th with Sandra McKenna and Sarah Fitzgerald as hostesses. The meeting adjourned for lunch then Aspen Achen gave a wonderful program on Magna wave. Submitted by Mary McClain Mesilla Valley CowBelles met June 27 at Salud de Mesilla with seven members present.

Mid year meeting recap by Gretchen and Janelda. Possible fundraiser ideas were passed around. Upcoming events were discussed. Ag Explorer meeting will be July 29, 2024 to discuss plans for the SNMSF tours.

Booth plans were discussed and supplies to Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at Sadie’s be ordered. Happy to welcome Kate back to Restaurant in Fort Sumner July 11 with Mary our group and anxious to get her on the roll.

McClain and Judy Byrd as hostesses. Nine Meeting adjourned. Submitted by Janet Witte members were present and one guest. PresiNew Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to dent Ann Sleep called the meeting to order all who have submitted their news to Jingle at 11:15 a.m. The Prayer, Pledge and Creed Jangle. As a reminder, please send minutes were given. The group welcomed Judy’s and/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet granddaughter Bree Byrd. Mary read the Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM minutes of the June 13th meeting. Carol gave 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the the Treasurer’s report. One check is out- 14th of every month. Have a great year! standing from ANCW. Scholarship. Jett Vick

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Mikayla Richardson Grant, of Amarillo, TX – Upperclassman Scholarship Recipient

NM CowBelles Award $2000 in Scholarships

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he NM CowBelles recently awarded four $500 scholarships to two graduating high school seniors and two college upperclassmen at the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Joint Stockman’s mid-year conference in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The Pat Nowlin Memorial Scholarship honors the memory of Pat Nowlin, the first president and founder of the NM CowBelle organization.

Fallon Velasquez, Hondo and Makayla Left – Shelly Hathorn, NM CowBelle Scholarship Chair, with Karleigh Erramouspe of Corona, Fallon Velasquez of Richardson Grant, Amarillo, Texas were Hondo, Left –Stone Shelly Hathorn, NM CowBelle Scholarship Chair, with Karleigh E Eleck of Capitan, and Michelle Greeman, NM CowBelle President. Not pictured, Mikayla Richarson selected as the upperclassman scholarship Corona, Fallon Velasquez of Hondo, Eleck Stone of Capitan, and Miche winners this year.

NM CowBelle Not pictured, Richarson Fallon Velasquez received her Bachelor of well as a junior delegatePresident. to the TTU Student from theMikayla Corona High School Grant online of Ama science degree in May of 2024 majoring in American Veterinary Medical Association program which allowed him to also work agriculture education with a minor in live- and the class of 2027 representative to the alongside his dad, brother and grandpa on stock production. She is currently pursuing Student Chapter of the American Associa- the family ranch on the north side of the a master’s degree in agriculture communi- tion of Equine Practitioners.

Capitan Mountains. While completing his cations at NMSU and hopes to one day Two additional scholarship winners each studies he learned about the day-to-day become an agricultural lawyer focusing on received $500 as graduating high school ranch operations and soon took on a more water issues. Velasquez served as an advocate seniors. significant role on the ranch this past for the beef industry after having been Karleigh Erramouspe is a Corona High December while his dad, Troy was recupernamed as the 2021-2022 NM CowBelle Beef School graduate with plans to attend Okla- ating from a UTV accident.

Ambassador. homa State University in Stillwater to major Stone plans to attend NMSU this fall to As the owner of V5 Show Cattle since in landscape architecture with a minor in major in agriculture economics and agricul2022, Velasquez provides families with con- agriculture communications. She hopes to ture business to learnMikayla new skillsRichardson and practices Grant, sultation, selection, training and fitting of one day own her own landscaping company that will broaden his network within the Amarillo, TX – Upperclassm show cattle while also managing the show with designs based around community agriculture industry. While in college, he Recipient barn for Lowery Show Cattle since 2021. Vel- gardens, production agriculture and sustain- plans to participateScholarship on the rodeo team and asquez is also a 2022 American Farmer FFA ability. Partnering with schools will give will seek summer intern programs as they degree recipient and an officer of the Agri- students direct access to fresh food, further become available. As a high school student, culture Communicators of Tomorrow. increasing agricultural literacy while also he competed in tie down roping, steer wresMikayla Richardson Grant graduated benefiting healthy lifestyles. Erramouspe tling, break away roping and trap shooting from New Mexico State University in the served as the NM FFA District III Vice-Pres- in the NM and National HS Rodeo Associaspring of 2019 with a Bachelor of Science ident followed by President and State tions earning multiple individual placings. degree in agriculture biology and a minor in Vice-President positions.

He also participated in nationwide Internachemistry. In the fall of 2023, Grant was In 2022, she was on the fifth place tional Jr. Olympic Shooting competitions in accepted into the Texas Tech University National FFA Horse Judging Team and the Scholastic Clay Target Program and the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, received first place high individual honors American Trap Association. Because of TX with a projected graduation date of in oral reasons and eighth high individual Eleck’s cystic fibrosis diagnosis at the age of spring 2027. The vet school focuses on pre- overall. That same year, she was on the NM six, he has worked to raise funds since 2013 paring students to primarily serve rural and State FFA State Champion horse judging for the Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation ranching communities, which aligns with team and the landscape design team. Erra- and the Boomer Esiason Foundation as well her plans to complete an internship in equine mouspe is an active Crown CowBelle as the Make-A-Wish Foundation since 2016. medicine before returning to New Mexico member assisting in the development of a The NM CowBelles wish to thank the as a DVM. K-6th grade level beef industry curriculum CowBelle locals from Crown, Corriente, Grant was on the NMSU ACES Dean’s and presenting Ag in the Classroom lessons Yucca, Mesilla Valley, Pinon, Tobosa, Copper List and received the Dean’s Award of Excel- to elementary students. An internship with and Canyon that endorsed our scholarship lence while serving as an ambassador and the New Mexico Cattle Grower’s Association applicants this year. Thanks is also extended student mentor of the ACES college. While allowed her to also meet with legislators in to the many individuals and CowBelle locals at Texas Tech University, she was a Honor Santa Fe and Washington, DC to advocate who donated funds in memory or honor of Society recipient, a Don and Sybil Har- for our industry. loved ones to the NM CowBelle Pat Nowlin rington Foundation Scholar and a Lexington Eleck Preston Stone transferred from Memorial Scholarship.

Defender Veterinary Student recipient as Capitan High School in order to graduate

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2024 AQHA Show Rule Changes

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ach year, the American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee reviews and approves rule changes from the AQHA Show Committee, which are approved by the AQHA membership and AQHA Board of Directors at the annual AQHA Convention.

Committee recommendations are reviewed for feasibility based on a variety of criteria, including but not limited to available resources, budget constraints and necessary computer programming. Careful consideration, discussion and debate are devoted to each item at the time of approval.

“We are proud to roll out these member-driven rule changes, which were voted on at the AQHA Convention,” said Scott Neuman, AQHA director of competitions.

“The goal of the show department and AQHA is to implement and monitor member-driven programs in all areas of competition.”

AQHA Rule Changes Amend SHW528.7 to require legal breakaway roping catches to be a bell collar catch, defined as the loop must pass over the calf’s entire head and then secure on the neck with no extremities in the loop and catch in front of the tail head. ЇЇ Amend SHW606.2 to allow horses to be cross entered in Working Hunter Under Saddle and Hunter Under Saddle in different divisions at the same show. ЇЇ Add ProRodeo Hall of Fame members as ineligible for Level 2 at the AQHA World Show in their respective class, effective beginning at the 2024 AQHA World Show. ЇЇ Amend SHW252.1 to raise the Rookie earnings limit for horses to $5,000 from $1,000. ЇЇ Amend SHW108.3 to allow special events to offer up to three class types per event.

Amend SHW246 and SHW247, ЇЇ effective beginning at the 2024 AQHA World Show.

SHW246 If an exhibitor wins a class at the Level 1 Championships, he/she is no longer eligible to compete in all exhibitor age ЇЇ

divisions and/or sex divisions in that class at that level or lower at any future Level 1 Championships.

However, if an exhibitor is Level 1 eligible, he/she may continue to show in that class in Level 1 competition. Exhibitors who won a walk-trot class are eligible to show in the Rookie or Level 1 division of that class at future Level 1 Championships. Exhibitors who won a Rookie class are eligible to show in the Level 1 division of that class at future Level 1 Championships.

SHW247.1 If an exhibitor wins a Youth or Amateur class at the Level 2 Championships, he/she is no longer eligible to compete in all Youth or Amateur exhibitor age divisions and/or all sex divisions of that class at any future Level 2 Championships for the subsequent 3 years. However, if an exhibitor is Level 2 eligible, he/she may continue to show in that class in Level 2 competition.

SHW247.2 If an exhibitor wins an Open class at the Level 2 Championships, except for heading and heeling, he/she is no longer eligible to compete in all Open, Amateur and Youth age divisions and/or all sex divisions of that class at any

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AQHA RULE << cont from page 18 future Level 2 Championships for the subsequent 3 years. However, if an exhibitor is Level 2 eligible, he/she may continue to show in that class in Level 2 competition. For example, if you win L2 Open, cannot return to L2 Amateur or L2 Youth.

SHW247.3 If a horse wins an Open class at the Level 2 Championships, the horse is no longer eligible to compete in all Open age divisions and/or all sex divisions of that class at any future Level 2 Championships for the subsequent 3 years. However, if the horse is Level 2 eligible, the horse may continue to show in that class in Level 2 competition. ЇЇ Amend the Performance Halter World Show requirements so that a horse must have earned 10 performance points during the qualifying period or have earned 50 lifetime performance points (excluding Showmanship) to be eligible for the Performance Halter at

the World Championship Show, provided the horse meets other Performance Halter World Show eligibility requirements.

Points must be earned in the open division for open performance halter classes and can be earned in any combination of open, amateur, and youth (excluding Level 1/Rookie youth/ amateur) are required for youth/ amateur classes. ЇЇ Add SHW311.10 to include Cavessons as English Optional Equipment for Jumping only. ЇЇ Amend SHW305.1 to read: “Hackamores shall be round in shape and constructed of uniform, smooth, braided rawhide or leather and have a non-metal flexible core. There must be at least 5 ½ inches on the underside of the noseband before any braided buttons. A hackamore must use a complete mecate rein, which must

include a tie-rein.

Absolutely no rigid material will be permitted under the jaws, regardless of how padded or covered. Horse hair bosals are prohibited. This rule does not refer to a mechanical hackamore.”

Amend SHW310.2 English Optional Equipment, in jumping only, mechanical or jumping hackamores may be used.

Amend SHW755.2 to allow the offering of Select amateur walk-trot classes.

All rules are effective January 1, 2025, unless otherwise noted.

The following new classes approved at the 2023 Convention are also available as AQHA-approved classes beginning January 1, 2025: ЇЇ Small Fry Western Pleasure, Western Horsemanship, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunt Seat Equitation, Trail, Ranch Riding and Showmanship • These classes will be walk-trot classes, available for exhibitors nine-years-old and younger who are Level 1 eligible. Exhibitors may not cross-enter any loping/canter class at that event. ЇЇ Level 1 Horse Non-Pro Western Horsemanship, Hunt Seat Equitation and Showmanship • To be eligible, horses may not have earned more than 10 points or $5,000 in that class, all divisions combined, as of October 31 of the previous year.

• There are no eligibility restrictions on the exhibitor, youth and amateur exhibitors will show together. ЇЇ Equestrians With Disabilities Halter • All-age geldings and all-age mares classes will be available. ЇЇ Working Cow Horse Box Drive • To be eligible, exhibitors must not have ever placed in the top ten at any AQHA world championship show or NRCHA major event, earned 25 points or more, or more than $750 in working cow horse (fence work) classes.

• Exhibitors may not cross-enter working cow horse (fence work) and box drive or boxing and box drive at the same show. ЇЇ Internationally Only (excluding Canada): In-Hand Trail and Longe Line • These classes will be available for yearlings through three-year-olds who have never been shown in a riding or driving class at an AQHA event.

Learn more about the Association’s rules and regulations in the AQHA Official Handbook of Rules and Regulations.

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What are the Best Ranch Horse Breeds?

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Adding A Ranch Horse To Your Operation

Source: equinehelper.com/ranch-horse-breed

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here are many things to get done on a ranch, and many of those jobs can be made easier with a good ranch horse. Any horse with the strength and endurance required for a life tending to livestock can make a good ranch horse, but some breeds do tend to feel more at home in the cattle pastures than others.

What breeds make the best ranch horses?

A good ranch horse will be a willing

and obedient partner, have a high level of stamina, and will have the natural quality referred to as “cow sense.” Ten of the best ranch horse breeds are: American Quarter Horse American Paint Horse Mustang Appaloosa Morgan Missouri Foxtrotter Arabian

If you’re looking for a horse to partner with you on the ranch, you won’t have to look far, considering some of the most popular breeds in the world have been bred to work cattle. It is important to remember that every horse is an individual, so any breed can succeed on the ranch so long as it has both the physical build and the willing mind necessary for the work.

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Ranchers Challenge BLM Rule that Destabilizes Ranching

vices, equating to more than $20 per public Mining Association, National Rural Electric acre of land grazed by sheep and cattle,” said Cooperative Association, Natrona County Public Lands Council (PLC) President and Farm & Ranch Bureau, PLC, Western Energy Colorado grazing permittee Mark Roeber.

Alliance and Wyoming Farm Bureau BLM oversees approximately 245 million Federation. acres of property in the West, which amounts to one-tenth of all U.S. land. So the rule’s changes to the management of public lands have broad implications for agriculture and the future for America’s ranchers.

The groups filing the suit are AFBF, the American Exploration & Mining Association, American Forest Resource Council, American Petroleum Institute, American Sheep Industry Association, NCBA, National

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n July 12, 2024 eleven national and state rancher organizations and other federal lands users filed a lawsuit against the misguided Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Conservation and Landscape Health” rule. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming and seeks to overturn the rule which threatens generations of family ranching operations in the U.S. by undermining the long-held balance of multiple-use management.

“Restricting grazing on public lands takes us backward because ranchers are delivering a return on the trust placed in them to care for public lands. They are clearing brush that could fuel wildfires, controlling invasive species, and bringing overall health benefits to the land,” said American Farm Bureau Federation (ABF) President Zippy Duvall said.

