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FEATURES 20 Santa Gertrudis Breeders International 65th Annual Convention – Albuquerque 32 Limousin Elects New Board Members & Officers 35 SingleTree Ranch Awarded Limousin Commercial Breeder of the Year 35 Genex CRI Cooperative Limousin Promoter of the Year 40 Judge Hears Arguments in Landmark Data Trespass Case

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10 NMCGA President’s Message

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48 Federal Lawyers Worn of Lesser Prairie Chicken “Death Spiral”

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52 Hacking for a Fifth Place

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94 The Edge of Common Sense

by Baxter Black

by Heather Smith Thomas

86 2016 Beef Enterprise Cost Outlook: Bred Heifers

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear NMCGA Members & Supporters

From the President-Elect Tom Sidwell

Pat Boone President Elida Tom Sidwell President-Elect Quay Jack Chatfield Vice President at Large Mosquero Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Blair Clavel NE Vice President Roy Jeff Bilberry SE Vice President Elida Randell Major SW Vice President Magdalena Shacey Sullivan (Russell) Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Jose J. Varela Lopéz Past President La Cieneguilla Rex Wilson Past President Ancho Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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irst, I want to thank my peers for having the confidence to choose me as President-elect of NMCGA. I consider this to be an honor and will do my level best to exceed your expectations of me.

As President-elect, I was sentenced to 30 days in Santa Fe for the legislative session and with good behavior, I get to do 60 days next year!

The main focus of the Legislature this year is the constitutional mandate for a balanced budget in a time of declining revenues. HB 2 was sent to the Governor for her signature.

The prevailing thought is that a Special Session may be called later due to revenues continuing to decline. Scuttlebutt is that the legislature may look at adding a gas tax to low gasoline prices and/or rescinding some of the tax exemptions to increase revenues to state coffers. We will keep an eye on these developments.

Another big issue this year was the requirement to be compliant with the federal Real ID Act and allow drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants. Under HB 99, U.S. citizens and immigrants with lawful status have the option to get a Real ID-compliant license. The Real ID-compliant licenses are needed to enter secure federal facilities and to board a commercial plane, flying domestically. Those who don’t want a Real ID license and undocumented immigrants who can’t qualify for one could get a driving-authorization card, but it would not be recognized as identification by some federal agencies.

We followed a number of bills important to agriculture. One was SB 244 which provided a rational basis for farm and ranch laborers exemption from the Workers Compensation Act. SB 244 was necessary to comply with the NM Court of Appeals opinion that current exemption in statute is unconstitutional. SB 244 passed the Senate Conservation Committee and was referred to Senate Judiciary Committee where it wasn’t heard. Companion bills SB 283 and SM 110 did not make it to committee. The good news is the New Mexico Supreme Court has granted a stay to the Court of Appeals opinion which is now suspended. Oral arguments will be heard by the Supreme Court late this Spring or maybe next summer.

Another bill important to producers was SB 294 exempting from gross receipts tax the sale of access to private land for hunting or fishing purposes. Many producers receive elk and antelope authorizations or authorizations from the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish as compensation for damages to private property and Taxation and Revenue Department has determined landowners should pay gross receipts taxes on the sale of these authorizations. SB 294 passed the Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee and referred to the Finance Committee where it was tabled.

Some good news! SB 72 amending the Right to Farm Act to protect agricultural operations or facilities from nuisance claims passed both houses and is on the Governor’s desk for her signature. However, some groups are misinforming the public about what constitutes a substantial change in the nature and scope of agricultural operations or facilities in the hopes of generating public backlash against the Governor signing this legislature.

We in agriculture need to counter the misinformed public with calls to the Governor’s office urging her to sign SB 72 into law.

Lastly, I want to thank the bill readers for the work they do in vetting introduced legislation. I have been a bill reader since the inception of this concept and now I have a greater appreciation of what it means to those in Santa Fe. Hasta luego y espero que obtiene gran cantidad de lluvia!

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TO THE POINT

by Caren Cowan, Executive Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

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hat’s the position the New Mexico Center on Law & Poverty put to anyone and everyone — anywhere in the United States — in agriculture during testimony on Senate Bill 244, the workers’

workers’ comp exemptions were created in the Reconstruction Era in the South (following the Civil War). Through these exemptions, agriculture has maintained slave labor since that time.

She continued her lengthy diatribe stating that according to her math, that based on New Mexico’s agricultural income, workers’ comp insurance only costs one compensation ag exemption bill, during percent of the billions that the industry the 2016 Legislature. According to Gale makes annually. Apparently lawyers are not Evans (no relation to Dale that we can find), held to any standard for honesty or the Legal Director of the Center since 2004, integrity. stated with great force that agricultural During the hearing one senator who has an agricultural background did gently call her on the slave statement. Although clearly that senator understands the costs associated with workers’ comp insurance for at the least the farming segment of ag, he refrained from commenting on that portion of Evan’s testimony.

But she didn’t get away scot-free. Several days after the hearing, the Center and its director who is ill, was honored on the Senate Floor. Senator Pat Woods appropriately spoke about the Center’s director, but then took the opportunity to point out what the Center had said about slavery noting that such statements are completely disrespectful.

It wasn’t long before another senator spoke, attempting to set aside the slavery comment, saying something to the effect that young, ambitious lawyers getting ahead of themselves. Unfortunately that doesn’t apply to Evans. According to the Center’s website, Evans has 25 years of legal experience, all of which has been devoted to representing low-income individuals and families. (Sort of sounds like my last 25 years… without the law degree.)

I do want to note that the term “scot-free” has nothing to do with the slavery. “Scott free” actually pre-dates the Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling in 1857 by a very large margin (having been around since at least the 11th century). Another common misconception is that the phrase has some association with the Scottish. In fact, “scot”, in this case, is from the Old Norse word “skot” meaning something to the effect of “payment” or “contribution”. In English, “scot” initially just meant “tax”.

Many thanks to Senator Steve Neville who carried the bill.

So when DID you stop beating your spouse?

Workers’ Comp Update You can imagine that after Evan’s outrageous testimony there was a pall over the proposed agricultural exemption in the Legislature. The bill did pass out of the Con-

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ser vation Committee without recommendation on a close vote. The next committee was the Senate Judiciary Committee that has many of the same members as the Conservation Committee. It was clear that the bill wasn’t going far and it was let die.

