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• Most with EPDs • Registered and Commercial • Fertility Tested • These bulls have been bred and raised under Southwest range conditions.

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Females — 700 to 1,000 • Registered Open Heifers • Registered Bred Heifers and Bred Cows • Bred Cows and Pairs – 3- to 7-yrs.-old • Bred Heifers – Coming 2-yr.-olds • Open Yearling Heifers FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Years Raising Bulls

Total:

40 years 15 years 42 years 35 years 30 years 45 years 207 years

Years as IBBA Director 12 years w/Patti 5 years Coming soon 6 years 3 years 6 years 37 years

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TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call:P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico87194 505/243-9515Fax: 505/998-6236 E-mail: caren­@aaalivestock.com Official publication of: nNew

Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio GrandeNW,P.O. Box 7517, Albu­­quer­que, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; Pres­i­dent, Jóse Varela López Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost

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FEATURES­ 12 2015 Bull Buyers Guide 22 Observe Bulls Early in Breeding Season

by Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Animal Scientist 28 Trichomoniasis / by John C. Wenzel DVM, New Mexico State University Extension Veterinarian 48 Farm Credit Will Recognize 100 Rural Visionaries During 100th Anniversary 53 Sheep Producers Dispute Disease Study in Grazing Lawsuit 54 NMSU Sets Ag Days Degree Program for December 15 & 16 in Clovis 60 The Department of the Interior’s Blueprint for Harming the Sage Grouse

by Brian Seasholes, Director, Reason Foundation Endangered Species Project 62 Devolution: A Canadian Solution to Excessive Federal Ownership of Public Lands

by Karka Jones, Americanlegislator.org 64 Growing Together through Genetics 77 Department of Defense Shifts Focus to Climate Change / by Patrick Wood, Technocracy.news 78 Forage Crops Important to State Agriculture, Third in Total Earnings 103 New Study Finds Antarctic Ice Growing, Countering Earlier Studies

by Michael Casey, Foxiness.com 105 Portales Pair Indicted on 139 Charges Stemming From Cattle Fraud

by Travis Ruiz, Assistant News Director, abc7amarillo.com 108 Veterinary Feed Directive Raises Concerns for Cattle Raisers

by Ty Keeling, Vice Chairman, TSCRA Animal Health Committee 112 Environmentalists, Judges Control Our Land / by Arizona State Senator Steve Pierce

DEPARTMENTS­ 10 32 38 46 56 68 69 73 76 79 82 88 92 93 95 101 104 113

N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter / by José Varela López, President To The Point / by Caren Cowan N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle News Update N.M. Federal Lands Council News / by Frank DuBois New Mexico’s Old Time & Old Timers / by Don Bullis NMBC Bullhorn Annual Report Farm Bureau Minute / by Mike White, President, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau Aggie Notes / by Jerry M. Hawkes, Department Head, New Mexico State University Seedstock Guide Real Estate Guide Market Place View from the Backside / by Barry Denton In Memoriam On The Edge of Common Sense / by Baxter Black Riding Herd / by Lee Pitts My Cowboy Heroes / by Jim Olson Ad Index

ON T HE C OV E R . . .

“Trot and Trot Again” 20”x16” Acrylic by New Mexico’s Gary Morton. Morton was presented the 2015 Rounders Award by the New Mexico Dept. of Agriculture, joining an elite group of artists, authors, sculptors & journalists who have won the award. The first Rounders Award winner was Max Evans who wrote the book that became a timeless movie, The Rounders. For more info on Gary’s tremendous work, contact him at 208 Hwy. 266, Sapello, NM 87745, 505-425-3519.

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by José Varela López

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NMCGA PRESIDENT

Dear Fellow Members and Industry Supporters,

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efore I sat down to write this article I had decided to put forth the issues of the day as I normally do. But as I started to put pen to paper I realized that the Joint Stockmen’s Convention, the largest annual gathering of agricultural interests in New Mexico, from December 3-6, would provide more than enough timely and relevant information to give everyone input overload. As such, my final article is going to take a different path.

Over the past four years, first as president-elect and the last two years as president, I have had the opportunity on countless occasions in both New Mexico and across the country to speak with ranchers, elected officials and many other groups on the very issues I have previously covered in this column.

It was an incredible experience to represent this industry, and also a heart-wrenching one numerous times, listening to the trials and tribulations that are put upon those of us whose mission in life, after God and family, is to care for our livestock, improve the health of our lands and to provide a healthy source of protein and other products to people both nationally and globally.

The issues that we face, as New Mexicans and Americans, are unlikely to wane anytime soon and will almost certainly intensify into the future. From my perspective, the urban-rural divide will only continue to grow until there is a fundamental understanding, by a majority of people, whose families are several generations removed from agriculture, what it takes to produce their food and the rationale behind how it’s produced. In many ways, doing what we do in modern agriculture, and being both effective and efficient, most people have no notion of the benefits and simplicity we add to their lives.

When there are readily available, high quality and inexpensive food sources, people have more time and money to dedicate to other pursuits. A prime example is recreation. Most urban dwellers spend their free time partaking in some type of recreational activity, which in the western states necessarily means they pursue this past time on federally managed lands. In many cases these people are led to believe that exploring nature on “public lands” is somehow exclusive to the enjoyment of their activities. What they fail to recognize is that these lands were authorized for multiple uses, cattle grazing among them, in addition to other natural resource uses. This lack of education creates the perception of conflict, and thus a failure to understand that the places they visit have long been working landscapes, and the source of the protein they purchase at retail outlets for a good home cooked meal, dinner on the town or a quick fast food bite.

NMCGA, during its 102 years, has educated and advocated on behalf of our industry to keep its members and other producers on the ground and frequently ahead of the curve. And its members in turn, have also fought the battles near their ranches and beyond. In light of my previous comments I believe that we must continue our efforts and commit to re-double them. To bring the point home, at a recent community meeting I overheard a state legislator state disparagingly, “we’re not all cowboys”, in reference to the rural county from which that legislator hails. That statement tells me that enormous educational opportunities are at hand, at home and on the road. And you know what they say about education, that it’s not easily unlearned. So go forth we must, and go forth we will. Our families, livelihoods, customs and culture depend on it, and everyone who loves beef, whether they realize it today or not.

God Bless & hasta luego,

José Varela López

www.nmagriculture.org NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS José Varela López President La Cieneguilla

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Pat Boone President-Elect Elida

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John Conniff Randell Major Vice-President SW Vice-President At Large, Las Cruces Magdalena

Ernie Torrez NW Vice-President La Jara

Jeff Billberry SE Vice-President Elida

Blair Clavel NE Vice-President Roy

Shacey Sullivan Secretary-Treasurer Bosque Farms

Rex Wilson Past President Carrizozo

Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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Metal No Trespassing Sign

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NMCGA License Plate (Members Only)

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Hubbell Ranch. . . . . . . 27, 81 Lack-Morrison Brangus. . . 115 Lazy S Ranch Willcox, LLC . . . . . . . . . . 50 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Parker Brangus. . . . . . . . 115 Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . 42 Robbs Brangus. . . . . . . . . 52 Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Roswell Brangus Breeders Coop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Skaar Brangus. . . . . . . . . . 49 Westall Ranches LLC / Brinks Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Observe bulls early in breeding season

by GLENN SELK, OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY EMERITUS ANIMAL SCIENTIST

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he fall breeding season is about to begin. Herds that aim for a Sept. 1 first calving date, will turn bulls with the cows in the latter part of November. Bulls that have been recently added to the bull battery, and bulls that have not been used since last year, should pass a breeding soundness exam before the breeding season begins. Any newly purchased bull, that has been previously exposed to cows, should also have passed a test for the venereal disease “trichomoniasis.” Reports indicate that about 1.4 percent of bulls routinely tested this last year have been found to be positive for this disease. Visit with your veterinarian soon about breeding soundness exams and “trich” tests to avoid reproductive problems next year and beyond.

A good manager keeps an eye on his bulls during the breeding season to make sure that they are getting the cows bred.

Occasionally a bull that has passed a breeding soundness exam may have difficulty serving cows in heat, especially after heavy service.

While conducting a research trial several years ago, I was collecting data on the ability of a bull to breed synchronized cows. The bull (being observed) was mature and had been successfully used in the past. Also he had passed a breeding soundness exam. However, it was apparent immediately that

he could no longer physically breed females in estrus. Replacing him immediately was the only solution. If we had not been present to observe the problem, an entire calf crop for that breeding pasture was in jeopardy.

Inability to complete normal service and low semen quality are more likely to be problems that affect breeding performance than failure to detect cows in heat. Nonetheless poor libido (sex drive) can occasionally be observed in beef bulls.

Such problems can best be detected by observing bulls while they work. Therefore producers should (if at all possible) watch bulls breed cows during the first part of each breeding season.

If problems are apparent, the bull can be replaced while salvaging the remainder of the breeding season and next year’s calf crop. Likewise a small proportion of bulls can wear out from heavy service and lose interest. These, too, will need to be replaced. The greater the number of cows allotted to each bull in the breeding pasture the more critical it is that every bull be ready to work every day of the breeding season.

Injuries to bulls during the breeding season are relatively common. When a bull becomes lame or incapable of breeding, because of an injury to his reproductive tract, he needs to be removed from the breeding pasture and replaced with another bull.

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DNA Technology: Where we’ve been, where we are, & where we’re headed

by MATT SPANGLER, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN, MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER, CLAY CENTER, NE

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hy are we working on these novel traits? Because they have great economic importance. Further, they have heritable genetic variation.

We do have EPDs for feed intake and

fertility, but they are not as pervasive as other (weight and carcass) traits.

Continued phenotypic data collection and recording is critically needed. But, the breed associations have to do something with the data. Otherwise, progressive seedstock producers will look outside breed associations for genetic evaluations. This will not be a great outcome for commercial cattle producers.

Nine breeds are already incorporating genomic information into EPDs, with many other breeds right on the cusp of

releasing genomic-enhanced EPDs. As genotyping becomes more common and more animals are genotyped, many of the current limitations are eliminated.

But, there is continued room for statistical approaches to be refined.

Genotyping entire cohorts (groups) fixes many of the problems.

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eorge and Vera Curtis came to New Mexico as small children in the early 1900s. Their parents, arriving in a covered wagon, homesteaded in rural Quay County, New Mexico, on the Llano Estacado. Forrest, New Mexico, was the nearest place of commerce, a community built around a rural schoolhouse where their children of the 1920s and 1930s era received their education. George heard of the Aberdeen Angus breed, and much improved genetics that the breed was known for, and made the decision to acquire a registered Angus herd of his own. Traveling across the U.S. in search of the best genetics that money could buy turned out to be quite an adventure for Mr. Curtis but also a memorable quest for the Curtis children of the era. George Curtis and his youngest son James V. Curtis accepted the challenge of competing with the other top Angus breeders of the 40s and 50s at numerous State and regional competitions including the Denver and Ft. Worth livestock shows. When James V. Curtis (Rip) returned from his world travels, sponsored by the U. S. Air Force, with his wife, a North Carolina native and Air Force registered nurse, Thelma, the Curtis team resumed their Angus breeding venture. As cutting edge technology became available in the form of artificial insemination and embryo transplant, the Curtis family began to utilize these new tools to improve the herd focusing on the genetic traits that most needed improvement both in the industry and on the Curtis ranch. George Curtis’ passing in 1977 and his son’s passing in 1994 left the responsibility of sire selection and herd genetics to the present generation of Curtises.

Tamara, Blake and Tye Curtis still operate George Curtis, Inc. today. The Curtis family takes pride in completing three generations in the Registered Angus cattle business. Our pledge is to continue to meet our customers’ expectations of excellence. The easy calving, top gaining, moderate framed stock that the Curtis family has been known for in the past is still available today at George Curtis Inc.

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Trichomoniasis JOHN C. WENZEL, EXTENSION VETERINARIAN richomoniasis – or “trich” for short – is a sexually transmitted disease of cattle caused by the protozoa Tritrichomonas foetus. The disease is characterized by an increase in open cows detected at pregnancy check and/or an increase in dry cows at spring branding.

Trich can cause an increase of both calving interval and overall length of the calving season. All of these effects can result in a severe and rapid economic loss for ranches. To protect the cattle industry and to control the disease in New Mexico, trich became a reportable disease in July 2005.

The disease now has rules and testing requirements in place for breeding cattle.

Contact the New Mexico Livestock Board (www.nmlbonline.com) for a copy of these rules.

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Trichomoniasis in Cows

The disease caused by T. foetus is strictly a venereal disease of cattle that does not make cows or bulls sick. Cows develop trich after being bred by an infected bull.

The infection develops in the cow’s reproductive tract and may result in a loss of pregnancy. After the pregnancy loss, the

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cow will come into heat 3 to 5 times until her immune system mounts enough of a response to clear the disease and then rebreed. She will expose any bull that breeds her until the organism is cleared.

Cows will clear the infection about 97 percent of the time if given the opportunity for sexual rest of about five months. The remaining 3 percent of cows may become carrier cows that remain infected but have a calf. These carrier cows will remain infected well into the next breeding season.

Immunity from the disease will only last for about 12 to 15 months; thus, a cow can become reinfected if bred by an infected bull the next year. A few infected cows develop scarring in the uterus that makes them infertile. There is no medication available that is effective in treating this disease.

Trichomoniasis in Bulls

The bull is a mechanical spreader of T. foetus. The trich organism lives on the surface of the penis and prepuce in small folds called crypts. The older the bull, the deeper and more numerous the crypts are, so it is easier for bulls 4 years of age or older to become chronically infected.

However, younger bulls (as young as year-

lings) can develop the infection, and some may become chronically infected. The bull contracts trich by breeding an infected cow and picking up T. foetus on the surface of the penis. Due to the nature of disease contraction and site of infection, there is no response by the bull’s immune system, so he does not develop any resistance to the organism. There is no treatment for this disease, and infected bulls can only be sold for slaughter.

Diagnosis

The disease is very difficult to diagnose in the cow. It requires five successive negative tests, with at least one week between each test, to classify a cow as negative for the disease. The test is performed on cervical mucus samples. For this reason, most testing is done on the bull.

In NM, the official test is called a PCR test (polymerase chain reaction test). PCR is based on the DNA of the organism and is both very specific and sensitive. This test is performed on samples collected by scraping the penis and prepuce of breeding bull. The samples can only be collected by veterinarians certified to test by the New Mexico Livestock Board. A list of certified veterinarians is available from the Livestock Board or at www.nmlbonline.com.

Control

Control measures help to limit exposure and spread of trich and are only one component in a complete program to prevent or eradicate the disease. Contact your local veterinarian for information regarding prevention and eradication.

• Test all bulls at the end of the breeding season and cull any positives.

• Test all incoming bulls that are added to the bull battery.

• Do not share or lease bulls unless a trich prevention program is in place.

• Do not add cattle from unknown herds or with unknown calving histories.

• Keep fences in good repair to prevent exposure to neighboring cattle.

• Communicate with your neighbors regarding trich status of the area.

able for use in female cattle. This vaccine can be used in a prevention program, but label directions must be strictly adhered to since it has a very short duration of efficacy. The vaccine is not effective in preventing the disease in bulls.

Economics

Trichomoniasis is a disease that can be

economically devastating in a short period of time. A susceptible cow that is bred by an infected bull will become infected with the organism and will generally abort, resume, and then settle, infecting all bulls that breed her while she is infected. A cow that rebreeds will calve 4 to 6 months later than normal, with an accompanying loss

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To prevent the disease from entering a clean herd, only add bulls with a negative test and cows or heifers from known negative herds. Annual testing of the bull battery is recommended to catch the disease early if exposure does occur. Prioritizing testing of mature bulls over that of yearling bulls is most effective in monitoring trich status, but all sexually active bulls pose a risk. A commercial vaccine is avail-

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of weaning weight. Many cows will not rebreed and will have to be sold as open cows. Other cows that were pregnant at pregnancy check may abort, and abortion can occur as late as 240 days of gestation.

In the first year, the loss in calf crop can be 10 to 30 percent – and as high as 50 percent – depending on the number of positive bulls that are turned out with susceptible cows. A herd that has one positive test is quarantined and must meet requirements set forth by the NM Livestock Board for the quarantine to be lifted. The rules associated with this disease will affect both the quarantined operation and all of their neighbors, so it is of the utmost importance that ranches do all they can to prevent this disease from being introduced to their cowherd. Quarantine does not affect the sale of weaned calves. Preventing trich from being introduced into your herd is the key to avoiding this economic loss.

For info about state regulations, testing requirements, or import requirements for breeding stock, contact N.M. Livestock Board at 505/841-6161 or www.nmlbonline.com. For info about trich prevention & control programs, contact your local veterinarian. For general info about trichomoniasis, contact the author at jwenzel@nmsu.edu or 575/534-7562, or the Department of Extension Animal Sciences & Natural Resources.

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s we continue to attempt to protect the landowners who care for New Mexico’s wildlife, messages out of the New Mexico Tax & Revenue Department (TRD) become more bizarre. To recap, in late September numerous landowners who receive elk authorizations for use on their property received letters from the TRD stating that they may be liable for gross receipts tax on those authorizations.

Landowners have the option of filing for a managed audit. A managed audit provides for the landowner to file the information for the years they choose in terms of income that may have been received from the sale of those elk authorizations. You turn in your managed audit and you will get a bill from the TRD with 180 days to pay it. However, in applying for that managed audit, you give up your right to protest whatever that tax bill is.

If you choose the managed audit option, you will likely be relieved of penalties and

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interest on the back taxes that you will owe.

If you have a Combined Reporting System (CRS) number from TRD, you are liable for gross receipts tax back six (6) years. If you do not have a CRS number, you are liable for taxes back seven (7) years. There were mixed signals on when the request for a completed managed audit deadline was, it now seems clear that December 31, 2015 is the deadline.

However apparently you have a multiple choice as to what you want to do if you receive elk authorizations but do not derive any income from them. (a) TRD staff first told folks calling in that the Department would estimate the value of the authorizations and tax accordingly. Then they backed up and told callers that they didn’t need to do anything. (b) Then the TRD stated in a meeting that even if you don’t derive income you need to file with zeros to avoid an audit. (c) The word on November 15 was “If

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they have not sold any licenses, a letter to TRD stating that fact will suffice. However, like any tax situation, if TRD finds contradictory information, it will be subject to audit.”

It is worth noting that none of these options have been documented with TRD letterhead or signature.

Finally, if you opt not to file for a managed audit and you received a letter in September, you can expect an assessment and a full audit in 2016. The TRD says that the assessments will be based on “third party” information used to determine the value of the authorizations you received.

In plowing our way through this issue, we have found things that appear to be arbitrary and capricious at best. We have learned that the TRD sent out some 30,000 letters in late September. Obviously the letters went to more than just landowners continued on page 34

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receiving authorizations. They are planning on sending out another 90,000 in the future. Given that it is now December, the expectation would be that the additional letters will go out in 2016.

It appears that those receiving letters in 2016 will be liable for taxes one less year than those who got September 2015 letters. Isn’t that unequal taxation?