“Under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the BLM is supposed to balance the multiple uses of public lands, including livestock grazing, energy, mining, timber, and recreation,” said National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President Mark Eisele, a Wyoming rancher. “The BLM’s rule upends this multiple use system by creating a brand new use for federal lands without Congressional approval and in conflict with existing federal law. NCBA will continue working to hold the BLM accountable in federal court.”

Since the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934, livestock grazing has been a federally recognized use of public lands.

Grazing provides a way to both manage the federal government’s vast land holdings in the West and ensure a productive use for land that is too steep, arid, or rocky for other uses like row crop agriculture.

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NEWS UPDATE

by Labradoodle Bennington, III

New Mexico Beef Council Names Carollann Romo Executive Director

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he New Mexico Beef Council (NMBC) announces the hiring of their new Executive Director, Carollann Romo.

Romo will take over the role from Dina Chacon-Retizel who announced her retirement earlier this year after 36 years in the position. The New Mexico Beef Council conducts promotion, consumer information and education programs for consumers and beef producers. The Executive Director oversees staff, marketing, budgets and daily business operations in accordance with state and federal policies.

Romo is an agriculture professional with a decade of experience working in a variety of marketing roles. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband Dr. Elliott Romo, D.D.S. and their daughter. She grew up in southern California and earned a degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson.

A generation removed from the family farm, she has a deep love and appreciation for agriculture and the producers that work to feed the world. In her last role, Romo was a Sr. Field Marketing Manager for Rabo AgriFinance where she worked to develop strategies and tactics to promote the company brand in a way that resonated with clients and prospects.

Typically working with the potato, beef and dairy industries, Romo worked to maximize Rabo AgriFinance’s presence in local communities and at industry events while also creating experiences for Rabo AgriFinance clients such as the Connecting Global Ag Knowledge tours she led to Australia in 2023 and most recently a Women in Ag Tour in Colorado this summer.

On the weekends, her headphones from video calls are replaced with a cowboy hat as she enjoys team roping with her family and friends traveling the southwestern United States for roping jackpots.

Romo says she is eager to serve the cattlemen and cattlewomen of New Mexico and work to further promote the beef industry. Beef has often been the center of her career and will always be at the center of her plate.

“Being selected to lead the New Mexico Beef Council is an honor and a privilege,” Romo said. “I often talk about New Mexico being America’s best kept secret and it is no secret that I love the beef industry, so to combine two things I am so passionate about into a career feels like a dream come true.”

Romo will begin her new role on August 1. “We are excited to welcome Carollann to the Beef Council. Her credentials and experience in agriculture makes her a perfect fit”, said Sarah Fitzgerald, NMBC Chairwoman. For more information on the New Mexico Beef Council, visit www.nmbeef.com.

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Lean Proteins Benefit From GLP-1 Meds: Report

drinks (7 percent).

Snacks and soda took the brunt of reduced spending by consumers after GLP-1 treatment: snacks and confectionary (-52 percent), prepared baked goods (-47 percent), soda/sugary beverages (-28 percent), alcoholic beverages (-17 percent) and processed food (-13 percent).

by Frank Fuhrig, meatingplace.com In an accompanying survey of U.S. ean protein “emerged as the biggest grocery executives, 77 percent said they winner” on supermarket shelves among would respond to the trend among users of shoppers who have taken popular new the fast-spreading medications by expanding weight-loss drugs, according to a report and deepening assortments including more using consumer surveys. portion-control sizing and packaging.

Data analytics firm Grocery Doppio’s Another 71 percent said they would increase “State of Digital Grocery Performance Score- digital marketing efforts on health and “food card: H1 2024” found reduced grocery as medicine.” spending among 97 percent of consumers Past diet trends such as low-carb keto who had taken GLP-1 medications — gluca- plans have also favored lean protein. A Rabogon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, bank research report in March examined the including semaglutide drugs Ozempic, dietary benefits of a greater focus on lean Rybelsus and Wegovy, prescribed for diabe- protein and suggested that industry could tes or obesity. reformulate ultra-processed foods to raise Their grocery bills were down by an protein and combat obesity. average of 11 percent, yet they spent 27 Despite the rapid adoption of GLP-1 percent more on lean proteins from lean drugs, grocery sales in January to June 2024 meat, eggs and seafood. Other gainers were hit $458 billion, up 3.8 percent compared to meal replacements (19 percent), healthy the first half of last year, the report showed. snacks (17 percent), whole fruits and vegetables (13 percent) and sports and energy

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CoBank Quarterly:

way to maintain a stable labor force, but the current bitterly divided political environment may prevent that outcome.

More immediately concerning for the U.S. economy is the steady decline in new job growth. Monthly job openings have dropped by more than one-third since mid-2022.

Employers have not stopped hiring, but they are beginning to take a more cautious economy. Shifting views on immigration approach. Any further weakening in labor combined with an aging U.S. population and demand could trigger an additional slowfalling birth rates could lead to a declining down in hiring and economic growth. and ultimately insufficient labor supply.

The agricultural sector continues to face “Due to the sharp decline in U.S. birth economic headwinds. Increased crop acreage rates since the global financial crisis, we are in the U.S. and rising production in South poised to enter a long, potentially permanent America have pulled grain and oilseed prices period in which the number of retirees will lower. Elevated farming costs are also conoutpace the number of native-born workers tributing to sharply lower row crop entering the labor force,” said Rob Fox, direc- profitability. Livestock producers will fare tor of CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange. “And relatively better, but also face headwinds the declining supply of workers will drive from the strong U.S. dollar and increasing wages higher causing inflation and hurting trade challenges. our overall global competitiveness.”

Recent national polling shows that immi- Grains, Farm Supply & Biofuels gration has surpassed the economy as the The USDA recently reported highmost important issue for voters and public er-than-expected totals on corn acreage and sentiment is shifting toward stricter immi- stocks, which should provide a buffer against gration policy. A set of more moderate any losses from recent f looding in key federal policies that allows for a steady flow growing regions. Corn prices ended the of legal immigration will likely be the only quarter 11.5 percent lower. Soybean crush

Despite Shifting Sentiment on Immigration, Demographic Trends Will Necessitate a Moderate Path on Immigration Declining U.S. birth rates, aging population will limit supply of nativeborn workers entering the labor pool

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he U.S. economy continues to perform reasonably well by most metrics, but the red-hot labor market of the last two years is finally cooling off. The unemployment rate edged up to just above 4 percent in June and has risen 0.7 percent since January 2023. While an increase in the unemployment rate of 0.5 percent over a one-year period has historically triggered a recession, the recent uptick is highly unlikely to produce a similar result. It is more reflective of the labor market retuning to its historical norms following a period of extreme tightness.

According to a new quarterly report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange, the potential for a workforce shortage looms as a much larger, long-term problem for the U.S.

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continues to reach record highs, but record imports of canola, tallow and used cooking oil have softened soybean oil prices and weakened crush margins. The U.S. wheat harvest is moving at a fast clip with farmers reporting much better yields than last year’s crop.

Farmers entered the 2024 growing season with higher financing needs to cover elevated input costs. In June, USDA forecasted crop production costs would remain relatively stable through 2025, while crop prices have dropped considerably since 2022. Sustained high fertilizer prices amid lower new crop values may push some farmers to delay fall applications and additional purchases.

Lower corn and natural gas prices have helped boost ethanol production margins.

Domestic ethanol demand has tracked lower in recent months, in tandem with flagging gasoline demand. However, export channels offer promising demand for U.S. ethanol with Canada emerging as the top new market.

Animal Protein & Dairy As expected, U.S. beef production is in decline for the year. But it is not falling as fast as once projected. Cattle spent extra days on feed during the second quarter, resulting in carcass weights averaging 10 pounds

heavier than Q1. Profits in the value chain have transitioned away from beef to cattle, softening packer margins and boosting revenues for producers and feedlots.

Soft feed prices and firm hog values have bolstered profitability among pork producers. Improved processor demand and strong wholesale cutout prices led to a prolonged stretch of elevated hog prices. An uptick in consumer demand for value-based protein appears to be supporting retail pork sales.

U.S. pork exports comprised 31 percent of all pork produced during the first four months of 2024, a record high.

Chicken continues to be the default protein choice for consumers seeking nutrition, convenience and value. The U.S. broiler industry is hitting those marks in stride with consumer-friendly prices and innovative new offerings designed for quick and easy meal preparation. Broiler integrator margins are improving as markets heat up and input prices fall.

U.S. milk production fell for the 11th straight month in May. However, combined butterfat and protein production posted steady gains over the same 11-month period.

Low cheese prices on the spot CME market boosted international sales. U.S. cheese exports exceeded 100 million pounds in

March, a record high for one month, and then again in April and May. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to affect cows in at least a dozen states. Until a vaccine reaches the market, the dairy industry is facing lower milk output from affected herds.

Cotton, Rice & Sugar Cotton prices tumbled 22 percent last quarter as U.S. farmers expanded acreage in response to the early year price rally. This fall’s cotton prices are now expected to be below the cost of production for many U.S. farmers. The export outlook for U.S. cotton is also dimming amid a slowdown in Chinese demand. Global cotton stocks for the 2024-25 marketing year are projected to be the highest in five years as production expands faster than mill use.

Floods in Brazil’s top rice-producing state caused widespread crop damage across the region, driving Brazilian and U.S. prices higher last quarter. U.S. rough rice prices climbed 6.1 percent. The quick rise in Brazilian rice prices has made U.S. rice more competitive on the global market and lifted the outlook for exports. A continuation of India’s ban on rice exports will also benefit U.S exports.

World sugar prices continued to slide

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lower last quarter, falling 13.9 percent due to improved harvest prospects in Brazil.

However, tight global supplies should limit any further erosion in prices. USDA is expecting 2024-25 global sugar ending stocks to be the lowest in 13 years as worldwide demand continues to accelerate.

Food & Beverage U.S. consumers are taking more pronounced steps to stretch their food dollars in response to persistently higher prices.

Those steps include forgoing restaurants in favor of at-home dining, trading down to private label brands and capitalizing on promotional discounts. Faced with eroding volume sales, retail food and beverage brands are pruning prices, increasing promotions and in some cases, trimming their product portfolios. Meanwhile, restaurants are rolling out a flurry of new value-oriented offerings, a trend not limited to quick service options. The battle for sales recovery will demand a price-conscious approach.

Power, Water & Communications The tendency toward hotter summers has far-ranging implications for an electric grid that was engineered at a time of milder weather. But recent assessments from NERC

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and ERCOT suggest the breakneck development of solar solutions appears to be fortifying summertime resiliency. Grid operators, state regulatory agencies and utilities are also finding that price-based demand response programs can be used to effectively manage loads and mitigate the risk of summer blackouts.

Recent merger and acquisition activity in the digital infrastructure market represents a shift in strategy, with some operators shedding non-fiber assets and doubling down on fiber. Fiber to the premise remains a very attractive business given its rich margins and growth trajectory. Competition is expected to intensify due to the favorable conditions and large operators like T-Mobile entering the market. The race to build fiber networks in underserved and unserved markets is in full swing.

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by Deanna Dickinson McCall

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imagine folks wonder why I don’t write all beef recipes in this column. At our table beef will always be the King, but I think you can make your meals even better with better sides. So, I try to provide recipes for that, too. And truthfully if you’ve forgotten to thaw any beef out, shrimp or fish thaws real fast. I only buy USA Gulf seafood, and probably pay a buck or two more, but I sure don’t want any from overseas in places like China, Laos, Thailand. If you want a fantastic meal at home serve this pasta alongside a great steak. Great meal for a date night or celebration.

We recently went to a “speakeasy” type place while I was at a writing convention. A secretive place, where reservations are weeks out, with wonderful steaks and sides. Our friend had gotten reservations for us. It was in an alley, with big double green doors next to a large dumpster. No sign. The shuttle drivers insisted they drive us to the door and pick us up at the door. It was in an “unsafe area”. We ordered what they called The Table Steak, a big, beautiful porterhouse sliced and put back next to the bone. We also ordered sides of spaghetti and creamed spinach. This place has 12 items on their menu, that’s it. I can’t begin to tell you how good it was and it sure made me proud they are serving our product to so many well-heeled folks who didn’t bat an eye at $ 115 for the steak! When we complimented the food the waiter said they treat their food with respect, I think that’s a great sentiment.

Shrimp Pasta Primavera Ingredients: 3 TBS olive Oil 3 TBS butter 8 oz of dry fettuccine noodles 1 zucchini diced into small pieces 3 sweet peppers sliced into small rings 2 shallots sliced including some of the green top, or use greens onions 6 cherry tomatoes cut in half ½ cup fresh spinach 1 bag of raw thawed Gulf shrimp, deveined and peeled ¼ cup white wine (optional) Heavy cream Garlic salt Black pepper

Fine, dry grated Parmesan cheese Directions: Start the water for the pasta and cook it while you are prepping the other ingredients.

Once the pasta is done turn off heat and let it sit in the hot water with a lid on Cut all the vegetables up and spread out on cutting board Sprinkle generously with garlic salt and black pepper Drain the shrimp, place on paper towels to dry and sprinkle with garlic salt and seasoning salt Heat oil and butter in large skillet, when it begins to shimmer from the heat add all the vegetables except for the spinach

Stir and saute over medium until tender, then remove with a slotted spoon to a plate Add the shrimp to the pan, adding more butter if necessary Cook until not quite done, they should be barely crusted and almost pink. Remove them and add them to the plate Add the wine to the pan, let it cook a couple of minutes while stirring to loosen any bits Put everything on the plate back in the pan and throw the spinach in. Stir for a minute and add enough heavy cream to barely cover the vegetables and shrimp.

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

Words Matter

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t’s been my general observation that people who have something really good to sell aren’t the best at marketing, and the people who are great at marketing often don’t have anything good to sell. So it is with ranchers. We have a really great product to sell but we aren’t the best at marketing. In fact, we need a complete marketing makeover. We are still living in the Marlboro cowboy age while even America’s saloons are going smokeless. Our heroes are John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry but if you mention those names to today’s millennials they’ll say in unison, “Who?” The secret to marketing these days is to

confuse the public by never calling something by what it really is. For example, if a wolf kills one of your calves it’s not cold blooded murder, it is a livestock depredation incident.

See how much nicer that sounds?

