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To find out more, call: C&M Herefords Kyle Pérez 575-403-7971 Michael Pérez 575-403-7970 Stephens & Loehr Mark Stephens 217-825-7913 Pete Loehr 309-692-6026

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TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 Fax: 505/998-6236 505/243-9515 E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com Official publication of: ■

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; President, Rex Wilson Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584 President, Marc Kincaid Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost ■

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING Publisher: Caren Cowan Publisher Emeritus: Chuck Stocks Office Manager: Marguerite Vensel Advertising Reps.: Chris Martinez, Melinda Martinez Contributing Editors: Carol Wilson Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson, William S. Previtti, Lee Pitts Photographer: Dee Bridgers

PRODUCTION Production Coordinator: Carol Pendleton Editorial & Advertising Design: Kristy Hinds Advertising Design: Camille Pansewicz

ADVERTISING SALES

F E AT U R E S 15 30 42 46 47 67 80 89 94 98

Beefmasters: Just Right For The Southwestern Desert by Caren Cowan New Mexico SRM Awards Texas Longhorns – Standing Out in the Crowd by Callie Gnatkowski What’s the Best Cow Size? Part Two by Heather Smith Thomas New Mexico Angus & Hereford Association Bull & Heifer Sale Buying Bulls Based on Data by Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist NDSU Extension Service More Convention Winners New Mexico State University Graduates New Mexico Ag Expo Schedule A Solar Choice For Pumping Water by Thomas Jenkins, New Mexico State University

D E PA R T M E N T S 10 12 13 18 24 26 34 39 44 57 74 77 85 86 88 88 92 103 106

N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter News Update Missions Accomplished by Michelle Frost N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois To The Point by Caren Cowan Old Times by Don Bullis NMBC Bullhorn Scatterin’ The Drive by Curtis Fort Real Estate Guide Seedstock Guide Market Place On The Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black Cowboy Heroes by Jim Olson Estrays New Mexico Livestock Board Update In Memoriam Ad Index Calendar of Events

by Rex Wilson, President

Chris Martinez at 505/243-9515, ext. 28 or chris@aaalivestock.com

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There haven’t been as many bills introduced in the Legislature as we thought there might have been, but there is plenty of time for that to change. The final day to drop bills is the middle of February. President Elect Jose Varela Lopez and Michelle Frost have been fully deployed in Santa Fe since day 1 on January 15. The weekly reports that they are producing are the best ever.

The “10 for 10” bill readers have been hard at work helping us make sure that we don’t miss any important legislation that might be introduced. I cannot tell you how much all of this teamwork is appreciated.

It took a bit longer for organization to come together, but legislators are in offices and we have their phone numbers. Jose, Michelle and others report that the pace of the body is different from the past. Legislators are constantly on the move making it hard to catch them in their offices. This change of habit makes your phone calls, emails and letters even more important.

There have been several calls to action sent out already. If you are not receiving those via direct email, they are also on the NMCGA website: www.nmagriculture.org and on the NMCGA Facebook page. I will confess that I am not Facebook literate, but I am taking Caren’s word for it.

You may have noticed that we launched a new website last fall. Not only is it eye-catching, but Michelle found a way to save several thousand dollars a year on the hosting and maintaining of the site. The number of visitors to the site since we have been using Facebook to deliver our message, coupled with letters that we have sent to agricultural property owners is paying off. Not only is our membership climbing at a gratifying pace, but our dropped members are down. AND there is enough traffic on the site that we have been able to work with a marketing company that is bringing advertisers on board. This has created a much-needed new source of revenue for the Association.

We have also been blessed with a new benefactor to the litigation fund that is enabling us to continue to fight injustice to ranchers and the public in the courts. In addition to that large donation, others continue to contribute to the fund and every dollar is most appreciated.

While the challenges facing ranching families continue, those families are rising to the challenges.

The legislative Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for February 18 and 19 in Santa Fe. If you haven’t already made plans to go, it is not too late. The room block may be full, but we will be happy to help you locate other accommodations. Call the office to register and let us know if you need further assistance.

The invitation to join New Mexico Cattle Growers’ remains open. I hope you will join us as we carry on the traditions of our forefathers while adapting to what life hands us.

Hope to see you in Santa Fe.

President www.nmagriculture.org NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Rex Wilson President Carrizozo

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Lane Grau Vice-President At Large, Grady

Ty Bays Ernie Torrez Pat Boone SW Vice-President NW Vice-President SE Vice-President Silver City La Jara Elida

Blair Clavel Shacey Sullivan NE Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Roy Bosque Farms

Bert Ancell Past President Springer

Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

RED HOT BULL SALE At the farm — Bosque, NM — April 13, 2013

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ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALES, INC. & ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION TRUCKING, INC. 900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041 Roswell, New Mexico 88201 575/622-5580 www.roswelllivestockauction.com CATTLE SALES: MONDAYS HORSE SALES: APRIL, JUNE, SEPTEMBER and DECEMBER BENNY WOOTON RES 575/625-0071, CELL 575/626-4754 SMILEY WOOTON RES 575/623-2338, CELL 575/626-6253

Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Livestock New Mexico Receiving Stations need to call our toll-free number for a Transportation Permit number before leaving home. The Hauling Permit number 1-800/748-1541 is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Trucks are available 7 days a week / 24 hours a day

ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION RECEIVING STATIONS LORDSBURG, NM 20 Bar Livestock Highway #90 at NM #3 – East side of highway. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. Truck leaves Lordsburg at 2:00 p.m. Sunday. Smiley Wooton, 575/622-5580 office, 575/623-2338 home, 575/626-6253 cell.

PECOS, TX Hwy. 80 across from Town & Country Motel. Jason Heritage is now receiving cattle every Sunday. For information to unload contact Jason Heritage 575-840-9544 or Smiley Wooton 575-626-6253. NO PRIOR PERMITS REQUIRED. Trucks leave Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (CT) VAN HORN, TX 800 West 2nd, 5 blocks west of Courthouse. Pancho Romero, 432/207-0324, or Pete Ojeda, 432/2841971. Trucks leave 1st & 3rd Sunday at 3:00 p.m. CT. MORIARTY, NM Two blocks east and one block south of Tillery Chevrolet.

Smiley Wooton 575/622-5580 office, 575/623-2338 home, 575/626-6253 mobile. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. MT. SAN ANTONIO, NM River Cattle Co. Nine miles east of San Antonio on U.S. 380.

Receiving cattle for transport 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month.

Gary Johnson 575/838-1834. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. MT. T or C, NM Old Greer Pens – I-24 to Exit #75 – Williamsburg – Go east to City Building – Turn right to corrals. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. Truck leaves at 2:00 pm Sunday. Matt Johnson, 575/740-4507.

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Environmental group is denied fee award even where it successfully challenged agency decision NMFLC.BLOGSPOT.COM n Western Watersheds Project v. Ellis, 2012 DJDAR 13948 (2012), the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit decided a claim for attorney fees made by an environmental organization arising from grazing permit litigation.

In summary, Western Watersheds (Western), an environmental organization, sued the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) renewal of grazing permits in an area managed by BLM called the Jarbridge Resource Area. The district court concluded that the BLM failed to protect the environmental habitat in the area and issued an injunction against the grazing permits.

Based on the district court’s ruling, the BLM and Western settled the litigation, including all issues relating to attorney fees to that point in time. Subsequent to the 2007 settlement, a severe wildfire erupted in the Jarbridge Resource Area which greatly changed the landscape of the Resource Area.

As a result, the BLM once again allowed grazing on unburned areas of the Resource Area. Western successfully challenged the post-fire grazing conditions and authorizations. Western then asked for attorney fees as the prevailing party pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA). The district court denied Western’s motion. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s decision declining to grant fees.

The Ninth Circuit noted that under the EAJA, a prevailing party is generally entitled to fees against the government, unless the position of the government was “substantially justified.” In making a call whether or not the government’s position was “substantially justified,” a court must look to both the government’s position during litigation and to the agency action that the plaintiff’s lawsuit was based on.

The Ninth Circuit concluded that the district court properly considered the reasonableness of the BLM’s underlying decision to issue grazing authorizations after the fire. For that reason, this court was convinced that the district court correctly determined that the BLM was substantially justified in its position. The ■ motion for fees under the EAJA was denied.

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BEEFMASTERS JUST RIGHT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN DESERT

by CAREN COWAN hirty years ago Edward Elbrock, Animas, was looking for a breed that would be hardy enough to withstand the sometimes brutal environment of the bootheel of New Mexico. He wanted something with Brahman influence that would avoid some of the management problems he had encountered with British breeds. Beefmaster caught his eye and once he got them home they didn’t disappoint. “I saw right away that they were going to work in this Southwestern desert and I began keeping my heifers to build a herd, Elbrock said. “I buy registered bulls from Lasaters. We haven’t brought anything into the herd but bulls for the past 30 years.�

Like every cattleman ranching in a commercial setting, Elbrock wanted a breed that would work the country and take care of themselves. He selects his bulls for light birth weights which allows him to run his replacement heifers with the herd with no worries about calving ease.

Elbrock is particularly pleased with the gentle disposition of his Beefmasters, a trait he gained appreciation of in his younger years working with neighbor Bill Cowan who brought the first straight Brahman cattle into the Southwest. “The Beefmasters are calm, quiet and easy handling,� he explained. “Every now and then there might be a high-headed one, but those go to market immediately and I really enjoy working with the cattle.�

In big country where it takes around 100 acres to run a cow unit, that disposition is key, he said. Elbrock also appreciates the confirmation and milking ability of his Beefmasters. His cows provide plenty of milk for big, healthy calves and he never has the problems with bags he experienced with other breeds in the past.

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“I wanted a solid color for my herd and I could have chosen red or black,� he reports. “I should have chosen black, but I like red better and I am happy with what we have.�

Elbrock admits that due to the extra ear that he sometimes gets a little resistance to his asking price for his calves. But, he usually is able to negotiate the price he wants. Even if it is a couple cents less than what he is asking, the extra 50 pounds he gets from his Beefmaster calves more than

makes up any difference.

Sadly, like many, many ranch families across the nation, the Elbrocks are looking at selling off the majority of their herds due to the extended and extreme drought a majority of the country is suffering. However Edward has picked the best of his heifers from the last two years and has plans to hold on to them until the summer rains come – if they come.

Beefmaster cattle are a combination of Zebu, Hereford and Shorthorn that has been in existence since the early 1950s.

They are a unique combination of Bos Indicus and Bos Taurus breeding that

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Today they can found from Wisconsin to Texas, California to Florida and every place in between. The Beefmaster Foundation herd excels in the cold environment of Colorado and about 50 percent of the registered animals are found in the hot, humid environment of Texas and Florida.

The three-breed combination has built in heterosis that will further be enhanced in mating them with the commercial cattle population.

Many cattlemen are unaware of the level of increase in productivity that crossbreeding offers the cattle industry, according to the Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU), the official registry for the animals.

Economics 101 suggests that cow/calf producers can achieve greater profitability or minimal losses by cutting per cow costs.

Scientists suggest that as much as a 25 to 30 percent advantage may exist by use of crossbreeding. Because of the many generations of repeated top-crossing of Angus bulls on the commercial cowherd the industry has seen a significant loss in heterosis. “Most will agree that the Angus breed and the Certified Angus Brand (CAB) have had a tremendous success in product marketing over the years,� stated Tommy Perkins, BBU Executive Vice President. “However, cattlemen can reap even more economic advantage by using another breed to capitalize on the advantages of heterosis and breed complementarity.�

The Beefmaster breed of cattle is a multipurpose breed that is full of convenience traits. When used in a crossbreeding program, Beefmasters will add growth and efficiency in all phases of the production chain. This added growth and efficiency will put dollars in the pocket at the cowcalf level and all the way through the feedlot phase, providing the best of both

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worlds. Beefmasters provide all the convenience traits in the female along with a crossbred, high performing calf with excellent carcass traits.

Traditionally, the Beefmaster cow has provided the low birth weights, calving ease, fleshing ability, efficiency and conception percentage that is unequalled in the beef industry. Use of Beefmaster influenced cattle will allow low-cost production with fewer inputs at the cow/calf level.

Reduced per cow cost will become a requirement of cow/calf operators to survive in the current and evolving beef industry. Economics 101 suggests that cow/calf producers can achieve greater profitability or minimal losses by cutting per cow costs. These cost cutting measures are built into the Beefmaster influenced female.

Beefmaster cattle offer, says the BBU, the perfect balance of convenience, breed complimentarity, and heterosis retention.

For example, a cross between a commercial Angus cow and a Beefmaster bull would combine high levels of marbling from the Angus with high efficiency and growth of the Beefmaster. Thus, the resulting crossbred progeny should combine quality grade and cost of production attributes to maximize value in a retained ownership management system. This mating would allow the producer to optimize Bos Taurus percentage in an excellent replacement female or a fast growing, efficient, high quality feeder calf.

Heterosis has an impact on many traits but it is most beneficial in improving performance in the lowly heritable traits like reproduction. Beefmaster cattle, recognized as a breed by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1954, were

selected following founder, Tom Lasater’s, six essentials. The six essentials consist of disposition, fertility, weight, conformation, milk production and hardiness. Beefmaster breeders continue to strive for the Standard of Excellence by using the six essentials. Beefmaster females, purebred or percentage, will add disease tolerance, insect tolerance, heat tolerance, longevity, docility, calving ease, maternal abilities ■ and hardiness.

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jinglejangle Dear CowBelles, If you are not involved with the government or have not kept up with what is going on in Santa Fe, it is time to stand up and take notice. Our voice for the agriculture industry is important, and we must take proper measures to be heard since legislators reconvened in Santa Fe on January 15. It is time to really be a promoter and also pay attention to what is going on around us on the local, state and national levels. We need to stay involved. If we don’t, no one will do it for us.

We have a great legislation program with the New Mexico Cattle Growers.

There is no one better to keep us informed on what is going on than either Caren Cowen and/or Michelle Frost. When they send out alerts, our legislative Chairman, Karen Kelling, sends it to the district representative who forwards them to the locals. This means take action immediately, not tomorrow or a week from now, it means now. Get involved and let’s all work

DATES TO REMEMBER February 19 – AG Fest March 14 – Roundhouse Feed, Sweeney, Santa Fe March 17 – Executive Board Meeting, Clovis DISTRICT MEETING March 18, Clovis – Ranchvale Baptist Church March 19, Carrizozo – Woman’s Club March 20 – Glenwood-Community Center March 21 – Lindrith-Baptist Church March 19 – National Ag Day April 15 – Pat Nowlin Scholarship Application Due to Chairman April 25-27 – Region VI – St. George, Utah (deadline for reg. is March 15)

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During the Trade Show there was a booth – Ag Book Boutique – consisting of books for all ages for adults, children, grandchildren or even your local library.

Our own, Karen Kelling, was there autographing her book, The Camanchero’s Grave. This is just one of the many ways that we, as CowBelles, can reach the public through many platforms. Please check out her book. It would make an excellent birthday or Christmas present.

When you attend the district meetings, we will inform you of the latest in beef education, promotion and nutrition ideas that we learned in Tampa. I am looking forward to seeing both longtime friends and meeting new people this year.

Stay involved in agriculture and legislation and we will make a positive impact for agriculture.

Until next time, pray for moisture and remember BEEF IS BEST, – Sharon King, NMCB President

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together. We need to be very alert this session as it is a sixty-day session. When you get involved in legislation you are involved in agriculture. Everyone do your sharewrite, call or email when notified. Also, when you hear of something that we need to be aware of please notify NMCG, don’t just take it upon yourself, there is a process which needs to be followed.

The Ag Fest in Santa Fe was successful thanks to Madalyn Lee and her crew. Our booth was very attractive and we met several new state senators and representatives. They learned of our purpose as CowBelles and the importance of the Ag industry in the state of New Mexico.

Madalyn and I attended the National Meeting in Tampa, Florida from February 4-8. We brought home some excellent ideas for beef promotion. We were to share our latest beef promotion, the Pumpkin Patch, with the other states.

While at the ANCW convention, I was very interested in the collegiate career fair for the young cattlemen who attended the convention. There were various industry representatives that one could learn about their companies, how to apply, network

The January meeting of the Chamiza CowBelles was called to order by President Gloria Petersen in the Ivory Tusk Restaurant at the Elephant Butte Inn with seven

members and three guests present. Gloria led us in the Pledge of Allegiance after which Robbie recited the CowBelle Prayer and CowBelle Creed. Minutes from the previous meeting were approved as read.

Dolores presented the Treasurer’s reports from November and December. They were also approved as presented. Gloria reported the need to re-word the criteria for our scholarship application. Apparently the local high school’s information states that the applicants must come from an agricultural background rather than our requirement that the applicant intends to study in the field of agriculture. It was the consensus of all present to make our next meeting a work session to re-word the application requirements to present to the high school. Gloria encouraged all to read the information presented in our New Mexico Stockman magazine regarding the federal government’s intention to claim more land. Meeting was adjourned at 11:30.

The Powderhorn CowBelles met at the new home of Sandy McKenna with Dorothy Vaughan as co-hostess. Ellen Vaughan, Vice-President, presided in the continued on page 22

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absence of Joan Key. Since there was no business meeting in December reports were given on all the activities in which Powderhorn had been involved. The group had not had an opportunity to have committees meet on the budget, places of meetings and programs for the year 2013 so after routine items on the agenda were completed the meeting was devoted to accomplishing these plans. These will be shared with President Key and it is hoped to have all finished in time for the Febru-

ary meeting which will be at the home of Ellen Vaughan. Karen Kelling will present Kids, Kows and More for the benefit of Powderhorn members and the hope is to create some more presenters. A delicious luncheon was enjoyed and members left with a sense of a job well done and hope for a very productive year. Dorothy Vaughan, Secretary.

With 11 members present, Lariat CowBelles met January 9 at the Rabbit Ears Café. Mary Bleiker was installed as Lariat CowBelles Treasurer for 2013. She received a bag of $100,000 candy bars. It

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The 2013 Yearbooks were handed out to the members present. Additional members and changes were made to the Yearbook.

It was noted that on the afternoon of May 8, following the regular meeting, there will be Ag in the Classroom training at 2:00 p.m. at Alvis School in Clayton. Committee chairs are still needed for Membership, Legislative, Nominations, and Health Fair/County Fair committees. Joyce Sowers accepted the chair of the Legislative Committee. Sharon King informed the group that she, Madalyn Lee and Karen Kelling will be attending the ANCW Meeting in Tampa, FL, on Feb 9. The 2012 Annual Report, blank time sheets and instructions were distributed. Sharon King has leftover placemats, My Plate handouts and recipes from Pumpkin Patch. Mary Coffman expressed interest in having some for her education activities and Kathryn Malcolm-Callis will take them for Kids and Kows. Lariat CowBelles budget meeting will be on Tuesday, January 22 at 3:00 p.m. at the library. Officers need to attend. 2013 Five States Roundup was discussed. Due to the proximity of the New Mexico State Fair and some other meetings, it was decided to move 5 States to October 2nd. Owaissa Heimann distributed handouts on MCOOL and inheritance tax/estate planning. Chris Johnson, CPA, was the guest speaker and gave a presentation “What Will the Changes Mean to You!” Under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, he discussed estate and gift tax provisions, income tax rates on ordinary income, income tax rates on capital gains, payroll taxes, high income phase-outs and limits, depreciation on business assets, alternative minimum tax, earned income tax credit, education credits and deductions, and various extenders and changes.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was discussed, including individual mandates requiring U.S. citizens and legal residents to have qualifying health coverage, rules for employers, expanding Medicaid and modifications of Medicare coverage, changes coming in 2013 and changes coming in 2014. The next regular meeting of Lariat CowBelles will be on February 13, at the Rabbit Ear Café. The guest speaker will be Jay Fluhman, ACNP. Submitted by Marianne Rose, Reporter, Lariat CowBelles The Chuckwagon CowBelles met at the continued on page 73

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Lands News This month’s column is about fly eatin’ birds, cow eatin’ wolves and saying adios to Salazar and wood stoves.