TRD announced at their New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau (NMFLB) meeting that they got the names and addresses of landowners from the New Mexico Department Game & Fish (NMDGF) website. They just select the 600 names receiving the largest number of elk authorizations. Isn’t that profiling or targeting? Is that legal? Surely it cannot be politically correct.

This issue has generated lots of interest from members of the New Mexico Legislature. The NMCGA is working on potential legislation for the upcoming 2016 Legislature. The Interim Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee will meet in at the State Capitol on December 15 and 16. A bill exempting landowners receiving elk authorizations will be heard at approximately 12:10 p.m. (legislative time) on December 16 in Room 322 of the State Capitol. Everyone affected by this gross receipts tax is urged to show up at that meeting.

If you happen to see your legislators, you might remind them of the public service that landowners provide in habitat, water and supplemental feed for the state’s wildlife.

Where are the animal rightists when you need them?

If you missed the November meeting of the New Mexico State Game Commission in Roswell, you missed a good one!

The morning started out with the appeal hearing for Turner Endangered Species Fund (TESF) (aka TEAM TURNER) Appeals of the Denial of Applications to Import and Possess Mexican Gray Wolves.

TEAM TURNER’s Mike Phillips presented an appeal of the Department’s denial of the TESF’s application to Import and Possess Mexican Gray Wolves on the Ladder Ranch.

It was a show that deserved to be under the big tent. While this sort of appeal is a quasi judicial process and lawyers do the presenting, Phillips took great delight in

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often pointing out that the attorney sitting next to him was probably squirming in his chair, but that he was going to speak his peace anyway. And he did, pontificating for the better part of an hour … or more.

There were so many jewels in his presentation and his answers to questions from the Commission it is hard to know where to start. Among the best was his statement that wolves don’t need to be fed every day ­— in fact most dogs don’t need to be fed every day he says. That’s why there are so many overweight dogs in this country.

Unfortunately there was nary an animal rightist in the crowd willing to show any dismay at such a dastardly statement. Can you imagine if word got out that ANYONE was promoting not feeding a pet on a daily basis? How would the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) filch money from unsuspecting widows and other tender hearts if thinner dogs were in?

But that was his most frivolous statement. There were many, many more serious things he said.

We learned for the first time that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is planning on resuming the recovery planning process for the wolves … with only input

from the science side of the issue ... in December 2015. That means federal and state agencies along with the conservation biologists, including Phillips, who have been intent on multiple populations of hundreds of wolves in the expanded recovery areas of New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah and southern Colorado.

When asked whether the people living with the wolves would be represented, this was the response: We are convening a small handful of scientists and state reps from Arizona Game and Fish Department, New Mexico

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Department of Game and Fish, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, SEMARNAT and CONANP (federal agencies in Mexico), and FWS in December for a workshop to look at technical information related to revising the 1982 Mexican wolf recovery plan. We plan to hold three such workshops over the winter/spring. FWS plans to have a completed revised recovery plan by the end of 2017. We have not made final decisions regarding the role of the entire recovery team in the development of the plan. At this point, we are focusing on assessing best available science in close coordination with the state agencies and Mexico.

It should be good news that the planning process is restarting. However, given what was coming out of the “science team” when the recovery planning was halted, there is no warm, fuzzy feeling about this. Clearly the FWS will never learn that ignoring the people living on the ground and suffering the consequences of wolves for all of society will lead to no good.

Just as clearly the resumption is as a result of litigation pressure and the hope of making some of it go away. Unfortunately limiting the process won’t result in less litigation.

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Phillips was verbose in his criticism of the FWS wolf program, noting that the seven-(7)year-old wolf that was released from TEAM TURNER and then had to be taken due to depredation, should probably never have been released due to his age.

He also made much of the fact that the Turner permit had been denied during the same time period that a permit from a zoo was approved. Phillips failed to tell “the rest of the story.”

A permit was indeed approved for a zoo … with restrictions. When the zoo learned that the wolf they wanted to import would not ever be allowed to be released in “the wild,” nor would any of her offspring because they had been on public display and therefore habituated to humans, they choose not to exercise the permit and import the wolf.

There was more, but enough about Phillips and TEAM TURNER. On to better things.

SWAP got SWATTED

Since late July NMCGA and others have devoted a great deal of time to the

NMDGF’s Strategic Wildlife Action Plan (SWAT) which can provide funding from the federal government to the tune of about $1 million per year. The funds are to be used for species of concern to keep them from being listed as endangered.

The SWAP was the next generation of the Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) that was submitted to the FWS in 2005. The CWCS was an offensive document that nearly resulted in fist fights at one Commission meeting at the time. NMFLB’s Joel Alderete and I are still arguing over who stopped whom from throwing the first punch.

We had higher hopes for the 2015 SWAP but as the deadline drew near for filing the document, it became clear that though there has been some slight improvement in the document, it remained fatally flawed. The Game Commission and the NMDGF Director both saw to it that there was language making clear that the document was for planning purposes only and that the public had the opportunity to comment on the full document.

But there remained 455 species in New Mexico in the document, including more than 30 species that are already

listed as endangered. The language relative to natural resource use was mitigated some between the first and last drafts but remained damning to both grazing and oil and gas. Much of the science used in the document was cherry-picked to produce a one-sided point of view and demonstrated a paucity of historical knowledge that is readily available at New Mexico State University.

At their November meeting the Game Commission unanimously voted against submitting the current SWAP to the FWS. The NMCGA and others are extremely grateful for this action.

This does not mean that SWAP goes away, but rather a new plan will be developed that includes input from natural resource users and provides a true picture of conservation needs for wildlife species in New Mexico. Unfortunately the action does mean that FWS funding will likely be n curtailed for the time being.

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“Anyone who’s ever walked around the fourth floor of New Mexico’s Capitol Building in Santa Fe will know Gary’s work,” Witte said. “His painting outside the Governor’s Office will take your breath away – not only because of its enormity, but also because of Gary’s detail in showing a cowboy and his horse high upon a ridge, looking out over a beautiful piece of New Mexico countryside.”

Witte refers to Morton’s 1991 painting “The Simple Pleasures of New Mexico”.

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He then spent 25 years as a full-time artist before ranch life called him back. He’s cared for cattle on picturesque pieces of the New Mexico landscape, including 2,000 yearling calves on the Valles Caldera National Preserve in the northern part of the state, and nearly 5,000 yearling calves on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in the southern part.

A few years ago, Morton’s life came full circle when he returned to the Bell Division of Silver Spur Ranches in northeastern New Mexico. Life also brought Morton back to the easel.

Morton has served four New Mexico governors in various appointments, including chairman of the New Mexico Arts Commission, director of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and director of the Equestrian Facility Design Task Force.

He’s also one of the founding directors of the Working Ranch Cowboys Association.

Gathered for the presentation were members of Morton’s family, as well as a crowd of approximately 100 New Mexico farmers, ranchers, and others who, in their own small way, have helped secure the culture of the West for future generations. n

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hen I was growing up in Bloomfield my family had a small alfalfa field, but my nearby uncle had hundreds of acres, so my sister and I were often asked to help with the haying. I remember as a young driver how hard it was backing the trailer up to the haystack.Sometimes rather than watching my Dad’s very animated hand signals it was easier just to follow the tracks left behind from the last time he had unloaded the trailer.

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and it has taught me so much about our state’s wonderful ranching families.You’all are an amazing bunch of women – resilient, kind and welcoming. You donate countless hours to share your story with others in order to preserve our ranching communities and promote beef consumption. Because of your passion and dedication, New Mexico CowBelles continues to be a success story in agricultural advocacy.

Because this is my last opportunity to do so, I want to express my appreciation for all you do. For nearly 60 years you’ve been setting up booths, attending meetings and presenting demonstrations about beef nutrition, animal care and land stewardship. You are rock stars! And every last one of you is “Making a Difference!” Thank you.

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The Corriente Cowbelles’ October 28, 2015 meeting was called to order by President Ashley Ivins, at 6 p.m. at Oso Grill.

Fundraising committee – Terri Knight will oversee fundraising with sub committees.

Julieanne and Kim will co/chair – St. Patty’s Dance, dinner, cash party need a band and a location. Quilt committee – receiving brands; deadline is November 15;currently have 31 brands paid for. Tans, browns, and blacks were the colors decided on. Committee members: Ashley, Julieanne, Betsy, Kim, Ryleigh, Maggie. Ag Education-Kids, Kows, and More only provide mobile dairy trailer. Audra will report to group on this; hard to get into school since this activity isn’t part of the PED test; not sure of enough return for input. A strategic plan will be devised for goal setting of the upcoming year. Julieanne has a chef moving to town with the potential of having a cooking class for the millennial group with beef and beverages; could provide an

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activity for children, with recipes and take home materials. Sharon gave an update on County Fair. CowBelles had a table with recipes and handouts during the steer show; those at the table wore turquoise shirts and talked about pasture to plate; there was a scavenger/bingo game for kids to search around fair for fun facts; participants awarded otter pops. CowBelle Junior member, Abby Morris won the county bred show that CowBelles helped to sponsor.

It was suggested to have covered coffee cans next year to put money in for each of the buyers’ clubs; as group was a liaison between the public and the buyers’ clubs this year. The Christmas Party will be at the barn of Julianne Leonard on December 19 at 5 p.m. Invitations will be sent to all members, as well as Canyon and Crown CowBelle members. RSVP by December 15. Steaks will be cooked. Guests are asked to bring a side dish and a dessert.

Chinese Christmas gift exchange; bring a cowboy themed gift for $20 or less to participate. Kim and Ashley will co-chair the cookbook committee. Ryleigh reported for the Junior CowBelles. The younger members need guidance and leadership from membership and want to help with fundraising. Weech volunteered to be the

leader and discussed name change to Corriente Youth Beef Ambassadors, to include males and females. Their membership fee is $2 per year. The National Beef Ambassadors program is no longer active. The NM State CowBelles are looking to keep a state ambassador program and need students to participate. The following were elected as officers: President-Ashley Ivins; Vice President-Julianne Leonard; Secretary-Sharon Young; Treasurer-Cheryl Barber; Membership-Willa Stone. Next meeting November 17t, at 6 p.m. at the home of Ashley Ivins-beefed up for Thanksgiving potluck with a Mexican theme, she will provide beef enchiladas in a red and green version. Ashley adjourned at 7:30 p.m. From the September meeting: A thank you note from Kaylin Hazen for the scholarship was read. CowBelle and Cattleman of the Year – It was discussed that the award should be given at the St. Patrick’s Day Dinner and discussions continued for how the selection would be made and what would be the criteria. It was agreed that the membership could nominate candidates. Respectfully submitted, Sharon Young, Secretary The November 5, 2015 meeting of the Chamiza CowBelles was held at the Elephant Butte Inn with nine members

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will be held in Albuquerque on December 4 and 5. Gloria plans to attend and invited anyone else interested to go with her.The local agreed to donate a brand throw to the state’s silent auction. This subject brought about a brief discussion of possibly doing another brand throw in the future. Cathy will look into. It was decided to replace the wooden lattice used for Fair booth with a white vinyl lattice panel to match other one. Cathy will oversee the purchase prior to next year’s fair. It was decided to purchase the sign borrowed from the State CowBelles depicting all the uses of a cow, at a cost of $129.53. The sign will be used in the fair booth and also for the Kids and Kows presentations. November is election of officers for the upcoming year.This year, the officers are as follows: Nancy Phelps, President; Sherry Ibarra, Vice President; Robbie Montgomery, Treasurer; and Cathy Pierce, Secretary. Congratulations to all.

The next meeting will be held at the Chloride Bank Café in Chloride, on December 3. In lieu of a gift exchange, please bring non-perishable food items or monetary donations for the local food bank. Meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Grant County Copper CowBelles met for a lunch on November 10. President JoAnn Miller opened the meeting and thanked hostesses, Bobbie Neal Little and Erin Evans. Returning member Tammy Ogilvie was welcomed back. Discussion about the cookbook project was held and it was decided that the recipes already submitted need to be inventoried so members know which categories need more recipes turned in. Bobbie gave an update on the Silver City Museum ranching display planned for January. She still needs histories, photos and artifacts to be submitted.Kim Clark gave a summary of the Environment Department’s recent presentation on the “Copper Rules”. This document is designed to provide reasonable guidelines for the mining industry in the state to hopefully limit lawsuits in the future. When it was published, a lawsuit was filed to disqualify it. The Court ruled in favor of the rules and the decision is being appealed to the Supreme Court in New Mexico. Kim stated that if the court’s decision rules against the document, Freeport McMoRan will pull out of Grant County, mining will cease and local economy will be ruined.The CowBelles decided to send a letter in support of the rule book to the Attorney General. Pat Hunt mentioned that the new ruling on Workmen’s Comp being required for ranches is also

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threatening the local economy as many ranchers are finding it cost prohibitive to obtain the required insurance. The meeting adjourned after a drawing was held for door prizes. From the October Meeting: The annual Shindig is scheduled for April 30, 2016 with the Yarbrough Band and theme of “Fiesta de Mayo”. The By-laws committee will have suggested changes for publication very soon. Pat Hunt stated the scholarship committee met and recommended that awards be made to Erin Fuchs, who is in her last year of Veterinary School in Texas and three NMSU agriculture majors: Ryan McCauley, Tancee Bussey and Kinsey Fisher.The membership approved the awards. There was discussion about the purchase of a steer at the Fair by the Grant County Cattlegrowers. This year the steer was sold back to the packer instead of bringing the packaged meat back to Silver City. In past years the CowBelles have paid the cut and wrap fees with the understanding that the meat be donated to local home economic teachers for use in the classroom. Members voted to use the money saved to donate beef purchased from a local store to teachers at Cobre and Cliff schools. Submitted by Pat Hunt Chuckwagon CowBelles Minutes-November 10, 2015 – The meeting was held at the Christian Center in Mountainair.There were 12 members and five guests in attendance. Acting President Lyn Greene opened the meeting at 10:15 a.m. with the CowBelle invocation, Pledge of Allegiance and CowBelle Creed. The bucket was passed, with $50 collected for Horses for Heroes.

The first speaker was Caleb Gustin, Past President of NM FFA and VP of FFA Western Region (and family member of some of our CowBelles). He told of his experiences at the national level, including starting in Japan (primarily Tokyo and Kyoto) where he experienced different cultures, foods, philosophies. He shared that Toyota started out making cloth, and then moved on to making automobiles after World War II. As a national officer, he visited 38 states and attended eight conventions. Check out the National Convention in Louisville on YouTube.FYI, FFA is no long an acronym for Future Farmers of America. It is just FFA since they have grown to accommodate anyone in an ag-related field, not just farmers. The group presented him with a check of $350 to help with his expenses.

The next speaker was Zach Riley, regional director of NM Farm & Livestock Bureau.

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He gave an update on what’s coming up legislatively during the next (30-day) session: Gross Receipts Taxes: in the past, ag producers (game hunting) were exempt.

This is discussion on their business whether it is considered land use lease or animal sales. “Forum” November 19 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon before the annual Farm Bureau meeting at the Embassy Suites, Albuquerque for more information and to get a 30-day exemption on GRT. Workers comp: this is still a very big issue.

In the past, farm and ranch workers were exempt. Now the state is looking at family members and other helpers as employees. If this passes, claims can be brought forward retroactively from up to three years ago. Right-to-Farm Act: nuisance claims. Dairies will be affected the most.

Other items: State vs. national GMO labeling: this is for consistency between and among the states. Check out HR 1599 (transparency in labeling). Unfinished Business: Cookie Conant is in charge of programs for next year. If members have a speaker or special request for a topic, let her know. Delivery of banner to Galloping Grace Youth Ranch. New Business: Annual CowBelle meeting is Friday, December 4 and the breakfast is Saturday, December 5 at 7:00 a.m., both at the Albuquerque Pyramid. State and local dues ($35) are due by December 31. Announcements: Next month’s meeting will be at Pete’s Restaurant in Belen at 5:30 p.m. (Note the change in time.) Let Carolyn know

by December 5 if you will be going and how many people will be attending with you. The January meeting will be at the Valencia County Extension Office, with lunch to follow at Henrietta’s in Los Lunas. Continued Prayers: Ruth Romero’s husband; Hugh B. McKeen; Elaine Aschbacher’s husband; Carolyn Chance’s brother-in-law; Officers for next two years are: President, Lyn Greene; Vice President and Program Chair, Cookie Conant; Secretary, Welda Grider; Treasurer, Tommie Aber. There were no additional nominations from the floor. Installation will be at the January meeting.

Respectfully submitted, Rebecca “Bec” Campbell, acting Secretary New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters by the 15th of each month to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com

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ew Mexico’s agriculture and food processing industries face many challenges and are looking to the future.

The combination of agriculture and food processing is an important part of New Mexico’s economy. Together, the two broad industries accounted for $10.6 billion, roughly 12.3 percent of New Mexico’s $85 billion gross state product in 2012.

The future will bring opportunities to these industries that are important to the state’s economy, ranging from expanding sales to out-of-state markets to supplying New Mexico consumers with locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. It will also bring the challenges of an aging agricultural workforce and the growing demand for water in a period of prolonged drought.

New Mexico State University and New Mexico First are joining forces to develop a strategic plan to help maintain a resilient New Mexico food and agricultural system. The Thornburg Foundation is coordinating the funding of the project.

“The Thornburg Foundation, along with other funders, have recognized that the threats facing the economic, social and environmental resilience of agriculture in our state are large, complex and immediate,” said Micaela Fischer, Thornburg Foundation policy officer for food and agriculture. “They are also likely too far-reaching for any group, business or government agency to handle independently.

“However, we’ve found that many of these threats, such as uncertain water and natural resource availability and paltry producer income, are not unique to New Mexico, and other states have bolstered their agricultural sector through common plans of action,” Fischer said. “We hope to see the same success in

Resiliency in New Mexico Food & Agriculture Regional Meetings • ROSWELL: Wednesday, Dec. 2, Roswell Convention & Civic Center, 912 N. Main Street • LAS CRUCES: Thursday, Jan. 7, New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum,

4100 Dripping Springs Road • ALBUQUERQUE: Wed., Jan. 13, Mid-Region Council of Gov’ts, 809 Copper Ave. NW • SOUTHERN PUEBLOS: Thursday, Jan. 14, Route 66 Casino & Hotel, Interstate 25, Rio Puerco Exit • SILVER CITY: Friday, Jan. 15, Grant County Extension office, 2610 North Silver Street • NORTHERN PUEBLOS: Wednesday, Feb. 10, Española, Santa Claran Hotel & Casino, 460 N. Riverside Drive • AOS: Thursday, Feb. 11, Juan I Gonzales Memorial Taos County Agricultural Center, 202 Chamisa Road • FARMINGTON: Wednesday, March 2, Farmington Civic Center, 200 W. Arrington Street • CROWNPOINT: Thursday, March 3, Navajo Technical University, Lowerpoint Road & State Highway 371 SHIPROCK: Friday, March 4, Diné College, 1228 Yucca Street • • TUCUMCARI: Wednesday, March 9, Tucumcari Convention Ctr., 1500 W. Historic Rt. 66 All meetings begin at 9:30 a.m. Lunch will be served.

increased health and wealth of New Mexico’s producers, eaters and working lands through the implementation of a statewide plan for agricultural resilience.”

