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Gelbvieh: The Perfect Fit by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson 2012 Joint Stockmen’s Convention in Review Wildlife Section – It is a team effort From the Director’s Desk by Jim Lane, Director, New Mexico Dept. of Game & Fish Private Land Wildlife Habitat Improvement The North American Model of Wildlife... by Samual T. Smalledge, PhD, NMSU The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard by Charlie Painter, New Mexico Dept. of Game & Fish Wildlife Translocation by Samual T. Smalledge & Kyle Tator, NMSU The Right Mascot for Radical Environmentalists When Will The Cows Come Home?

by Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State Univ., Ext. Livestock Marketing Specialist Climate Change: Two Sides What’s the Best Cow Size? by Heather Smith Thomas

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

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Rain or shine, politics will consume the early part of the year. The New Mexico Legislature convenes on January 15 in Santa Fe with more new faces than the body has had since 1935. Legislators started pre-filing bills in mid December so there is already material to review and consider. There are plenty of new and old ideas that will get consideration in the weeks and months to come.

It doesn’t appear that the election changed much of anything in Washington, D.C. and at press time, the nation remained on the “fiscal cliff.” There also isn’t a lot of clarity yet on what “affordable health care” really looks like and what a New Mexico system will be.

In this atmosphere, the benefit of our “ag group” is most comforting. The “ag group” will be celebrating its’ 20th year in 2013. There are three members of that original group who are still there, although most of them have changed titles.

The group may be best described as a coalition of several of the agricultural trade organizations in the state. There is little formality to the group, there are no dues and any expenses are split among the participating organizations. In the early days the group had a home at the Desert Inn down the street from the Roundhouse and meetings were early in the morning. As the late sleepers were able to exert more influence, today the group meets at noon two or three days a week. A chef has been a most welcome addition to the scheme of things.

As you might imagine, not everyone agrees with everything all the time, but the group provides a place to work out differences. Members are encouraged to check their hats and their egos at the door and most of the time, the group emerges united.

The effectiveness of the ag group, like most anything, has ebbed and flowed over the years, but I don’t think it has ever been stronger than it is today. It is really gratifying to see the group “huddle” in the Capitol to head off an issue. I can assure you that legislators appreciate the ability to have the group to work with and rely upon for credible information on the wide variety of issues that affect our family ranches and farms. Farm Bureau hosted the pre-legislature group meeting in Las Cruces in mid December and there is tremendous solidarity as we move into 2013.

If you have some spare time, take a day and go to Santa Fe to watch the group in action and to let your elected officials know that the “group” represents you.

There are two big days every year during Session. This year the Ag Fest Reception will be held on February 19. This is the annual gathering of agriculture to host everyone involved with the Legislature and show off all New Mexico agriculture has to offer. Many organizations have meetings at this time. The Cattle Growers’ Board meetings will be the evening of the 18th and the morning of the 19th. If you can make it, please make reservations with the Office. Headquarters will be the Hotel Santa Fe where we have a $79 room rate.

On March 16 all of agriculture will come together to provide dinner for everyone in the Roundhouse. This is the next to last night of the Session and often the House and Senate meet through the night. We generally feed from 1,000 to 1,400 people in less than two hours. An extra set of hands is always welcome.

I cannot thank enough all of our new members, along with those who have been with us for generations, for the faith they have put in the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association by investing your hard earned dollars. We will continue to strive to be worthy of your membership.

Hope to see you in Santa Fe and we will continue to pray for moisture.

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Strong maternal traits helped sell Steve Fiolkoski, SEGA Gelbvieh, on the breed.

He and his wife Gail bought their first registered heifers in 1990, and today run primarily registered Gelbvieh and Balancers, along with a few commercial cattle, near Pierce, Colorado.

Steve and Gail both grew up in the commercial cattle business, and were looking for something a little different for their own operation. The results that friends and neighbors were getting with Gelbvieh genetics convinced the Fiolkoskis to go in that direction, Steve said. “The Gelbvieh brought maternal strengths, they are tremendous mother cows,” he said. “They are also easy to be around, their disposition is second to

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Hardiness is another important strength of the breed, especially in dry years like this, he pointed out. “Our cattle run in pretty tough, dry, native grass pasture, and they produce well, breed back, and raise a good calf. This year, we had a long, dry, summer, and the calves actually weaned heavier than last year.”

Steve and Gail market both bulls and heifers through production sales held at the ranch. The first Saturday in December, together with several other Gelbvieh producers, they hold the SEGA Gelbvieh and Friends Female Sale, selling between 35 and 40 bred and open heifers.

The first Saturday in March, the couple holds their annual bull sale, offering 50-55 Gelbvieh and Balancer bulls for sale. Bulls are penned and available for customers to walk through and look at, then sold in a slow paced, cowboy-style auction, Steve said. “We call it our private treaty opening continued on page 15

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Calves that don’t make the cut as bulls or heifers are sold to a local farmer and feeder. “He has bought them for the last ten years, which is nice for us – we can watch the calves grow out and see how they’re working down the line,” Steve noted.

They focus on meeting the needs of commercial producers, who make up the majority of their customers. “Our cattle are bred to survive. We have really moder-

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2012 Inspector of the Year he New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association and its’ members depend on the Livestock Board and its’ force of inspectors each and every day of the year.

The partnership between the Association and the Board is nearly a century old and we salute the Livestock Board on their 125th Anniversary.

This year’s inspector of the year is Joel Gilbert from Grenville. Perhaps the best words to describe Joel come from his nom-

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ination: “We have stood by Joel’s gray pickup with his fancy little computer and printer, that he runs like a pro, lots and lots of hot, or freezing cold, usually windy, though rarely rainy, early mornings. I usually have to borrow his pen, which he always lends with a smile.

“Joel is always easy to get ahold of, prompt and moves through the cattle well.

We haven’t had to test his Theft Detection System, but I’m sure he’s vigilant since he sure is thorough. He is one of the most pleasant people you could ever hope to have around (which is nice on the days the cattle didn’t weigh up how you thought they would!).

“We are glad to have written many a check on his hood, and his dad, Don Gilbert’s, before him. It’s given us more chances to get to know him and our family is honored to call him a friend.

“There is no finer man or neighbor than Joel Gilbert.”

Joel was born in Colorado Springs and moved with his family to Grenville in 1967, where he and his father Don Gilbert established the family ranch. He joined the New Mexico Livestock Board in 1988, and

will soon celebrate 25 years with the agency.

Joel’s father, Don, was an inspector for the Livestock Board, and this unique father & son partnership served the livestock industry in northeastern New Mexico for many years, until Don passed away in 2009.

Joel is a certified law officer as was his dad, and as such protects the integrity of the livestock business in northeastern New Mexico, often providing service in both the Raton district and the Clayton district.

Along with his official duties, he operates the family ranch, a cow calf operation, at Grenville in partnership with his mother, Dianna.

Joel and Rhonda have four children: Casey, Jenna, John, and Jason.

Joel is the kind of public servant the livestock industry admires and relies upon. He is a family man, cattleman, neighbor and friend. He is also a steady, knowledgeable, reliable member of the Livestock Board family, devoted to service to the livestock producers of the area.

Executive Director Myles Culbertson continued on page 17

Stockman Celebrate Their Industry at Convention

Ryan Perry of AC Nutrition posed w/the .22 caliber door prize he awarded at the JSC.

Jim Lyssy of Insurance Services of N.M. greeted convention goers at the Trade Show.

Phil Harvey Jr., Jim Bob Burnett & Cliff Copeland talked Herefords (what else?).

Randy White & Randy Davis caught up on their news.

Kay & Tom Payne with Janet & Romney Todd at the convention.

Bob Homer & Barb Sundholm greeted members at their NMCGA Insurance booth.

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stated: “Joel is the face of the Livestock Board in northeast New Mexico, and we are the beneficiary of enormous goodwill he has created there over his many years service.”

Thank you APHIS Wildlife Services and Sauble Ranch for sponsoring this award. ■

2012 Ayudando Award PRESENTED BY NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT REX WILSON here are countless people behind, and sometimes in front, of the scenes who support and make the work of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association possible. Nearly two decades ago the Ayudando --- “You are always there” Award was created.

These people come from all walks of life and all sorts of careers but they all care about ranchers and our families. They give of themselves at a variety of levels. Some of them we have known forever, others are

newer friends, but they all give of themselves for our benefit — they are always there.

This year we want to thank former Senator Clint Hardin for his valiant representation of Senate District 7 and well over 1/4 of the state’s land mass in the New Mexico Senate. Senator Hardin, serving on the Conservation and Judiciary Committees, has been instrumental in stopping or moving forward legislation that directly impacted Cattle Growers’.

We are going to miss the ability to have access to almost any legislative forum via

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Clint, this may not be a NFR team roping buckle, but we hope you will wear it with pride and always know how much we ■ appreciate you.

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Centerfire Real Estate’s Max Kiehne enjoyed lunch w/friends Leroy & Mercedes Cravens.

Farm Credit of N.M.’s Al Porter welcomed members to the Joint Stockmen’s Family Luncheon sponsored by his institution.

Sid Goodloe & Felicia Thal renewed their long friendship at the convention.

N.M. Cattle Growers’ President Rex Wilson presided over the Family Luncheon.

Bill & Lisa Gardner were welcome faces at the convention.

Cheryl & Kristen Grau enjoyed the festivities immensely!

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Sauble Named 2012 Cattleman of the Year PRESENTED BY BOB RICKLEFS irst let me say what a humbling honor it was to be named 2011 Cattleman of the Year. It is even a greater honor to be able to present the 2012 award.

Each year the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association honors one of its own for the time, effort, miles, hours on the phone, blood, sweat and tears they have devoted to the Association, our families, our state and often our nation. The winner is nominated and selected by the Board.

To quote the people who nominated him, this year’s honoree has served his nation, state, community, family and the cattle industry in an amazingly unselfish and unmatched manner. The list of mem-

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berships and offices he had held would take a long time to read and you probably know many of them such as church deacon, 4-H leader and county fair volunteer. He is a man of high character who unfailing answers the call and rises to the occasion.

All of this public participation was not his early nature. He was quiet and once quit his 4-H because he didn’t want to be president. Aren’t we fortunate that he outgrew that.

He graduated from New Mexico State University where he got his first taste of the big city. He was known on campus for his flowered western shirts and his high under-slung boots. He was also known as one of the smartest students in his class.

Today he is known to climb off his horse and on to his motorcycle without taking off his chaps and spurs.

After graduation he served in the Navy, married his high school sweetheart and went home to the ranch in north central New Mexico where his family had settled in 1914. Like most young marrieds Bill and Debbie Sauble saved for the amenities in life — like a washer and dryer. When the day finally came that the money was together, Bill drove off to town to make the prized purchases. He arrived home that evening

with two bulls in the trailer — he told Debbie their names were Washer and Dryer.

Bill Sauble is a past president of the NMCGA and has served in just about every capacity that a member can serve. He is currently serving as Chairman of the New Mexico Livestock Board. He has served on that Board under four different governors — no small feat in New Mexico. He is serving as a county commissioner for Colfax County and as a member of the United States Animal Health Association. He has traveled to Washington, D.C. and across the country many times on our behalf.

But Bill has not just been active in Cattle Growers’ but he has been a dedicated Farm Bureau member. You can imagine our surprise when the Sauble Ranch was honored as the Farm & Ranch Family by the Farm Bureau in November.

Bill and Debbie have two children, Troy and Tara, who are carrying on the family tradition of community service and industry involvement. Bill and Debbie are the proud grandparents of 5-year-old twins, Cole and Tyson.

Thank you Al Porter and Shacey Sullivan of Farm Credit of New Mexico, and CO Bank, sponsors of the Cattleman of the ■ Year Award.

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Judge sides with ski areas, rejects Forest Service water rights rule

by JASON BLEVINS,THE DENVER POST U.S. District judge in mid December overturned a controversial new water regulation requiring ski area permit holders on public land to turn over water rights to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). Judge William Martinez ruled that the Forest Service’s revision of 2011 and 2012 permit regulations governing water rights violated federal procedural rules, failed to evaluate economic impact and violated ski area rights.

Martinez sided with the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), which was suing the Forest Service over the new water rights permit rules, ordering the agency to not enforce the terms of the new rules. Martinez remanded the issue back to the Forest Service.

If the agency chooses to revive the issue, NSAA public policy director Geraldine Link said would “definitely be a more public process.”

“I think a lot of different entities will weigh in this time. This had much broader issues than just the ski industry. I don’t expect the Forest Service will issue the same clause next time around,” she said. “This really threatened the administration of state water law and I would be surprised if the state didn’t weigh in.”

The Forest Service argued that the new clause — which required ski area permit holders to transfer water rights secured by areas operating on public land to the federal government — kept the natural resource connected to the land. In mid-November oral arguments before Martinez, the Forest Service argued it merely returned permit water policy to long-held conditions imposed before a 2004 change in the rules.

Still, Martinez’s ruling noted that during the last three decades, the Forest Service “did not follow a uniform policy and did not require federal ownership of water rights in all ski area permits.”

The agency said it changed the permit requirements to assure that ski areas never sold water rights connected to federal land.

“It’s a monetary calculation,” Department of Justice attorney Clay Samford argued in the November 15, 2012 hearing. “As the value of these rights increases, it may make economic sense for ski areas to sell some rights off.”

The NSAA argued that the agency violated the Federal Administrative Procedural Act by not soliciting public input on the new rule. The Association’s January 2012 lawsuit also argued the new water regulations violated the National Forest Management Act and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The NSAA said the agency water rules impacted 121 ski areas in 13 western states. The Forest Service admitted it did not follow the public review and comment guidelines of the Administrative Procedural Act because the new

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water rules were simply a regulatory tweak, not a consequential legislative rule change.

Martinez, who in October last year cited improper environmental review in ordering the U.S. Department of Energy to stop permitting uranium mining and milling at 31 leased sites in western Colorado, ruled the Forest Service violated all three regulatory acts when it issued the new water rule. Martinez’s decision only addresses the Forest Service’s procedural deficiencies when it crafted the new water directives. He did not rule on the NSAA’s substantive claims, specifically that the agency should not condition ski permits on the transfer of water rights obtained through a state process.

Colorado plays a large role in the water issue, said Melanie Mills, whose Colorado Ski Country trade group includes 21 of 25 of the state's ski areas. She said ski areas were ready to work with the agency to forge water rights rules that did not impact water purchased off federal lands but used on federal lands. “There is plenty of room for agreement.

Plenty of common ground,� Mills said. “Our belief is that the focus should be on

the water on the permit area itself. Talking about water that a permittee might divert from other areas off-permit or might purchase or lease through other arrangements, that gets into area that folks beyond ski areas will be worried about.�

The ruling is not that surprising. At the

November hearing, Martinez grilled Forest Service attorneys on the idea that a ski area would sell essential water rights. “Why would a ski area sell off water rights and leave itself with insufficient water to operate a ski area?� he said. “Then you are ■not a ski area anymore.�

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CNN Money reports that analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch expect U.S. oil prices to average about $90 per barrel over the next two years, but prices could sink to the $50 level at some point during that time frame. The Merrill analysts also said global oil prices, which more closely dictate the price of gasoline in the United States, are expected to remain high as growth in global oil supplies lags popula-

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The WAFWA Grassland Initiative collaborated with the Lesser Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group, which is composed of biologists from state fish and wildlife departments within the range of the species, the Bureau of Land Management, and West Ecosystems, Inc. of Laramie, Wyoming, to conduct a largescale, helicopter-based survey of lesser prairie chicken leks across all five states.

Leks are sites that the birds come to every spring for breeding. These surveys occurred from March-May and encompassed more than 300,000 square miles.

Survey results will be the baseline for a range-wide lesser prairie chicken management plan currently being developed by the five state wildlife agencies in collaboration with the WAFWA Grassland Initiative.

This plan is expected to be completed by March 2013, and could influence the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) decision on whether or not to designate the lesser prairie chicken as a federally threatened or endangered species. The lesser prairie chicken has been considered a candidate under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) since 1998, and the Service expects to release a proposed rule on the status of the bird under the ESA in November 2012.

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From The Director’s Desk JIM LANE, DIRECTOR, NEW MEXICO DEPARMENT OF GAME & FISH t is with great pleasure that I write this article for the Stockman. Little more than a year ago, I was given the opportunity to be the Director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. One of the main goals I had for myself and the Department was to build a repertoire and trust within the private landowner community. That trust could only be built with open and honest dialogue and by working together to find common ground on issues

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that affect both producers and the Department. To that end, we have made great strides.

Over the past year, the Department has refocused our resources to working proactively with landowners to address ongoing wildlife issues and to provide technical assistance to improve wildlife habitat on private land. We have facilitated cooperative cost-share agreements that enabled landowners to address degraded habitat and offset their costs in improving their lands for both livestock and wildlife.

Together, we have also negotiated and addressed access issues that have stressed the relationship between hunters, landowners, and the Department for years.