Every time I read or hear of an example of this tickle talk I write it down and I’ve acquired quite a collection. Shopping is retail therapy, a toupee is a hair replacement system and state and federal governments are nontraditional organized crime. Due to so many divorces, weddings are now being referred to as temporary commitment ceremonies. If your dog is a crossbred mutt it is now a dog of undetermined origin. People no longer sleep on mattresses but sleep systems. And illegal aliens are now guest workers.

If you’re fat you’re differently sized and if your short you are gravitationally challenged.

If you plan your motor trips by stopping at truck stops, now known as travel plazas, you are engaging in timed voiding. A used car is a certified pre-owned vehicle, an undertaker is an after-life director, an elderly person in an assisted care facility is an undead corpse, and a hooker is a low cost provider of relationship management. Even the military gets in on the word game. I’m told that the Navy

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Seals refer to night as one cycle of darkness.

I’m the most politically INCORRECT person in the world but even around our house we refer to the kitchen as the burn unit.

Amidst all this politically correct talk we in the cattle business are still using words like slaughterhouse, manure and fat. I know it would make my grandpa rotate horizontally in his subterranean post-life enclosure to hear me say this, but I think we should be transitioning away from the word “cowboy”.

The Marlboro man doesn’t sell cigarettes any more and media personalities with decision making disorders have assigned too much negative feedback to the word cowboy. They consider cowboys barbaric and it’s not because they string barb-wire. That’s probably another word we should reimagine.

I hate to be verbally repetitive but it’s probably time to vocationally relocate, disemploy, deselect and non renew the cowboy.

It carries just too much excess baggage.

Perhaps something like vehicularly housed, non-physically challenged, producer of nonscented organic beef would confuse our image enough. Or perhaps you prefer an outdoor product specialist or biomass conversion technologist who watches over biomass converters, heretofore known as cows.

Better yet, we need to find a job description that includes the two magic words, so how does sustainable environmentalist sound? Or, sustainable agrarian product environmentalist and maintainer of sustainable open space. Too long? Want something a little more catchy, then how about fabricator of non-carbohydrates, or provider of environmental services?

Henceforth Angus should be known as cattle of color, a cow that was raped by a bull and got pregnant has been infected with progeny and any antibiotics you give to save an animal’s life shall be referred to as UCM’s: universal cattle medicines.

I know I’m just an intellectually unremarkable keyboard jockey with an appearance deficit, cranial deforestation and a recto-cranial insertion but I really do think that ranchers are going to have to undergo a complete marketing makeover. We tend to put forth a face that is overly Caucasian and chronologically challenged while we need to focus on an image that is more feminine and more representative of humankind. To be quite frank, we’re perceived as a bunch of old male carnivorous geezers. To really confuse our customers we should henceforth be known as non-vegan persons of cow. Both the product we produce and the people who produce it aren’t old, just finely aged.

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The Problem With National Monuments

by Nick Smith, Healthy Forests Healthy Communities

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resident Joe Biden recently signed an executive order adding 105,919 acres of National Forest System land to the San Gabriel National Monument.

According to a statement by the White House, the lands added to the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument “contain spectacular cultural, geological, and ecological resources. A diversity of animals, birds, reptiles, and other wildlife, including numerous sensitive, threatened, and endangered species, live among the unique geological and ecological features of the area, including its unusual canyons, chapparal and coastal sage scrub lands, riparian woodlands, and conifer forests.”

The San Gabriel National Monument is also one of six places the travel magazine Fordor urged readers not to visit in 2024, saying the monument is overwhelmed with trash and graffiti.

Added the Los Angeles Daily News: What was intended to be the “crown to the Valley of Angels,” the living monument of chaparral, oak and conifer trees as well as numerous picnic, camping and fishing sites, has become “covered in trash, tagged with graffiti, and (is) posing an increasing threat to nature,” according to the magazine.

Even after monument status was bestowed in 2014 by President Barack Obama, the area, along with the entire 700,000-acre Angeles National Forest, was left in the hands of the U.S. Forest Service to manage. But the U.S. Forest Service, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, did not get an allotment of dollars for the designation. Instead, the USFS must rely on corporate donations and the yeoman’s work of volunteer groups to maintain and manage the monument.

Recent publicity highlighted a portion of the monument at the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, which in the summer became inundated with people who left behind diapers, food wrappers and even mattresses. In a recent article in this newspaper, the USFS said it did not have enough money or resources to repair large portions devastated by storms and overuse, resulting in closure of more than 38 percent of the campgrounds.

Most Americans probably think a national monument designation ensures special protection and resources for public lands. Too often they add more layers of bureaucracy on top of land management, while shutting out local communities and making active management and other multiple uses of public lands more costly and

prohibitive. are entirely underwater off Cape Cod. The Antiquities Act gives U.S. Presidents Denied their livelihoods, the Atlantic fisherauthority to declare “historic landmarks, men have so far unsuccessfully challenged historic and prehistoric structures, and other the designation in court. objects of historic or scientific interest” as Since taking office, President Biden has national monuments. The law’s original established or expanded seven national monpurpose was to protect archaeological sites, uments. Some want him to add many more or “antiquities,” and other specific, definable to support his administration’s pursuit to set objects and landscapes in federal ownership aside 30 percent of the nation’s lands and at risk of theft or desecration. waters over the next decade (known as The law states monuments should be con- “30x30”). fined to the smallest area compatible with For those wanting to set aside public proper care and management of the objects lands from management, designations offer to be protected. Four months after the a convenient end-run around the normal passage of the Antiquities Act, President democratic process. No public involvement Roosevelt declared Wyoming’s Devils Tower is needed. No economic or environmental our first national monument. The designated analysis is completed before designation. No area covered just 1,304 acres, now dwarfed congressional debate, approval, or comproby the 452,000-acre San Gabriel National mise is required.

Monument.

Maybe Americans are starting to catch Over the last century, presidents have on. As President Biden considers creating a expanded the use of the Antiquities Act to Dolores National Monument in Colorado, a make its original purpose and intent recent survey found the local residents unrecognizable. For example, President largely oppose it. Said Mesa County ComObama issued 34 monument proclamations missioner Cody Davis about the poll: directing the management of over 550 “I was surprised about how galvanized million acres of federal lands, waters, and people are, I thought that last slide was telling resources. in that most people prefer some form of conThis includes the Northeast Canyons and servation, but more people — 70 percent plus Seamounts Marine National Monument in — preferred something other than a national 2016, covering nearly 3 million acres which monument.”

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David Paul Wade, 88, a man of various soon became a certified Barber (later a sectrades, a master of many, joined our heavenly ondary trade) and worked several jobs. father on May 18, 2024 peacefully, surOn February 21, 1958 in Silver City, New rounded by family and his pets. Dave was Mexico, Dave married his love, Edna Mae born on August 9, 1935 in Knox City, Texas Dunn. Three weeks into their “Honeymoon”, to Charlie Anderson Wade and Ida F. (May) Dave was drafted into the U.S. Army (two Wade. Dave was the 4th of seven children. years), eventually being stationed overseas Dave moved from Texas in 1939 (Dust in Germany. Mae joined him in Germany Bowl Era) with his family and settled in soon after. Dave and Mae remained in Claunch, New Mexico (East Socorro County). Germany for one year and upon returning His family, like many other farm families to the States in 1960 settled in Socorro with economic hardships, were pushed to County, New Mexico. Dave and Mae started move west towards California for work with their first farm in the Middle Rio Grande dreams of greener pastures and plans to join Valley where he lived the remainder of his up with other families there. Dave’s family life (Mae passed in May 2009) and raised his never made it! According to Dave, not two children David Lyn Wade and Cyndi making it to California was definitely a bless- Mae Wade. Dave loved his family and ing. Through his life, Dave had the friends and enjoyed working the land. He opportunity to travel to many places but the plowed deep roots into his community and “Land Of Enchantment” was always his par- cultivated great care and compassion for the adise through thick and thin times. people.

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Wade (Rod), all of the family farm. He is also survived by his three grandsons, Nago Lucero (Katherine) and two sons Alexis and Little Nago, Socorro; David Lucero (Jamie) and two daughters Yasmin and Jaylene, Rio Rancho; and Don Lee Wade (Kiki), Albuquerque. He is also survived by his sister, Marjorie A. Cozzen (Jerry-deceased), Claunch; and a brother, Calvin T. (Rusty) Wade (Sue), ShowLow, Arizona. He is much missed by his numerous nieces and nephews, in-laws and lifelong friends who he loved and are two numerous to list.

Dave, a Husband, Father, Grandfather, Uncle, Cousin, Brother, Son, Nephew, Friend, Barber, Serviceman, Mason, Rancher, Board Trustee, Grand Marshall, Mentor, the list goes on. A man of his word with concern for his community. A man who never met a stranger, was compassionate and loved life and all of God’s creatures, great and small.

Dave especially loved to sing, joke and bring a smile to all in his presence. In addition, he loved being a “Farmer”, a caretaker of God’s paradise, and serving his community as a Board Trustee for the Socorro Electric Cooperative for more than 32 years.

Dave will be missed by all. A large limb has definitely fallen from our family tree!

Roger Joseph Tomlinson, 52, Taos, moved on to greener pastures, June 16, 2024, at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, NM after a short illness.

Suffice it to say in cowboy terms… Roger made wide circles in his life and within those circles gained a whole bunch of dear friends who adored him. Roger was an accomplished cowboy having worked on many ranches throughout the southwest, as well as a great horseman who had a keen eye for a “good one”. Roger’s greatest accomplishment, and the one he was the proudest of, was his farrier skills... Roger shod horses throughout the country and is well respected by his peers and many satisfied customers, he will be sorely missed.

Roger left behind three brothers, Terry Dean Tomlinson, Christopher “Critter” John Tomlinson, Thomas Kenneth “Kenny” Tomlinson, and a niece, Macy Jolee Tomlinson.

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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Supreme Court Blocks EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Air Pollution Rule

by Amy Howe

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ear the end of their session, the US Supreme Court temporarily blocked a rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce air pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states. By a vote of 5-4, the justices granted a request from three states, as well as several companies and trade associations affected by the rule, to put the rule on hold while a challenge to it continues in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Justice Neil Gorsuch, whose mother Anne Burford McGill served as the head of the EPA during the Reagan administration, wrote for the majority.

The ruling came in one of the relatively rare disputes to come to the Supreme Court through its emergency appeals – or “shadow” – docket. It stems from the EPA’s interpretation of a law known as the “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act, which requires “upwind” states to reduce emissions

that affect the air quality in “downwind” Kavanaugh, the court granted the challengstates. ers’ request to put the plan on hold for now.

Nearly a decade ago, the EPA issued new Gorsuch explained that allowing the plan air-quality standards for ozone pollution, to remain in place would affect both sides of which can cause major health problems the dispute. He acknowledged that the plan when it is present at high levels. The issuance would improve the air quality in “downwind” of the new standards triggered an obligation states. But on the other hand, he continued, for states to submit plans in which they indi- if the EPA did not act properly in adopting cated both how they would comply with the the plan, it would infringe on the states’ new standards and how they would reduce interests “in regulating their own industries emissions affecting the air quality in down- and citizens.” Moreover, he continued, wind states. requiring the challengers to comply with the In 2023, the EPA rejected plans submitted plan while litigation continues could cost by 21 states, which had not proposed any them “hundreds of millions, if not billions changes to their emissions plans. The EPA of dollars.” then published its own plan that would cover Given the considerations on both sides of those 21 states as well as two more states that the debate, Gorsuch continued, the key queshad not submitted plans. tion in deciding whether to put the plan on Three of those states – Ohio, Indiana, and hold temporarily is whether the challengers Virginia – went to the U.S. Court of Appeals are ultimately likely to prevail on their argufor the District of Columbia Circuit to chal- ment that the plan is flawed. Here, Gorsuch lenge the EPA’s plan, as did several companies reasoned, the scale tips in favor of the chaland trade associations. That court declined lengers, because the EPA did not explain why to put the plan on hold while litigation con- the emissions-control measures required by tinued, prompting the challengers to ask the the plan – which were based on the assumpSupreme Court to intervene. In December, tion that the plan would apply to all 23 states the justices agreed to fast-track the case for – should still apply even if (as eventually haporal argument in February. pened) fewer states remained in the plan.

In an opinion by Gorsuch that was joined

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Private Property Vs Government Ownership & Control of Land

by Guest Contributor Howard Hutchinson, drdansfreedomforum.com

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tates and Federal governments own millions of acres of land and millions of acres are controlled under conserv at ion e a s ement s . E nv i ron ment a l organizations that include land trusts claim that this public ownership and control of lands has immense benefits to the bordering private lands.

These lands are often mismanaged and restrict access to the resources and recreation use. Rural residents suffer through months of smoke and fire evacuated communities

that result in loss of life, businesses, and homes. Compensation for losses is rare. ЇЇ Nearly 40 percent of the United States is owned by federal, state, or local governments. This amounts to eight hundred and twenty-eight million acres. ЇЇ Another forty million acres are in private conservation easements with five million acres enrolled in USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) conservation easements. ЇЇ The Land and Water Conservation Fund was created by Congress in 1965.

It provides 900 million dollars per year for funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water. ЇЇ The imposition of conservation easements permanently forecloses potential beneficial land uses for future

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House Bill 7408 is being considered by Congress to provide 300 million dollars per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029 to non-government organizations, state, tribal and local governments to purchase land and conservation easements.

Bottom Line: Conservation Easements are no longer private property.

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The History of Private Property America was founded on the principles of protection of life, liberty and private property. To ensure these protections the Constitution requires the federal government dispose of acquired lands. For over a century the lands acquired through purchase and war were disposed of to newly formed states a nd d irec t ly to i nd iv idua l homesteaders.

Karl Marx’s 1848 manifesto summed up his political/economic theory with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” In addition he proposed abolition of much more than private property.

The popular concept of government ownership and control of land took hold in the United States and by the mid-1800s the federal government began reserving lands first through national monuments and parks then national forests.

Following the Great Depression the federal government began purchasing private lands abandoned in the economic downturn. In some southeastern states this resulted in counties that were once one hundred percent private converting to eighty percent plus federal lands.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) was established in 1964 to expand the ability of governments to purchase land, conservation easements and water. The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) provides for a deposit of $900 million into the LWCF each fiscal year which is available the next fiscal year. In fiscal year 2025, the Department of the Interior proposes to allocate $681.9 million for permanent LWCF programs, including $313.0 million for Federal land acquisition, $360.8 million for grant programs and $8.0 million for a new LWCF Tribal Land Acquisition ay Fertilized H5 program. for Sale 5x House Bill 7408 is currently Round Balesbefore Congress to provide 300 million dollars per year

for fiscal years 2025 through 2029 to Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), state, tribal and local governments to purchase land and conservation easements. The Farm Bill also provides millions of dollars to acquire conservation easements.

