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DEPARTMENTS 10 NMCGA President’s Message

by Randell Major

12 Wit & Wisdom

by Caren Cowan

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Randell Major NMCGA President

Randell Major President Magdalena Loren Patterson, President-Elect Corona Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr Vice President at Large Datil Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Peralta Tom Sidwell Immediate Past President Quay Pat Boone Past President Elida

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MCGA has been busy and continues to work hard on your behalf. We submitted comments on Agricultural Bioterrorism and Toxin List. We also updated guidelines for Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration for Agriculture and Forestry. Visit our website for immediate updates on current issues. www.nmagriculture.org.

This pandemic has exposed the price gouging that the bigger packers have been doing.

Some say when a feedlot sells an animal to the packer, it is the single most important market to the cattle industry for the entire supply chain; “The price discovery”. We need to restore and protect the integrity of that market. In order to do that, some cattle organizations are wanting the bigger packing plants to buy a certain percent of negotiated cash cattle. With less than 20 percent of finished cattle selling in a negotiated cash or “bid and buy” situation, there are not enough representative sales to truly establish the value for cattle on any given week. The debate is whether to raise the percentage to 30 percent with 14 days, or 50 percent and 7 days to pick up the cattle. Others think that this approach could cause unintended consequences and that it should be resolved through industry solutions and not a mandate from congress. These are all good arguments but NMCGA feels that something needs to be done now and that is why the executive board voted to support the 30/14.

In April, NMCGA sent letters to US Secretary of Agriculture Perdue and NM Attorney General Balderas requesting an investigation into potential price gouging. Since then, President Trump has also asked the Department of Justice to investigate. Hopefully, producers will see positive results from this investigation.

As the supply chain is interrupted by COVID-19, NMCGA has helped create a portal with a list of producers for the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, to connect consumers with New Mexico agriculture products. If you would like to add your operation, go online to the products-to-consumer database: http://www.nmda.nmsu.edu/ag-products-to-consumers The Mexican gray wolf numbers continue to grow while our ranchers and rural communities still suffer economically. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened a public scoping period for the development of a supplemental environmental impact statement for the Mexican wolf final 10(j) rule. Please submit your comments by June 15, 2020.

Other news: The State Game Commission has scheduled a virtual meeting on June 19 at 9:00 a.m. Due to Covid-19, the grace period for the enforcement of the new trich rules have been extended to August 1, 2020.

Your membership is so appreciated in the NMCGA. You can see from this letter the variety of issues we are working on. It takes the support from all cattlemen to make a difference. To join NMCGA, go to www.nmagriculture.org, or let me know if you need a membership application. We are grateful to all of you for your commitment to our association.

Stay safe,

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ast month we talked about the latest version of the federal Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) measure that will permanently fund federal government land acquisitions to the tune of about $900 million annually as well as on grants to state governments for outdoor recreation projects, including acquisition of private land. The bill is on the fast track.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on May 21 that he planned to bring the LWCF trust fund bill (S. 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act) to the floor in June. The latest word is that it may come up during the week of June 7th or 14th.

At the risk of repeating myself, here’s just some of what’s wrong with the bill: ЇЇ The federal government already owns way too much land… 28 percent of the total land in the U.S. That’s over 50 percent of the 11 Western States and

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Additionally, costs of land management are perpetual. A number of rural counties are already more than 90 percent federally owned.

Many more are over 75 percent federally owned.

Increasing federal land ownership undermines rural economies: Takes private land out of productive use Eliminates property tax revenues for counties and other local governments Federal Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) and other similar programs pay counties only a tiny fraction of lost property taxes LWCF acquisitions have often been targeted strategically to destroy local economic activity and reduce local

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populations, which then facilitates further acquisitions ЇЇ Federal acquisitions often lock up valuable resources, including especially subsurface mineral resources But here is the real problem.

President Trump supports this disastrous bill so it is all too likely that it cannot be defeated in a Senate or House floor vote.

(The House bill, H. R. 3195, has 232 co-sponsors, including 18 Republicans, plus the former Democrat-now-Republican sponsor, Representative Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey).

We must continue to try to defeat the bill. That’s who we are.

However, we also must work to gain support in the Senate and from the President for substantive amendments that would make the bill less toxic.

Here are some amendments that could be helpful: 1. Sunset in five years. This would allow the Congress to evaluate the program and decide whether to re-authorize, modify, or eliminate it. A five-year sunset would conform the LWCF title of the bill with the $49.5 billion maintenance title.

2. Require that all federal land acquisitions be subject to approval of the relevant state legislature, governor, and county commissions.

3. Require that all federal land acquisitions be subject to relevant state laws, such as requiring that acquisitions must be approved by the legislature, governor, or county commissions.

4. Require that notice of any potential land acquisition be given at least 90 days before title can be transferred to the state legislature, governor, and county commissioners. Notice should include the annual loss of property tax revenues that will result; or if the land is already held by a tax-exempt owner, such as a land trust, the notice should include the tax revenues lost if the property were subject to property taxes.

5. Each federal land acquisition must be accompanied by the funding of a permanent fund sufficient to pay property taxes in perpetuity.

6. Federal land acquisitions are prohibited in counties that already contain more than 25 percent federally-owned property.

7. No net loss of private lands west of the 100th meridian. Any federal acquisitions must be accompanied by a transfer of land into private ownership that is at least equivalent to the federal acquisition.

8. A mineral potential evaluation must be published and open for public comment before and transfer of land to federal ownership can be completed.

9. Federal offshore oil revenues fund the LWCF. The bill should explicitly endorse future federal offshore oil and gas leasing and production.

10. Prohibit using eminent domain to acquire land.

11. Suspend funding until the federal budget is in balance.

So what can YOU do in the next week or two?

If each of you would take just one of the things wrong with the bill, match it with one or two of the proposed amendments, and contact President Trump via https:// www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ with your concerns.

If you are making any campaign contributions to any incumbent candidate for

federal office, put your concerns in with your check or lay them out in the comment section of an online donation. They are who will be voting on this bill or signing it.

Then pick a U.S. Senator and write them a letter asking them to reconsider their vote on S. 3422 and to carry an amendment. Of course you do that AFTER you have Government websites tell you that questions and comments regarding public policy issues, legislation, or requests for personal assistance should be directed to the senators from your home state. Understanding the environmental and political bent of your state’s senators is worth consideration and there is nothing stopping anyone from contacting any senator… after all, their single vote impacts every citizen in the U.S. Some senators have email addresses while others post comment forms on their websites. When sending email to a senator, please include your return postal mailing address. Also be aware that as a matter of professional courtesy, many senators will acknowledge, but not respond to, a message from another senator’s constituent. A full list of the U.S. Senate with phone numbers and contact emails can be found at: https://www.senate.gov/general/ contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

For telephone calls, you may phone the United States Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request.

It also seems that $900 million a year is a huge amount to spend on land acquisition when the country is suffering from a world-wide pandemic, the U.S. economy is in the tank and 10s of millions of Americans are out of work. But I guess when you deal in trillions, millions aren’t that big a thing.

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As we continue with at least partial shelter in place here in New Mexico… stay home if you don’t need to go anywhere, but restaurants are allowed to open up to 50 percent capacity, there is some sanity in the country that is worth repeating. In a story written by Kirk Allen in the edgarcountywatchdogs.com, there is a tale of one federal judge’s thoughts in a case in the Fourth Judicial Circuit in Clay County, Illinois.

The hearing was before the Honorable Michael D. McHaney in late May 2020 in the case of Mainer v. Pritzker… that is Illinois Governor Pritzker. Mr. Mainer, a small busicontinued on page 15 >>

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ness owner brought the case asking for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief over the restriction of movement in the state as well as the closing of businesses.

As author Allen wrote: There are no words that would do justice to describe what Judge McHaney said during his ruling. Maybe one day all our courts will have video media access but for now, we will have to accept the transcript, void of the verbal emphasis, and patriotic presentation of Judge McHaney’s ruling yesterday against Governor Pritzker.

Judge McHaney’s ruling requires repeating: from page 75 starting at line 17“Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred:” ЇЇ I won’t get COVID if I get an abortion but I will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy. ЇЇ Selling pot is essential but selling goods and services at a family-owned business is not.

Pot wasn’t even legal and pot ЇЇ dispensaries didn’t even exist in this state until five months ago and, in that five months, they have become essential but a family-owned business in existence for five generations is not.

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A family of six can pile in their car and drive to Carlyle Lake without contracting COVID but, if they all get in the same boat, they will. ЇЇ We are told that kids rarely contract the virus and sunlight kills it, but summer youth programs, sports programs are canceled. ЇЇ Four people can drive to the golf course and not get COVID but, if they play in a They got me my own chaise lounge! foursome, they will.

If I go to Walmart, I won’t get ЇЇ COVID but, if I go to church, I will. licenses and certifications unless you obey.

“Our economy is shut down because of a flu ЇЇ Murderers are released from custody virus with a 98 percent-plus survival rate. while small business owners are Doctors and experts say different things threatened with arrest if they have the audacity to attempt to feed weekly. The defendant cites models in his their families. opposition. The only thing experts will agree These are just a few of the examples of rules, on is that all models are wrong and some are regulations, and consequences that are arbi- useful. The Centers for Disease Control now trary, capricious, and completely devoid of says the virus is not easily spread on surfaces.” anything even remotely approaching “The defendant in this case orders you to common sense. State’s attorneys in this state, stay home and pronounces that, if you leave county sheriffs, mayors, city councils and the state, you are putting people in danger, county boards have openly and publicly but his family members traveled to Florida defied these orders followed by threats to continued on page 16 >> withhold funding and revocation of necessary ЇЇ

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Meanwhile back on the Gila River…

and Wisconsin because he deems such travel essential. One initial rationale why the rules don’t apply to him is that his family farm had animals that needed fed. Try selling that argument to farmers who have had to slaughter their herds because of disruption in the supply chain.”