The willingness of landowners to work with the Department through our Open Gate program and unitization agreements has resulted in success stories across the state that are models for the future.

As we look forward, the Department is working diligently to maintain our relevance into the future. As many of you know, the Department does not receive any General Fund appropriations. Our agency is funded almost solely through the sale of hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses, and associated federal matching funds generated through the sale of guns, ammuni-

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I remain committed to continue building upon the constructive dialogue between our employees and producers across the state. While many challenges remain, these are exciting times for the Department. We have realized many successes over the past year that directly reflect upon a sincere and renewed interest in working with our partners in open and honest ways. I look forward to building upon that success. I wish you and your families many blessings over the coming year. Thank you for all you do for conservation in New Mexico. It is appreciated. â–

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Private Land Wildlife Habitat Improvement 012 was a big year for the Wildlife Management Division and specifically for the Private Land Programs section. The Division has started a new program to facilitate improving wildlife habitat on private land in New Mexico.

This year two focus areas have been chosen, the middle Rio Grande Valley and the habitat home to the lesser prairie chicken of eastern New Mexico. With these focus areas the Department has partnered in hiring two biologists to aid in facilitating habitat improvement on private lands.

Santiago Misquez has been working as a partner biologist in the middle Rio Grande Valley (MRGV. Santiago’s position is funded through a partnership formed by a capacity grant from the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV), funding from the US fish and wildlife service partners for fish and wildlife program, funding from USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service and funding from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. Through this partnership Santiago is tasked with seeking out private landowners and other land management groups in the MRGV to plan and seek funding for habitat improvement projects for Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) in the valley. Santiago has been resourceful and innovative in his approach to conservation in the MRGV and has tried to incorporate different funding sources to achieve the goals of the landowner and improve habitat for wildlife in the valley. Santiago has also improved hunter access by using Open Gate funds to open up hunting access for Sandhill crane and other waterfowl, and the landowner has used the lease payment from Open Gate to match other funds in improving the habitat on their land. Santiago is currently in the first phase of beginning restoration of wetland habitat on a property with funding through the partner agencies that when complete will be the largest project to apply for the Wetland Reserve Program of the Farm Bill ever in New Mexico.

Jacob Swafford was hired in early 2012 as NMDGF’s second partner biologist position in New Mexico. Jacob will be located in Portales, NM., and be working with Grant Beauprez on lesser prairie chicken habitat improvement and conservation on

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months Jacob will begin the task of advising private landowners in LEPC habitat on the different funding opportunities that exist to improve habitat for wildlife. We expect great things in the future for the investment NMDGF has made in both these biologists and the work that they can help facilitate to improve wildlife habitat ■ health in New Mexico.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Management, Public Trust Doctrine & Property Rights

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resents an important parallel to the challenges and individual freedoms we enjoy as citizens of this great nation. Our nation was forged from the fires of discontent in Europe, and as with European institutions, the model of private ownership of wildlife was rejected by our young nation. Two competing uses of wildlife occurring during the mid-19th century set the stage for development of this unique model. Market hunting focused on exploitation of wildlife for profit, was unregulated and resulted in a profound loss in abundance of wildlife.

Sport hunting was evolving from newfound wealth and leisure of an urban class that focused on fair chase, self-restraint in pursuit, woodcraft skills and promotion of personal health. Habitat destruction near areas of an expanding human population further influenced people’s perceptions.

The Wildlife Society’s 2007 position statement on the subject states, “Conflicts between sport hunters and market hunters lead to advocacy by the former for elimination of markets for game, allocation of wildlife by law rather than privilege, and restraint on the killing of wildlife for anything other than legitimate purposes, conditions that eventually prevailed.” Abundant wildlife, open landscapes, and freedom to roam were common through most of

the formative years of our young nation.

Most people lived in rural areas and relied on wildlife for survival. These conditions and an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case (Martin v. Waddell) set the foundation in common law that wildlife resources were owned by no one individual and were to be held in trust by the state. The federal government has established trust responsibilities for international migratory species, marine mammals and endangered wildlife.

The public trust doctrine has roots in Roman law and had been applied primarily to navigable waters and seashores to protect navigation, commercial enterprise and fishing rights. The public trust doctrine is the principle that certain natural resources belong to the public for their use and that the government is to manage those resources for the benefit of the public.

Through the traditions established by the settlers, founding fathers, and common law, the public owns wildlife, which is held in trust by each state for the benefit of its citizens. Wildlife as a public resource and access to wildlife has raised concerns regarding property rights. By law and tradition, sportsmen recognize property rights and gain permission from the continued on page 29

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landowner to hunt their property. In his 1962 book Our Wildlife Legacy (p. 311), Durward Allen states, “The conception of wildlife as a public asset stems from days of few people and little competition for game and fish. No one has advocated strongly that the legal ownership of wild things should be changed — we have enough inherited conviction to keep that as it is.

But such proprietorship never has carried with it the privilege of entry other than by consent of the landowner. Many troubles have grown out of the tendency of hunters to contest the basic and legal right of one who owns a piece of land to determine who will use that land and what will be taken from it.� It remains today that ethical sportsmen seek permission from landowners to hunt their property. It is an unethical hunter that breaks the law by trespassing on private property to hunt and by such actions only creates greater problems for all sportsmen. By tradition and law it is established that the public trust doctrine, as related to wildlife, does not overtake individual property rights.

However, the public trust doctrine is also established in common and legislative law involving resources such as water and air. A 1970 article by Joseph Sax in the Michigan Law Review outlined how the public trust doctrine may be used to influence environmental advocacy by suing the government on behalf of the public interest. This concept was already being put into practice as Professor Sax wrote his manuscript. Several articles have been written further exploring the idea of legal environmental advocacy. The end result is an approach to test the limits of the public trust doctrine with regard to environmental advocacy on public and private lands using the judicial system to transform common law.

It is now common for individuals or non-governmental organizations to sue state or federal governments to expand the scope and influence of public trust common law by setting legal precedence in management of natural resources on public and private land. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1992 (Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council) reversed a lower court and found a clear regulatory taking against Mr. Lucas’ beachfront property. Professor Martin Belsky (1994, Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology) states that the Lucas case, and others, represents an evolution in regulatory takings principles and suggests that the, “public trust doctrine is one of those “common law property doc-

trines� that can justify regulations without the paying of compensation.� Based on Belsky’s interpretation, the majority opinion written by Justice Scalia establishes that if the government can identify preexisting principles that prohibited the intended use then no need to pay compensation exists. This is not an established legal principle, however, Professor Belsky states that the public trust doctrine could be used wherever and whenever stewardship of natural resources is at issue; but would require aggressive lawyering to assure success. The potential consequences of such lawsuits, over time, may greatly influence how natural resources on public and even private lands are managed.

How might an expanded interpretation and application of the public trust doctrine impact wildlife? We have already seen an impact with regards to endangered species management. Non-governmental advocacy groups regularly sue the federal government, often on procedural grounds, with the claimed purpose of protecting the public trust with regards to habitat or endangered wildlife. If public trust doctrine were interpreted to transform property rights in a manner to limit a private citizens ability to manage their land, impacts to wildlife might be substantial. One possibility

would be for landowners to actively manage lands to limit ecological attributes (wildlife and habitat). A worse case scenario would be an interpretation allowing government policy to dictate natural resources management activities on private lands. At present, much of this discussion has been speculative and has yet to be defined in the continued on page 30

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courts. However, there are numerous nongovernmental advocacy organizations testing legal mechanisms such as the public trust doctrine to influence management of public and private lands. Because of the importance of private property to wildlife in North America, the unknown consequences to wildlife of public trust doctrine expansion is unsettling.

Private property provides the majority of habitat for wildlife in North America, making up about 75 percent of landscape in the U.S. Privately owned lands generate or support greater than 75 percent of wildlife at some point during their biological year, often during critical breeding or birthing seasons. While state law dictates that wildlife are held in trust by the state for its citizens, private lands often provide the best habitat and security necessary for a species population to thrive. Farms, ranches and suburban landscaping all contribute to the mosaic of habitats beneficial for wildlife. Agricultural lands often provide the necessary shelter, water, food and space that comprise important wildlife habitat. Ranches support wildlife by planning for wildlife and their habitat in normal operations, actively managing for

wildlife, and managing wildlife damage.

While the public is regularly informed of wildlife benefits found on federally managed lands, far fewer know that private lands contribute substantially more to wildlife in America. Even in states largely under federal land management, wildlife often benefit from private land management disproportionately to its occurrence.

In summary, the public trust doctrine is an important principle that defined the public’s ownership of wildlife in America.

Because of this common ownership, it celebrates America’s devotion to individual rights and the law over a tradition of ancestral inheritance as was common in Europe.

By law and tradition, sportsmen ask for permission from landowners to hunt their property. Private property is important to the well being of wildlife habitats and populations nationwide. We are entering the fifth decade of efforts by special interests to expand the scope of the public trust doctrine in influencing natural resources management on public and private lands.

While consequences of these expansion efforts to wildlife are poorly understood, it is unsettling to consider the potential impacts to wildlife. Moreover, it is unsettling to consider the corresponding transformation of property rights in America. ■

Grants game officer awarded esteemed Shikar-Safari Award raig Sanchez, Conservation Officer for the Department of Game & Fish, recently was presented with the Shikar-Safari award. The award is given to the top Department officer in the state.

Shikar-Safari Club International, formed in 1952, presents annual awards to wildlife law enforcement officers in all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces and territories. Shikar-Safari is recognized worldwide for its efforts in the protection, enhancement and preservation of wildlife.

The club has placed particular emphasis on the promotion of enforcement conservation laws and regulations.

“Craig is the epitome of the conservation officer who sees the bigger picture and works diligently on all aspects that affect wildlife within the Grants Supervisory District,” said Donald Jaramillo, major for the north part of the state for the Department of Game and Fish.

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The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard CHARLIE PAINTER, NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH ow can society balance its needs for non-renewable natural resources, biodiversity, and ecosystem services?

The global demand for energy has increased by more than 50 percent in the last half-century, and a similar increase is projected between 2007 and 2030. Energy production to meet this demand has resulted in increased land fragmentation, with predictable consequences for species whose habitats are degraded. Although how we attempt to strike a balance is controversial, almost everyone agrees that without thoughtful management that takes into account needs of energy producers, ranchers, and biodiversity, unplanned land fragmentation will continue to erode our natural landscapes. What lessons have we learned from the recent two-year case that ended with a decision not to list the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard as endangered?

The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard has a limited range in the American Southwest, among the smallest of any North American lizard. It occurs only in Shinnery Oak sand dunes in the Mescalero Sands of southeastern New Mexico and the Monahans Sandhills in adjacent Texas at elevations from 2,540 – 4,600 feet. In New Mexico, populations of the species are found in small parts of Chaves, Eddy, Lea, and Roosevelt counties that contain shinnery oak sand dunes. In Texas, populations occur in parts of Andrews, Crane, Gaines, Ward, and Winkler counties. The shinnery oak sand dune habitat occurs over approximately 308 sq mi; however, the species has a high likelihood of occurring in only about half of this area.

Dunes Sagebrush Lizards are most active from mid-April through October, and usually live 3-4 years. Activity peaks during May and June when the lizards are courting and defending territories, then

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Adults average about 2.2 inches body length, with females smaller than males.

Mating occurs from May to early July and females produce one or two clutches of 3-6 eggs each year in June and late July. Nests and nesting sites have been found by tracking females outfitted with tiny radio transmitters. Females move out of their immediate home range to nest, and construct nests about 7 inches deep in the loose sand at the interface between moist and dry sand. Hatchlings first emerge in mid July.

Dunes Sagebrush Lizards feed on a variety

of ground dwelling invertebrates, including spiders, ants, beetles, grasshoppers, and crickets.

Dunes Sagebrush-lizards are extreme habitat specialists. They only live in sand dune complexes dominated by Shinnery Oak and Sand Sage with numerous sand dune blowouts. They have a strong affinity for the open blowouts and do not occur in Shinnery Oak flats or other habitat types.

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often sleep buried under sand. Radiotagged individuals have been observed to move several feet underneath the sand.

In June 2012, the federal listing proposal was withdrawn, based on the optimism of some that threats to the species would be alleviated by the New Mexico Candidate Conservation Agreement and Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances, the Texas Conservation Plan, and the Bureau of Land Management’s Resource Management Plan Amendment.

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However, these agreements are not legally binding and their success depends on cooperation of ranchers, oil and gas companies, government agencies, and others.

Perhaps the biggest incentive for the plans to work is that if they don’t, the species could be considered for Emergency Listing under the Federal Endangered Species Act. Meanwhile, adoption of the plans is fostering habitat avoidance, land management practices, and important research and monitoring. Regardless of the path taken to conserve the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard and the Mescalero-Monahans Sandhills, continued and lasting cooperation will be necessary to achieve conservation ■of the species throughout its range.

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by SAM SMALLIDGE, WILDLIFE SPECIALIST & KYLE TATOR, VALENCIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT / NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE ildlife translocation is defined as the transport and subsequent release of live wild animals from one location to another (Conover 2002).

Wildlife translocation is often associated with human wildlife conflicts or damage (Craven et al. 1998), but can also be used in conservation of rare or endangered species and for stocking game. This newsletter reviews the science behind translocation of individual animals responsible for human wildlife conflicts.

Wildlife damage management has shifted emphasis in the past few decades to focus more on the individual problem animal (Hone 2007). As a result, translocation has increased as a method to address human wildlife conflicts. The public often perceives this approach as humane and preferable to lethal control. Further, a common belief that follows is translocated animals will â&#x20AC;&#x153;live happily ever afterâ&#x20AC;? at their new location. Although translocation does serve to address the problem behavior by removing the animal, exclusion or habitat modification methods often represent superior long term solutions.

Further, when used for problem animals in a wildlife damage context, euthanasia may be an appropriate and more humane alternative than translocation.

Unpredicted and unintended consequences of translocation are among the top concerns when considering its use.

Because the primary objective for translocation of a problem animal is to reduce or remove the problem, there is often little attention given to possible consequences.

There is limited scientific information regarding consequences of translocation.

However, points of concern include: spread of disease and parasites (Griffith et al. 1993, Woodford and Rossiter 1993), humanness of translocation (Massei et al.

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Translocations may also take a toll on the individuals being relocated. Stress of captivity and relocation may predispose individuals to harassment from resident animals, increased predation, and increase the difficulty in acquiring resources such as food, water and shelter. Research on a variety of species demonstrates survival rates range from similar to non translocated individuals to approaching near total mortality (Mosillo et al. 1999, Conover 2002). Individual survival is dependent on several variables including species behavior, season of release, habitat characteristics, and environmental conditions.

In addition to animal welfare issues, individuals may resume problem behaviors at the new location. The problem behavior has then been introduced or moved to a new area continuing the human wildlife conflict. For example, urban raccoons translocated to rural environments tended to den near rural homes (Mosillo et al. 1999).

The concerns cited above have prompted wildlife professionals involved in conservation, game management, and wildlife damage manage to revisit translocation as a common practice and consider appropriate criteria for its use in wildlife management.

Species in New Mexico that should not be translocated are raccoons, skunks, and foxes as they represent common species known to carry rabies. The American Veterinary Medical Association is strongly opposed to translocation of these species because of the demonstrated potential to translocate rabies with the individual (AVMA 2009). A classic example involves rabid raccoons moved from Florida to North Carolina (Nettles et al. 1979). Similarly, spread of parasites by relocating wildlife is concerning yet poorly documented (Cunningham 1996). Euthanasia is especially preferred when a species has a potential for disease transmission. Guidelines for euthanasia are available through the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA 2007).

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cation of some species may promote expansion or introduction of disease and parasites. Humaneness of translocation should not be assumed; captivity, transport and release into unfamiliar environments are high stress situations that may affect an individual’s ability to survive.

Continuance of problem behavior means the problem has been relocated to a new area. State and federal laws often influence how individuals may move or euthanize wildlife. Translocation as a tool to address human wildlife conflict should be weighed carefully before being used.

Areas for animal release should be carefully and comprehensively assessed to determine ecological and social acceptability before problem animals are relocated. The public’s perception that translocation is humane and preferential to alternatives for addressing problem ani-

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Euthanasia, habitat modification and exclusion often represent better and more humane approaches to address human wildlife conflicts.

Literature Cited American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).

2007. AVMA guidelines on euthanasia. Accessed via internet on 17 January 2012: www.avma.org/issues/ animal_welfare/euthanasia.pdf American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).

2009. Rabies Backgrounder. Accessed via internet on 17 January 2012: www.avma.org/reference/ backgrounders/rabies_bgnd.pdf Conover, M. 2002. Resolving human wildlife conflicts: the science of wildlife damage management.

Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, USA. Craven, S., T. Barnes, and G. Kania. 1998. Toward a professional position on the translocation of problem wildlife. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26: 171 177.

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In the endangered species business they are known as “charismatic megafauna” and are often plastered across fundraising appeals. However, as the federal list of regulated species swells, fewer of its denizens are generally awe inspiring.