But there was some great news at the end of the Session. It was learned that on February 15, 2016 the New Mexico Supreme Court issued a stay on any action by the Workers’ Compensation Administration (WCA) in enforcement until the Supreme Court rules on the case. There are only educated guesses as to when that might be.

Some expect the Court to hear the case in late Spring or early Summer with a final ruling to come sometime after that.

Of course the Center has filed a motion with the Supreme to reconsider their stay.

Again it is anybody’s guess what the Court will do, but since the issue of the stay has been in front of them for several months, one would hope that they will stand their ground.

Right to Farm Workers’ comp was just one of four issues members of the agricultural community had on their agenda heading into Santa Fe in January. Unfortunately only one of those had a positive outcome.

Despite the bests efforts of the Center and Animal Protection Voters, the lobbying arm of Animal Protection of New Mexico, agriculture pulled together to get Senate Bill 72, Right to Farm, passed and signed.

The bill made a small change in the current right to farm statute directing the courts to consider the nature and scope of an operation in determining if there is nuisance or temporary nuisance. The bill flew out of its first committee, Senate Conservation, after some atypical moves.

During a committee hearing the chairman of the committee generally calls for those who support and oppose the measure being considered. Usually it is the supporters who speak first, but that is solely left to the discretion of the chairman.

Heretofore the opposition to change of the right to farm statute has come from the trial lawyers. To avoid conflict during the Session, there was negotiation with the trial lawyers on the bill well prior to the Legislature. The trial lawyers agreed not to oppose the bill.

On hearing day when there was no opposition, the chairman as for those who neither supported nor opposed to speak. A few folks said they had no opposition to the

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bill. An Animal Voters employee sat silent throughout the hearing.

The bill moved on to the Judiciary Committee where it was a whole new ballgame.

Animal Protection Voters, the Center on Law & Poverty, and another group or two vehemently opposed the bill demanding that the new language read “nature or scope.” Although there were attempts to amend the measure, it moved on to the Senate Floor intact.

On the Floor there was another huge move to get the bill amended before it passed to the House. The activism that took place on the floor was like none I have seen.

There were eight to ten people from the Animal Voters and the Center trolling every senator numerous times. We were doing the same thing, only there were less of us and we limited our contacts with each senator to a single explanation of the bill.

With bi-partisan support, the bill passed the Senate.

It was then on to the House Agriculture, Water & Wildlife Committee that quickly passed it on to the Floor. The scene on the House Floor was similar to the Senate. The bill passed the House with an even greater margin and bi-partisan support.

Despite a large amount of pressure on

the Governor, including an op-ed piece in the Albuquerque Journal, at press time all indications are that she will sign the bill.

Many thanks to the Senate Minority Floor Leader Stuart Ingle who carried the bill as well as all those senators and representatives who withstood the pressure and made this bill a reality.

Gross Receipts on Access for Hunting & Fishing Senate Bill 294, introduced by Senator Carlos Cisneros, provided an exempt for landowners from gross receipts tax on granting access for hunting and fishing. The bill made it out of its first committee, but died in Senate Finance due to the huge budget shortfall the state is facing.

The option of litigation remains open and is being explored at this time. Stay tuned for further information. If you have individual questions, please contact the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) at 505/247-0584 or email nmcga@ nmagriculture.org .

Beef Council Checkoff Enhancement Senator Pat Woods introduced Senate Bill 65 that would have provided for an additional voluntary dollar to be collected by

the New Mexico Beef Council. The Council’s budget has dwindled to the point that many of its’ finest programs have been eliminated due to funding.

In addition to providing the ability to collect an additional refundable dollar, the measure also provided for the option of completely opting out by providing a form at the time of brand re-record every three years. Although the 2016 bill offered everything the dairy industry requesting, they withheld support, but did not oppose it.

The stumbling block was the Governor’s office that deems any checkoff as tax. We were unable to get the Governor to put the issue on her call. The bill never moved out of the Senate Committee on Committees.

It is worth again pointing out that the only bill that all of agriculture supported was right to farm — and we got it done. If we cannot learn to work together for the good of all, there is little hope of making change.

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Turner Ranch to house wolves from Washington as they travel to a new home in Mexico. Given that one of the questions we have been asking is why wolf reintroduction has not been taking place in Mexico, despite the fact that the majority of their habitat is in that country, it is hard to oppose the plan.

The Commission approved the permit, which is in keeping with their request to do more work in Mexico. Although there was every indication that the permit would be approved, the wolfies were out in force to bash the Commission and ranchers. My favorite was the guy who testified that it was the Commission who was in danger of extinction because only four percent of New Mexicans hunt and the rest support wolves. Unfortunately he didn’t cite any research to support his statement. And when you consider that this is the same guy who testified in a legislative hearing a few years ago that the killing of coyotes leads directly to the serial murder of children… you just have to consider the source.

There was the whining that ranchers are ripping off the public with grazing fees.

Apparently he hasn’t picked up on the fact

that the formula driven federal and state trust land fees have gone up by 25 and 24 percent respectively this year.

I n Memoriam ...

Frances Schultz Jennings, 96, Roswell, passed away peacefully surrounded by her I have had several folks ask recently children at the family home January 31, when the Mid Year Meeting in Ruidoso is 2016. She was born on March 29, 1919 in going to be held. I fear I have erred. The Stevenson, Alabama to Paul Gibbons actual dates are June 12 through 14. If I have Schultz and Fern Mitchell Schultz. The misled you, please change your calendars, Schultz family along with life-long friend, be they electronic or paper.

Sallie Ann Austin, relocated from Stevenson to Roswell for a drier and healthier climate The Home Coming in 1926. Frances attended Roswell schools, The 2016 Joint Stockmen’s Convention graduating from Roswell High School in will be going home to the Crowne Plaza 1937. She participated in many clubs and Hotel (formerly the Hilton) at University and activities and senior year was ‘El Coyote Menaul. There will be lots more news about Queen’ and class secretary. She attended the convention in the months to come, but Texas State College for Women (Texas you can start staying at the Crowne Plaza Women’s University) and the University of for the same great rates we have had. Just New Mexico (UNM). While at UNM she was mention that you are a NMCGA member to a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma get $81 + tax rooms. The Association has a sorority and was recently honored with a $62 + tax rate at the adjacent Fairfield 75-year pin. Frances’ goal was to be “an Inn. efficient legal secretary” and began her career as secretary for G. T. Watts Esquire.