“When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled. Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws. They are royal decrees. Illinois citizens are not being governed, they are being ruled. The last time I checked Illinois citizens are also Americans and Americans don’t get ruled.

The last time a monarch tried to rule Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the world. That day led to the birth of a nation consensually governed based upon a document which ensures that on this day in this, and any American courtroom tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty, freedom and the constitution will always win.”

A copy of the transcript can be downloaded at https://edgarcountywatchdogs. com/wp - content /uploads/2020/05/

There has been talk of a bill to be introduced by New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich regarding a Wild & Scenic River designation for the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico. Although there doesn’t seem to be text of the measure yet on the internet, the bill ,S. 3670 was introduced on May 7, 2020.

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Here, on the Bradley 3, we are fall calvers so we’re in the middle of weaning while everyone else is finishing up branding.

Our annual bull sale was the last public event we got to attend. I would have eaten more dessert if I had known it was the last meal “out” we’d have for a while.

Million dollar question “how much longer?” doesn’t have an answer. Published today was a plan from the governor forecasting another 12-18 months before we can host any public gatherings. We

don’t get out much, but we’d at least like to have the option to have all of our ladies get together and if nothing else, gripe about the state of things. Anyone else feel like you’re in the car with your kids on the way to a vacation spot and all you hear is “are we there yet”?

The only time we see or feel something different is when we do have to go in a store. There is an even mix of people with masks or no masks. There are spots at the registers to show people the six feet distance we’re supposed to keep. There are one way arrows in the Walmart aisles so that the aisles aren’t having two way traffic. I will say this: Coming into a store from working cattle or branding, I can guarantee we have worse things on our clothes than some ol’ Rona! How many of you are positive you won’t be getting blackleg lol?!?

It’s a strange feeling in public places, eerie almost. Don’t like it? Is this our new

normal? Have your priorities towards work and family and time management changed at all? I know ours has always been God, family, the ranch!

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esilla Valley CowBelles in keeping with COVID-19 guidelines and social distancing, met virtually to plan and wish cheer to our members and to vote on the cheer. No other business performed. Submitted by Janet Witte No other local submissions received this month. Here is looking toward the time our meetings can resume with our friends and families. Stay safe and healthy New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every month.

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SHEEP TO SHAWL AT THE NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR

Sheep to Shawl ...

Binding More Than Wool.

by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson

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t’s not every day that rural ranchers join forces with urban artists and craftsmen and women to establish an educational exhibit at the State Fair. It’s even less common that the effort thrives for several decades, but that is exactly what has happened with Sheep to Shawl, which will celebrate its 50th year at the 2020 Expo New Mexico.

The exhibit, found at the south end of the Dairy Barn, was established in 1970 to educate the public about wool. Every day of the fair, volunteers demonstrate spinning, weaving, dyeing, carding, and fiber art – which differs from day to day but can include things like needle felting and inkle looms. A sheep shearing demonstration is set up outside.

The exhibit got its start in 1969 when Lincoln County sheep ranchers Gnat and Janice Gnatkowski met members of the Las Arañas Spinners’ and Weavers Guild, led by Betty Meador, at a New Mexico Wool Growers’ Inc. meeting in Albuquerque.

They realized their common interests and concerns, and after a follow-up meeting at the Gnatkowski’s ranch near Ancho which was attended by about 100 ranchers, Guild members and their families, Sheep to Shawl was born.

Spinner Wanda Short demonstrating spinning to the crowd

The late 1960s and early 1970s were a beginning to move away from woolen difficult time for the domestic sheep indus- fabric and towards synthetics and polyester. try, explained rancher Mel Gnatkowski. “Mom realized that we had to do something Wool prices were low, Australia was domi- to promote our own product.” nating the wool market, and people were Together with area ranchers Charlie and

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to fund the project, and went to work to success was that it was a tactile experience,” make the exhibit happen. said Mel, who was a freshman in high When Sheep to Shawl opened that first school at the time. “In the morning we’d year, it was a huge success. Crowds of pen the sheep to be shorn in the shearer’s people stopped to watch spinning, weaving, pen. All day long people would feel the and shearing demonstrations, talk to the sheep with their wool on and the ones he’d demonstrators, and shop for handmade shorn. Some would feel the fleece and if it items in the store, and that continues today. was fresh, they’d remark about the lanolin “Everyone was interested,” Mel noted. “Most and the body heat that still clung to the people had never seen fabric made, and wool. We’d give them locks of wool.” had no idea where wool came from.” In “If you were spinning,” he continued, 1971, Sheep to Shawl received the Blue “they’d want to feel the carded wool and Ribbon Award for the Best New Exhibit at then the yarn. People could feel the cloth the New Mexico State Fair. on the loom while the weaver was working.

“It was just a really fun thing to be a part They wanted to touch everything, and we of,” said Holt Priddy, who was editor of the encouraged it. And, occasionally someone Enchantment Magazine when Sheep to would climb over the fence to try their hand Shawl began and helped with publicity. at what you were doing.”

In 1974, Sheep to Shawl had a contest where teams “There were spinners and weavers doing In 1971, the organizers established the of people competed to take a fleece “from sheep to demonstrations, and sheep ranchers Ladies Lead Class as another way to shawl.” One person sheared the sheep, one spun the wool, and one wove the yarn into fabric. In this working in the booth and on the micro- promote wool. Contestants made a wool photo, Fred Wagner is spinning in the contest. phone explaining what the shearer was garment, modeled it at the fair while doing. I bet a lot of those ranchers had leading a sheep, and were judged on their Eleanor Jones and Milt and Bessie Jones, never had a microphone in their hand, but garment and performance. The contest was and Lincoln County Extension Agent Ralph they just stood up there and said, “This is very popular and received national press, Dunlap, the Gnatkowskis got approval from what we do and how we do it.”” as well as attention from Kistler Collister, a the New Mexico State Fair, borrowed $2000 “One of the reasons for Sheep to Shawl’s high-end women’s clothing store in Albu-

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We’re Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Sheep to Shawl Exhibit

Our Best to Our Wool Growers as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the State Fair Sheep to Shawl Demonstration

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querque. “The stores in town recognized that there was a market for wool, which was the whole point of what sheepherders were trying to do,” Priddy explained.

From the beginning, the exhibit has been a cooperative, volunteer effort between sheep producers and the spinners and weavers of Las Arañas. In 1977, Sheep to Shawl organized into a separate, nonprofit organization, and in 1983 moved to its current location, from a fenced-in area in the middle of the barn.

Since 2008, Ruth Ronan and Becky Arnold have co-chaired Sheep to Shawl, coordinating with the New Mexico Wool Growers Auxiliary, Expo New Mexico and Las Arañas to make the exhibit happen each year.

“We have really good committee chairs, and the exhibit is much easier to bring together now than in past years. It just needs a little tweaking each year, if that,” Ronan said. She started taking weaving lessons at the Albuquerque Weaving Guild in 1966, where she met the group who would form Las Arañas. “I was kind of a part of things when Sheep to Shawl started in 1970, but was still learning to weave and very much a novice,” she explained. She stepped back for several years due to work and family obligations, then became active again in 1998.

Ronan says that although traffic through the booth has been down slightly in recent years, they stay busy. “In the past, the dairy barn was always full of llamas, alpacas and sheep, but a lot of those shows are gone now. We get teachers bringing their classes through, the junior livestock kids, and of course the people who come to watch the pig races.”

In addition to the demonstrations, the exhibit includes a small shop where people can sell handmade items, and the Wool Growers Auxiliary sells pelts, socks and hand cream. Auxiliary members and the people who sell items in the shop work a certain number of hours, and other volunteers fill in when needed. “Every year, we have our regulars who come by to see us,” she said. “Unless the fair gets tired of us, we’ll be here.”

Sheep to Shawl also has a more hands-on demo set up in Expo New Mexico’s Creative Arts Building, with looms set up for people to look at and try out, Ronan explained. “At this booth, we encourage people to sit down and try them, and we always encourage people to go over to booth in the Dairy Barn. We do a lot of outreach at the fair. We try to educate people, to teach them about

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Ann Hall demonstrating a walking wheel.

fiber and show them what fun it is. I think it’s a good program, and we’ll be here as long as we can make our expenses.”

Arnold, who is a spinner and weaver, joined Las Arañas in the late 1970s and has been actively involved in the booth since the mid-1990s. “We never have trouble getting people to volunteer, our demonstration slots are always full. We have people who might not be active all year, but they come to help with Sheep to Shawl,” she noted. “We couldn’t do it without the Wool Growers, and we couldn’t do it without our shearer.”

Las Arañas’ main goal is education, and Sheep to Shawl is our biggest way to educate the public about spinning and weaving, she said. “Every year, we have our regulars who come see us, and we have people who have never come before.

People don’t know any more where fabric comes from. They don’t realize that all clothes were once hand spun and hand woven, everything just comes from the store. And not just clothes, but things like the sails that the explorers used on their ships. When we start explaining, they are amazed. “ Spinner and weaver Elizabeth Forbes got involved in Sheep to Shawl after visiting the exhibit at the fair. She started volunteering as a demonstrator in the booth, helping first

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with the dye pot, then learning to spin and “I would explain that the lanolin is what continuing to improve her weaving skills. holds the dirt in the wool, they were often She eventually became co-chair of Sheep surprised to learn that lanolin comes to Shawl Committee, serving with Janelle from sheep.”

Durant. “I joined in 1983 as a new kid, and And sometimes, the demonstrators now am an old timer. I’ve just loved it.” learn from the public. “I once had a Navajo One thing she has enjoyed about Sheep woman, who didn’t speak English and was to Shawl is meeting so many different visiting the fair with her granddaughter, people. “We always really enjoyed the 4-H explain through the granddaughter that I and FFA kids, who were at the fair showing was using the hand carders wrong,” Forbes their animals that first week. They would noted. “Interactions like that were hang around, weave on the looms, and wonderful!” come back year after year. They would tell Weaver Janislee Wiese joined the group us about their animals, and we would tell in 1971 when she moved to New Mexico. them what we were doing.”