The wee willy flycatcher he willow flycatcher is a small, insecteating, migrant bird that only grows to about five inches in length and spends the winter in Mexico and Central America. The bird nests in the southwestern U.S. from May through September.

On January 4 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published the final designation of critical habitat for the willow fly catcher.

This is an expansion of existing designations, which were 120,824 acres and 737 river miles. The new designation of critical habitat is 208,973 acres and 1,227 stream miles and will affect Federal, State, Tribal and Private lands in 37 counties in the states of California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico.

The counties included in New Mexico are Catron, Grant, Hidalgo, Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos, Socorro and Valencia.

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are endangered. Anything that can survive on flies and other nasty insects has got to be dang tough and can survive on its own.

I also understand they have really bad breath.

Mexican gray wolves are headed your way

I recently received a preliminary Draft Management Plan and Environmental Assessment prepared by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for the wolf. With only a quick review I can tell you this is a huge expansion of the program.

First, the feds are proposing a Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area (MWEPA) that would take in all the area north of Interstate 10 and South of Interstate 40, from the western state line of Arizona, across New Mexico and into west Texas. You Texas folks better get ready because this MWEPA will run from north of Amarillo, through Lubbock and San Angelo down to Del Rio. It appears that in addition they are establishing three management zones.

Management Zone 1 in NM would be lands north of Interstate 40 to the Colorado line. The draft EA says those areas capable of wolf colonization are the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests and “areas adjacent to the forests including private land protected under conservation easement and tribal land managed as wilderness.” Signed a conservation easement with the feds or an enviro group? Great, you just created yourself some wolf habitat.

Management Zone 2 would be those portions of NM from Interstate 10 south to the border with Mexico. Areas affected would be “Southern Hidalgo, Grant, Luna, and Doña Ana counties including the Alamo Hueco, Big Hatchet Mountains, and West Potrillo Mountains Wilderness Study Areas, the Peloncillo Mountains of the Coronado National Forest, and the Animas, Little Hatchet, Big Hatchet, Alamo Hueco, Cedar and Potrillo mountain ranges.”

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west Texas region previously described.

There is much more to these documents, including when the feds will allow a “take”, but those issues will have to await a thorough analysis. Suffice it to say the wolves have been a problem for the ranchers and families in Catron and Grant counties. Now the entire state has been declared wolf habitat.

Meanwhile, in the Yakutia region of Russia, they have declared an emergency because of too many wolves. There have been over 16,000 reindeer and 319 domestic horses slaughtered by wolves, but these former commies know how to handle it.

They’ve extended the hunting season for wolves to be year-long and are offering bonuses to the best hunters.

Adios to Salazar

On December 15 Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, accompanied by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, attended a short-noticed meeting in Taos. The meeting was called to receive comments on a swath of federal lands known as Rio Grande del Norte. Rep. Lujan and former Senator Bingaman had intro-

duced legislation to make this land a combination of Wilderness and National Conservation Area. Since they couldn’t get their bill through the Congress, the enviros now want the President to declare the area a National Monument. Secretary Salazar said this could be a great legacy for Bingaman. But I ask: Why would anyone want their legacy to be denying or restricting the public’s access and use of their land?

Also, on January 21 of last year the Northern New Mexico Stockmen’s Association, the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, the New Mexico Woolgrowers and the New Mexico Federal Lands Council wrote to Rep. Lujan to express their concern over his Rio Grande del Norte legislation and asked a series of questions on the grazing language therein. Here we are almost a year later and we’ve received no response.

Two weeks ago Salazar announced he would be stepping down in March and returning to his home in Colorado. Names being mentioned to replace Salazar are Rep. Raul Grijalva (who would be a disaster), outgoing Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, former N. Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan and most recently our own Senator Tom Udall. You’ll probably

have the answer before this gets into print.

So, you were thinkin’ you’d pull your chair up to your wood stove and cook some willow flycatcher eggs while cleaning your gun for some wolf huntin’. Better think again. Why? Because the EPA is about to ban wood stoves. EPA has proposed regulations on fine air particles that would make many wood stoves illegal. Go to their website and they tell you your old stove must be scrapped and can’t be resold. Guess you’ll have to save those flycatcher eggs for a branding fire.

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 (http://www.nmsu.edu/~duboisrodeo/).

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statute on animal cruelty. The caveats were that agriculture was exempt from the legislation and that it would remain so for all time. In return, we would not oppose the animal cruelty bill proposed at the time. There were those among us, namely Bud Eppers and Walter Bradley, who told us we were making a mistake.

One might say that crow is best served cold, but that probably at best violates some politically correct rule some place and at worst might be construed as a threat to birds. Since the deal was made, there have been numerous attempts to “enhance� the statute further criminalizing more and more things. Although at times things were pretty uncomfortable and I had to stretch my imagination to figure that the ag exemption covered my beloved Betsy and now Abby.

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Part of the job of legislators is to try and get opposing sides to come together in a mutually agreeable comprise on proposed legislation. It has been said that the best compromises are when everyone goes away unhappy. That is not a philosophy that I particularly subscribe to, but that is a story for another day.

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There have been some ugly arguments – there was that animal hoarding bill, that I thought was a misprint and they were talking about boarding. Growing up on a ranch with lots of animals of all kinds, animal hoarding was truly a foreign concept.

It also became clear over time what a copout saying “we stand by our word� while others all around you are at serious risk really is.

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Really? Mental anguish? Great distress?

I really don’t want Abby to see this bill. I could become a felon pretty quickly, especially during the Legislature when home is a place to visit for the duration.

For those of you who have not met my not-so-mini, blue-eyed Australian Sheppard, it is clear that she is in “great distress� every time she gets left home in a comfortably air – conditioned home with unlimited water, free run of the furniture, one square meal a day and too often unlimited treats. There is no doubt that she would rather be wherever I am and her favorite place is in my lap.

In the 2013 proposed legislation, which are Senate Bill 83 and House Bill 224, “tormenting� an animal is animal cruelty. The first cruelty crime will get you a misdemeanor. Heretofore that misdemeanor was sentenced pursuant to N.M.’s criminal procedure in Chapter 31 in the statutes. If the new measures pass, animal cruelty sentencing will fall into Chapter 30, criminal offenses, and will have its own punishment. The new misdemeanor punishment is “imprisonment for a definite term of less than one year or payment of a fine not to exceed . . . $1,000, but not both.�

Upon a fourth or subsequent conviction you will become a felon and shall be punished by 18 months imprisonment or payment of a fine not to exceed $5,000, but not both.

What puts animal sentencing above the criminal code that applies to other crimes?

I don’t know how many of you watch the Super Bowl for the football or the commercials, but if you pay attention to the commercials, a lot of them include animals. There is some of that treatment could sure be considered “tormenting.�

Doritos is one of the biggest “offenders.� They have one commercial where a guy engages in an action that could be termed tormenting a dog outside through a glass door with Doritos. The dog becomes agitated, takes a run at the door, knocking both the door and the guy flat.

Not only was there tormenting, but was that dog injured when it hit the door?

There is another one with a little girl in a car seat who flashes Doritos to a dog in front of an open car window. You guessed it, the dog jumped out the window. Wasn’t that tormenting? Again, was the dog injured?

The next thing you know someone will be trying to outlaw Super Bowl commer-

cials, at least in N.M. There are two (at least) other much more serious issues in play here. First, who is going to determine if an animal has been put through great distress or mental anguish? Does this spawn a whole new, or at least expanded, group of “professionals� to make these determinations? Or worse, does that determination lay in the minds of animal control officers or one of your neighbors who is upset with you and reports you for something real or imagined?

If accused, you will get your day in court, but what will that cost you? The costs could go well beyond the attorneys.

The other issue is how these laws are used to rank and publicize how “cruel� a particular state is to animals. In mid December one Albuquerque television station posted on Facebook that “N.M. has been named one of the top five states for animal abusers, alongside Iowa, Kentucky, North Dakota and South Dakota.�

One might think that such a ranking might come from the number of convictions for animal abuse crimes. Not so much.

According to the station, the list was created by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which rates states based on punishments for animal abuse offenders, education programs to prevent animal abuse, and the law enforcement authority afforded to humane officers. N.M. received an “F� for the felony charges available in animal abuse cases, and didn’t have many of the programs other states had to prevent it from happening in the first place.

The story on the station’s website ended with “If you’d like to help, you can contact your local Animal Welfare Alliance or Animal Protection of N.M..� This statement was complete with a link directly to the APNM website.

However, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) reported in November 2012 that N.M. ranked 25th, basing their scoring primarily on animal fighting laws and penalties as well as ownership of exotic pets. The worst offenders on the HSUS list were South Dakota, South Carolina, Idaho, and North Dakota. Although it was readily available with a simple web search, that piece of information was not reported with the much more inflammatory story. When I went to school the reporting of this particular television station wasn’t part of good journalism.

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In November a listing of the lesser prairie chicken threatens to cross the bounds of property ownership and state lines. Some of the debate is being blurred by conversations on whether a listing may be as “endangered” or “threatened.” Folks, it doesn’t matter which label is put on the bird; the restrictions associated with either listing will be the same.

Meetings are being held on the issue.

Congressman Steve Pearce is planning a rally in Roswell on February 12 prior to the meeting there.

Perhaps the biggest blow to come to the east side of N.M. and west Texas was the release of a draft Southwestern Gray Wolf management plan and draft environmental assessment (EA) to counties, tribes and agencies for comment. The document was

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and its ranking. But the contrast demonstrates the way even like-minded groups can twist reality.

Care to guess who is the proponent of the 2013 legislation? Well, that group calls itself Animal Voters of N.M. and is an arm of Animal Protection of N.M..

Wake up call for Texas

In the wake of always increasing federal regulatory pressure on land under federal control, looking over the fence from areas where private land prevails landowners have felt safe and even felt sympathy for those who have suffered at the hands of regulators dictating their every move.

Even in states with mixed land ownership, private landowners have believed that the concept of private property rights would protect them from governmental overreach.

There were those federal land users who have felt that they were merely the first line of defense for property rights – much like sheep were the first line of defense for cattle from predators.

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postmarked on December 20 and had a comment deadline of February 1.

Given that many counties didn’t have enough notice to even get the item on their commission agendas, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) quickly extended the comment deadline to April 1. At this point in time, the FWS is only accepting comments from counties, tribes and agencies. Once those comments are received, final documents will be available to the public for their comment and eventually a final decision.

Many aspects of this whole episode are troubling, but perhaps the most troubling is the position that Texas Parks & Wildlife has taken. In response to questions from their constituents, they produces a “fact sheet” that includes the following: Should ranchers or other landowners be concerned about gray wolves coming to Texas?

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ing with nuisance wolves that might naturally disperse into Texas. TPWD is currently reviewing the draft plan to determine if it provides acceptable management alternatives in the unlikely event that wolves naturally disperse into the state.

In the unlikely scenario that wolves stray into Texas, the draft federal plan calls for people to immediately communicate any report of possible wolf depredation on domestic livestock or pets to the Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project Interagency Field Team field office in Arizona at 928/ 339-4329.

Who can I contact for more info?

Landowners or others with general questions can contact the Mexican Gray

Wolf Recovery Program Coordinator at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service southwest regional office in Albuquerque at 505/7614748.

Texas landowners or others who wish to contact TPWD may contact the Wildlife Division regional office in Alpine, Texas, 432/837-2051.

If I lived in Texas, this sure wouldn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Clearly the writer of this document hasn’t been paying attention to what is going on in N.M. and Arizona for since 1998. What does anybody expect the field team in Arizona to do about depredations in Texas?

Talk to the folks in Arizona and N.M. about what happens when they report depredation. Find out who compensates you for your losses.

Wherever you live, if you haven’t seen the documents, please visit the N.M. Cattle Growers’ website at www.nma griculture.org to read them. Look at the maps and contact your county commission or board of supervisors IMMEDIATELY to make sure they are going to comment on your behalf. You also need to contact your representatives in Congress.

They are willing to help, but they need to know what you want them to do.

I should point out that the FWS isn’t currently planning on releasing wolves in Texas and other proposed areas. They are talking about allowing the wolves to “recolonize”.

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NMSRM Presents Range Stewardship Awards he New Mexico Section of the Society for Range Management (nmrangelands.org) presented outstanding range management and stewardship awards to two New Mexico ranches during the Society’s annual meeting in January at the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. “Excellence in Range Management�

Don and Bonnie Thompson, Thompson Cattle Company, Santa Rosa NM The Thompson family first came to Santa Rosa from Beggs Oklahoma in 1938 when W.M. Thompson (Don’s Grandfa-

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ther) purchased land in Guadalupe County. Don’s father, M.G. Thompson followed after, with Don, as young boy, in tow. Once married, Don and his wife of 53 years, Bonnie Porter-Thompson, began acquiring neighboring parcels, eventually buying out his father’s interest in the ranch now known as Thompson Cattle Co. It is a six-generation family operation with son, Ace (wife Estela Tenorio-Thompson, daughters, Aesa and Danni, sons Porter and Trey) along with Don’s son-in-law, Bo Cribbs (wife Teresa Thompson-Cribbs) and grandson, Guy Don Cribbs managing the day to day happenings and work on the ranch.

Thompson Cattle Company covers 35,000-plus acres comprising thirteen recognized range ecological sites, running between 500 and 1,000 mother cows and additional yearlings depending on the grass/water conditions year round. Range

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conservation and improvement practices over the years have included extensive mechanical brush control (cholla and juniper) followed by re-seeding and strategic deposition of juniper trunks and slash into erosive channels. Initial trial and error experimentation eventually produced effective techniques for this innovative practice which were showcased during a 2010 field day held in cooperation with the Guadalupe County Livestock Producers and the New Mexico State Range Improvement Task Force. Improved grazing distribution has been facilitated by extensive improvements to watering infrastructure and developments of dirt tanks, diversion and retainer dams to capture, store, and release run-off for beneficial purposes such as stock water and forage production.

Beyond the ranch Don has been a prominent participant in community affairs, including being a leading advocate for Wind Energy in Guadalupe County, tirelessly educating himself on all aspects of it and meeting with people all over the state in order to improve the competitiveness of Guadalupe County for wind farms and wind energy infrastructure (sub-stations and transmission lines).

Of special note, Don and several neighbors worked with the NRCS to form the Pintada Watershed Conservation Coalition to further facilitate landscape-scale conservation projects on the 600,000-plus square mile Pintada Watershed, a major contributor to undesirable sediment flows reaching the farming regions along the Pecos River below Santa Rosa. In addition, Don assisted with the formation on the Cuervo Creek Watershed Coalition in the northeastern part of the county.

Through health crises, droughts, blizzards and fluctuating cattle prices, Don has never allowed hardships to be a reason to ever complain or give up. He has been knocked back pretty hard more than once, but always looks at not so good situations as little bumps in the road that we’ll overcome. His amazing attitude and love for his family, his friends, his community and the family ranch is unfaltering. He is truly committed to educating and helping others (most especially the young) in Agriculture and Land Conservation so they, too, can become stewards of the land.

The New Mexico Section of the Society for Range Management is pleased to present its Excellence in Range Management Award to Don Thompson and the Thomp-

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son Cattle Company in recognition of decades long efforts in practicing and promoting range conservation and improvement on semiarid rangelands in eastern New Mexico.

“Excellence in Range Management” Trigg Family, Trigg Cattle Company, Tucumcari NM The Trigg Ranch comprises 52,000 acres of rugged rangeland in the mesa country of northeastern New Mexico approximately 30 miles northwest of Tucumcari in the Western Great Plains and Central Great Plains Land resource Regions. Established in 1918 by Steve Trigg Sr, the ranch supports a familyowned-and-operated cow–calf operation and is now in the hands of the third, fourth, and fifth generations of Triggs. The ranch is set up as a trust and overseen by the entire Trigg clan, comprising seven different families — all grandchildren of Steve and Bess Trigg. Their collective vision has been to create an entity that was managed by the family and for the family, with an emphasis on continuity and both long-term ecological and economic sustainability.

Kristen (née Trigg), Rick, and Caitlin Holmes manage the day-to-day operations of the ranch; however, the overall goals of the ranch are broadly discussed by the whole family and all major decisions are reached by consensus in a way that reflects the strategy of, according to Kristen, an environmentally, financially, and socially sustainable ranching operation. In 2002, following the death of Steve Trigg Jr, the Trigg family decided to initiate a transition to holistic management (HM), a decisionmaking framework that integrates systems thinking and adaptive management, to facilitate the process of restoring badly degraded rangelands. Prior to that, Steve Trigg had been resistant to changing his approach to grazing management. Grasslands had deteriorated under continuous and heavy cattle grazing, which had been in place since 1918. As such, the ranch was characterized by severe soil erosion and patches of bare ground.

“You could see something wasn’t working, or you could see a better way of doing something. And he just didn’t want . . . anybody’s ideas,” said daughter Kristen Holmes. Having perceived this degradation, she and her sister, Sally Trigg were drawn to an alternative way of managing based on what they had observed on other

ranches practicing HM: “Seeing the grass that was grown,” recalled Kristen, “and how much better the land was.” In particular she was impressed by the improvement in the bare ground: plant ratio; the appearance and increase of cool-season grasses resulting in a more diverse plant community; the increased number of water sources and improvement in water quality in riparian areas; better utilization of all grasses (evidenced by more evenly grazed pastures and paddocks); and gentle, easily handled cattle. These were all major incentives for the adoption of a new approach to management.

In 2002–2003 Kristen and Rick attended a 6-week intensive HM course through the Savory Center for Holistic Management (now Holistic Management International) but found the prospect of implementing a new management system on a ranch with an essentially wild herd of

cattle daunting, both financially and technically. Instituting rotational stocking — to change the distribution of grazing — required new fencing and water systems, for which they received some financial assistance through the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). One of the major challenges they faced was modifying the behavior of the cattle, which, in the Holmes’ experience, are often resistant to changing their location and grazing patterns if they have been under extensive grazing management for many years. According to both Kristen and her daughter Caitlin, a cow that has grazed in one place for many years will continually want to return there, even “to where there’s absolutely not a blade of grass.”

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Working with grazing constultant Jim Howell, the Holmeses began the slow process of transitioning the entire management system of the ranch. Using the 14 existing pastures (ranging from 1,000 to more than 6,000 acres), they began moving the cattle short distances in a group.

These pastures were then organized into

three “management areas” — North, South, and West — based on similarity of terrain and ease of movement from one pasture to another. They began the process of reducing the size of the paddocks with additional fencing until they had established the infrastructure for rotational stocking. The new, smaller paddock size (200 to 400 acres) enabled a reduction in the stocking period and, the Holmeses speculated, increased the likelihood that the cattle would “realize” that frequent rotation takes them to new, high quality forage.

“It’s a big behavioral change to get [the cows] to rotate, and rotate as a group,” according to Kristen.

“That was our biggest hurdle.