While working, she met James T. Jennings, who practiced law with the Watts firm, and they were married on June 30, 1942. Family

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Birth Weanling Weight Weight -0.6 17 0.7 5 0.77 0.63 20 80

Genomic-Enhanced EPD Yearling Total CE Scrotal Milk Maternal Maternal Circ.

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US REA% 0.35 0.12 0.62 50

US US IMF FT 0.03 -0.046 0.07 0.006 0.57 0.61 40 35

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SUBJECT EPD % Ranked +/- Chg vs Active ACC Sires % Rank MARCH 2016

CE Direct 4.3 3.8 0.59 45

Birth Weanling Weight Weight -0.9 22 0.8 6 0.72 0.59 15 60

Genomic-Enhanced EPD Yearling Total CE Scrotal Milk Maternal Maternal Circ.

Weight 47 13 24 3.9 0.15 10 5 3.9 0.32 0.48 0.40 0.41 0.53 45 20 40 65 75

US REA% 0.28 0.12 0.60 60

US US IMF FT 0.12 -0.051 0.08 0.007 0.50 0.57 20 20

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or those of you that called legislators or traveled to Santa Fe, thank you! We got news that the Right to Farm Bill passed off the Senate and House Floors without he amendments sought by the Animal Rights groups. The Depredation Payment Bill passed out of House Ag, Water & Wildlife, but the grim budget outlook will more than likely keep it from going any further.

Bill Montoya and Bob Ricklefs were confirmed by the Senate to continue serving on the Game Commission. The Game Commission took a beating because they stood up for common sense and voted as such. If you run into a Game Commissioner please take the time to tell them thank you and that you appreciate all they are doing for New

Mexico Agriculture. The phone calls made and emails sent to legislators are making an impact and I know Caren Cowan and NMCGA President Pat Boone really do appreciate all the help.

Ag Fest was a success. President Elect, Tana Garnett set up a great booth along with Casey Spradley and Beef Ambassadors.

NM Beef Council provided some amazing beef rub samples as well as nutritional information and Beef recipes.

NM State CowBelles will be gearing up soon to travel in New Mexico for District workshops. We start off in Roy on March 14, then on to Corona, Artesia and finally ending up in Las Cruces. We will be bringing lots of information and our inventory of knives and some new items for sale.

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As the weather warms up and the school semester comes to an end, NMSU will be gearing up for Ranch Camp. I would like to encourage all locals to seek out someone to apply for this wonderful opportunity and consider sponsoring them. The opportunities offered at Ranch Camp will impact those that attend and the experience and knowledge gained will last a lifetime. Camp is set for June 5-10 and application online will be available March 1. For more information go to our web page: w w w. newmexicocowbelles.org or www.nmyrm. nmsu.edu.

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he Grant County Copper CowBelles met in January. President Kim Clark remarked that in keeping with her “keep it simple” plan for 2016, the group will only meet in January, March, April, June, August and October and a Christmas Party/ Officer installation event in December. The group will participate in the Home and Garden Expo, the Grant County Fair and host the annual dinner/dance Shindig. Any other events will need a sponsoring chair to shoulder responsibility and a June is Beef Month project is already spoken for. JoAnn Miller is continuing with the cookbook project. The Executive Board will meet on February 8 to start the Shindig planning, the “Fiesta de Mayo” is scheduled for April 30 with the Yarbrough Band to play.

Members were encouraged to volunteer for McKeen Ranch Days, April 19 and 20 and to attend the District III meeting in March and the ANCW Region VI meeting April 29 and 30, 2016. Submitted by Pat Hunt Corriente CowBelles met January 20, 2016. Membership – Please pay dues and remind other not present. Treasurer – Cheryl gave bank balance and report was filed for audit. Cheryl waiting for a debit card. Minutes – were accepted as read. Cor-

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respondence – The Hubbard Grant not them to pay their dues. The group held a received; card from Sawyer Ward from a Planning and Brainstorming Session on card her mother received from CowBelles issues to address in 2016. Currently the in a previous year; thank you cards read group is focusing on Kids, Kows and More, from: Grady Le Ivins for Cream of the Crop Ag Day in De Baca County, teaming up with donation; Kim Stone for past president Young Farmers/Ranchers in Legislature award bracelet; Kalyn Hazen for scholarship endeavor and advertising on billboards/ with list of classes enrolled in along with sign. Other suggestions will be furthered grades. Jr. CowBelles-Jenna Cleckler helped reviewed. Cards of encouragement were the youth Maggie, Grady, Ryleigh, Pratt, sent to several members. Note from editor: Jayden make beef by-product poster and December submission was published as Powpractice part 1 of the beef skit. Cookbook derhorn CowBelles last month, I apologize Committee – submit recipes online. The and am running it again under the correct committee will ask Herb Brunell, Gary title: From the Powderhorn Cattlewomen Cozzens, and Julie Carter for photos. Quilt December 2015 meeting a Christmas party Committee – work after meeting. Cowbelle/ was held at the home of Nick and Karen Cattleman of the Year – rubric for scoring Cortese. In attendance were 17 members to match the state rubric was developed. plus husbands and children. Nick grilled Officer training retreat to be planned. steaks and members brought side dishes. A ANCW Region VI – meeting April 29-May1 round robin Christmas ornament gift in Las Cruces. Scholarship Committee – exchange took place – participants could Cheryl and Sharon. February 17 meeting steal one from someone else and they had – Oso Grill, Junior CowBelles will not be to find another one. Lots of laughter and meeting. March 16 – CWC Junior Cowbelles good fellowship! The group looks forward hosting; April 20 – Cheryl and Martha to promoting beef in 2016. Submitted by hosting; Submitted by Sharon Young, Joan Key Secretary Secretary Mesilla Valley CowBelles met February January, 2016, meeting of the Powder- 15, 2016 at Cracker Barrel Restaurant with horn Cattlewomen was held at the DeBaca five members present. Dues: please pay $25 Extension office with 17 members present as soon as possible to Janet Witte. District and two guests. The 2016 officers were the Workshop: MVCB hosting Thursday, March hostesses: Kelsey McCollum, President; Kari 17, 2016 at the Fort Selden Community Henry, V.P.; Joan Key, Secretary; and Carol Center. Set up evening of March 16. Flyer Church, Treasurer. Budget was presented has been sent out. Registration is due and approved. New committee chairmen March 3 to Janet (can pay at the door yet, were announced and Carol presented a list please RSVP). Lunch catered by Cha Chi’s of members who had not paid dues. Several Restaurant. Dessert cupcakes by Shawnna took those names to call and persuade Tarpley. Breakfast will be served as well.