Indeed, today, federally regulated invertebrates and plants now outnumber the total number of listed mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish combined — and, the latter often fail to clear the majestic hurdle themselves.

For those of us fascinated by creepy crawlies, perhaps a beetle is just as interesting as a bear or bird. For others, however, this may seem more like the disingenuous “bait and switch” sales tactic that the Federal Trade Commission says is “to switch consumers from buying the advertised merchandise, in order to sell something else, usually at a higher price or on a basis more advantageous to the advertiser.”

Appealing or not, these critters can have such adverse consequences that the Texas Comptroller maintains a website so that Texans can see what the next regulatory plague may be. Just this year, Texans have — in the name of a dime-sized, underground spider known as the Bracken Cave meshweaver — jettisoned highway improvements. Similarly, in the name of the Houston toad, recovery efforts were slowed in the wake of horrendousTexas wildfires that destroyed 1,700 homes.

The green community is readying to add to these Endangered Species Act injustices, fashioning a new weapon — the American burying beetle. As one liberal blogger puts it, the beetles “have earned the attention both of TransCanada and of environmental groups dedicated to protecting endangered species and interested as well in stopping the [Keystone XL] pipeline’s construction.” [emphasis added].

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The beetle’s scientific name is Nicrophorus americanus, and in various government reports it is known as the ABB. As its scientific name hints (nekros: Greek for dead, dying person, corpse), the ABB is one of many species of carrion beetle which in turn are just a few of the thousands of kinds of North American beetles.

American burying beetles depend upon carrion — rotting flesh, burying it, and laying eggs nearby. When ABB larvae hatch, a snack awaits them in the form of regurgitated flesh. While of interest to beetle enthusiasts, carrion beetle behavior (Warning: Not charismatic!) isn’t the stuff of fundraising appeals.

The ABB is thought to have once inhabited a good part of theUnited States from the plain states to the East and the South.

Today, it is known to occur in a few states — predominately the plains states north of Texas.

This beetle’s plight is poorly understood. To wit, from one 50-page government beetle report, “little is known about the demographic status of the ABB in other states and counties where it is

believed to be present. Whether ABB populations (and range) are expanding, stable, or contracting in size and vital rates (survival, reproduction, and movement) is virtually unknown for the ABB in much of Arkansas and Kansas and parts of Nebraska

Appealing or not, these critters can have such adverse consequences that the Texas Comptroller maintains a website so that Texans can see what the next regulatory plague may be. and Oklahoma.”

Despite a clear informational void, government experts have reached some interesting conclusions. For example, while the beetles continue to exist in Oklahoma even

though they seem to have vanished from many other states, the same government document alarmingly reports that “land in Oklahoma is 97 percent privately owned” and that Oklahoma “is the third largest gas producing state in the nation.”

The message is obvious: Private property and gas production (wells, pipes, etc.) belong to the villain. Strangely, after looking at the Department of Energy’s map of U.S. gas pipelines and knowing that we have evidence of these beetles in more Oklahoma counties than anywhere else, it might be more logical to conclude that other states don’t have enough gas pipelines for the critter to survive.

While it is likely a silly argument that this beetle’s preferred habitat is dotted with pipelines, it’s as reasonable as the idea that the greens seek to stop the Keystone Pipeline for the beetle. It is not about the beetle or even really about the effect of the pipeline on habitat. It is about what would flow through the pipeline — energy. From the radical greens’ view, what is worst about this energy isn’t even that it would be a source of CO2. What is worst is that it would be affordable and reliable. continued on page 36

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Physicists define energy as the capacity to do work. The more we have, the more we can do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the more we can improve the well-being of humans. It has brought us out of the cave and lifted us up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; shielding us from hot and cold, freeing us to travel far and wide, and providing an abundance that could not have been dreamed of a half century ago. Energy makes progress itself possible.

As energy consumption increases, so does wealth, and as wealth increases, so does human lifespan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; perhaps the single most important environmental metric there is. Fortunately, North America has been blessed with an amazing abundance of buried energy resources: coal, gas, oil, shale, and uranium â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enough to last centuries.

The greens, however, wish for it to stay right where it is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; buried. From its inception, many in the modern environmental movement have not been concerned about the well-being of mankind. Sure, they will warn of something causing cancer or of some vista our grandchildren should see that might disappear, but this is really

another bit of bait and switch. From their perspective, progress is illusory and mankind is not something to be saved but fettered.

As John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.â&#x20AC;? As Paul Ehrlich, a more contemporary green, puts it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already had too much economic growth in the US. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure.â&#x20AC;?

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Certainly, there are limited times and places where alternative energy works just fine, but there is no way these sources can provide an affordable and reliable alternative to our current fuel supply.

Alternative energy is again the bait offered by the greens as what is really for sale, the switch, is economic stagnation.

They may package it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;sustainability,â&#x20AC;? but it is still a pig with lipstick. And, the pig of economic hardship generally comes with increases in all sorts of human misery: unemployment, bankruptcy, alcoholism, drug use, dropouts, domestic violence, divorce, and on and on.

The reality is that environmental policy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no matter how good for flesh-eating beetles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be good for the environment if not good for people. The modern environmental movement, however, may have finally found its perfect mascot: the burying American beetle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or something â&#x2013; like that.

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Jaguars & Skunks n my last column I referred to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proposal to designate 838,232 acres in Arizona & New Mexico as critical habitat for the jaguar.

Most of that is in Arizona, for now, and includes 103,143 acres of private land and all of the 7,590 acres in the San Luis Mountains, N.M. are private. The Center for Biological Diversity is pushing for millions of more acres to be included. In their submitted comments they recommend the critical habitat be expanded to the following areas in New Mexico: â&#x2013; The Animas and adjoining Pyramid mountains. â&#x2013; The Alama Hueco, Big Hatchet, Little Hatchet, Florida, West and East Potrillo, Cedar and Big Burro mountains â&#x2013; The Animas, Playa, Hachita and Mimbres River valleys and the Lordsburg Mesa; and in both states the Gila River Valley â&#x2013; The contiguous lands of the Gila National Forest along with the Plains of San Augustin, the Zuni Plateau, the El Malpais National Monument and National Conservation Area, and the San Mateo, Magdalena, Chupadera, Datil, Sawtooth, Luera and Summit mountains.

The comment period is over, so we all await the final decision by the Obama administration.

There is, however, a back story to the jaguar.

A long male jaguar dubbed Macho B came on the scene in 1996 when he was treed and photographed by a hunter, and became the mascot for the jaguar campaign. On February 18, 2009 Macho B was captured by a contractor with the Arizona

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Game & Fish Dept. The agency’s original story said this was an “inadvertent” capture, the aged feline had accidently stepped into a research snare set for lions and bears. The cat was collared and then released. Showing signs of capture trauma, Macho B was recaptured and eventually euthanized due to liver failure.

One of the parties involved became a whistle blower and admitted the snare had been set on a favorite trail and baited with female jaguar scat. This caused quite a controversy at the time.

This month the Arizona Republic has published a series of investigative articles based on obtaining an Inspector General report and a criminal investigation by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife service. Here are some of their findings: ■ Agents for the Fish and Wildlife Service wrote in their crime report that the totality of evidence created “an argument that the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project and Arizona Game and Fish Department collaborated and attempted to pursue the jaguar and ultimately captured it.”

■ Agents for the Fish and Wildlife agents wrote that Erin Fernandez, the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service employee in charge of the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project had obstructed justice by concealing or destroying records, an offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The agents also reported her conduct constituted fraud and false statements punishable by a sentence of up to five years.

■ Five individuals were referred to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution. Two were prosecuted – both from the private sector.

■ The primary contractor, Emil McCain was convicted of unlawfully taking an endangered species and says, “Simply put, I was set up”. The whistle-blower and McCain assistant, Janay Brun, negotiated a deal whereby charges were dismissed in return for an admission that she took part in an unauthorized capture of the jaguar.

Now get this. Those government employees who weren’t prosecuted are still doing fine, thank you. Fernandez is still the lead jaguar person for the feds and the rest are either employees of the Border Jaguar Detection Project or have government contracts to do research.

So if you want to deceive the public on wildlife issues, make sure you are a government employee, otherwise they will

prosecute you.

But wait, all this may be for naught.

The Brasilia Zoological Garden in partnership with the Brazilian government’s agricultural research agency, EMBRAPA, is starting a project to clone jaguars.

EMBRAPA was responsible for the birth of the first cloned animal in Brazil, a calf named Vitória, who was born in 2001 and lived until 2011. After Vitória, many other animals have been cloned, mainly cows and horses who now add up to over 100 living specimens.

Wildlife advocates should be jumping for joy, right? Not the World Wildlife Fund.

Their spokesman says, “Cloning is not a useful tool for conservation. This does nothing to focus on the threats to the species, which is frequently habitat loss.”

It doesn’t matter how many of the jaguars you clone, they want to control that habitat, which means they are more interested in controlling land and water than saving any species.

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ers 8 million acres in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado which have been designated as critical habitat for the owl.

In their recovery plan the feds have done a bad, bad thing. You see they identified hot-burning wildfires as the biggest threat to the owl. And oh, no, they are recommending thinning projects as part of the recovery plan. This sensible approach is not popular with the enviros. Headquartered in Santa Fe, the WildEarth Guardians say the whole thing is based on “fire hysteria”. No, the problem is the enviros suffer from “log” and “job” hysteria.

To help protect the lesser prairie chicken and assist in keeping it off the T&E list, the Bureau of Land Management

has acquired an additional 1,789 acres in Chavez County and the Conservation Fund has purchased the grazing rights on 42,000 acres of federal land. The AP story on this says the grazing rights will be “retired”. I’m not sure how this can be done but will check it out.

After reviewing all these plans, designations and acquisitions I still have one important question: Do jaguars eat chickens and owls?

Macho may muncho all their great plans.

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

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adies, another year behind us and another year ahead of us. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look toward the future, be positive and keep the chain that has been built for us stronger than ever. We have the best product in the world, â&#x20AC;&#x153;BEEF IS BEST.â&#x20AC;? We all know this is true and must convince everyone else we are correct.

This year will be a challenge, but challenges can be met and we must all work together. We work at the state fair booth and educate people about beef. In 2012 we took on another challenge, the Pumpkin Patch in Albuquerque, held at the corner of Coors and Irving. We had a booth and reached 12,675 people in two weekends.

This was great and we need to educate and tell them our story. Sometimes you wonder if you are the one educating or getting the education. I challenge each one of you to participate in an event of this sort. If you

have an idea of where we can educate people and tell them our story let an officer know so we can follow through with your idea.

This year I have chosen the theme, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Let The Chain Be Brokenâ&#x20AC;?. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s each and every one of you keep that chain strong, no matter how tough the road is, nothing is easy in this world, and the harder you work to succeed, the stronger the chain will be. You as New Mexico CowBelles are the strength of this chain in promoting the greatest product in the world, BEEF. I want each and every one to help this to be the strongest chain to promote BEEF in a positive manner.

I challenge each one of you to choose the link on how you would like to promote BEEF this year for a new yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BEEF RESOULTION, put it in a reminder place, so you can check this resolution next December to see if you have made the link

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God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can; the Wisdom to know the difference. Without your help to continue and expand our knowledge to reach out and educate the world in a positive manner we cannot succeed, but I have faith in all of you to help in every way possible to make this year very successful. I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to serve as New Mexico CowBelle President and with your help we will make a difference in the Beef Industry.

Sincerely, â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sharon King, NMCB President he meeting of the Chamiza Cowbelles was called to order by President Gloria Petersen at 11:14 a.m. in the home of Jodell Downs with 12 members present.

Sioux Cochran recited the Cowbelle Prayer and Cowbelle Creed after which we all said the Pledge of Allegiance. Since this meeting was one day prior to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dâ&#x20AC;? day, some members related memories of that day. Gloria reported that the young man who won the half of beef brought his entire family to pick up the meat, stating he had never won anything before this. The entire family was overjoyed at receiving so much meat. One of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charter members, Hazel Johnson, lost her son recently and it was decided to donate $100 to help her with funeral expenses. A discussion was held regarding the location of meetings for next year. Only two people volunteered to host 2013 meetings: Nancy Phelps in May and Jodell Downs in December. In hopes of increasing attendance at meetings, it was decided to have all other meetings held at the Ivory Tusk Restaurant in Elephant Butte Inn. Meeting was adjourned at 11:35 a.m. after which the members all enjoyed goodies and treats.

Lariat CowBelles December News 2012. With eight members present, Lariat CowBelles met at the Rabbit Ears CafĂŠ for their Christmas Party on December 12.

Appetizers were provided by the officers.

2013 officers were installed in a presentation entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Sweet Presentation.â&#x20AC;? President Owaissa Heimann received a Mr. Goodbar, Vice President Kathryn MalcolmCallis received a Kit Kat bar, Secretary Mary Coffman received Smarties candies, Treasurer Mary Bleiker received a Payday bar that was accepted in her absence by Wanda Gard, Reporter Marianne Rose

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received a bag of Hershey Kisses. There was a Dirty Santa Gift Exchange. Respectfully Submitted by, Marianne Rose Lariat CowBelle Reporter The Powderhorn CowBelles had a booth at the Old Fashioned Christmas in Fort Sumner, a project of the De Baca County Chamber of Commerce where we sold Burritos, Coffee and Cocoa and offered Tidbits of Asian Lettuce Beef Wraps for the public to taste. The local did not have a business meeting this December – instead had a dinner party with husbands invited where everyone enjoyed lovely decorations, good food and the fun of a white

elephant gift exchange and visiting. Member’s lives were saddened by the passing of member Jean Cowden of Santa Rosa and Vickie Evans of the Double V Ranch south of Fort Sumner. In the short time we have after Christmas, we will be planning our program and activities of education and promotion for the coming 2013 year.

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.

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he Department of Agriculture is responding to parents, politicians and meal planners by softening its push toward healthier school lunches.

For the rest of the school year, schools will be allowed to serve as much meat and grains as they want, as long as they don’t exceed per-meal limits on total calories.

Meal planners welcome the flexibility but still have concerns about the Health Hunger-Free Kids Act, which went into effect this year.

“Part of me is happy and part of me is just frustrated,” said Sandi Kramer, child nutrition supervisor for the Yankton (S.D.) School District. “I’m glad they’re listening to us; I just wish they’d listened to us sooner.”

The meal guidelines have forced NM CowBelles Officers Sharon schools to double the amount of fruits and King, Madalyn vegetables they serve while capping caloLee, Dahlene ries and cutting back on sodium.

Hodnett, Anita School officials say students now are Hand, & Lyn throwing away much of their meals, parGreene. ticularly the fresh produce, and the 850calorie limit on high school meals are leaving many students hungry, especially athletes. Kindergarteners to fifth-graders have a 650-calorie cap; sixth- to eighthHigh Altitude graders have a 700-calorie cap.

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s we work through the ups and downs of life, there were several “ups” in courtrooms for the animal and natural resource world during the month of December. The good news started with a victory in the case the WildEarth Guardians (WEG) filed against the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish to stop trapping the Gila National Forest because of the Mexican Wolf Program. The New Mexico Trappers’ Association intervened in the case assisted by the Cattle Growers, Wool Growers, Federal Lands Council, Farm & Livestock Bureau, Houndsmen, Council of Outfitters & Guides, Coalition of Counties, Farm Credit of New Mexico and others. While the case was costly for both the Department and the interveners, the Federal District Judge could not have made it more clear that the WEG should have kept their traps shut on the issue.

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The case drew national interest because had the WEG prevailed, management of wildlife would be taken from the hands of states and put into the courts. The 2012 fire season graphically demonstrated the consequences of forest management via the courts.

Of course, the case has been appealed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, so the story isn’t over yet, but we go into the appeal on firm ground that was laid by Karen Budd-Falen and the crew at the Budd-Falen Law Office.

Next came a victory for ski resorts that bodes well for ranching. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced in 2011 that the agency was going to begin claiming water rights associated with activities on forest lands for improvements in the future. AND they were going to retroactively take water rights that “should” have

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been theirs from the past. The two groups that would suffer the greatest loss of property rights were ranchers and ski resorts.

The USFS was just going to accomplish this grab via regulations.

Not so fast ruled U.S. District Court Judge William Martinez who questioned the USFS’s theory that ski resorts and others might sell off their water rights for other uses, leaving themselves without water to operate. The agency was only trying to protect existing uses on the forest, after all.

The ruling stated that the government violated its own procedures, failed to evaluate the economic impact and violated ski area rights. The judge ordered the agency not to enforce the new rules and sent the issue back to the Forest Service for further review.

In yet another case challenging the use of categorical exclusions to renew permits on USFS Allotments in Arizona, the court granted the Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association’s intervener motion for summary judgment. This case filed by the Western Watersheds Project (WWP) against the USFS was similar to one filed in New Mexico by the WEG a few years ago.

The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ and the New Mexico Federal Lands Council intervened in that case and assisted the USFS in winning the case, as Arizona did.