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ranch now has three separate herds grazing for shorter periods in more paddocks with longer rest periods, which they say allows the grass to recover. The ranch now supports about 700 “gentle” mother cows and “store-bought” bulls at a conservative stocking rate of 71 acres per cow unit, a rate that Kristen Holmes has been able to maintain through the current severe drought conditions. She reports that implementation of rotational stocking has resulted in observable and recorded improvements in the condition of the land as measured by new seedlings, which are reducing bare ground and contributing to growth of more grass and better distribution in the ages of perennial herbs and grasses, which will eventually add to ground litter resulting in better utilization of moisture and reduced erosion. The increased “hoof action” and litter have contributed to longer-lasting spring and surface water and more resilient grass that responds more quickly when there is rain.

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monitoring takes Rick, Kristen, and four to 12 Trigg family members 4 to 5 days to complete.

In addition to their interest in implementing a more sustainable approach to grazing management and seeing improved conditions on the land, the Trigg family was drawn to the idea of profiting from the generation and sale of carbon credits.

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Because many of the range management practices they had adopted as part of their transition to HM were in alignment with the CCX Rangeland Offset Protocol, e.g., rotational stocking and the practice of planning and documenting management activities, the family was able to enroll in the offset program without having to undergo a significant transition. It is also notable in that the Trigg Ranch is one of the few (and perhaps only) to have generated income from carbon credits.

The New Mexico Section of the Society for Range Management is pleased to present its Excellence in Range Management Award to the Trigg family of Trigg Cattle Company in recognition of decades long efforts in practicing and promoting range conservation and improvement on semiarid rangelands in eastern â– New Mexico.

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New Mexico’s Old Times and Old Timers

“Who Killed Prohibition Agent Ray Sutton?” nited States Prohibition Agent Ray Sutton was born in Woodward County, Oklahoma in 1873. In 1910 he was appointed the first sheriff of Ellis County, Oklahoma, and two years later elected to the position and reelected in 1914. He moved to New Mexico after leaving office in Oklahoma and in 1916 he was elected sheriff of Union County. He was reelected in 1918. He was also a rancher and banker over the years.

The 18th Amendment — The Volstead Act — became the law of the land on January 18, 1920. It made the manufacture, transportation, and/or sale of alcoholic beverages illegal in the United States. To enforce the act, the Prohibition Bureau was created within the U. S. Department of the Treasury. Ray Sutton joined the Prohibition Bureau soon after he left the sheriff’s office. His territory as a federal

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agent covered the five northeastern New Mexico counties. He maintained his headquarters at his home in Clayton, but he often stayed overnight in towns across his assigned area. He was staying at the Seaberg Hotel in Raton on August, 28, 1930. He expected to meet with Trinidad, Colorado, Police Officer Oscar Vanderberg that evening. The two of them planned to work in the Raton Pass area in search of rumrunners or whiskey stills.

On that Thursday afternoon, Agent Sutton drove south out of Raton, toward Cimarron. At a point about seven miles from Dawson, he pulled off the road and parked. Colfax County Undersheriff Boots Fletcher saw him parked there, waved, and drove on. Fletcher was the last person known to have seen Agent Sutton alive. A week later, the district director of the Prohibition Bureau in Albuquerque, Charles

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Stearns, became concerned about agent Sutton. His last report had been filed on August 27, and Sutton had uncharacteristically failed to appear for a district court hearing in Clayton. Stearns contacted Colfax County Sheriff Al Davis.

Sheriff Davis discovered that all of Sutton’s belongings remained unpacked in his hotel room and some reports upon which the agent had been working seemed to be undisturbed. The sheriff called Mrs. Sutton in Clayton and asked if she knew her husband’s whereabouts. She had not heard from him in several days.

By Friday, September 5, Stearns, Davis and Sheriff A. W. Turner of Union County headed up a party of about a 100 men and a search in the mountains around Raton began. The Colorado National Guard sent an airplane to help out and a posse of horsemen joined in. Other law enforcement agencies also participated: Mora County Sheriff’s Department, the sheriff from Trinidad, Colorado and federal agents from across the Rocky Mountain States. Several groups offered rewards which totaled more than $500. By September 18, when no trace of Agent Sutton, or his car, had been found, the search was all but called off.

Then, about three weeks later, James Perry Caldwell, 35, of Springer, a former Prohibition Agent, was arrested when it was learned that he’d forged Sutton’s signature to the agent’s last paycheck, and cashed it on September 1, only four days after Sutton’s disappearance. Since Sutton’s body had not been found, and murder could not be proved, Caldwell could only be tried for passing the check and forgery.

A federal grand jury indicted James Perry Caldwell in December, 1930, and he was tried at Pueblo, Colorado, in January, 1931. The witness who originally saw him cash Sutton’s check suddenly could not identify Caldwell as the culprit. The passing a false check charge was dismissed.

The trial continued on forgery charges.

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hours to acquit Caldwell.

A cowboy named Rafael Zamora found Agent Sutton’s car on October 18, 1930 in a deep arroyo near Koehler Lake, southwest of Raton. Lodged between two piñon trees and covered with brush, the Pontiac was so well concealed that drivers of cars on the Taos-Raton highway passing by only ten or so yards away could not see it.

Early search parties had also covered the area without seeing it. Fingerprint experts went over the car with care, but rain had done much to wash away usable prints.

The ominous thing about the car was the discovery of blood on the back seat. Investigators surmised that Agent Sutton had been killed outside the car, and then the vehicle used to haul his body away.

Searchers hoped the body would be found near the car. It was not.

There was general agreement at the time that the case would never be solved, and in fact it never was. Historian Chuck Hornung wrote, “Charles Stearns, the district prohibition director who was the lead agent in the Sutton murder investigation, reached a simple conclusion in the case.

‘Some powerful men were bootlegging in that Taos-Raton-Trinidad area. One of them had it [Sutton’s murder] done. They are big families now. Somebody knows, but won’t talk.’ Sterns was wrong. Someone did talk and [Hornung] was listening.”

Hornung became interested in the matter, and as a newspaperman he wrote several columns on Sutton. In spite of being warned to not pry into the matter, he continued his inquiry. Hornung was well acquainted with an old-time New Mexico lawman named Fred Lambert of Cimarron who was not only familiar with the Sutton case, but also with the people involved, many of whom had been bootleggers. Hornung also located a case file on the Sutton case that contained an affidavit by a bootlegger named Joe McAllister. McAllister stated that James Perry Caldwell was indeed a part of the cabal which did away with Ray Sutton, and that Caldwell had been in the pay of, and acting on orders from, one John Campanela, reputed to be the biggest bootlegger in northeastern N.M. Through the good offices of Fred Lambert, Hornung was able to interview John Campanela some 40 years after Sutton’s disappearance. The meeting took place in Cimarron, and Hornung and Campanela shot a game of pool as they talked. Campanela won the game and generally confirmed what had been reported in McAllis-

ter’s statement. When the two men parted ways, Campanela said, “You know the truth, but you’ll never be able to prove it.”

And what was that truth? Hornung’s research indicates that Caldwell, McAllister and Campanela together kidnapped Ray Sutton, and held him prisoner for a time at an undisclosed location. They beat him savagely trying to learn who had been passing along information to the agent regarding the locations of stills in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.

Sutton didn’t tell them, and eventually he bled to death. His body, according to Hornung, was buried in a shallow grave in the

right-of-way of a road being paved near Hoxie Junction, 20 miles south of Raton.

Highway department records confirm that the road was indeed being paved at just that time. Sutton’s body, in spite of this, has never been found.

Selected sources: Albuq. Journal, Dec. 23, 1930; Jan. 17, 1934 Don Bullis, New Mexico’s Finest: Peace Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 1847-2010 Mrs. N. H. Click, Compiler, Mrs. Charles E. Leierer, Editor, “Tragedies in Our County,” Us Nesters in the Land of Enchantment Chuck Hornung, “The Mystery Death of Federal Prohibition Officer Ray Sutton,” Nat’l Assoc. & Center for Outlaw & Lawman History, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, April-June, 1991 Mike Pappas, “Officer Vanishes in Prohibition Drama,” Raton Range, Jan. 31, Feb. 8 & Feb. 14, 1989

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Has global warming ground to a halt?

by FRED PEARCE / WWW.NEWSCIENTIST.COM he UK’s Met Office has downgraded its forecast for warming at the Earth’s surface over the next five years. Headlines announced that global warming is “at a standstill.” Climate sceptics crowed. But the Met Office said the outlook for later in the century remains unchanged. New Scientist looks at the facts.

Has global warming stopped, or hasn’t it? Atmospheric warming has certainly slowed greatly in the past decade. The Met Office says this appears to be due to natural cycles that are counteracting the warming effect of greenhouse gases. After incorporating new analysis of natural cycles into its latest model of atmospheric and ocean circulation, it has concluded that we are in for a few more years of little change.

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°C higher than the average for 1970 to 2000. That’s down from its previous prediction of a 0.54 °C rise. If the new prediction proves right, then 2017 will barely be warmer than most years in the past decade.

The forecast comes with a big error bar, however. The average warming for the next five years could be as much as 0.59 °C, or as little as 0.28 °C. What has changed in their thinking?

There is a growing awareness among climate scientists of the importance of natural variability in predicting climate change, especially in the short term, where it can completely obscure the global warming signal. This realization has been bubbling up for a while. Four years ago, New Scientist reported evidence – including research by the Met Office’s Doug Smith – that natural cycles were pushing the atmosphere into a cold phase. Back then, we said the research “suggests that surface air temperatures will remain steady for the next six years or so, as cooler sea surface temperatures keep the lower atmosphere cool despite ever higher greenhouse gas levels.”

So what are these natural cycles?

Mostly they involve the movement of heat

between the atmosphere and the oceans.

The oceans are the sleeping giant of climate change. They act as a huge heat sink: 90 per cent of the heat generated by accumulating greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans. How fast this happens is variable, depending on ocean currents and other fluctuations.

Scientists have known for a long time that in El Niño years, when warm water spreads out across the equatorial Pacific, heat leaves the ocean for the atmosphere.

But there are also longer-term cycles. The biggest cycles are known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Recently, both have been causing the oceans to absorb more heat, shutting off atmospheric warming.

There are other possible confounding influences. The 11-year solar cycle has a small effect. So do volcanic eruptions and smog that shades the earth. Longer term, changes in Earth’s orbit are thought to trigger ice ages. But all the evidence is that in recent times and over the coming decades, ocean-atmosphere interactions are the only influence comparable in scale to greenhouse gases.

Are these cycles just something scientists have invented to explain away the lack of recent warming? No. The Met Office admits that we still know far too little about how these natural cycles work, and how big they are. And climate scientists are open to the charge that they ignored the potential impact of natural variability when it was accelerating global warming. According to Brian Hoskins of Imperial College London, it now looks like natural cycles played a big role in the unexpectedly fast warming of the 1990s.

Even so, the fundamental physics about how greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere hasn’t changed. And we know that, even as atmospheric warming stalls, the oceans are continuing to warm. That may could explain why Arctic sea ice melted so dramatically last summer, even though air temperatures were not exceptional.

So press reports that global warming is at a standstill are not true, even in the short term. Right now the oceans are taking up almost all the extra heat. That is most unlikely to persist.

Now we’re getting headlines about the warming stopping as well as headlines about record-breaking temperatures.

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the US had its hottest year on record, but for the planet as a whole, it was only the ninth warmest. Australia is feeling the brunt of a record-breaking heatwave at the minute, but in northern India they are dying from unusually cold temperatures.

What’s the outlook? Scary. If oceanic cycles do what the Met Office and others expect, then global average air temperatures will stay fairly stable – though still hotter than they have been in the past – until later this decade. The cycles will then flip into a new phase and the oceans will probably start releasing heat instead of soaking it up. Combined with continued accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that could mean that sometime round 2020, warming will start to race away again as the atmosphere makes ■up for lost time.

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ITLA Installs New Officers and Directors oger Hutton of Argyle, Texas, was elected to serve his third term as President of the International Texas Longhorn Assn. during the ITLA annual convention and Texas Longhorn Extravaganza. The event which included youth, non halter and halter judging of Texas Longhorn cattle was staged at the Cox Center in downtown Oklahoma City, OK. Hutton has led the ITLA during tough economic times yet under his leadership registrations, memberships and transfers have increased annually.

As a producer of registered Texas Longhorn cattle Hutton owned the famous sire Winchester and negotiated the syndicate for World Champion bull Top Caliber.

During the annual banquet at the Skirvin Hilton Grand Ballroom a special fund raiser yielded over $20k which completed paying off the mortgage on the new national headquarters building in Glen Rose, TX – a milestone of great importance for the entire Texas Longhorn industry.

Larry Lonero of Brenham, Texas was elected to serve as ITLA Vice President.

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He has been ITLA Championship Show Chairman the last two years including the huge Cox Center event.

Charter member Gary Bruch of Strong City, KS, returned to the board and was elected unanimously for At Large position #1. He had served as President for two terms.

Randy Witte, retired Western Horseman publisher, of Peyton, CO, was elected to serve as director Region 4, Mountain zone.

Gary Don Taylor of Okrache, OK, was elected freshman director to serve in Central Region #6.

Lana Daniel of Tahoka, TX, was elected director for a second term to fill North Texas Region #7.

John Helm of Red Oak, TX, was elected freshman dir. to serve in East Texas Region.

Steve Bryson of Blountsville, AL, was elected freshman director to serve the Southeast Region #9.

Increased interest in Texas Longhorn cattle during the last few years is partly a result of the trends toward leaner meat and more grass feeding of retail beef.

Numerous niche markets for brand name beef have been very favorable to the breed with increased popularity projected for the â– historic Texas Longhorn.

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From the Ground Up: Beef Cattle Numbers KBXT.COM ith the drought that effected the Southwest in 2011, and another that damaged the central U.S. in 2012, the upcoming report on the size of the nation’s cow herd is expected to be down yet again. In this week’s From The Ground Up, Kailey Carey tells us there’s no quick fix to the problem. “Our numbers are down, we know here locally in the Brazos Valley, that we’ve lost tremendous numbers of cattle, you know when will they come back, and will they come back?�

Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Beef Cattle Specialist Jason Cleere says that after the worst drought on record in 2011, the biggest challenge is going to be what the future holds from the standpoint of

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Cleere says that even though 2012 was a much better year in terms of rainfall, rebuilding takes time. “The question is when do we rebuild, and I think we need to have a number of fairly normal rainfall years where we continue the forage recovery, and producers become a little more confident in what the forage production will be because we get some rainfall. If they do that, then we can begin to add more numbers out there with a little more confidence.�

There are no changes that can be made that will quickly impact the amount of beef that is being produced. “If we keep a replacement heifer today, it’s going to be another two years before she essentially can contribute to the production of our system, and so in the beef industry we’re looking long term out, and in reality, we’re probably another three to five years before we really see some num■bers to come back.�

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Memories of 2012 Joint Stockman’s Convention

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A. NMBC chairman Jim Bob Burnett presents the 2012 Beef Backer Award honoring New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service to Dr. Jon Boren (center), Associate Dean and Director and Dr. Lowell Catlett, Dean, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. B. NMBC chairman Jim Bob Burnett and Beef Board director Tamara Ogilvie welcome folks to the NMBC Joint Stockman’s reception.

C. Hugh and Margie McKeen of Alma kick back at the NMBC opening reception. D. NMBC Vice chairman Darrell Brown serves Horses for Heroes executive director Rick Iannucci some beautiful beef at the reception. E. Sage Faulkner of Soaring Eagle Ranch in Los Ojos catches up on the latest developments in beef at the NMBC Joint Stockman’s booth. F. Dina Chacon-Reitzel, executive director of the NMBC, with Andy Groseta, president of the Arizona Cattle Grower’s Association and past president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, at the NMBC reception. G. Delicious beef was the very popular star at the NMBC-sponsored reception at the 2012 Joint Stockman’s Convention. H. Cimarron rancher Linda Davis gets her boots shined like new at Joint Stockman’s Convention.

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2012 – 2013 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Jim Bob Burnett (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Darrell Brown (Producer); SECRETARY, Bernarr Treat (Producer).

NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); Alicia Sanchez (Purebred Producer); David McSherry (Feeder); Mark McCollum (Feeder); Milford Denetclaw (Producer); Jonathan Vander Dussen (Dairy Producer);

FEDERATION DIRECTOR, Jane Frost (Producer) U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, David McSherry BEEF BOARD DIRECTORS, Tammy Ogilvie (Producer), Wesley Grau (Producer).

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TEXAS LONGHORNS Standing Out in the Crowd

by CALLIE GNATKOWSKI GIBSON exas Longhorns are a unique breed of cattle – in appearance, history, and the number of ways they can work for a variety of producers. Their origins are in cattle brought to the New World by Christopher Columbus that survived centuries of political, economic and climactic changes better than the people of those times.

According to the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America (TLBAA), the first herd of 200 cattle was driven to what would become Texas from Mexico in 1690, and thrived, both domestically and in the wild. Their natural longevity, disease resistance and hardiness, their ability to travel long distances to water and strong maternal traits helped the cattle survive through the years. Those same traits make the cattle very attractive to cattle producers today.

Another advantage is that Longhorn cattle have a number of markets, depending on the preferences of the producer. In addition to the beef market, there is a strong demand for both the Longhorn horns and hides. Longhorns are a good fit as roping cattle, and there is a growing demand for “yard art” from people who just like seeing an animal or two out on their property.

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Longhorn cattle are a good fit for the Goemmer family, ensuring calving ease and utilizing the rougher country on the family’s central New Mexico operation.

They started out with the breed in the early 1960s, raising bulls to use on their commercial first-calf heifers. At the time, Longhorns were also kind of a niche breed, popular for their horns and the variety of colors.

Over the years, the Goemmers have maintained their Longhorn herd and genetics, although the herd is no longer registered, said Shane Goemmer, who operates the ranch near Willard with his family.

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Hardiness is one of the breed’s best traits, according to Shane. He runs his Longhorns in the rougher country, and only supplements their feed when conditions get really tough. “They are a pretty low-input breed. On the commercial side, Longhorn genetics add really good survivability. If a cow is one-quarter Longhorn, she can travel and survive longer in the tougher country. If they would just feed out like an Angus, they would be the perfect cattle.”

He also cites the breed’s maternal instincts. “They are very protective, and great mothers. They don’t make a lot of milk – someone who doesn’t have much experience with the breed will have a hard time picking out the drys – but their milk is rich and they raise really good calves.

You seldom see a Longhorn cow that loses

“They have almost a game instinct – the cows will bed those babies down under a bush or a pile of brush ... you can go through and gather cows and not even see the calves ...” a calf because of something she did or didn’t do.”

“They have almost a game instinct, the cows will bed those babies down under a bush or a pile of brush, you can go through and gather cows and not even see the calves,” Shane continued. “If their mama told them to stay there and not move, that’s what they do. We hardly ever lose a calf to a coyote.”

On the beef side, he has put his cattle through several different feed tests, and

the breed performs well. “I know the beef market doesn’t like Longhorn beef, but it is good, lean meat. We have always fed out our own beef, and the Longhorns feed out really well, it just takes a little longer.”

The Goemmers sell between 20 and 25 bulls each year, by private treaty at the ranch. Last year, they sold bulls locally as well as to customers in Nevada, California and Texas. “A lot of our customers are repeat customers,” he noted. “We sell anywhere from one bull to a trailer load.”

The bulls are very fertile, and seldom contract reproductive diseases due to their clean build, Shane said. Over the years, the family has selected for solid-colored cattle, and today, ninety percent of the Longhorn bulls that they market are solid black. “It’s hard to tell the difference between a Longhorn cross calf and the others at the end of the year.”