Mary Esther Grider will take care of the decorations. LCPS Calendar Art Contest: Traci Curry sending out the flyers in April. Contest dates are April 4-29, 2016. Judging will be the first week of May. Traci is needing more information pertaining to Beef. There will be two spots on the calendar for Kindergarten and 1st grade entries, the remaining 10 slots will be for the older grades: Agriculture for Aggie Careers, a possible theme. 2016 ANCW Region VI Meeting: NMCB Past President Dalene Hodnett is the chair; meeting to be held in Las Cruces. Refer to the NMCB Web site for information and registration.

New Mexico Beef Ambassador Contest: applications are due March 10, 2016. The contest will be held in conjunction with the NM State FFA Judging Contest on Friday, April 8, 2016, at NMSU. If able to help, please let Gretchen know. NMCB Man of the Year Nominations: due March 15, 2016. Next meeting: decorate for district workshop on March 16. Submitted by Gretchen Lindsay

The meeting of the Chuckwagon CowBelles was held on February 9, 2016 – Mountainair Christian Center. Bucket for “Horses for Heroes” collected $62. The minutes of January 12, 2016 as corrected were approved. Treasurer report presented/ filed for audit. President Lyn gave report on Annual ANCW General Membership Meeting. Fita Witte was awarded with American National CattleWoman of the Year.

Letter read from Horses for Heroes thanking group for donation. Various ideas and locations were discussed for meeting dates in the upcoming year. Group decided to support District 3 FFA Officer with bucket money. District Workshops – District I March 15 at Corona Range & Livestock Research Center. RSVP and $25 payment should be made out to: “Crown CowBelles” before March 5. Send to Leanne Hutcheson, PO Box 116, Corona, NM 88318, phone: 575/849-1122, hutchesonleanne@yahoo. com ANCW Region VI Meeting – Las Cruces, NM – April 29 & 30; registration form in the Wrangler. Donations encouraged from ranches or businesses. The group will donate $100 to support this ANCW meeting.

Schedules are available (call the Secretary – Welda). NMCB Website changed to NewMexicoCowBelles.org. NMCB Man of the Year nomination was made by President Lyn Greene who will send nomination to the State Chair. The deadline for the Pat Nowlin Scholarship is April 15 to Anne Ferguson.

Application is on the website. March 10 – NM Beef Ambassador Applications due to Chair Shelly Hathorn. Decisions made: to authorize Vera and Carolyn to purchase embroidered tablecloth for booths with a $300 limit; to donate $30 to the churches group; to give $100 to the (Home Ec) 4-H Beef School. Meeting adjourned at 12:06.

Program: Card making with Danielle Berrien, Torrance County Extension Home Economist. Next Meeting March 8 – Mountainair Christian Center – Potluck. Welda McKinley Grider Chamiza CowBelles met February meeting was called to order at 11:05 by President Nancy Phelps with 14 members present. Minutes were approved as read.

Treasurer’s report was given and filed for audit. Nancy passed around a card for all to sign to thank Ellie Nordgren for picking up the tab for December meeting lunches and volunteer sheets so members could update them during the meeting. Brand sales going well. It was decided to have bound edges on new throw blankets and have continued on page 32 >>

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he North American Limousin Foundation (NALF) elected new members and officers for its board of directors during the annual meeting held in Denver, Colorado.

Those newly elected to serve the Foundation for three-year terms are Greg Blaydes, Midway, Kentucky, and Mark Barker, Newcastle, Oklahoma. Three directors were re-elected to their second term. They are Dexter Edwards, Beulaville, North Carolina.; Jim Bob Hendrickson, Adair, Oklahoma; and Austin Hager, Karlsruhe, North Dakota, Bret Begert was selected as the NALF president of board. He succeeds Chad Settje, Creston, Nebraska. Dexter Edwards was chosen to serve as vice president. The remaining executive committee consists of Jim Bob Hendrickson, as secretary, Gary Fuchs, Cameron, Texas, as treasurer, and Austin Hagar, as member-at-large. Chad Settje will continue on the executive committee as ex-officio.

Begert most recently served as vice president of the association for the past year. He

and his family operate Begert Limousin in Allison, Texas. He is a past president of the North American Limousin Junior Association and has also served as president of the Texas Limousin Association.

Dexter Edwards recently held the treasurer position of the board. Edwards operates Edwards Land & Cattle Co. in Beulaville, North Carolina.

Greg Blaydes operates HB Farms Limousin and Blaydes & Sons Limousin of Midway, Kentucky. Mark Barker is a veterinarian and operator of Diamond Hill Cattle of Newcastle, Okla.

The additional breeders on the 16 member NALF board of directors include Dennis Alt, Shawnee, Kansas; Joey Freund, Elizabeth, Colorado; Gary Gates, Absarokee, Montana; Chris Milam, Olmstead, Kentucky; Past President Bob Mitchell, Wauzeka, Wisconsin; Warren Symens, Amherst, South Dakota; Fred Wacker, Miles City, Montana; and Curt Wieczorek, Mount Vernon, South Dakota.

The North American Limousin Foundation would like to thank the two retiring board members for their service. Those retiring members are John Tobe, Lexington, Kentucky. and Mat Lewis, Iliff, Colorado, w h o w a s t h e i m m e d i a te p a s t ex-officio.

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2016 woven onto the throws. An email was a week in advance. This is an excellent way received by a member for a prayer vigil and to educate our young people. Ag Day is memorial for Robert Lavoy Finicum, Febru- scheduled for April 15; need volunteers to ary 6. Mr Finicum lost his life in the land help with distributing lunches. Prior to dispute battle up in Oregon recently. Dis- meeting, three new members enrolled and trict Meeting near Las Cruces in the Ft. received three prior members’ dues renewSeldon/Radium Springs Community Center als. Welcome to new members: Kelsie on March 17. Cost is $25 per person which Cochran, Kristie Hawkins, and Betty Welty. includes lunch and breakfast. Anyone inter- Meeting adjourned at 11:55. Kelsie won the ested in attending should contact Nancy by door prize, and all enjoyed a delicious the end of February. Reservations need to potluck lunch. Thank you, Nancy, for be made no later than March 3 and pay at hosting this meeting. Submitted by Cathy the door. The local will reimburse the cost Pierce of gas for whomever drives for the attendees. Kelsie suggested any or all volunteer New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who once a week at the elementary and/or have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please middle schools for even 10 to 15 minutes to send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 explain to the children the many uses of a Janet or email: janetwitte@msn.com the 14th of each cow besides the beef it provides. The teach month ers need to include you in their lesson plans

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Genex CRI Cooperative Limousin Promoter of the Year

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he North American Limousin Foundation (NALF) has awarded the Promoter of the Year award to Genex CRI Cooperative, represented by Willie Altenberg, Fort Collins, Colorado, and Jeff Swenson, Morrill, Nebraska.