She helped with the booth as often as posCardboard looms, made from cardboard, sible over the years, doing dye pot yarn and a tongue depressor stick, are one demonstrations and twice helping to edit booth’s most popular items. They are set the dye book published by the Guild. She out in the demonstration area for the public served as chair for six years, and now comes to use, and also available for purchase in the back to help work in the shop when needed. shop. “We first made them as a way to teach “Having a lot of good help is what made the the kids, so kids could actually weave,” job of chair doable, and a lot of the people Forbes noted. who helped me are still doing it,” she noted.

The public has always been very recep- “It’s stayed a fairly cohesive and consistent tive, she said. “Some people would just group. I’ve always stayed involved, it’s really stand there for a long time, watching and rewarding to feel like you’re helping keep listening, and some would ask a bunch of it going. As the fair has evolved, it seems questions. I used to take a handful of raw like there’s always some obstacle to wool when the sheep were shorn, dip it into overcome.” water, swish it around, and show people Strong friendships have been formed what it looked like cleaned up. People were along the way. “Although educating the always completely amazed,” she continued. public is important, for me, it’s more per-

Several times a day, the sound of the sheep shearing machine draws a large crowd to the south side of the Dairy Barn where shearer Pat Melendrez shears sheep and fields questions from the crowd.

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the demonstration is a great education for people. “There are nearly none of us left,” he noted. “The demonstration is a great way to educate the public about sheep production, the quality of wool, and how we handle it”.

Melendrez shears five to eight sheep each day for the duration of the fair, depending on the crowd. “People will come clear across the fairgrounds to watch me shear a sheep. To me, it’s very important, important to keep the history alive.”

“I think Pat’s shearing demonstration is the best we’ve ever had,” said rancher Pete Gnatkowski, who helped his parents establish the booth. “His knowledge of sheep and the industry, and his ability to connect with people make for an outstanding demonstration. Many times, if you get there after he has started, you can’t even see him for all the people surrounding the pen.”

Through the Wool Growers’ Auxiliary, ranchers like Sarah Gnatkowski, who carries on the family tradition by stocking the booth with items made from sheep and wool, work in the booth and interact with the public. “Sheep to Shawl is essential, that’s how we educate the public about our

i n d u s t r y,” s a i d Encino sheep rancher Mercedes Cravens, who has volunteered for at least twenty years, along with many others. “I share information on sheep production, wool, and the lamb market. A lot of times, people remember me from previous years, and come in just to talk Dying wool demonstration about sheep.”

Having the connection right there between the ranchers, the raw wool and the finished product is unique, and fun to share with the public. “Often, talking to a customer, I can tell her, “Oh, you like that hat? The lady who knitted it is right over here, let me introduce you.” And they love it,” she said.

It’s the people, who gave their time, energy, and love for the fiber and the industry, that have made Sheep to Shawl a success. There are so many who put their heart into the effort – and put their lives on

hold during fairtime – to make Sheep to Shawl work, and their effort is still paying off today. “At this point, Sheep to Shawl is the best sheep and wool promotion we have going,” said Pete Gnatkowski. “And it all started because someone had an idea and put it into action.”

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Application Deadline for Cattle Growers’ Graduate Scholarship Approaching

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“With this scholarship, we want to help young people who come from an agricultural background further their education,” said Randell Major, NMCGA President, Magdalena. “As they pursue those advanced degrees, we hope to also broaden production agriculture awareness in non-typical agricultural fields.”

Applicants must be New Mexico residents, have a background in beef cattle production, and pursuing a post-graduate degree.

Financial need will be considered, but is not a prerequisite. Preference will be given to NMCGA members and their families.

“We encourage all interested students to apply,” said President Major. “There’s nothing easy – financially or otherwise – about post-graduate studies, and we want to do all we can to help students who are making that effort.”

Applications must be received in the NMCGA office by June 25, 2020. They should be sent to: New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, Attention: Graduate Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The scholarship will be awarded July 15, 2020.

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The Value of Reproduction

by Jason Sawyer, PhD, and Rick Machen, PhD; appearing in the Spring 2020 KRIRM Newsletter

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n cow-calf operations, reproductive rate is the foundational productive function of the enterprise. Obviously, if cows do not become pregnant, then no calves are produced for revenue generation the following year. Revenue from culled cows is not a result of production; it is the liquidation of an asset that must be replaced (usually at a higher price), if production is to continue. Pregnant cows must successfully produce a live calf, and live calves must be weaned and sold before production revenue is generated. It is intuitive that improvements in reproductive success, or the prevention of reproductive failure, drive cow-calf enterprise productivity.

Profitability, however, is not solely driven by gross revenue or productivity.

The incremental costs of increasing production must be considered if managers are to successfully allocate resources to increase profitability. In other words, improving reproductive rate at all costs is not likely to be a solution. The optimum level of addi-

tional investment to support improved reproductive rate (or mitigate loss) depends on many factors, and the relationship of expenditure to improved production may be complex. However, identifying the potential value of improved reproductive success is an important benchmark by which management decisions can be evaluated for feasibility. In this article, we describe one method of evaluating the value of reproduction to facilitate decision-making.

Change in Expected Revenue A straightforward way to estimate the value of increasing pregnancy rate is to project the value of additional calves produced. Increasing pregnancy rate by one percentage unit doesn’t result in one more calf weaned and sold, due to expected losses between pregnancy determination and weaning. Average values of gestational loss and pre-weaning losses are 3 to 4 percent each, although these will vary considerably among operations. So, for every cow pregnant, we may expect to wean 0.93 calves. A 1 percent change in pregnancy rate (one more cow bred out of 100) therefore results in 0.93 percent increase in the number of calves weaned. If each calf

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weaned has an average value of $700, then increasing pregnancy rate 1 percent (one more cow bred per hundred) results in a $6.51 per cow exposed increase in expected production revenue ($700/calf X 0.93 calves weaned/100 cows).

Applying the value When considering strategies to increase pregnancy rate (or prevent losses), managers make projections about the effect of the strategy on pregnancy rate (the production function) and its cost. For example, a nutritional strategy to increase body condition score (BCS) of cows might be applied to improve pregnancy rate. Using data from Figure 1, increasing BCS from 3 to 4 results in a 17.5 percent increase in pregnancy; increasing from 4 to 5 results in a 12 percent improvement, and from 5 to 6 only a 5 percent improvement. Based on the estimate above, each 1 percentage-unit change is worth $6.51; therefore, the value of changing body condition score from 3 to 4 is $6.51 X 17.5, or $114 per cow. Increasing from 4 to 5 is worth $78 per cow, but from 5 to 6 is only worth $32 per cow. If a strategic feeding program is available to achieve these changes in cow condition at a cost per cow lower than the expected value, it is likely to be a profitable decision.

Preventing loss of body condition prior to or during the breeding season can be valued similarly. A strategy to prevent cows that are marginal from losing body condition has the same value as improving condition in thin cows, assuming the same effects on pregnancy rate.

Another example is the prevention of pregnancy losses – what is it worth to prevent a loss in pregnancy rate, perhaps due to a disease outbreak? In this case, managers should consider the magnitude of impact of the disease on pregnancy rates, coupled with the risk of such an outbreak occurring. Let’s suppose pregnancy rates might be reduced by 40 percent due to a reproductive disease. However, based on local or historical occurrence rates, this might only happen once every 40 years.

This suggests a 2.5 percent chance of the disease occurring in any given year; the impact (-40 percent pregnancy) is only 2.5 percent likely. The combined rate (2.5 percent X -40 percent) is -1 percent. Using the value of reproduction derived above, this is an expected annual loss of $6.51 per cow. Preventive measures such as vaccines that cost less than this amount are considered a good investment.

Participants at the January 2020 lectureship on Managing the Cow-Calf Business learned, among other topics, how to project the value of additional calves to facilitate decision-making.

Other considerations The expected revenue model provides a reasonable frame for decision making and is relatively easy to estimate. Other factors

should be considered when holding these projections up to actual accounting data.

First, as pregnancy rate decreases, current year cash flow from cull cows increases while cash flow from calves is not affected, but may be affected the following year. If all open females are culled and subsequently replaced, calf revenue in the following year may not be decreased, although expenditure for replacements will be increased.

While the method of revenue estimation is a reasonable approach, it may not match directly with cash flows. Additionally, due to the often-negative swap on cull cows (book value higher than market value), using cash accounting only does not fully reflect the true impact of lowered production rates. A full managerial accounting

analysis can be conducted to derive the true total cost/benefit of changing reproduction rate, but relies on accurate managerial accounting frameworks. The estimated revenue method can be used in the absence of this information.

Summary Managers are often motivated (rightly so) to cut cash expense, but due to lags in cash flows may not realize the potential benefits of investing in inputs that improve pregnancy rate. Reproduction is the primary driver of productivity, and a method to estimate its value to the business can enhance decision making and improve the bottom line.

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by Frank Dubois

Fly over permits, grazing allotments & wildfire damage

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ome argue for federal control of resources because of the economies of scale. The big boys would rather deal with the feds than fifty different states, and the enviros have always favored a centrally planned, top-down approach, where they only have to lobby in D.C. A recent court decision highlights a great example of federal management of air and land resources. In a D.C. Court of Appeals decision, we learn that Congress passed the Air Tours Management Act of 2000 which requires vendors who wish to conduct commercial air tours over certain national parks and tribal lands to first obtain a permit from the FAA. The act specifies that the FAA, “in cooperation with” the National Park Service, “shall establish an air tour management plan . . . whenever a

person applies for authority to conduct a commercial air tour operation.” Congress wanted this to be done in a timely fashion, as it instructed a decision be made “not later than 24 months” after an application is received.