Unfortunately, when the New Mexico case was appealed, the USFS settled with the WEG, throwing NMCGA and the allotment owners under the bus.

The deadline for appeal of the Arizona case has not yet come, so stay tuned for further developments in this case.

In a fourth victory “for the good guys,” Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus will receive $9.3 million from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to settle part of a lawsuit the circus owners filed against the ASPCA and several other animal-rights groups.

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enced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, claiming the groups and their lawyers paid more than $190,000 to a former Ringling employee who had joined them in suing the circus company in 2000, alleging animal cruelty under the Endangered Species Act. A federal court at the end of a six-week trial in 2009 ruled in the circus’ favor. In its ruling, the court characterized former employee, Tom Rider, as a paid witness whose testimony was not credible.

Feld’s racketeering lawsuit against the ASPCA also includes the Humane Society of the United States, the Fund for Animals, Animal Welfare Institute, Animal Protection Institute United with Born Free USA, Tom Rider and some of the attorneys involved in the litigation. But this settlement only covers the ASPCA. On might wonder about how this windfall of victories has come about. Ranchers have been fighting injustice and supporting actions of regulatory agencies for literally decades. One theory is the proactive actions taken to demonstrate to the courts and the public the misuse of the legal system by groups using lawsuits as funding sources.

The work of Karen Budd-Falen and groups like the Western Legacy Alliance have exposed the millions of dollars that groups like the WEG and WWP have been collecting from the federal government simply by filing lawsuits. This work has resulted in legislation and congressional hearings on the misuse of the well intended Equal Access to Just Act (EAJA).

It has been said that the only way to influence judges is through the media.

Maybe the media attention EAJA received over that past few years is paying off.

Heritage

During the holidays I had the privilege of attending two celebrations of lives welllived by gentlemen who left a profound impact on their families, their communities and well beyond — Adolph Sanchez and Speaker Ben Lujan. As I watched three and four generations of families gathering to bid farewell and thanks to those who had come before them, I couldn’t help but think of my own grandfather who I lost during the holidays more years ago than I care to admit.

I credit my grandmother with much of my molding, but I would be remiss in not acknowledging all the things Granddaddy

was to me. One of the first memories I have with him was when we were gathering when I was about five. I was sent with Granddaddy for the morning. I fell asleep on my horse. Granddaddy broke into a trot and I fell off. I was convinced it was entirely his fault that I hit the ground so hard. That combined with a short jaunt to check heifers with Daddy that turned into about a 10-hour ride pretty much set the course for my cowboying career. Marguerite was always the best cowboy of the bunch.

When we were little the ranch still had cotton fields. Granddaddy would take Flossie and me to the field to help pick cotton — and he paid us for it. He kept our names in his tally book right along with the other field hands and at the end of the season we proudly walked away with our eight to eleven cents. We were much more trouble than we were worth, especially to those who were actually working, but they were patient with us and jumping in the cotton trailer was great fun.

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during one of my bouts with measles (who knew you could have them more than once). I didn’t think I was doing so badly.

My room was on the west side of the house and it was afternoon so I was supposed to be hot. I don’t know what he told Mother and Daddy, but in nothing flat they were both in the house and had me in a cold bathtub of water to bring down the fever.

I am sure that Granddaddy was the source of my love for all things political.

He served in the Arizona Legislature for well over 20 years and stayed involved for decades after. I got to make several of those trips to Phoenix and stay in the Adams Hotel.

But probably one of the best memories of Granddaddy was the celebration of his life. Despite his fondness of cigarettes and a little bourbon, he lived to the ripe old age of 78. He passed right after Christmas and the services were on New Year’s Eve. His wit and sense of humor were never more on display. Carol and I were working at the Arizona National which lasted nearly a week back then. Uncle Jim and Arizona Feeds were kind enough to arrange for the plane to take us along with cousin Nellie

Stevenson to Douglas.

Granddaddy always believed in lots of flowers and open caskets and his wishes were honored. The services were tough on everyone. But at the cemetery things took a different turn. It was a rainy day so there was a canopy involved. Grandmother suffered from debilitating arthritis for as long as I could remember so it was a process for her to walk to gravesite.

When we were all finally settled, with me in the front row next to Grandmother, and Daddy behind me, the graveside service started with the Masons throwing the apron on the casket stand. That seemed a little odd to me, but I hadn’t been to a Masonic service in awhile so maybe I had forgotten something.

Not so much. The funeral director came rushing up to inform the elderly Masons that the casket was yet to arrive. It was hard to stifle the giggles, especially with Grandmother on my left arm asking what was going on. Her sight was failing as well. Dad had his hands on my shoulders and he was beginning to pinch me.

The casket arrived and the service proceeded . . . right up until the Shriners started their part. One of the gentlemen on our side of the grave was very tall. His fore-

head collided with the canopy and his fez fell off into the grave.

Again Grandmother couldn’t see what was going on and had questions. I simply couldn’t talk without falling out of my chair with laughter and Daddy was about to strangle me. It wasn’t until much later that I learned that he, too, was fighting laughter and was simply using me for grounding . . . not reprimanding.

There is no doubt that Granddaddy was having a great time at our expense. Then we got back to the house. The funeral director discretely gave the guest book to Aunt Florence and expressed his hope that all were satisfied with the service. Ever the consummate lady and hostess, she responded “We all had a lovely time.”

At my look of horror, she asked “What are you supposed to say?” Indeed, what are you supposed to say?

There is a moral to the story

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appreciate the value of hard work, of a penny, of record keeping; to understand the duty to contribute to our community at home and afar; to make the best of any situation and to laugh at ourselves. Mainly to understand that in the grand scheme of things, none of us is important, but collectively we are a force to be reckoned with.

And Today?

The challenge today is how to take all of these values that have served us so well

over the generations and turn them into solutions for today. In early December the United States Secretary of Agriculture told rural America that we are becoming less and less relevant, that we don’t know how to pick our battles, that there is too much infighting and in so many words we are our own worst enemy.

Dealing with these statements is akin to working through the stages of grief or a 12-step program. The first reaction is to get really mad (mine) — this guy is supposed to be our industry’s champion. He admits that we in rural America hold some

of the nation’s “biggest assets — the food supply, recreational areas and energy.”

We feed the world, we care for the environment and its creatures, we work hard all day every day. How can we be irrelevant?

Then sadness may come. Is this really what our heritage has come to?

Somewhere along the way you might wonder what we do to fix the Secretary’s perception along with the rest of our country. We have known for literally decades that our customers are moving further and further away from their roots in the country.

In the Associated Press (AP) story on the Secretary’s comments, Tom Vilsak is quoted as saying “It’s time for us to have an adult conversation with folks in rural America. It’s time for a different thought process here . . .”

Okay Mr. Secretary, we are listening.

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Will the cows come home?

Can we rebuild the beef cow herd? (Part 1) hat was the question posed to me by a producer in response to my recent article suggesting that two years of drought liquidation, on top of previous liquidation, has pushed the beef cattle inventory so low that we are effectively â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of cattleâ&#x20AC;? in terms of our ability to maintain beef production and rebuild the cow herd.

This producer specifically noted two issues that will affect the ability of the beef industry to rebuild: the loss of forage land to non-agricultural (development and recreational) uses; and the conversion of pasture to crop production.

While these and other issues pose significant challenges to rebuilding the beef cow herd, I do believe there is ample capacity to rebuild the cow herd according

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to the demands of the market. That said, the question of how and where it will done is likely to be different in the future than in the past.

In the short run, the drought is, of course, the major factor affecting herd liquidation. Until forage conditions improve, the question of herd rebuilding is a moot one. And while there is no current indication of improving drought conditions, nor any guarantee that conditions will improve, it is likely that some regions, at least, will see improving conditions in the coming months.

The more regionally specific drought in 2011 caused a 1.07 million head decrease in beef cows in a single year in Texas, Oklahoma and the surrounding states. Much of this region is still in severe drought, with some areas, such as Arkansas, in considerably worse shape in 2012 than in 2011.

There has been some improvement in drought conditions in parts of east Texas but little if any herd rebuilding has taken place yet. Most all of this loss in beef cows can be recovered post-drought, though some parts of the region will take several

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years to fully recover.

The impact of the 2012 drought has yet to be documented until the next USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) cattle inventory report is available. I expect to see another 400 to 500 thousand head decrease in the beef cow herd, spread across several states. I suspect this reduction represents extra heavy culling of the cow herd and fewer heifers entering herds rather than the deep herd culling or herd dispersals that occurred in 2011. Nevertheless, this is additional herd capacity that can return rather quickly with improved forage conditions.

Land use issues affecting the beef industry reflect long term trends and ongoing structural changes in U.S. agriculture. Concerns about development and recreational use of forage lands are common and understandable among many cattle producers.

Certainly in some areas, the loss of pasture to small acreage development or for other non-agricultural uses is significant and noticeable. However, about 30 percent (571 million acres) of the total U.S. land area of 1.93 billion acres is rangeland, pasture or non-cultivated cropland (mostly hay). No doubt this includes some land

used for recreation despite being designated as agricultural. Another 810 million acres (42 percent) is forest land or federal land, a significant portion of which is grazed or partially grazed by livestock.

Thus, a majority of some 1.381 billion acres (72 percent) of the total land in the country is used exclusively or partially for livestock, mostly cattle, production. This compares to 305 million acres (16 percent) used for crop production; 33 million acres (1.7 percent in the Conservation Reserve Program); 111 million acres (5.7 percent) developed; and another 5.2 percent in water surface and other rural uses. Land used for development increased nearly 17 million acres from 1997-2007.

Land diversion away from agriculture is not a trivial matter but does not represent a significant barrier to potential rebuilding of the cow herd, at least not on a national basis. The implications of this issue certainly vary in some regions and are part of a broader set of regional changes in agriculture that will affect the beef industry in the future. The next installment of this article will discuss how and where beef cow herd rebuilding will take place. continued on page 51

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It Always Takes Longer Than You Think; We Are “Out of Cattle”

Exactly two years ago I wrote an article about the implications of declining cattle numbers (“At What Point Do We Run Out of Cattle”, Cow Calf Corner, November 15, 2010). In that article I suggested that after many years of herd liquidation, we had reached a point where it was not possible to maintain beef production without herd rebuilding. The article suggested that beef production would drop without herd rebuilding and that herd rebuilding would squeeze cattle supplies even more in the short run. The article further suggested that the only possible postponement to

those consequences would be the temporary one if more herd liquidation occurred.

Little did I know that November of 2010 was the beginning of the driest and warmest year in Oklahoma and the Southern Plains. The resulting cow liquidation and preempted herd rebuilding that occurred in 2011 and 2012 bring us to this point where the impacts I anticipated many months ago are now upon us. Feedlot placements have dropped sharply the last four months and feedlot inventories are declining and will continue to decline in the coming months. In my mind the bigger question is not why we have such a dramatic decrease in feeder cattle supplies now but why it has taken so long for the situation to manifest itself. I believe there are several reasons.

The biggest and most obvious one is

two years of drought which provoked additional liquidation, and postponed heifer retention thereby moderating declining overall cattle numbers. It seems to me that drought and high cattle prices the last two years have had the effect of bringing cattle “out of the bushes” in a way that we have not seen for many years and may not be fully reflected in the cattle inventory data.

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tle imports from Mexico and Canada have augmented declining U.S. feeder supplies since 2009. In the last two years, increased feeder cattle imports have boosted feeder supplies by roughly an additional 300,000 head. In the first half of 2012, Mexican imports were continuing that trend with a record pace of drought forced sales of cattle.

As we move into 2013, some things about cattle supplies are more clear and some are still uncertain. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear is that two more years of liquidation have put the industry in an even deeper hole with respect to feeder supplies. The 2013 U.S. calf crop will be the smallest since 1942, based on my estimates. What is also clear is that feeder cattle imports will drop dramatically. Mexican cattle imports have decreased sharply in late 2012 and may decrease feeder supplies in 2013 by 600 to 800 thousand head year over year compared to 2012. What is unclear is the drought question. Continued drought will moderate the short run effect by provoking more liquidation and postponing heifer retention. If drought conditions improve, herd inventories will stabilize

and some heifer retention may begin in 2013.

Feedlots have not only placed fewer cattle but recent placements have been heavier weight and will move through feedlots faster. It will be increasingly difficult to find placements to follow current feedlot inventories. A significant decrease in cattle slaughter and beef production is unavoidable in 2013 and 2014. Continued drought may continue to impact the timing somewhat, but any short run moderation of tighter supplies due to drought liquidation will be at the expense of more drastic impacts later; just as the situation now is more drastic than it was two years ago.

Cow herd reduction is geographically uneven: Peel (Can We Rebuild the Cow Herd? Part 2)

dramatic jump in demand for corn, which began in late 2006, has resulted in sharply higher prices for all crops in the U.S. A simple average across the eight major cultivated crops shows that 2012 crop year prices are expected to be 165 percent higher than in 2005.

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among crops for land resources with crop market prices doing short-term battle each year for acreage to plant. The epicenter of this crop frenzy is naturally in the Midwest and is reflected in the phenomenal jump in land values and rental rates in the region.

Longer-term impacts on land use are also expected as a result of this new agricultural environment. Though data is limited, there are strong indications that these long term changes have begun and they have significant implications for the beef cattle industry.

The 2007 Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) showed that in addition to 305 million acres of cultivated cropland, an additional 119 million acres are used for pasture, along with 52 million acres of non-cultivated cropland (mostly permanent hay).

These 171 million acres of pasture and â&#x20AC;&#x153;hayâ&#x20AC;? land are arable, meaning they can be farmed. A majority of these acres occur in and around the major cropping areas and generally in the eastern half of the country. These acres do not include another 400 million acres of rangeland (plus forest continued on page 53

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and federal lands) that are not arable.

Rangeland is mostly located in the drier central and western regions of the U.S. Though converting perennial pasture and hay crops to cultivated crops is not an easy or quick process, high crop prices will logically attract some of these acres for cultivated crop production over time. At this point there is little data to confirm how much pasture and hay land is being converted to crop production. The 2012 NRI and Agricultural Census data (which will be available in several months) are expected to provide the first documentation of a process that is likely to continue for many more years.

In the absence of land use data, changes in cattle inventories across states already indicate some of the anticipated regional impacts of high crop values. From Jan. 1, 2007 to 2012, the U.S. beef cow herd decreased by 2.76 million head or 8.5 percent. The decrease is much more pronounced in the Midwest and surrounding regions, including the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. In these states, the five-year decrease in beef cow inventory ranged from 11.4 percent to over 22 percent with an average of a 14.2 percent decrease.

By contrast 12 states in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions experienced beef cow herd changes that ranged from an increase more than 5 percent to a 7.5 percent decrease with an average of 2.6

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percent decrease across the region. Texas and Oklahoma experienced sharp decreases from 2011 to 2012 due to drought but had a similar 3.1 percent decrease in the 2007-2011 period.

This indicates that the beef cow herd is decreasing more rapidly in regions where competition with crops is greater. As a result, an increasing share of the total beef cow herd will be located in drier regions of the country in the future. Interestingly, this same phenomenon is occurring in other major beef producing countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and for the same reasons.

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less potential for herd rebuilding than others. Beef cow herds are less likely to rebuild in major crop production regions while predominantly forage areas have considerable potential for herd expansion.

There is little doubt that some of the most productive pasture and hay land is being converted for crop production which highlights the challenge of rebuilding the beef cow herd in more marginal areas.

However, high crop prices increase forage value as well and that changes the incentives for how land is used and managed. Forage production, even on rangeland that does not compete directly with crop production, is worth more now.

Many years of cheap grain kept forage values low and the result is that forage production and use has not been managed as efficiently as it can be.

Increased forage value opens up a wide variety of possibilities, in many regions, to manage forage for greater productivity and to manage forage use more efficiently.

The dramatic increase in use of corn crop residue the last two years is one example of the response to these incentives. Two other examples include reducing hay wastage from round bales and, in Oklahoma and similar areas, more Red Cedar control to increase forage production. In many regions of the country there is considerable potential for adoption of new forages and new forage systems to increase cattle production and/or extend grazing seasons.

This continuing discussion of the challenges and opportunities for rebuilding the U.S. cattle herd will continue in Part 3 with a discussion of who will rebuild the ■ cow herd.

Aging cattle rancher will impact cattle herd rebuild: Peel (Can We Rebuild the Cow Herd? Part 3)

revious articles (Parts 1 and 2) have discussed several challenges and opportunities related to the how and where of rebuilding the U.S. cattle herd.

This article discusses the most important asset of the U.S. beef cattle industry . . . the “who” of herd rebuilding.

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rebuilding the beef cow herd and expanding cattle inventories. As with the land use and regional components, there are both challenges and opportunities with regards to the producer issues in the beef industry.

Like farmers of all types, cattle producers have been aging as a group for many years. USDA data from 2011 indicates that among the 654,000 cattle farms in the country, 37 percent are operated by producers 65 years of age or older and another 29 percent are operated by producers aged 55-64. Together these two age groups operate 64 percent of land used for cattle production. This includes 118.4 million acres by the 65+ producers, 66 percent of which are the full owners of their farms.