Genex Cooperative, Inc., is a subsidiary of Cooperative Resources International (CRI). Genex, headquartered in Shawano, Wisconsin, is the trusted provider of worldclass animal genetics, progressive reproductive solutions, value-added products, and innovative services to members

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The Promoter of the Year award is presented annually to an individual or firm who expanded the reach of Limousin genetics in a profound way. The presentation took place during the NALF activities at the National Western Stock Show held in Denver, Colorado.

Joe Epperly, NALF assistant executive director, in presenting Genex the award stated, “Starting with a research project in 2010, this company partnered with a prominent Limousin breeder to provide and market the use of Limousin genetics to enhance the beef industry. Their innovative program has led to other AI companies purchasing Limousin genetics from across the country to replicate their results and has led to Limousin being the third highest used beef breed in the United States according to the NAAB.”

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Through partnerships with reputation branded programs like Laura’s Lean Beef and Strauss Veal, as well as marketing through NALF’s own Limousin Exchange Feeder Calf Classifieds, NALF has a program to assist marketing a variety of Limousin influences, types, and kinds.

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rank Daley of SingleTree Ranch, New Castle, Colorado, was honored as the North American Limousin Foundation (NALF) Commercial Producer of the Year.

The award was presented to Daley and his wife, Sheila, at the NALF annual membership banquet in Denver, Colorado.

They were selected from a group of commercial producers nominated by various state Limousin associations to receive the coveted national award. Other finalists included Delmer and Kyle Stern of Stern Farms, Garden City, South Dakota, Steve and Barbara Baier, Fritz and Melisa Baier of Entropy Acres, Griswold, Iowa, and Bernhard and Kathy Larson of Larson Limousin, Hendricks, Minnesota.

SingleTree Ranch is a family run cow-calf operation started near New Castle, in 1979 with the purchase of 106 acres of land.

Frank bought his first Limousin bulls in 1981 and has used primarily Limousin bulls since.

In 2005 and 2007, SingleTree Ranch extended their ranch property by adding 250 cows on ranches near Wray, Colorado.

The Daleys also started a partnership in 2014 with their daughter, Amy, and her husband, Nicholas Krick. They hope to improve their record keeping and efficiency with the extra help.

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“Selling on a grid has worked well over the years because of Limousin’s excellent carcass traits. Our cattle will consistently grade well, with a high percentage Yield Grade 1s and 2s and large ribeye areas,” said Frank Daley.

“SingleTree Ranch combines all aspects of a progressive commercial operation.

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NEWS UPDATE

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State gains a toehold in wild horse control

he Bureau of Land Management has settled a lawsuit brought

by Utah trust-lands officials over wild horse management, conceding greater influence to the state in deciding whether to remove “excess” horses from herds that roam over state trust lands in the midst of public lands.

BLM also promised to make “reasonable” efforts to clear two tracts of horses every other year.

Last year, the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, or SITLA, filed suit in U.S. District Court, alleging the BLM was failing in its duty to manage federally protected horses and burros, to the detriment of the state lands that are interspersed with the public lands administered by the BLM. Some regard free-roaming mustangs, descendants of domestic horses that Spanish explorers released centuries ago, as icons of the West that symbolize a spirit of freedom. But ranchers and other rural Utahns regard them as an invasive exotic species that no longer belongs on the range, which should be used for grazing.

According to various lawsuits, non-native horses proliferate in the absence of predators and excessive numbers are depleting the range, displacing ranchers who hold grazing permits on public and state trust lands.

In a recent news release announcing the settlement, BLM vowed to do the things the agency, which manages 23 million acres in Utah, has long claimed it already does, namely collaborate with local stakeholders and protect resources.

The agreement “provides for a mutual commitment to work cooperatively to manage wild horses that have entered onto SITLA lands. The agencies will meet annually to identify priority removal areas, ensure environmental review, conduct aerial population surveys jointly and monitor rangeland resources and improvements.”

So what’s new?

“We have never [before] partnered up with the state of Utah to coordinate efforts to do that,” said Gus Warr, who directs the BLM’s wild horse program in Utah. He expects the BLM will authorize him to remove 50 horses a year in Utah, and under the new agreement, the state will help choose areas to receive priority attention.

The deal’s provision are subject to appropriations from Congress.

The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act prohibits SITLA and other state agencies from unilaterally removing wild horses from trust lands. This law recognizes that horses “contribute to the diversity of life forms within the nation and enrich the lives of the American people,” and charges the BLM with managing these animals.

But ranchers and county commissioners have long complained the BLM allows horses free rein at the expense of grazing.

SITLA manages 3.4 million acres, most of them in checkerboard sections among seas of BLM lands, to raise revenue for Utah schools.

Some 207,000 acres lie within Utah’s 19 Herd Management Areas.

Tensions over wild horses focus on a consolidated block of SITLA land in Iron and Beaver counties known as Blawn Wash, which sits

outside any designated horse management area. Since 2000, the BLM has removed 550 horses in four roundups from this herd, which soon repopulates. Most recently, in the summer of 2014, the feds pulled all 143 horses they encountered.

Some of the gathered animals are adopted out, but most join thousands of other formerly free-roaming horses spending their lives in captivity at enormous expense to U.S. taxpayers. Federal law prohibits the killing of wild horses except for humanitarian purposes.

Warr said aerial surveys indicate 75 to 100 horses continue to live on Blawn Wash.

Under the agreement, BLM will remove up to 150 horses from Blawn and surrounding lands and up to 50 horses and burros affecting the McKay Flat grazing allotment in the Muddy Creek Herd Management Area in 2016. Both areas will be hit with repeat

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Horse advocacy groups, which had sought to intervene in the suit, were suspicious of the settlement.

“The goal here is to force BLM to do more removals. It’s not fair to the horses and not fair to the American taxpayers. All this is

going to do is further exacerbate the mismanagement of wild horses,” said Deniz Bolbol of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. “This is an agency that is hellbent on treating these horses like livestock.”