Longhorns are also very popular in the roping cattle market. The Goemmers run another herd of Longhorns in Arizona, cross them with Corrientes, and sell the calves as roping cattle. “The Longhorn blood gives the Corrientes a little more heart. You definitely have to break them in the right way, but if you do, they last a long time.”

The Goemmers have a long history in ranching on all sides of the family, and Shane and his brother Shawn are the fifth generation to operate the family business.

They moved to New Mexico from La Veta, Colo., in 1999, from a ranch that was established by Shane’s great-great grandfather that had been in the family for over 120 years. Shane’s mother came from a Wyoming ranching family whose operation was started by her grandfather, and his wife, Sherri is a third-generation rancher raised in Arizona, but has a long family ranching history in New Mexico, which started with her grandparents, Malcolm and Lily (Field) Major. “For every generation, some miracle happens that keeps the operation going,” he said. “We were able to diversify with the wind farm and hope the benefits last for the next generation.”

In addition to the Longhorns and the commercial Beefmaster/Angus cow herd, the Goemmers raise ranch and performance horses, marketing colts as weanlings and yearlings. Their bloodlines include a grandson of Dash for Cash, a stud that goes back to Hancock and Peppy San, and another that goes back to Peppy San and Driftwood. They also have colts continued on page 55

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Winter at the Luera

by CURTIS FORT

aul and I put out lots of tracks that November trying to finish up the fall works. Because I was using lots of horse flesh, I had my horse, Chigger, sent over from my folk’s place. He was Appaloosa bred and wouldn’t win any reining contest, but he was stout and tough.

By December 1st we had to take a day and reset some horse shoes on our horses as we had stomped a lot of rocks the last few weeks. We had over one hundred pairs and some dries in a holding pasture on the north end, where the shipping pens were located. Joe and Ray came from the Slash for a couple of days and we weaned and shipped the calves and dries, then drifted the cows back to the Mountain Pasture. I also neighbored some with Marvin and Tootie Ake and Johnny Hand, who were on the east and north. Mike and Sue Harriet’s outfit joined us on the north and west. We had a well called the Share Well, which we both used, as it was located right on the fence. The Farr Cattle Company was on the west of us. Dave and Karen Farr were good folks, as were all my neighbors.

Another man that would drop by every three months or so and spend the night, was Quentin Hulse. It was kind of like having Ben Lilly and Buffalo Bill camp with you. He and his Mom, Mattie, lived in Canyon Creek, way south and west of the Luera. According to my amigo, Grem Lee, Canyon Creek drains all that range from Elk Mountain to Snow Lake. Quentin was a legend in that country and was in his early fifties when I got to know him. He was a mountain man, lion and bear hunter, and knew the Gila wilderness and surrounding country like most folks know their back yard. Quentin was a good guy.

One morning, when the bacon was frying and we were having coffee, I quizzed him about that wild Gila range that he knew so well. I am a big J. Frank Dobie fan and have many of his books, including Ben Lilly. He was a famous lion and especially bear

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The owner, who had previously scheduled the fall works in a week that needed three, came by looking at his ranches in late December. He was probably in his forties, but was not a cowpuncher, and didn’t know a lot about a cow outfit. He told how he would like to send some South Texas calves to Luera next month in January. I told him that he was the patron, but due to the cold weather, I’d have to put them in the horse pasture in order to ride through them every day. I really tried to discourage him, and after another cup of coffee, he agreed that it was too early in the year and the weather was too hard on them. We also discussed rebuilding the corrals and building a set of working pens there at the Luera. He said that sounded good, “Let’s do it!” So I tore down the old rotten pens, including the loading chute, leaving just enough to handle the saddle horses. Luckily I left one big corral, just in case. One cold night (10 degrees) in mid-January, my dog started barking way past bed time, and in pulled two pot loads of “O’kies.” We had to back those trucks up to a bank of dirt and jump those calves out in the horse pasture. The well at the Luera headquarters was hundreds of feet deep, with a big pump Jack on it that pumped a stream about as big as your little finger. So now, besides the horses, bulls and house needs, we needed to keep 200 calves watered. I was also chopping ice and keeping liquid feed out for all the stock. That was the first and only time I had dealt with the liquid feed. We had lots of grass so it kept the cattle in good shape. With those rocky roads, it took two days to get feed out everywhere.

When it was really cold, which was most of the time, the ice in all the tanks needed to be chopped. I would also ride through

those calves in the horse pasture every day.

If we had a sick one, I’d ease it to the house to be doctored. I had hired on to work, but I couldn’t spread my self thin enough.

In order to take good care of the cattle, I needed some help. I wrote the owner in Houston, where it was sunny, and asked him if I could hire someone. I told him I knew just the fella, my amigo Charlie Duran, whom I had worked with at the Vermejo outfit. I finally heard from him around first of February and got the OK. So, I wrote Charlie. He wrote back that he’d enjoy new range, would roll his bed, oil his kak, clean his pistols, and 30-30, and head my way. There was a good trailer house at the Luera and Charlie made camp in it. It was sure good to have him to work with. You could count on him in any situation, and he was always fun to be around.

We had plenty to do, feeding, chopping ice, pipelines, firewood, prowling those yearlings, keeping our mounts shod, along with all the other chores on a ranch in the winter. Paul Yancey had left the camp on the Slash, and my old college friend Joe Wallace and his wife Suzy took that camp.

So we got to work together again. It had been a few years since we worked together on the Armendaris outfit.

The Luera was a long way from anywhere. It was fifty miles or more to the store in Magdalena, but I enjoyed being a long way out. I had several good friends come and stay a day or three, and they’d work with Charlie and me. Leon Ham helped us prowl, stretch out and brand some yearling bulls the owner had shipped in. My amigo from the Bells, Paul Pharies, spent a few days of his spring break from New Mexico State riding with me. He brought me a new breast collar made by Yarbrough Saddlery, which I have used ever since. Paul was with us one time

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when we were prowling the Mountain Pasture and we picked up two pairs we’d missed in the fall. We managed to get them to a gate and through it, except for one cow that pulled out. I whacked it on her on a rocky hillside, riding Chigger. I threw the slack and when she hit the end of it, going downhill, Chigger swallowed his head and in two jumps I was way in the air. It seemed kind of like slow motion and I was trying to see a place to land that wasn’t boulders. I was young and made out of cow manure, dirt, and rawhide, as most cowboys are, but Chigger really stacked me up in those boulders. By the time I managed to get to my feet, Paul and Charlie had that cow stretched out, with Chigger still tied to her. I straightened up my saddle, and we lead her through the gate. Dan Crowley and his wife Terry came for a visit, along with their baby girl Carli and their threeyear-old daughter Cara. Cara was born in Hawaii at the Parker Ranch, where Dan started all the colts for a year. When they drove up, Cara hit the ground running for the horse corral . . . quite a gal. Tye Terrell and Gene Price spent a night, and then

Charlie Price came by to help us gather for a few days. We had fun and range branded some calves. My brother Royce and his wife Sally came and spent a night. Neighbors, Marvin and Tootie Ake, would also come by for a visit. It was great when anyone would come by, as we were so far out.

The house at the Luera was the best I’d ever had, a well built house with pine paneling and a big fireplace in living room . . . a good camp. As we began to get into the late winter and early spring, Charlie and I

went to the Slash to drive fifteen hundred or more yearlings to the wilderness, which was quite a ways on the west side.

Thank goodness it was the first of April when Joe Wallace came to Luera from the Slash and helped Charlie and I drift those calves to the south end to the B.L.M. Pasture. We had managed, with Charlie’s help, to keep those calves doctored and all were doing well. It was a good feeling to count them through the gate into their summer ■ pasture.

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CALVING EASE FACTOR – In the push for more growth (higher weaning and yearling weights) cattlemen inadvertently selected for larger birth weights, since calves that are big at birth also tend to be the ones biggest at weaning. There are some genetics that combine low birth weight with fast rate of gain and high weaning weights, but they are the minority — especially in the first years of trying to increase weaning weights. In the rush to have higher weaning weights during the 1960s and 1970s, not much attention was given to birth weight until calving problems became an unavoidable issue. And since most of the breeding selections for the past several decades have been made on weaning/yearling weight (choosing bulls that sire calves that grow bigger, and picking the biggest heifer calves for replacements), calving problems increased.

Bigger cattle often create more calving problems. This has impacted the customers of any seedstock producer who has big cattle. “Purebred breeders know a big cow is going to have a big calf,” says Buddy Westphal (Charolais breeder near Polson, Montana). “That big bull calf can create calving problems when he goes into a commercial herd to breed commercial cows. Birthweight of a calf is greatly affected by gestation length, and a big cow tends to have longer gestation,” he explains. He stumbled onto the affect of gestation length on birth weight while trying to select bloodlines with shorter gestation, to have cows that would be able to breed back earlier after calving.

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marketed will probably be greater from more efficient moderate-size cows. And big, dummy calves that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get up and

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Body Condition Some people confuse body weight (body conditionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;amount of flesh and fat on a cow) with frame score. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t determine frame score just by how much a cow weighs. You might have two cows that each weigh 1,200 pounds but have totally different frame scores (hip height). A thin 1,200-pound cow will be larger frame than a fat 1,200-pound cow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people have 6 frame cows that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t weigh any more than my 3 frame cows,â&#x20AC;? says Pharo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their 6 frame cow at that weight is not pretty, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably open,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Westphal says a 1,500-pound cow might be a very obese frame 3.5 or 4 frame. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She might weigh 1,200 pounds on my ranch but when she goes to lush

suck take more time and management, requiring more labor at calving,â&#x20AC;? says Westphal.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had heifers with calves too big and bred them to easy-calving, low-birth-

California meadows and is up to her belly in grass she may put on that much extra weight,â&#x20AC;? he explains.

The difference in hip height between a frame 6 and a frame 3 cow is only about 6 inches, but they are completely different animals. The smaller frame cow is usually thicker and easier fleshing. Many people also donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what a 2 or 3 frame cow is. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a 1,000- or 1,100-pound cow in average body condition,â&#x20AC;? says Pharo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are not miniature cows; they are precisely what all our ranches used to have a few years ago.â&#x20AC;? Many ranchers think their cows weigh about 1,100 pounds, until they sell some and they go over the scale â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and realize their cows are bigger than they thought. Yet they keep buying 5 and 6 frame bulls and wondering why they now have 1,400 pound cows.

weight bulls and they still had calves too big. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By about her third calf Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d cull her and look at her record and find that she was over 100 pounds birthweight herself,â&#x20AC;? he says. No matter what you breed her to, a heifer thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too big at birth will likely have a calf thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too big. Many people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about the cow contribution to birth weight of the calf and they generally blame a too-big calf (and calving problem) on the bull. But gestation length and calf size is just as important on the cow side.

Some people who breed big cattle think birth weight doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if the calf is long and streamlined, but research has proven otherwise. Westphal points to the work done by Dr. Bellows during the 1980s at the Miles City Research Station. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The number one reason for calving problems is birth weight. Even if a long lean calf is supposed to slide right out, he can still create calving problems due to a leg or head turned back,â&#x20AC;? says Westphal. Long limbs are more difficult to get into proper position for birth. When the cow starts labor there may not be enough room in the uterus for that big long-legged calf to straighten his legs.

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into the trap of keeping big heifers (or bulls) is to make note of the size/weight of every animal at birth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you tag that calf at birth, even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t weigh it but just make a note on every one you know is too big, or notch its ear, then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make no mistake at weaning time that this is one you should NOT keep, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most beautiful animal in the weaning pen,â&#x20AC;? says Westphal. In a purebred herd, if any bull calf is over a certain size at birth it should become a steer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you put a rubber band on that calf at birth, there will be no mistake later,â&#x20AC;? he says.

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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important is how much cost you have to deduct from that figure to see if you broke even, made a profit or went into the red. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really matter how big your cattle are, or how fast they can grow, or how pretty they are or what their breeding is, if they are not profitable,â&#x20AC;? says Kit Pharo (seedstock producer near Cheyenne Wells, Colorado). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe most of a rancherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profit or loss is made or lost within his own fences, regardless of the cattle market; he has more control over profitability than he thinks. Cow size and type, which has a huge impact on ranch profitability, is one thing a rancher has full control of,â&#x20AC;? he explains.

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this increased the size of cows, while decreasing net profits. Pharo says he eventually took a hard look at some of his older cows that had produced good calves for 10 to 16 years without missing a calf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These were our most efficient and profitable cows. Their pedigrees and EPDs were not all that impressive, but they were making us money. Those good old grandma cows were considerably smaller than our younger cows,â&#x20AC;? he explains.

Westphal says almost all cattlemen tend to select replacement heifers on size. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We walk into a weaning pen and the biggest ones look the best, so they are kept to breed. They produce big calves and pretty soon all our cows are too big. We now have computers to keep track of our record data so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no excuse to keep doing this. We need to realize that if a heifer is in the upper 1/3 of the group in size, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably be too big as a cow. We should be keeping replacement heifers from the middle third. These will be more efficient cows that come home pregnant every year and produce a calf that will jump up and

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suck and reach puberty earlier and excel in the feedlot better than the oversize calf,â&#x20AC;? says Westphal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many cows are you culling because they come up open or break down? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more breakdown in bigger cows because they are often not as structurally able to climb mountains and do

Can Cows Be Too Small? f smaller cows can produce more total pounds (on the same feed inputs) that are worth more per pound, some people ask how small they should go. Is there a point at which smaller cows cease to be more profitable than bigger ones? Most breeders say yes. There comes a point at which the calves are too small at finish and you have trouble marketing them.

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their job in tough country and maintain good body condition,â&#x20AC;? says Westphal. A cow may have to travel more than a mile to water, for instance, and some are less apt to do it. Cows need to be athletic.

Size/structure is an important factor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With larger cows you are often culling them as 6 year olds or younger, rather than as teenagers,â&#x20AC;? he says. If a cow canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold up or comes up open after just a few years, industry, those calves will be discounted if they are too big or too small. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therefore we can only reduce cow size to the point that our calves still fit the parameters of the existing corn-based commodity beef industry,â&#x20AC;? says Pharo.

Smaller animals will work, however, in grass-fed beef operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best system for profitability might be a herd of extremely efficient 1 and 2 frame cows that are mated to 4 to 6 frame terminal sires. This may produce the ideal end product (if you can minimize calving problems) but you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep daughters out of this mating,â&#x20AC;? says Pharo. It is impossible to consistently produce 3 and 4 frame cows with 5 and 6 frame bulls.

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wasted her potential and much of the investment you made in keeping her in the first place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in this business to make a profit, we need to concentrate on producing the most for the least â&#x20AC;&#x201D; looking at total ranch production, not individual weaning weights,â&#x20AC;? says Pharo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smaller cows will always produce more total pounds than larger cows, with the same inputs. Many people continue to miss this point. While they are busy increasing individual weaning weights, they are producing less total pounds and/or increasing feed expenses,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Westphal points out that some ranchers might be able to run 50 more cows if they were smaller, but they choose instead to have bigger cattle so they can have higher individual weaning weights â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a more impressive average weight of the fewer calves produced or that survived to market age. The competition factor among ranchers often blinds them to the reality that smaller calves are more profitable (less open cows, more live calves at birth, less cost to feed a cow, more total pounds of calves sold every fall). continued on page 97

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Longhorns are known a multi-purpose breed, and the Moores’ cattle are no exception. “We do a little bit of everything with our cattle,” she noted. “Longhorns are a beef breed, and we do raise them for that purpose. We also raise and sell a lot of cattle as “yard art” to hobby breeders, people who have a place they visit on weekends and like to look out and see a Longhorn grazing.” In addition, the family offers breeding services, assistance with vaccinating/herd health management, and custom fitting and showing to other producers.

Tarah, 15, is very active in the Texas Longhorn Breeders of Tomorrow (TLBT), and has done very well with her cattle on the show circuit. The family travels to and participates in 28-30 shows across the country each year.

The shows, where they meet new people and answer their questions, are also their main way of marketing their cattle.

They also have a website, www.tripletlonghorns.com, and in the last couple of years, have sold quite a few cattle through Facebook.

The ranch slogan is “Where Legend Becomes Reality,” and Traci said the history and beauty of the breed are a big draw.

“They have magnificent horns and massive bodies, and are just big, gentle giants. No two are the same. We keep our trophy steers up in the front pasture, and that’s what stops traffic and brings people in.”

“Longhorns are not the wild animals Hollywood has portrayed. They are very docile, and very easy to work. They do have the horns, and when they’re 70 - 80 inches tip to tip, you do have to consider that when you’re working the cattle.”

While Longhorns are known for their hardiness, Traci says that doesn’t mean they can make it totally on their own.

“Longhorns are survivors, and God built them for travel, but that was before there were fences. They are beef cattle, and you have to treat them as beef cattle. If you put them out on pasture, you have to manage ■ that pasture to maintain the cattle.”

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Goemmer Land and Livestock, LLC, is definitely a family operation, including Shane and his wife Sherri, their children Fallon and Kade, 11 and Makenna, 4; Shane’s parents Lowell and Karen Goemmer; and Shane’s brother Shawn, who lives and ranches near Battle Mountain, Nevada with his wife Mindy and daughters Dally, 14 and Riata, 13.

Rodeo is also a big part of the family’s life. Lowell and Karen rodeo in the Senior Pro Rodeo Association. Shane and Shawn’s children are all involved in junior rodeos, rodeoing on ranch-raised horses, and Shane says he likes to rope, too, when he gets a chance.

“Everyone has their own opinion on what they like, and with most breeds, you have one or two choices on color,” she continued. “With Longhorns, you have the choice of every color in the spectrum, and then there’s the horn shape. You can pick out exactly what you like, and have it out in your pasture.”

Other breed strengths include maternal traits and longevity, according to Traci.

“The cows will calve into their early twenties. They are great milkers, good mamas, and with the way that they’re built, we don’t have calving problems.

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*NEW* Virden, NM +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena. Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses also suitable for cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $650,000

335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Near Double Circle Ranch. +/- 20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit.

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*REDUCED* Franklin, NM, 28 Acre Farm – Franklin, NM, 28 Acre Farm – 19 Acres of water rights from Franklin I.D., 5 BR, 3 bath Mfg. home, corrals, barn. Great for small farming operation, horses or cattle. Along the scenic Gila River. $125,000 Terms.

*REDUCED to $350,000* +/- 60 Head Cattle Ranch Bisbee/McNeal, AZ – grazing leases HQ on 244 acres of private land including log home, bunk house, corrals, hay barn, well, arena, tack house & storage sheds. Purchase HQ on 966 acres & le as e for $500,000.

HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *NEW* +/- 480 Acres Oracle, AZ – One of the last remaining large parcels.

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Ranch might be a candidate for FSA. Asking $295,000 Pomerene Ranch – Benson AZ, 81 head yearlong, 92 Acres Deeded, 7650 acres AZ State Lease, nice ranch with many new improvements. Ask Scott Thacker about the current FSA loan, EQIP Projects, & the Range Rest Rotation payments. Asking $425,000 IN ESCROW! Broken Arrow Ranches: Western Arizona: 2 contiguous ranches (North Clem & Saddle Mountain).

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Antibiotic Use, Resistance Calls for Collaborative “One Health” Approach he message emerging from the “A One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Use & Resistance: A Dialogue for a Common Purpose” symposium, held in mid November in Columbus, Ohio, was clear: Antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance are the responsibility of all communities — human health, animal health and environmental health — and solutions will require collaboration of these health communities.