A two-year timeframe has been set for developing the plan.

“The plan will foster a food and agricultural system capable of withstanding new challenges,” said Michael Patrick, NMSU’s Cooperative Extension Service economic development specialist, “while advancing a strong and growing export-oriented commodity agriculture sector and a robust local food system of small to medium-sized family farms and ranches producing locally grown food to meet the growing consumer demand in the state.”

NMSU’s extension service will assist New Mexico First in gathering information from a broad range of stakeholders at

the grassroots level.

“New Mexico First is very good at gathering grassroots recommendations,” Patrick said. “The extension service is good at getting people together to share their opinion on issues being faced by this sector.”

Regional meetings are scheduled beginning in December and running through March.

The information will be complied into a background report on the state of New Mexico agriculture, which will be used by a task force to develop the Resilience in New Mexico Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan.

“Once the information is gathered, NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences will be directly involved in interpreting the results that will be provided to a task

force,” Patrick said.

“The long-term, collective impact of this initiative will necessitate the formation of multi-stakeholder groups who are committed to implementing the plan in order to ensure the resiliency of the food and agriculture system in New Mexico,” said Heather Balas, N.M. First president.

“It will take a a diverse network of farmers, ranchers, processors, distributors and market organizers to make a difference in the future of an agriculture industry that is capable of withstanding new challenges and advancing to new successes.”

Meeting in 11 communities across the state will begin in December. The discussion in Albuquerque will be from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, January 13, at the Mid-Region Council of Government, n 809 Cooper Ave. NW.

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U.S. Senate Sends the World a Climate Message

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ifty-two (52) U.S. Senators voted to block an Environmental Protection Agency rule in mid Nov. that would curb carbon emissions from existing coalfired power plants. Passing the resolution without a veto-proof vote (the President has already promised not to sign it) makes this act of defiance symbolic only. But with the Paris climate summit just a week and a half away, it’s powerful symbolism indeed.

The Senate is sending a clear message to the world’s climate delegates, who are busy prepping for the impending COP21 conference: This legislative body won’t ratify any kind of binding Global Climate Treaty (GCT), so don’t even try.

Sec. of State John Kerry tried to sidestep this problem earlier when he insisted negotiators wouldn’t be working on a treaty in France, a comment that immediately inspired backlash and spurred the French foreign minister to suggest that Mr. Kerry was probably “confused.” But let’s clear any confusion up now: The US won’t sign on to a binding, enforceable GCT. So what else is there for UN delegates to work towards, if such a treaty is off the table?

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sketched out a scorecard for the talks recently, saying Paris would be successful if the following goals are met: 90% of emissions are covered by national commitments; a robust review process is put in place to make sure nations are working towards these pledges; a mechanism is established to review national targets periodically; talks aren’t bogged down by “unproductive disagreements”; and a climate financing system is set up. Those are five big asks, and while Stavins is fairly sanguine about most of them, we don’t share his optimism for what may be the most important topic in that list: the money.

Here, once again, the US Senate is key.

That body says it will not contribute government money to a global climate fund that’s meant to spend $100 billion annually on helping poorer countries mitigate and adapt to a changing climate. Reuters reports: “This president is going to go (to Paris) with no money,” said Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito of WV, who chaired a hearing in the Senate environment panel on the international climate negotiations, which began on Nov. 30.

Capito and other Republican members of the committee said they will ensure any deal the U.S. strikes in Paris will face con-

gressional scrutiny, and warned they will block President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget request for the first tranche of the $3 billion pledged last year to the UN Green Climate Fund.

“Without Senate approval (of a climate agreement), there will be no money,” added Senator John Barrasso of WY, acknowledging that guarantees of climate aid to developing countries is “the linchpin” of the Paris climate conference.

This sends yet another powerful message to climate delegates. Even if negotiators stay away from a binding treaty for fear of America’s lack of participation, they won’t be able to entice the developing world to stick to national emissions reductions plans if the carrot in all of this—the climate fund—isn’t being backed by the developed world.

UN spokespeople have been busy this year hedging (read: lowering) expectations so that when the inevitable happens and Paris doesn’t produce some international climate breakthrough, negotiators can still claim some sort of success. The closer we get, though, it’s become clearer & clearer that the cards are stacked against this quixotic green quest.

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William Myers, an attorney for the organizations, asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to invalidate the Forest Service’s decision for violating the National Environmental Policy Act during

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The arguments can be heard at www.ca9. uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_ vid=0000008459.

The agency was required under NEPA to seek the expertise of Donald Knowles, Ph.D., DVM, a scientist at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service who specializes in disease transmission between domestic and bighorn sheep and found significant gaps in the Forest Service’s analysis, Myers said. Because the agency didn’t solicit his advice, the result was a decision that’s prejudicial to sheep producers who relied on the national forest for grazing.

The Idaho Wool Growers Association filed a lawsuit against the 2010 decision to severely curtail sheep grazing in the national forest but the complaint was dismissed last year by a federal judge who said uncertainties about disease transmission were properly considered by the agency.

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Robert Lundman, an attorney for the agency, said the Forest Service wasn’t required to specifically solicit information from USDA ARS in writing its analysis because it’s primarily concerned with agricultural issues, not wildlife issues. Even if the agency were required to solicit the expertise of ARS and Knowles, the omission was a “harmless error” because he nonetheless communicated his concerns to the Forest Service.

“We know what he said and the final EIS responded to that uncertainty,” Lundman said.

The Idaho Wool Growers Association argues that any contact between the Forest Service and Knowles was “grudging” and insufficient to meaningfully affect the decision to cut grazing.

The judges did not indicate when they would make a ruling in the case.

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NMSU sets Ag Days Degree program for December 15 & 16 in Clovis

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“Our constituents spoke and we listened. After two years in Las Cruces, the Ag Days Degree program will move to different locations throughout the state each year,” said Marcy Wade, NMSU Cooperative Extension Service livestock specialist.

“This year, Ag Days will be held in Clovis.”

The two-day program in a classroom setting will be Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 15 and 16, at the Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd. Registration is 8 a.m. each.

The Ag Days Degree Program is for anyone interested in learning the fundamental concepts of agriculture industries.

Topics of the classes include introduction to ruminant nutrition, fundamentals of crop science, forages, soil science, how to monitor range conditions and principles of agriculture economics.

The selection of courses will be available in three different tracks. People will be able to choose one course within a track or attend all the courses in a specific track.

The tracks are: n Agronomy/forage, which will cover topics related to farming row crops, forage production, soil management and agricultural economics of commodities. n Animal science, which will teach the fundamentals in bovine management and husbandry, including nutrition, animal health and handling and reproduction. n Natural resource management, which is designed to train and demonstrate the benefits of record keeping, resource management monitoring and U.S. Department of Agriculture program updates.

Visit nmbeef.nmsu.edu for a complete list of courses.

“Hands-on labs are also a popular component of the two-day program,” Ward said. “This year, attendees will have their choice of plant identification, implementing USDA’s Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program monitoring, principles of artificial insemination, or pesticide/ herbicide use in crops and forages.”

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Roast Perfect app for consumers

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early a quarter of consumers say they’ve never cooked a beef roast, and 43 percent cook one roast or less per year.

That’s according to a new survey, conducted jointly by the Beef Checkoff and the Certified Angus Beef® (CAB®) brand.

Consumers cited “not enough time” and “don’t know how,” among other reasons for not roasting, even though almost three in 10 admit they have no idea how long the process takes.

Heading into the holiday season seems like the ideal time to change that, says Margaret Coleman, CAB assistant director of digital marketing.

“We looked at all the available tools and apps out there, and they were mostly geared toward grilling or a general roasting timer,” Coleman says. “We saw that as a major opportunity.”

Turkey and ham are often the center of many holiday tables, but the survey showed 30 percent of the population also considers beef roast appropriate for a holiday meal.

“We need to show them how to be successful when selecting and preparing a roast, especially when you consider that beef is sold at a substantial premium compared to pork and poultry,” Coleman says.

The research found nearly two-thirds of consumers don’t know what cuts of beef are best for roasting and 19 percent say they don’t know how to prepare a roast.

Until now.

This month, CAB launched Roast Perfect, a free app for smartphones and tablets designed to help consumers easily buy, prepare and enjoy a variety of beef roasts.

The app is available now for both Apple and Android devices.

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The highlights include: n Select A Roast: From a tenderloin roast to the classic bone-in rib, select a type of roast and total people being served.

The app then calculates the number of pounds of beef to buy, as well as suggested roast recipes for that cut and side dish pairings from Le Creuset®. n Recipes & Tips: Browse recipes based on roast type, keyword search or bloggers’ favorites. “Heart” certain recipes to save in your Favorites Folder, or send directly to the printer with one tap. There’s also a “Degrees of Doneness” guide paired with helpful images, as well as video tutorials and step-by-step directions that demonstrate roasting techniques, such as how to choose, tie and carve. n Roasting Timer: Simply select the roast type, weight and desired degree of doneness, and the app provides an automatic timer to guide you in the kitchen. n Store Locator: Search local retailers and grocery stores by ZIP code, or tap the Current Location button to view stores nearby.

“We’ve really tried to make this app very user-friendly and intuitive,” Coleman says. “The ultimate goal is to give consumers more confidence in cooking beyond n ground beef dishes and steaks.”

Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission Removes Gray Wolf from State Endangered Species List

by ASHLEY REMILLARD, ENDANGERED SPECIES LAW & POLICY n November 9, 2015, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission (Commission) voted to remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) from protection under the Oregon Endangered Species Act. The Commission meeting lasted almost 10 hours, with more than 100 people providing public testimony.

The decision was the result of a 4-2 vote by the Commission. The decision follows the recommendation of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to delist the wolf. The wolf delisting will not impact the management of the species under the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan (Wolf Plan), which emphasizes non-lethal deterrence measures to resolve wolf & livestock conflicts.

Under the Wolf Plan, ranchers can only shoot a wolf caught in the act of wounding, biting, killing or chasing livestock. In addition, the Commission’s decision will not impact how the majority of Oregon’s approximately 83 wolves are managed. The gray wolf is still listed under the federal Endangered Species Act in the western n two-thirds of the state.

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worms, house crickets, migratory locusts, sun beetles, and Dubia cockroaches.

They were the first ones, ever, in the whole wide world to quantify the amounts of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) released per kilogram of insect meat.Their findings were that the amounts of gases released by insects to be much smaller than those released by cattle and pigs.

One example given was that mealworms produce between ten and a hundred times less greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram than do pigs, leading the researchers to “advocate for replacing cattle with insects.”

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This column reviews a weird year, with insect meat, toad roads, bobcat bridges & zoo poo Insect Meat

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his is the season when one can reflect back on the happenings and issues that have occurred over the previous months. As one who reports in issues affecting the West and especially livestock producers, I can definitely say this has been one weird year.

It started on January 4th, when I wrote about scientists in the Netherlands who published a study on their discovery that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs.After critiquing the environmental costs of the current methods of producing meat, the learned professors at Wageningen University undertook studies of meal-

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early adopters and enter into the latest management and production techniques.

Let’s analyze what this would bring us if we established an insect ranch.

For one thing, we’d be way ahead on capital outlays and annual production costs: • Instead of ropes all you need is a flyswatter • You can brand with a toothpick • Use thimbles for water tanks and popsicle sticks for fences • You can trade your trailer for a matchbox, and • Switch from bedeezers to tweezers Like any new operation there will be challenges.For instance, how do you preg test a Praying Mantis?

But there would be fun things too. For instance, think of all the fun you’ll have marketing maggot meat.

I see one big drawback though:instead of calf fries on the campfire you’ll be having grasshopper gonads on your cigarette lighter.

Wildlife Wackiness

While one group of numbskulls were promoting mealworm meatloaf, other entities were making extraordinary efforts at great expense to keep all kinds of critters alive.

You’ll recall the Toad Road, where in New Jersey they installed a series of five underground tunnels to help toads and other small animals get to the opposite side. Wooden fencing surrounds each tunnel entrance and lines the roadway, making the tunnels the only way for the animals to cross the road.

Most recently, we have the California plan to protect bobcats and other wildlife by building “the nation’s largest wildlife overpass”, a 165-foot-wide, 200-foot-long, landscaped bridge over the 101 Freeway.

It may be over a freeway, but it won’t be free. The California Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority has released a study by Caltrans concluding the wildlife overpass was feasible with a projected cost of $33 million to $38 million.

Now we’ll have a Bobcat Bridge to go along with the Toad Road. One on each

coast. They’ll make nice bookends for Obamaland.

Dinosaur Bones & Zoo Poo The Bureau of Land Management and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science recently completed a fouryear project of excavating two ancient creatures known as Pentaceratops from the badlands of northwestern New Mexico.

Problem was the bones of the baby and adult dinosaur were located in the Bisti Wilderness, where no motorized vehicles or mechanized equipment is allowed.“All the excavation we had to do by hand,” the Museum’s chief curator said. “We had to haul the plaster, the water, the tools, in by hand.”

An exception to this policy was allowed to remove the skeletal remains, as the NM National Guard showed up with their Blackhawk helicopters and lifted them out of the Wilderness to a place where vehicles were allowed.

This made me think of the time several years ago I was giving a presentation on Wilderness to a group when a member of the audience stood up and said he was employed by the local BLM and asked to speak. Turns out he was the chief over

the firefighters. He told us of an incident where a firefighter had broken a leg in a Wilderness area. They asked for a chopper to extract the injured. Since the injury was not “life threatening” their request was denied and they had to carry him out by hand.

One can only conclude that, to the feds anyway, dead dinosaur bones are more important than live human ones.

Then we had this heart-breaking story out of Denver. The Denver Zoo set out ten years ago to become “the greenest zoo in the country” and a zero-waste facility by 2025. They were to accomplish this by developing a technique to transform elephant dung and other waste at the zoo into fuel pellets that would generate electricity through a gasification process. What a great idea! The EPA and the National Renewable Energy Lab got involved. The zoo showed off the potential of its poo by powering a blender to make margaritas and, later, a motorized rickshaw that went on a promotional tour to zoos across the West. The $4 million plant was nearing completion but the zoo was experiencing a problem with those pellets. “What we were still working on was pellet consistency,” a zoo official said. “How do you create a con-

sistent pellet out of an inconsistent waste stream?”

That’s too bad because the zoo has hired a new CEO who has put together a new master plan and turning elephant dung into energy isn’t in it.

Who knew that elephant dung was so diverse? It will make margaritas and run rickshaws but that’s it?

They were done in by the PCP ... the pellet consistency problem. Guess these dung dumbies just couldn’t get their you know what together.

Yup, it was a very weird year.

Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Very Prosperous New Year.

Till next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch.

Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship

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NMSU weed expert Rick Arnold retires after 36 years with university

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or 36 years, Rick Arnold has been the go-to guy regarding weed control in the Four Corners region.

Agricultural producers in the area have relied on the field trials he has conducted at the New Mexico State University Agricultural Science Center at Farmington to help them buy herbicides that are proven to work in the region.

On Oct. 31, Arnold took on a new role – retiree. While he might be retired from NMSU, the highly honored weed specialist says he’ll probably continue to help area producers as a consultant.

“I was born and raised in the Four Corners region and have worked here since 1975, when I returned home from attending NMSU,” said the Central High School Class of 1971 alum.

With a degree in crop science, Arnold began working at Navajo Agricultural Products Industry as an assistant technical service director. In 1979, he moved over to

NMSU’s science center, located on NAPI land south of Farmington, where he was a research assistant.

“I started as an entomologist, but quickly realized insects are not really a problem in this climate,” he said. “But weeds are. Whenever you apply water to new, virgin land, you’re going to have weeds. Seeds to undesired plants have lain dormant in the soil for as long as 80 years, until there is enough water applied to the soil for them to germinate.”

While he has worked his entire NMSU career at the Farmington science center, his titles reflect his professional growth from research assistant, instructor and assistant professor to pest management specialist, college professor and, finally, superintendent of the science center.

During his years at the agricultural science center, Arnold’s research interests, besides weed control, have been insect control in crops and the revegetation of disturbed land around oil and gas wells.

“Working with the oil and gas industry was rewarding,” he said. “We developed a mixture of varieties of cold- and warm-season grasses seeds to revegetate the well sites to prevent erosion. The research also included using coal-bed-methane-produced water for establishing the grasses.”

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He also worked on a study of desalination technology for treating coal-bednatural-gas-produced water to provide for rehabilitation of the riparian area and rangeland.

Through the years, Arnold and the other NMSU faculty at the Farmington science center have published the results of their research and field trial.

Arnold is respected by fellow weed experts throughout the western United States. He has held a wide range of offices with the Western Society of Weed Science and the Weed Science Society of America.

He has also received honors from various professional organizations, including being named a Western Society of Weed Sciences Fellow in 2010 and Outstanding Weed Scientist for the Public Sector in 2006, and receiving the Bureau of Land Management’s Leadership Award and the NMSU Staff Appreciation Award in 2004.

Other honors have included his Distinguished Educator Award in 2011 from the Rocky Mountain Agribusiness Association, Outstanding Young Agriculturist in 1980 from the Farmington Chamber of Commerce, Honorary Chapter Member in 1992 from the Kirtland Chapter of Future Farmers of America, & Outstanding Young Farmer in 1980 from the N.M. Jaycees. n

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The Department of the Interior’s Blueprint For Harming the Sage Grouse

by BRIAN SEASHOLES, DIRECTOR, REASON FOUNDATION ENDANGERED SPECIES PROJECT

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f you want to harm the sage grouse, a chicken-sized bird that roams across 171 million acres in 11 western states, follow the Interior Department’s blueprint. The sage grouse has been in the news a lot lately because in September the Department announced with much fanfare that the bird would not be proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Many cheered because the Act’s penalty-based approach, which harms species by creating huge incentives for landowners to rid their property of species and habitat and does enormous economic damage, was avoided.

This good news, however, was a mirage because the Interior Department substituted 15 amended federal land use plans for listing under the Endangered Species Act. The plans, which cover almost 73 million acres of federal land, perpetuate the penalty-based approach that will very likely harm the grouse and western states’ economies.

Over the past decade, successful conservation efforts and favorable weather conditions have resulted in a minimum sage grouse population of almost 425,000 that increased by 0.78 percent annually.

Now, this success is in jeopardy due to the 15 amended federal land use plans.

Successful sage grouse conservation, which is based on a cooperative approach led by states, in partnership with landowners, counties, conservation groups, energy companies and universities, has several key elements that illustrate how badly out of step the Interior Department is with the on-the-ground realities of conserving the grouse.

First, a holistic “all lands” focus is necessary, which states have embraced, because sage grouse don’t recognize lines on a map and range widely across private, state and federal lands. This holistic focus also incorporates the two “halves” of the proverbial conservation coin: the entire biophysical environment that consists of all lands; and the social “environment,” otherwise known as people — most notably private landowners, because they own almost all of the keystone moist habitat without which sage grouse cannot survive.