In many cases there are no family heirs interested or able to take over the operation.

These demographics suggest that a significant amount of asset turnover is inevitable in the next decade. In the meantime, older cattle producers, like many farmers, often don’t really retire and exit the industry but rather tend to “retire in place” by remaining on the farm and gradually scaling back their operations.

Older producers, on average more financially secure, can afford to cut back

by reducing cattle numbers or switching to less labor intensive enterprises according to their health situation and labor ability. The latest USDA data confirms that cattle producers over 65 years of age have a per farm value of production that is 43 percent less (25 percent less on a per acre equivalent basis) compared to the average value of production of all cattle farms.

In the most recent data, average farm size for these older producers has dropped to roughly 75 percent of the average of all cattle farms. Previous data had indicated that farm size for the older producers was only 8-10 percent less than average. It is possible that asset turnover in the cattle industry has accelerated recently.

The combination of these producer demographics and the drought creates a unique situation in the cattle industry.

The drought has forced many of these older producers to partially or totally liquidate their herds. Some of these older producers are not inclined to or will not be able to rebuild their cattle operations. The drought is forcing some producers to face the inevitable decisions about exiting the industry sooner rather than later. continued on page 100

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Doc Noss & the Treasure of Victoria Peak ilton Ernest “Doc” Noss was born at Talogo, Oklahoma in 1905.

Some observers have asserted that he was referred to as “Doc” because he claimed to be educated as a medical doctor, and one source reported that he was a practicing chiropodist up until the time he left Oklahoma City for Hot Springs (now Truth or Consequences), New Mexico, in 1933. It appears to be a false assertion, however. His occupation was listed as mining engineer on his death certificate and in news accounts of his death.

Noss rates a place in the memories of New Mexicans because he claimed to have found a legendary treasure hidden away in Victorio Peak in Doña Ana County’s San Andreas Mountains in 1937. Many have believed his claims over the years; many have not.

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According to one, mining activity in the area dates back to Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his exploration of New Mexico in 1540-1542. One author wrote, “Historical documentation, along with abundant artifactual evidence, has revealed that this region was visited by the followers of the Spanish explorer . . . It is also known that Coronado’s miners explored for and found gold and silver in abundance in and near the San Andres Mountains.”

The problem with this tale is that historians generally believe that Coronado found no mineral wealth in New Mexico; that his expedition was considered a failure for just that reason. Moreover, the several routes traversed by Coronado and his subordinates in 1540-1542 go nowhere

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near the San Andres Mountains of southcentral New Mexico. The author in question offered no documentary support for his assertions.

Another tale is that the treasure was placed inside the mountain by Juan de Oñate, New Mexico’s colonizer, between 1598 and 1607. One source wrote that he reportedly “amassed a fortune of gold, silver treasure and jewels” before being ordered to Mexico City in 1607. Again, no documentation is offered.

Another bit of popular lore holds that a French Catholic priest named Felipe La Rue, exiled to Mexico for insubordination to his superiors, fled north to New Mexico sometime in the late 18th century and ultimately not only discovered the gold in the San Andreas Mountains, but opened a mine and set up a smelter and produced numerous gold ingots which he stacked inside the mine. When ecclesiastical authorities in Mexico learned what La Rue was doing, they declared that the gold belonged to the church — except for the one fifth of it that went to the King — and set about recovering it. When La Rue learned that they were coming, he hid the mine opening and vowed never to admit the existence of the gold, and he swore all members of his group to the same silence.

La Rue died while being tortured, as did several of his followers but “not a single one revealed the location of the mine and the accumulated gold.”

This is the tale of the Lost Padre Mine and it does not appear to have historical support, either. There are those, too, who claim that the Lost Padre Mine is in the Franklin Mountains which are virtually surrounded by the city of El Paso, Texas, and not in the San Andreas Mountains of New Mexico.

Yet another tale is that famed Apache Chief Victorio raided far and wide and hid the treasure he stole from prospectors, wayfarers, settlers, and the like. One story alleges that it would require 60 or so mules to remove the nuggets and ore he hid in the peak which bears his name. No records support thefts of this vast amount continued on page 57

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of mineral wealth.

Noss alleged that there were at least 350 gold bars — perhaps as many as 16,000 of them — in a cave in the mountain. It was also alleged that he removed a number of the bars, and hid them in false graves, before he accidentally (he said) sealed the entryway so completely that he could not re-enter.

Some have said that Noss could not profit from his gold find because private ownership of gold at the time was illegal.

(President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlawed private ownership of gold in 1933 and the congress passed the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. In 1974, President Gerald Ford signed legislation which repealed the act.)

Even so, it seems likely that Noss would have found a market for his gold, if indeed he had any.

In March 1949, one Charles Ryan, who had invested money in Noss’ treasureseeking efforts, shot and killed Noss on a street in the town of Hatch. Ryan was originally charged with murder, but was acquitted at trial upon a plea of selfdefense.

For all the gold Noss allegedly found, he had $2.16 in his pocket at the time of his death. The tale of the Victorio Peak treasure did not die with Doc Noss. There have been repeated efforts to find it, but the searches have been hampered since 1945 when the peak was placed under the control of the United States Government because it was inside the White Sands Proving Grounds (now White Sands Missile Range).

An article which appeared in a Western magazine in 1963 took Noss seriously, while many folks around New Mexico did not. A book about the treasure, written in 2008, is not clear about its stand on the controversy, and its reliability is questionable because it contains several historical errors (it claims, for instance, that Noss was killed in Las Cruces). Several groups have been allowed to look for the gold, but no precious metal has been found. One modern legend is that the United States Army found the gold long ago and removed it. There is no proof of that, either.

Noss is buried in an unmarked grave in Las Cruces. Seems appropriate.

Sources: Kit Carson, “Fabulous Treasure at Victoria Peak,” Real West, January 1964; W. C. Jameson, New Mexico Treasure Tails; Las Cruces Sun News, March 7, 8, 10, 11, May 26, 1949; Richard Melzer, Buried Treasures; Daniel Schweidel & Robert Boswell, What Men Call Treasure

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Bruce Smith claims ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, chef Jamie Oliver and others who continuously used the phrase “pink slime” led viewers to believe the product made at BPI was dangerous to consumers and directly resulted in him losing his job.

Smith says a photo which the media called “pink slime” is not lean finely textured beef and is not a product found at a BPI factory.

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“My former employer was maliciously and needlessly maligned and accused of producing a food product that did not exist — a product derisively, repeatedly, and relentlessly called ‘pink slime’ by traditional TV broadcast and print media, in concert with social internet media critics, bloggers, politicians, and celebrity entertainers,” Smith said in a statement.

Smith worked for BPI for more than four years before losing his job last May. He was the company’s senior counsel and director of environmental health and safety.

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ated our cow size, and developed females with good vigor that breed up every year.

We develop our bulls at a slower pace, we don’t push for maximum gain, but want them to be ready to go when they’re sold.”

“We are very critical on feet and legs,” he continued. “Most of our customers run their cattle on rough rocky country, and we want to be sure our bulls can make it.

We are also critical on udders. I don’t have the time or patience to help calves nurse, and I also know that the bulls we sell will pass on those maternal traits.”

Brisket disease, or pulmonary hypertension, can be an issue for cattle in high elevations, and because they are getting more high-altitude customers, Steve has started PAP testing bulls for their susceptibility to the disease. “Gelbvieh cattle do very well at high altitudes, it’s a strength inherent in the breed. Our cattle run at a 5,000 foot elevation, so the results we get here are a good indicator of how the bulls will do at higher elevations. Last spring, we tested 55 bulls and our average result was 37-38.”

Balancers, a Gelbvieh/Angus or Gelbvieh/Red Angus cross, are growing in popularity as producers look to maximize the strengths of both breeds. To be registered as Balancers, cattle must be at least 25 percent Angus or 25 percent Gelbvieh, but the majority are 50/50, Steve explained. “Most Angus grade a little better, and Gelbvieh helps on the yield side – so they truly do balance.”

Steve and Gail raise both breeds, but have moved more towards Balancers in the past eight years. Some of their customers had crossbred their cattle to the point that they needed to increase the carcass strength, and Steve saw a way to meet their needs. “If we raise Balancer bulls, our customers don’t need to have a threebreed rotation, and separate pastures for different bulls – it’s more convenient for them.

Steve and Gail are the fourth generation on the family’s farming operation where they grow irrigated corn, wheat, and alfalfa, as well as some dryland wheat.

The cattle fit well into the farming operation, and can winter on farming residue, which helps with feed costs through the winter, Steve said.

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north of Greeley and 30 miles south of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the cattle run on native hardgrass pasture in the summer.

This summer, to help get through the drought, one group of cattle ran on a CRP lease. The cattle winter and calve out on corn stalks and after feed from the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s irrigated farming operation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gelbvieh have been good to us for a lot of years,â&#x20AC;? he concluded. to Commercial

Vance Koppenhafer, of the Kopp Ranch south of Mancos, Colorado, was also introduced to the breed by a neighbor, Keith Halls, and has been using Gelbvieh bulls on his cattle for many years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The breedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disposition and quality just worked for us,â&#x20AC;?

Vance said.

The Koppenhafers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Vance, his wife Maria, and children Amy and Ty, along with some help from Vanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents â&#x20AC;&#x201C; run their high percentage Gelbvieh commercial cattle, in southwestern Colorado, on the Mancos River. Their summer range is a forest allotment, and the cattle come down out of the mountains to winter on hay meadows on the river.

Because the cattle run at such a high elevation, Brisket Disease is a big concern, he explained, so they only buy bulls that have been PAP tested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We keep and develop all of our own replacement heifers, so we know exactly what we are starting out with.â&#x20AC;?

Vance expects a lot from his cattle, and the Gelbvieh genetics deliver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our cows donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t winter in the desert. We expect a 635-640 pound calf in the fall, and if a cow doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produce, she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay around.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gelbvieh cows are good mamas, they have a good disposition, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve stuck with them,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They just work in every aspect of a cow calf operation. You can put a purebred Gelbvieh bull on firstcalf heifers if you pay attention to the EPDs, and they also work well on older cows. They give an unbelievable amount of milk â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it can almost be too much at times but you sure appreciate it when it comes time to sell the calves.â&#x20AC;?

Vance has found a good demand for his calves, which are marketed commercially in the fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been very pleased with the calves. We have buyers that have come back and bought the calves year after year, and I figure if you have that, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing all right.â&#x20AC;?

Many of the Koppenhaffersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bulls come

from the annual Pot of Gold Bull Sale held in Montrose, Colorado. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve missed a year since they started, and we plan to go back. Now that it has snowed, we might even need a bull,â&#x20AC;? Vance said.

One reason for his loyalty is the accuracy of the EPDs available on bulls in the sale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have had good luck with their bulls. No matter what trait youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to focus on, if you look at their EPDs, you can get the results you want,â&#x20AC;? he continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to keep our calves moderate sized, about 80 pounds for the older cows and 70 pounds for the heifers, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss when we go up there. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we keep going back.â&#x20AC;?

Predators, like mountain lions and coyotes, are common in southwestern Colorado, but arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as big of a problem for the Koppenhafers as for some producers because the cows calve out in the hay meadows. However, they did lose their first calf to a mountain lion this year.

Conditions have been tough this past year, with little moisture to grow feed, but things are looking at least a little better after some late December snowstorms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been tough, but if nothing else weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a start on some moisture,â&#x20AC;? he concluded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother nature is a tough partner

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John and Debbie Hawks, of Hawks High Altitude Gelbvieh, bought their first Gelbvieh bulls in 1990 to use on their commercial cattle herd. They were impressed with both the bullsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; disposition and the calves they produced, and have been in the Gelbvieh business since.

They built the registered herd gradually, adding purebred cows from a producer in the San Luis Valley and others.

They also used artificial insemination (AI) and soon started selling bulls private treaty from the ranch. After a few years, they decided to raise strictly black Gelbvieh because of the market demand for black cattle. They were one of the first local producers of a strictly black Gelbvieh herd.

Today, bulls are marketed at their annual production sale held on the third Thursday in March at the sale barn in Delta, Colorado. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sale, set for March 21, will be the Hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 9th sale at that location. A few additional Gelbvieh and Angus producers also participate in the sale, by invitation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have built up a

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reputation for raising cattle that do well on rangeland conditions. You can put our bulls out on the mountain and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to go to work,â&#x20AC;? John said.

Replacement females are sold private treaty from the ranch. Calves that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet their standards as bulls or replacement females are sold commercially through the sale barn or as beef.

The Hawks had the bull calves fed at a local feedlot for a few years and now grow them out at the ranch. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;One thing we found out by running our bulls through the feed lot is that our feed conversion is really good â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our bulls had the best feed conversion at the feedlot.â&#x20AC;?

John credits the breed for its good disposition, milking and mothering ability, calving ease, conformation and feed conversion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always tell people Gelbvieh are easy calving, fast gaining, good milking cattle and easy to handle.â&#x20AC;?

He notes their ability to cross well with other breeds of cattle, especially British breeds such as Angus and Hereford. The Gelbvieh and Angus cross is a Gelbvieh Association recognized breed known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Balancerâ&#x20AC;?. This cross has great demand by feeders due to the genetic structure and calm disposition of the Gelbvieh and even stronger feed conversion of the Angus.

The Hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cattle are bred for disposition, growth ability, and calving ease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always the birth weight of the calf that can get you in trouble, it has a lot to do with the size and shape of the calfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head and shoulders,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of looking only at birth weight, we also focus

on calving ease â&#x20AC;&#x201C; such as body structure.â&#x20AC;?

The majority of bull customers are commercial producers who use the bulls on their crossbred cattle, and John runs his operation just like a commercial operation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our cattle are not pampered. We run them out in the pasture at a high altitude, and expect them to take care of themselves and their babies. If a cow doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it through the winter in good shape, or doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring in a good calf in the fall, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep her.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I started out, other seedstock producers told me that I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go with calving ease then wean a 700-pound calf, and I always wanted to know why you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;&#x153; By culling heavily while building the herd, John has developed cattle that are ready to work. If a cow doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t score well on a PAP test, she and her daughters are sold to prevent problems with brisket disease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a cow doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a good disposition, or milk, or mothering ability, she goes down the road. Now, we have a nice, hardy herd that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud to have somebody look at.â&#x20AC;?

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ary, and weaned in early October. For the last eight or nine years, weaning weights have averaged about 750 pounds on bull calves and 680 - 700 pounds on the heifers.

This fall, because of the drought, calves were weaned about a month early. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I expected the calves to weigh between 50 and 100 pounds lighter this year, but our weaning weights were about the same as last year. We had several bull calves that weighed over 800 pounds and several heifers that weighed right at 750 pounds. I am really proud of the way they can convert feed.â&#x20AC;?

Both John and Debbie come from longtime southern Colorado ranching families, and Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great-grandfather sawed some of the first lumber in Montrose. In addition to the cattle operation, they both had careers with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; John is now retired.

The ranch headquarters are located between Olathe and Montrose in southern Colorado, and the cattle run in the high mountains up toward Gunnison. The Hawks partner with their neighbor, Dave Van den Hoek and his sons, who take care of the farming operation in exchange for pasture for their cattle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are doing what we set out to do, focusing on calving ease and growth,â&#x20AC;?

John concluded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I started out, other seedstock producers told me that I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go with calving ease then wean a 700-pound calf, and I always wanted to know why you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. They told me that a heavy calf will outgain a smaller calf, but I have found that the weight of a calf when he is born isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as important as calving ease, and if he will convert feed, he will â&#x2013; gain the weight.â&#x20AC;?

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Public grazing study divides Researcher: ‘These kind of papers are a slap in the face”

ight researchers in a new report have suggested that climate change is causing additional stress to many western rangelands, and as a result land managers should consider a significant reduction, or in some places elimination of livestock and other large animals from public lands.

A growing degradation of grazing lands could be mitigated if large areas of Bureau of Land Management and USDA Forest Service lands became free of use by livestock and “feral ungulates” such as wild horses and burros, and high populations of deer and elk were reduced, the group of scientists said.

This would help arrest the decline and speed the recovery of affected ecosystems, they said, and provide a basis for comparative study of grazing impacts under a changing climate. The direct economic and social impacts might also be offset by a higher return on other ecosystem services and land uses, they said, although the report focused on ecology, not economics.

Their findings were reported in November in Environmental Management, a professional journal published by Springer.

“People have discussed the impacts of climate change for some time with such topics as forest health or increased fire,” said Robert Beschta, a professor emeritus in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, and lead author on this study.

“However, the climate effects on rangelands and other grazing lands have received much less interest,” he said.

“Combined with the impacts of grazing livestock and other animals, this raises serious concerns about soil erosion, loss of vegetation, changes in hydrology and disrupted plant and animal communities.

Entire rangeland ecosystems in the American West are getting lost in the shuffle.”