At the end of the three-day symposium, which was coordinated by the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, presenters and participants agreed on numerous points: ■ Antibiotics dramatically improve human, animal and plant health, and increase life expectancy.

■ Antimicrobial resistance is not going to go away. A historical look at antimicrobial resistance shows antimicrobial resistance is not a new phenomenon but existed before mankind.

■ The topic of antimicrobial resistance can be subtle, complex, difficult and polarizing. It is more than science and evidence.

It’s about politics, behavior, economics and conflicting opinions.

Antimicrobial resistance is not merely a consequence of use; it’s a consequence of use and misuse — and each community —

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animal health, human health or environmental health — is responsible for antibiotic stewardship.

■ The finger pointing and blame for antimicrobial resistance need to end. The time has come to work together.

“Finding a solution is not about compromise; it’s about reaching agreement,” stated Dr. Lonnie King, Dean of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. “We (animal health, human health and environmental health communities) need to focus on interests and not positions and initiate options for mutual gain.

We need to find common ground — something we all can agree to when we disagree on other issues.”

Topics addressed by the 13 animal health, human health and environmental health experts during the symposium covered: ■ Overview of antibiotic use ■ History of antimicrobial resistance ■ Antimicrobial resistance surveillance ■ Environmental contamination with antimicrobial residues ■ Interplay of animal and human antimicrobial resistant populations

■ Nationally funded antimicrobial resistance research projects ■ Alternatives to antibiotics in agriculture “The symposium’s four interactive sessions allowed presenters and attendees to provide input to questions that moved the group to consensus,” stated Dr. Leah Dorman, co-chair of the symposium, and Director of Food Programs at the Ohio Farm Bureau. “In the end, it was extremely evident that the dialogue among the animal health, human health and environmental health communities is critical to a solution.”

“A ‘One Health’ approach is important.

Plus, we need think in a much larger dimension.”

Dr. Jennifer Koeman, symposium cochair and Director of Producer and Public Health with the National Pork Board, agreed, adding, “It’s about mutual gain and not a victory for any one community.”

Presentations by symposium speakers will be available online at www.animalagriculture.org. A white paper is being developed and will be available online at NIAA’s ■ website as well.

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USDA Awards First Grants to Increase Local Foods in Eligible Schools 68 Projects Support Nearly 2 Million Students

griculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced more than $4.5 million in grants for 68 projects, spanning 37 states and the District of Columbia, to connect school cafeterias with local agricultural producers.

“When schools buy food from nearby producers, their purchasing power helps create local jobs and economic benefits, particularly in rural agricultural communities,” Merrigan said. “Evidence also suggests that when kids understand more about where food comes from and how it is produced, they are more likely to make healthy eating choices.”

The first-ever USDA Farm to School grants will help schools respond to the growing demand for locally sourced foods and increase market opportunities for producers and food businesses, including food processors, manufacturers, distributors.

Grants will also be used to support agricul-

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ture and nutrition education efforts such as school gardens, field trips to local farms, and cooking classes.

The grants will serve more than 3,200 schools and 1.75 million students, nearly half of whom live in rural communities.

Projects are diverse. Some award recipients, such as the Lawrence County District in Walnut Ridge, Ark., are using grant funds to coordinate efforts with other school districts to aggregate buying power and attract new producers to the school food service market.

Other funded projects, such as Weld County School District 6 in Greeley, Colo., will expand kitchen facilities to serve local products year-round through processing and freezing techniques. Also, Des Moines Municipal Schools in New Mexico will receive grant funding to increase the types of products it buys from local vendors.

Local cattle farmers already supply the school district with 100 percent locally produced beef; USDA grant funds will be used to develop relationships with local fruit and vegetable producers to serve a full meal using locally sourced products.

This year’s funding also includes: ■ Twenty-five programs that create jobs by hiring new farm to school coordinators,

with 43 projects supporting and maintaining existing staff. In New Haven, Conn., CitySeed, Inc. will hire a procurement specialist to help New Haven School Food Programs increase the amount of regionally grown produce in the meals of more than 20,900 urban public school students.

(Nearly 80 percent of them qualify for free or reduced-cost lunch).

■ Thirty-one programs that use food hubs, or partner with mainline distributors. In California, the Community Alliance of Family Farmers will work with a local distributor to create a new line of local produce, making it easier for schools to source products through current distribution channels.

■ Forty-four projects that will result in development of new products and menu items. For example, the Lake County Community Development Corporation, in Ronan, Mont., will coordinate with regional lentil farmers to procure protein and fiber rich lentil patties.

■ An estimated 47 projects will develop new partnerships by working with and educating farmers and ranchers new to the school food market. For example, the continued on page 66

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Washington State Department of Agriculture will conduct regional “mobile tours” in which agricultural producers and school food service directors tour the state together, learning about agricultural specialties, identifying opportunities for partnership, and solidifying regional networks.

■ Three projects support American Indian communities, including the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Cloquet, Minn. The reservation will implement a program to improve access to local and traditional foods to increase local economic benefits for producers as well as promote a healthy diet among their youth.

■ More than 50 projects support handson learning activities, such as field trips to farms and creation of school gardens. The Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc. will coordinate tours of nearby farms for its 35 school partners, serving nearly 21,000 students.

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) amended Section 18 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to establish a Farm to School

program in order to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools. Farm to School grants are administered by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. The full list of awards granted for fiscal year 2013 is available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/F2S/pdf/F2S _Grants-FY2013.pdf.

Farm to School is one component of USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative, launched in 2009 to coordinate the Department’s work on local and regional food systems and create new opportunities for farmers, ranchers, consumers and rural communities. An interactive view of USDA programs that support local and regional foods, including farm to school and farm to institution, is available in the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass. The KYF Compass consists of an interactive map of USDA-supported local and regional food projects and an accompanying guide to our programs and results on the ground. In October, the map was expanded and now includes projects ■ from nine other federal agencies.

Agricultural Women Seek Nominations for the next “Diamond in the Rough” eroes on the Horizon will be the theme of the 2013 Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference (WALC), to be held in Las Cruces, May 1-3. Over 150 women from across New Mexico’s agricultural industry are expected to come together to discuss current issues, learn valuable leadership skills, network, and honor outstanding women in the group.

The ‘Diamond in the Rough’ award was created to recognize an outstanding woman in New Mexico agriculture and highlight her efforts and contributions. Initiated by the Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference (WALC) and its various sponsors, the award has been given at each of the previous conferences during a special awards ceremony.

Nominations are currently being accepted for those women that, through their actions, strive to make New Mexico’s agricultural industry a prosperous, viable component of the Land of Enchantment.

This conference, held every two years in different locations around the state, draws women from all types of agriculture. “Today’s agricultural women are integral parts of their families’ agricultural operations, in addition to their traditional roles,” said Caren Cowan, Conference Co-Chair.

Nomination forms can be found online at www.nmagriculture.org, www.nmflb.org or on Facebook and must be received by April 1, 2013, to be considered.

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Buy Bulls Based on Data . . .

Pictures Can Be Deceiving

by KRIS RINGWALL, BEEF SPECIALIST NDSU EXTENSION SERVICE he process of buying bulls actually is, or at least should be, fairly methodical. Although data terms may baffle a bull buyer, always check out what the trait abbreviations and the many expected progeny differences (EPDs) values mean.

The breed association websites have good glossaries or just ask other breeders.

There certainly is no shortage of bull pictures. Have you ever wondered just how many bull pictures can be printed in one magazine? A lot, and despite the added color and enhanced graphics, bulls still look like bulls. Yes, there are some subtle differences. To the trained eye, those differences may be notable, but still, there seems to be more similarity than differences in many of the bulls.

We enjoy pictures, but we also should enjoy data. Bulls may be very similar in phenotype, in other words the picture, but their genotype may have no similarity at all. Even the color, although fairly indicative of the DNA on one chromosome, may have no indication of what DNA is on the other chromosome. Because all chromosomes are paired, the calves that the bull produces each will be products of only one of the chromosomes. Therefore, black cattle certainly can sire red calves.

In terms of the many other traits, the variation within the particular lot of bulls can be extreme, even though all the bulls look alike. Some bulls have high-growth DNA, others low-growth DNA. Some bulls will have DNA more likely to produce prime to choice grade calves, while a very similar looking bull may only produce select or low choice grade calves.

Although muscle quantity and expression may be observed in the phenotype or picture of the bull, the ultrasound data indicating rib-eye area, often expressed as rib-eye area per hundred pounds of live weight, certainly will tell the same story.

The point is that true bull selection rests with understanding the data. The action of buying bulls should be a process of sorting through the data first and then looking at the bull. Every single piece of data is directly connected to a strand of DNA somewhere on the chromosome.

Positive selection pressure on the correct traits will increase positive DNA within our bull stud. In turn, this DNA will combine with the DNA available in the cow herd to produce the calf crop.

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actually is, or at least should be, fairly methodical. Although data terms may baffle a bull buyer, always check out what the trait abbreviations and the many expected progeny differences (EPDs) values mean.

The breed association websites have good glossaries or just ask other breeders.

A personal pet peeve: If there is room for the picture, there should be room for labeling conveniently the various numbers to make the reading of the information more doable. All of these notations lead up to some very important notes. Right up front, a herd should present in the catalog the average EPD values for the various traits the breed evaluates followed by the average EPD values for the bulls and heifers being sold.

Additional information could be provided for the breed, such as the trait values for the top 25 percent of the breed or maybe even the top 1 percent of the breed, depending on the strengths of the bulls or heifers.

For the new bull buyer who is not aware of the breeders within a breed, those producers who are willing to print the average EPD values for the calves they are selling make the initial screening so much easier. Of course, one does need to look at the individual numbers.

However, there is something to keep in mind. Why not start with those herds that are selling bulls or heifers that are above average for the desired traits? There is no quicker or easier way to evaluate the expected future performance authenticity of potential bull candidates. Once the overall performance of the herd has been determined in relationship to the breed as a whole, one can select the desired bulls within the sale offering.

Now that one knows the average value for all the traits analyzed within the breed, the process of finding and sorting bulls based on their ranking within the breed is relatively easy. The job is to find the sale prospects by scanning all the sons of the reference sires that meet our criteria and then scanning all the bulls for their own performance because the cow and bull ultimately determine the genetic value of the bull.

Through the years, one vote of confidence is that it is obvious more people are picking the top bulls because the bidding dollars seem to jump quickly on bulls that lead the data. That is a good thing for the industry but a little frustrating when the wallet doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an equivalent roll of money. continued on page 68

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Keep in mind that no picture is going to relay the information that is needed. Only breed association EPD data will, which is critical in making long-lasting bull decisions. Great bulls have great numbers.

Learn to read them and just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bid on poor bulls. â&#x2013; May you find all your ear tags.

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Jim Robb, director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center, says the reaction may have been a bit too severe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It could be a bit of an overreaction although the futures market was at a strong premium to the cash market. This plant represented about four percent of capacity in the United States. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very significant portion of the U.S. slaughter capacity. Clearly, they were not running at those levels, but nor are any of our other beef slaughtering plants. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had fully 24 months of very difficult packer returns and this has really come to bare. Four percent may not sound like a lot of adjustment in slaughter capacity, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very significant. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably talking next year about a four to five percent year-toyear decline in total slaughter. Some of that will be a decline in cow slaughter. So this is a major adjustment.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The packing business is very much one of being able to operate at a high level of throughput in terms of numbers of animals being processed drives the economics of the industry. And, after 24 months or so of very dismal returns, these are the types of adjustments that had been anticipated, but they did come as a bit of a shock.

I think that me lead to a little bit of an over adjustment in the marketplace.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little bit concerned by the softening in the wholesale beef market which really shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have happened because of the plant closure. That underlying wholesale beef market is, maybe, a bit of a longer term concern.â&#x20AC;?

Some industry analysts are wondering if the shuttering of the Plainview plant presages a geographical shift in the cattle business. Robb says he thinks it does. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this really is indicative, this plant closing. This is a major, large plant in the Southern Plains. In the deep Southern Plains is where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have the tightest feeder cattle supplies, especially as we see fewer and fewer Mexican feeder cattle and a smaller U.S. calf crop. So, I think, in the deep Southern Plains this is very indicative of also the excess capacity in the cattle feeding business, which we also have clear across the United States. There are some cattle feeding operations which have certainly slowed down their feedlot placements and some that have downsized their actual feeding capacity in the last couple of years. But there may need to be more of that also as we just have smaller and smaller cattle numbers and we really have excess infrastructure on both the cattle â&#x2013; feeding side and the packing side.â&#x20AC;?

Overreacting to Environmental Crimes vercriminalization, the act of making too many actions or behaviors illegal, is a problem that plagues Gulf Coast states struggling to stay on the right side of environmental law. Indeed, nearly 1,000 laws have passed that criminalize various activities in the five states that border the Gulf of Mexico, say Marc Levin and Vikrant Reddy of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Environmental crimes can be defined as crimes that relate to air, water, waste, land use or other commercial activity involving natural resources. Many of the crimes on the books can lead to imprisonment.

Texas has 263 environmental crimes, Louisiana has 286, Mississippi has 94,

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Alabama has 185 and Florida has 107 environmental crimes.

Some crimes, like the improper disposal of hazardous waste in Texas, are felonies carrying stiff sentences of up to 10 years in prison.

In each state, the attorney general, a state agency or district attorneys are responsible for prosecuting the expanse of applicable environmental laws. Unlike many prosecutable crimes, many statutes in the Gulf Coast states do not require the perpetrator to act with mens rea, or a “guilty mind,” meaning that violators could unknowingly wind up on the wrong side of the law.

Levin and Reddy consider the overcriminalization of environmental crimes a scourge that disproportionately punishes criminal infractions even if no human is harmed. In many instances criminal sanctions are not necessary.

To adjust current policies, Levin and Reddy suggest reviewing all environmental laws to ensure that the punishment matches the crime.

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Strengthening the mens rea requirements of environmental statutes so that only those who are willingly and knowingly breaking the law are punished would increase justice and equity.

Eliminating provisions that delegate the power to criminalize an action by the rulemaking authority of an agency would reduce the glut of criminalized actions.

Implementing a “safe harbor” provision that allows violators to come into regulatory compliance and avoid prosecution would encourage citizens to obey the law.

Business owners in particular, many of whom run afoul of environmental laws, would benefit from implementing these suggestions. Without any reform, residents of the Gulf Coast states could continue to unknowingly commit felonies every day.

Source: Marc Levin and Vikrant Reddy, “Engulfed

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The biggest delusion of all DAN MURPHY WWW.CATTLENETWORK.COML spend a lot of time scouring anti-industry, pro-vegetarian websites and blogs. I do it so you don’t have to.

The constant refrain voice by virtually all veggie activists, of course, is that meat production is cruel to animals, dangerous to human health and ecologically unsustainable. All three are minority viewpoints, and all three are fairly easily refuted.

Lately, however, the argument goes further. A more radical segment of the veggie coalition — the vegan purists — has begun to complain that Meatless Mondays doesn’t go far enough, that switching from red meat to poultry isn’t a positive change and that raising concerns about the excessive consumption of soy protein is a false and foolish detour distracting true believers from the cause.

The cause being a vegan world, one in which animals have but one role: To roam freely through untrammeled wilderness (killing and eating each other), while we humans turn to our bowls of cornmeal mush and tofu as our daily fare.

It’s a nice fantasy, one completely and utterly impossible to achieve, even if humanity did suddenly decide that beansand-rice was the ultimate gourmet meal.

Heck, such a transition wouldn’t have been possible a thousand years ago, much less today, when seven billion people need sustenance.

Of course, we could try to transform what’s left of the planet’s prairies and forests into farmland, and for a time we’d probably be able to grow enough food crops to replace the world’s supply of animal protein, but ultimately, that would represent an ecological disaster of epic proportions, certainly not a scenario any born-again vegan would ever entertain.

Yet there are millions of people who buy into the notion that if only they shop hard enough at Whole Foods, if only they order religiously from the vegetarian choices on the menu, if only they spend lavishly enough on soy-based entrées and out-of-season produce jet-freighted from elsewhere in the world, then one day the world’s livestock will wander away from their barns and corrals, and we’ll all join hands around a communal pot of vegetable soup, rejoicing in the triumph of enlightened activism.

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It’s easy (and tempting) to simply dismiss such thinking as deranged and move on. But the thought process shared by so many activists doesn’t arise from delusions, but from disconnections. A majority of people who have decided to forego animal foods do so in the belief they’re doing something noble and good, that switching one’s dietary choices will trigger a profound revolution in the way the world feeds itself.

God bless ’em for that, but such thinking a direct result of the material affluence the developed world has enjoyed for some 50 years now. Most of us simply haven’t experienced real food shortages, nor had to deny ourselves anything we want to eat.

From fast-food drive-thrus to whitetablecloth bistros, we demand — and we get — pretty much whatever we want, whenever we want it.

Is it any wonder, then, that so many people believe that if they only demand loudly enough, if they insist on it long enough, if they explain clearly enough the rationale behind converting to vegetarian diets, then it’ll be served up to them? In 30 minutes or less?

As a society, we’re slowly (re-)connect-

ing to the reality that there are limits to consumer demands, that there are consequences to lifestyles based on satisfying those demands, that in fact there is a serious downside to a society driven by an unrelenting quest to provide whatever anybody can afford, regardless of how it impacts larger issues of health and food security.

Ironically, the vegetarian movement prides itself on being more aware, more enlightened, more knowledgeable than meat-eaters about resource limitations, energy consumption and carbon footprints as they relate to food production.

Yet, so many of its followers entertain the biggest delusion of all: That the domestication of animals across hundreds of millennia was some sort of historical aberration we no longer need to continue.

The typical veggie’s analysis of human history is even more harmful than the junk food diets they condemn.

That’s because there are important, urgent issues that need to be discussed regarding the challenge of ensuring that all people, no matter where they happen to live, have enough nutritious food to sustain continued on page 73

CATTLEMAN BID-OFF SALE Thursday, March 21, 2013 ★ 1:00 p.m.

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Shaffer Hotel in Mountainair, on January 8, 2013 with 11 members present. Toni Barrow called the meeting to order at 10:45 a.m. after a leisurely time of sharing over coffee. The meeting was reconvened at 12:15 p.m. It was decided to donate $25 to the Pat Nowlin Memorial Fund in honor of Weldon McKinley. Babbi Baker read the minutes that were taken by Carolyn Chance during the December meeting.

There was discussion about the Rio Rancho Pumpkin Patch and also about the State Fair. Toni requested a report from Lyn about the Estancia Craft Fair. Lyn said that between the fair and our December meeting, sales were $467.50. Toni mentioned some calendars she was giving away. The group then passed around the Horses for Heroes donation bucket. Babbi announced that KXNM radio is on the air at 88.7 FM. There was discussion about having a public service announcement made by the station. Toni shared that she learned about grass-fed beef having more Omega 3 than finished beef. There was discussion about this. It was decided to place Horses for Heroes on the NMCB brand napkins at $50 in cost (if, in fact, they have a brand). There was discussion about placing brands on ceramic mugs or on disposable cups as a fundraiser. Babbi will check into this and also into the possibility of printing local’s name on folding pocket knives to sell.