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sage grouse is typically thought of as a “federal lands” species because 64 percent of its habitat is federally owned, compared to 31 percent for private lands. But this misses the indispensible role of private lands. A 2014 federal study found that 81 percent of the moist habitat sage grouse depend on during the summer – such as wet meadows, streamsides and ponds – is privately owned. “Wetlands are keystone features that structure [sage grouse] populations,” Patrick Donnelly, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and lead investigator of the study, said.

Donnelly and co-investigators found that leks, the sage grouse courtship and breeding sites located in dryer habitats, are mostly on federal lands, with the highest densities being within 1.8 miles of moist habitat. “In other words, the scarcity of wet habitats in sagebrush ecosystems drive the location of grouse breeding sites on uplands: hens choose to mate and nest within a reasonable walk of where they can find late summer foraging for their broods,” according to a federal summary of the study. This has profound implications for sage grouse conservation. “How do you conserve grouse that split their time between private and public lands?” asks Donnelly. “With 81 percent of sparse summer habitat in private ownership, sage grouse success is inextricably linked to ranching and farming in the West.”

Just as private lands are the keystone habitat, private landowners are the keystone people for sage grouse conservation on private and federal lands. Ranchers hold permits to graze livestock on the vast majority of federally owned sage grouse habitat, which makes them ideally positioned to implement conservation measures for grouse on federal lands, as well as their nearby private lands. These thousands of ranchers, and their tens of thousands of family members and employees, are the largest “installed base” of people able to conserve the sage grouse because they live on the land 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, have very detailed knowledge of local biophysical and social environments, are by profession land and resource managers, and possess a deep attachment to the land and its conservation.

Third, successful sage grouse conservation is based heavily on agricultural extension, or extension as it is often called.

Extension provides technical assistance and cost sharing to help landowners improve the health and productivity of their lands, and it is the ideal model for the conservation of sensitive and endan-

gered species because it is incentive-based, rather than penalty-based, popular with landowners, and has a decades-long track record of success across the country in a wide variety of applications.

A good example of this success is the Sage Grouse Initiative, started by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2010. “The Sage Grouse Initiative is a new paradigm for conserving at-risk wildlife that works through voluntary cooperation, incentives, and community support,” according to the Department. By using extension, the Sage Grouse Initiative, as well as states, have conserved at least 7,000,000 acres of sage grouse habitat, including reclaiming more than 950,000 acres by removing encroaching conifers, and working with over 1,100 ranchers to implement grazing plans that benefit sage grouse on 2.5 million acres.

Fourth, successful conservation, whether for the sage grouse or any species, depends on high quality data. And the states have by far the highest quality data on sage grouse.

Fifth, sage grouse conservation needs to be flexible, innovative and site-specific given the enormous geographic and temporal variability across the species’ 171 million-acre range. This is reflected in state-based conservation plans — 11 statewide plans and 46 local plans — and the approximately 60 local working groups that are crucial for implementing conservation measures across the sage grouse’s range.

Sixth, the sage grouse is in many ways a “conservation-reliant” species, meaning it requires long-term, if not indefinite, conservation because the threats to it and measures to help it take long time periods to address and implement. The sage grouse needs hands-on conservation and a wide variety of people willing to pitch in to help, which, as the past decade has shown, is accomplished through the cooperative, incentive-based approach, coupled with states’ site-specific conservation plans and local working groups.

Seventh, successful sage grouse conservation must be sustainable and longterm due to the long time frames it takes to restore sagebrush habitat and the need to build durable relationships and partnerships. According to Pat Deibert, National Sage Grouse Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sagebrush ecosystems have “long restoration times: 20 to > 100 years depending on species and conditions.” Similarly, successful partnerships and relationships, especially with landowners, take years to develop and must be

sustained with trust and goodwill if they are to endure over the long-term.

By contrast, the 15 amended federal land use plans will very likely harm the sage grouse because they work directly against and fail to incorporate the factors necessary for successfully conserving the species. The plans are harmful because they: are penalty-based, instead of incentive-based; myopically focus on federal lands, thereby completely ignoring the keystone private lands; incorporate low quality and even erroneous data; are constructed on “a ‘Just Say No’ philosophy”, according to the State of Utah, which is “built upon the incorrect axiom that, once these restrictions are in place, conservation of the bird will follow”; are essentially fifteen cookie-cutter versions of the same plan constructed around an unsustainable, short-term framework; and are fixated on achieving “certainty” through penalties and regulations that actually decreases certainty by creating mistrust, eroding collaboration, alienating landowners, and breaking partnerships. Sage grouse conservation requires a delicate touch, not the Interior Department’s heavy-handed method.

When landowners and people who work

the land are punished for harboring species and habitat, they are unlikely to encourage the conservation of either. “Disgruntled landowners make poor conservationists,” observed David Farrier, professor of law at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

The 15 amended land use plans are creating a lot of disgruntled landowners.

For example, the plans are poised to shove livestock off tens of millions of acres of federal land, which will most likely end up harming sage grouse. “The failure of a national strategy to recognize sage-grouse dependence on private lands may result in regulations which ultimately increase sage-grouse habitat loss and fragmentation on private lands if landowners are forced to intensify management actions to offset lost revenues from public land grazing allotments,” according to comments filed by Utah about the state’s amended federal plan.

The Interior Department’s fixation on regulation instead of conservation is causing attitudes to harden, goodwill to evaporate, conflict to supplant cooperation, and landowners to retreat and refuse to become involved in efforts to help the sage grouse. Idaho, Nevada, nine Nevada counties, several mining companies, and the

Wyoming Stockgrowers Association have filed lawsuits against the amended plans.

All of this was perfectly avoidable if the Interior Department had not given in to its impulse for penalty-based conservation.

The Department’s approach is so unnecessary because, as the Sage Grouse Initiative and state-based efforts have shown, there is an alternate, successful path to sage grouse conservation. It is a sad day when people willing to pitch in and help the sage grouse are discouraged and punished for doing so by their own government.

While the courts may rule in favor of those seeking to overturn the harmful amended federal land use plans, and thereby give states and others breathing room to continue successful sage grouse conservation efforts, this is far from certain. A more durable solution is for Congress to step in and require the 15 amended plans to be withdrawn, completely overhauled and based on the proven successful approach to sage grouse conservation taken by states, landowners and the Sage Grouse Initiative. Until then, it looks like the federal government is going to harm the sage grouse in the name of helping it.

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Devolution: A Canadian Solution to Excessive Federal Ownership of Public Lands KARLA JONES, AMERICANLEGISLATOR.ORG

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ernment to the territorial governments.

However, before devolution, the situation in the Canadian territories was strikingly similar to the one in the American West today. U.S. federal control of public lands in the states from Colorado westward ranges from more than 30 percent in Montana to more than 80 percent in Nevada. The U.S. government administers more than 50 percent of the land inside the borders of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, and only 4 percent of land in the East.

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This disproportionate western federal land ownership has far-reaching effects on states’ ability to grow and diversify economically and to fund vital public services such as education, infrastructure maintenance and construction, law enforcement and social services. There is ample evidence that the states would serve as superior economic and environmental stewards of the public lands inside their borders. According to a recent study conducted by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Divided Lands: State vs. Federal Management in the West, “state trust agencies produce far greater financial returns from land management than federal land agencies.” State land trusts price land leases in response to market forces and are mandated to make more money on land leases than they spend.

Bureaucratic redundancy and a cumbersome regulatory system limit the federal government’s flexibility to price leases appropriately and Washington has no direct fiduciary responsibility or accountability to the residents of the state where the land is located.

The federal government’s record on protecting the environment is also lacking.

Large wildfires on federal lands increased by 75 percent from the years 1980-1989 to the years 2000-2009, and mismanagement of the federal estate is widely believed to be one of the driving factors behind the increase. A Congressional Research Service report, Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data, attributes the problem to “poor logging practices, overgrazing and [excessive] fire control” leading to more flammable biomass. State lawmakers predict that the fuel loads on federally administered lands could lead to even greater numbers of catastrophic blazes and complain that federal policies have precluded roads in some forest regions that hinder firefighting efforts. The federal government’s own assessment is discouraging.

The Department of the Interior estimates that deferred maintenance for the lands it administers runs into the billions of dollars and the National Park Service recently announced that it delayed $11.5 billion in maintenance in 2014 alone.[i] Particularly disheartening is that in administering the federal estate, the government fails to capitalize on those opportunities where economic and environmental interests dovetail. According to Bureau of Land Management assessments, federal grazing lands do not meet the agency’s

own standards for land health, which helps to explain why on average the state land trusts for Arizona, Idaho, Montana and New Mexico earn $4.89 for each dollar spent on grazing leases compared to the federal government which earns less than 15 cents for each dollar spent.[ii] In another stunning example of missed opportunity, the federal government is not permitted to lease lands to conservation groups for restoration. The states have no such restrictions and are compelled to accept competitive offers whether they originate with mining companies or a group committed to restoring the land.

Much state public land has been leased for just this purpose.

This experience is driving state and, more recently, federal initiatives to transfer control of federally administered lands to the states. Federal and state legislation exclude national parks, federally designated wilderness areas, military installations and tribal lands from transfer.

and Nunavut. Just like in the U.S., Ottawa’s geographical distance from the lands it administered resulted in bureaucratic redundancy and lack of local accountability. In 2003, Yukon became the first territory to be awarded jurisdiction over its territorial lands and resources, and nine years on, scholars at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario issued a report confirming “that devolution has generally had a positive effect on the territory and in particular has led to more efficient and responsive land use…” From 2003-2012, Yukon’s real GDP growth exceeded the national rate and private sector contributions to the economy increased substantially. Yukon’s unemployment rate remains below the national average, and understanding the importance of tourism to the economy, Yukon has protected its lands, and has been rewarded by tourism revenues of $200 million annually.

Emboldened by Yukon’s experience, devolution became official for the NWT on April 1, 2014. NWT Premier Stephen Kakfwi explained the importance of this step as a way to job creation and an enhanced standard of living. After preparation for devolution began, NWT realized the vastness of its untapped resources. The ter-

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Canada offers a glimpse into what could be the U.S. post-transfer of public lands future. Canada’s federal government once controlled huge swathes of all three territories – Yukon, Northwest Territories

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Devolution has given Northerners more control over their own economic and political destiny by placing decision making about land and resources in Northerners’ hands. It is increasing the prosperity of the NWT by giving the territorial government the power to collect and share in resource revenues.

Further evidence that devolution is a Canadian success story is that Nunavut, the only territory without control of its public lands, is seeking an agreement as early as autumn 2015. Devolution is a Canadian idea that the U.S. should borrow and make its own.

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Corn is in the wool game, and fine wool with a staple length of 3-plus inches compared to a medium grade with a 2.75-inch staple means more profit for the producer. he American Sheep Industry says And that can be accomplished through “Let’s Grow.” The campaign is better genetics. designed to lead the industry into Likewise, producing more meat for the future through innovation and hungry consumers can be accomplished sustainability. though the use of EBVs. The U.S. imports But how does a seedstock or commernearly 50 percent of lamb consumed – a cial producer get from point A to point B? number that is simply not acceptable to One of the answers, according to the those on industry planning committees.

Let’s Grow initiative and the Sheep IndusSusan Shultz, of Bunker Hill Farm in try Roadmap is: genetic improvement.

DeGraff, Ohio, sits on the Let’s Grow comThat’s where the National Sheep mittee as well as chairing the Roadmap Improvement Program comes in.

Product Improvement committee; her “Quantitative genetics has the most husband, Bill, is on the NSIP board. potential to get us where we need to “We need to increase productivity and go,” says Mike Corn of Roswell Wool profitability and one of the primary in Roswell, New Mexico. Corn is chairways to do that is through genetic man of the Let’s Grow committee. improvement,” says Shultz. “Using “The genetics are out there. We have NSIP EBVs can increase lambing rates. to make the best use of them. ProWe can breed specifically for that.” ducing more with less is key to any Redden says Montana producers industry these days, and utilizing our have increased lambing rates in the genetics to their full potential is how Targhee breed by roughly 10 percent we will grow.” by using the top 25 percent of rams on It’s all about the EBV the Western Range Index. An index is “NSIP is the vehicle, but it’s the a calculated mix of trait data designed estimated breeding values that are the to simplify selection. While Targhees tool for growth,” explains Reid Redare primarily focused on wool proden, PhD, sheep and goat specialist duction, maternal farm flock breeds with Texas A&M Agrilife Extension and have seen similar results. Midwest chairman of the NSIP board of direcPolypay breeders have seen a 20 pertors. cent increase in weaning rate by using Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) the top 25 percent of rams on the U.S. are a science-based, industry-tested Maternal Index. measurements of heritable traits that Mike Corn – Mike Corn of Roswell Wool is chairman Shultz is aware the American conpredict genetic performance. An aniof the Let’s Grow committee. “It doesn’t take any sumer expects a consistent, quality mal’s value is assessed based on its more space or nutrients to raise sheep with superior product – another goal that can be genetics than those without,” says Corn. performance data and pedigree. And best met through the use of the right breeding decisions can be targeted to genetics. “We have a responsibility to highlight specific needs and goals. not be successful and improve the genetic provide an enjoyable eating experience Used in other forms of livestock produc- potential of the U.S. sheep flock. each and every time. If we’re using the best tion for decades (EPDs, or Expected ProgCorn says once commercial producers genetics, we can produce lamb that we are eny Differences, in cattle for instance), become familiar with the data, then start proud to put on a plate.”

EBVs allow producers to choose genetics getting post-harvest feedback from the Redden says sheep bred for steady, consisthat can best enhance their operations’ packers, there will be no turning back. tent growth can hit a target lamb meat marproduction goals.

“I’ve seen them at the sales with the data. ket that suits consumers and brings the best “This technology has been out there for Their papers are all colored and scratched prices for producers. “It’s not just about big25 years,” says Redden. “We’re behind the up. They’re hungry for that information.” ger is better. In the Targhee breed they use times on implementation. We have some Birth weights, weaning weights, lambing an index that gives a positive value to weancatching up to do.” In fact, he suggests rates, loin eye size, wool characteristics – ing weight, and a negative value to yearling sheep producers who would like to learn all are sifted through, contemplated, and weight. It’s about controlling the growth.” more ask their beef producer neighbors to judged for relevance in the commercial Learning a new way explain. herd.

Shultz says the key to bringing producComing late in the game may have ers – both seedstock and commercial – on its advantages. “We can see the mistakes Leaving money on the table “It doesn’t take any more space or nutri- board with industry goals and new technolothers have made,” says Corn. “It’s pretty clear now how to use this technology. We ents to raise sheep with superior genetics ogy is education. The Let’s Grow initiative than those without,” says Corn, “but the is in the midst of its second round of grant can just start in.”

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“First,” says Redden, “seedstock producers need to commit to enrolling in the program.” Enrollment is followed by data collection and submission, then using that data to make breeding decisions that benefit customers and industry needs.

“Understand, simply enrolling in the program does not automatically mean you have better sheep,” he cautions. “You have to use that data to improve the next generation.”

Next, he says, the commercial producer needs to demand EBVs from seedstock operations that supply breeding animals.

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NSIP, of course, Redden says or your local the need to extension agent. embrace the If your local Sale – Buyers pour over EBVs at the Center of the new age simply agent can’t Nation Sale in Spencer, Iowa. By using the data to cannot be overanswer your stated: “On both make their selections, producers can identify the questions, they the individual best breeding stock for their operation. will find out or producer and forward you to industry-wide your regional or state specialist.” Or find levels we need this technology to be comany one of several upcoming webinars and petitive and profitable – and sustainable seminars scheduled through Let’s Grow. for future generations.”

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ilt Yarberry (1849-1883) was born thing of reputation as a gunman. He was trapdoor. Some reported at the time that a in Arkansas as John Armstrong, alleged to have singlehandedly prevented newspaper story regarding the affair bore according to one source, although a train robbery in Kansas, although that the headline, “Milt Yarberry: Jerked to he used several aliases over the years. He may have been malarkey, too.

Jesus,” and former New Mexico State Hisbegan his career as a killer and thief at an On a Sunday afternoon in March, Harry torian Robert Tórrez searched diligently early age in both Arkansas and Texas and took Sadie for a buggy ride along Rail- for the source of that quote, without sucdeparted from both as a fugitive and set- road Avenue (now Central Avenue) and cess. While New Mexico’s elder historian, tled for a time in Colorado. Two of his bet- stopped at a restaurant for a meal. Milt Marc Simmons, wrote in his award-winter known associates were outlaws Dave is said to have approached the couple as ning book, Albuquerque, that the term (Mysterious Dave) Mather and Dave (Dirty Sadie entered the eating establishment. was applied to the Yarberry execution, he Dave) Rudabaugh, both of whom were Words were exchanged between Milt and offered no source for the quote. associated with Billy the Kid at one time Harry and, according to popular legend, Mr. Tórrez recently wrote, “The Santa or another. Yarberry is reported to have Milt drew his pistol and shot Harry in Fe Daily New Mexican and Albuquerque’s killed five or six men before he arrived in the chest a time or two, killing him. Milt Morning Journal both seem to agree that Albuquerque and became town marshal in turned himself in to Sheriff Armijo and the upward jerk broke Yarberry’s neck and 1881. claimed self defense even though many at death was instantaneous. The Albuquerque One source reported the he was hired the time believed that Harry was unarmed. paper, however, added that Yarberry’s head by the local merchants’ association, which Whichever it was, Milt was acquitted and struck the crossbeam of the scaffold as his was not an unusual practice at the time. returned to his work as town marshal. body was violently jerked upward. This After all, the community enjoyed the benIn June of the same year, again on a gruesome development may have caused efits of having a regular peace officer on Sunday afternoon, Milt and a friend were officials to wonder whether Yarberry was the job without having to pay taxes to sitting on the sidewalk in front of a Rail- killed by the jerking action of the rope support him. It wasn’t much of a benefit road Avenue saloon drinking whiskey. or by the impact of his head against the when it came to Milt Yarberry, though. A The marshal heard the sound of a shot crossbeam and may explain why the “jerk” second source indicated that Yarberry was some blocks distant, and he investigated device was never again utilized in an exeappointed town constable by Bercution in New Mexico. However, nalillo County Sheriff Perfecto then I have found that the “... according to popular legend, since Armijo. What most likely hapcatchy, if irreverent, “Jerked to pened was that the merchants Milt drew his pistol & shot Harry Jesus” phrase is actually found hired and paid Milt and the sherin the February 8, 1880, [Las in the chest a time or two ...” iff deputized him as a courtesy.

Vegas] Optic report on the triple That was also a common practice lynchings of Tom Henry (aka and the sheriff gained a deputy and did not by approaching a group of men and ask- Thomas Jefferson House), James West, have to pay him. ing who fired the shot. One of the men and John Dorseyon Las Vegas’ notorious In many ways, Yarberry was a poor fit allegedly pointed at a man walking on the “hanging windmill.” That day the paper for the job of town peace officer. For one opposite side of the street and said he was expressed a certain admiration for Henry’s thing, he was illiterate and described by the culprit. Milt, in his wisdom, pulled his calm demeanor in the moments before he some as not very bright. In character, he pistol and fired numerous shots at the man was “jerked to Jesus.” was a drunken loud-mouth and a bully. As who fell dead of bullet wounds. Milt then Yarberry was buried with the rope still noted above, the dynamics of his hiring are walked across the street and danced a lit- around his neck, and his headstone misnot clear. tle jig around the fallen man and declared spelled his name. Fitting somehow.