Well guess what? After twelve years not one single management plan had been completed. Twelve years! What did Congress do? They amended the act to make it easier by exempting smaller parks and allowing the agencies to enter into the “more flexible and easier to implement” voluntary agreements. The result? The agencies continued to argue among themselves and the court found that due primarily to interagency conflict, the agencies “have failed to comply with their statutory mandate for the past nineteen years.”

Nineteen years and they can’t get it done. What would happen to you or I if we failed to comply with a federal statute for nineteen years? Actually, we would have already been in jail for eighteen years and six months.

Hammonds & Bundy Rancher Steve Hammond and his father Dwight, you will recall, were pardoned by

President Trump, and the Interior Dept. restored their grazing permits. Enviros filed suit challenging the awarding of the grazing permits, and a federal judge vacated the permits. The Hammonds then filed suit, but recently announced they were dropping their challenge and would compete for the allotments. Earlier this year the BLM announced they would prepare an analysis of the qualified candidates which includes the Hammonds and three neighboring ranches. At stake are four allotments, comprising about forty-one square miles. A BLM spokesman said they haven’t set a specific time-frame to reach their decision. The Hammonds, in their application, said if the permits were awarded to another rancher they would require “immediate compensation” for their water rights, intermingled private lands and range improvements. The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association is “fully supportive” of the Hammond family and would have preferred that other cattlemen not compete for the grazing allotments, said the group’s executive director, Jerome Rosa.

Ryan Bundy is back in the news, with the BLM saying they are investigating whether Bundy constructed illegal irrigation ditches across land within the Gold Butte National

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Monument. Apparently, hikers visiting the area have filed a four-page complaint with the BLM. Bundy told E&E news he was unaware the BLM was looking into his irrigation activities.

Smokey damages property An interesting case is developing in Montana, where two ranchers are claiming they should be compensated nearly $9 million because the federal government burned their rangeland while attempting to control a wildfire. In their lawsuit, the ranchers allege the U.S. Forest Service intentionally ignited their property for “burnout and backfiring” operations while fighting the Alice Creek fire. The lawsuit claims, “the ranches would have suffered no material or substantial damage as a result of the naturally ignited Alice Creek

Fire,” except for the actions of the agency.

The ranchers also allege the Forest Service had “safe and effective alternatives” to suppress the fire, but instead chose “to manage the Alice Creek Fire with land management goals primarily in mind rather than fire suppression.”

This case will be watched by many in the West.

Coronavirus & Climate Change The enviros are doing their best to use the so-called pandemic to promote their policy goals. The most recent examples involve climate change. At a town hall called “Saving our Planet from the Existential Threat of Climate Change”, Washington Governor Jay Inslee said, “We should not be intimidated by people who say you should not use this COVID crisis to peddle a solu-

tion to climate change”. Well, peddle away Governor. Of course Al Gore has jumped into the picture, telling MSNBC, “This climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic are linked in some ways…The preconditions that raise the death rate from COVID-19, a great many of them, are accentuated, made worse by the fossil fuel pollution.” Al Gore can out peddle Jay Inslee any day of the week, and he has made millions of dollars doing it. You can always count on Gore to see the dark at the end of the tunnel, and I have to wonder what his next Uncle Sam Scam will be.

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

Frank DuBois, NM Sec. of Ag 1988 –2003, author: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) & founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship & The DuBois Western Heritage Foundation

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Gail Dinwiddie, 80, Roswell, passed away on May 15, 2020, leaving to mourn family and friends. She was loved and cherished by many people including her parents, Ray Barton and Grace Baker; her children, Tommy Dinwiddie (Melanie), Capitan; and Deedra Glass (Ron), Tatum; her grandchildren, Kyra Dinwiddie, Ronnie Eldridge (Amber), Teke Eldridge (Makayla), Caz Copeland (Kylynn), Ilyssa Glass (Jess) and Hayden Glass; her brothers, Richard Barton and Robert Barton; and her husband Billy Dinwiddie. She was also cherished by several great-grandchildren.

Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science. After graduating from Poteet High School, George married Mary Evelyn Waller on he entered Oklahoma State graduating in October 11, 1957. They made their home in 1970 with a Bachelor degree. He taught Estancia in the 1960s where George taught school in Poteet from 1970 until 1973. Larry Vocational Agriculture for over 32 years. He also spent many years in the rodeo arena as was an FFA Sponsor, and served on the a professional steer wrestler. For the last 40 EMW Gas Company Board of Directors. plus years, he owned and operated Larry George enjoyed raising livestock, working Smith Trucking, a cattle hauling business. with junior livestock exhibitors at local and Larry married Claudia Lynn Harris in 2001 in state fairs, and loved all activities involving Houston. Although he never had any chilhis FFA students and their families. He also dren of his own, he loved Claudia’s as if they enjoyed horse racing, fishing, and espe- were his and there was nothing “grander” cially spending time with his family. than the grandchildren. He was very outgoSurvivors include a son Dwight (wife Abbey), ing, never met a stranger and made friends Moriarty; brother Herbert Martin, Lubbock; everywhere he went. He was very generous George Riley Martin, 84, Estancia, NM and two grandchildren, along with other and willing to help people in need. Larry is passed away April 20, 2020 at his home. He relatives and many dear friends and survived by his loving wife, Claudia, Shiloh; was born November 30,1935 in Clovis to the former students. stepsons, Travis and Robert Kyle Harris; four home of Sam and Hazel (Hall) Martin. He grandchildren, brothers, Gene Smith, was raised in Taiban, and Fort Sumner.

Larry Joe Smith, 74, Shiloh, Texas, Gorman, Texas and Mike Smith, Mason, George attended and graduated from Fort passed away April 29, 2020 in Mexia, Texas. Texas; and numerous friends.

Sumner High School. He attended Okla- Larry was born June 11, 1945 in Brady, Texas homa State University where he received a to Joe Kirk and Billie Jean Burger Smith.

Influential horseman R.D. Hubbard, 84, died April 29, 2020, at his home in Palm Desert, California. Born in Smith Center, Kansas, on June 13, 1935, Randall Dee Hubbard was the youngest of eight children. He worked in his family’s icehouse and attended Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas. Upon graduation, he Auction became a teacher. Hubbard left teaching to Co., Inc. become a glass salesman in 1959. Nine years later, he became president of Safelite Auto Glass. In 1978, he formed his own company, AFG Industries, which he helped grow into the second-largest glass manufacturer in North America. During his first Every Friday at 9 a.m. years in the glass business in Kansas, Hubbard and his boss, Art Lankin, became interested in Quarter Horses. While they started with show horses, it quickly became apparent that racing was more lucrative, which launched Hubbard’s career in the racing industry. In his own name, he has 1st Tuesday bred the earners of more than $4.7 million, of Every Month at 10 a.m. and owned, bred and raced many more in partnerships. Hubbard bought Ruidoso BelenLivestockAuction.com Downs in 1988 with partner Dr. Ed Allred, For more information or to consign cattle, please give us a call or drop and eventually became the sole owner until by. We guarantee our same high quality service as in the past. he sold it in 2017. He helped create the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.

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For his achievements and impact on the industry, Hubbard was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2009.

Felicia Thal, April 18, 1928-May 14, 2020 How does one begin to describe Felicia Thal and her legacy? Recently, dear friends and family members have shared some of their thoughts: “an extraordinary force,” “elegant, regal, strong-willed, rugged, independent and down to earth all rolled into one,” “what a strong and vital woman, ” “how does a woman from South Africa who neither rides nor ropes become the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ ‘Cattleman of the Year’—pure force of character,” “endlessly

fascinating and very funny,” “Felicia was remarkable and lived a remarkable life,” “an unbelievable chef and entertainer,” “she was a gift to us all,” “her gift was hospitality, she’d seduce us with a great meal and plenty of wine and the next thing I knew, I’d bought a Thal ranch bull,” “the world won’t be the same,” “a light has truly gone out in our world,” “I expect the earth’s axis has tilted a half a degree as a result of our loss.”

The themes are consistent: a forceful character, strong-willed, independent, committed to the causes about which she deeply believed, charming, funny, and full of a true love of the joys of life.

Felicia was born in Durban, South Africa in the heart of Zulu land, the older child of Saul and Anne Jacobs. Her parents were hoteliers and they built a luxury hotel in Durban, The Cumberland. Felicia was raised there, where she acquired her exquisite taste buds in the kitchens of Italian, French and Indian chefs. Her parents were spectacular hosts and entertained British royalty that arrived for the holidays to enjoy Durban’s sub-tropical weather and the luxu r i o us a cco mm o d ati o ns o f th e Cumberland hotel.

As a young child, she met her future

husband, Alan Thal (who grew up in Cape Town), when mutual friends introduced their families. Alan was studious and serious, so Felicia and her younger sister, Sheila, decided to introduce Alan to mischief as they dissected koi fish from the hotel garden pools and dropped rolls of toilet paper from their third floor suite past the formal dining room windows. Throughout her formative years, Felicia loved to swim in the adjacent Indian Ocean and studied history and ballet.

Felicia attended college in Cape Town, where she and Alan began seeing each other regularly. Alan was in medical school.

He was a terrific horseman and spent free time competing in steeple chase races and polo competitions. At one point, Felicia was asked to be the time keeper for the Polo matches. She was abruptly fired when Alan’s competition realized that she was cheating on timekeeping to give Alan’s team the advantage. And thus began a lifelong partnership between Felicia and Alan.