The grant programs funnel dollars to States and Land trusts have proliferated using these funds to acquire property and conservation easements. These NGOs often purchase private property and later sell to a state or the federal government.

In 1976 the Congress eliminated public land[1] with the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) contrary to Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.[2] The federal government continues to perpetuate the fiction of public land while closing off human access to resources, hunting and recreation.

are losing hundreds of thousands of acres per year to catastrophic fires, insect and disease.

The catastrophic fires have cost many lives, and consumed thousands of homes and businesses.

Flooding following the fires has claimed additional lives and more homes and businesses. The floods scour out streams and riverbeds, kill off native fish and aquatic fauna, and severely degrade water quality.

At the same time annual timber volumes harvested have declined from 12 ½ billion board feet in fiscal year (FY) 88 to around 2 billion board feet in FY 21. Forest thinning that used to be part of the timber harvest cycle has all but been terminated. The sale of timber covered the cost of management activity and the Forest Service operated in the black well into the 1970’s.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has enacted new planning rules that allow How Much Land Do Governments for livestock grazing leases be converted to Need to Mismanage? conservation leases. In addition, they have Federal Lands Management or Abuse added increased mandates for creation of State, Local and Federal governments Areas of Critical Environmental Concern own eight hundred and twenty-eight million (ACECs). ACECs restrict human access and acres, and forty-five million acres are con- activities. The BLM is also proposing to trolled under NGO and Natural Resource convert hundreds of thousands of acres to Conservation Service (NRCS) conservation solar collectors. easements.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The National Forests around the country (F&WS) is now proposing to expand the

Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge from 6,440 acres to 7,000,000.

The Conservation Easement Scam Imagine one has a large ranch, farm or timber land. An NGO comes along and offers to purchase or have you donate the development rights. The NGO is eligible for government tax generated grants to purchase those conservation easements. If one choses to donate the land, there are up to 100 percent tax deductions available.

In some cases, the NGOs will market the conservation easement development rights to land developers or corporations to offset environmental impacts such as endangered species harm or climate changing emissions.

An example of the scam in Pennsylvania is a timber company purchased hundreds of acres of woodlands. They then harvested most of the timber and sold the development rights at an inflated valuation. The main problem with the inflated cost of the development rights is the land was not capable of being zoned for anything other than timber production.

Another scam example comes from Colorado where donated land values were inflated to gain a greater tax deduction. The land doners were then prosecuted by IRS and

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state tax departments for tax fraud.

Most conservation easements are in perpetuity. This cuts off any chance of future generations deciding what they consider the best use of that property. The easement becomes the dominate estate and renders the property a servient estate.

The massive amount of land in federal ownership is being mismanaged. The land management agencies do not have the personnel or expertise needed to take care of those lands. Rural residents must watch in disbelief as their and the federal lands go up in smoke and subsequent floods destroy what remains. Federal judges approve environmental suit settlements that delay or cancel projects hamstring even well-meaning federal agents.

Whether one is talking direct government purchase or the creation of a conservation easement the private land title transfers to the state or development is restricted. In either case the local government’s tax base is reduced. As local government services increase in cost the property tax on the remaining private lands must increase. As time goes on the remaining landowners are forced into selling leading to total government ownership of land.

We once challenged the King of England and his armies to gain the right to individual property ownership and rights. We are now faced with the loss of those property rights to ownership and control by the state. Will we wake up in time or face losing all our hard-won rights?

[1] Public lands,’ or ‘public domain,’ are synonymous terms used to describe lands subject to sale or other disposal under general law.” Questions and Answers on the United States Public Land Laws and Procedure.

By Joseph R. Rohrer, J.D. Milans & Sons, Washington, D.C. 1912 [2] The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.

About the Author, Howard Hutchinson: Howard Hutchinson is a property rights activist and founder and executive director of the Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties for Stable Economic Growth.

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FWS Rejects Protections for 2 Rio Grande Basin Fish

by Michael Doyle, Greenwire

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t took nearly 11 years, but the Fish and Wildlife Service has concluded that two unassuming species of fish found in the Rio Grande basin do not warrant federal protections.

Capping a long and litigated journey in which a federal judge had to cut the agency some slack, the Fish and Wildlife Service determined that neither the Rio Grande chub nor the Rio Grande sucker meet the Endangered Species Act criteria for listing as threatened or endangered species.

“After completing status reviews for each species; and consulting with scientists, state agencies, species experts and others, the Service concluded that neither species is in danger of extinction or likely to become in danger of extinction,” the FWS said in a statement. Even without ESA protections, the FWS noted that a 10-year conservation agreement signed in 2018 commits federal agencies, tribes, states and others to longterm management actions designed to support the two species and the habitat both require.

The Rio Grande chub lives primarily in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. The Rio Grande sucker inhabits the Rio Grande and its tributaries in southern Colorado, New Mexico and Mexico. Though neither is a particularly prominent species, they have previously received some high-level attention.

In 2013, WildEarth Guardians filed a petition with the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Rio Grande chub under the ESA. In 2014, the group petitioned on behalf of the Rio Grande sucker.

In 2016, the agency published a so-called 90-day finding that the petitions contained substantial information indicating that listing may be warranted. The ESA then essentially gave the agency a year to complete the so-called 12-month finding.

As frequently happens, FWS missed the decision deadline, and WildEarth Guardians sued. In a 2021 decision, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected environmentalists’ pleas and agreed to give FWS until this June to wrap up the decisions for the Rio Grande fish species.

“The Court can (and should) take budget and resource limitations into consideration to determine an equitable remedy for the agency’s failure to complete with a statutory deadline,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote, adding that “twelve-month findings require expenditure

of significant resources and time.” chub in the United States, which combined A Clinton administration appointee, Kol- occupy 524 miles of stream length. lar-Kotelly further stressed that “in addition About 34 percent of these populations are to limited funding, the Service’s workload is at high risk of extirpation over the next 10 quite substantial.” years. Most populations are at a medium risk The FWS Southwest Region, responsible of extirpation, with only 9 percent of popufor completing the assessments of the Rio lations at low risk, according to FWS. Grande chub and Rio Grande sucker, “This risk of extirpation was primarily reported during the litigation that it was driven by nonnative species,” FWS reported. working on 12-month findings for 46 species, There are currently 32 populations of Rio in addition to proposed listing rules with Grande sucker in the United States, which critical habitat for eight species, final critical combined occupy 376 miles of stream length. habitat rules for four species, and final listing About 38 percent of these populations are at and critical habitat rules for two species. high risk of extirpation over the next 10 There are 53 populations of Rio Grande years, according to the agency.

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Roy Gibson Earns Junior Silver Award

Angus Show (NJAS), Gibson participated in the extemporaneous public speaking and livestock judging contests. He was also a participant in the 2022 and 2023 mentoring program.

Gibson has submitted DNA samples for Genomic Profile Testing through Angus Genetics Inc. (AGI).

The Silver award is the second level of the NJAA Recognition Program that began in 1972. Junior Angus breeders

by Amber Wahlgren, Angus Communications must apply for the award, then meet oy Gibson, Los Lunas, N.M., has point requirements in many areas of parearned the National Junior Angus ticipation before receiving the honor.

Association’s (NJAA) Silver award, Applicants are evaluated in areas of according to Caitlyn Brandt, events and junior Angus association activities and junior activities director of the American leadership, participation in showmanAngus Association® in Saint Joseph, Mo. ship, contests and shows, using Gibson is the 13-year-old son of Roy performance testing to improve their and Vera Gibson and attends Saint herd and their progress in producing and Mary’s Catholic School. He is a member merchandising Angus cattle. of the NJAA and the New Mexico Junior The NJAA promotes the involvement Angus Association. of young people in raising Angus cattle, He has participated in local, state, while also providing leadership and regional and national shows and show- self-development opportunities for the manship contests. At the National Junior ne a rly 4 , 5 0 0 a c t i ve memb er s nationwide.

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Maximizing Ag Investments: Mastering 1031 Exchanges for Farm and Ranch Properties

by Travis Driscoll Beaverhead Ranch Group

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or investors looking to buy or sell agricultural property, mastering the details of the 1031 exchange is essential for optimizing investment opportunities. At Beaverhead Ranch Group, we have assisted dozens of Buyers and Sellers through this process. Agricultural real estate, which includes farms, ranches, vineyards, and orchards, consists of various assets such as equipment, livestock, water rights, crops, inventory, and the land itself. These properties also differ significantly in soil quality, climate suitability, water rights, and zoning regulations, posing unique challenges when identifying suitable replacement properties.

Moreover, the timing of activities like planting and harvesting can affect the exchange process, necessitating meticulous planning to ensure a smooth transition without interrupting operations.

Determining Exchangeable Portions of the Sale A crucial first step for sellers considering a 1031 exchange of agricultural property is to inventory the property’s various assets and identify which ones are exchangeable under section §1031. Intangibles like goodwill and inventory (including harvested crops) are not exchangeable under §1031.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 also removed the ability to exchange personal property assets, such as equipment and livestock. However, the Act introduced a provision for immediate expensing of certain newly acquired business assets, which sellers should discuss with their tax advisors to determine potential benefits.

The largest asset in most agricultural property sales is the real estate itself. Real estate used in business or held for investment can be exchanged for like-kind real estate under §1031. Crops and timber growing on the land are considered part of the real estate.

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improvements such as houses, barns, or pro- 45th day following the sale. The IRS limits cessing facilities. If a residence on the the number of properties identified to three property is occupied by a tenant, worker, or (the “three-property rule”) or, if more, their caretaker, it is considered investment prop- total fair market value cannot exceed twice erty and exchangeable under §1031. However, that of the sold property (the “200 percent if the owner resides in the house, it is deemed rule”). If these limits cannot be met, the “95 the owner’s personal residence and not percent rule” allows for identifying as many exchangeable. properties as needed, provided 95 percent of For properties used both as a personal their value is purchased. Identification must residence and investment, like a working include a complete address or legal descripranch with a house, owners should deter- tion and indicate the tenancy in common mine the percentage used for investment interest share if less than a 100 perdent interversus personal use. Some gains from the est is acquired. sale of the personal residence may be excluded from taxation under IRC §121, Timing the Exchange with while the capital gains on the investment Agricultural Cycles portion can be deferred using a §1031 Timing is critical for 1031 exchanges in exchange. Revenue Procedure 2005-14 out- agriculture, given the strict deadlines for lines how Sections 121 and 1031 can be identifying and acquiring replacement propconcurrently applied to the same property. erties. These deadlines, set at 45 and 180 days Crops: Harvested crops are considered post-sale respectively, must align with plantinventory and are not exchangeable under ing and harvesting seasons to avoid §1031. However, unharvested crops sold with disrupting operations. For example, a farmer the land to the same buyer can be exchanged, selling a vineyard in the summer must idenprovided they are considered real estate tify replacement properties by late summer under state law. or early fall and finalize the purchase, conWater and Mineral Rights: Agricultural sidering harvest activities. Additionally, properties often include water or mineral proceeds cannot be used to purchase severed rights. Perpetual water rights are like-kind crops, classified as personal property. Effecto a fee interest in real estate, provided they tive timing and planning are essential to are not limited in amount or duration. synchronize the exchange process with agriShares in a mutual ditch, reservoir, or irriga- cultural cycles. tion company may also be exchangeable if Selling a farm or ranch involves more certain conditions are met, such as the than just real property. Beaverhead Ranch company being a 501(c)(12)(A) organization Group has brokered dozens of transactions and the shares recognized as real property involving 1031 Exchanges. Understanding interests. Certain mineral rights may also be tax strategies like the 1031 exchange can help exchangeable if considered real estate for tax investors maximize tax savings and funds purposes. available for reinvestment. Engaging a quali f ie d i nter me d ia r y a nd adv i s or s Like-Kind Requirement knowledgeable in 1031 exchange rules and Under §1031, capital gain tax deferral is agricultural real estate can provide crucial possible when exchanging property held for guidance for leveraging this powerful tax business or investment solely for like-kind t o o l in agricultural land property. Contrary to common belief, like- investments. kind does not mean exchanging a farm for another farm. It encompasses any real estate interest, including bare land, commercial property, industrial buildings, retail stores, apartments, duplexes, long-term leasehold interests, and some water and mineral interests. Thus, agricultural property owners can exchange into various types of real estate.

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Junior Hereford Members Compete for the Top Talk

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ational Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) members competed in the illustrated and advanced speaking contests, during the 25th VitaFerm® Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE), “The Grand Daddy of ’Em All,” on July 7 in Grand Island, Nebraska. The Hereford Youth Foundation of America (HYFA), along with the NJHA and the National Hereford Women (NHW) hosted these skills-based speaking contests, which uphold its mission to promote leadership and education.

Talk Junior division: first, Jarrett Worrell, Mason, Texas; second, Libby Pérez, Nara Visa, N.M., and third, Peyton Pérez, Nara Visa, N.M.

Illustrated speech

Posters Junior division: first, Quinn Breiner, Pratt, Kansas; second place: Crew Egbert, Fairfield, Montana; third place: Libby Perez, Nara Visa, N.M.

Young people build their public speaking, leadership abilities while learning to communicate accurately and professionally. The illustrated speech contest builds the skills needed for NJHA members to promote both the beef industry and Hereford breed. The NHW partners with the NJHA to sponsor this contest.

This year’s top placings in the illustrated speech contest are as follows.

Junior: 1st place: Jarrett Worrell, Mason, Texas 2nd place: Libby Perez, Nara Visa, N.M. 3rd place: Peyton Perez, Nara Visa, N.M.

Juniors Illustrate the Hereford Breed in National Photo & Poster Contests

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undreds of National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) members from across the nation competed in the photography and poster contests, exhibiting their passion and dedication to the Hereford breed through arts. The winning participants were recognized and awarded at the VitaFerm® Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE) on July 10, during the Buckle and Awards Ceremony.