He was soon in trouble. Milt, it is said, “I’ve downed the son-of-a-b…..” It turned became enamored of a local grass widow out that the victim was a carpenter for the Selected sources: Don Bullis, New Mexico Historical Biographies named Sadie Preston. (A grass widow in railroad named Charles Campbell who was Howard Bryan, Albuquerque the parlance of the day was usually a divor- not only unarmed, but did not even own Leon Metz, Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws and cee or an unmarried mother.) She may not a gun. The self-defense plea didn’t work a Gunfighters have been from Albuquerque at all. Some second time. Milt was tried, convicted and Chris Penn, “Harry Brown: Express Messenger,” Journal of the Wild West History Association, April report that she arrived from Colorado sentenced to death. about the same time Milt did. Whatever He was hanged in Albuquerque on 2008 the case, by early 1881 she was keeping February 9, 1883 by means of an innova- Marc Simmons, Albuquerque, A Narrative History company with a local express agent by the tive gallows which jerked the condemned Robert Tórrez, Myth of the Hanging Tree name of Harry Brown. Brown had some- upward instead of dropping him through a 68

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zation, titled “The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop o doubt you’ve seen something like products” by M.M. Mekonnen and A.Y. the photo below, a set of solar panels Hoekstra, Hydrology and Earth System attached to a water pump or a corner Sciences, 15(5): 1577-1600. The authors next to a circle that has a 2-3 acre solar state that “Because the water footprint panel system. Whether it’s for cattle or statistics have been formulated using the crops, New Mexico’s farmers and ranch- same methodology – the Global Water ers have been on the leading edge of solar Footprint Standard – they are comparable use and technology. This is typical of our and can be used to tell the complex story industry, we are early adopters of technol- of water.” ogy and on the forefront of conservation.

To find the water footprint, a comWe’ve had to reuse, recycle and reduce modity’s water requirements were measince the beginning of time since farm- sured in green water (rainwater), blue ers and ranchers are typically far removed for surface and groundwater and the grey from major commerce areas and a run to water requirement is freshwater used to town to buy something new was not an distribute nutrients and fertilizer. They option. are totaled for a “gallons per ounce” ratio We are also reducing our water usage. where the lower is obviously better. PeaIn fact, water used for food production nuts, grown on the eastern side of the declined from 3.4 milstate as a dryland crop, lion acre-feet in 1995 to 3 are given a rating of 4.7. million acre-feet in 2010.

This is excellent when Much of that decline is compared against say, attributable to improved walnuts at 73.5 that are irrigation technology heavily irrigated. Not and modernized farming surprisingly rice comes practices such as drip sysin at 16.26 whereas lettems and concrete lined tuce, a big crop in the ditches. Farmers are also southern part of the utilizing precision applistate clocks in at .85 and Photo courtesy of Cheri Lujan, District cation which reduces onions are only slightly Manager, East Torrance SWCD evaporation and runoff. higher at 1.18. We proVariable rate irrigation uses soil moisture duce a lot of milk with a ratio of 5.4 but and topography to target specific areas for that is better than pineapple juice at 6.36. irrigation. And while it is true that food So as you can see, crops grown in our state production accounts for an estimated 80 are already water savers. percent of New Mexico’s water use, it is Another agricultural group that has also true that much of that water returns made innovations in water savings are to aquifers or to rivers and is re-used New Mexico’s dairy farmers. They have downstream. been conserving water for years, using Another method for conservation is lagoon water for irrigation water in adjain seed selection. Plant scientists have cent alfalfa fields. Their conservation developed varieties that require less water efforts also expand to anaerobic digesters and as such are better able to withstand where recycled manure becomes renewdrought. By using these seeds farmers can able energy, helping again to save water maintain yield and quality while decreas- that would have been used in energy proing water usage. duction.

And the crops farmers choose to grow So when people talk about agricultural in New Mexico are themselves conservers use of water or conservation, remember of water according to a 2011 report com- that the agricultural community is already missioned by the United Nations Educa- doing their part to conserve and that grown tional, Scientific and Cultural Organi- ing food is not a waste of water!

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owa Gov. Terry Branstad intervened in a case pending in the U.S. District Court of North Dakota Southwestern Division against the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and their overreaching Waters of the U.S. rule. Gov. Branstad joins in support of 13 other states: North Dakota, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming and New Mexico.

Nationwide, governors or attorney generals from over 31 states have taken action to ensure innovative state-based water quality initiatives, like the Nutrient Reduction Strategy, are not bogged down in Federal bureaucratic red tape.

“The WOTUS rule is a federal overreach that imposes significant barriers and impairs Iowa’s ability to advance innovative, water quality practices that would actually advance our common goal of water quality,” Branstad said. “I ran for Governor in 2010 to return predictability and stability to Iowa and this federal rule increases, rather than decreases uncertainty for Iowa farmers and small businesses.”

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BY JERRY M. HAWKES, DEPT. HEAD NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY

Forward Contracting in the Beef Industry

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hould beef cattle producers forward contract their product? The answer is, yes. Producers hold an advantage in the overall market structure when they are proactive. Forward marketing will eliminate the element of price risk. Beef cattle prices have shown historically to fluctuate as supplies expand and shrink during the fall of each year when inventories typically are at the highest point.

A key component of forward contracting is the established price that is in place for the producer. This process allows the producer to continue to manage the other aspects of the business model without worrying about fluctuations in price. Base prices have been established at the conception of a forward contract, and any price movement up or down has been negated.

Certainly the goal each year for the entity is to be profitable, and thus a financially sustainable business. Forward contracting has been shown to be an exceptionally effective management tool for the beef cattle industry, and should be employed throughout the industry.

Forward contracting will also allow the producer to develop relationships with cattle buyers and organizations that are seeking the available product. Specialty or niche markets are often entered into through the forward contracting mechanism. Price premiums may be available for certain management techniques that meet the buyers demanded product. This process can be a rewarding activity for the beef cattle producer to consider when marketing decisions and relationships are being established for the current and future production cycles.

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The concept and practice of forward contracting is not without risk itself. Price movements are not always negative, and when forward price movement is recognized in the market the producer will not be able to interact with live cattle contracts at that point. Producers have the option of interacting within the market though the speculating process in an attempt to attain financial incentives provided by the market. These opportunities hold significant risk when entered into later in the process.

The industry in 2015 has experienced a dramatically volatile year. The volatility that has been reflected this year, is a prime example of the financial benefit of offsetting price risk with a forward contract earlier in the season. The supply and demand fundamentals that drive the aggregate market showed great fluctuation throughout the late summer and early fall. A forward contract in 2015 could have alleviated much of this process for the producer if employed in late May or early June as is often the case.

Table 1 provides additional insight into the market structure that the industry is presently experiencing. June and July were found to be above the 5-year average, but he market has clearly taken a downward direction since that point in time. Inventories and global market structure have played a significant role in the price swing that has been experienced. Forward contracting can provide protection from rapid price movements as have been recognized during the summer of 2015. Careful planning and evaluating the producer’s mar-

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keting options, while meeting the overall objectives of the firm are essential components of the holistic management plan.

Looking forward to the end of the 2015, it is assumed that the market has the fundamentals in place for forward price movement throughout the year and into early 2016.Holiday season has historically provided a price bump for the industry as demand strengthens at this time. Beef is once again being considered a good value by consumers after years of record setting retail prices. Constraints relative to beef prices going forward are the large supply of substitutes such as; pork and chicken and the strength of the US dollar’s impact n on global demand.

Table 1.Beef Cattle Price Movement.

Department of Defense Shifts Focus to Climate Change

by PATRICK WOOD, TECHNOCRACY.NEWS

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n February 17, 2015, President Obama appointed technocrat Ashton Carter to the cabinet position of Secretary of Defense.

Carter’s background and education is steeped in science. In 1976, he received a double-major in Physics and Medieval History from Yale University, graduating summa cum laude. After becoming a Rhodes Scholar, he received a doctorate in Theoretical Physics in 1979. After this formal education, Carter did postdoctoral work as a research associate fellow at Rockefeller University from 1979 to 1989 and as a research fellow at MIT. Turning away from his career in theoretical physics, Carter instead pursued a career in political science, quickly rising up the ranks of academia and the Department of Defense.

The only reference to Ashton Carter being a member of the Trilateral Commission is on the Trilateral Commission’s own membership list. His online biographies have apparently been scrubbed of this fact.

Subsequently, Carter subtly changed the mission of the Department of Defense with the following press release: DoD Releases Report on Security Implications of Climate Change

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2015 — Global climate change will aggravate problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries, according to a report the Defense Department sent to Congress yesterday.

The Senate Appropriations Committee requested the report in conjunction with the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015, asking that the undersecretary of defense for policy provide a report that identifies the most serious and likely climate-related security risks for each combatant command and the ways those commands integrate risk mitigation into their planning processes.

Fragile States Vulnerable to Disruption The report finds that climate change is a security risk, Pentagon officials said, because it degrades living conditions, human security and the ability of gov-

ernments to meet the basic needs of their populations. Communities and states that already are fragile and have limited resources are significantly more vulnerable to disruption and far less likely to respond effectively and be resilient to new challenges, they added.

“The Department of Defense’s primary responsibility is to protect national security interests around the world,” officials said in a news release announcing the report’s submission. “This involves considering all aspects of the global security environment and planning appropriately for potential contingencies and the possibility of unexpected developments both in the near and the longer terms.

“It is in this context,” they continued, “that the department must consider the effects of climate change — such as sea level rise, shifting climate zones and more frequent and intense severe weather events — and how these effects could impact national security.”

Integrating Climate-Related Impacts Into Planning To reduce the national security implications of climate change, combatant commands are integrating climate-related impacts into their planning cycles, officials said. The ability of the United States and other countries to cope with

the risks and implications of climate change requires monitoring, analysis and integration of those risks into existing overall risk management measures, as appropriate for each combatant command, they added.

The report concludes the Defense Department already is observing the impacts of climate change in shocks and stressors to vulnerable nations and communities, including in the United States, the Arctic, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America, officials said.

Thus, we see that Carter is “integrating climate-related impacts into their planning cycles.”

In contrast and according to the Department’s own web site, “The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country.”

Is this a significant shift? You bet it is, and it is at the instance of a top-tier global n technocrat, Ashton Carter.

AgriLife Extension Offers New Livestock Guardian Dog Publication

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ersonnel from Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in San Angelo have completed the publication Livestock Guardian Dogs.

“This publication is a guide for sheep and goat farmers and ranchers who are looking at using livestock guardian dogs to protect their sheep and goats from predation,” said Reid Redden, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension state sheep and goat specialist at the center.

Redden was joined in authoring the work by John Walker, Ph.D., AgriLife Research Center director and John Tomecek, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension wildlife specialist.

“This publication is for producers interested in using guardian dogs for the first time,” Redden said. “It’s also for those who may have had some previous troubles with guardian dogs protecting their flocks and herds against predators. The information presented will help both audiences get started on the right foot and maybe resolve some issues that they’ve seen in the past.”

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Of all the forages grown in New Mexico, alfalfa is by far the most economically important, comprising more than 220,000 acres, worth more than $280 million.

New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences’ forage team strives to help farmers meet the state’s forage needs.

The team consists of Cooperative Extension Service specialists and agricultural research faculty.

Besides conducting research, the team presents the latest research-based information at conferences and workshops.

During the first-ever National Forage Week, June 21-27, promoted by the American Forage & Grassland Council, Mark Marsalis, NMSU Extension forage specialist, reflected on the importance of forage and the work NMSU is doing.

“The impact of forage goes well beyond the direct value of the marketed product.

The ripple effect of a hay, pasture or silage feed is far-reaching and impacts our daily lives in many different ways that many people may not realize,” Marsalis said.

“Forages contribute a significant amount to New Mexico’s economy through support industry job creation; beef, dairy and wool operations; horse, goat and alpaca industries; and even honey production; in addition to providing environmental benefits such as soil protection and improvement of wildlife habitat.”

Forage crops in New Mexico include alfalfa and other hay, wheat for pasture, and corn, sorghum and small grain silages.

These crops are not only grown as stored feeds, they also are used for livestock pastures that are frequently visited by big game, migratory birds and other wildlife.

“Hay acreage remains fairly constant from one year to the next in the state, and the value of New Mexico’s hay per ton is usually higher than the national average,” Marsalis said. “We have the perfect climate in New Mexico to grow excellent, high-quality hay – that is, as long as we have irrigation to do so.”

However, dwindling irrigation supplies and recent droughts have severely hindered the producers’ ability to grow alfalfa and other forage crops. It is this urgency of water shortage and future sustainability that drives much of the research conducted by NMSU’s forage team.

The research being conducted at NMSU’s facilities includes a wide array of projects that focus on forage species that are either currently raised in the state, such as alfalfa, or alternative species that show promise or are underutilized.

“One such species being investigated is perennial cereal rye,” Marsalis said. “This crop, which was developed in Canada, is very similar to the traditionally grown annual cereal rye without the annual input costs and soil disturbance associated with other small grains, such as wheat. It can persist for three or more years and may provide a short-lived perennial pasture for grazing operations.”

It may also have higher forage quality than many of the perennial species used currently for pasture.

“It is uncertain if it will persist under New Mexico’s growing conditions, so it is being studied at both NMSU’s Agricultural Science Centers at Los Lunas and Tucumcari for persistence and growth characteristics,” he said.

Other non-traditional forages are being studied for potential utilization in the challenging environment of New Mexico.

These include teff, guar, canola and forage kochia.

“It is important to consider other crops to see if they have a fit in the different forage-based systems throughout New Mexico,” Marsalis said. “It is especially critical to identify those species that may be a better fit in severely water-limited conditions or those that diversify an operation to provide greater drought mitigation and economic stability.”

NMSU is also doing several research projects that focus on New Mexico’s number one cash crop, alfalfa. These include alfalfa planting-date and irrigation-timing studies, insect and weed pest control, and variety performance trials at several of the science centers. Other forage variety performance tests are conducted on corn, sorghum and small grain silage crops. n

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HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND 196± Ac, Sonoita/Elgin, AZ – 3,049+/- s.f. custom, 3 BR, 2 BA home. High in the Mustang Mountains.

Large family room, rock fireplace, expansive windows with incredible views, ±1,000 s.f. garage. Potential vineyard or horse property. $1,300,000 20± Ac Horse Property, Pomerene, AZ – 2443± s.f., 4BR, 2 1/2 bath, home with covered porches, fireplace, pool, 2 car garage, RV barn with 15’ covered overhangs, round pen, 8 stalls – 4 covered, shop, tack room, wash area. $545,000 36+/- Ac Horse Property, St. David, AZ – Quality 2100 +/- s.f. custom home and horse facility in the foothills of the Dragoon Mtns. 3 BR, 2 BA, home 5 stall barn, hay barn, round pen, turnouts, dressage arena with ramada, mirrors and imported footing. $475,000 San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000.

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Jornado Ranch, E. of Tor C, New Mexico

1,936 Deeded Acres 6,153 NM State Lease Acres 26,212 BLM Lease Acres 34,301 Total Acres Carrying capacity of 275 CYL. 1800 SF Main home & a 1000 SF Bunkhouse. This ranch is priced at $4,500,000.

1,788 Deeded Acres 5,462 NM State Lease Acres 20,480 BLM Lease Acres 28,028 Total Acres Carrying capacity of 300 CYL attractive main Home, bunk house, barn, corrals. This ranch is priced at $4,200,000.

San Pedro Ranch, Edgewood, New Mexico

Cordoba Ranch, Monticello, New Mexico

1,196 Deeded Acres 30,000 gallon tank, underground pipelines, corral & chutes.

Annual rainfall from 10 to 14 inches. Terrain is high plain range land with prominent tree cover.

Priced at $1,800,000.

505-865-7800 â&#x20AC;˘ www.centerfirerealestate.com 2206 Sun Ranch Village Loop, Los Lunas

1,547 Deeded Acres 3 pastures w/4 strand barbed wire w/steel T posts. Carrying capacity of 32 CYL or Approx. 65 yearlings for 6 months, 7 tank drinkers. 3000 gallon water tank w/30,000 gallon water storage tank. $850,850. Call Tony Trujillo at 505-916-9219

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FLORES CANYON RANCH: Located between San Patricio and Glencoe, New Mexico in the Hondo Valley. 3,630 total acres to include 680 acres of NM State Lease all under fence. The property extends south of U.S. Highway to include the Rio Ruidoso River. Turnkey sale to include livestock, small bison herd and equipment. Nice improvements with two wells and pipeline. Elk, mule deer and barbary sheep.

Price: $4,000,000 ELK HAVEN RANCH: 410 acres at Bent, New Mexico between Ruidoso and Tularosa, south of Highway 70. Approximately 50 acres have been benched and leveled, planted in improved grasses. Water from a free flowing large volume spring with water rights that predate statehood. Nice improvements to include a residence, mobile home, barn and corrals. Elk, mule deer and barbary sheep. Price: $1,500,000

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TOLAND RANCH: Small ranch property located near Cedarvale, NM in Torrance County. Just 15 minutes from the Cibola National Forest and the Gallinas Mountains. Comprised of 1,440 deeded acres situated in two noncontiguous tracts separated by State Highway 42.

The north tract is fenced with one water well equipped with an electric submersible pump. A portion of the south tract is not fenced and there is no developed source of water, but several earthen tanks. Excellent grassland. Price: $432,000 Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 • Cell: 575-420-1237

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BUCKHORN RANCH – SE AZ, 350 head ranch spread over 19,000 acres with 2,163 Deeded acres, plus State, BLM & Forest. The ranch is found in one of Southeast Arizona’s prime ranching valleys with picturesque setting & steeped in very old history. Asking $2,500,000 NEW LISTING: SPLIT ROCK RANCH WEST – Hilltop, AZ, 60 Head Ranch, 1350 Deeded, plus State and USFS, Beautiful Oak Tree and Grass Ranch. Asking $2,000,000 NEW LISTING: VF RANCH – Willcox AZ , 154 Head, House, Barn, 2976 Deeded acres plus State lease. Loan may be assumable. Asking $1,840,000 NEW LISTING: RED ROCK BASIN RANCH – Benson AZ, 1096 Deeded, 2300 State. Good grass, almost 5000’ elevation and secluded. Asking $1,300,000 NEW LISTING: RICE RANCH – Oracle AZ, 480 deeded acres, fenced with well, corrals, small home, and dirt tanks. Asking $6500 per acre NEW LISTING: LESLIE CANYON RANCH – SE AZ, 733 Deeded 320 State, Beautiful Home, Guest Home, Barn, Shop. Asking $590,000 IT’S RAINING, THE SPRING EPHEMERAL OPPORTUNITY LOOKS PROMISING AND WE HAVE DESERT RANCHES! ARNOLD ALLOTMENT – Buckeye AZ, ephemeral State and BLM leases. Asking $150,000 OWNER MAY CARRY: SENTINEL RANCH – Gila Bend, AZ, 54 Head Year Long Plus Spring Increases, Zero Deeded, AZ State Land and BLM. Asking $79,900 We have qualified buyers & . we are seeking ranches for them list Please consider Stronghold to & SELLyour ranch.