The day following Felicia’s graduation from college and Alan’s graduation from medical school, they were married and enjoyed an exquisite celebration at her parent’s hotel. The next day they embarked on an extended voyage to Paris and London,

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where they experienced luxurious accom- to football and became a lifelong fan. Felicia School. Here Felicia and Alan’s third child, modations and entertainment. They arrived also took up golf while in Minnesota, a sport Doug, was born. Given that Alan was a keen in New York City in December, 1949 to that she enjoyed well into her 80s. Alan and horseman, they bought a small farm and a begin Alan’s medical residency at Cornell Felicia’s social circle included world couple of horses. That quickly evolved to and their life in the United States. In con- renowned physicians, Nobel prize winning include cattle – a small group of wild steers trast to the luxurious wedding and physicists, accomplished authors, and other that didn’t stay put, given the poor condihoneymoon, Felicia and Alan began life in intellectuals who enriched Felicia’s and tion of the farm’s fences. The Thals learned the US in a tiny 6th floor walkup in Harlem. Alan’s lives. Felicia was continuing to the hard way-chasing escaped steers down Felicia had no stove but became a Gourmet advance her cooking skills, which enhanced the road in the middle of the night-that chef on her “hot plate”. The young couple by her story- telling gift, made dinner at the good fences were essential. In the ensuing was poor, subsisting on a medical resident’s Thals an epic event. Felicia and Alan’s years, as they learned more about cattle, salary, and relying on their parents to help daughter, Alyson, and son, John, were born they purchased their first registered Herepay their rent. But that didn’t matter. They in Minnesota. Felicia reminisced that their ford bull and a small set of registered cows. had the time of their lives in the Big Apple! time in Minnesota was remarkably stimuIn 1972, Felicia and Alan decided to Felicia enrolled in graduate school and lating and fun- among the best times make ranching a primary part of their lives. became a lifelong student and ultimately a of her life.

Felicia described Alan as the idea man and scholar of intellectual history: the study of The Thals left Minnesota in the early herself as the implementer. And so, when ideas and the development of intellec- 1960s and moved to Detroit, where Alan Alan asked Felicia to join him in a search for tual advances. became chief of surgery at Wayne State a ranch, she agreed. They searched Upon Alan’s completion of residency, he University-the oldest medical school in the throughout the country, but both fell in became a pioneer in heart surgery. The top country. Alan continued to progress profes- love with northeastern New Mexico and medical schools were racing to see which sionally leaving a legacy of advances in found the ranch of their dreams north of would be the first to achieve a successful surgical and care protocols that continue to Las Vegas. Alan began practicing medicine open heart surgery. After a short stint at be best practices today. And, Felicia contin- in nearby Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Felicia and Alan ued to bolster his career, making friends Felicia assumed the pioneering role as she moved to Minnesota, the premier institu- with academicians and business executives. built a cattle business, hosted bull sales, tion for the advancement of heart surgery To further advance Alan’s career, the took leadership roles in the Cattle Growers’ at that time. Felicia continued her post Thals moved to Kansas City in 1967. Alan Association, executed a successful healthy graduate studies, and so much more. It was was the chairman of the Department of – beef campaign, increased the membership in Minnesota where Felicia was introduced Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical and financial strength of the Cattle Growers’ Association, helped develop the New Mexico Beef Council, became-independent of her husband – the first elected female Cattleman of the Year, and was a founding member of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum.

Throughout her life she continued to enjoy politics and history. She remained an avid football and golf fan and hosted elegant and lively dinner parties. She was a master gardener and produced hearty harvests of fruits and vegetables as well as bountiful flowers in her gardens and green house.

She was an amazing character-right to the end – a bold personality that provided us all with a multitude of hilarious stories.

Her phenomenal cooking attracted all kinds of ranch wildlife, especially bears, who frequently visited the Thal home. An illustration of her courage: one night, armed only with a bottle of Paul Newman’ Cesar salad dressing, she ran a bear out of her kitchen.

As she considered the accomplishments and joys of her life, she concluded that her finest accomplishments and her greatest joys were her children, Alyson, a physician in Corrales (and Ron); John, a lawyer in Albuquerque who now manages the Thal Ranch (and Gayla); and Doug, an equine surgeon

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in Santa Fe (and Kristin). In addition to her children, she is survived by 10 grandchildren: Adam, Amy, Kevin, Kelly, Katy, Alistair, Owen, Alex, Carson, and Russell; 11 great-grandchildren; nieces Michelle and Katie; and Cousin June Barsalona. She was preceded in death by her husband, Alan; parents; sister, Sheila; and daughter -in -law, Debra.

On May 14, 2020, after a short illness, Felicia passed at home, surrounded by her children. She will be laid to rest on at the Thal Ranch, next to Alan. In honor of Felicia, daughter Alyson has established a garden at her medical clinic in Corrales, New Mexico.

The family regrets that due to the Covid-19 virus and the Governor’s order, a celebration of life has not yet been scheduled. If you would like to be notified of the details when they are determined, please contact John Thal at: JSthal55@gmail.com.

The family requests that memorial donations be made to the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, NM. Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com.

Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The New Mexico Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.

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AGGIE NOTES From the Animal Resources Dept.

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lack flies are always bothersome around livestock animals. This year their presence is even more troublesome because of their transmission of vesicular stomatitis virus.

“There is compelling evidence that insect vectors, primarily black flies, introduce VSV into populations of domestic animals,” said Jason Turner, New Mexico State University Extension equine specialist. “Last year we had a pretty bad outbreak. Because of the mild winter, and other conditions, black flies are already bothersome and reports of the virus are already being received.”

Outbreaks typically occur in the southwest United States beginning in late spring or early summer and normally continue

through late fall, progressing northward along river ways and valleys.

Turner has edited a publication with the latest information about the virus, including photographs of clinical signs, treatment and preventive measures. The publication is available on the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences website at ht tps://aces.nmsu.edu/ pubs/_b/B717/.

“It primarily affects equids, cattle and swine, but it can also occur in sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas and a variety of wild vertebrates,” Turner said. “As a zoonotic disease, VSV can infect humans and cause flu-like symptoms, so it is important that people handling infected horses practice proper biosecurity to protect themselves as well as other animals.”

The incubation period, or time from exposure to presence of clinical symptoms, usually ranges from two to eight days.

“Drooling and excess salivation are typically the first symptoms noticed,” Turner said. “Upon closer examination, there may be blanched areas and the characteristic vesicles or blisters in and around the mouth.

These lesions are quite painful and can cause loss of appetite and/or refusal to drink water.”

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Isolate new horses for at least 21 days before turning them with other resident horses.

Because the clinical signs of VS are indistinguishable from those of foot and mouth disease, VS is a reportable disease, which means veterinarians have a duty to report suspect VS cases to state and federal animal health authorities. A veterinarian should be called to confirm the diagnosis of VS through laboratory testing of collected samples.

“If the horse is confirmed positive, then the premises will be quarantined with movement restrictions,” Turner said. “Quarantine periods may range from at least 14 days from the onset of lesions in the last affected animal on the premises to at least 21 days after all lesions are healed.”

Good communication with a veterinarian and animal health official is important in dealing with disease outbreaks such as VSV. For current recommendations and regulatory information on VS, visit the New Mexico Livestock Board web page at www.nmlbonline.com or contact the office of the state veterinarian at 505/8416161.

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ew Mexico State University is offering a new camp for youth that will introduce them to technology in the agricultural industry.

The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences is presenting the free virtual Innovators in Agriculture Camp for youth ages 15 to 18.

The 30-day program will begin with a Launch Party on Thursday, June 25. It will end on Friday, July 24, with participants presenting short videos of their innovative ideas and projects.

“This interactive program will introduce students to the technology and innovations that are currently being used for food production and environmental sustainability,” said Marcy Ward, NMSU Extension livestock specialist and chair of the camp’s committee.

“This will be a great opportunity for the students to meet people from across the state and share ideas about how to feed the world with the help of technology.”

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the state’s restriction on gatherings, the committee is shifting from a four-day camp on NMSU’s campus to an online format.

“Now, more than ever, it is evident the great importance that innovation has in the food and agricultural systems,” said Rolando Flores, dean of the College of ACES. “The work that our faculty will be doing with the participants in this camp shows the dedication and clear definition that the ACES College at NMSU has with the need to improve the food and agricultural systems, attract young participants to the processes and maintain the sustainability of those systems.”

With demonstrations, interactive exercises and virtual tours of various agricultural businesses, the students will be introduced to four areas of the industry – agriculture economics, agronomy, animal production and food processing. The students will be able to attend as many of the modules that they wish.

“With many issues regarding the sustainability of today’s food supply during the coronavirus pandemic, the camp theme will focus on how agriculture is responding to the current challenges,” Ward said.

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How can technology play a role in getting beef back on the shelves of the local market? ЇЇ Creating a food processing system that is flexible when the demands change.

“The virtual tours will take camp participants to facilities they may not have an opportunity to see otherwise, such as a cheese plant, large feedlots, dairies and more,” Ward said.

The culminating activity will be the participants presenting their ideas for a ЇЇ

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“We want to hear their ideas on how to make our system better, using technology as a tool to do so,” Ward said. “They will select an area of most interest to them for self-guided research. On July 24 they will have an opportunity to give a pitch or demonstration explaining their idea to a panel of judges.”

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was a sophomore in high school the first time I ever set foot in an auction market and it was love at first sight. I was smitten and immediately wanted to run away from home to join the one-ring cattle circus. I’d have cleaned water troughs just to be a part of something so magical.

Of course I was impressed by the auctioneers and i couldn’t begin to imagine how they did what they did. The market was close to Bakersfield, California, and was owned by Skinner Hardy, one of the first World Champion Livestock Auctioneers. He

ran a great market.

I knew I would never have the talent to do what auctioneers did but the more I watched the cow buyers in action the more I realized that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never achieved that goal but whenever I had a free day on the road you’d find me at the nearest auction market pretending to be a cow buyer and trying to guess the weight of the cattle as they entered the ring. (Keep in mind this was back in the 1970s when you didn’t find out the weight until AFTER the animals sold.)

I never got tired of watching the battles between the auctioneers and the cow buyers. It was like a well choreographed dance, one was trying to get as much for the cattle as he could while the other was trying to buy them as cheap as possible.