Meeting adjourned at 2:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Babbi Baker Mesilla Valley CowBelles met January 15, 2013 at Los Compas Restaurant with seven members present and Vice-President Vickie Gove presiding. Important dates were discussed: February 19 – Ag Fest, March 2 – St Patrick’s Party, LaPosta 6 p.m., March 15 – Man of the Year due, March 20 – District Workshop in Glenwood, March 22 – Ag Day at Columbia Elementary. Ag in the Classroom will present, Mayfield FFA will be asked, SWBFS&DC will be asked, Mobile Dairy scheduled and other possible were mentioned and will be pursued. Any help will be appreciated as far as presenters as well as runners needed to do duties as needed. Next meeting will be held February 12, 2013 at Zeffiros at 6:30 p.m. (136 North Water Street).

New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to “Jingle Jangle.” Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com the ■ 14th of each month

a healthy life, issues that include dietary modifications, farm productivity, and yes, the best and most sustainable methods of growing food and raising livestock.

The sideshow conducted by vegan diehards who criticize every and anyone not onboard their crazy train isn’t helping to further that process.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.

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not referring to Mexican wolves. They are talking about Southwestern Gray Wolves.

Where did that term come from? What does it mean?

The Colfax County Commission held a public hearing on the issue in late Jan. where there was overwhelming opposition to the plan. More hearings in all three states might be in order between now and April 1.

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The average annual fee for a concierge service is approximately $1,800.

More than 4,000 physicians practiced privately in the United States in 2012, a 25 percent increase from 2011.

Each concierge or “boutique” doctor has about 350 patients, meaning that more than 1.5 million Americans have paid the additional fee to have these extra benefits.

Critics argue that concierge medicine magnifies the disparity between the haves and the have-nots, as the service is usually cost prohibitive for those with less financial resources. Proponents contend that as the burden on the health care system increases, particularly through the Affordable Care Act, boutique services will make up for the lack in doctor availability.

Proposed changes to the Medicare system might mean doctors are reimbursed less for care provided.

Many doctors argue that the fee they charge for concierge services help to balance out the lost revenue of future Medicare cuts while simultaneously providing their patients with the same level of care they are currently accustomed to.

Patients of concierge services get more face-time with doctors, receive annual physicals that can last hours and focus more on preventive medicine.

Companies like MDVIP, a unit of Proctor and Gamble, and One Medical Group are expanding rapidly. MDVIP is the nation's largest network. It has managed to keep its fees flat despite general rises in overall health care costs. One Medical Group has expanded to five metropolitan cities and offers increased access and more face-time for only $200 a year.

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Senior winner Trey Yates, Artesia, is the 18-year-old son of John and Nancy Yates. He is a senior at Artesia High School, and plans to attend Texas A&M University after graduation. He plays basketball and is active in FFA, serving as his chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vice President.

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First-year showman Kindal Smith, Logan, won the novice division. She is ten years old, and the daughter of Wesley and Jackie Smith. She shows both steers and pigs through 4-H, enjoys cheerleading, dancing, riding horses, and helping on the family ranch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know that the youth of today will be the leaders of tomorrow, and were so glad to see so many young people participating in the cattle shows and interested in the industry,â&#x20AC;? Lopez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Congratulations to all who participated, and we hope to see you again in 2013.â&#x20AC;?

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McKeen Named CowBelle of the Year argie McKeen, Glenwood, was named 2012 CowBelle of the Year by the New Mexico CowBelles (NMCB) at the recent Joint Stockmen’s Convention, held in December in Albuquerque.

“Margie is a dedicated rancher, beef industry promoter, educator, mother, grandmother, community member – the list goes on and on,” said Beverly Butler, past NMCB President, Columbus. “We are proud to have this opportunity to honor her years of hard work.”

McKeen is a charter member of the Frisco CowBelles, established 28 years ago, and has held every office in that group several times. She has served on

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the New Mexico Beef Council, on the national Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board and has helped with countless promotional and educational activities including the New Mexico Beef Council’s Gate to Plate Tour; Kids, Kows and More, and the New Mexico State Fair.

More than ten years ago, Margie developed, and continues to facilitate, Ranch Days – a program to teach the importance of agriculture in everyday life – in response to Earth Day being taught in local schools. Each year, more than a dozen agriculture and ranching educators demonstrate activities on a working ranch to more than 500 children and adults who attend each year.

She and her husband, Hugh B. McKeen, host this annual two-day event at their Glenwood ranch.

Over 50 years ago, McKeen founded the San Francisco Valley 4-H Club, and

is still the leader of that program where she has helped and encouraged hundreds of children. Previous awards include Diamond in the Rough Award, at the Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference; the Beef Backer Award from the New Mexico Beef Council, and induction into the New Mexico 4-H Hall of Fame.

McKeen was nominated for this award by both the Chuckwagon and Frisco CowBelles, and her nomination, written by her sister Ruth Romero, sums it up best. “Margie is an inspiration to all who are privileged to know and work with her. She works tirelessly on each and every one of her missions, and rarely lets anything get in the way of her goals.

She is one very amazing CowBelle, not to mention one very terrific lady.”

McKeen & her husband Hugh B. have four children: Eric, Suzanne, Rusty and Alan.

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Students Receive Cattle Growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scholarships assidy Doherty, Melrose; Emily Ferranti, Datil, and Ellen Bardwell, Edgewood, were awarded scholarships by the N.M. Cattle Growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association (NMCGA) at the Joint Stockmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Convention, held in Albuquerque in December. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were very impressed with the caliber of our applicants this year, and happy to be able to help these three young ladies with their college expenses,â&#x20AC;? said Boe Lopez, NMCGA Young Cattlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership Committee (YCLC) Chairman, Springer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wish them well, and look forward to hearing great things about them in the future.â&#x20AC;?

Doherty, Melrose, received a $1,000 scholarship from the NMCGA and Purina Mills. The 2012 Melrose High School graduate attends Eastern N.M. University, majoring in Secondary Education with a minor in English. In high school, she was active in community and school activities, including sports, 4-H, and FFA, and she credits her agricultural background and activities with her success thus far. She is the daughter of Jim and Karen Doherty.

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ship from the YCLC and the Allied Industries Committee (AIC). She is a senior at Quemado High School, and plans to major in Animal Science in college. She is active in Student Council, the National Honor Society, 4-H, FFA and a member of the varsity volleyball team. Ferranti says that her agricultural background has shaped her values, passions and interests. She is the daughter of Bill and Margaret Ferranti.

Bardwell, Edgewood, received a $500 scholarship from the YCLC and the AIC. The 2011 Moriarty High School graduate currently attends Clarendon College where she is majoring in professional health with a minor in animal science. She is a member of the Pi Theta Kappa honor society and National Honor Society, and has been a member of the Clarendon College livestock judging team for two years. In high school, she was active in 4-H and FFA , showing pigs and steers and judging livestock and a member of the basketball team. Through agriculture, she says she has learned strong leadership skills, a good work ethic and responsibility. Bardwell is the daughter of Karen Bardwell.

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Feeding beef cows a balancing act after drought IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY owa beef producers have to balance dietary and nutritional considerations with getting the most value for their dollar after feed prices skyrocketed this winter as a result of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drought, said an Iowa State University Extension and Outreach beef cattle expert.

Joe Sellers, an ISU field specialist who focuses on cattle, said the drought drove up the price of corn and withered pasture land, forcing producers to lean more heavily on options such as corn silage to feed their herds. The drought forced many cattle producers to turn to hay early in the year because much of the suitable grazing land dried out quickly. Now, hay is in short supply, Sellers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beef producers are in a situation where you have to stretch your resources,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people are really short on forage, so they want to use concentrated feeds that go farther. A lot of people are using a combination of hay, silage, corn

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Sellers said corn silage is high in energy but lacks the kind of protein that cattle require while corn stalks and CRP hay are low in both energy and protein. Normal Iowa-grown hay from legume grass is usually high in protein but may not contain enough energy. Because of the varying content of each type of feed, Sellers said many producers have to supplement their rations with co-products that strike the right nutritional balance for their herds.

Common supplements to make up for low protein content include dry gluten and dry distillerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grains, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hay and pasture land were in short supply last year, but there are still plenty of options,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter of finding the right combination that fits each individual situation.â&#x20AC;?

He emphasized that producers can consult ISU Extension and Outreach beef specialists to make sure their rations will meet the dietary needs of their herds. The ISU Iowa Beef Center recently posted an online video clip of Sellers explaining what kind of feed options are available to Iowa producers. Sellers said producers can take

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samples of the silage they intend to use and have the samples tested in commercial labs.

Sellers said Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is working with the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation to provide Iowa livestock farmers with an update on the market and strategies for running their operations in the face of current challenges. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Managing Through Stress: A Livestock Information Eventâ&#x20AC;? will be held on Monday, Feb. 4, and broadcast online to 14 sites throughout the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The big thing is to make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re adjusting to the needs of your herd,â&#x20AC;? Sellers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having your feed tested and be responsive to changes in the weather.â&#x20AC;?

Producers will be paying particularly close attention to rainfall this year as well, he said. Another year of drought would drive feed costs even higher, which would likely encourage producers to consider â&#x2013; culling their herds.

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Sustainable Farming? Really? ost of the agricultural community watches the pied pipers of “Sustainable Farming” the same way grandparents watch their grandkids play with toy trains. We humor them but don’t try to explain how real trains work. Many “Sustainable Farming” proposals are the exact opposite of their name. “Model T Farming,” or “Third World Farming” or “Farming to Feed the Few” would be more accurate.

As a caveat, I must credit those scientists seeking realistic solutions to agriculture’s booming production capabilities.

However, the dream world lead by Luddites and New Age gurus are proposing a return to farming methods used in the first half of the 20th century. A time they describe as “not relying on toxic chemicals, pesticides, synthetic fertilizer and genetically modified foods. A time when animals moved freely, consumed a natural diet, and were not confined.”

I do offer a tip of the hat to hobby farmers with a nice garden, some chickens or 15 sheep as 4-H projects. Their contribution is appreciated, but they realize very quickly that they can’t grow or raise enough to feed their families for a fortnight, much less 50 of their urban neighbors. Which, of course, is the elephant in the room.

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Look around you, my friends. They did it . . . and saved the world.

Indulge me a few statistics*: In the last 50 years the United States and Canada have not only been able to keep up with the sky-rocketing global demand for food, we have shared our research and taught the 3rd World how to feed itself! THAT is what I call “Sustainable Farming.”

Agriculture, Great Grandpa’s agriculture, before the advent of pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics, concentrated feeding and genetically modified seed, was – and is – not “sustainable” by any definition.

I suggest we call the methods that the pied pipers promote, something that more accurately describes their toy train idyllic vision. For the sake of clarity how ‘bout “Subsistence Level Farming.”* *subsistence: syn. (Poverty, Insufficient, Hand to mouth), Roget’s Thesaurus.

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My Cowboy Heroes

by JIM OLSON

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buff Douthitt â&#x20AC;&#x201C; An Interesting Lifeâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had an interesting life,â&#x20AC;? states Santa Fe, New Mexico resident, Buff Buff performed trick rope Douthitt. on a slack rope.

That is an understatement. He has been a rancher, cowboy, rodeo hand, trick roper, specialty act, Marine, entrepreneur, world traveler, model, movie wrangler and actor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to name a few. Most folk would be ecstatic to have experienced and seen half the things Buff has.

Born on a large ranch east of Roswell, New Mexico during 1924, Douthitt left home at the tender age of thirteen to find his place in life. He rode to Arizona where he worked for ranchers in the mountainous country northeast of Tucson as a burro hunter.

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tury. They became prolific, and over time, were over-running the cow range. The ranchers hired young Buff to hunt them like wild game â&#x20AC;&#x201C; since they were just as wild as the country in which they lived.

Douthitt says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything in that country was straight up and down . . . and cactus everywhere . . . but it was a good country.â&#x20AC;?

After sneaking up on the burros at a watering hole, he was to shoot them and then cut off part of their ear, so he could prove to his employers heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been working and not just sight seeing. Buff says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things have changed a lot since then, those were different times.â&#x20AC;?

After about a year, he returned to New Mexico where none other than three-time world champion cowboy, Bob Crosby, took a liking to him and mentored him. Buff entered his first rodeo shortly thereafter at Carlsbad, New Mexico. From there, his life went into high-gear!

Under Crosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tutelage, the young cowboy excelled at the sport of rodeo. He mainly competed in the steer wrestling and calf roping events. By the time he was sixteen, he competed at Madison Square

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Another interesting fact about Douthitt is he was also a trick roper and performed as a specialty act. He walked the high-wire while doing rope tricks!

As a young boy on the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranch, he discovered he had a knack for balance.

There were three windmills in close proximity to each other there at the headquarters. One day, for no explicable reason, little Buff strung a rope between two of the mills and walked from one to the other. It shocked the cowboys below.

Buff says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why I did it. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how I did it. Somehow I just knew I could do it.â&#x20AC;?

Fast forward a few years and Buff performed for crowds all across the country, and eventually in other countries as well.

He walked the high wire (a taut wire about 100 feet in the air) and also the slack rope (a rope which bowed down to about five or ten feet off the ground with his weight). He did rope tricks while in the air. He also lays claim to being the only person who could climb a ladder on the wire.

It went like this: Buff would walk onto the wire with a ladder in his hands. Then he put the ladder on the wire and climbed up. All this was done due to his amazing sense of balance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he did not use a net except in the beginning! Another interestcontinued on page 87

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ing fact was that he did all this while wearing his every-day cowboy boots, not special shoes like most wire walkers. He would also spin as many a five ropes at a time while balanced on the wire.

Along with being a rancher, cowboy, rodeo hand, trick roper and specialty act as a young man, he was also a professional model. During the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;40s, while warming his horse up in the Madison Square Garden arena, a man kept watching Buff.

The cowboys kept joshing him about that and the youngster was getting embarrassed. Finally the man called him over and asked if he would go with him â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to talk about a business deal. Buff says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was just a big olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dumb kid. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to make of it.â&#x20AC;?

As it turns out, the man was John Harkrider who ran the biggest modeling agency in New York at the time. He needed a cowboy for a Seagrams shoot that very afternoon. Buff was still a little suspicious, but when the man started pulling hundred-dollar bills out of his pocket, he decided to give it a try. He wound up modeling over the next ten years or so and became fast friends with Harkrider. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I modeled every year when I went back for the Garden (rodeo) and also during the garment season â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which was about six weeks.â&#x20AC;? He modeled for Lee Rider jeans, Wheaties and Seagrams to name a few.

In between all of this, World War II sprang up and Buff spent three years as a Marine. He was an artillery gunner in the South Pacific. After rodeo, performing, going to war and modeling, this concluded the â&#x20AC;&#x153;younger part of lifeâ&#x20AC;? and he stepped with gusto into the next phase. Entrepreneurialism.

Buff and wife Jane started a business.

Based out of the Fort Worth, Texas area, they designed and built travel trailers and portable buildings of many kinds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including one model which may have been the first commercially manufactured living quarters horse trailer. The portable building business was a boon for the Douthitts as they won contracts with governments and military all over the world for the construction of these fast install buildings. It was a global business with over threethousand employees at one time.

Buff claims that of all the places he went in the world, Switzerland is his favorite foreign country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people are so congenial there. They present themselves very well â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of hard to explain, but once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been around it â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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After twenty years of running this successful business and traveling the world, the couple sold out in the early 1980s.

They moved to Hawaii â&#x20AC;&#x201C; supposedly to retire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but that did not last long. Buff is way too energetic for retirement and a few years later relocated to Santa Fe, his home of many years now, where he enjoyed jackpot team roping.

If you think his story ends here, think again. Buff now entered another phase of life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a career in the movie business!

Getting his start as a wrangler in the movies, he quickly moved into acting as well. Buff has worked on movies such as: City Slickers, The Hi-Lo Country, Lucky Luke, Tracker and he even had the job of teaching Emilio Estevez how to ride a horse for Young Guns.

Buff became personal friends with movie greats Ben Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Jack Palance, David Huddleston, Emilio and others. He knows many of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whoâ&#x20AC;? in and around the film industry, the rodeo world and the business community alike. Yet amid all those connections, the easy going Douthitt is just as likely to visit with neighbors down the street, or even a stranger. He is quite ami-

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Douthitt is still very active, even as he approaches completion of his ninth decade. In 2001, he was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rodeo Hall of Fame, a welldeserved honor.

Hats off to a great cowboy hero and ambassador of the western way of life â&#x2013; Buff Douthitt.

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Baca New Interim Director of New Mexico Livestock Board ay E. Baca, Las Vegas, was named Interim Director of the New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) in late December. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs and concerns, like animal health, theft, and animal cruelty, both as a rancher and as part of the New Mexico Livestock Board,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am willing to give the industry 110 percent.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;On behalf of the New Mexico Livestock Board, I would like to thank former director Myles Culbertson for his leadership and direction,â&#x20AC;? he continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We appreciate his hard work and wish him well.â&#x20AC;?

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livestock movement in northeastern New Mexico. He has been with the agency since 1993, working first as a livestock inspector in the Las Vegas area, then as District Supervisor. He also owns and operates his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranch in San Miguel County.

Before going to work for the NMLB, Baca worked for the New Mexico Department of Corrections, first as a corrections officer, then as a fire safety and sanitation officer.

He feels that his field experience with the NMLB, including law enforcement certification, will be an asset in his new position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Starting out as an inspector, and working my way up, I know how it really works out in the field. I know what it takes to get the job done, and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needed,â&#x20AC;?

Baca said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned the statutes and how to apply them in the field, and have prosecuted cases. I understand what inspectors are going through on a daily basis.â&#x20AC;?

Representing the NMLB at the New Mexico legislative session will be a priority for Baca in the coming weeks. He hopes to help legislators and the public understand the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasing workload, especially when it comes to animal cruelty issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things have changed drastically in the past twenty years that I have been with the Livestock Board. Today, our inspectors are not just going out and doing brand inspections and verifying proof of ownership,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our responsibilities have increased â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we are spending a huge amount of time and revenue on animal cruelty cases â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive any additional funding for that work. It is hard to do that much more on the same â&#x2013; budget.â&#x20AC;?

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following described estray animals have been taken under the provisions of Chapter 77, Article 13 of New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978, and sold for the benefit of the owners of said estrays as provided by law. The proceeds will be subject to claims and proof of ownership as provided by law. New Mexico Livestock Board ¡ Ray Baca, Interim Director ¡ Albuquerque, N.M.

New Mexico State University Department of Animal and Range Sciences Fall 2012 Graduates randon Corcoran of Albuquerque was a double major in Animal Science and Biology with a minor in Chemistry. He plans to become a veterinarian or work in the health care field.

Brandon, recipient of a departmental â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduate of Distinctionâ&#x20AC;? medallion, was an active member of the Pre-Vet Club, serving as president in 2011-2012, and Block and Bridle in which he served as ACES Representative in 2011-2012.

Fremont, California native, Jessica DePorte received her degree in animal science and will work in the equestrian field as a horse trainer and equine physical therapy. While at NMSU, Jessica worked at training horses and equine body correcting and alignment.

Range Science major, Carolyn Edenbo is from Gig Harbor, Washington and will be working for the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Harlowton, Montana. She served on the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Council in Fall 2010Spring 2011.

Animal Science major, Hannah Farbo from Willcox, Arizona, hopes to pursue a career with the horse racing industry, either as a racing investigator or on the state racing commission. Hannah was active in the NMSU Collegiate FFA in 2009-2011. She also received a departmental â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduate of Distinctionâ&#x20AC;? medallion.

Hector Elias-Justiniani was a Range Science major from Cananea, Sonora, Mexico and Douglas, Arizona. He will continue his education towards a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree and then work for a land management consulting company as well as on his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land. Hector was recipient of the New Mexico Section, Society for Range Management Student Scholarship and served as the Range Club vice-president for 2012. He also received the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduate of Distinctionâ&#x20AC;? medallion from the department.