SCOTT THACKER, Broker P.O. Box 90806 • Tucson, AZ 85752 Ph: 520-444-7069 • Fax: 520-844-3405 Email: ScottThacker@Mail.com www.strongholdco.com

NEW MEXICO PROPERTIES • 15 irrigated acres with 4 br home, metal barns, horse stalls, tack room, pipe fences.

• Home & barn on 40 acres John Stallard 575-760-1899

Kim Stallard 575-799-5799

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Doll Baby Ranch, Payson AZ 175 head, 148 acres deeded w/36,000 forest allotment. Grandfathered Water Rights off of live water, 1½ hour north of Phoenix, AZ. Price Reduced to $2,750,000 Slash TL Ranch, Tombstone AZ. 14,000 acres, 300 head yearlong, improvements need attention. Priced @$1,500,000 Lazy NJ Ranch, Gleeson AZ. 7060 acres, 150 head yearlong, strong grass country. Priced @$1,350,000 Hunt Ranch Douglas AZ. 2462 acres with 2500 state lease, 103 head yearlong, well watered, easy to operate, paved access. Priced @$1,245,500 Goodman Ranch, Virden NM/Duncan AZ. 640 deeded, W/2120 NM State and BLM lease lands. The carrying capacity is for 50 head year long, all improvements are in great condition.

This is one of the BEST little Ranches in the area. Priced below current appraised value. Price $540,000.00

ASSOC. BROKER, GRI Brownfieldkeith@gmail.com

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If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call:

We Know New Mexico Selling ranches for (over) 40 Years

Sam Hubbell, Qualifying Broker 520-609-2546

Wishing Everyone a Wonderful Holiday Season & a Special Thank You to the folks we had the opportunity to be of service to in the purchase/sale of the following ranches in 2015 ...

NORTH CEDAR CREEK RANCH — UNION COUNTY GALLO RANCH — LINCOLN COUNTY TOM MITCHELL RANCH — COLFAX COUNTY E.T. LAND & CATTLE COUNTRY — HARDING COUNTY 777 RANCH- TORRANCE COUNTY HUGHES RANCH — TORRANCE COUNTY & THE FOLLOWING COOPERATIVE BROKERS TOO:

KERN LAND, INC. — Dave Kern CHAS S. MIDDLETON & SON — Sam & Charlie Middleton & Jim Wells CAPROCK REAL ESTATE SERVICES — Larry Preuit

Terrell land & livesTock company Tye C. Terrell – Qualifying Broker Jimmy Jones, Associate Broker P.O. Box 3188 – Los Lunas, NM 87031 Telephone: 575-447-6041 E-Mail: tyecterrell@yahoo.com

MATHERS REALTY, INC. 2223 E. Missouri, Las Cruces, NM 88001 575/522-4224 Office • 575/522-7105 Fax • 575/640-9395 Cell

“Propriety, Perhaps Profit.”

Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 ac deeded, 260,000 ac BLM/ State Lease. 11,500 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 17 wells, 2 pumps on CAP canal. $875,000. Con Englehorn

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C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest.

Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane Red Top Ranch: 3,800 deeded acres in SE AZ. Priced at $197 per deeded acre. Walter Lane Wildhorse Basin Ranch: Yavapai county, 864 deeded, 6701 State Lease, $3,900,000. Con Englehorn

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Crooked H: Central AZ, 126 Sections, 450 head Winter Range/664 summer Range. $2,375,000. Traegen Knight Tres Alamos Ranch/Farm, Benson AZ: 668 acres deeded W/200 irrigated, shallow water, 3 Pivots, present owners running 200 head yearlong. Priced at $2,500,000. Walter Lane Liberty Ranch: 1917 Deeded aces in SE Arizona. $950,000.

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Turkey Creek Ranch: Yavapai Co, 130 AU winter permit Oct. through March on the Prescott Nat. Forest, base land is 59.32 acres in the Bradshaw Mtns at 5,800’ that would make a pleasant getaway from the Metro areas. $605,000 – Paul Groseta

Phoenix Con Englehorn Kyle Conway 602-258-1647 Cottonwood Andy Groseta Paul Groseta 928-634-8110 Sonoita Sam Hubbell Tom Hardesty 520-609-2546 Tucson Walter Lane Trey Champie Vince Hutson 520-792-2652 St. Johns Traegen Knight 928-524-3740

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

Buyers are looking for a ranch. If you have a ranch to sell, give me a call.

Lifetime rancher who is familiar with federal land management policies

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

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SIDWELL FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC Tom Sidwell, Qualifying Broker 6237 State Highway 209, Tucumcari, NM 88401 • 575-403-6903 tom@sidwellfarmandranch.com • www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

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Joe Stubblefield & Associates 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX 806/622-3482 • cell 806/674-2062 joes3@suddenlink.net Michael Perez Associates Nara Visa, NM • 575/403-7970

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1301 Front Street, Dimmitt, TX 79027 800-933-9698 / 5a.m. -10p.m. www.scottlandcompany.com www.texascrp.com Ben G. Scott – Broker • Krystal M. Nelson – CO/NM Qualifying Broker

RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE n EQUINE HAVEN – Deaf Smith Co., TX. - 15 ac. +/- of choice property located adjacent to the city limits on Hereford’s north side. Homes, barns, saddle shop (no equipment or furnishings), numerous horse stalls w/runs, automatic waterers, 11 lots platted, property zoned for horses & livestock, round pen & large arena, on pvmt. & all-weather road. Owner motivated! n UNION CO., NM – Pinabetes/Tramperos Creeks Ranch – super country w/super improvements & livestock watering facilities, 4,650 deeded, 3,357 State Lease, one irr. well with ¼ mi. pivot sprinkler for supplemental feed, excellent access via pvmt. & all weather roads. n CONCHOS LAKE AREA – well improved 11 section ranch +/-, mostly deeded w/small amt. of BLM & State, homes, barns, pens, watered by subs & mills at shallow depth just off pvmt., on co. road. n IRRIGATION POTENTIAL – Harding Co., NM - starter ranch, 1,875 deeded ac. +/-, 901.9 ac. +/- CRP, well watered w/subs, mills & pipeline, 3 bdrm./2 bath brick home, garage, shop/ livestock metal barn & pens, 7 miles fr. town, co. road, irr. well drilled and cased (never pumped), pivot sprinklers down the road. n QUAY CO., NM – Box Canyon Ranch – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. deeded, 80 ac. State Lease, excellent access from I40. n STATE OF THE ART – Clayton, NM area, 1,600 deeded ac. +/-, plus 80 ac. +/- State lease, home, barn & pens in excellent condition, all weather CR road. n BEAUTIFUL AREA, DEV. POTENTIAL – Alto/Capitan, NM – 8,060 ac. +/- (deeded, Forest & State Lease) super location w/pvmt. on two sides in close proximity to the Capitan/Alto 15.6434 ac. property w/tremendous pens & improvements. n CAPITAN GAP 80 ACRES – NE of Capitan, NM, south of the Capitan Gap & joins the Forest w/the village of Lincoln being just a few miles away.

One elk permit is allowed. Good access & electricity close. Scenic! n CUCHARAS RIVER RANCH NORTH – Huerfano Co.,CO - buy this well located, choice, grama/western wheat grass ranch & develop the really scenic parts of the ranch for residential subdivisions w/10, 20, 40, 100 acre tracts. 12, 088 deeded ac. +/- w/an addtl. 33,000 deeded ac. +/- available for sale across the hwy., addtl. perks, hunting, fishing, recreation w/a large lake on the ranch together w/the Cucharas River, Santa Clara & Sand Creeks. n GRAIN & BEEF FACTORY – Union Co., NM – 960 ac. +/-, fully developed for farming & cattle w/new set of pens, completely fenced & watered, 3 mi. of all weather road.

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Canyon Colorado – Mora County, NM, GMU 44 8,880 deeded w/601 state lease behind game fence. On Canadian River Gorge with awesome views. Adjoins the Kiowa National Grasslands across river from Mills Canyon Rec Area. Private and secure, excellent roads, heavy electric, back-up generators, animal shelters, and many pasture divisions. Improvements include large airplane hangar, interior stables, fuel tanks, runways, and equipment. Scenic with lots of game – Elk, Deer, Pronghorn, & Turkey. 20 miles from I25 . $550 per deeded acre/$4,884,000 Kiowa Hi Lo – Colfax County, NM, GMU 56 3,860 deeded w/1000 state lease conveniently located 30 minutes from Raton. Great for game, Elk (6 Tags), Pronghorn, & Mule Deer. Two homes plus a bunkhouse/hunter’s quarters with 8 beds & 8 baths. Rolling grasslands framed between Kiowa Mesa and Palo Blanco Mountain, intersected by Carrizo Creek and a protected spring-fed draw. 1000’ of elevation variance makes for a beautiful landscape. Good pasture divisions and fences support this working ranch. $750 per deeded acre/$2,895,000 Rancho Conchas – San Miguel County, NM, GMU 42 3,156 deeded acres - 3 miles upriver from Conchas Lake. This canyon country ranch is intersected by two watersheds - 3.5 miles of Conchas River & 2 miles of Trementina Creek! Good grass for livestock with bonus of Mule Deer hunting. Load at working pens, then explore old homestead ruins. 45 miles east of I25 and Las Vegas, access is 9 miles from Trementina. The immediate area recently complimented by the designation of America’s newest wilderness at Sabinoso Canyon. $425 per deeded acre/$1,340,000

Greg Walker (720) 441-3131 Greg@RiverRanches.com

Walker and Martin ranch SaleS Santa Fe / denver www.RiverRanches.com

Robert Martin (505) 603-9140 Robert @RiverRanches.com

n SILVERTON, TX – Rhoderick Irrigation - Pivot sprinkler & pump sales and repairs, gift, accessory & floral shop. n FT. SUMNER VALLEY – beautiful home on 20 irr. ac., 3 bdrm/2 bath country home, nice combination apartment/horse barn w/2 bdrms., one bathroom/washroom & three enclosed stalls w/breezeway, currently in alfalfa, ditch irrigated. n WHEELER CO., TX – 20 ac., East of Twitty, you will fall in love w/the unique, barn-style, rustic yet modern home, panoramic views, native grass, trees, hunting, semi-enclosed horse barn, city water, all-weather road. n HIGH RAINFALL! ADA, OK. AREA – 3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, will divide! n RANCHO PEQUENIO – ½ mile E. of Sedan, NM, 320 ac. +/-, all native grass, new fencing, domestic well w/sub, ½ mi. hwy. frontage, one mile of all-weather road. n MIAMI, TX. – Edge of town, 137 ac. +/- well improved w/home, barns, pens, etc., adj. 1,200 ac. of native grass & 1,089 ac. of native grass adjacent to Miami airport. Can sell tracts together or separately! n PICK THE SIZE OF RANCH YOU WANT – let’s divide this 10,432 ac. +/- ranch in the Matador Texas area, large lake w/permits for dam & rightto-impound in place to add tremendous aesthetic value to the ranch together w/hunting, boating, fishing, commercial & residential development potential.

Can be bought by the pasture or in multiple pastures.

Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice TX, NM, CO ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX, NM, OK or CO.

• Horse Farm – 26 acres of land, 24.1 acres of Sr Artesian Water Rights. 10 Stall Horse Barn w/Pipe Runs. 4 stalls without runs. 30 pens measure 30’ by 33’ & 7 feet high. 4 large paddocks. 2 Apartments. Lighted Arena 200 feet by 300 feet. Price Reduced.

• 145 Acres with 61.5 acres of Jr. Water Rights. Two Pivots. 2007 Solitaire 2,200+ square foot home, 4,000 square foot barn.

• Horse Farm – 2,600+ square foot home, 3 bedroom, 3 bath, in ground swimming pool, Shop, Hay Storage Barn, 19 acres of land, 18.5 acres of Artesian Water Rights, 14 stall horse barn w/hay storage & tack room, several pipe paddocks, 6 horse walker, Round Pen & Arena. $699,000

Cherri Michelet Snyder Qualifying Broker 920 East 2nd Roswell, NM 88201 Office: 575/623-8440 Cell: 575/626-1913

• 2,349 slump block home on 7.5 acres w/8.75 acres of Artesian Water Rights.

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New Mexico Ranch Items and Service Specialist Since 1976 New Mexico Distributor for Aermotor Windmills

575/835-1630 • Fax: 575/838-4536 Lemitar, N.M. • williamswindmill@live.com

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Available for Metal, Composition Shingles or Tar Roofs. Long-lasting and easy to apply. We also manufacture Tank Coatings for Concrete, Rock, Steel, Galvanized & Mobile tanks.

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BLACK & RED ANGUS CATTLE FOR SALE 250 Super Fancy 3-year-old Black Angus Cows. AI’d to Nextspectation Red Angus Sire. Bred to calve in March & April 2016. $2,750/hd 20 Yearling Virgin Registered Red Angus Bulls. Born and Raised in New Mexico at high altitude. Super front end genetics. $7,000/HD Please send all serious inquiries to Pasture@ZiaAg.com or call 505.349.0652

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We offer a complete line of low volume mist blowers.

Excellent for spraying, cattle, livestock, vegetables, vineyards, orchards, nurseries, mosquitoes, etc.

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by Barry Denton

Quarter Horse Observations

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just returned home from the American Quarter Horse World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Having been there for two weeks with our horses I was certainly glad to get home.

The trip this year with our cow horses was exciting as usual and I always learn a great deal more when I ride with folks that know things different than I do. I also wanted to point out the blizzard between Clines Corners and Moriarty, New Mexico.

What fun it was to be pulling a truck load of horses on icy roads when you cannot see six foot in front of you. It just would not be a proper blizzard without fifty mile per hour winds to go with it. Folks were sliding off of the road, as well as sliding on the road. I realize that there is no point in having good weather the third week of November in New Mexico. It just would not be right.

The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) seems to be the most politically correct horse organization in America. They, too, have thrown out their standards and accept about any horse into their breed that wants to become one.

I saw horses that were seventeen point three hands tall that were tagged as hunters and jumpers. Thoroughbred is the first thing that comes to mind, but no, it is a registered Quarter Horse. No, not hunting horses, “hunters” that are ridden around an arena and hopped over fences that were entirely too small for the size of the horse.

I believe it has to do with fear factor of the rider. Once they get aboard these giant horses they realize it is way too far to the ground if the horse is just standing still.

The riders do not want to make the horse jump too high. One thing I have noticed is that the majority of the horses at this level are beautifully groomed and in great physical condition.

The thing that perplexes me is that the riders are normally well groomed, but seem to lack the physical conditioning. No wonder they are scared. Out on the ranch this would be the horse you would use to tie onto the big steers.

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The next horse I saw walk by me was a true phenomenon known as a halter horse.

In AQHA terms that is a horse that is lead around with a halter. These are shown in hand as an example of breed conformation. The only thing is that they are almost never ridden. The over abundance of muscles on these horses makes it impossible for them to move well.

I will say if you have an interest in the grotesque then this would be your type of horse. These animals are muscle bound, overweight, and their feet are way too small to carry their weight. One of the halter horse’s biggest problems is laminitis and a short lifespan. This does fascinate some people, just like any form of extreme body building.

It always makes me think of the bearded lady or the guy covered from head to toe with tattoos at the circus. Freaks fit right in at the World Show. What would this horse do on a ranch? Get sent to the sale barn.

In spite of the horses that I do not particularly cotton to there are many horses there that will astound you with their talent. Calf and steer roping horses just seem to get better and better. The horse’s conformation matches its job so well that it can carry out the task with finesse and grace. Many of these horses go on to become professional rodeo horses. A horse in top physical condition and well trained is a true pleasure to watch and enhances competition.

Personally I enjoy watching the cutters and the working cow horses. These horses are true athletes and so are their riders. It is fun to watch these horses work cattle.

The horses love these disciplines and create a dance with their bovine counterparts. The cutters tend to get very low to the ground and are cat quick. The cutting horse riders have to be athletic enough to stay with their horse and work as one.

When you add speed anything can go wrong.

In regard to the working cow horses, these animals have to be in the correct position to work their cow efficiently.

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Maintaining correct position at high speed and controlling a cow at the same time is a monumental feat. Sometimes when they are out of the correct position it spells out trouble in the way of a wreck.

I read an entire diatribe on the internet the other day about how wonderful the AQHA western pleasure horse is to show. I made a point of watching this class once again so I could see what I had been missing. It was truly bizarre as the horses have a tendency to travel sideways and extremely slow.

Keep in mind that western pleasure consists of the walk, trot, and lope. I have no idea what gait I was watching as the entire class was dreadfully slow. This class was created as an entry level class as it is simple and safe enough for about any skill level.

However, I cannot imagine anyone voluntarily riding one of these horses. I realize they are not lame, but they travel lame on purpose. That is the only way they can get them to show that slow. I’d certainly be ticked if it took me five minutes to lope around a small arena. I bet this class was developed this way for desk jockeys as the horse does move slightly faster than a desk.

Can you imagine how much fun those western pleasure riders would have if they ever got on a barrel racing horse? It must be that the AQHA needed a horse that was for timid folks. Probably the fastest thing they ever did before they got a show horse was sip wine. Do not get me wrong, I realize there are boring people in the world that like horses.

This World Championship show is held every year in during November in Oklahoma City. If you have not been, you are in for a treat. It truly has something for everyone. My guess is that the trip will inspire you to do something more with your own horse.

You will probably figure out what you do not want to do with your horse as well.

Who knows, you might buy a nice rope horse there and qualify it the following year.

Lately there has been a lot of talk about how cruel it is to exhibit animals. Remember that the proponents of this know nothing about showing horses. The horses at the AQHA World Show get the best of care and feed. No expense is spared on these magnificent animals. The folks that think this is cruel ought to start looking at feral, starving animals on Indian Reservations and in urban back yards. Horses can be amazing creatures as evidenced at the AQHA World Show. Go and enjoy it!n

inMemoriam Hanna Farbo, 24, Roswell, died on November 23, 2015 as a result of injuries suffered in an auto accident on November 21, 2015. Hanna was an inspector for the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.

Please keep her family and friends in your prayers.

Acie Van (Gabby) Hayes, 80, died peacefully in his sleep with his children by his side on April 9, 2015 at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Gabby was born August 2, 1934 in Caddo and raised on his family farm in nearby in Bokchito, Oklahoma before making his life and career in New Mexico. He returned to his native Oklahoma and spent his final years in Durant and Hugo, Oklahoma with his caregiver, Wendy Holder, and his two most loyal buddies, his cow dogs Jack and Jill. For those of you who knew him, he was quite a feisty gentleman, shrewd businessman, father, brother, uncle, son. In his day he drove beer trucks, worked for the railroad and silver mines, ran cattle, raised goats, herded bees (and beef), and endeavored in all sorts of other fool schemes. Some lucrative – others not so much. His landholdings, friendships, and various ventures had him shuttling between Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma transcending traditional rivalries. He was a proud member of the Freemasons, Elks Club and New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma Stockmen’s Associations. He actively supported local youth, including his children and grandchildren, by sponsoring rodeos, 4-H Livestock Shows/Sales, baseball, football, and wrestling. He was a Patriot, loved his country and those who serve it. His integrity and likeability made him a great County Commissioner, but he was too crusty for politics, the chronic mendacity.