The relationship between the auctioneer and cow buyers is all together different than the one they have with the order buyers of stocker and feeder cattle. Order buyers for stockers and feeders are semifriendly whereas cow buyers just jeer and sneer at anyone who comes close and woe be the unlucky person who accidentally sits in “their seat” on sale day.

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grammed shirts and have all their appendages. Cow buyers are usually missing a digit or two, wear rumpled clothes, have holes in the bottom of their boots, their faces are scarred and they look like they just finished a knife fight. When stocker and feeders buyers bid they make a big production of it; when a cow buyer bids he may only wink his one eye that isn’t made out of glass. Cow buyers chew on unlit stubby cigars, and write down their purchases on market cards with short stubby pencils. They are smarter than a tree full of owls, can multiply and add faster than a calculator, can guess the weight of any cow within 20 pounds and can tell you how much she’ll yield in salable beef. They get a report card on how they do every week and they gotta be good or they’ll be gone.

Sadly, in many markets these days there are only two or three cow buyers present on a weekly basis and they are very territorial. If a new packer buyer tries to expand into new territory and tries to buy cows at a different market the resident cow buyers will freeze him out and won’t let him buy anything. After two or three weeks the newcomer will stay home.

Years ago I wanted to build my own leather reata and the best rawhide you can get to make one is from a Jersey cow which meant I’d have to attend a dairy auction.

The one I chose had two resident cow buyers unaffectionately known as Mr. Scowl and Mr. Growl. I was out of my territory and they didn’t know me. When a Jersey cow entered the sale ring that fit my fancy I raised my hand and soon found myself in a spirited duel. I got the Jersey bought way over the market price and both Mr. Scowl and Mr. Growl gave me a death stare that rattled my bones.

Ever since that day I feel like I’m being followed and my phone is tapped. I engaged the services of a home security outfit, bought a German Shepherd for my wife and check underneath my truck for bombs before I drive it. I don’t know what the statute of limitations is for buying a cow in another man’s territory but I fear I won’t live long enough to find out.

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by Dr. Jay Lehr, Terigi Ciccone, CFACT

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o-called “Green energy” threatens our culture, our freedoms and our pocketbooks, yet provides no net electricity to our electrical networks. ZeroZip-Nada. They remain a Green delusion.

A bold statement, yes? Bolder still is the fact that wind and solar power plants are more efficient when they are not running and are the most efficient and ecofriendly when: ЇЇ They are never bought, never installed, and never operated because they produce little or no net electrical power for a community’s electrical network, called the grid. ЇЇ They make no significant reduction in CO2 emissions or pollution, and little reduction of fossil fuel burning. ЇЇ For the “green-plants” already bought and installed—the best option for an electrical utility and the community is

to tear them down, recycle the materials, restore the wastelands, and give your wallet and the Earth a big green smile.

The Damages Starts Michael Moore, of all people and a lifelong champion of humanity and the environment, has exposed the eco-charlatans in his newly released documentary Planet For The Humans. This is a five-star, must-see movie destined for at least one Oscar. In the process, Michael plants many gut-wrenching images in our psyche. [i] ЇЇ First, is the vast and extensive damage done to our environment and the Earth’s bio-system to land strip, mine, produce, transport, install and operate these solar and wind plants.

We start with preparing the installation sites, where thousands of acres of trees are cut,[ii] and the landscape razed. They bulldoze hills down and fill over the valleys and streams. That is bad enough for the installation site, but…. ЇЇ But then, Michael pulls the curtain further back and attacks our senses with the stark images of the

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ecological and biodiversity damage paid just to build these devilmachines. Open-pit mines gouged deep into the Earth all over the world to extract the steel, aluminum, copper, and other minerals needed for these solar/wind plants. Hundreds of tons of cement produced to anchor the base of the hundreds of 300 to 500-foot towers and their 300-350 foot long wingspans.

Untold tons of Earth and rocks are blasted with thousands of kilos of dynamite to extract a few kilos of rare earth metals. Solar panels are not made from sand, as they lead us to believe, but precious and purest quartz that will need hundreds of tons of coal to make solar cells.

In a two-minute segment, Michael puts before our eye the millions of tons of coal, oil, and gas that are burned to mine, process, and transport the raw materials into solar and wind components. All of them emitting billions of tons of CO2 and pollution. Will these solar/wind plants ever recover the electrical energy that it took to Just build them? Most

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probably not, as detailed by C. Le Pair, in his article “Windmills increase fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions,” Oct 2011.

You will never see the destruction of animals and the bio-system going on in these remote sites all over the world, or on a guided media/political/ school-sponsored tour of your local electric installations. The hundreds of birds, bats, and eagles killed by the turning blades[iii] will be picked up before you arrive. But most egregious

is that they will not show you the fossil-fuel power plants, hidden from view, that are needed to back up the intermittent, unreliable, and expensive solar and wind plants 100 percent of the time.

The Damage Doesn’t Stop Most plants will never reach the advertised 20-year useful life but averaging in the 12 to 15-years. But then, what, repeat the above costs and destruction to replace these monstrosities? The choices are few,

and none are good. Let us peek into our crystal ball: ЇЇ Replace the machinery? As a minimum, we must tear down all the working components, haul them away, load them on ships. What then, drop them into the oceans, releasing the toxins where one sees them? Or burn more fossil fuels to detox the egregious parts, recycle some parts or find a developing country desperate enough to take them in exchange for a few dollars. ЇЇ Tear everything down? Or, having seen the futility of the enterprise, do we tear everything down? Spend countless more tons of fossil fuels to break the many tons of steelreinforced concrete, meltdown the metals, recycle the plastics and fiber materials, and haul away the debris, but to where? ЇЇ Abandon it and walk away? All too often, we have utilities conveniently declare bankruptcy and walk away, leaving behind rusting towers like headstones on endless cemeteries or in fields scattered with broken mirrors and solar collectors?

Let’s Summarize: In this first of a three-part series, we examined the costs and environmental damage of deforestation, mining, production, transportation, and installation of these solar and wind plants. For this, we say again, thank you, Michael Moore, for opening our green eyes, and wish you success with this outstanding movie. Alarmingly we got a hint that after these costs, fossil fuels burned, CO2 released, and eco-damage, these machines may not even produce the energy that it took to build and install.

In the next segment, we dive deep into the science, engineering, economics and environmental impact of their operation and maintenance and see what the benefits at the end of the tunnel are, if any.

Spoiler alert, we find a rule of thumb instead: ALL SOLAR AND WIND POWER ON AN ELECTRIC GRID MUST BE BACKED UP WITH AN EQUAL OR GREATER AMOUNT OF FOSSIL FUEL POWER RUNNING ON STANDBY 100% OF THE TIME. Editor’s Note: CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon.

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by Baxter Black, BaxterBlack.com

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hen our opinions get as immovable as a granite outhouse, God has a way of shaking the foundation.

I was searching for an artist who could lend just the right feeling to a book I was putting together. I found such a person. He lived in a remote mountain town and had no phone. With the help of the local postmistress and several letters, he agreed to illustrate my book.

Besides his unique artistic style, he was a good cowboy. Over the months of correspondence and our occasional visits on his local pay phone, I developed a genuine liking and respect for him.

We agreed to meet at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

I arrived Thursday night and began to test the limits of my envelope! I had the makin’s of a personal best brewing when I spied an old friend, a big man whose effort had done much to promote cowboy poetry.

I shook his hand warmly. It was then I noticed he was wearing a little short ponytail. I was overcome! I dressed him down for his uncowboy fashion statement and finished by removing the decorative ribbon binding his furry polyp!

Just then I felt a tap on the shoulder. I turned and a young man reached to shake my hand. He was decked out in his buckaroo finest. He introduced himself and remarked that he enjoyed my work. He explained that he was an actor.

As he talked, I focused on his earring.

Earring! I became incensed! I lectured him on manly pride and ended up trying to bite off his earlobe!

In retrospect it occurred to me that I might have overreacted. Fortunately these good fellows merely escaped my grasp rather than permanently disfigure me.

Tolerance The next day I was walking through the crowd when I heard a voice call my name. I turned. A hand pressed into mine and the voice said, “Hi, I’m yer new artist!”

He had blond hair braided into a pigtail that reached his waist. Eight, count’em eight! Earrings decorated his left ear!

I was dumbfounded!

He continued, “I’d like you to meet my wife.” I looked to his side where an attractive woman stood wearing a bowler hat and a gold ring in her nose!

Looking back, I suspect God set me up.

He said to Himself, this boy needs a lesson in tolerance. He was right. I was due. I’ve learned that a closed mind is like lookin’ at the world with one eye closed. I guess we could use a dowse of kindness and understanding in our nation’s capitol…

Washington, (sorry George), D.C.

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s ‘major’ sports continue to haggle with players, team owners, venues and governments, providing endless circular content for ESPN and its homebound talking heads about how to restart after the coronavirus pandemic, the major sport for agriculture kicked open the chutes

at the Cave Creek Rodeo in Cave Creek, Arizona over Memorial Day Weekend for the first Professional Cowboys Rodeo Association (PRCA) rodeo since early March when the pandemic shut down Rodeo Houston mid rodeo.

The payouts weren’t huge in three night performances and lots of slack between May 22 through 24, 2020. But everyone seemed grateful just to compete. The performances and a good part of the slack were at night to avoid the Arizona heat, which remained remarkably mild for the event.

To say that the PRCA independent

cowboys and cowgirls were hungry for a chance to get back into competition was an understatement. Some 600 entries came in for the rodeo from all across the nation. To allow everyone to compete required a oneheader where everyone got only one shot at their chosen event.

The rodeo was held without spectators and everyone was required to wear a mask when they weren’t in competition. Chutes were sanitized and the Cave Creek Rodeo Committee was able to comply with everyone from the Center for Disease Control to Arizona Governor Ducey’s health and safety standards.