Promotional poster Young people competed with posters they created to promote the 25th JNHE “The Grand Daddy of ’Em All.” Posters are judged for creativity, originality and design. The promotional poster competition is sponsored by the NJHA. Junior: 1st place: Quinn Breiner, Pratt, KS 2nd place: Crew Egbert, Fairfield, MT 3rd place: Libby Perez, Nara Visa, NM

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author donbullis@msn.com

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wo middle-aged couples, George and Laura Lorius and Albert and Tillie Heberer, traveling together, left their homes in southern Illinois sometime after mid-May 1935. They often took trips together and they drove west on a vacation trip to San Diego, California, by way of Boulder Dam in Nevada. Along the way they are known to have passed through Miami, Oklahoma and Tucumcari, New Mexico, from which they mailed postcards. They reached Vaughn, New Mexico, on U.S. Route 60, on the 21st of the month and spent the night in the hotel there. They ate breakfast in the hotel restaurant the next morning and drove west out of town. Their visit was not memorable at the time.

They were never seen again, except, of course, by whoever killed them.

The Lorius-Heberer disappearance has over the years become one of New Mexico’s great unsolved mysteries.

Not much notice was taken of the two couples until some days later when their car, a 1929 or 1931 Nash (the year depending on who was telling the tale), was found on a street in Dallas, Texas, on May 26. The gas tank was full, and the keys were in the ignition, but there was no sign of either couple in the area, and officers found no evidence of violence in the car.

Since the disappearance involved at least two states—New Mexico and Texas—the newly-enacted (1934) Lindberg Act—called the “Little Lindberg Law” and named for the kidnaping of famed aviator Charles Lindberg’s son in March 1932—applied to the Lorius-Heberer disappearance. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called into the case and Agent Raymond Gere was assigned to look into the matter.

As the disappearances gained national attention, New Mexico authorities became interested, too. Governor Clyde Tingley (1881-1960), who was only five months into his first term in office, took a personal interest and established an office in Albuquerque to coordinate the search. He also authorized the use of National Guard troops for the search and offered a $1,000 reward, just for information: a considerable amount of money at the time.

State Police Chief E. J. House also became

Lorius-Heberer Disappearance Never Solved involved in the case which was one of the earliest for the department which had been created only three months before on February 25, 1935. The department had no full-time investigators although State Police officers did receive a modicum of training, which could not be said of other police/ sheriff departments in New Mexico at the time.

Reports came into investigators that the foursome was seen in Albuquerque, Grants, Socorro and Quemado and El Paso; that their car was seen with someone else driving it; that Lorius’ travelers checks were being forged from Vaughn to Dallas, by way of Toyah, Abilene, and Cisco, Texas. They were signed in green ink, but that didn’t help investigators very much. Some of Heberer’s travelers’ checks were found near Gallup. On

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June 29, some of Mrs. Lorius’ luggage was found burned, near Albuquerque, and it was noted that a post card from the tourists had been mailed from there, too. Then there were reports that the luggage was found near El Paso and a motel owner there reported that the car had been at his establishment, being driven by a young man who identified himself as Jack Sullivan.

Jack Sullivan, it should be noted, was a well-known West Texas and New Mexico bank robber and outlaw, who had been apprehended in Mountainair, New Mexico, in 1932, after a gunfight with police officers.

He was, however, in a Texas prison when Lorius-Heberer families disappeared. The use of his name is just one more curiosity in the case.

Several other suspects were identified during the investigation, but none of them were ultimately charged. Since the bodies were never found, investigators could not even prove that a crime had been committed.

The case has never been solved, but it has never quite been out of mind, either. More than 20 years after the fact, State Police officer Charley Anaya is known to have been assigned to the task of searching under the Fred Harvey House in Vaughn for the remains after a maid claimed the two couples checked into the hotel, but never checked out.

The officer spent the better part of a day at it, he said, but found nothing. Television stations and newspapers revive the matter from time to time. FBI Agent Gere said in the late 1940s, “I am convinced they were murdered, and their bodies were hidden within 25 miles west of Quemado, along U.S. 60.”

It seems likely that, after so many years, their bodies will not be discovered. They join Albert and Henry Fountain, Tara Calico, and others whose bodies also occupy unknown New Mexico desert graves.

There was a great deal of news coverage of the Lorius-Heberer case, but the following items were used as the initial basis of this item.

Albuquerque Journal, June 14, 1935 Clovis Evening News-Journal, June 10, 13 and 22, 1935 Charles Anaya, retired New Mexico State Police Officer, conversation, June 29, 2010

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Animal Extremism vs. Animal Welfare –

There Is a Difference Source: Protect The Harvest

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here is a big difference between animal extremism and animal welfare – the terms need to be clarified.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has taken a formal position defining the difference between the two labels, Animal Extremism vs Animal Welfare. In their detailed Policy on animal welfare and animal extremism, they state that they cannot endorse the views of animal extremist groups. Here’s a quote from their policy: “Animal rights is a philosophical view and personal value characterized by statements by various animal rights groups. Animal welfare and animal rights are not synonymous terms. The AVMA wholeheartedly endorses and adopts promotion of animal welfare as official policy; however, the AVMA cannot endorse the philosophical views and personal values of animal rights advocates when they are incompatible with the responsible use of animals for human purposes, such as food, fiber, and research conducted for the benefit of both humans

and animals.”

We have developed an interactive course about the differences between Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare for your use and to help educate friends, family, and communities.

The link to the interactive course can be found at the bottom of the page.

Let’s take a closer look at the fundamental differences between animal welfare and the animal extremism philosophy:

Animal Welfare Animal welfare includes all animals, whether used for food, companionship, or sport. It is based on a principle of animal ownership and reflects a common sense approach that animals should be treated well, and animal cruelty is wrong. Animal welfare standards and guidelines for animal use and management are based on sound veterinary and animal husbandry experience, research, and practices. The AVMA views animal welfare as a, “…human responsibility that encompasses all aspects of animal well-being, including proper housing, management, nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, humane handling, and, when necessary, humane euthanasia”. There should be no unnecessary suffering, including animals that provide for human needs.

Animal Extremism Animal extremists believe in an ideology that there is no distinction between animals and humans. They view animal ownership of any kind as exploitation and slavery. The true goal of Animal Extremist groups is to work for legislation and regulations only

until all animals are no longer owned or utilized by human beings.

The NCRAOA (North Carolina Responsible Animal Owners Alliance), described what animal extremist groups are all about and their activities: “Animal extremist groups exploit our love of animals to work for various types of restrictive legislation (limit laws, breed specific legislation, mandatory spay/neuter) as well as laws that are steps toward changing the legal status of animals as property”, and “The animal rights movement is about control, not animal welfare. Supporting legislation based on emotion and philosophical interpretation provides a platform in our legal system for incremental increases toward animal status changes.”

Lately, we have been accused of being against the proper care and husbandry of animals. This has happened because over the years we have been working hard to shed light on Animal Extremist groups. We have exposed their activities and their agenda.

They are afraid the public will finally realize they are staging a dramatic impact on the rights and way of life of all Americans.

Since they are feeling threatened and are afraid of exposure, they have fought back against us. These groups have called us the “bad guy”, and much worse. While doing this, they have conveniently blurred the definition of Animal Extremism, which both confuses and misleads the public. We have been accused of being “anti-animal” and “against animals”. We have even been accused of “hating horses” and benefiting from killing them. These accusations are not even close to the truth. They are outright fabrications. Folks who are affiliated with and work with Protect The Harvest have pets, and a number have horses and livestock. We care about animals; we care about their health and well-being. We practice and support Animal Welfare.

While these outright falsehoods that have been launched against us create more work and some challenges for us, it also shows that we are making progress. In short, we support Animal Welfare, but we are against Animal Extremism. Taking a stand against Animal Extremism in no way means we do not care about animals or their welfare. We do care, or we would not be investing time, money and a whole lot of effort in educating the public about protecting our rights, animal ownership, agriculture and our heritage. achievatraining.com/PTH/Protect%20the%20 Harvest%202021%20-%20Animal%20Rights%20 -%20Storyline%20output/story.html

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Ranch Camp

into industry standard cuts themselves. So each day at lunch the youth could identify which cuts they had made and the process from living livestock to food on their plates.

Additionally we went through genetics, nutrition and reproduction. There were

by Evelina Lindow opportunities to examine and learn about anch camp was a wonderful experience. different parts of the reproductive system, as We were in Cimarron on the CS Cattle well as learning about artificial insemination Company Ranch, a lovely ranch with and how to do it. We even got to try to help beautiful scenery and facilities. deliver a silicon calf and how to safely help a I was quite nervous before Ranch Camp, cow during labor.

We ended the day with presentations leading up to the week I had been gathering all the supplies and being busy working to about proper resource management, estimatbe sure we had everything, I was determined ing forage production and figuring out to help the best that I could to show my stocking rates. At the end of the week the appreciation for this opportunity to attend youth have to present a presentation about their own ranch management plans which such a well planned and organized camp.

I soon realized at the start of the week that will be judged and the winners get scholarI had been nervous over nothing. The youth ships for studying in the agricultural were incredibly welcoming, as I had minimal department at New Mexico State University experience with ranching.

(NMSU) and additional gifts.

On the first day of Ranch Camp, Day 1: Day 2: Marketing & Economics, we had All Things Beef, we got to break down beef plenty of presenters teach the youth helpful carcasses to supply the participants with beef tips on managing and marketing their ranch throughout the week which they had made and their products. We had an auctioneer who taught the youth how auct ions work a nd how to strategically use your money for the most benefit. Being able to network and ask questions to professionals who have been in the business for many years and learn from their experiences was somet h i ng t he yout h g re at ly appreciated.

Getting to network between the youth was also something they valued a lot, with meeting new friends from across the state, country and even Mexico was perfect for the youth to broaden their perspectives and learn from each other. Between presentaThe New Mexico Department of Game & Fish helps with Wildlife Day. t ions, t he yout h got t he

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Horse Day is a big hit learning about the great horses the CS breeds and uses.

opportunity to spend some time together and practice roping, which was very appreciated. They even got me to try, teaching me all their tips and tricks. The youth helping me push myself out of my comfort zone to try new things was something I am really thankful for; they were the perfect crowd for a nervous and somewhat shy Swede.

On Day 3: Natural Resources & Wildlife, we started the day at the shooting range. We got to try shooting with a bow and arrow, shotgun, rifle and throwing tomahawks.

First going through proper technique and safety. We took a hike through the woods to talk about wildlife conservation and riparian areas. We also learned about utilization of wood products and how to estimate wildlife populations.

Having gotten permission from New Mexico Game & Fish Department, when the sun went down we all got into the back of a bunch of pickup trucks to try to count wildlife with flashlights so we could write down an estimate of wildlife population. Seeing fields full of elk, antelope and deer was really cool, especially for me as we don’t have the same animals in Sweden. We ended the day with more work on the ranch management plans incorporating all the information they have learned throughout the week so far.

Day 4: Range, the last day before the presentation. On this day we went through plant identification, basics of rangeland management and the importance of range

management in their ranch planning.

Getting to go out to the field for more hands-on learning and learning about the benefit of drones for range management. In addition, we got to learn about the CS horse program and how they use it for forage production. Getting to talk with the people who own and work on the CS Ranch was a great opportunity for the youth to see ranch management first hand.

The day ended with finalizing their Ranch Management Plans and rehearsing for their presentations the next day. I was so impressed by the youth. I have had the pleasure to see their determination and knowledge about ranching expand and evolve during the week. I was even getting nervous for the presentations and I was just there to help. The youth got their Ranch Camp shirts for the presentation days and then we sent them to bed before the big day.

Day 5: The Final Day. Working early on the details of their presentations, the youth were nervous. Families of the youth started to drop in as they were welcome to observe the presentations and have lunch to meet and see everything behind Ranch Camp. One group at a time presented their Range Management Plans, in front of both family, judges and us who have worked with them throughout the week. I was baffled how good the youth, the confidence and knowledge they have been building during the week shined through each youth.

Awards, which team won and other achievements were announced, all teams got to get their picture taken and shake hands with the people who make Ranch Camp happen. Ranch Camp was officially done. I was a different person at the end of the week, all thanks to my coworkers and the youth.

With experiences and knowledge I will take with me home to Sweden, I can’t fathom the impact this camp must have had on the youth that made their own ranch plans, as I was simply just there to observe and help them when I could.

I want to specifically thank my coworkers who welcomed me with open arms. Showing me things I have never seen before and making me laugh every day is something I will greatly cherish. Being an international intern is scary and confusing at times, but with the amazing people at NMSU, it was all worth it and I wouldn’t change a thing.

About the Author: Evelina Lindow is this summer’s intern under Marcy Ward in Extension Animal Science. I live in Sweden and through this internship opportunity I have got to experience how agriculture works in New Mexico and the importance of agricultural extension. With an almost completely clean slate I have got to try things I have never been exposed to before.

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The Dangerous Delusion of Transition to ‘Just Electricity’

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ince all hospitals, airports, communication systems, militaries, planes, trains, and vehicles are based on the products that did not exist before the 1800s, that are now made from fossil fuels, today’s policymakers are incapable of sharing a plan to support a supply chain for the products and fuels demanded by today’s materialistic society and economy, as America tries to reduce its dependency on crude oil.

The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet, of which only one billion existed less than 200 years ago. ЇЇ As a refresher for those pursuing net-zero emissions, wind and solar do different things than crude oil. Wind turbines and solar panels only generate occasional electricity but manufacture NOTHING for society. ЇЇ Crude oil is virtually never used to generate electricity but when manufactured into petrochemicals, is the basis for virtually all the products in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800s being used at these infrastructures like: Transportation, Airports, Hospitals, Medical equipment, Appliances, Electronics, Telecommunications, Communications systems, Space programs, Heating and Ventilating, and Militaries. ЇЇ We’ve become a very materialistic society over the last 200 years, and the world has populated from one to eight billion because of all the products for society, and the different fuels for jets, ships, trucks, cars, military, and the space program that did not exist before the 1800s.

If the world governments want to rid the earth of crude oil usage, what’s the back-up source that can manufacture the supply chain of products for refrigerators, tires, asphalt, X-Ray machines, iPhones, air conditioners, and the other 6,000 products that wind and solar CANNOT manufacture? ЇЇ The products from crude oil are essential to human flourishing for the foreseeable future. The pursuit of “net zero by 2050”, without first identifying the crude oil replacement, would be one of the most destructive developments in human history. ЇЇ Without crude oil, there would be nothing that needs electricity.

Everything, like iPhones, computers, data centers, and X-Ray machines, that need electricity to function is made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil. ЇЇ Until a crude oil replacement is identified, the world cannot do without crude oil that is the basis of our materialistic “products” society.