Over the years he loved everything Cowboy, raising Quarter horses, racing Thoroughbreds, being a private pilot, participating and sponsoring of the National Pro Rodeo Association, as well as being a competitor in his younger days and of course, flirting shamelessly. We wish to leave you with his favorite saying; “I may be blind, but I can still see a pretty woman and a pretty horse.” He is survived by his sisters, Mina

Budzilowski, Texarkana, Texas and Clarice McCoy, Dallas, his children, Terry Hayes and Darlene Nordgaarden- Hayes, New Mexico and Kelly and Melisa Hayes, California; his five grandchildren, step-family, Martha Hayes and her children, as well as several loving nieces and nephews.

Jane Blair Bunting Darnell, 82, Albuquerque, passed peacefully in her home, surrounded by family and friends on November 18, 2015 of natural causes. Blair was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 28, 1932 to Frederick Horner Bunting and Ethel Jane Westfeldt Bunting.

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The first grandchild to George (Big George) and Martha Westfeldt, her mother doubted if even Queen Elizabeth received as much attention. Blair grew into an intelligent

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This is where she met and fell in love with her husband, Casey Darnell. They married in 1957 and started Alamo Farm, (a Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred breeding and training facility) in Albuquerque’s North Valley on the banks of the Rio Grande. Blair was deeply dedicated and served on many boards. She was a true service leader in her community. Some of her favorites were the American Quarter Horse Association, 4-H, the public school system, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Rio Grande Preserve and the New Mexico Horse Council.

Blair is survived by her four children, Kristen (David) Kreger, Cliff (Cindy) Darnell, Emily (Joe Bob) Nunez, Mary Darnell and Richard Churchill; three grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild; sister, Amy Bunting; niece, Sarah Gan and family, Rich Gan, Madeline, and Marrisa; and many very loved cousins and friends.

Lindit’ Elizabeth (Lambert) Hopson, 86, died November 23, 2015, at her home on the Triangle Ranch East after a valiant battle with cancer. She was born on June 12, 1929 in Sherman, Texas to Marion Sanford and Linda Elizabeth (Mitchell) Sanford and was later adopted

by Jack Lambert. The granddaughter of T. E Mitchell, Tequesquite Ranch, Albert, she was one of five “Linda Elizabeths” in the Mitchell Family at that time, so was given the affectionate name of Lindita because she was “little Linda” and this was later shortened to Lindit’, as she is known to most. Lindit’ will be remembered as a true Pioneer and gracious spirit of Northeastern New Mexico. At the age of 12 she started working cattle and building fence on her new home at the Triangle Ranch in Harding County while home-schooling with Calvert Correspondence. Lindit’ was soon elected the first Secretary of the NM Junior Cattle Growers’ Association at 15 and helped to build a registered Hereford herd with her Mother, Linda Mitchell Lambert on the Triangle Ranch. Lindit’ attended her Senior year of High School in Denver. She then attended Arizona State University and later transferred to New Mexico Agricultural & Mechanics College (now NMSU), after she met and later married Harry Hopson, Clayton, on continued on page 96

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August 30, 1950 on the Triangle Ranch.

She returned to college in Las Cruces with her two oldest children in tow. In 1955 she made history by graduating as NM A&M’s first female with a degree in Animal Husbandry. She and Harry had four children, known as “the four J’s”, Jeff, Jill, Jay and Joy. Lindit’s career following graduation was varied and noteworthy. Lindit’ ran the Triangle Ranch and broke ranch horses for many years with her husband, Harry.

During these years she was the Secretary of the Harding County Registered Quarter Horse Association. She was also active in Eastern Star, the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches, and an instrumental Youth Horse Show and 4-H Leader. Later she helped to implement the founding of the Sandoval County Fair in Cuba. She was also a high school teacher of English and Biology in Schools in Springer, Cuba and Mosquero, and Barnsdall and Nelagoney, Oklahoma. In Albuquerque, she served for nearly a decade as a Church Secretary, and also for Drs. Herbert Beatty and Lyman Atchley. She is a published writer, remembered fondly for her “Lindit’s Recipes” col-

umn in the Union County Leader, and perhaps most notably for her leadership and inspiration, contributing greatly to the Harding County History Book. Survivors include husband, Harry; two sons, Rev. Harry Jeffrey Hopson, Stockton, California and Thomas Jay Hopson, Mosquero; two daughters, Linda Jill Chatfield (husband, Jack), Mosquero, and Joy Elaine Harris (husband, Doak), Clayton; 11 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and two half-brothers, Marion (Sandy) Sanford, Austin, and Douglas Sanford (wife, Kaye), Lubbock, and their families. All family and friends are invited to join our family in a Celebration of Lindit’ (Mama Hop) Hopson’s Life on Dec. 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Mosquero Community Church with lunch and Fellowship to follow the Service.

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by STEVE NIEMEYER, NEBRASKA EXTENSION EDUCATOR

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ith the summer and fall season wrapped up, a person can reflect on the accomplishments our 4-H and FFA youth have made this year. One activity that takes a lot of time is raising and exhibiting livestock for the local county fair, State Fair, or at national shows. There are many positive outcomes for youth and helping youth with these activities.

Food and shelter are basic human needs; therefore those involved in agriculture are very important. With the average age of today’s rancher around 60, the question arises: where are the future agriculture producers? The purposes of these livestock projects are not only to expose youth to the livestock industry but also to develop important life skills. When a student has to care for land or animals or take on other agriculture responsibilities, they are going to be more accountable and engaged and have a better understanding of life than a young person who has not had similar experiences. The purposes of organizations like 4-H and FFA are to develop leadership, life skills, and citizenship for its membership.

A study conducted at Texas Tech University was aimed at validating the perceived benefits of competitive youth livestock exhibition. The study used the following methods: (1) a review of historical documents (2) in depth interviewing and (3) observations to analyze real life situations.

From the data, themes were generated to validate the perceived benefits of livestock exhibition.

The results of the studies produced a number of surprises. The most common benefit that most people mention about livestock exhibition is the responsibility a young person gains from raising and showing an animal. However, responsibility was not the strongest theme to emerge in the study.

The following are the six themes generated from this study and are listed in order: • Social relationships. The development of social relationships by showing livestock was the strongest theme to emerge throughout the data collection process. Participants in the study appeared to emphasize the importance of developing friends and social contacts. These

friendships aid in the satisfaction of career goals as well as the simple need for companionship.

• Character was the second theme to emerge in the study. The subcategories associated with this theme are as follows: responsibility, confidence, sportsmanship, and how to deal with loss. Participants felt that character developed through exhibiting livestock promoted growth from a child to a successful adult.

• Family togetherness and family values gave a meaning to what is desired as a life skill. It was apparent that participants in this study put emphasis on the importance of the family participating in activities together.

• Exposure to Competition. The fourth theme in the study dealt with the competition that competitive livestock showing introduces to exhibitors. Two meanings developed from the theme of competition that stems from the phenomenon of participation in competitive events. One category resulted from the need to satisfy the desire of participation in competitive events. The other related to the exposure of winning and losing. This meaning was also apparent in the character theme.

• Exposure to cultures. The fifth theme generated was exposure to diverse cultures that comes about from exhibiting livestock. Participants revealed that exposure to cities and the diversity of people that accompany major stock shows aid in the

development of life skills.

• Knowledge and care of animals. The last theme that emerged from the study was the knowledge and care of animals that exhibitors gain from showing livestock. Participants felt this knowledge was important, especially if it relates to a future career.

In conclusion, the most important life skill developed through the exhibition of livestock by 4-H and FFA youth was social relations. This contrasts earlier findings, which suggests that development of responsibility was the most important benefit of livestock exhibition. Because social relations are learned and aid in the development of a person, they are considered a life skill.

Participants in the study revealed that character development was a close second to social development as the most important benefit of competitive livestock exhibition. Responsibility was identified as being developed through the attention, time and care that animal project requires. Confidence was instilled in the exhibitors because they see that they can take care of an animal. Sportsmanship developed though livestock showing because it is a competitive event.

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y grandpa wanted me to be a lawyer, although he never offered to pay for my schooling. He told me that lawyering would be a more fertile field than agriculture, which made no sense to me. I told him I didn’t want to be a lawyer because I didn’t want to be cooped up inside all day writing. So what did I do? I became a writer and spent all day inside writing for far less money than I would have made as a lawyer.

I’m surprised Grandpa wanted me to go to school for so long considering he never made it past the eighth grade and didn’t have much use for higher degrees. I never thought much of them either and I only have one. Lee Pitts, BS. I think anyone who has ever read my column would find that appropriate. Don’t you?

Truth be told, I received most of my education from teachers with four legs and four stomachs. Here’s just a sampling of things I learned from my cows. n Don’t bawl. It only lets your enemies know where you are. n Try to be out in front of the herd. There’s less dust and you won’t see as many rear ends, to put it politely. n If people start treating you real nice, bring you great food and clean water, provide medical care and every thing you could possibly want, there’s a big catch somewhere. n Never argue with anyone holding a hotshot. n If some loud and obnoxious people try to herd you some where you don’t want to go, fight like crazy or make your self invisible and sneak off the first chance you get. If you don’t people will assault you, you’ll get burned and people will stick their hands (and arms) into your business. n Don’t pee on the hay. You may want to eat it later. n Sacred cows always get gored in the end. n Have high standards and be very choosey about who you associate with or you could end up with pink eyes, a lump on your jaw and a venereal disease.

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Veterinarians, cops, cowboys and other people are all alike, 5 percent are exceedingly kind and good, 90 percent are just doing their job, and 5 percent are mean, dirty, rotten and nasty. n Be nice to others but remember, when the chips are down, you’re on your own. n Don’t join a stampede over some little thing. You’ll only end up tired going around in circles. n It’s easier to drift in the direction the wind is blowing but you’ll end up far from home with no means of support and no support group. n Protect your progeny as there are coyotes, wolves and sneaky snakes lurking everywhere. n When you’re having a good year save a little back because you’ll need it some day soon. n Life is short so stop and smell the alfalfa. n The fastest way to get to where you want to go is to proceed slowly. n If someone has you trapped and is putting the squeeze on you, take your medicine and get it over with as quickly as you can. Throwing a big fuss will only make the suffering last longer. n It matters little who your relatives were, it’s how your off spring turn out that counts. n Don’t put up with blowhards and wean them off as fast as you can. n Drink lots of water and eat lots of fiber. n The more apathetic individuals are, the easier it is to lead them around by the nose. n Take good care of your teeth. When they are gone so too will you be. n Keep your head down, don’t be picky, let the females do all the work and if you want to live a long time, make yourself useful. n n

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The conference will provide practical information for everyone from large-scale producers to home gardeners.

“The event will feature information on building and understanding soil fertility in desert soils, basics of fertilizing through hydroponic systems, and innovative uses and considerations for aquaponics in New Mexico,” said Stephanie Walker, NMSU Extension vegetable specialist and co-coordinator of U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Sustainable Agriculture Research Education programs in the state.

“It will be particularly valuable for anyone who has considered setting up a hydroponic or aquaponics operation,” she said.

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“At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,”

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now that began piling up 10, 000 years ago in Antarctica is adding enough ice to offset the increased losses due to thinning glaciers, according to a NASA study.

The latest findings appear to challenge other studies including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2013 report, which found that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.

“We’re essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,” Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology, said in a statement.

“Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.”Zwally said, adding that his team “measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”

According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008. The mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year.

To quantify whether ice sheets are growing or shrinking, scientists measure changes in surface height with satellite altimeters. In locations where the amount of new snowfall accumulating on an ice sheet is not equal to the ice flow downward and outward to the ocean, the surface height changes and the ice-sheet mass grows or shrinks.

To assess the amount of snow accumulation, the researchers used meteorological data beginning in 1979 to show that the snowfall in East Antarctica actually decreased by 11 billion tons per year. They

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by Jim Olson

When young Clancy was about a year-andhalf-old, his father died, leaving a widow with four young boys to raise. When he was about ten, his mother remarried to a Texas rancher and the family moved there.

By the time he was fourteen, Frederick thought he was a top-hand, so he set out on his own to be a cowboy.

His first, and really only, “real” cowboy job was on a ranch just out of Mineral Wells, Texas. He worked there about two years. In his book, My 50 Years in Rodeo, Foghorn states he left the ranch to go to town and join the Army for the Spanish – American war in February of 1898. The Army turned down the fifteen-year-old for service.

Having spent all his money while in town, Clancy hunted around for a job. He got one working for the local newspaper.

He became the new town crier. His voice boomed so, that folks soon dubbed him

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hen I was a teen-age kid on ranches in Texas and Oklahoma, Foghorn Clancy had already made quite a name for himself in rodeos. Neither of us knew then that we were later to meet and work together in such rodeos as the Fort Worth Stock Show, Houston Stock Show, Madison Square Garden and practically every major rodeo throughout the country, and to become warm personal friends.” Gene Autry, 1952.

Ever wonder how they announced a Rodeo or Wild West Show before the advent of the public address (speaker) system? Especially some of those early, large, outdoor shows where events were held in arenas ¼ of a mile long with crowds in the tens of thousands? I will tell you how. His name was Foghorn Clancy.

Frederick Melton “Foghorn” Clancy was born April 4, 1882 to John P. and Fannie W. Clancy in Phoenix City, Alabama.

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“Foghorn.” The name stuck.

In July of that year, Foghorn and a friend set out for the Fourth of July celebration at San Angelo, Texas where they were having a roping and riding contest (they were not called rodeos yet). Foghorn entered the bronc riding because he fancied himself as a pretty good “bronc peeler.” He was promptly bucked off!

Foghorn later said that, although his pride was hurt, it was probably the best thing that ever happened to him. The promoter of the show came up and said, “Young man, you are not much of a bronc rider, but I have heard you are the town crier at Mineral Wells. If you want a job announcing the show, I could use you.”

Thus ended his bronc riding career (after one horse) and entered a new career. He had his first announcing job.

Foghorn recalls Booger Red won the bronc riding and J. Ellison Carroll, the roping contest. But what really stood out about that first contest he announced at San Angelo in 1898, was that Foghorn Clancy became hooked on announcing. He sought to make a career of it (which was practically unheard of at the time).

Luckily for the rest of the world, Clancy was able to find sufficient work announcing. In the beginning, he called polo games, boxing matches, carnivals and of course, Wild West shows (later rodeos).

Just about anything he could in order to put a little jingle in his pocket. Through it all, he eventually emerged as the premier rodeo announcer of the early 1900s.

In 1911, while announcing the Kansas State Fair, Foghorn introduced President William Howard Taft to the audience.

When given the floor, the President opened his speech with, “If I possessed the voice of your announcer, you might all hear me as clearly as you heard him.” There were reportedly sixty-thousand people there and newspaper reporters commented on the President’s remark. Foghorn later wrote, “This not only gave me a lift in spirits, it was great publicity and I began to branch out and travel further distances from home to announce bigger shows.”

Along the way, Foghorn got into the promotion end of the business as well.

He often hired out as a promoter and announcer for various Wild West shows and rodeos. In this case, he would show up a couple of weeks in advance to a particular town. He would do publicity, then when the time came, he would announce the show in his booming voice.

In those years of transition between Wild West shows to rodeos, he explains the main difference being Wild West shows

were a paid performance for the cowboys and cowgirls where the rodeo “contest” was no guaranteed check. Contestants only won a percentage of the entry fees for placing at a rodeo contest. Some shows did a combination of both.

Foghorn made many note-worthy friends during his years of being connected with rodeo. One year, while announcing Houston, Will Rogers was making an appearance at the request of the committee. Even though they had given him a whole row of box seats, he never spent time in them. Instead, he made his way to the

Portales pair indicted on 139 charges stemming from cattle fraud

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wo people have now been indicted on 139 criminal charges stemming from alleged cattle fraud, according to the Ninth Judicial District Attorney.

Calvin and Darcie Pario, both of Portales, were indicted on the charges, including Forgery, Fraud, Conspiracy and Racketeering. The alleged activity happened while the pair was working at High Plains Livestock Auction as the managers, the DA’s Office said.

A search warrant was first executed at High Plains Livestock Auction in January 2015 by the Livestock Board, DA’s Office, State Police and the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office.

The investigation, according to the DA’s Office, revealed a fraudulent scheme where Calvin was accused of buying cattle at the auction for a certain price and then after the auction, have Darcie change the prices on different buyers and sellers.

The DA’s Office said that the inspectors estimated more than 13,000 sales tickets had been altered and more than $2 million had fraudulently deprived dairy owners and buyers in Texas and New Mexico.

Inspectors only focused on 20 random sales throughout the past year and more than $20,000 was altered at each sale, the DA’s Office said.

Documents, according to the DA’s Office, suggest years of fraudulent activity by the pair.

The pair remains out on bond pending trial.

announcers stand to watch the rodeo with his friend, Foghorn. Of course, Will knew most of the cowboys. They would come by and say “howdy” in between events. Many of them offered Will and Foghorn a drink when they stopped by. Will joked later that “It was just like meeting a bunch of varmints at a water hole.”

Foghorn was quite successful at promoting shows for other people. Throughout his stellar career, he promoted for Tex Austin, Pawnee Bill, Colonel Jim Eskew, Guy Weadick, Colonel Zack Mulhall,C.B. Irwin, Gene Autry and many others. Foghorn tried, but was not very successful at promoting his own show. Probably due to bad timing (the onset of the Great Depression in 1929) Foghorn almost went broke trying to produce his Bar C Wild West show.

During the depression, Foghorn contemplated bankruptcy. He lost his home, his stock and just about everything else.

By now, announcers were using a “public address system” and having a booming voice was not as important as it once was.

Having a good spiel and working cheaply was. Announcers could be had just about anywhere for a few bucks. Rodeo committees, with the exception of a few large shows, would not pay the added cost of travel, room and board to have someone like Foghorn come work during those bleak years. It was through this time that Clancy reinvented himself.

Although he was accustomed to writing promotional articles for newspapers in the line of duty while promoting, Foghorn

never really considered himself a columnist. That changed however as trade publications such as “Hoofs and Horns” began to carry his column “Memory Trail” and other rodeo articles penned by him.

Foghorn was an authority on the early days of rodeo. He lived it. It is lucky for us that he wrote about those early days. If not for this, much of the early history would not have been recorded. Foghorn Clancy unknowingly became one of rodeos first historians!

On the anniversary of his being involved in rodeo for fifty whole years, he wrote a book titled, My Fifty Years in Rodeo: Living with Cowboys, Horses and Danger.

This book has been one of the go-to places for current-day historians to find reference material for years.

In his latter years of rodeo involvement, Foghorn wrote rodeo columns for several different publications. He also promoted rodeos, almost exclusively by this time, for Col. Jim Eskew in the eastern part of the United States. The die-hard Texan family even made their home in Waverly, New York for a good many years while he worked for Eskew.