The livestock was fresh, especially the doggin’ steers and it took a while for the cowboys to get their timing back, with even past world champions getting out run.

New Mexico’s blazing tie-down roper, Shad Mayfield, Clovis, maintained his winning ways winning in Cave Creek. Shad has added team roping to his list of events and participation in that contest garnered him the Cave Creek All-Around Cowboy title.

Shad remains about $90,000 ahead of his closest tie-down competitor who is no slouch… many time world champion Tuff Cooper. But even as major rodeos across the nation canceled their 2020 events, there is a lot of arena dirt to be covered before the PRCA National Finals Rodeo presently slated for December 3 through 12 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The annual 4th of July Rodeo will be held in Prescott, Arizona, while Wyoming has canceled all of the rodeos normally held there each summer.

Rodeo Houston completed their 2020 event May 29 through 31 at the Fort Worth Stockyards. Seems a little unorthodox, but the location gets the job done. Hopefully everyone will get paid their day money for each of the rounds.

While the world is struggling to find a living amid this pandemic, Cindy Schonholtz, current manager of the St. Paul Rodeo in Oregon, which has also been canceled, has brought to light the plight of rodeo livestock contractors who have hundreds of mouths to feed daily with no money coming in to feed them. She and others have established RodeoStronger.com and are committed to raising funds to stock contractors keep their animals fed. Some initial funding came from the St. Paul Rodeo Foundation.

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Located 25 miles SW of Hope NM, the Crooked Creek Ranch offers a combined total of 18,244 acres, permitted for up to 395 AUYL. The 9 pastures and 3 traps are well watered and offer a variety of country, ranging from rolling hills to juniper forest. All improvements are in good to excellent condition and ready for your livestock.

Call, text or email Murnie Cauhape at 575-703-8796, murnie@loisoliverrealestate.com & visit www.loisoliverrealestate.com/ crooked-creek-ranch for maps, pictures & more details.

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Jay Platt • 575.740.3243 P.O. Box 330, Datil, NM 87821 NMRanchProperties.com

Historic Circle Cross Ranch located in the Sacramento Mountains on the Sacramento River. 2422 ± acres deeded, 10,019 ± acres State Lease permitted for 116 AUs. 127 acres irrigated (water rights in process of being perfected). The ranch has bear, deer, turkey & elk. In 2017 the ranch received 26 elk tags. New regulations put 640 acres in the Primary Zone & ± 1782 acres in the secondary. Ranch includes a 5,500 sq. ft. lodge with 9 bedrooms, 5 baths & 2 full kitchens. There is also a 2 bed/2 bath 1892 sq. ft. home & a 3 bed/2 bath double-wide ranch managers home.

There are pipe working pens, 2 shops, 1 barn & 5 wells.

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Las Cruces, NM 88005 Roswell, NM 88201 Priced at $6,400,000 ±150 head (O) 575/647-5041 575-622-5867 (C) 575/644-0776 of cattle, 5 pieces of equipment sammmcnally@msn.com nmlandman@zianet.com www.ranchesnm.com & all furnishings negotiable. www.zianet.com/nmlandman JUNE 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

Price: $735,000 CONTACT: ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT www.headquarterswest.com email: info@headquarterswest.com

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■ PRICE REDUCED! FREESTONE CO., TX – 931.49 ac. +/- w/a beautiful 13 bdrm./13½ bath home, nice managers home, large party/meeting house & numerous barns & out bldgs., virtually all open country w/highly productive improved grasses, on pvmt. A “must see” property for corporate meeting place, excellent opportunity for a bed & breakfast or for large family or the enterprising cattle producer to run a large number of cattle w/irrigation rights out of existing large lakes.

■ COWEN ROAD FARM – Sedan, NM – two circles in CRP until 2023, one circle sown back to native grasses, all weather road.

■ SEDAN SPECIAL – Union Co., NM – 955 ac. +/- w/excellent improvements for a stocker or cow/calf operation, modern ¼ mi. sprinkler, all-weather roads on three sides, 374 ac. +/- CRP. ■ PECOS RIVER RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM – Scenic, 968 +/- ac. deeded & 519 +/- state lease acres, live water ranch on both sides of the Pecos River (strong flow daily) between Santa Rosa & Ft. Sumner; wildlife, paired w/water & cattle for the buyer looking for top tier assets in a rugged New Mexico ranch!

■ ELK RIDGE RANCH – Capulin, NM area, 100hd. +/- herd of Elk seen on property from time-to-time, 5,520 ac. +/- w/nice home, barns & pens, watered by wells & live water, no outside access through the property. Brochure being prepared!

■ PRICE REDUCED! WEST HAYDEN RANCH – Union/Harding Counties, NM – 9,670.76 ac. +/- (8,350.76 ac. +/- Deeded, 1,000 lease/purchase acres, 320 ac. +/- NM State Lease) of really good ranch land, well watered by a large spring, mills & subs, on pvmt., home, barns & 2 sets of pens. Consider dividing!

■ ELK CANYON RANCH – Harding County, NM - Another “hunter’s paradise” listed by Scott Land Company, LLC along w/the Elk Ridge Ranch, great opportunity for livestock/hunting/recreation, 2,240 ac. +/-, well watered w/good fences. Located just west of the West Hayden Ranch.

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SUMNER LAKE, State Road 203, River Ranches Estates, River Ranch Road lots (at intersection with 203) $18,900 each. State Road 203 frontage lot. $25,000 SAN ANTONIO, Zanja Road, 4.66 acres farmland with Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District water rights. $69,000 CUERVO, Mesita Pass Road, 148.13 acres of land in Mesita Ranch Subdivision. Perfect for a new home site, hunting or grazing. $85,000

Paul Stout, Broker

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Cell: 575-838-3016 Office: 575-854-2150 Fax: 575-854-2150

CUERVO, 1130 Aguila Road. 3bd/1ba home with corral on 56.6 acres at the foot of Cuervo Mesa. $85,000 MAGDALENA, 47 Angus Loop, 3bd/2ba home on 11.04 acres. Horse barn and corral. Beautiful views of Magdalena Mountain. $180,000

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north of Roswell, NM in Chaves & DeBaca Counties between Highway 285 and Highway 20. It is a first time offering of a ranch that has been under the same ownership and management for four generations. The ranch is comprised of over 32,000 deeded acres and a small amount of federal BLM lease land.

Grazing Capacity is owner controlled with an honest estimated grazing capacity of approximately 700 cows yearlong. The ranch is well improved with an excellent water distribution system. Water originates from 6 wells equipped with submersible pumps, solar pumps, and windmills. This ranch is a cowman’s dream designed by cowmen and ready to go.

Co-listed with Mossy Oak Properties NM Ranch & Luxury, LLC. Price: $13,200,000 Call for a brochure or view on my website: www.ranchesnm.com COCHISE RANCH – Ranch property located just west of Roswell, NM along and adjacent to U.S. Highway 70/380

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BLACKWATER DRAW RANCH – Nice well improved ranch property

located just 15 minutes from downtown Roswell, NM along and south of U.S. Highway 70/380. Improvements include a custom designed rock home, guest house, Quonset Barn, barns, and a good set of pipe pens. Partitioned into two larger pastures and two smaller pastures.

Acreage includes 2,185 deeded acres and 320 NM State Lease acres. The Blackwater Draw Ranch is adjacent to the Cochise Ranch, the two may be combined very easily. Price: $1,350,000 Call for a brochure or view on my website: www. ranchesnm.com CONTACT

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POQUITA MESA RANCH – Ranch to Ruidoso, NM. Comprised of 6,607 KELLEY PECAN ORCHARD Property located approximately 35 miles deeded acres and 80 acres of NM State – 10.2 acres with over 230 mature

producing pecan trees located just west of Roswell, NM. Artesian water rights with one well supplies irrigation water through a newly installed sprinkler system to the orchard. Improvements include a large 5,400 square foot two story colonial style residence that has been featured in Southern Living Magazine.

This property is one of a kind. Call for an appointment to take a look or for a color brochure. Price: $975,000 Call for a brochure or view on my website: www.ranchesnm.com CALDWELL RANCH – First time offering of a quality ranch property located in northeastern Chaves County, New Mexico approximately 20 miles northwest of the small community of Elida. Configured in two tracts of a total of 7,200 deeded acres and 640 acres of state lease. Watered by three wells and pipelines. Grazing capacity is estimated to be 130 AUYL. Priced at $370 per deeded acre.

Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 • Cell: 575-420-1237

PETAN RANCH: 44,453± ac. southwest of Marfa, Texas. This reputation cow ranch is mostly high, rolling grama grass hills at around 5600 feet with some mountain country and a few big, open flats. It is adequately watered and improved. Game include elk, mule deer, aoudad sheep, pronghorn antelope and blue quail. The Petan is one of the finest ranches this broker has seen in 40 years of selling West Texas. Very competitively priced at $43 million ($967/acre).

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

Priced @$300,000 TYLER RANCH/FARM — York Az, 544 deeded with 173 irrigated, along with 14,000 state and Blm lease land. 300 head mother cows yearlong. Priced @$2,300,000 NAVARRO RANCH consists of 21,632 total acres with 3,509 acres of deeded

land with the balance being state lease and a small BLM permit. The ranch has an excellent location just 25 minutes from the Tucson International airport and offers a great elevation to produce feed. The ranch is well watered with most of the wells being on private land. The ranch offers a variety of wildlife for recreational enjoyment opportunity. $7,500,000 Wesley Miller 928-245-6560 | wesley@ranchland.com www.RanchLand.com

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SMITH DRAW, SEPAR, NM — 7760 deeded, 11,275 State, 2560 BLM runs 300 head yearlong. Good strong country nice improvements.

Priced @$3,100,000 If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call ...

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he COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an abrupt and dynamic change in how food reaches the consumer’s dinner table, according to Craig Giffords and Marcy Ward.