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Judge Hears Arguments in Landmark Data Trespass Case

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judge in a high-profile civil trespass suit that pits ranchers against an environmental activist said, on January 22, 2016, he didn’t expect the facts would justify punitive damages against

Western Watersheds employee Jonathan agricultural community how he was leaning.

Ratner.

“I think when we comb through the facts of During a three-hour hearing, Ninth Dis- the case we’ll find that Ratner probably trict Judge Norman Young also said he trespassed, but when I come to damages … thought the facts would show that Ratner It’ll be nominal and that that won’t support did in fact trespass when he was collecting punitive damages,” Young said. environmental data. Young made his comYoung also reminded all parties of their ments after arguments on a variety of legal obligation to pursue an equitable settlemotions in Lander on Friday in the case ment through mediation before the court Frank Ranches v. Jonathan Ratner. He said action proceeds further. he would rule on the motions in coming Fifteen Fremont and Lincoln county weeks. ranchers sued Ratner and his employer, But he indicated to attorneys, defendant, Western Watersheds Project (WWP) on June and the thirty observers present from the 13 2014 for multiple counts of civil trespass.

Ratner is WWP’s Director for Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. The environmental group collects water samples and seeks enforcement of state and federal environmental standards — but stockmen say Ratner has collected environmental data illegally.

They’ve asked the court to award monetary damages — both actual and punitive — and to permanently bar Ratner, and any other Western Watershed personnel, from their properties. The request for punitive damages, were it to proceed to trial, would also give the plaintiffs access to Ratner’s and WWP’s sensitive financial information.

Ratner denies that he trespassed to collect the water samples, and asserts that, excepting one instance, no plaintiff has offered any evidence to the contrary. He claims that the charges are politically motivated.

Before the case’s first hearing it had already inspired, in part, the controversial 2015 legislation barring “data trespass” on open lands in Wyoming. That legislation is itself the subject of ongoing litigation.

The Arguments

The hearing focused on which elements of the lawsuit should, and should not, be allowed to proceed to jury trial.

Cheyenne attorney Karen Budd-Falen argued on behalf of the stockmen that four of Ratner’s 12 defenses should be disallowed.

The legality of traveling certain roads, including some mapped and maintained by the BLM, was argued by both sides inFriday’s hearing.

Her arguments against the defense of “Permissive Use” — the idea that, in the absence of a no trespassing sign, or verbal notification to the contrary, a person can legally use a mapped, publicly maintained road across private property — received the most attention, and skepticism.

Judge Young asked Budd-Falen if, by her

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reasoning, a girl scout who came to his door selling cookies, would be guilty of trespass.

“Yes,” she replied.

When pressed, she clarified, saying “It’s reasonable for the girl scout to assume implied consent, but not Mr. Ratner.”

“So you’re saying he’s no girl scout?”

Young joked, easing the tense atmosphere in the courtroom.

“Permission can be explicit or implied,” he said to Budd-Falen, reading from the standard jury instructions for a Wyoming trespass trial. “It appears the right of possession is not as absolute as you’ve stated.”

Young asked another hypothetical question, this one concerning a road through his own rural housing development, a section of which is owned by him. “There is no way of people reasonably knowing where the road becomes private,” he said. “Are people traveling my road committing civil trespass?”

“If you choose to enforce it, or pick one [traveler] out of 75 because you know they’re bad, that’s your choice,” Budd-Falen answered.

“You seem to think there is no situation for implied consent,” Young said.

Ultimately Budd-Falen agreed that it was

a matter for a jury to decide, effectively claims. No accuser, they say, even alleges to ceding the argument. have such evidence. There are no claims Speaking to the other three defenses her that Ratner was seen on private property, clients would like thrown out, Budd-Falen or that anyone found any sign of his passage. challenged the validity, applicability, and in Rather, the accusations rely solely on likely one case the existence of specific ease- routes of travel and conjecture. ments and rights of way that Ratner claimed Ratner has provided sworn descriptions as legal access to sampling sites. of routes either over public land, or utilizing Justin Pidot, a University of Denver Asso- what he claims to be legal public rights of ciate Professor of law serving as one of way.

Ratner’s two lawyers rebutted Budd-Falen’s The Ratner-WWP brief also asks the motions primarily on procedural grounds. judge to rule that a disputed easement for Addressing her arguments’ merits, a BLM road does exist. however, he argued that permission can be Robert Southard, co-counsel for Ratner assumed in some instances. It’s reasonable who spoke in support of the defense’s to think one has permission, for example, motions, restricted his oral arguments to to cross someone’s lawn to ring their door- the assertion that there were no grounds bell, but not to take firewood. for awarding punitive damages against Budd-Falen countered, “Taking data is Ratner and Western Watersheds. the same as taking wood or something else Punitive damages require “wanton and of value.” willful” disregard for the law involving “outRatner and WWP also had motions in rageous and malicious conduct,” Ratners’ front of Young Friday, asking him to rule on lawyers said. Defense attorney Robert four elements in the case.

Southard described the requirement as an They asked in their written filing that he “extremely high bar.” toss out all claims of trespass, except one “With all due respect to opposing counsel, instance from June 19, 2013 on Frank they’re not even in the ballpark,” he said.

Ranches’ property.

Young agreed that punitive damages are The plaintiffs, they argued, have offered difficult to justify in Wyoming law, noting no evidence whatsoever to support the that the example case cited by the plaintiffs

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as justification — known to him and his staff as “the .357 case” — involved massive property damage, fist-fighting and gunplay.

He asked Budd-Falen if any of her clients were alleging any “actual damages.”

“No,” she said.

Young indicated that he would likely require disclosure of the defendants’ financial records, but only to himself, until their use by the plaintiffs might be warranted.

Participation (SLAPP Suit) — a hijacking of the court’s power in an effort to punish Ratner for his political views, quash his right to free speech, gain access to sensitive financial and methodological information, and intimidate others from future participation in environmental monitoring and advocacy.

If the court action is allowed to proceed as filed, they argue, the state’s ability to enforce existing environmental regulations will be severely curtailed, and private citizens will be effectively barred from contributing to public resource deci-

The Stakes

In legal terms Frank Ranches et al vs.

Ratner et al is a “simple civil injunction” to prevent further trespass, and punish past trespasses. But its implications are far from simple, and it has engendered fears that strain the bounds of civility statewide.