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Majoring in Animal Science with a minor in Chemistry was Katelin Marchetti from Raton, New Mexico. Katelin will be attending Veterinary School in the fall.

Named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outstanding Student in Animal and Range Sciencesâ&#x20AC;? for Fall 2012, Katelin received the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduate of Distinctionâ&#x20AC;? medallion, was named to the Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s List, was a Crimson Scholar, and received an American Society of Animal Science Scholastic Achievement award. She was also a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Scholar from 2010-2012 and was an active participant in the Pre-Vet Club, Block and Bridle, and Wool Judging Team.

Katelin was inducted into the Golden Key International Honor Society in 2009.

Kristina McCuan of Las Cruces was an Animal Science major and plans to combine her knowledge of animal science gained at NMSU with her experience in business and management to open her own horse-related business. She served as Vice-President of the Pre-Vet Club and has been active with the Boy Scouts of America and local elementary and middle school PTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. She was the recipient of numerous scholarships while at NMSU as well the departmental â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduate of Distinctionâ&#x20AC;? medallion.

Deming, New Mexico native, Claudia MuĂąoz, majored in Animal Science and would like to obtain a job with the Food and Health Inspection or Animal and Plant Inspection with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Claudia volunteered with the Therapeutic Riding Club at NMSU for three years and also volunteered at differ-

ent wildlife sanctuaries during the summer. She was recipient of several scholarships while at NMSU. Marlon Pimienta, who hails from Marana, Arizona, received his degree in Animal Science, graduating with Honors.

He would like to pursue a career in the dairy industry. While at NMSU, Marlon served as a College Ambassador, President of ACES Council, and President of Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) Fraternity. He was a member of National Society of Collegiate Scholars, was a Crimson Scholar and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Researcher. Marlon was named AGR Fraternity â&#x20AC;&#x153;Active of the Yearâ&#x20AC;? for 2011 and was Honors College â&#x20AC;&#x153;Student of the Monthâ&#x20AC;? in December 2010. Marlon received the Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award of Excellence and the departmental â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduate of Distinctionâ&#x20AC;? medallion as well.

Animal Science major, Nicole Romineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hometown is Argyle, Texas. She would like to earn her Vet Tech certification as well as earn a CRN and midwife license.

Training cow horses while managing a ranch is career goal of Animal Science major, Charles Roybal, who is from Pecos, New Mexico. Charles was an active member of the award-winning NMSU Ranch Horse Team.

Kelsey Schueler received her degree in Animal Science with a minor in Agriculture and Extension Education. She has a passion for agriculture, working with youth, and training horses and hopes to someday be county extension agent, high school Ag teacher or coach of a university equestrian team. Kelsey was a pitcher on continued on page 90

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the NMSU Women’s Softball team which was 2011 WAC regular season and WAC tournament champions. She received Athletic Academic Honors from 2008-2012 and was a member of the Crimson and White Society. Kelsey is from Clovis, California.

Tiffinny Taylor of Winnemucca, Nevada, received her degree in Animal Science and will be attending graduate school at NMSU in Agricultural and Extension Education.

Tiffinny was named to the Dean’s List

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Other students receiving their degrees in Animal Science were Rogelio Bejarano (El Paso, TX), Missy Grindatto (Corrales, NM), Emily Hibbard (Kingman, AZ), and Marcia Taylor (Tallahassee, FL). Range Sci-

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Advanced Degrees (M.S., Ph.D) Kali Benson of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, received her Master’s Degree in Animal Science under the advisement of Dr. Shanna Ivey. Her thesis was titled “A Brief History of the New Mexico Agriculture Livestock Incident Response Team and its Future Outlook.” Kali is currently employed as Quality Coordinator for the Alltech, Inc. plant in Clovis, New Mexico.

She was an active participant in the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association and designed the departmental “Graduate of Distinction” medallion.

“Neuropeptidome of Hypothalamus and Pituitary Gland of Pre- and Postpubertal Brangus Heifers” was the title of Kasey DeAtlely’s Ph.D. dissertation. Serving as her advisors were Dr. Milt Thomas and Dr. Ryan Ashley. She has accepted a Post-doc Fellowship at University of California-Davis conducting beef cattle genetics research. In addition, Kasey will serve as a part-time lecturer at California State University, Chico and eventually hopes to have a tenure-track appointment in teaching and research in higher education.

Kasey was an active member of Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association and Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture. She was recipient of the Frank Baker Memorial Scholarship from the Beef Improvement Association, the Jack L. Ruttle Endowed Scholarship for reproductive physiology study, the NMSU Graduate School Merit-based Enhancement Fellowship and a NMSU Graduate Research Enhancement Grant.

Kasey received first place in the NMSU “A.L. Neumann Scientific Paper Competition for Graduate Students” and was named “Outstanding Graduate Student” at the doctorate level by the NMSU Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta in 2012. Kasey’s hometown is McArthur, CA. Nigel Miller of Elizabeth, Colorado earned his M.S. degree in Animal Science with emphasis in ruminant nutrition. His advisor was Dr. Eric Scholljegerdes and title of Nigel’s thesis was “Utilization of dried distillers grains to manage rate of body weight gain during heifer development and the use of a novel rumen-protected arginine to alter plasma levels of arginine. Nigel is currently attending the Colorado State University School of Veterinary Medicine with plans of becoming a continued on page 91

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veterinarian/nutritionist in the western U.S. Nigel served as treasurer of the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association while at NMSU. Earning his doctorate in Animal Science (ruminant nutrition emphasis) was Preston, Oklahoma native, Travis Mulliniks. Travisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; advisor was Dr. Eric Scholljegerdes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nutritional and metabolic factors influencing reproductive efficiency in grazing beef cowsâ&#x20AC;? was the title of his dissertation. He is currently on the faculty at the University of Tennessee conducting cow/calf nutrition research.

Completing her M.S. degree in Animal Science (reproductive physiology) under the guidance of Dr. Ryan Ashley was Kelsey Quinn from Cashmere, WA. Her thesis was titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Induction of Angiogenic Factors during Early Pregnancy in Sheep: Role in Fetal Survivalâ&#x20AC;? and she would like to eventually teach reproductive physiology at a university or become a researcher for a private company. Currently she is pursuing her Ph.D. at NMSU. Kelsey is a member of the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association, Gamma

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Colleen Richardson, Belen, New Mexico, completed a Master of Science in Animal Science (reproductive physiology) working with Dr. Tim Ross. Her thesis was titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Progesterone Concentrations and Reproductive Response in Suffolk Ewes Treated with Human Chorionic Gonadotropin.â&#x20AC;? She plans to continue working in the agricultural field including education in animal, wildlife, and hunting industries. Colleen was active in the Animal and Range Sciences Graduate Student Association and served that organization

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inMemoriam Sidnia Gardner, 63, Carlsbad, passed away on December 18, 2012 at her home.

She was born March 3, 1949 in Crane, Texas to Clifton Vernon and Marcel (Shults) Cunningham. She married Ridley Gardner on August 6, 1971. Sidnia taught for 36 years, mostly kindergarten. She loved children, collecting antiques and was a devoted member of Guadalupe Christian Church. She is survived by her husband, Ridley; daughter, Shaundra Norman (husband, Matt), Carlsbad, NM; son, Rowdy, Carlsbad; and five grandchildren.

Delbert Wesley Brown, 91, Portales, a longtime resident of Roosevelt County, died January 5, 2013, at his home. Delbert was born on March 22, 1921, in Velma, Oklahoma, the son of Mary Ethel and Troy Lee Brown. One of ten children, he grew up in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, moving with his family to Roosevelt County when he was nine. He attended the Dora schools, served in the U.S. Army dur-

ing World War II, and earned his high school diploma on the GI Bill. Delbert taught Sunday school for more than 50 years at Calvary Baptist Church, served as a deacon and chaired the building committee for the “new” building constructed in 1964. Based upon the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan, Delbert and his bride of 65 years, Verla, started the “Good Samaritan Fund” that provided assistance to people in need from all faiths and walks of life. Delbert invented and built a selfpropelled combine, a double row peanut thresher, and a peanut digger to make his farming operation more efficient. He worked with New Mexico State University to develop the Valencia a peanut. Delbert and Verla constructed and operated Portales Select Peanuts for a decade. Delbert also served as a member of the ASCS Board of Directors, National Peanut Grower’s Group, FHA, and REA. Survivors include wife Verla, children, Glenda Brown Balas,

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Anthony “Tony” Treat, 74, Roswell, passed away January 10, 2013 at La Villa Assisted Living. Tony was born October 16, 1938 to Bill and Ramona Treat. He graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in 1957 and from New Mexico State University in 1962 with a degree in Animal Husbandry. While at NMSU Tony met his wife Joyce Maag. Tony was a fourth generation rancher in Chaves and Lincoln counties and known by fellow ranchers as a top producer of Debouillet sheep and wool. He won many awards for his wool across the US and an international award in Australia. Tony was also named the New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. Sheepman of the Year in 2007. Tony was a partner in the Twin Butte Sheep Co. with Ed and James Goodrum. From 1982 to 1994 Tony and long time friend Bob Naylor were partners in Roswell Wool and Mohair. Tony was a member of New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, Wool Growers (past president), served two terms on the New Mexico Livestock Board, Chaves County Soil & Water Conservation District and on the Board of First National/United NM Bank. Tony is survived by his brother, Jay Treat (wife, Beverly), Odessa, Texas; son, Bernarr Treat (wife Dyanna), Roswell; daughter, Toni Lynn Bourdon, Houston, Texas; and four grandchildren. Dear to him also were his cousins, Mona Rey Moiso of Beaverton, OR and Sally Treat McKay of Roswell. Special and heart felt thanks goes to Julie and Mike Adams, Meredith Murphy and all the caregivers with La Villa Assisted Living and Vista Care.

Nettie Ruth Harrelson, 93, Albuquerque passed away Sunday, January 27, 2013. She was born on June 30, 1919 and was an active member of the New Mexico CowBelles for many years.

Mary “Evelyn” Grant, 86, Espanola, died on January 14, 2013 surrounded by her family. Evelyn was born on October 12, 1926 to George and Josie Burch, who were farmers in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. The family moved from Oklahoma to Califorcontinued on page 93

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nia to find employment in the factories near San Jose, California. Evelyn met Clinton “C.A.” Grant when he was discharged from the Marines after WWII. They married in 1947 and moved to Los Alamos.

Evelyn worked as a telephone operator for Bell Telephone Company and C.A. worked for the Corp of Engineers. Evelyn then became a Data Analyst for the Los Alamos National Laboratory at S-Site where she retired. C.A. and Evelyn purchased a cattle ranch on the Glorieta Mesa in 1950, which is still owned by the family today. They lived in Los Alamos, the Espanola Valley, and on the ranch at different times during their lives. They were some of the first members of the Los Alamos Sheriff’s Posse and helped build the Sheriff’s Posse shack.

Evelyn is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Arthur and Patricia Grant; her daughter and son-in-law Eva and Pat Woods, all of Broadview; her youngest sister and brother-in-law, Renomia and Chester Ingram, Athens, Georgia; her eight grandchildren; two foster sons, Bill Hooper and Marty McNamara; 22 greatgrandchildren; and 10 nieces and nephews.

Editor’s Note: Please send In Memoriam announcements to: Caren Cowan, N.M. Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, NM 87194, fax: 505/998-6236 or email: caren@aaalivestock.com. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices.

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Forage Specialist Offers Methods to Cope with Drought NEBRASKA AG CONNECTION ith a drought as severe as last summer’s, the long-lasting effects require long-term adaptations from producers who are working with the limited water supply.

As producers throughout the region search for ways to deal with the continuing drought, they can try to take advantage of the limited water they can access. University of Nebraska-Lincoln forage specialist Bruce Anderson suggests how they can do just that.

Many ponds and creeks dried up last year, leaving some cattle producers with only unreliable water sources.

“Maybe rain will replenish them this spring, but this might be a good time to develop more wells or pipelines to reliably put water into tanks,” Anderson said.

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Reports show that the higher water quality found in tanks provides a boost in cattle gains. Calves can weigh an extra 50 pounds at weaning when tank water is available, and yearling steers can gain an extra three- to four-tenths of a pound per day. With this much added performance, pumping water into tanks can pay off in just a few years and offers an even more immediate payoff in the case of dried up ponds.

Another related way producers can adjust to water shortages, according to Anderson, is to grow limited irrigation forages rather than a grain crop. Many irrigated acres may not receive enough water this summer to grow a good grain or root crop.

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New Mexico Ag Expo Schedule

Water Harvesting, Dr. Blair Stringham, NMSU Extension Water Specialist, McAlister Room, JLCC 5:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, February 19 9:00 a.m.

Expo & Exhibits Open Tumbleweed Classic Winter, Stock Dog Trial (Event will run all day long), Outdoor Arena 9:30 a.m.

Update on Sorghum Herbicides, Dr. Mark Marsalis, NMSU Extension Agronomist, McAlister Room, JLCC 10:00 a.m.

Colt Starting – Putting on the First Ride, Scott Daily, Ark City, KS, Idsinga Pavilion 10:30 a.m.

IPM Updates For Row Crop Production, Monti Vandiver, Texas Agri-Life, IPM Specialist, McAlister Room, JLCC 11:00 a.m.

Antique Tractor Parade, Midway 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Chuck Wagon Lunch, Portales Rotary Club 1:00 p.m.

Insect Pest Management in Hay, Dr. Jane Breen Pierce, NMSU Extension Entomologist, McAlister Room, JLCC 1:30 p.m.

Antique Tractor Games 2:00 p.m.

Stock Dog Management, McAlister Room, JLCC Colt Starting – Progressing the Young Horse, Scott Daily, Ark City, KS, Idsinga Pavilion Antique Tractor Parade 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 20 9:00 a.m.

Expo & exhibits open 9:30 a.m.

Tumbleweed Classic Winter Stock Dog Trial (Event will run all day long), Outdoor Arena 10:00 a.m.

Where do we go from Here? Panel Discussion for the Beef Industry, Dr. Ted McCollum, Texas Agri-Life, Beef Specialist, Dr. Manny Encinias, NMSU, Beef Specialist, Kent Mills, Hi-Pro Nutritionist, Pat Boone, Rancher, McAlister Room, JLCC Simply Supper, Connie Moyers, Roosevelt Co. Extension Home Economist, Cacahuate Room, JLCC Antique Tractor Parade, Midway 12:00 p.m.

DFA Dairymen’s Lunch, (Open to all Dairymen), Jake Lopez Bldg.

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DFA Producer Update, Market Specialist with DFA, Jake Lopez Bldg.

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Dog Trial, (Continued all day), Outdoor Arena 1:30 p.m.

Prairie Dog Control and the New Rules on Rozal, Dr. Sam Smallidge, NMSU Wildlife Specialist, McAlister Room, JLCC 2:00 p.m.

Antique Tractor Parade Expo Closes 3:00 p.m.

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Schickedanz Honored by New Mexico Federal Lands Council r. Jerry Schickedanz, Las Cruces, received the 2012 Bud’s Contract Award from the New Mexico Federal Lands Council (NMFLC) during the Joint Stockmen’s Convention held in Albuquerque in December.

“Throughout his career, Dean Schickedanz has been is a great friend to and supporter of the range livestock industry,” said Bebo Lee, NMFLC President, Alamogordo. “We appreciate his work and dedication on our behalf, and are glad to have this opportunity to say thank you.”

The NMFLC gives the Bud’s Contract award annually to an individual who has given of their time and effort to the NMFLC. The award, a bronze handshake, is given in memory of long-time NMFLC President, Bud Eppers. “Bud was a Roswell-area rancher who got involved in Federal land grazing issues because of a problem on his own place,” said Mike Casabonne, Hope, who presented this year’s award. “He went on to represent all of us on a wide range of issues involving federal and state land grazing, water law and private property rights.”

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Extension agent in Greenlee County, Arizona. In 1976 he joined New Mexico State University (NMSU) as an extension range specialist.

He was the co-founder and the first coordinator of the Range Improvement Task Force (RITF) and worked closely with ranchers to the great benefit of the industry for many years, Casabonne noted. He went on to hold other positions in Extension and retired from NMSU in 2005 after serving as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics for more than eight years.

The RITF at NMSU is a unique institution composed of academics from several disciplines organized to find scientifically credible answers to natural resource management questions. RITF has been instrumental in helping resolve conflicts between ranchers and federal land management agencies on countless occasions.

“He had the vision to recognize the need for such an organization to help ranchers and the federal land agencies deal with the new federal land management regulations that were beginning to be implemented at the time,” Casabonne said. “He also had the perseverance to make it a reality which was no small accomplishment for a young, untenured assistant range professor.”

Although he retired in 2005, Dean Schickedanz did not stop working for responsible, common sense management of federal land. He currently holds the Evelyn Linebery Chair of the Linebery Policy Center for Natural Resources at NMSU. He also serves as Chairman of the Western Heritage Alliance (formerly People for Protecting Our Western Heritage) promoting sensible special land use designations in ■ southern New Mexico.

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Head Start Has High Costs and Very Few Benefits our years after data was collected and two years after the report was finished, the Department of Health and Human Services has released its Impact Evaluation Report for Head Start, which reveals dismal results for the early education program, say Lindsey Burke and David Muhlhausen of the Heritage Foundation.

Head Start was established in 1965 and taxpayers have spent more than $180 billion on the program aimed at improving the academic outcomes of disadvantaged children.

The study finds that by the third grade, effects of the $8 billion-a-year Head Start program all but completely disappear.

For the 4-year-old group, Head Start participation failed to raise the cognitive abilities on 41 measures, including language and math skills, when compared with students who did not have access to the program.

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actually lowered math abilities when compared with non-participating children who were more prepared for math in the classroom.

Teachers reported the Head Start children are shyer or more socially reticent.

The only measurable progress was slight improvement in a couple of measures of socio-emotional, health and parenting outcomes.

For policymakers, the results of this study should guide future actions. Burke and Muhlhausen believe that the program should be discontinued based on the dismal results.

Cognitive development, including reading, language and math ability, did not improve for third graders assessed by the study.

Access to Head Start did yield slightly positive results in improving children’s social skills and their approaches to learning.

Head Start had no measureable effect on parenting outcomes for nine of the 10 measures reported by parents. One measure, improved authoritative parenting style, did improve.

After 48 years of funding Head Start, this most recent Health and Human Ser-

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NM bred Angus bulls top Oklahoma Test he 61st annual Oklahoma Panhandle State University (OPSU) Bull Test completed their 112-day performance test of 100 bulls on Saturday, January 26, 2013 in Goodwell, Oklahoma with top breeders competing from Oklahoma, Texas, and NM. J-C Angus, Moriarty, had the #1 top gaining and indexing bull as well as the 10th high gaining Angus bull in the Junior (spring born) division. The high gaining bull is a son of J-C SS Objective 0852 and gained 5.56 lbs per day to ratio 131 against some stiff competition from top AI Sires.

The 10th high gaining bull was a son of B/R Future Direction 6171 who has sired the highest gaining Angus bull at the Tucumcari Bull Test for three years in a row.

Howard McCall, Moriarty, had the 4th, 5th and 8th high gaining bulls with the second high gaining pen in the senior bull (fall born) division. These three top gaining sons of Sitz Upward 307R gained 5.58, 5.57, and 5.45 respectively for an impressive and dominant sire group performance.