One fact stands for sure, that the replacement for crude oil will not be wind and solar, as those “renewables” only generate occasiona l electricit y but manufacture NOTHING for society, nor will these “renewable electricity’s” even come close to providing for our demands for continuous electricity. To put it bluntly, wind and solar are a joke, as they do generate electricity only when the sun shines and the breezes blow.

In addition, wind power needs enormous amounts of oil to make and turn the non-degradable turbine blades that are filling landfills when they wear out. To provide the infrastructure for the planned forests of turbines requires massive amounts of raw materials including limestone, steel, aluminum, lithium, cobalt, and nickel. To make way for the wind and solar farm fields, millions of trees are being cut down. Remember when we used to call environmentalists tree huggers? Where are they now?

Real science is now revealing that the massive span of solar panels over millions of acres of land are changing the natural atmosphere. The materials the panels are made of cause warming. In the winter they will cause cooling, thus exacerbating weather extremes.

When air is warmed, as happens over the solar panels, it rises. Even small differences in ordinary land surfaces can create powerful forces of weather. In short, solar farms will become thunderstorm and tornado incubators and magnets. There is nothing green about green electricity. Farmers must ЇЇ

beware of allowing their property to be used for these installations.

MOST importantly today, there is a lost reality that the primary usage of crude oil is NOT for the generation of electricity, but to manufacture derivatives and fuels which are the ingredients of everything needed by economies and lifestyles to exist and prosper.

Energy realism requires that the legislators, policymakers, and media that are demonstrating pervasive ignorance about crude oil usage, begin to understand the staggering scale of the decarbonization movement.

In fact, all electricity is only possible with the parts made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil for occasionally generated electricity from weather dependent wind turbines and solar panels, and for continuous and uninterruptible electricity being generated from coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric power plants.

Many developing nations do not share the Western elite’s obsession with reducing emissions. Since life for most people on earth is still a battle against poverty, hunger and disease, many countries, particularly India and much of Africa, will continue to focus on becoming richer through fossil fuels and the many products that have made richer countries have a more comfortable living lifestyle.

World leaders continue experiencing a “dangerous delusion” of a global transition to “just electricity” that they believe will eliminate the use of the crude oil that made society achieve so much in less than 200 years.

Without those products made from petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, the policymakers must be imagining no jets, ships, defense, or space programs!

Looking back at the history of the petroleum industry, it illustrates that the black cruddy looking crude oil was virtually useless, unless it could be manufactured (refineries) into oil derivatives that are now

the basis of chemical products, such as plastics, solvents, and medications, that are essential for supporting modern lifestyles.

The more than 6,000 products that are based on oil are being used for the health and well-being of humanity and the generation of electricity did not exist a few short centuries ago.

Today, we have more than 50,000 merchant ships, more than 20,000 commercial aircraft and more than 50,000 military aircraft that use the fuels manufactured from crude oil. The fuels to move the heavy-weight and long-range needs of jets moving people and products, and the merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs, are also dependent on what can be manufactured from crude oil.

For aircraft and ships, just like that for the diverse options for the generation of electricity, they all utilize parts and components made from the oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil.

As a refresher of the limitations of wind and solar to achieve net-zero emissions, they do different things than crude oil. ЇЇ Wind and solar renewables only generate occasional electricity but cannot manufacture anything. The problem with renewable electricity

from wind turbines and solar panels is that they don’t work most of the time, and thus are unreliable for “just electricity”! ЇЇ Then there is “the nameplate farce” of those renewables. There should be financial penalties for the subsidies and tax credits provided to wind and solar power plants for their inability to deliver at least 90 percent of their permitted nameplate ratings on an ANNUAL basis, like their backup competitors of coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants that provide continuous uninterruptable electricity. ЇЇ Of the three fossil fuels, coal and natural gas are used to generate electricity, but the third, crude oil, is virtually never used to generate electricity. However, when crude oil is manufactured into petrochemicals, it is the basis for virtually all the products in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800s.

From this quick refresher, conversations are needed to discuss the difference between just ELECTRICITY” from renewables, and the “PRODUCTS” that are the basis of society’s materialistic world.

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Shattered Wind Turbine Closes Nantucket Beaches Feds Suspend Vineyard Wind Project Source: CFACT

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massive wind turbine blade shattered causing an extensive debris field which shut down beaches on Nantucket Island.

As workers in protective clothing resembling hazmat suits rushed to contain the damage, “the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said that operations at Vineyard Wind have been suspended until it can be determined whether the ‘blade failure’ impacts other turbine blades on the development,” according to The Associated Press.

The Vineyard Gazette reports that Vineyard Wind is, “the first approved and currently largest offshore wind energy project in the country... The Vineyard Wind turbines are over 800 feet tall, with blades as long as a football field. As of last month, Vineyard Wind had 10 turbines in operation, generating about 136 megawatts of power.

About a dozen more were under construction. The turbines are manufactured by GE

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Vernova and the company is responsible for them as they are initially installed.”

GE Vernova stock plummeted 9.3 percent following the federal order to suspend operations.

A GE Vernova turbine blade failed at the U.K.’s massive Dogger Bank wind installation this spring, and another broke several blades in Germany this fall.

Last month America Electric Power filed suit against GE Vernova over quality and warranty concerns alleging that “within only two to three years of commercial operation, the GE wind turbine generators have exhibited numerous material defects on major components and experienced several complete failures, at least one turbine blade liberation event, and other deficiencies.”

Wind turbine blades are made from fiberglass, or fiber reinforced plastic, and cannot be recycled. CFACT has yet to see any serious proposal as to what to do with the mountain of waste which will result when thousands of turbine blades reach the end of their useful lives in 10-20 years.

CFACT has actively challenged the Biden Administration’s rush to transform America’s coasts into industrial wind turbine sites focusing on the threat they pose to marine mammals, the power grid, and the economic hazards of mining rare earths and other materials in developing nations.

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CEI Sues Over Appliance Efficiency Standards

Managing and Feeding Cattle in Winter

by Kent Lassman, President & CEO, Competitive Enterprise Institute

by Elizabeth Backes-Belew, Ph.D. Nutritionist, Beef Technical Solutions

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nough with restrictive Department of Energy (DOE) efficiency standards that make your dishwasher and clothes washer anything but efficient! On Thursday, June 13, CEI filed a lawsuit on behalf of consumers to challenge DOE’s rules limiting water usage in these appliances.

The average dishwasher sold today now takes more than 2.5 hours to complete a full cycle. And you may still need to pre-wash or rewash items for a fully clean load, nullifying the purpose of supposed “green” regulations.

Still, DOE continues to implement more restrictions.

Recently, DOE further capped dishwashers’ water usage even though the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opined in January that the agency does not have this power.

As the Fifth Circuit rightly pointed out, Congress gave DOE the authority to regulate energy use of energy-based appliances, but the statute does not authorize limiting water consumption by these machines. The Energy Policy Conservation Act did allow the agency to regulate water efficiency for non-energy-using appliances, such as showerheads and faucets. But for energy-using appliances like dishwashers and laundry machines, DOE is limited to regulating energy use.

The Department of Energy reacted defiantly to the court’s guidance. DOE set new water limits for dishwashers and washing machines in February and April.

Regulators justify their actions by claiming cost savings for consumers. One of the rules, according to DOE’s own estimates, is going to save consumers who own dishwashers $1.12 every year.

These inconsequential savings on your water bill will be dwarfed by increased spending on electricity, as less efficient machines may require more than one cycle for a clean load of clothes or dishes.

For more Fox Business coverage visit https://w w w.foxbusiness.com/politics/ biden-admin-hit-lawsuit-over-rules-aboutdishwashers-washing-machines.amp .

CEI will not let DOE lawlessness go unchallenged. Regulators in Washington who don’t understand how trade-offs work shouldn’t fill the market with appliances that cost you more time, energy, labor, and money.

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aybe you can’t tell the difference between 15 and 32 degrees F after spending a few minutes outside, but your cattle can.

Slight changes in temperature can have a considerable impact on energy and cow nutritional requirements.

Cold stress occurs when cattle require more energy to sustain basic bodily functions at a specific temperature, called the lower critical temperature (LCT). The LCT helps us understand when cows start experiencing cold stress. See the chart to the right for LCT broken down by hair coat.

As temperatures decrease, cow nutritional requirements increase. Add in precipitation or wind and requirements increase even more.

If cows are shorted on nutrition during cold stress, it can have a domino effect on performance.

Nutritional deficiency resulting from cold stress can lead to cows producing lighter and weaker calves. Low-quality colostrum and later return to estrus in the breeding season can also result, compromising conception rates and weaning weights.

Strategies for managing and feeding cattle in the winter can help alleviate cold stress and support cow nutritional requirements.

How can you mitigate cold stress?

Cold stress mitigation should start with keeping cattle warm. Offering protection from the elements like bedding, windbreaks, snow breaks and a place to get out of the mud can all help keep cattle warm and dry.

Protecting cattle from wind, rain and snow isn’t always enough, however.

Snow of ten reminds us to think about cow nutritional requirements and supplementation options. But what if the snow never falls? Temperature is t he underlying factor in cold stress.

When feeding cattle in winter, provide them with nutrition to meet their needs during cold stress. Plan out feeding strategies early, before cow body condition scores start to slip, to help your cows weather cold temperatures.

Know your forages.

Feeding cattle stored forage can be challenging. Testing forages gives you a better understanding of what you’re feeding cattle in winter when temperatures drop.

Testing total digestible nutrients (TDN) will provide an estimate of the total amount of nutrients that could be digested by the animal. The greater the TDN value, the more energy cattle get from forages.

Forage intake is another consideration.

Cows will likely spend less time grazing as temperatures decline. Less grazing time results in reduced forage intake which makes it challenging to meet cow energy requirements. Feeding cattle in winter with low-quality hay might not be enough to offset reduced forage intake.

Once you know forage nutritional value and assess intake levels, monitor cow body condition score (BCS) and temperature to identify cow energy requirements.

Evaluate cow nutritional requirements.

A cow’s energy requirement, or TDN, increases by 1 percent for every degree below the LCT as a rule of thumb.

However, cow body condition scores impact nutritional requirements. A cow in a BCS 5 needs 30 percent more energy to maintain body condition than a cow in a BCS 6 at 32 degrees. The same principle holds true as BCS decreases below 5.

A third trimester 1300-pound cow requires 13 pounds of TDN at 32 degrees.

However, at 0 degrees the same cow needs an additional 4 pounds, or roughly 17 pounds of TDN. For comparison, the temperature drop means the same cow now requires 8 more pounds of 50 percent TDN hay.

W hen feed ing cattle in winter, consider a high-quality supplement to help fill a cow’s energy gap while helping cows get the most out of existing forages.

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MIAMI DREAM, 14.70 +/deeded acres. Approx 1,583 sq ft 2 bedroom 1 bath home. Real country living with barn wood siding, porches, recent remodel for remote workspace. Irrigation and horse facilities, 57 Wampler St., Miami, NM $370,000 $339,000

BAR LAZY 7 RANCH, Colfax County, Moreno Valley 594.38 +/- deeded acres, accessed off blacktop between Eagle Nest and Angel Fire. Historic headquarters.

Currently used as summer grazing, pond and trees accessed off county road on rear of property as well. Presented “ASIS” New Survey, $4,000,000 $3,800,000

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■ CLAYTON, NM – 44 acres located approx.. 2 miles south of Clayton, NM on Hwy 87 on the East side of the highway. This property has about ½ mile of highway frontage and would be great for residential housing, commercial development or addtl. RV development (adjoins the 16.75 ac. RV park).

RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 472+/- Acre Organic Apple Orchard offered in 5 Tracts Tract 1 – 158+/- Acre with approximately 131 ac of trees, 24,075+/- s.f. of apple processing facilities, cold storage, retail center, two homes, & wells.

Tract 2 – Spacious 3 BR, 2 Bath residence on 1.7+/- Acre Tract 3 – 6 6+/- Acre with approximately 59 acre of trees, and new well.

Tract 4 – 145 +/- Acre, with approximately 125 acre of trees, mfg home, and well.

Tract 5 – 100+/- Acre, with approximately 96 acre of trees and well.

Auction to be held April 4, 2024, Online and live. Don’t miss the opportunity to own all or part of this great property.

Contact Paul Ramirez for auction details and Harry Owens for property details.

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*NEW* Farm - Apache Grove, AZ – 335+/- total acres along the scenic Gila River. 120+/acres of decreed water rights.

Pivot and pastures planted in Bermuda. Owner runs 150 head. One bedroom apartment over garage/office, 30’ x 150’steel barn, plus smaller steel barn, shop/feed room/ tack room, excellent corrals, with squeeze chute, calf table and scale. Must see! $2.5M

*SOLD* 1883.45+/- Acres, McNeal, AZ – Frontier Roads.

Good access, 2 registered wells, dirt tanks, fully fenced. Current owner runs 80+/- head seasonally $941,725 Reduced to $847,552 Call Paul Ramirez 520-241-3333.

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*PENDING* 150+/- Acre Farm, Willcox, AZ – 120 Acre full circle pivot with two wells.

Ideal location for hay, pecans, pistachios, wine grape cultivation or other crops. Good water, productive soil. Convenient access to I-10. $525,000 *SOLD* 305+/- Acres of Land on Ash Creek Pearce, AZ – Excellent potential for agricultural development, qualifies for organic farming, cleared of Mesquites in 2010, good prospect for pecans, wine grapes, corn, cotton, hay. FAA approved landing strip, two domestic wells, fenced and cross fenced. Ask about the solar options available with this property. $457,000

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*SOLD* 98+/- Deeded Acre Farm, Bonita, AZ – Great farm in a picture-perfect setting! Two small pivots with 35 acres of water rights. 3 BR, 2 BA Shultz mfg home; 3-sided hay/machine shed, 1,560+/- s.f. shop, hay shed, Connex box, nice set of guardrail and steel corrals with crowding tub, squeeze and scale. 250 gpm irrigation

SOLD

well with 20 HP motor and 13,500+/- gallons of storage.