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Tony Svejcar, research leader of the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Service Center in Burns, said the report highlights isolated examples of poorly managed allotments and fails to present an accurate picture of the overall effect of grazing on federal lands.

“You can go out and pick spots like that and compare that to no grazing and find that there are impacts,” Svejcar said. “The question is, on what portion of the land-

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Although the primary emphasis of this analysis is on ecological considerations, the scientists acknowledged that the changes being discussed would cause some negative social, economic and community disruption. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If livestock grazing on public lands were discontinued or curtailed significantly, some operations would see reduced incomes and ranch values, some rural communities would experience negative economic impacts, and the social fabric of those communities could be altered,â&#x20AC;? the researchers wrote in their report, citing a 2002 study.

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grazing ungulates, which cause soil erosion, compaction, and dust generation; stream degradation; higher water temperatures and pollution; loss of habitat for fish, birds and amphibians; and desertification. â&#x2013; Encroachment of woody shrubs at the expense of native grasses and other plants can occur in grazed areas, affecting pollinators, birds, small mammals and other native wildlife. â&#x2013; Livestock grazing and trampling degrades soil fertility, stability and hydrology, and makes it vulnerable to wind erosion. This in turn adds sediments, nutrients and pathogens to western streams. â&#x2013; Water developments and diversion for livestock can reduce streamflows and increase water temperatures, degrading habitat for fish and aquatic invertebrates. â&#x2013; Grazing and trampling reduces the capacity of soils to sequester carbon, and through various processes contributes to greenhouse warming. â&#x2013; Domestic livestock now use more than 70 percent of the lands managed by the BLM and Forest Service, and their grazing may be the major factor negatively affecting wildlife in 11 western states. In the West, about 175 taxa of freshwater fish are considered imperiled due to habitatrelated causes. â&#x2013; Removing or significantly reducing grazing is likely to be far more effective, in cost and success, than piecemeal approaches to address some of these concerns in isolation.

The advent of climate change has significantly added to historic and contemporary problems that result from cattle and sheep ranching, the report said, which first prompted federal regulations in the 1890s.

Wild horses and burros are also a significant problem, this report suggested, and high numbers of deer and elk occur in portions of the West, partially due to the loss or decline of large predators such as cougars and wolves. Restoring those predators might also be part of a comprehensive recovery plan, the researchers said.

The problems are sufficiently severe, this group of researchers concluded, that they believe the burden of proof should be shifted. Those using public lands for livestock production should have to justify the continuation of ungulate grazing, they said.

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scape is that occurring?”

In the report, published Nov. 15 in the online publication Environmental Management, the scientists wrote that livestock production on public lands “can alter vegetation, soils, hydrology and wildlife species composition and abundance in ways that exacerbate the effects of climate change on these resources.”

“Removing or reducing livestock across large areas of public land would alleviate a widely recognized and long-term stressor and make these lands less susceptible to the effects of climate change,” they wrote.

In a phone interview, Robert Beschta, lead author of the study and a Oregon State University forestry professor, disputed Svejcar’s claims that the instances of poor grazing management are isolated and minimal.

“We would suggest that the effects have been widespread and they are far-reaching and they are not minimal,” Beschta said.

Beschta said the eight scientists wrote the report because they are concerned over how public lands are managed.

Svejcar, however, said federal land managers are doing a good job of protecting resources, particularly in recent years.

“In general, there has been a lot of attention focused on (grazing management) and managers have responded to that,” Svejcar said. “It is nothing like it was 30 or 40 years ago.”

In reference to photos of overgrazed areas that accompany the report, Svejcar said: “If that is happening somewhere, it should be fixed. The (Bureau of Land Management) probably needs to do something about it.

“But we don’t see that much of that anymore,” he said.

“These kind of papers are a slap in the face for those managers who have put a lot of effort into fixing these things,” Svejcar said.

The eight scientists behind the report include Cindy Deacon Williams of Medford, who earlier this year was appointed to the Oregon Board of Forestry; Debra L. Donahue, a University of Wyoming law professor; Dominick DellaSala, president and chief scientist of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Ore.; Portland hydrologist Jonathan J. Rhodes; J.R. Karr from Sequim, Wash.; M.H. O’Brien of Castle Valley, Utah; and T.L. Fleischner of Prescott, Ariz. continued on page 89

inMemoriam Jean Helen Walpole Cowden, 80, passed away at home on December 10, 2012, with her family at her side. Jean was born in Rock Valley, Iowa on June 2, 1932 to Mildred and Leslie J Walpole. She is survived by daughters Christy Cowden Brown (husband, Matthew) and Patricia Cowden Shanklin (husband, Souli); son Samuel Eugene Cowden (wife, Kathy Spreen). nine grandchildren, one great-granddaughter Saige Clarice Shanklin and many special friends and caregiver Dorothy Romero. Jean graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1950 and attended the University of New Mexico. She married Guy Tom Cowden in December 1952. They made their home and raised their family on Cowden Ranch. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and devoted much time and energy to the development and maintenance of the Evergreen Cemetery. Jean was involved in every aspect of the family ranching business. She was Rooster’s right hand woman for 42 years.

Jean was an avid gardener and enjoyed having pretty flowers on her porch, particularly in her later years.

Roy Dale Gallaher, 75, Magdalena, passed away on December 9, 2012, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on December 16, 1936 in Freer, Texas to Roy Franklin and Lorraine (Bailey) Gallaher. He was raised in Albuquerque and attended Albuquerque High. He was the quarterback and became a leader in the ROTC. Instead of accepting scholarships offered, Dale chose to marry the love of his life, Mary K and lead the cowboy life. He started as a ranch hand for Albert Harrington on the T.X. Ranch and Mary K was hired as a cook making $300 a month. He eventually was able to purchase his own ranch and go into business for himself.

Dale enjoyed trading cars, guns, houses, ranches, cattle and airplanes. Dale was an avid pilot and was known for his Cessna 195 Taildragger airplanes. Dale played the drums for Glen Campbell in his early days and he could also play several other instruments and enjoyed singing, and especially dancing with Mary K. His wife of 47 years.

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A guy truly can die of a broken heart.

Adolfo Sanchez, 94, Belen, went to be with his loving wife Nancy and God on December 14, 2012. He was born March 25, 1918 on a farm in Jarales and was a resident of Pueblitos. He attended the first public school in Valencia County. He was valedictorian in 8th grade. After high school he worked for the Farm Service Agency assisting farmers and ranchers with projects. This encouraged him to go to NMSU where as a proud Aggie he was drafted to the Army. Adolfo traveled the world on the USS Taos which led him to Hiroshima seven days after the bombing.

Upon return he started his career for Health and Human Services. By retirement he was the Director of Valencia and Torrance County. Retired he was back to his dreams of farming and enjoyed his family. Adolfo was a proud father and grandfather and great-grandfather. He was a strong leader in the community. Adolfo is survived by his daughter, Joan (husband, Max) Romero; sons, Dr. Roland K. Sanchez (wife, Elia), Adolph P. Sanchez (wife, Kathy), Fred Sanchez (wife, Therese); 18 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Orlando and Bernice Sanchez.

Ronald Alfred Christensen, 78, Payson, Arizona, passed away on November 29, 2012 after a short battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was born January 14, 1934 to Christen Jens and Florence Clark Christensen and was raised in the St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin area. While in high school started a business picking up milk from farmers and delivering to the creamery.

Ron was drafted into the U.S. Army in February 1957 and served eight years. He moved to Payson in October 1982 where he and his wife owned and operated Tonto Books ’n T-Shirts and Tonto Silkscreen for seven years. Ron became interested in serving the people of Gila County and ran for District One Supervisor where he served for 16 years. He was a key member of the Arizona/New Mexico Coalition of Counties. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Clarice; two sons, Stephen, (wife, Karen Percell), Payson, and Kevin (wife, Diane Ramey), Couer D’Alene, Idaho and four grandchildren.

Daniel Vance Fralie, 76, Animas, passed away peacefully at home from a hard fought battle with mesothelioma on December 9, 2012. He was born January 26, 1935 in Douglas, Arizona to AH Fralie

and Florence Fralie. He is survived by his wife of 60 years Shirley, his son Wayne (wife, Louise) Animas, his daughter Vickie Crosby (husband, Bing) Park City, Utah, his son Ernie (wife, Bev) Animas, six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Stella M. Wood, 88, Animas resident passed away on December 10, 2012 at her home. She was born on January 10, 1924 in La Mesa.

Speaker Ben Lujan, 77, Nambe, passed away on December 18, 2012 with his loving family by his side at CHRISTUS St. Vincent’s Hospital. Ben was born to Nestora and Celedon Lujan on July 12, 1935. His father was a sheepherder and was one of the first laborers recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. Ben grew up in humble beginnings in the Nambe Valley where the original home built by his father remains an intimate part of the family home. Ben attended St. Michael’s and Pojoaque High Schools. It was there in Pojoaque that he met his sweetheart who would become his lifelong companion Carmen. He was a basketball player and she was a cheerleader. After graduating from high school, he started college. That short-lived dream of becoming the first college graduate in his family forced him into the workforce, and he began his career as an ironworker, which he continued until the day he retired. Ben followed his passion to be in the service of others, which was central to his core values and upbringing. He was elected to the Santa Fe County Commission in 1970. In 1974, Ben was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives. He is the only member of the House to serve all three leadership positions, Majority Whip, Majority Floor Leader and became the second longest Speaker of the House. He is survived by his wife, Carmen; daughters, Shirley and Jackie (husband, Marvin); sons, Jerome (wife, Johnell) and Ben Ray; nine grandchildren; a great-grandson; brothers, Felix (wife, Vera) and Ernesto (wife, Carrie); sister, Matilda; sister-in-law, Celia; and many other family and friends.

Tony Lama, Jr. was born in El Paso, Texas, on August 31, 1931. Tony graduated from El Paso High School in 1950, where he was an All District football player. He attended New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell and graduated from Texas Western College in 1954. He served in the US Army and was honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant. Tony was a natural in the boot business and under his leadership Tony

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Lama boots became a world renowned name. His custom boots were worn by many U.S. presidents and celebrities. Tony served on numerous boards and was civically active in El Paso throughout his life, receiving numerous honors including the Sun Country Section PGA Amateur of the Year Award, Humanitarian of the Year Award from national Jewish Hospital and Research Center, and recognition awards from the National Shrine Hospitals for crippled and burned children. His life was inspirational and touched many. He is survived by his wife Patricia Lama, Melissa Lama, Catherine and Craig Hyatt, Steven and Molly Lama, Stuart and Dannah Meyers, Mark and Dori Fenenbock, and Dawn Keim. Tony had an unfailing sense of humor and ongoing optimism that will be missed by all those whose life is made richer by knowing him.

Annie Merle Boyd Harlan, 81, Eunice, passed away on November 12, 2012, at Trust Point Rehab Hospital in Lubbock.

Annie was born on May 4, 1931, in Wink, Texas, to James Elmar Henderson and Maude Estelle (Weaver) Henderson. She

lived in Eunice all her life. She married Fred Boyd on August 14, 1950. He passed away in 1988. She then went on to marry Charles E. Harlan on January 23, 1999. She was a homemaker, and an active member of the Church of Christ in Eunice. She is survived by her husband, Charles; her son, James Irvin Boyd (wife, Shirley), Eunice; her two sisters, Imogene Rodgers, Hobbs, and Hazel Cherry, Winter, Texas; one brother, Roy Tabb, Lubbock; two grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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Wild West Shows, Frontier Days CeleBill Pickett bulldoggin'. brations, Stampedes and Roundup Celebrations of various forms all had a hand in its formation. It is written there were as many as 100 different events, contests or displays the various producers chose from when organizing a show. One such event was simply known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;bulldogging.â&#x20AC;? It is was the precursor to what we know today as steer wrestling and is the only event in rodeo which can be traced back to one man who is credited with its origination.

That man is Bill Pickett.

Pickett was born December 5, 1870 in Travis County, Texas, north of modern-day Austin. His parents were former slaves. He was a Black man, who also was said to have Cherokee Indian and Anglo in his blood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His antecedents were of mixed Negro, Caucasian and Cherokee Indian blood,â&#x20AC;? according to Colonel Bailey C. Hanes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a

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not uncommon blend [in the 1800s] in the upper south.â&#x20AC;? Hanes wrote in his book, Bill Pickett, Bulldogger (University of Oklahoma Press, 1977).

As a kid, Bill worked on local ranches, where he observed ranch dogs (often referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;bull-dogsâ&#x20AC;?) bring wild cattle under submission by biting them on the nose and upper lip. He must have thought, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it works for those dogs, why wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it work for me?â&#x20AC;? Bill started practicing his

â&#x20AC;&#x153;... without Bill Pickett, there would not be a steer wrestling contest.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;bulldoggingâ&#x20AC;? technique.

Nobody knows for sure if he first started doing this on the range or in a corral.

What we do know is that he figured out how to spur his horse along beside a bovine and jump onto it, grabbing ahold of its horns. He then maneuvered around so he could get a bite on the nose or upper lip, just like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d witnessed those good dogs

doing. Then he threw his weight to the ground, bringing the animal with him. It had no choice but to submit.

Before long, word got around about Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stunt and he started doing exhibitions. Although he only had a fifth-grade education, he and his brothers were some of the earliest Black entrepreneurs in Texas during the late 1800s. They formed a group called, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pickett Bros. Bronco Busters and Rough Riders Association,â&#x20AC;? near Taylor. As word spread, Bill was requested more and more for exhibitions further away from home. He did shows all across the West.

By 1904, his technique and act down had been honed to perfection and he made an appearance at the prestigious Cheyenne Frontier Days. There he caught the attention of the Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was known worldwide. They hired Pickett in 1905 for his popular act and brought him and his family from Texas to Oklahoma, housing them at the 101 Ranch headquarters. He was continued on page 67

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billed as “The Dusky Demon,” and known at the time as “the only professional bulldogger in the world.”

He worked along side the likes of Buffalo Bill, Will Rogers and Tom Mix and performed with the Wild West Show in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, and England. Colonel Zack Miller of the 101 Ranch described Pickett as “. . . the greatest sweat-and-dirt cowhand that ever lived, bar none.”

He was such a popular performer that he was also requested to appear in some early motion pictures. He was in the films, The Bull Dogger and The Crimson Skull and has been credited as the first Black cowboy movie star.

Bill worked for the Wild West Show (and Millers 101 Ranch) the rest of his life.

He did everything for them from working cattle to picking cotton to training horses — and of course, performing in their shows. Along the way he taught bulldogging to many cowboys. The biting aspect of it eventually was dropped, but “steer wrestling” evolved and has since become on of the six “standard” events of rodeo to have survived out of the 100-plus various events tried throughout the years.

In 1890 Pickett married Maggie Turner and the couple had nine children. Over the years Bill sometimes entered rodeos as a Native American just because Blacks were often not allowed to compete due to prejudices of the day. There has been speculation that Bill would have several “World Championships” in the bulldogging event to his credit had he been allowed to compete like his white contemporaries. Of course, by the time World Championships were even counted, Bill would have been in his late fifties — so who knows. One thing is probable however, without Bill Pickett, there would not be a steer wrestling contest.

In 1932, Bill Pickett was kicked in the head by a horse while working at the 101 Ranch and died of his injuries eleven days later on April 4, at the age of sixty-one. His friend Will Rogers announced the funeral on his radio show, commenting: “Bill Pick-

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Pickett is buried near a fourteen-foot stone monument to Ponca Tribal Chief White Eagle, on Monument Hill, in Kay County, Oklahoma.

Today there is a Bill Pickett Memorial rodeo series, held annually since 1984. They raise money for scholarships and according to the website, “The Bill Pickett Memorial Scholarship Fund (BPMSF) strongly supports education and benefits youth each year by providing scholarships to Black high school and college students involved or interested in pursuing careers in rodeo or animal science.”

In 1971 Bill Pickett became the first black honoree into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s, Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. In 1989, he was also inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame at Colorado Springs, Colorado. ■

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Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Bros., sued the ASPCA and the other groups in 2007 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, claiming the groups and their lawyers paid more than $190,000 to a former Ringling employee who had joined them in suing the circus company in 2000, alleging animal cruelty under the Endangered Species Act. A federal court at the end of a six-week trial in 2009 ruled in the circus’ favor. In its ruling, the court characterized former employee, Tom Rider, as a paid witness whose testimony was not credible.

Feld’s racketeering lawsuit against the ASPCA also includes the Humane Society of the United States, the Fund for Animals, Animal Welfare Institute, Animal Protection Institute United with Born Free USA, Tom Rider and some of the attorneys involved in the litigation. But Friday’s settlement only covers the ASPCA. “These defendants attempted to destroy our family-owned business with a hired plaintiff who made statements that the court did not believe,” said Kenneth Feld, chairman and chief executive officer of Feld Entertainment. “This settlement is a vindication not just for the company, but also for the dedicated men and women who spend their lives working and caring for all the animals with Ringling Bros. in the face of such targeted, malicious rhetoric.”