The ranchers and their supporters view Ratner and WWP’s alleged trespasses as an existential threat to their livelihoods and their ways of life. They claim in their lawsuit that Ratner’s goal for water sampling was to “get all cows and sheep off public land ASAP” and “to end public land grazing.”

Both are, in fact, publicly stated goals of WWP. Ratner and his supporters claim that the case isn’t, at heart, a trespass suit at all, but rather a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public

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Southard argued that the case could also have dramatic negative impacts on the public’s use of public lands for other purposes. Would a hunter who mistakenly crossed private property on a BLM road be made to “bare his financial soul,” and pay damages for an honest mistake, he asked the court? Would the credible threat of such prosecution, indicated by a finding for the plaintiffs, keep him from hunting on public land?

Anti-SLAPP suit legislation has been adopted in 28 states, but not in Wyoming.

The case’s scope is also reflected in its physical embodiment. The file included 99 filings, and stood more than a foot tall.

Young said the last time he had to perform such a volume of research he was preparing for the bar exam.

Then, before adjourning Friday, he made a gentle request for restraint.

“It seems to me,” he said, “that what the plaintiffs really, truly want and what they are truly right to say, is that they don’t want Mr. Ratner on their property. That’s something that can be accomplished a lot more easily than what we’re about to embark upon here.”

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y the time the United States Army of Office was established in Albuquerque in (It should be noted that the Pony Express, the West occupied New Mexico in 1852, in what is now Old Town. It was moved which existed from April 1860 until October 1846, the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri east to New Town Albuquerque in 1882, 1861, did not pass through New Mexico.) to New Mexico had been in use for about soon after the railroad arrived.

The single most important event in New 25 years. It and El Camino Real (The Royal Stagecoach travel became popular after Mexico history was the arrival of the railRoad), which generally followed the Rio the first coach arrived in Santa Fe from Inde- road in the late 1870s and early 1880s. It is Grande south from Santa Fe to various pendence, Missouri in 1849. The trip over safe to say that virtually everything changed points in Mexico, were the primary trade the Santa Fe Trail took 13 days and the fare in the territory from that time forward: routes, and thus the main lines of commu- was $250, one way; an amount far beyond products and commodities became availnication, into and out of New Mexico. Mail the means of the average citizen. By 1882, able for the first time (pitched tin roofs, for service from either direction was often there were 38 stage lines operating in New example, became popular, simply because described as irregular, and for a time there Mexico. Since most stagecoach companies sheet tin could be shipped in by rail at an were only two mail distribution points in had mail contracts, they became the de affordable cost); population demographics New Mexico, one at Santa Fe and the other facto mail distribution system. shifted because more and more Anglos at Tomé, south of Albuquerque.

There was no substantial improvement could and did arrive and settle; and regular Soon after the American Occupation, in communications until the telegraph daily communication became a fact. the U. S. Government established regular arrived in New Mexico in the 1860s even And at this early period, aviation had its mail service between Santa Fe and Fort though early-on communication by wire start in Albuquerque, beginning with a Leavenworth, Kansas. By 1848, mail service was limited to the military. Use of it became balloon flight in 1882. Saloonkeeper “Probetween Santa Fe and California was gen- more widespread when the railroads put fessor” Park A. Van Tassel owned a lighter erally available, too. The first U. S. Post telegraph poles along their rights-of-way. than air vehicle and he arranged to inflate

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According to Simmons, the use of automobiles was slow to catch on, but even so United States Marshal Creighton Foraker was the first lawman to use a powered vehicle in his work: a 1910 Studebaker.

(Note that the first known bank robbery in which a car was used was committed by a thief named Henry Starr in northeastern Oklahoma in 1914. He got away.)

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Federal lawyers warn of lesser prairie chicken ‘death spiral’

by Corbin Hiar, E&E reporter

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he Obama administration told a federal judge recently that overturning Endangered Species Ac t protections for the lesser prairie chicken could put the bird on a one-way road to extinction.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Junell for the Western District of Texas handed the administration a surprising defeat last year when he overturned the Fish and Wildlife Service’s spring 2014 decision to add the lesser prairie chicken to the list of threatened species in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado.

The bird’s native grassland and prairie habitat had shrunk by 84 percent because of drilling, wind farms, road building, grazing and plowing. But the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and four southeast New Mexico counties that are flush with oil successfully fought the listing.

Junell ruled that FWS had failed to consider the extent to which a range-wide conservation plan crafted and administered

by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and supported by energy companies and landowners, would ameliorate those threats (Greenwire, Sept. 3, 2015).

Federal attorneys are now asking Junell to amend his ruling. Instead of scrapping it altogether, they want him to send it back to FWS so the agency can make a new listing determination taking WAFWA’s plan fully into account.

But if the bird doesn’t receive any federal protections, the administration argues that energy companies and farmers will continue to destroy the chicken’s vanishing habitat with impunity.

“The loss and fragmentation of even relatively small amounts of existing and suitable habitat can easily put the species on a path towards a ‘death spiral’ from which it cannot recover, as the Service has seen for similar prairie grouse species such as the now-extinct heath hen and endangered At t water ’s prairie - chicken,” Department of Justice attorneys wrote in a Jan. 27 filing.

The U.S. attorneys emphasized that “the main threat to the species is habitat fragmentation, and the lesser prairie-chicken’s habitat is highly fragmented, with a Service analysis finding only 20 habitat patches

remaining range-wide of the size necessary to suppor t the species over the long-term.”

During the course of the litigation, DOJ said, development interests are threatening the remaining patches of 21,000 acres or more. In addition to existing developments that FWS has previously addressed to the court, there are “several additional prospective wind projects in Oklahoma and Kansas that would occur in currently suitable habitat for the species,” wrote the administration.

These and other projects can go ahead without any legal requirement to consult with FWS about ways to minimize impacts to the prairie chicken, DOJ argued.

“In Oklahoma alone, there are at least seven pending highway improvement projects with federal involvement in suitable lesser prairie chicken habitat where the vacatur will prevent the Service from requiring appropriate mitigation measures as part of an [Endangered Species Act] consultation,” the filing said.

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absence of listing, there is every reason to believe that projects other than those known to the Service are proceeding without sufficient protections for the species.”

Industry defends, Ashe critiques WAFWA plan In a filing made the same day, lawyers representing the Permian Basin Petroleum Association countered the administration by claiming that “WAFWA has achieved notable progress in implementing” the rangewide plan.

They also downplayed the extent of habitat that is currently slated for development.