Runs about 40 head of cattle. $750,000 *SOLD* 200-300 Head Cattle Ranch, Marana, AZ – 112.8 +/- Deeded ac; 150+/- ac of pasture, 3,700+/- ac of sublease, 14 +/- ac of farm fields, HQ on State Land. 2nd mfg home on deeded. 2 sets of good steel pipe corrals $1.9M

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HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *SOLD*ONLINE AUCTION, Pearce, AZ - Four offerings located in the grasslands at the foot of the beautiful Dragoon Mountains. Sold prior to Auction Lot 1 featured stunning, custom 3 BD, 2 BA territorial style home on 5.5 +/-. Sold Prior to Auction Lots 3, and 4 included 3 vacant, 1+ acre land parcels for a total of 3+/- acres each. Sold at Auction Lot 2 – 3- 1+/- acre lots for a total of 3+/- acres.

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■ NEW LISTING! UNION CO., NM – divided into three tracts for rotational grazing of 1,822 ac. +/- enrolled in the new Grasslands Conservation Reserve Program & 120 ac. +/- of the property in the standard CRP program. GCRP can be grazed year-round each year.

Excellent fencing, one mile of hwy. frontage together with all-weather roads on the remainder, equipped with almost new set of steel working pens with scale, a second set of almost new working pens, watered by subs on electricity with pipelines furnishing water for drinkers in each pasture. Gramma & buffalo grasses.

■ 2,720 ACRE IRR. FARM located in the eastern part of north eastern New Mexico w/pivot sprinklers, irrigation wells, a virtually new 5 strand barb wire fence w/swinging gates, w/part of the property being on pvmt..

Lays in two tracts of 1,120 ac. +/- in one at $1,600/ac. and 1,600 ac. +/- in the other at $1,000.00/ac. which can be purchased together or separately.

■ UNION CO., NM – Just out of Clayton, NM, 2 sections +/- located on pvmt. complete with two large circles containing 398.4 ac. +/- & 452.94 ac. +/- irrigated by pivot sprinklers w/five irrigation wells & accompanying irr. equipment, on pvmt. together w/a lease of 800 ac. +/- of Kiowa National Grassland.

■ UNION CO., NM – Just out of Clayton, a large feedyard w/four circles irrigated by ¼ mile sprinklers, six irr. wells and accompanying irr. equipment just across the hwy. from the two sections w/the grass lease.

The two sections w/the grass lease & the feedyard w/four adjoining quarters can be purchased together or separately.

■ VAUGHAN RIVER RANCH – 11,628.76 ac. +/- deeded - a scenic, live water ranch on the Pecos River south of Ft. Sumner, New Mexico.

Excellent example of a southwestern cattle ranch with wildlife to boot all within minutes of the convenience of town. Call us to take a look!

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

■ PRICE REDUCED! CHOICE 320 ac.+/-, irrigated farm, w/pivot sprinklers, irrigation wells & an older home which would be liveable or could be moved. Located on pvmt. in prime farming area of Castro Co., TX. ■ PRICE REDUCED! DALLAM CO, TX – 1,216.63 ac. +/- of CRP/ ranchland w/irrigation, re-development potential, wells & pipelines already in place.

■ KB RANCH – Kenney Co., TX – KB Ranch is a low fenced 802 +/- acre property that is surrounded by large ranches. The ranch has abundant whitetail and is also populated with turkey, dove, quail, hogs and varmint species. Axis are in the area and have been occasionally seen. The ranch lies approximately 9 miles south of Bracketville on TX 131 and is accessed by all weather Standart Road.

■ CLAYTON, NM – 9 ac. +/- located on pvmt. behind a large convenience store on which has been partially begun infrastructure for an RV park. This property will also lend itself well as a large development such as new or existing businesses expanding their company.

■ CONSIDER TRADE FOR HOME IN THE AMARIILO, TEXAS AREA – Clayton, NM area – 80 acres deeded w/large, nice mobile home in good condition, secluded yet accessible in Harding Co., NM. ■ CASTRO CO., TX – 3 farms with good water, owner will sell and cash lease back: 1,319 ac. +/-, 2 half mile pivots; 1,715 ac. +/-, drip irrigated; 1,440 ac. +/-, drip irrigated.

■ ANGUS, NM – 250 +/- acres with over a 1/2 mile of NM 48 frontage.

Elevations from 6,800 to 7,200 feet. Two springs along a creek. Ideal for future development or build your own getaway home.

0.14+/- Acre Building Lot, Maricopa, AZ – A great opportunity to own a corner lot in the desirable community of Tortosa.

Ideal for a small builder or buyer wishing to build their dream custom home. One of only two lots available in the area, the other lot is adjoining this one. Utilities to the lot, back block wall in place. $110,000

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■ BERRENDA CREEK RANCH — 231 AYL, 51± section cattle ranch — Hillsboro, NM. 32,870± total acres, 120± deeded acres, 23,646± acres of BLM, 9104± acres of NM state land, 12 wells, 9 dirt tanks, 1 spring, 3 pastures, 165,000 gallons of water storage.

Priced at $1,432,200 ■ SMITH RANCH — 19.28± section cattle ranch plus 335± acre farm located in Road Forks, N.M. The ranch has 12,343± total acres, 3721± deeded, 2400± acres of NM state land, 6222± acres of BLM, 154 AYL headquarters has mnfctrd homes, shed row barns (equipment/commodity storage), corrals, cattle chute. The north farm has 163± acres (149 +/- is fallow), the south farm has 173± acres, seller retains a “life estate”. Ranch has been in the same family since 1905. Priced at $2,300,000

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Large-scale cattle ranch located in southeast New Mexico, 380 deeded acres and 72,300 acres of Lincoln National Forest grazing permit area plus a permitted carrying capacity of 806 Animal Unit equivalents year-round. Characterized by grama grass and pinion trees at an elevation of 5800 feet. The year-round grass ranch provides economy of scale and a year-round grazing permit affording excellent economics. $5,950,000

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■ CAPROCK MOUNTAIN/VAN METER RANCHES Lordsburg, NM 546 AYL cowcalf operation consists of two adjoining BLM allotments totaling 75 +/- Sections 48,178 +/Total acres 3,445 +/- deeded acres 34,452 +/acres of BLM, 10,281 +/- acres of state land the carrying capacity is 546 AYL plus 5 horses w/ two separate headquarters w/barns & corrals, facilities included, silencer cattle chute, scales, semi-load chute & multiple pens with feed bunks, 40’ x 60’ barn plus a commodity barn 9 wells; 5 electric submersibles, 3 solar wells, one windmill, one spring & 12 dirt tanks, 100,000 gallons of water storage 26 miles of pipeline that connects to each well 12 pastures & 5 traps, 5 sets of working corrals strategically placed on the ranches. Black Angus & black baldy running age cows, Angus bulls, bred replacement heifers & equipment was negotiated. Sale Price Undisclosed.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SEPTEMBER 5-15 *Schedule & Rules are Subject to Change*

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 9:00 a.m. Wool Show Fleece Arrival Begins

5:00 p.m. Wool Show Fleece In Place

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 8:00 a.m. Jr.Rabbit/Cavy Show

Arrival Begins 9:00 a.m. Wool Show - JLP 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations, JLP 1:00 p.m. Navajo Sheep Show followed by the Open Sheep & AOP Shows - JLP 7:00 p.m. Jr.Rabbit/Cavy Show In Place

5:00 p.m. Market Swine MUST be in place

5:00 p.m. Market Swine - Weight Due

7:00 p.m. Jr. Market Beef/Market

Heifers/Jr. Breeding Heifers - In place

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 8:00 a.m. NM Bred Swine Show - Swine Barn

8:00 a.m. Open Angus, AOB &

Hereford Cattle Arrival/Check In Begins 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

9:30 a.m. Wether Doe Show - JLP 10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations - JLP

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

11:00 a.m.

8:00 a.m. Jr. Rabbit/Cavy Show -

12:00 p.m. Jr. Market Sheep & Jr.

Rabbit/Poultry Building 8:00 a.m. Open Angus, AOB & Hereford Cattle Arrival Begins 8:00 a.m. Agriculture Public Speaking Contest - APAC Building*** 8:00 a.m. Agriculture Science Fair APAC Building*** 9:00 a.m. Jr. Poultry Show - Rabbit/ Poultry Building 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations, JLP 12:00 p.m. Jr. Market Goats/Wether Does In place - JLP 1:00 p.m. Jr. Market Goats/Wether Does - Weights due 4:00 p.m. Wool Lead Show - Swine Barn 4:00 p.m. Flowers & Finances Youth Hall Courtyard

Jr. Market Goat Show - JLP

Commercial Ewes In place - JLP 2:00 p.m. Jackpot Steer, Breeding Heifer & NM Bred Steer Show Check-in & Weights due 2:00 p.m. **Junior Market Hog Showmanship - Swine Barn 4:00 p.m. Classify Jr. Market Lambs - JLP 4:00 p.m. Open Angus, AOB & Hereford Cattle Arrival/Check In Ends 4:00 p.m. NMSF Jackpot Steer, Breeding Heifer & NM Bred Steer Show 6:00 p.m. Jr. Market Lamb & Jr. Wether Dams - Weights Due Online

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 8:00 a.m. Jr. Market Hog

Classification & Show Swine Barn

8:00 a.m. Replacement Dairy -Check In: ONLY between 8 - 5 9:00 a.m. Classify/Check in Jr. Market Beef/Market Heifers - JLP 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Brangus Move-In Beef Barn 10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations - JLP 11:00 a.m. Jr. Market Beef/Market Heifer Weights Due 1:00 p.m. Open Angus Cattle Show – Beef Barn 2:00 p.m. Open AO B Cattle Show - Beef Barn 3:00 p.m. New Mexico’s Premier Lamb Show – JLP 3:00 p.m. Open Hereford Cattle Show – Beef Barn 4:00 p.m. Breeding Heifer - Check In Due Online, AOB/Commercial Heifer - Weights Due Online 5:00 p.m. Replacement Dairy must be in place -Check In: ONLY between 8 - 5

7:00 p.m. Open Rabbits must be in Place

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 8:00 a.m. Open Rabbit Show -

Rabbit/Poultry Building 9:00 a.m. Jr. Market Steer/Market Heifer Show - JLP 10:00 a.m. Open/Jr. Dairy Cattle Show – Beef Barn 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations - JLP 2:00 p.m. Jr. Breeding Heifer Show – JLP (Following the Market Steer/Heifer show) 7:00 p.m. Calf Scramble Tingley Coliseum

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Regional Brangus Jr. Breeding Heifer Show – JLP

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations

8:00 a.m. Open Rabbit Arrival

1:00 p.m. Livestock Judging Contest

Begins

9:00 a.m.

Jr. Wether Dam Show - JLP 9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m.

Jr. Market Lamb Show - JLP 10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations - JLP 1:00 p.m. Jr. Replacement Dairy Heifer Show - Beef Barn 3:00 p.m. National Brangus Cattle in Place

3:00 p.m.

Calf Scramble Meeting - TBD

- JLP

12:00 p.m. Texas Longhorns Move in - Beef Barn

1:00 p.m. Jr. Livestock Sale – Horse Arena

5:00 p.m. Texas Longhorns must be In Place

7:00 p.m. Open Poultry must be in Place

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 8:00 a.m. Open Poultry Show – Rabbit/Poultry Building

9:00 a.m. Jr. Dairy Goat Show/ Showmanship - JLP

Open Jr. Dairy Goat Show, Youth Sr. Dairy Goat Show, Open Sr. Dairy Goat Show all to follow

9:00 a.m. 4-H Cooking

Challenge – Youth Hall

9:00 a.m. Table Top Serama Chicken Show – Poultry Building

9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations - JLP

10:00 a.m. 4-H Dog Show - JLP 10:00 a.m. Texas Longhorn Open & Junior Show – Beef Barn

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

– Beef Barn 7:00 p.m. Parade of Champions Tingley Coliseum

9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

10:00 a.m. Milking Demonstrations

9:00 a.m. National Brangus Open

1:00 p.m. Rooster Crowing Contest

Show – JLP

9:30 a.m. Sheep to Shawl - JLP **Demonstrations take place daily from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Milking Demos - JLP 11:00 a.m. Jr. Livestock Sale

from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

- JLP

– Rabbit/Poultry Building

* JLP = Junior Livestock Pavilion

Registration opens - Horse Arena

12:00 p.m. Open Poultry Arrival Begins

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New Mexico State Fair 2024 Concert Schedule September 5 – New Mexico Barrel Racing Association Barrel Racing September 6 – Jo Dee Messina with PRCA Xtreme Bulls September 7 – Becky G with PRCA Xtreme Bulls September 8 – Land of Enchantment First Impression Rodeo September 11 – PRCA Rodeo September 12 – Brad Paisley with PRCA Rodeo September 13 – Cole Swindell with PRCA Rodeo September 14 – Josh Turner with PRCA Rodeo September 15 – PRCA Rodeo –Matinee The New Mexico State Fair starts on September 5 and runs through September 15. Tickets are on sale now. They will also be available at the New Mexico State Fair Box Office and online. Rodeo and concert ticket purchases include admission to the fairgrounds.

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NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR BRANGUS EVENTS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th 10:00 a.m. Begin Brangus Move-in TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th 3:00 p.m. Brangus In Place WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th 10:00 a.m. IBBA Check in for Open & Junior Brangus Show THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th 10:00 a.m. Regional Brangus Jr. Breeding Heifer Show JLP FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th 9:00 a.m. National Brangus Open Show JLP

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Slow Cooker Beef Ragu

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Time to cook 8 hrs Servings 12

Optional Ingredients: 16 oz. pappardelle pasta, cooked 2 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated

INGREDIENTS 3-4 lbs. Chuck Roast, Flank Steak, or Brisket 1 Tbsp. canola oil Kosher salt, to taste Ground black pepper, to taste 2 stalks celery, diced 2 medium carrots, diced 1 white onion, diced 5 cloves garlic, minced 28 oz. canned crushed tomatoes 3 Tbsp. tomato paste 1 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar

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Remove beef, shred, and then add back to liquid in the slow cooker before serving.