The settlement ends a part of a battle in what has been a decades-long war between animal-rights activists and circus companies such as Ringling. Activist groups have long held that Ringling treats its performing elephants cruelly. And over the years, they have released undercover videos showing trainers beating the elephants, which activists say are housed in cramped quarters and are poorly treated for debilitating diseases.

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“Where?” I asked, thinking I had scratched it in the mesquite or during the night while I was sleeping someone had tattooed “KICK ME” across my forehead. She reached up and touched me above the left ear. “Oh,” I said, “I had a little hair trim.”

“Rollie got a little close, didn’t he?”

“No, not really. I, uh, trimmed it myself,” I explained.

“So, that explains the lock of black, tan and gray hair I found in the sink,” she said. “I thought it was off that deer you shot yesterday. Why didn’t you let me do it?”

“I don’t know, I guess I was in a hurry.”

“Pretty good reason,” she said, “Did you close your eyes while you were trimming your hair? Or did a sudden earth tremor rattle your clippers? Wait, you were working on your trick or treat mask of Frankenstein!”

“Yes,” I said defensively, “it was . . . it was just the heeler mentality.” That stopped her.

The heeler mentality is a version of the cowboy mentality where instinct often overwhelms good judgment. It can be compared to the team roping “header” mentality. For instance; a header usually has his hair styled rather than cut; a heeler cuts his own hair and always needs a shave. A header drives a fairly new pickup and trailer with a coordinated paint job; the heeler is still buyin’ recaps and the paint job on his trailer matches the primer on his brother’s BBQ grill. A header usually has two horses, his favorite and one in training; the heeler has one horse, in training and for sale. The header has

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I’m left-handed so I am condemned to roping the heels. I play the guitar right-handed because my dad made me.

So now I can never play music as well as a natural right-hander plus I sign my name upside down because it’s the only way I can write it legibly. People see me signing my name and think it’s a parlor trick. “How long did it take you to learn that?” they ask. It’s like asking a one legged man how long it took him to learn to limp. I’m not doing it on purpose . . . it’s a handicap! Being lefthanded in a right-handed world is like being a bolt with Machine Threads surrounded by nuts all drilled for Standard.

A heeler sees nothing wrong with turning his socks inside out to keep them fresh, storing his dress shirt in his dop kit, and using Scotch tape instead of sewing on a new one on when he loses a button off his cuff. It’s not a bad thing having the heeler mentality. Life is easier. You can drop your sandwich on the floor, then pick it up and eat it.

What’s a few grains of sand. They think nothing of doing a rectal exam on a cow without a plastic sleeve, getting mud on their new boots, climbing on a bad horse out of obstinance, receiving a D in Algebra, or never balancing their check book. But, we can focus intensely on a project when we need to; like comin’ out of the heeler’s box concentrating on the throw, or makin’ a bank shot off the rail in a game of 8-Ball, or cutting off our nose to spite our face!

So, giving myself a hair trim is not out of character. I can live with it, even though I look like the barber did it with an electric sander and a weed eater. It’ll grow out, just a little slower, that’s all.

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Brandon Valley used to allow students to take an extra slice of bread to fill up. Officials stopped doing so this year when limits on grains went into effect. They might bring the option back now but are leery of making too many changes.

Although schools now can hand out extra bread or increase meat portion sizes, Anderson said they still have to watch that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exceed calorie maximums.

In Yankton, Kramer plans to incorporate more meat or bread on occasion. She tries to get as close as possible to the 850-calorie limit for high school meals, and a couple times a month has used small servings of pudding or Jell-O to do it.

The USDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent decision will allow her to serve a larger bun or serving of meat instead.

But Kramer would like to see more changes, such as a modest increase in the calorie ceiling. She also finds it difficult to find legumes that students will eat and thinks three-quarters of a cup of vegetables is too much for elementary school students.

Anderson wants the USDA to relax its limits on protein for school breakfasts.

In addressing the problem of hungry students, Vilsack gave no indication the USDA would move on calorie limits. Instead, he suggested families and sports teams bring food to supplement the taxpayer-subsidized meals, and noted that students are allowed to buy additional food at school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;New school meals are designed to meet only a portion of a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nutritional needs over the course of the school day,â&#x20AC;? Vilsack wrote.

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The “SO Ranch” – located just north of Roy in northeastern NM. This Ranch is comprised of Deeded, State & U.S. Forest Service National Grasslands, with a total of approx. 14,680 acres or 23 sections. Most of the grasslands are fenced separately. This is open rolling country, best suited for summer yearlings but cows can be run if desired. Carrying capacity varies: about 250 AUs to 300 AUs or 850 to 1,200 yearlings during the summer season dependent upon the length of the grazing term & the conditions. A few Mule Deer but mainly Antelope are present.

The “10 Section Hunting Ranch” – located in southern Harding County not far from Logan & Ute Lake. This is a rugged ranch has an ideal habitat for wildlife, mainly Mule Deer, Elk, Turkey & Quail with a few Lion & Bear from time to time. Most of the Ranch is Deeded. The mesa lands are interspersed with canyons which have numerous dirt tanks. Very scenic with lots of trees & a wide variety of grasses & browses.

The “5 Section” – a small operation located just southeast of Moriarty.

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Arroyo Sanchez Ranch near Villanueva has 285 deeded acres & 4,450 acre NM state grazing lease. Perimeter fenced, dirt tanks, water storage & pipeline drinkers. Price reduced to $698,900. Owner will lease back! Priced at $698,900.

Trujillo Ranch near Trementina – 1,442 deeded acres has 3 pastures. Perimeter fenced, 3 good water wells, 2 dirt tanks & springs in the coolies. Range in excellent condition. Listed at $575,350.

La Cueva Canyon Ranch – SW of Las Vegas - 1,595 deeded acres w/240 acres of BLM. Scenic parcel has tall pines, canyon springs, dirt tanks, new fence on NE corner.

Turkeys, deer & other native species abound. Priced at $990,333 – Owner can finance!

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Dilia, NM – 35 acre irrigated farm for sale, 35 ac/ft water rights go w/sale plus farm equipment. Its fenced, has stocked fish pond, mobile home on site w/community water & septic. Price: $548,000.

Anton Chico – 65 acre fenced irrigated farm has 100 + ac/ft ditch rights. HQ home on historic register. Bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & farm equipment go w/sale. Great value in this sale price! Priced below appraisal at $698,900 Jaymar Road, Stanley, NM – 77 acre horse property has 3 pastures fenced & cross fenced, 1 trap, 3 loafing sheds, hay storage & tack room. Incredible HQ home onsite.

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What’s the Best Cow Size?

Part One – Frame Size, Environment and Efficiency

by HEATHER SMITH THOMAS ver the past 40 years the average cow on many ranches has increased in frame size (taller, longer, bigger body). Where once a 950-1,000 pound cow was the norm, today we’re seeing 1,300 to 1,700 pound cows or bigger. Some stockmen now realize their cattle are too large to be efficient. One of the first clues is often the fact the ranch operation needs a lot more hay to winter the same number of cows and that the pastures just won’t run as many cattle as they used to. Once a cow gets past a certain size, efficiency decreases and she becomes less able to pay her own way.

A growing number of ranchers are now trying to get their cows back to more moderate frame size — to be more able to maintain themselves and raise good calves on feed the place produces, without a lot of expensive inputs. The most important thing in the cattle business is not how big and how much the cattle bring at market, but how much it cost to get them to market. When you pencil it out, a small cow is more profitable than a large one, but this is not an easy lesson to learn because the advice we’ve been getting from agricultural colleges and seedstock breeders during the past 60 years has encouraged us to increase weaning weights, calf growth and maximize production. After the fad of ultra-small cattle in the 1940s and 50s (the extreme of which produced dwarfs and other genetic defects), the pendulum swung the other direction.

Most of the drive toward bigger animals came from the corn-based feeding industry that evolved in the 1950s and 60s.

Feedlots wanted a larger-framed animal that would not mature so quickly and stop growing; they wanted a bigger carcass.

Breed associations got on board early on, with a push for bigger weaning and yearling weights.

Cattle winning the stock shows helped lead the push to make them bigger; champions in each breed became the popular genetics. Breed records, EPDs and computer-generated selection methods by numbers led us to believe that bigger is better, but the popular sire bloodlines that produced such nice big steers also produced daughters bigger than their mothers. Stockmen soon discovered that big

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As stated by Diana Anderson (raising purebred Murray Gray cattle at Eagles Run Ranch near Livermore, California), the typical commercial producer buys a beautiful young bull with lots of leg and length and is very happy with the calves. But the heifers grow too big. “Those big heifers present more challenge to get bred early, to calve as 2 year olds,” she says. They require more feed, and don’t mature as continued on page 85

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quickly as a smaller animal and won’t cycle soon enough. They are also more difficult to keep fed for proper body condition.

Buddy Westphal (Valley View Charolais, at Polson, Montana) says the focus should be to find optimum efficiency of production so we can harvest our grass through our cattle. “We’re finding that maximum cow size is not optimum. When you see 1,800 pound heifers and 3,000 pound bulls in the show barn in Denver, they are amazing, but not practical.”

ENVIRONMENT – Many people feel that environment plays a role in whether or not a large cow can stay in the herd.

Climate and feed resources are vastly different from one part of the country to another, and environmental factors (lush grass or desert range, steep mountains or flat pastures) vary from ranch to ranch.

Jon Angell, who raises cattle in Missouri and is involved with auction markets says optimum size cow may be different for each producer, depending on two things: “Ranchers must ask themselves what size cow matches the roughage and feed their outfit produces. A Midwestern farm can support a larger cow than an arid Southwestern ranch, for instance. Next they must ask themselves what their target market is for selling the calves off those cows,” says Angell.

“Northern feedlots like to feed cattle longer and want a bigger frame calf or yearling. Southern feedlots don’t want them quite as big. Grass fed or niche market freezer beef producers find a smaller frame animal is more efficient,” he says.

He feels that the most efficient grassfed animal might be almost too small to work well in the traditional grain-fed feedlot production model.

Jeff Schmidt (JR Ranch near Othello, Washington) raises Angus and Shorthorn seedstock. His cows get through part of the winter on pasture and cornstalks and he feels it’s a lot more cost effective if cattle can harvest their own feed. “Cattle are meant to graze. If a cow can’t be profitable in marginal conditions, she’s not doing her job,” says Schmidt. He thinks the cattle industry has picked up many bad habits such as feeding a lot of harvested feeds. He also feels cattle have gotten too big. Some ranchers have 1,700 pound cows and these take too much feed to maintain, considering what they’ll produce in calf weight.

He tried some really small cows but says some of their calves wouldn’t finish out large enough in the feedlot. “They get really fat really quick and don’t have as

much carcass value. You need a happy medium. We have a good environment here, with plenty of feed resources, and a medium size cow works best,” says Schmidt.

“You need cattle fitted to your own environment, to utilize what you can grow, feed-wise. Let the environment sort the cattle for you, rather than trying to outguess mother nature. Every fall there are some individuals in the herd that just look better, and have better calves. If you can quit worrying about numbers and EPDs and just look at the flesh on the cattle and the calf they bring home — and remember their mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers (the cows that always did it right), soon you have about 4 or 5 cows families that outshine the rest of the herd,” says Schmidt.

He feels that no cow works perfectly in every environment and what might be the ideal cow on one ranch may not be the best on another. Hard winters, for instance, require a different type of efficiency than heat and humidity where you need a more heat tolerant animal. “That’s what’s so difficult for the seedstock producer, trying to produce the type of animal that will work for the customers. A cow that might work nicely here might be 100 pounds too big for a harsh environment,” says Schmidt.

But small is definitely more efficient and profitable than large. Ken Dunn, who raises registered Angus near Tetonia, Idaho says seedstock producers in his environment have been trying to pay attention to frame size; the commercial rancher who buys bulls and keeps replacement

heifers can’t make a profit with cows that are too big. “The problem is that some of the popular genetics in the Angus breed today don’t take mature cow size into consideration. They have not used moderate cow size as a model and have gotten cow size too big. In harsh environments, cows bigger than 1,250 pounds won’t breed back,” says Dunn. In many range environments, even a 1,200 pound cow is too big.

Kit Pharo, seedstock producer of several breeds and composites at Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, goes one step farther in discussing environment’s role. “Many people believe optimum size changes from ranch to ranch and from one environment to another, and there may be a few cases where this is true, but very few,” says Pharo.

Some people say that if they get 40 inches of rain and have green grass year round they can use a bigger cow than the rancher who lives in a desert. Pharo’s response to that argument is: “Not really. I could run big cows here, too, just not very many. Ranchers in a more favorable environment could run smaller cows in their lush pasture and run more of them. Environment doesn’t really make a difference on this point,” he says.

“A cow has to be adapted to her environment. My cows may not work as well in a different environment and someone else’s cows might not work in my environment, but the size of my cows should work just about anywhere in the world. It doesn’t matter where you live, the smaller cow will always be more efficient,” he says. continued on page 87

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Westphal says seedstock producers have gotten many stockmen into trouble.

“A lot of purebred breeders are not cattlemen. They just look at the numbers. Any hobby breeder can look at EPDs and determine the numbers that will produce big

THE MILK FACTOR – any of the larger cows in various breeds milk well, since selection for growth (early gains and heavy weaning weights) is correlated not only with genetic frame size but also the milking ability of the dam. But the dam needs high feed input in order to do this.

Without extra feed she can’t maintain herself and won’t breed back while raising that big calf.

“In any herd, the smaller cows are weaning off a higher percent of their own body weight than the bigger cows, yet if you just start selecting for cows that wean 60 percent of their own weight, you are inadvertently selecting for so much milk that you reduce fertility,” says Pharo. He doesn’t feed his cows in winter; they must graze native range year round. This quickly weeds out the cows that can’t maintain themselves and breed back while raising a calf.

Some cows, especially crossbreds, may be able to produce the extra milk and stay in the herd, but if a person keeps selecting for extra milk and growth, this will have negative effects. When you keep big, fat heifers as replacements, they don’t milk as well as their mamas because fat displaces the developing mammary tissue and they never produce as much milk. Their calves are usually the smallest calves in the herd.

Yet if you keep those dinky heifer calves they grow up to milk like grandma. “My point is that if milk is one of your primary selection factors, you don’t have much you can depend on, year after year through the generations,” says Pharo. High milking ability will skip a generation. Moderation in milking ability is more dependable. Using cow size as a target in the efficiency equation, rather than looking at milking ability, is more reliable.

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cattle, and that’s what they’ve selected for,” he says. “They loose sight of efficiency, age at puberty, fertility and breedback, ease of calving, structural soundness, longevity and disposition. The idea that bigger is better has gotten many breeds, and breeders, into trouble. A better yardstick for any ranch is to determine how many dollars of beef are being produced from the grass.”

“It’s been too easy to get cattle too big — whether it’s the purebred breeder’s fault or the cowboy running the outfit.

There are too many seedstock operations owned by an investor or stockbroker and he likes big, pretty cows. He doesn’t know they are inefficient and sometimes they don’t have to be efficient in his economic situation. There are many reasons why a lot of purebred operations continue to breed big cattle,” explains Westphal.

EFFICIENCY FACTOR – “When you consider cow efficiency, a smaller cow will always have an advantage over a bigger cow,” says Pharo. “Smaller cows can do more for less. If your ranch can support 100 head of 1,400 pound cows, it will support 120 head of 1,100 pound cows, on the same inputs. That’s 20 percent more calves, and I guarantee those 120 smaller cows will always produce more total pounds of beef than the 100 larger cows.

On top of that, the calves out of the smaller cows (because they have smaller individual weights) will be worth more per pound,” he explains.

“A cow eats about 2.5 to 3 percent of her own weight in feed every day,” says Pharo.

The larger animal has a larger maintenance requirement, yet she can’t wean off enough extra pounds of calf to justify that extra feed cost.

Regarding efficiency and profitability, Westphal says you must look at number of cows exposed to a bull and number of calves actually marketed from those cows.

How many actually became pregnant and had live calves that made it to market?

“Next look at how many cows you can run on your grass. If you could run 10 to 20 percent more cows (smaller and more efficient), you’d probably make more money.

The big cows won’t give you maximum number of pounds weaned from the herd or net dollars returned from your grass.

And if you’re looking at expensive hay, it’s easy to put a lot of money into wintering a cow. The big cow, with a 30-50 pound heavier calf, won’t make enough more to pay for the extra hay she needs,” says Westphal.

“A 2 frame cow that weighs 1,000 pounds can easily wean off 50 percent of her own body weight, but it’s much harder for a 1,200 pound cow to do that and stay in the herd. A 1,400 pound cow will never be able to wean off 50 percent of her own weight and stay in the herd,” says Pharo.

Some small cows come close to weaning 60 percent of their own body weight. He’s had some 1 frame cows weighing 950 to 1,000 pounds that could consistently wean off 58 to 60 percent of their own weight and stay in the herd for many years — and many ranchers experienced this in earlier years when they had small frame crossbred cows that milked well and had good fertility and longevity due to hybrid vigor. By contrast, a 4 or 5 frame cow that weans off more than 50 percent of her own body weight is putting too much of herself into milk production and will eventually fail to breed back.