McCall’s bulls were the most feed efficient pen in the senior division, converting at 6.11 lbs of feed per lb of gain on a high roughage diet, while the average pen in the senior division converted at 7.28 – More than 1 lb of feed less per lb of gain than average or 16 percent less feed.

Patrick Sanchez, Belen, also had some very good bulls on test with his top bull gaining 4.42 lbs per day, ranking #22 in the junior division. He had 4 bulls that gained over 4 lbs per day at 4.42, 4.24, 4.22 and 4.16 for a very strong and consistent group of junior bulls.

There were many high performing bulls from top breeders on test and the top 70 head will sell on February 18 in Good■ well Oklahoma.

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yield can be gathered when total water available is very low. A perennial forage would eliminate the cost and time of establishing a new crop if water limits continue for several more years.

According to Anderson, switchgrass is one good choice. It’s less expensive to plant, its primary water needs occur in early summer when water usually is available, and it can be managed for hay or pasture. Other warm-season grass options include big or sand bluestem and indiangrass.

“It may not be what you hoped for, but growing forages under limited irrigation may help you make the best out of a bad ■ situation.”

Many ranchers, especially seedstock producers, feel their reputation would suffer if they were to wean smaller calves. But profitability is not how big each calf is, but what it cost to produce those calves. We can’t just look at weaning weights. We have to consider the number of cows our ranch will run (and how many more it might support if they were optimum size), number of cows exposed to a bull versus how many actually had live calves that lived through weaning and were marketed, whether you had to purchase additional feed to support the cows, etc.

Pharo predicts the parameters for the commodity beef industry will be changing.

“The current beef production model was built on cheap grain and cheap fuel, but these are things of the past. As we move away from our current corn-based system to a grass-based system, optimum cow size will be reduced even more,” he says. When cattle prices drop, which they always do, stockmen will have to seriously look at trying to raise efficient cattle that can thrive ■ on a minimum of harvested feeds.

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A Solar Choice for Pumping Water in NM THOMAS JENKINS - NMSU

ivestock, crops, and people often depend upon surface sources of water (streams, ponds, dugouts, etc.) or wells accessing underground aquifers. For a variety of benefits, and in some states increased regulations, it is often desirable to move the water from a surface source or a remotely located well to a different location.

For surface sources, a well-vegetated riparian zone establishes a buffer which filters and purifies water as it moves across the zone, reduces sediment loads, supports soil stability, improves water quality, while enhancing wildlife habitat. Livestock pressure on buffer areas often result in nutrient loading, streamside vegetation damage, erosion, pollution, and decreased animal growth and health. Since they may be the only viable water source for producers, limiting access may be difficult. Fortunately, research shows that pumping water to different locations combined with a managed rotational grazing plan, optimizes animal performance, pasture use, water quality, and wildlife in these zones.

While cows may wade out to obtain better water, calves tend to only drink water from the shore. Wading into surface sources, cattle pollute the water with their urine and feces while their wading action may disturb the water to a level that they refuse to further drink. Calves require

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higher quality water and they won’t fight cows or mud to obtain it. Increases of 50 pounds/head in weaning weight have been reported when water in sufficient quantity and quality is provided. Studies show, when given a choice, cattle drink from a water trough 92 percent of the time rather than from a nearby stream. Research also indicates that yearling steer performance increased 23 percent when supplied with an alternate water source rather than dugouts. In addition to increased livestock and resource performance, by routing the livestock away from the riparian zones, very large reductions (50-90 percent) in streptococci and coliform fecal organisms (waterborne diseases like foot rot, red nose, TB and mastitis), nitrogen, phosphorous, suspended solids, and surrounding erosion are realized. By pumping to drinkers, ranchers can better utilize pastures; get superior animal growth and health, while providing higher quality water.

Costs, reliability, and environmental concerns often influence the surface water pumping system employed by producers.

When producers do not have an economical access to grid electric power (it can cost $10,000 – $30,000 per mile of newly installed electrical power line through rugged terrain) they generally look to options such as ram, sling, diesel, windmills, hauling, and solar powered pumps.

When these choices are compared, solar pump systems are often the best choice due to the operational conditions inherent to NM which permits them to function effectively and economically.

Solar pumping systems from surface sources or wells can be portable which is appealing as more and more producers want systems that can move among varying locations. Some users are even powering windmill’s pump jacks by PV. A trailer with PV modules, the electric motor, and pump jack can be backed into place by the well and the sucker rod from the cylinder Direct-coupled solar pumping system

pump is attached to the jack with a wire cable coupling. For use in different locations, the angle(s) of portable PV modules should be adjustable and often a portable stock fence is set up around the unit.

For pumping water from wells, access to existing AC electric connections (closer than one-half kilometer) is again the best option. However, PV water pumping systems represents a very attractive longterm cost effective alternative in remote locations to hauling water, diesel pumps, and even traditional windmills for drinking water and selected irrigation applications (drip/trickle, hose/basin, and some channel irrigation – although typically not for very high flow rates such as might be used in flood irrigation).

A solar pumping system involves calculations and concepts that may make it difficult to determine a design if one is unfamiliar with the technology and terminologies. With this in mind, NMSU and the Cooperative Extension Services (CES) developed the following tools to aid and educate a potential user.

1. Two portable demonstration devices which illustrate the concepts and major system components for a solar pumping system. Each module is portable and therefore available for displays and presentations.

2. Literature and multimedia educational materials related to PV water pumping systems including comparisons between pumping technologies, contrasting two different ways to mount PV modules (fixed angle mounting vs. single axis tracking systems), as well as a simple cost analysis for each of the technologies.

3. The formulation of a Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet to provide an easy and visual educational tool to show concepts behind PV technology and system design methodology. This tool permits a user to follow the basic step-by-step design process and offers sample components and simple economic analysis for a producerdefined scenario.

SOLAR WATER PUMPING SYSTEMS EXPLAINED

The design decision and a successful implementation of solar water pumping systems requires information specific to each application and an understanding of several concepts. Example information needed for project feasibility consideration is: ■ Daily water requirements and usage – continued on page 99

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drinking, irrigation, etc. â&#x2013; Solar resource, i.e. the amount of sunlight available â&#x2013; Pumping/well characteristics such as water depth, draw-down levels and recharge rates, seasonal variations, discharge elevation from earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface to water discharge point, total feet of pipe, nominal diameter of the pipe, and valves, elbows, etc. â&#x2013; Storage systems â&#x20AC;&#x201C; catch tanks, storage tanks, et al. to ensure the daily water requirement is available during low-light conditions. â&#x2013; Economics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; capital, operation and maintenance, labor, life-cycle, â&#x20AC;Ś costs In addition, these factors should be considered: â&#x2013; Who will install and maintain the system. â&#x2013; Choosing/Matching PV modules and pump equipment to meet the design constraints â&#x2013; Security â&#x20AC;&#x201C; although ideal for remote locations, this makes the system vulnerable to theft and vandalism. â&#x2013; Environmental benefits (including low noise).

BASIC OPERATION

With no moving parts, the PV panels take energy from the sun and generate DC electricity where it is directed through a controller to the pump â&#x20AC;&#x201C; what is termed a direct-coupled system. The pump/motor combination moves water taken from the source through a pipe to a discharge point - commonly a storage tank which may feed a trough-drinker. This direct-coupled system is intended for operation only during the day and eliminates using batteries.

Batteries are complex and expensive, must be replaced every few years, and require periodic maintenance while the useful life of storage tanks may be decades. By providing water storage, a producer can still provide his daily water requirement from the tank storage at night or on cloudy days. The amount of water pumped is predominantly dependent on the amount of sunlight hitting the PV modules, the type of pump, and a few other factors of lesser importance. The available sunlight is predictable by location, but there are always variations in weather. PV panels may still produce up to 80 percent of their maximum output power on partly cloudy days,

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Far from utility lines, a portable PV pumping system supplies water from a fenced pond to a clean watering trough.

and even on extremely overcast days can still produce about 25 percent of their maximum. With the use of this simple approach, the operation and maintenance, costs, and complexity of the system are greatly reduced.

COMPONENTS

Solar water pumping systems are composed of two primary components other than the well itself – the PV panels (or modules) and the pump/motor.

Modules are installed with some type of mounting hardware that permit orientating the modules, adjusting the tilt of the modules to an optimum angle, elevating the modules for security, and eliminating shading and damage from animals. As a rule of thumb, PV panels are faced due south and at a tilted angle. It is critical to minimize shading by structures and vegetation during all watering seasons as significant loss of power can result from even partial shading of modules. Locating modules close to the water source helps to minimize power losses and costs.

PV modules are sized as to DC power (Watts) and come in all sizes from a few Watts to over 250W. Modules can be wired in series to increase output voltages and in parallel to increase current while also increasing total power. PV modules are sized and configured (series/parallel combinations) to power the second major component of the system – the pump/motor.

Pumps provide a mechanism to move water from wells or surface sources. It is important to analyze the system properly in order to make it as efficient and economical as possible yet meet the watering requirements. In designing a system, one should minimize the amount of work required of the pump which minimizes the 100

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amount of energy needed to operate the of-system components. A common mispump and thus the size and cost of compo- take is to oversize the piping. Most PV nents. In understanding these basic con- applications will be pumping at low flow cepts beforehand, the designer will be able rates 1-5 gpm and these low flow rates will to determine the appropriate components not have sufficient water velocity through a large pipe to keep suspended solids from for a system.

In selecting a pump for the system, the settling out into the bottom of the piping. following parameters should be considered: Therefore ½-inch to 2-inch piping is typi■ Water – how many gallons per cally sufficient for PV without much friction losses – smaller is better, cheaper, and minute (or total per day) are needed ■ The conditions on the suction side of more efficient. the pump (lots of grit, sand, dissolved minCONCLUSION erals in the water, algae growth, etc.)

■ Whether the pump will be subPhotovoltaic powered water pumping mersible in a well, or pump from a surface systems are attractive for livestock and source such as a lake or pond and the oper- agriculture producers with remote water ating voltage of the pump sources and limited access to AC power.

■ The total head capability (how high The low maintenance and simple operation, no fuel (transportation or storage) can the pump move water ) at a flow-rate ■ Space, weight, position limitations, costs, environmentally benign, as well as competitive life-cycle economics of solar cost of equipment and installation ■ Standards including the National systems place them at the forefront of choices in supplying water to livestock or Electrical Code Once each parameter is clearly agriculture. The technology for solar addressed, the decision to select a pump water pumping is exceeding all expectacan be made. The type of available pumps tions, and will continue to be a viable (and manufacturers) is very extensive and choice for more and more users as its many will be capable of meeting the given capabilities, reliability, and versatility application. It has been determined that increases while costs decrease.

The spreadsheet, documentation, and DC pumps use one-third to one-half the energy of AC pumps and are specifically demonstration modules provide NMSU designed to use PV efficiently even during constituencies with terminologies, knowllow-light conditions at reduced voltages edge, and skill sets which can be the founwithout stalling or overheating. Solar dation for informed choices relating to pumps are low volume, pumping less than alternative water pumping systems.

For more information on this or other one to over five gallons of water per minute. A good match between the pump, topics, contact your local state agricultural PV array, and system parameters is neces- extension agent or visit the web sites below: sary to achieve efficient operation. extension.nmsu.edu/energy_water.html Other components that should be conaces.nmsu.edu/ces/windmill sidered within the system are: ■ ■ PV mounting system – poles, fixed engr.nmsu.edu/outreach.shtml racks or some type of tracking system that follows the sun.

■ A controller which allows the pump to start and operate under weak-sunlight periods (cloudy conditions, early morning – late afternoon) ■ Storage-tank water level sensor for on/off operation ■ Direct-burial wire (UF), grounding, and lightning protection ■ Pipe, fittings, Modules are installed with some type of mounting and other balancehardware that permit orientating the module.

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Calendar of

EVENTS FEBRUARY February 16 / Bradley 3 Ranch WIDE Body Bull Sale, Memphis, TX February 18 - 19 / NMCGA Legislative

Board of Directors Meeting, Santa Fe, NM February 19 / NM Farm & Livestock Bureau Board of Directors Meeting, Santa Fe. NM February 19 / Ag Fest, Santa Fe, NM February 20 / NM Farm & Livestock Bureau Legislative Breakfast, Santa Fe, NM February 19-20 / New Mexico Ag Expo, Portales, NM February 22 / 22nd Annual Pot of Gold Bull Sale, Olathe, CO February 23 / Hidden Valley Ranch w/ McCall Land & Cattle High Altitude Bull Sale, Loma, CO February 23 / 22nd Annual Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale, Roswell, NM

We will be selling bulls at these 9 sales and locations during the Spring of 2013

Spring of 2013 Sales ■ January 25 & 26 / Females & Bulls sell at the “Best of the West” / Fort Worth Stock Show ■ February 18 / Panhandle State Bull Test / Goodwell, OK

■ March 9 / Porter/McCall Bull Sale / Mule Creek, NM ■ March 15 / Tucumcari Bull Test Sale / Tucumcari, NM

■ April 5 / Midland Bull Test Sale ■ February 23 / Hidden Valley / Columbus, MT Ranch w/McCall Land & Cattle ■ April 8 / Treasure Bull Test Sale High Altitude Sale (total 100 / Great Falls, MT bulls) / Loma, CO ■ Early April / Belen All Breeds ■ March 2 / New Mexico Angus Bull Sale / Belen, NM Assn. Bull Sale / Roswell, NM Alfalfa & Sudan BIG BALES FOR SALE

MARCH March 1 / Hubbell Ranch Angus Plus & Brangus Sale, Belen, NM March 2 / Laflin Ranch Angus Production Sale, at the ranch, Olsburg, KS March 2 / 9th Annual NM Angus & Hereford Bull & Heifer Sale, Roswell, NM March 2 / SEGA Gelbvieh Private Treaty Opening Day, Pierce, CO March 2-3 / Clovis Livestock Auction Spring Horse Sale, Clovis, NM March 9 / Porter Angus Ranch Annual Black Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch, Mule Creek, NM March 11 / 7th Annual Black Angus “Ready For Work” Bull Sale, Belen, NM March 14 / Roundhouse Feed, Santa Fe, NM March 14-17 / 31st Annual Four States Agricultural Expo, Montezuma Fairgrounds, Cortez, CO March 16 / 18th Annual Hales Angus Farms Sale, Canyon, TX March 16 / Four States Ag Expo 5th Annual Bull & Heifer Sale, Cortez, CO March 16 / Legislature Adjourns, Santa Fe, NM March 16 / Tucumcari Bull Test, Tucumcari, NM March 18/ Willcox Livestock Auction 37th All Breed Bull Sale, Willcox, AZ March 19 / Express Ranches New Mexico Bull Sale at Cuervo Creek Ranch, Newkirk, NM March 19 / Manzano Angus Ranches 2013 Bull Sale, Estancia, NM March 19 / McKenzie Land & Livestock 7th Annual Angus Bull Sale, Ft. Stockton, TX March 19 / National Ag Day March 19 / NMSU’s SWCRS Ranchers’ Roundtable, Corona, NM

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March 21 / John Hawks’ High Altitude Gebvieh Bull Sale, Delta, CO March 21 / Olson Cattle Co. Cattleman Bid Off Sale, Hereford, TX March 23 / Reynold’s Ranch Limousin & LimFlex Production Sale, Sanford, CO March 23 / T-Heart Ranch High Altitude Bull Sale, Monte Vista, CO March 23 / West Texas Brangus Breeders Assn. Springtime Sale, Abilene Auction, Abilene, TX March 30 / 18th Annual Texhoma Beefmaster Performance Sale, Red River Livestock Market, Overbrook, Oklahoma

APRIL April 8 / C & M Herefords 1st Annual Bull Sale, Nara Visa, NM April 9 / Three Mile Hill Ranch Annual Yearling Angus Bull Sale, Animas, NM April 11 - 12 / NM Farm & Livestock Bureau Board Meeting, Las Cruces, NM April 12 / 31st Annual Registered Limousin Bull Sale, La Junta, CO April 13 / Red Doc Farm Red Hot Bull Sale, Bosque, NM April 13 / Seedstock Plus Western Feed Efficiency Bull Sale, Yerington, NV April 13 / Cowboys Real and Imagined exhibit opens at the New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM

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May 1 – 3 / Women’s Ag Leadership Conference, Las Cruces, NM May 14 – 15 / Indian Livestock Days (tentative), Rt 66 Casino, west of Albuquerque May 25-25 / Clovis Livestock Auction Summer Horse Sale, Clovis, NM

JUNE June 15 – 17 / Mid Year Meeting – NMCGA, NMFLB, NM CowBelles, NMWGI Annual, Albuquerque, NM

AUGUST August 7 – 10 / NCBA-ANCW Summer Conference, Denver, CO August 24-25 / Clovis Livestock Auction Fall Horse Sale, Clovis, NM

SEPTEMBER September 11 – 22 / State Fair, Albuquerque, NM

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Reynolds Ranch Limousin & Lim-Flex Production Sale

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013 ¡ SANFORD, COLORADO ¡ at the Ranch ¡ 1pm

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Art Goehl, 719/589-2113 RANCH LOCATION: Go to La Jara (14 miles north of Antonito or 14 miles south of Alamosa). From La Jara, go east on Hwy. 136 to dead-end, then turn right and go 3 /4 mile to Reynolds Ranch headquarters.

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“A Brangus-Angus cross probably gives you as much heterosis relative to Angus genes as you can extract, because you can get the benefits of Cow Efficiency by making a Taurus-Indicus cross.” ~Dr. Dan Moser, Kansas State Univ.

22nd Annual

On the Ranch: Higher conception rates Environmental adaptability More pounds of calf per cow Increased Longevity

ROSWELL BRANGUS SALE February 23, 2013 Call Bill Morrison for Sale Catalog Motel Headquarters-Comfort Suites, 3610 N. Main Phone 575-623-5501, ask for Special Rates for the Brangus Sale

In the Feedyard: I Added heat tolerance Fewer days on feed

On the Rail: Joe Paul & Rosie Lack P.O. Box 274 Hatch, NM 87937 Ph. 575/267-1016 Fax: 575/267-1234 • Bill Morrison 411 CR 10 Clovis, NM 88101 575/760-7263 • bvmorrison@yucca.net lackmorrisonbrangus.com

Consistently earn premiums in Angus product lines including CAB Lower yield grades Research proven tenderness

THIS GUY AND 60 OF HIS BUDDIES SELL AT ROSWELL FEBRUARY 23

MEMBER International Brangus Breeders Association gobrangus.com Southwest Brangus Breeders Association swbrangus.com New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association nmcga@nmagriculture.org

CONTACT ROSWELL BRANGUS BREEDERS CO-OP FOR BRANGUS BULLS & FEMALES

Floyd Brangus TROY FLOYD P.O. Box 133 Roswell, NM 88201 Phone: 575/734-7005

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Lack-Morrison Brangus JOE PAUL & ROSIE LACK P.O. Box 274, Hatch, NM 87937 Phone: 575/267-1016 • Fax: 575/267-1234 BILL MORRISON 411 CR 10, Clovis, NM 88101 Phone: 575/760-7263 Email: bvmorrison@yucca.net lackmorrisonbrangus.com

Parker Brangus LARRY PARKER San Simon, AZ 85632 Days: 520/845-2411 Evenings: 520/845-2315 Larry’s Cell: 520/508-3505 Diane’s Cell: 520/403-1967 Email: jddiane@vtc.net

Townsend Brangus GAYLAND and PATTI TOWNSEND P.O. Box 278 Milburn, Oklahoma 73450 Home: 580/443-5777 Cell: 580/380-1606

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