Grocery store meat sections are frequently bare or offering very slim selections.

Shoppers are sometimes left wondering how to replenish their family’s supply of this protein source.

While the shelves are bare, ranchers and farmers are experiencing low prices for their livestock at the sale barn, as the supply chain is impacted by changes in the market.

As an engine for economic development, New Mexico State University (NMSU) College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences (ACES) is providing research-based information on ways consumers and producers can navigate

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NMSU Cooperative Extension Service has published a new guide, “Selling Meat Direct to Consumers from the Ranch & Farm” that provides alternative ways for producers to market beef cattle.

Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, restaurants and food service companies represented approximately 54 percent of food consumed in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“In the immediate aftermath of the epidemic outbreak, with closure of restaurant businesses and school meal services, bulk product deliveries dropped by an estimated 60 percent,” said Craig Gifford, NMSU Extension beef cattle specialist and co-author of the publication.

“Meat processors have been unable to adapt quickly to the change in demand for smaller packaging and increased delivery to retail outlets. As a result, meat shelves have become bare in some areas.”

To compound the issue, several large processing facilities have been closed due to plant employees testing positive for COVID-19.

The unstable supply chain has caused a dramatic drop in the market value of live animals, milk and grain products.

“In order for cattle producers to weather the storm, they are looking for alternative ways to market their beef,” said Marcy Ward, NMSU Extension livestock specialist and co-author of the publication.

“This publication provides information that will help both producers and their customers become educated in direct beef sales from the ranch or farm,” she said.

“It provides meat marketing options and aspects of each option to be considered. It also provides a scenario for calculating the price of the animal to best match retail prices, and maximize the profit per animal.”

The publication is available on NMSU College of ACES website at aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_b/B234.pdf.

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ear Fellow Ranchers: We continue to get daily updates from the Checkoff on how Covid-19 is affecting our industry, as well as the actions initiated by the Checkoff to keep our pipeline safe and operating efficiently.

I want to highlight a few areas that I found of interest. ЇЇ NMBC continues to run digital ads promoting quick and easy beef recipes. When a consumer clicks on an ad, they are redirected to NMBeef.com, where they will find hundreds of delicious beef recipes. ЇЇ We recognize that the record disconnect between wholesale beef prices and live cattle prices are not sustainable and has created significant financial challenges and hardship for us ranchers. Several industry organizations are working directly with USDA to resolve this discrepancy. ЇЇ Meat packing plant worker safety is of paramount concern for cattle producers and consumers. Supplemental protective equipment, implementing additional cleaning procedures, employing social distancing in the plants and slowing processing speeds are among the actions being taken to insure worker safety. The trade-off is a decline in beef production and some temporary shortages for consumers and food service. ЇЇ It is important to note that there is not a shortage of cattle supply and there is beef available at retail and food service. However, disruptions to the supply chain may temporarily limit the availability of certain cuts or lead some retail and restaurant chains to limit purchases to ensure the continued availability of beef for all consumers. ЇЇ The Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. Twitter handle (@Beef), was unexpectedly put in the spotlight on a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO. Host and comedian John Oliver said that @Beef is one of three reasons for Twitter to exist, along with the handles from model and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen and Possum Every Hour. He encouraged his viewers, “if you’re not following this account, you should...” @Beef, as part of the Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. brand, is checkoff-funded. Since the episode aired on May 3, the @Beef twitter following increased by 10 percent and is close to surpassing 32,000 followers. We expect this trend to continue as the segment is viewed via streaming apps, YouTube and social. This mention has a potential reach of 11.8 million consumers, including the HBO viewers coupled with Oliver’s and Beef. It’s What’s

For Dinner. social reach. The segment can be viewed on YouTube (clip runs from timestamp 11:29 – 12:15). Please note there is some adult language used throughout the clip. Last Week Tonight is a late-night talk and news satire program that airs weekly on HBO.

I hope that you and your family are safe and well. Please contact me or any of the NMBC Directors if you have comments or suggestions. We’ll make it through this and be stronger on the other side!

Best regards, – Matt Ferguson Chairman, New Mexico Beef Council

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John Oliver host of Last Week Tonight on HBO

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e’ve been fielding questions from ranchers about beef imports and exports. NMBC has a representative to the United States Meat Export Federation (USMEF), Kenneth McKenzie from Encino, N.M. He provides answers to commonly asked questions about global beef trade.

Question: Why are we importing beef from 20 different countries? Don’t we produce all we need right here in the United States?

Answer: While it’s true that we currently import beef from 18 countries, the vast majority (83 percent) comes from just four - Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. The vast majority of that is lean trimmings used to make ground beef. We need those trimmings because of the more heavily marbled cattle that we produce here in the United States.

Source: USDA ERS

Source: USDA FAS

Question: What do we import?

Answer: We import calves from Mexico, calves and fed cattle from Canada, lean beef trimmings from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico. The small remainder (17 percent) of imports come from 14 countries and consists of lean beef trimmings, not muscle cuts, used to Source: USDA ERS make ground beef.

Question: How was the beef export trade performing BEFORE Covid-19?

Answer: Driven by solid growth in Japan, where U.S. beef is benefiting from reduced tariffs under the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, as well as South Korea, Mexico, Canada and Taiwan, March beef exports totaled 115,308 mt, up 7 percent from a year ago, valued at $702.2 million – up 4 percent and the highest monthly value since July. First quarter beef exports climbed 9 percent from a year ago to 334,703 mt, valued at $2.06 billion (up 8 percent).

Source: USDA ERS

Question: Do we run a trade deficit in beef and cattle trade?

Answer: No, the United States is a net exporter of beef and cattle combined.

Source: USDA ERS

Question: Is the United States flooded with beef imports?

Answer: No. Less than 11 percent of beef consumed by Americans is imported. ЇЇ Total 2020 Estimated Domestic Consumption = 12,389,000 Metric Tons ЇЇ Total 2020 Estimated Domestic Production = 12,515,000 Metric Tons ЇЇ Total 2020 Estimated Beef Imports = 1,334,000 Metric Tons ЇЇ Total 2020 Estimated Beef Exports = 1,433,000 Metric Tons

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he NMBC sponsored beef sandwich meals purchased from local restaurant, Hello Deli. Tom Bertelle, our beef ambassador, delivered the lunches to the Albuquerque fire station on Wyoming and Paseo del Norte.

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ETA has published new ads attacking the meat industry. The Checkoff continues to monitor these and other attack ads. We are not engaging with PETA or other activists online. The most likely outcome from doing so is bringing more attention to the activists’ messaging and platforms.

This can elevate the issue and spread it to more consumers who otherwise wouldn’t have seen it. We caution ranchers not to engage with PETA or other similar organizations.

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For more information about your beef checkoff investment visit MyBeefCheckoff.com 2019-2020 DIRECTORS – CHAIRMAN, Matt Ferguson (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Zita Lopez (Feeder); SECRETARY, Susie Jones (Dairy Producer).

NMBC DIRECTORS: John Heckendorn (Purebred Producer); BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Bill King (Producer) Jim Hill (Feeder); Kenneth McKenzie (Producer); FEDERATION DIRECTOR, Matt Ferguson Cole Gardner (Producer); Marjorie Lantana (Producer); U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, Kenneth McKenzie Dan Bell (Producer) For more information contact: New Mexico Beef Council, Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Executive Director 1209 Mountain Rd. Pl. NE, Suite C, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505/841-9407 • 505/841-9409 fax • www.nmbeef.com

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Byrnes, arrived. Zamora commented that he thought the object was something the U. S. Government was testing; a suggestion immediately rejected by Holder: “There was no known firing mission in progress at the time of the occurrence that would produce the conditions reported.” Within a few days, major news agencies descended on Socorro, as did a plethora of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) investigators, both governmental and nongovernmental: U. S. Air Force Project Blue Book and National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) respectively. It is also noteworthy that Zamora himself received more than 2,000 letters in the year following the sighting, and the letters continued until only two weeks before his death in November 2011, nearly 50 years.

One of the things that placed this event apart from many others was the character of the primary witness, Lonnie Zamora.

Lawrence Romero, former sheriff of Valencia and Socorro Counties, said Zamora was a “trustworthy” and “humble” police officer and Billy Romero, who served with Zamora on the Socorro Police Department described him as a “very good police officer.” He was known throughout the community as a sober, church-going, responsible citizen and family man.

Project Blue Book director, Hector Quintanilla concluded thus: There is no doubt that Lonnie Zamora saw an object which left quite an impression on him. There is also no question about Zamora’s reliability.

He is a serious police officer, a pillar of his church, and a man well versed in recognizing airborne vehicles in his area. He is puzzled by what he saw and frankly, so are we. This is the best-documented case on record, and still we have been unable, in spite of a thorough investigation, to find the vehicle or other stimulus that scared Zamora to the point of panic.”

But was the whole thing a hoax? Maybe.

There were several theories. One was that it was a prank engineered by local high school students to embarrass Officer Zamora. Local folks tended to discount that notion. Another was that it was a plot by Zamora himself and Socorro Mayor Holm Bursum designed to generate tourist traffic to the town. It was suggested that the property upon which the UFO landed belonged to Bursum, but that was not so. Others claimed that Zamora simply misidentified a dust devil, but Zamora, as a native of New continued on page 60 >>

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Mexico, would be unlikely to make such a mistake. Another suggested that he misidentified ball lightening, which is equally unlikely.

A new dimension to this event was added in 2008 when Dr. Stirling Colgate, who served as president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 to 1974, received a letter from noted scientist Linus Pauling inquiring as to Colgate’s knowledge of the Zamora affair. In reply, Colgate wrote, “I have good indications of student who engineered hoax.” In the time since, Colgate has iterated his belief that the affair was indeed a hoax, but he has declined to elaborate. One would think that as a scientist, he would have an obligation to clear up the matter, if, indeed, he could.

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