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Past the city skyline, the pace slows and rural life begins. In the small town of Ghent, N.Y., the Trowbridge family is now in its fifth generation of Angus breeders.

Recently elected as the American Angus Association® Board of Directors President and Chairman, Phil Trowbridge has been involved with Angus cattle since 1955.

That year his dad, Paul Trowbridge Sr., purchased the family’s first Angus cow. It was initially a 4-H project for Phil’s older brother, Paul Jr., but enthusiasm for the breed soon spread to all nine of the Trowbridge children.

“Angus is one of the breeds of cattle that has become such a dominant figure in the beef industry, because of its predictability and efficiency,” Phil says. “If you talk to anyone who feeds cattle, they want to feed Angus because they are predictable, and that comes from the extensive database we’ve established in Saint Joseph, Mo.” Prior to his position as president and chairman, Phil served as vice president and vice chairman of the board. He was elected, along with five new members and officers, to lead the Association during its 129th Annual Meeting of Delegates in Louisville, Ky. “The Angus breed brings a certain versatility to our farm,” Phil says. “With the maternal and carcass genetic traits, it’s no wonder Angus is now a household name.”

Today, Trowbridge Angus runs about 250 head of cattle and hosts several sales throughout the year. Phil describes himself as an average size breeder and hopes continued on page 92

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“We recognize wolves are controversial,” Beschta said, “but on large blocks of public lands, it may be necessary for wolves to reestablish themselves to restore ecosystems.”

Svejcar characterized the report’s authors as longtime anti-grazing advocates.

“They just periodically come out with stuff like this,” he said. “I can’t see anything new here.

“It is the same stuff that has been around for a while,” Svejcar said.

“It is something that we have been through before with this individual and his associates,” said Curtis Martin, president of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association. “It is just kind of more of the same.”

Beschta acknowledged the scientists used existing studies to reach their conclusion.

“We basically delved through literature and tried to put together a coherent study on what the literature was telling us,” he said.

Asked why the scientists concentrated on public lands to the exclusion of private lands, Beschta said: “We think perhaps there is more of a chance to influence change and there are better opportunities to restore ecosystems on public lands.”

The report concludes with a call to action for federal agencies.

“If effective adaptations to the adverse effects of climate change are to be accomplished on western public lands, largescale reductions or cessations of ecosystem stressors associated with ungulate use ■ are crucial,” the report stated.

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Fall Works at the Luera

by CURTIS FORT

he fifth of September we pulled into the Luera Ranch. This outfit was around seventy sections. Most of it was cedar, piñon, and rough country, with the Luera Mountain set on the west side at 9,500 feet. It was forty-five miles to Magdalena and no phone. We unloaded by sundown, with Lee York’s help. The next morning the horses came in for their grain, and I got started resetting their shoes. I had a couple of weeks before I needed to go to the Slash to help with the fall works there. The rains had been great that summer and in all that country the grass was headed out, tanks were full and cattle were fat.

I was anxious to ride the mounts left there for me! The horses were an average string. Out of six head, a couple of them were top mounts; a couple of them were tough outside circle mounts; one was a young sorrel with all the potential in the world; and finally, a real knot head 4-year old they sent up from the Slash. I caught one each morning and made a big circle.

One day prowling south of the camp, I came across a good set of wire pens at a watering called Antelope Tank. I found a bull shut up in those pens. The wind had blown the gate shut and he was nearly starved for water. Anyone knows to wire a gate open so some critter won’t get shut up. I figure he’d been there five or six days, as he was very thin and glassy eyed. I let him out and he was dry! I was afraid he’d drink too much, so I flipped a loop on him and pulled him away from the water. I let him drink a few more times until he wanted to start grazing. So I left him there with lush grass and unsaddled a tired mount at sundown! I trotted back to that tank couple days later and thankfully, that bull was a little better, so I eased him toward the house and dropped him at another tank. A couple of days got him to the house where he had all he needed! It took three months for him to get back to normal and regain his weight. Those cou-

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ple of weeks was sure enjoyable . . . riding those new mounts, and learning that range. At least I had a feel of how the ranch was laid out, as I figured I’d have to scatter the drives when we worked that range. I even came across some Indian sign in several places, especially at the Luera Springs.

The twentieth of September, I took my bed and mounts to the Slash outfit. Their headquarters was at Beaverhead. The west third of the Slash lay in the Gila wilderness and we gathered that range first . . . a thousand yearlings. Over in the wilderness part there was a spring fed tank, called Gillette Tank, named for a famous Texas Ranger, John Gillette.

By October tenth we were finished at the Slash and moved the crew to the Luera.

Jack George was one of the day-help hands.

Jack was fifty and had made a lot of horse tracks in that range, and was fun to be around. One day Jack and I were making a long trot around the outside. I’d dropped the rest on the drive and was going to have him work down the next canyon. He was a good hand so I couldn’t figure why he always had his horn knot drawn down on his saddle horn, even when his rope was coiled up and hanging by the rope string. I had to ask him why? He said that going through all that brush at high speed, pursuing the wild bovine, it would break your rope string and you’d loose a rope. When I dropped him off down Buck Canyon, I thought that I’d buy a new rope before I kept it tied on all the time. The shipping pens were on the northeast corner of the Luera, at the best well on the outfit. After we got rid of the yearlings we started gathering the cows and calves. Our good neighbor Marvin Ake, and his right-hand man Johnny Hand, neighbored with me and were good help! So we had a good crew, but the owner had us scheduled to gather and ship the Luera in seven days. It should have been seventeen days with that crew, and we would have been close! So, we were short a lot of cattle. On the first of November, Paul

Yancey from the Crutchfield camp on the Slash, brought his mounts and stayed with me to help gather all that we were short.

Paul was a good hand, another man “to ride the river with.” We left early every day at a high trot and covered a lot of miles. We were a long time working through all that range, picking up those cows with big calves that we didn’t get in the works! As most of those cattle were ‘trotty’, Paul and I might not get but a few pair each day out of those big pastures, and it took a lot of time driving them to the holding trap. For two weeks that’s all we did . . . gathering those pairs, and drifting them toward the shipping pens. There we finally weaned the calves, and “pregged” the cows the end of November.

The man that was at the Luera before me was feeding a beef at the house. Ray White who ran the Slash, was my boss, and had told me to split that beef with Paul when I decided to butcher him. That was the way it should be. Ray told me that Lee Coker at Eagle Guest Ranch at Datil, NM, would cut and wrap the beef for me. When I first looked at the job, I asked if they furnished beef, they said, “Of course,” as any cow outfit should do. So when I arrived, there was enough in a freezer at the Luera to get us by for a month or so, along with feeding the crew! One day, it was 2:00 p.m. when Paul and I had put in a lot of miles and trotted to the house, where we unsaddled and fed our mounts. As we wolfed down some lunch, I told Paul that it was too late to make another circle; there were lots of dark clouds rolling in from the west, and three hours till dark. So, I suggested we hang that beef. It sounded good to Paul, so I told him my plan! We spent an hour airing up the tires on an old stock trailer and patching up some broken boards on it.

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prowling. There was this old stock trailer out by the barn, and I figured we could load the beef real “easy.” Then we could pull the trailer out under that big piñon tree, shoot him and pull up the beef with the pickup. We’d let all the guts fall in the trailer, and then haul it off so the bears and coyotes wouldn’t be around the house.

Plus, it was plenty cold and we’d let the beef hang couple days or so, and then we’d haul it to Mr. Coker to cut and wrap.

We tried to be easy loading that beef, but he had a little “ear” on him and got stirred up pronto! Paul was packing a sixshooter, and I had already told him he needed to shoot the beef when the time came! As we drove over the cattle guard to be under that big limb on the piñon tree, snow was falling pretty thick. We stepped up on the tongue of the trailer, Paul had his pistol out, the beef whirled to face us and “BAM,” just as Paul shot, the beef jerked his head and the bullet just creased him. He hit the side of the trailer and broke some boards. Paul and I rushed to the pickup, as we both had 30-30s. We were in a big brushy pasture, and we knew

we might lose him. Plus, we didn’t know how hard he was hit. There was no time to talk as that beef busted through the side of that trailer and headed for the timber. We both grabbed our rifles out of each side of the pickup and cut loose, just like “The Rifleman!” I don’t think a bullet went

around him! He went down at the edge of the timber, and we drug him back to the tree over all those rocks. I delivered the remains to Lee Coker a few days later. I think his stories grew over the years about how that wild bunch at the Luera shot ■ their beef!

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Good News for New Mexico Producers on the Animal Health Front oo often, producers’ interaction with or news from the New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) is not necessarily positive – livestock movement restrictions, an animal disease outbreak, or problems with health papers or an inspection.

“During the recent Joint Stockmen’s meeting, a producer approached me and stated, “Dave, I hope that the next time I hear from you it is good news,” said Dave Fly, DVM, New Mexico State Veterinarian.

“We always seem to focus on the problems we are facing, but the fact is, on the animal health front, New Mexico is in pretty good shape – and that’s something producers and the NMLB should be proud of.”

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Vesicular Stomatitis:

New Mexico just experienced a significant outbreak of this disease as it traveled

from the southern to northern portions of the state. There were well over 100 investigations, and several confirmed cases.

Although New Mexico’s requirements for instate horse travel were increased, for the first time the state did not experience costly restrictions put into place by other states.

“No equine events were cancelled, movement restrictions were minimal and the cattle industry was not subjected to movement restrictions,” Fly said. “This can be attributed to industry self policing and other states recognizing that New Mexico was making every effort to prevent exposure to other states.”

Bovine Tuberculosis (TB):

New Mexico remains free of the disease after twenty plus years of effort, expenditure, movement restrictions and elimination of herds. Livestock producers in California continue to operate with bovine tuberculosis movement restrictions, and Michigan continues to battle the disease, now found in the wildlife population. With TB, as with most disease outbreaks, it was the producer that bore the brunt of the expense.

Bovine Trichomoniasis:

In 2005, the cattle industry requested that the NMLB institute rules to control bovine trichomoniasis, or “trich,” and today we can report a significant reduction in infected bulls. The New Mexico State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has developed one of the most reliable tests for the disease and the cost per test is among the lowest in the country. Today all of the western states have adopted rules to control “trich,” many using New Mexico’s ■ rules as a guideline.

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that insight will help him guide the organization in the upcoming year.

“Coming from small-scale farm in rural New York, I believe I bring a different perspective to the Association board,” Phil says. “I have always been extremely focused on customer service, and our Association does a terrific job with that, but there are always ways to improve by working together.”

As president, Phil is responsible for leading the Association’s nearly 30,000 members across the United States, Canada and several other countries. He will also advise the world’s most popular beef brand, Certified Angus Beef®. The Association Board of Directors examines topics ranging from genetic evaluation to consumer marketing, and youth programs to advertising efforts.

To set the Angus breed up for long-term success, Phil says the Association needs to continue to stay ahead of the technology curve and develop a more worldwide business plan. He predicts that genomic testing will become increasingly important in the years ahead, and that data will help the breed develop more efficient, profitable cattle.

But at the end of the day, it’s all about the people: “It’s the passion people have for their cattle I see every day that makes me proud to be a part of the American Angus Association,” Phil says. “I hope we can continue to grow in our services, and have the best customer experience in the beef business.”

Trowbridge earned an animal science degree from Alfred State College, Alfred, N.Y. The day after his graduation in 1976, he became a herdsman for Gallagher’s Angus Farm in Ghent, N.Y. Since that time, Trowbridge has remained in the community and built a solid reputation for quality Angus genetics.

He and his wife, Annie, have two grown children with families, who are all involved in the farm in some way. Their son, P.J., and his wife, Miranda, have one daughter, Daisy. And their daughter, Amy, and her husband, Michael, have a daughter, Taylor, and son, Tucker. With a special smile on his face, Phil describes what it means to work alongside his family.

“The best thing about being involved in agriculture is watching the next generation,” Phil says. “They are so smart, and are always finding ways to improve technology. There’s nothing better than being outside with our family working with ■ Angus cattle.”

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Nickerson’s 50-page decision vindicated both the Hudsons and Perdue Farms. Nickerson concluded that Perdue should be “commended, not condemned” for its program to minimize and prevent pollution from their chicken farms.

The decision reverberates far beyond the courtroom. Many of the country’s agriculture producers waited with bated breath. If the Waterkeeper Alliance had been successful, it could have set a harmful precedent for many of the country’s large- and small-scale family farms.

Waterkeeper Alliance said in a statement that it disagrees with the verdict and will review the judge’s opinion to consider a possible appeal.

The Waterkeeper Alliance’s lawsuit dates back to 2009 when another environmental group, the Assateague Coastkeeper, flew a plane over the Hudson’s farm and reported what appeared to be a pile of chicken manure draining into a nearby ditch. The material was later confirmed by the Maryland Department of the Environment to be treated sewage sludge from Ocean City, Md., which was used by the farm as fertilizer. Despite the corrected information, the Waterkeeper Alliance ■ proceeded with its lawsuit.

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January 29 / NMSU SWCRS Rancher’s Roundtable, Corona, NM

January 12 / Northern New Mexico Stockmen’s Meeting, Taos, NM January 12 - 27 / National Western Livestock Show, Denver, CO January 13 - 16 / American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention, Nashville, TN January 15 / Legislature Convenes, Santa Fe, NM January 15-16 / TAMU-NMSU Southwest Beef Symposium, Lubbock, TX January 26 / Best in the West Brangus Bull & Commercial Replacement Sale, Marana, AZ

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For more information please contact any member of the sale committee: Bart Carter (AZ) 928-348-8918 or 928348-4030; Jon Ford (NM) 575-799-7546; Diane or Larry Parker (AZ) 520-403-1967; Bill Morrison (NM) 575-760-7263 or 575-482-3254 or Alex Dees (AZ) 928-920-3800.

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February 6 – 9 / NCBA-ANCW Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL 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

MARCH March 1 / Hubbell Ranch Angus Plus & Brangus Sale, Belen, NM 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 11 / 7th Annual Black Angus “Ready For Work” Bull Sale, Belen, NM March 14 / Roundhouse Feed, Santa Fe, NM 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 19 / Manzano Angus Ranches 2013 Bull Sale, Estancia, NM March 19 / National Ag Day March 21 / John Hawks’ High Altitude Gelbvieh Bull Sale, Delta, CO March 23 / T-Heart Ranch High Altitude Bull Sale, Monte Vista, CO

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Cows Come Home continued from page 55

Young producers

At the other end of the producer spectrum are young producers trying to get started.

The challenges for beginning producers have existed for many years but have arguably never been greater than now.

Asset values are record high and the capital requirements greater than ever.

The oversight of agricultural lenders under new regulations is considerably

more stringent than in years past and adds to the difficulty of qualifying young producers for loans, even in cases where the lender is willing. Cattle producers, perhaps to an even greater extent than farmers in general, view asset ownership as preferred and one of the marks of success in the cattle business.

And yet, for young producers, asset control is what is important even if asset ownership is not possible. Leasing and other business arrangements may be more feasible and necessary for a new generation of cattle producers than asset pur-

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 / Apache Creek, NM ■ March 16 / 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

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chase.

One of the impacts of the drought is that older producers who have been forced to liquidate herds may be more interested in leasing land to younger producers and that may be a key to herd rebuilding and revitalizing productivity in the cattle industry.

In the middle

In between the older and beginning producers are many producers who are simply trying to survive the drought and continue with their business operations.

The majority of producers who have been forced to liquidate cattle have received good prices and did not lose a great deal of value on the sales. However, high feed and other input costs in 2011 and 2012 mean that producers have, in many cases, used the proceeds of drought sales to cash flow continued operations.

These producers will likely face difficulties financing herd rebuilding when the opportunity arises. Replacement cow and heifer values will be record high.

Producers must be careful during the drought to preserve enough equity with which to rebuild herds. Producers who haven’t yet done so should develop a drought management plan and a drought recovery plan, which incorporates the business and resource requirements to survive the drought and be able to rebuild later.

The cattle industry today is smaller than it needs to be. The last two years of drought have preempted the beginning of herd rebuilding and pushed the industry to extremely limited cattle inventories.

The drought holds the key to when, and to some extent how and where, herd rebuilding will take place.

At the same time, the economic environment of the cattle industry has changed dramatically in recent years. New demands on agriculture and rising crop values puts a stronger forage focus on the beef industry and has significant regional implications on where cattle production will be located.

The how, where and who of the cattle industry is changing in many respects but unprecedented cattle and beef prices confirm that market demand, both domestically and internationally, offers opportunities and will support rebuilding the beef cow herd, although to what level is as yet ■ uncertain.

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15 of our Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls Are Consigned to the Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale February 23, 2013!

Featuring the Finest Rock-Footed, Ranch-Raised, Easy Doing Brangus Bulls from Some of the Roughest Country in Southeastern Arizona!

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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

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