Foghorn Clancy married Alice H. Clancy, affectionately known as “Mother Clancy” to the rodeo crowd. The couple raised five children together—mostly on the road.

Rodeo’s first announcer and historian died April 28, 1957. In 1991, Foghorn was posthumously inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s, n Rodeo Hall of Fame.

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by TY KEELING, VICE CHAIR, TSCRA ANIMAL HEALTH COMMITTEE

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n 1996, the Animal Drug Availability Act (ADAA) was signed into law to provide flexibility for the way the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates animal drugs and medicated feeds. This was enacted to increase the number of approved animal drugs on the market, and it created a new category of drugs used in animal feed referred to as veterinary feed directive drugs (VFD drugs).

Under the 1996 ADAA, VFD drugs did not require a prescription from a licensed veterinarian for use. However, this recently changed on Oct. 1, 2015 when the FDA implemented a new rule that expands and further regulates the use of what they refer to as drugs that are “medically important” feed grade antibiotics.

This rule immediately takes effect for three VFD drugs: Avilamycin, Florfenicol and Tilmicosin. Only Tilmicosin is used as a feed-grade drug in cattle. By Jan. 1, 2017, the list of VFD drugs will expand to include all medically important antibiotics used in feed and water for disease prevention, control and treatment.

The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) believes this is another example of the federal government expanding their authority and attempting to regulate ranchers out of business. They are accomplishing this by requiring producers to receive a VFD form, similar to a prescription, from a licensed veterinarian before they can acquire and use antimicrobial drugs in feed or water.

A veterinarian must fill out the VFD form specifying the ranch, group of animals to be treated, drug to be used, feeding rate and the duration of the treatment for the cattle. Additional time and increased costs for cattlemen and women are the only result of these regulations.

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retained for a minimum of two years by the veterinarian, rancher and feed mill or distributor. This amount of paperwork is unnecessary and arduous just to receive a drug ranchers have used appropriately for years to care for their cattle.

The new VFD rule also requires veterinarians to follow what the FDA refers to as state defined veterinarian-client-patient relationships (VCPR). In states where the FDA determines no applicable or appropriate state VCPR requirements exist, veterinarians are required to issue VFDs in compliance with federally defined VCPR requirements. Texas and Oklahoma already have state VCPR requirements in place; however, the FDA is overlooking the fact that ranchers already have good working relationships with their local veterinarians.

The VFD rule is part of FDA’s strategy to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals.

The Administration believes antibiotics are causing resistance in humans who consume beef products; however they have continuously failed to back this claim with proper peer-reviewed sound science.

While the rule is not expected to be in full effect until 2017, TSCRA recommends that cattle producers contact their veterinarians to discuss how it could affect them in their daily operations.

American ranchers have proved they are the best caretakers of their cattle, and they have continuously provided a safe, healthy and abundant supply of beef worldwide. They have been able to do this by working with their veterinarians and by using antibiotics judiciously to treat sick cattle and maintain healthy herds. The federal government needs to realize that at the end of the day these regulations are actually jeopardizing animal health.

TSCRA will continue to work with industry organizations and government officials to ensure cattle raisers’ access and ability to use important animal drugs to care for their cattle are retained. TSCRA will also keep its members informed as the VFD rule continues being implemented throughout the U.S. Ty Keeling is a Boerne, Texas cattle rancher, and he has been the vice chair of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Animal Health Committee since 2013.

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East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica by an average of 0.7 inches per year. This small thickening, sustained over thousands of years and spread over the vast expanse of these sectors of Antarctica, corresponds to a very large gain of ice – enough to outweigh the losses from fast-flowing glaciers in other parts of the continent and reduce global sea level rise.

“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”

Earlier this year, a study in Nature Climate Change found that global sea levels were rising faster than previously thought.

Researchers used satellite data combined with tidal gauge information and GPS measurements to overturn previous suggestions that rates had slowed in the past decade.

Another study by Harvard University’s Carling Hay and his colleagues in Nature examined rates of sea level rise before 1990 and found they had been overestimated by about 30 percent. That means the acceleration in sea-level rise in the past two decades is greater than previously thought.

Most researchers blamed the rising seas on melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and shrinking glaciers, triggered by the rise in heat-trapping, greenhouse gas emissions.

But even if Antarctica isn’t part of the mix now, that could change in the future.

“If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years - I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses,” said n Zwally.

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The Climate Wars & the Damage to Science

by MATT RIDLEY GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION

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t the heart of the debate about climate change is a simple scientific question: can a doubling of the concentration of a normally harmless, indeed moderately beneficial, gas, from 0.03 percent of the atmosphere to 0.06 percent of the atmosphere over the course of a century change the global climate sufficiently to require drastic and painful political action today? In the end, that’s what this is all about. Most scientists close enough to the topic say: possibly. Some say: definitely. Some say: highly unlikely. The ‘consensus’ answer is that the warming could be anything from mildly beneficial to dangerously harmful: that’s what the IPCC means when it quotes a range of plausible outcomes from 1.5 to 4 degrees of warming.

On the basis of this unsettled scientific question, politicians and most of the pressure groups that surround them are furiously insistent that any answer to the question other than ‘definitely’ is vile heresy motivated by self-interest, and is so disgraceful as to require stamping out, prosecution as a crime against humanity, investigation under laws designed to catch racketeering by organized crime syndicates, or possibly the suspension of democracy. For yes, that is what has been repeatedly proposed by respected and senior figures in the climate debate.

James Hansen, former head of Nasa’s Goddard Institute and the man whose congressional testimony in 1988 kick-started the whole debate, said a few years back, of fossil fuel company executives: ‘In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature’.

As I am finishing this essay comes news that one of France’s leading television weather forecasters, Philippe Verdier, has published a book arguing that he thinks the problem of climate change is being exaggerated. As a result he was first taken off the air and then unceremoniously sacked. Imagine, for a moment, that he had published a book saying the opposite: that climate change is going to be worse than we think. He would have been feted, rather than fired. This is censorship, and 110

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the fact that it is happening less than a year after, and in the same city as, the Charlie Hebdo killings, when the world joined together to say ‘Je suis Charlie’ and insist that free speech must be protected, is astonishing.

Recently 20 senior climate scientists wrote to President Obama and his attorney general to support a senator’s call that the administration mount a ‘RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change’.

Remarkably, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, then discovered that that the lead signatory of the letter from the 20 scientists, Professor Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University, has been paying himself and his wife $1.5 million a year, via his ‘nonprofit’ Institute of Global Environment & Society Inc. of which he is President and CEO. The money came entirely from public grants climate grants and was on top of his $250,000 university salary. Two of his daughters were also on the institute’s payroll. Is it any wonder that he very much does not want anybody to conclude that climate change is a crisis? Is it any wonder he wants sceptics silenced by prosecution?

And is it possible that the huge flow of money he receives has incentivised him to (in his own words) ‘knowingly deceive the American people about the risks of climate change’ in the other direction?

Meanwhile it is now commonplace to hear scientists and commentators express disillusion with democracy as a forum for resolving this issue. One scientist muses that forms of ’good’ authoritarianism ‘may become not only justifiable, but essential for the survival of humanity in anything approaching a civilised form’, while a leading newspaper columnist wrote, of China’s climate policy: ‘one-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages’.

To me, given that most environmental scares never turn out as bad as first feared, given that climate change has proceeded much more slowly and mildly than expected since 1990, and given that there is now a vast vested industry in alarm, thanks to munificent public fund-

ing, this feels like an over-reaction. That is to say, although I am in the ‘possibly’ camp, above, I cannot understand why so many people who should know better – in science academies, in parliaments and in international agencies – tolerate this vicious intolerance of a different position, let alone join in with it. Nor can I understand how so many politicians and scientists have grown more confident, not less, that future global warming will be catastrophically dangerous, even as estimates of climate sensitivity have come down and as real-world warming has consistently underperformed models, with the discrepancy growing larger every year.

After all, the climate worriers have largely won the policy argument: most of the world’s governments pay lucrative lip service to the need to do something about climate change: subsidizing renewable energy, encouraging low-carbon fuels and taxing high-carbon ones, while preaching at their populations. Dr Shukla and others who worry about climate change receive about $31 billion a year from the US federal government; their sceptical opponents receive almost nothing. Yet the partisans are not satisfied, constantly moaning about how nothing is being done. It is true that emissions are not yet falling, but that’s because nobody has come up with an affordable substitute for fossil fuels – a problem of technology, rather than political will.

Most disappointing of all is the way that science – especially the leaders of the world’s science academies – have joined in with gusto, not just demonizing those who say they are not convinced we face catastrophe, but turning a blind eye to the distortion and corruption of the scientific process itself. That’s what this essay is about. I am a ‘lukewarmer’: somebody who has come to think that climate change is likely to continue to be slow and mild, and that much greater humanitarian and environmental problems deserve more attention. I meet a lot of people who are skeptical and a lot of people who are alarmed. The latter have all the plum jobs, hefty grants and fat salaries. Yet respect for the scientific method is far more prevalent among the former. I genuinely worry that science itself is being damaged by this episode.

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Environmentalists, judges control our land AZ STATE SENATOR STEVE PIERCE, WWW.AZCENTRAL.COM State senator: Arizona public lands have no management, just restriction after restriction from a clueless Washington.

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s a third-generation Arizona rancher, I am all too familiar with the historic ups and downs of federal land management in the West.

Right now, management is down, way down. More than I can ever remember.

The desk jockeys in Washington, D.C., not only seem to lack empathy for all the families in Arizona and the West who make a living working the land, we often are under downright attack from this administration.

For instance, the White House is looking at locking up 1.7 million acres of land by creating a Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument that would include thousands of acres of land the federal government previously gave the state to

keep in trust for education. Then there’s the Red Rock National Monument near Sedona, again locking up state lands.

Increasingly, if you are a family that depends on traditional and sustainable uses of the land such as timber, grazing or mining, then you have been put in the crosshairs. Even hunting and fishing are to be discouraged. These are activities that appear to be slowly squeezed and eventually stamped out.

Forest management is another example. Instead of being done by professionals, our forests are now controlled by environmentalists and judges. The Endangered Species Act is not used to revive species; it has become another tool for advocacy groups to manage the land. Meanwhile human access to our forests continues to diminish while dead wood just keeps piling up as fuel for massive forest fires.

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There is much to absorb in his proposals but they all link back to one theme: Washington needs to respect the West and those of us that live here!

Perhaps the best example of that is his support for moving the headquarters of the Department of the Interior to the West. No doubt some will say this is nuts! But consider that 97 percent of the land managed by the Bureau of Land Management is in the Western United States. Shouldn’t the people making decisions that directly and almost solely affect so many Westerners be located in the West?

Since World War II, 18 of 20 Secretaries of the Interior have hailed from west of the Mississippi. Isn’t it time we moved the department closer to home?

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B & H Herefords.......................................... 32 Ken Babcock Sales...................................... 89 Bale Buddy Manufacturing, Inc..................... 62 Bar G Feedyard........................................... 23 Bar Guitar Liquid Feed Co., LLC................... 96 Bar J Bar Herefords............................... 31, 81 Bar M Real Estate................................. 84, 86 Beaverhead Outdoors.................................. 86 Beefmaster Breeders United......................... 26 Best in the West Brangus Sale...................... 18 BJM Sales & Service Inc............................... 89 Black Angus “Ready for Work” Bull Sale........ 22 Border Tank Resources................................. 89 Bovine Elite................................................. 88 Bow K Ranch.............................................. 33 Raymond Boykin......................................... 52 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd............................... 6, 79 Brennand Ranch.................................... 30, 79 Brand/Nony Navar....................................... 89 C

C Bar Ranch.......................................... 53, 80 Campbell Simmentals.................................. 52 Candy Ray Trujillo’s Black Angus................... 38 Carter Brangus...................................... 40, 80 Casey Beefmasters................................. 53, 80 Cates Ranch................................................ 37 Cattlegrowers Foundation........................... 113 Cattleman’s Livestock Commission............... 39 Caviness Packing Co., Inc............................. 57 Centerfire Real Estate.................................. 83 Don Chalmers Ford..................................... 30 CJ Beefmasters............................................ 33 Clark Anvil Ranch........................................ 54 Clavel Herefords.......................................... 24 Clovis Livestock Auction............................... 47 Coba Select Sires......................................... 80 Conniff Cattle Co., LLC........................... 35, 51 Cornerstone Ranch...................................... 15 Cox Ranch Herefords............................. 39, 80 Coyote Ridge Ranch.............................. 45, 54 CPE Feeds Inc............................................. 89 Craig Limousin .................................... 79, 96 Crystalyx..................................................... 45 George Curtis, Inc.................................. 25, 81 Canyon Blanco Ranch.................................. 52 D

D & S Polled Herefords................................ 33 Decker Herefords................................... 40, 54 Denton Photography.................................... 93

ADVERTISERS’ INDEX

Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment........... 89 Diamond Seven Angus........................... 35, 80

Lazy Way Bar Ranch.............................. 48, 80

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M-Hat Angus............................................... 55 Manford Cattle...................................... 52, 81 Manzano Angus..................................... 29, 81 Mathers Realty Inc. / Keith Brownfield.......... 85 Paul McGilliard, Murney Associates ............. 86 McKenzie Land & Livestock.......................... 12 Merrick’s Inc................................................ 65 Mesa Feed Co.............................................. 49 Mesa Tractor, Inc................................... 88, 112 Michelet Homestead Realty.......................... 87 Chas S. Middleton & Son............................. 86 Miller Angus................................................ 49 MIX 30....................................................... 99 Monfette Construction Co............................. 88 Motley Mill & Cube Corporation................... 91 Mountain View Ranch................................... 37

Elbrock Ranch............................................. 40 F

F & F Cattle Company................................. 30 FBFS / Monte Anderson............................. 105 FBFS / Larry Marshall.................................. 73 Farm Credit of New Mexico............................ 8 Farmway Feed Mill....................................... 63 Ferguson Ranch........................................... 38 Five States Livestock Auction, ...................... 37 4G Mountain Angus..................................... 21 4 Rivers Equipment....................................... 3 Four States Ag Expo.................................... 14 Fury Farms, Inc............................................ 23 G

Genex / Candy Trujillo............................ 18, 81 Giant Rubber Water Tanks............................. 94 Goemmer Land & Livestock......................... 53 Grau Charolais....................................... 34, 80 Grau Ranch........................................... 17, 80 Greer & Winston Cattle Co............................ 33 Greer Ranch................................................ 39 H

Hales Angus Farms................................ 19, 81 Harrison Quarter Horses............................... 89 Hartzog Angus Ranch............................. 13, 80 Hayhook Limousin....................................... 44 Headquarters West Ltd................................. 85 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell......... 85 Henard Ranch............................................. 33 Hi-Pro Feeds................................................. 7 Hubbell Ranch....................................... 27, 81 Hudson Livestock Supplements.................... 61 Hutchison Western......................................... 2 I

Innovative Solar Systems, LLC.................... 107 Isa Beefmasters..................................... 52, 81 J

JaCin Ranch.......................................... 32, 79 Jarmon Ranch........................................ 52, 81 J-C Angus Ranch......................................... 24 Steve Jensen................................................ 18 Jimbar......................................................... 52 K

Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equip........... 88 Keeton Limousin.......................................... 52 Bill King Ranch.............................................. 5 L

L & H Manufacturing................................... 77 Laflin Ranch................................................ 39 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus............................. 81 Lazy S Ranch Willcox LLC............................ 50

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National Animal Interest Alliance................ 101 National Western Stock Show....................... 28 New Mexico Angus & Hereford Assoc. .......... 20 New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance........ 111 New Mexico Federal Lands Council............. 100 New Mexico 4-H Foundation........................ 95 New Mexico FFA Foundation........................ 94 New Mexico Mutual..................................... 98 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences...... 41, 93, 95 NMSU Extension.......................................... 48 New Mexico Premier Ranch Properties......... 86 New Mexico Property Group......................... 87 New Mexico Purina Dealers........................ 116 New Mexico Wool Growers........................... 44 O

Alisa Ogden............................................... 109 Old Mill....................................................... 66 Olson Land and Cattle........................... 52, 81 Jim Olson.................................................. 103 P

P Bar A Angus Cattle............................. 43, 81 Parker Brangus.......................................... 115 Perez Cattle Company.................................. 44 Phillips Diesel.............................................. 88 PolyDome................................................... 75 Post Holes Drilling NM, LLC ....................... 74 Power Ford.................................................. 97 Pratt Farms........................................... 38, 79 Premier Real Estate..................................... 86 R

Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co............................ 42 Ranch Land Co............................................ 86 Big Bend Trailers/Rancho Espuela................. 45 D.J. Reveal................................................... 38 Rio Grand Classic Livestock Auction.............. 59 Tom Robb & Sons........................................ 33 Robbs Brangus............................................ 52

Robertson Livestock..................................... 88 ROD Ranch................................................. 44 Roeder Implement....................................... 96 Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale.............. 4 Roswell Livestock Auction Co........................ 46 S

Sachse Red Angus....................................... 38 Salazar Ranches.......................................... 33 St. Vrain Simmentals.................................... 53 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service....................... 88 Santa Rita Ranch................................... 48, 80 Sci-Agra Inc.......................................... 74, 88 Scott Land................................................... 87 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC................ 86 Singleton Ranches....................................... 88 Skaarer Brangus.......................................... 49 Southern Star Ranch.............................. 34, 78 Southwest Beef Symposium......................... 32 Southwest Red Angus Assoc................... 52, 81 Stallard Real Estate Services........................ 85 Stockmen’s Realty....................................... 82 Stronghold Ranch Real Estate...................... 84 Joe Stubblefield & Associates........................ 86 Superior Livestock Auction & Su................... 54 Swihart Sales Co.......................................... 88 T

TechniTrack, LLC.......................................... 89 Terrell Land & Livestock Co.......................... 85 Texas Limousin Association.......................... 45 The Ranches................................................ 84 Thompson Ranch......................................... 58 Tucumcari Bull Test....................................... 51 TV Cattle Company...................................... 53 2 Bar Angus.......................................... 52, 78 U

U Bar Ranch................................................ 36 United Fiberglass....................................... 103 USA Ranch............................................ 55, 79 V

Virden Perma Bilt Co.................................... 88 W

W&W Fiberglass Tank Co.............................. 41 Walker Martin Ranch Sales........................... 87 West Star Herefords............................... 36, 81 West Wood Realty........................................ 83 Westall Ranches, LLC................................... 79 Westway Feed Products, LLC................ 67, 106 White Mountain Herefords...................... 22, 81 Williams Cattle Company............................. 33 Williams Windmill, Inc............................ 56, 88 WW - Paul Scales...................................... 104 Y

Yavapai Bottle Gas................................. 45, 88 Tal Young, P.C............................................... 96 Z

Zia Agriculture Consulting, LLC......... 33, 88, 89

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LARRY & ELAINE PARKER P.O. Box 146 1700 N. Parker Road San Simon, AZ 85632 Larry’s Cell - 520/508-3505 Diane’s Cell – 520/403-1967 Business – 520/845-2411 Residence – 520/845-2315 Email: jddiane@vtc.net parker_brangus@yahoo.com

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