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Since the early 2000’s droughts have become more frequent and more severe than any time since the 1950s. In the era from the late 1960s to the early 2000’s, we had been in a long-term wet cycle, one that appears to be abnormal compared to our historical climate since 1910. The environmental conditions from 1970 to 2000 is the only thing many of us ever knew. This 30-year span also corresponds to the evolution of our modern beef cattle production system. Leading to the question, would the production practices we developed from 1970 to 2000 be sustainable in the 1950s and ‘60s? If we are returning to that weather

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pattern, will they be sustainable in the that have calved (black line) is super imposed future? on the drought duration (gray bars) in each Along with the increasing severity and year. Widespread drought in 2011 through frequency of droughts, other weather-related 2013 resulted in a 2.5 percent decrease in beef events have become more common and more cattle herd size, resulting in record high costly. Extremes in heat during the summer prices stemming from the low cattle numbers. and winter storms in the winter, 1,000-year This gave the impetus for a nearly 3.5 percent floods, out of control fires, and other disas- increase in the beef cattle herd by 2018 when ters have become more frequent impacting conditions returned to normal. Then in 2021, human life and agricultural productivity. a return of drought conditions, yet again Droughts impact cattle numbers and resulted in a 2.5 percent decrease in the beef drive the timing of the expansions and con- cattle herd through 2023. tractions of the cattle cycle. On the following The USDA estimates there is currently page the numbers of beef cows and heifers 17.1 million head one-time capacity in feed-

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lots, so based on 1.9 turns per year in the feedlot (current average is 192 days on feed), 80% occupancy rates, normal heifer retention of 3.5 million head per year, normal imports of feeder calves from Mexico (1 million head) and Canada (150,000 head), and 77% weaning rate (based on 81.4 percent calving rate and 95 percent calf survival rate), we need 32.3 million beef cows to supply the feedlots each year. We almost reached that in 2019 (31.8 million beef cows) but the U.S. beef cow herd is currently at 28.2 million head. The shortage of feeder cattle will result in changes in production practices (longer days on feed, reduced weights of feeders entering the feedlot, etc) and increased bids for feeder cattle, but there are other implications of drought to be covered in future articles.

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Assessing Presumptive Nominee Harris’ Meat Record

by Peter Thomas Ricci, meatingplace.com ignificant political developments for November’s presidential election have taken place in the last few weeks. – President Joe Biden will not seek reelection and instead endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s nominee.

Should Harris become the party’s nominee on August 22 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, she will bring a record of significant decisions and positions relating to the meat industry.

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she engaged with a number of industry related cases, including the battle over foie gras.

In 2004, California’s legislature approved

a ban on foie gras sales, and the regulation took effect in July 2012. Restaurateurs, however, fought the measure, and in 2015 a federal judge ruled California’s law unconstitutional. As attorney general, Harris appealed the ruling, and in September 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the lower ruling, upholding the California law.

Harris was less successful, though, in a case involving packaging weight, measure and count standards. In October 2012, Riverside, Californi-based Del Real LLC sued over state law on “slack fill” — space between a product and its packaging. State law argued the company’s RTE Mexican meal products were misleadingly packaged, but Del Real secured injunctive relief by arguing its products complied with federal law (which preempted state law). Then, in February 2016, the same Ninth Circuit appeals court overrode Harris’ appeal and supported Deal Real’s argument.

Candidate Harris As a candidate for president in 2019, Harris publicly supported changing federal dietar y guidelines to reduce meat production.

At a CNN town hall, Harris and other candidates were asked about beef processing’s role in climate change, and Harris stated the following: “I love cheeseburgers from time to time ... but there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effects of our eating habits on our environment, and we have to do a much better job of that. And the government has to do a much better job of that.”

Biden White House and Prop 12 The Biden-Harris administration publicly supported the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation’s legal challenge to California’s Proposition 12.

In a brief Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar filed, the administration argued that a lower court’s ruling against the legal challenge was incorrect, and that California had “no legitimate interest in protecting the welfare of animals located outside the State.”

Furthermore, the brief argued that California should not “extend [its] police power [over animal welfare] beyond its jurisdictional bounds by regulating out-of-state activity with no in-state impact based on a philosophical objection.”

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VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE

by Barry Denton

What July is For? Some of the views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association or this publication.

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Right at the beginning of the month you get to celebrate July 4th as American Independence Day. That’s usually fun as most of us get to take a day off and see some different things such as parades, rodeos, the beach, fireworks, cookouts, etc.

In the days leading up to July 4th we are reminded of our founders who had such a great vision for our free country and their unselfish sacrifice. Then you must stop and think of all this country has been through and all our loved ones that we have lost in wars fighting for our ideals.

It’s a day to remember and to celebrate this great life that we have. I don’t know about you, but I always enjoy hot dogs and beer! Old friends get together, families gather, and all the townspeople get reacquainted with farm and ranch people.

The people I know shake hands and wish each other well. You bet, my 4th of July still looks like a Norman Rockwell painting. No one I know gives a damn if you are rich or poor, black or white, a cowboy or an Indian.

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On July the 4th our mission is to be Americans.

After we get back home from the 4th of July, we all go right back to work because we have lots of it. If you are on the farm you have lots of crops to deal with. If you are on the ranch you have lots of livestock to work.

Besides the heightened season due to the good weather you also have extra animals that you may be getting ready for the county fairs in the fall. Typically, July is a very busy month.

I was astonished last Saturday when it was already the 13th of the month. However, with lots to do I went about my typical day of preparing arenas and working horses.

I got finished about 3:00 p.m. and decided to take a break. I went in the house, grabbed a sandwich, turned on the TV, and saw that

former President Trump was having a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that I decided to watch for a few minutes.

Unfortunately, it was only a few minutes until the shots rang out and wounded former President Trump, plus two others, and killed a former fire chief that saved his daughter’s life.

Former President Trump was a very lucky man and happened to turn his head at just the right time to not be killed by an assassin’s bullet.

One thing that I found quite interesting is that the shot struck him officially at 6:11 p.m. If you read the Bible in Ephesians 6:11 it states:” Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against tactics of evil.” You may call it coincidence, but I don’t think there are any. Good or bad,

everything happens for a reason.

I do realize that it is part of the deal when you are trying to take someone else’s power away for things to turn nasty. Many politicians seem so addicted to power that they will do anything to keep it. That seems to be fueled by the rogue corporations they work for.

If America continues in this direction you will have no choice but to be a slave to these rogue corporations yourself. They are trying hard to get rid of independent thinking in this country.

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by Sage Faulkner

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s I write this, the National High School Rodeo Finals have started and National Junior High School Rodeo Finals are already in the rear view mirror.

I’ll take this month to celebrate our junior high kids. Check back next month for a recap on the high school competitors.

Julie Carter, or Mission Control, as I have taken to calling her, tracked every single kid for team NM. Her results are purely the unpaid dedication to the youth and as any rodeo family will tell you, we are blessed to call her ours. Thanks Julie for keeping us all focused on our NM competitors.

Congratulations to all of you that made it!

Thank you to the wonderful folks at Jennings Photography for sharing their photos.

2024 National JH Finals Team NM – Perf Results/Round Results Perf #1: Sunday p.m.

1st Brody Bisetti Saddle Bronc 65 5th Hayden Wheeler, Teagen Trujillo Ribbon Roping 10.0 6th Rayce Griggs, Boys Goats 11.63 5th Lane Valenzuela, Bull Riding 65 Perf #2: Monday a.m.

8th Amy Biebelle, Barrels, 16.017 Perf #3: Monday p.m.

5. Tyan Gonzales, Boys Breakaway 2.66

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7. Logan Phillips, Tie Down Roping 26.73 Perf #4 Tuesday a.m.

9. Channing Robinson, Barrels 16.106 3. Hayden Wheeler, Boys Breakaway 3.54 6. Tyan Gonzales, Boys Goat Tying 11.7 10. Daniel Jackson, Bull Riding 55.5 4. Kolbi Henard, Girls Breakaway 2.71 4. Kayden Sherburne, Shanley Thompson, Ribbon Roping 7.91 1. Catch Roberts, Saddle Bronc 65 Perf #5 Tuesday p.m.

4. Trip Saulsberry, Tie Down Roping 12.44 Perf #6 Wednesday a.m.

7. Kayden Sherburne, Tie Down Roping 14.34 1. Hayden Wheeler, Boys Goat Tying 11.89 9. Teagan Trujillo, Girls Goat Tying 10.17 3. Tyan Gonzales, Joe Cortese, Team Roping 8.51 ROUND 2 Perf #7 Wednesday p.m.

4. Kayden Sherburne, Tie Down Roping 11.45

8. Hayden Wheeler, Boys Goat Tying 13.23 5. Tyan Gonzales, Joe Cortese, Team Roping 12.57 2. Tyan Gonzales, Cylee Jo Roberts, Ribbon Roping 6.8 1. Teagan Trujillo, Girls Goat Tying 8.06 PERF #8 Thursday a.m.

2. Haize Price, Macklee Cain, Ribbon Roping 6.9 Perf #9 Thursday p.m.

3. Channing Robinson, Barrel Racing 15.606 7. Kolbi Henard, Girls Breakaway 3.63 7. Joe Cortese, Boys Breakaway 4.0 2. Tyan Gonzales, Boys Goat Tying 11.12 5. Kayden Sherburne, Shanley Thompson, Ribbon Roping 10.31 Perf #10 Friday a.m.

2. Tate West, Bareback Riding, 59 7/8 Phillip Aragon, Bull Riding 59.5 3. Kynlee Cramblet, Girls Breakaway 3.34 2. Haize Price, Tie Down Roping 12.03

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7. Channing Robinson, Pole Bending 21.159 Perf #11 Friday p.m.

4. Reed Trujillo, Boys Goat Tying., 10.15 6. Izzi Tuchscherer, Girls Breakaway 4.98 6. Hayden Wheeler, Casey Siow, Team Roping 16.02 Perf #12 Saturday a.m.

5. Catch Roberts, Bareback Riding 58 7. Hayden Wheeler, Teagan Trujillo, Ribbon Roping 9.75 5. Lane Valenzuela, Bull Riding 60.5 1st Round Results – TOP 20 17. Tyan Gonzales, Boys Breakaway 2.66 19/20 Rayce Griggs, Boys Goat Tying 11.35 15/16/17/18 Lane Valenzuela, Bull Riding 65 18. Kolbi Henard, Girls Breakaway 2.71 18. Kayden Sherburne, Shanley Thompson, Ribbon Roping 7.91 2/3 Brody Bisetti, Saddle Bronc 65 2/3 Catch Roberts, Saddle Bronc 65 4. Tyan Gonzales, Joe Cortese, Team Roping 8.51 11. Trip Saulsberry, Tie Down Roping 12.44 2nd Round Results -TOP 20 15/16/17 Catch Roberts, Bareback Riding 58 8. Reed Trujillo, Boys Goat Tying 10.15 16. Tyan Gonzales, Boys Goat Tying 11.12 2. Teagan Trujillo, Goat Tying 8.06 6. Tyan Gonzales, Cylee Jo Roberts, Ribbon Roping 6.8 7. Haize Price, Macklee Cain, Ribbon Roping 6.9 11. Kayden Sherburne, Tie Down Roping 11.45 15. Haize Price, Tie Down Roping 12.03 Average – Short Go Qualifiers 14. Tyan Gonzales, Boys Goat Tying 22.82 14. Lane Valenzuela, Bull Riding 125.5 16. Kolbi Henard, Girls Breakaway Roping 6.34 10. Teagan Trujillo, Girls Goat Tying 18.23 10. Kayden Sherburne, Shanley Thompson, Ribbon Roping 18.22 18. Hayden Wheeler, Teagan Trujillo, Ribbon Roping 19.75 16/17 Catch Roberts, Saddle Bronc 65 16/17 Brody Bisetti, Saddle Bronc 65 9. Tyan Gonzales, Joe Cortese, Team Roping 21.08 10. Kayden Sherburne, Tie Down Roping 25.79

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New Mexico Junior High Rodeo Association – Tyan Gonzales

by Julie Carter

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yan Gonzales finished out his New Mexico junior high rodeo (NMJH) year on top of his game and has every intention of continuing that momentum into high school this fall. This Seyboyeta cowboy walked away from the state rodeo finals with five saddles and ten buckles, qualifying for National Junior High Finals in four events.

Tyan finished his NMJH rodeo career with a clean sweep winning the team roping

Tyan Gonzales/Joe Cortes winning Reserve National Champion in the Team Roping.

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with Joe Cortese, Boys Breakaway, Jackpot Tie Down, Ribbon Roping with Cylee Jo Roberts, Boys Goat Tying and the All Around.

That doesn’t just happen because you want it. Tyan, the youngest of Lisha and Tim Gonzales four (siblings Morgan, Avery, Treydon ) has been surrounded with the discipline of hard work and hours and hours of practice. He’s seeing the rewards and a confidence that undergirds every run.

“If I get nervous, I just tell myself what I need to do. My dad is in box with me and usually tells me what kind of start I need.”

And with a laugh, Tyan says, “He’s usually right.”

At Nationals, Tyan had a big week competing in two rounds of his four qualifying events, some side jackpots, the JH Nationals Volleyball game and his 15th birthday. He added more buckles to his stash of 8th grade loot by placing in rounds in Ribbon Roping and Boys Goat Tying. And best of all, he and partner Joe Cortese ended up Junior High Reserve World Champion Team Ropers.

Tyan competes on three solid horses.

Denali, 15 is his bay calf roping horse. Paint, 18, he’s had since he was little and is everyone’s head horse, but he’s Tyan’s goat tying horse since his good one got hurt a couple

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His homeschooling allows for a lot of freedom but he admits his favorite subject is Language Arts. “I like to write and read,” he said. Besides rodeo, his other passion is showing goats. He’s won Grand Champion twice and Reserve Grand Champion once in the Bi-County Fair (McKinley and Cibola counties) where he will again show four goats this coming Labor Day weekend.

When daylight allows, there are at least two or three hours a day spent practicing.

That’s on top of feeding, doing schoolwork, working with his goats, riding his rodeo horses and others that are in training or needing to stay legged up, His dad and Treydon join in roping steers. In the winter months when it gets dark early, the competition continues with pool, ping pong and in the workout room as well as hours and hours of roping the dummy while on his “ripstick,” (a streamlined skateboard).

A little-known fact about Tyan is he also loves to cook. Lisha said, when she’s gone, Tyan is the one to put the meal on the table for everyone.

When describing Tyan’s traits, Lisha says he’s got a very caring heart, a ton of try and “is a little hard headed, or a lot.” She admits, he comes by it honestly. “He’s about to be a freshman in high school and Treydon is a senior. I’m excited and sad all at the same time. I love to watch them grow and chase their dreams. Tyan has been one more blessing in four and we are excited for his future.`` In this next high school rodeo season, Tyan’s entries will look a little different without the JH events of Goat Tying, Breakaway and Ribbon Roping. He’ll focus on the Tie Down Roping and Team Roping, this time teaming up with his brother Treydon for a partner.

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