“WAFWA estimated that these five wind energy projects would impact only about 0.1 percent of the estimated range of the [lesser prairie chicken, or LPC], and it concluded that even impacts 100 times greater than that would not likely have a ‘demonstrable impact on the probability that the LPC would be placed in danger of extinction,’” the oil industry attorneys said, citing testimony provided by the state wildlife regulators.

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While they acknowledged that habitat is important to the survival of the bird, the oil group and its partners argued that “few factors have greater influence on the condition of LPC habitat than moisture.

Drought causes the population to contract, while periods of normal or above-normal precipitation cause the population to expand, as it has done in recent years.”

Permian Basin Petroleum Association lawyers criticized the agency for suggesting that a threatened listing was still necessary for the bird, which has seen its population increase for two consecutive years (Greenwire, June 26, 2015).

“This Court has instructed them to evaluate the [rang-wide plan] and other conservation efforts in a forward-looking manner by making informed predictions about the likely future success of those efforts,” industry lawyers said of DOJ’s case.

“Their argument that the Service’s action could simply be reissued on remand betrays either a misunderstanding of, or a refusal to recognize, that this Court has decided a fundamentally different kind of analysis is required.”

FWS Director Dan Ashe, however, recently cast doubt on its ability to clearly analyze the impact of the range-wide plan.

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Because WAFWA has still not created a database to track affected land and corresponding mitigation efforts, “the Service is unable to determine that the [rang-wide plan] is offsetting the impacts to lesser prairie-chickens,” Ashe said in a Dec. 22 letter to a top WAFWA official about an annual report it sent FWS last year (Greenwire, April 7, 2015).

“We consider this a crucial deficiency and we must redouble effort to get a successful conclusion,” Ashe said of the nonexistent database.

He also criticized WAFWA’s annual report for containing “limited financial information” about which companies have paid to offset which actions that harm chickens.

Ashe offered detailed instructions for how the state regulators should summarize the range-wide plan’s finances so that FWS can determine whether its conservation goals are “financially achievable,” he said in the letter, which was provided to Greenwire on condition of anonymity by a source who is closely following the court case.

A new ruling from Junell could come any day now. Meanwhile, WAFWA’s second annual report on the effectiveness of the range-wide plan is set to be released in a couple of months.

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Hacking for a Fifth Place

by Claudia Trueblood, Executive Director New Mexico Ag Leadership Program

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few weeks ago at a Toastmasters[1] meeting, one of my fellow club members delivered a speech about an embarrassing experience. He described a running competition for which he pushed himself to perform to limits that made him temporarily sick. He was first cheered and admired for his effort and then left aside when he began hacking and gagging after a strenuous run. The irony of the story is that he pushed himself extremely HARD to finish in fifth place. Yes, you read correctly, FIFTH place. As my colleague described it, he was so far away from the first runner that finishing first was not an option, so he gave it all, and passed numerous competitors including one who did not want to be passed. All of this hard work while knowing that there was not chance to be among the first ones. Why? Why go into all that trouble for a fifth place?

My acquaintance’s logic at the moment was: “I can pass him…, and him…, and him…” He was living the moment and

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A Modern Constitutional Convention; Maybe So, Maybe Not

by Bob Ricklefs, Cimarron, New Mexico

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iven the many dissatisfactions and grievances against the federal government, the idea of a constitutional convention to right some of the wrongs is surely compelling, especially in our western states where on average half of the land is owned or managed (or should I say mis-managed) by the government in Washington, D.C. However, I fear that no matter how detailed and specific a call to convention may be, such a convention may descend into changing or eliminating many of the rights we hold dear. It is completely possible that our right to bear arms could be eliminated or drastically reduced. Look at our college campuses today which are limiting where and what opinions may be expressed. Such could happen by fiddling with the first amendment.

The idea of a Constitutional Convention going beyond the scope of its intended purpose has as precedent the original constitutional convention which was called to simply revise the Articles of Confederation which were not working. Thank goodness out of that convention came our Constitution which we revere to this day. But a greater fear than an out of control modern convention dominated by two or three liberal states is that whatever changes are made are ignored by the states or the federal government or interpreted in ways not intended.

Look at our existing Constitution and some of the rights found therein. One can argue about affirmative action or abortion or gay marriage or any of a number of things but taking away those decisions from the states because somehow they were found in the Constitution is wrong.

I have two examples, one of misreading the Constitution and the other of ignoring it. The first which goes directly to many of the grievances we have in our western states is, to me, a blatant disregard for the language in the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 is the section where the powers of Congress are enumerated. But it also in certain instances gives power to the states.

The next to last paragraph gives power to Congress to govern a “Seat of Government”

(Washington, D.C.) but also directs Congress to get state consent to own “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings”.

Now, one can argue whether or not that section limits what the federal government can own or not own and that argument has been going on forever. The Federal ownership of vast tracts of land in the west brings to mind a statement in Walter Prescott Webb’s excellent history of the settling of the arid west written in 1931 called The Great Plains.

Webb wrote “It is not too much to say… that no law has ever been made by the Federal government that is satisfactorily adapted to the arid region.” That was true in 1931 and is mostly true today. It is not arguable, however, that Congress must get consent of the State involved to own and control “Forts, Magazines, arsenals, dockYards and other needful Buildings”. When was the last time you remember Congress asking for the consent of a State. Without researching it, my guess is that it was around 1790 when Congress asked the Maryland Legislature for the ten mile square tract which became Washington, D C. Probably never since, and surely with all the military bases in this state someone would remember an instance.

I’m sure everyone has their favorite example of where the courts found something in the Constitution and it just leaves you scratching your head. My example is one not often remarked on and that is probably because it just seems common sense.

In 1964 the Court, in a divided vote, found One person-One vote in the equal protection clause. The result being the odd shaped gerrymandered districts we are forced to do every ten years. Also the states cannot have representation by political boundaries such as one senator per county.

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But let me argue that elsewhere in the Constitution there were and are other methods of weighting one persons’ vote that we use to this day. It is often remarked that the Framers were brilliant in devising the three branches of government with its checks and balances. They also devised three distinct methods of choosing our Federal representatives which to me was equally brilliant.

The first is the selection of members to the House of Representatives from apportioned districts within the states, pretty much one-man, one-vote. The second was selection of Senators, two from each state, by the state legislature which has since been changed by the Seventeenth Amendment to direct voting in the states, but still, two senators per state. My senators represent the people of New Mexico, some two and a half million of us. California with some 30 plus million still has only two senators.

Whose vote is stronger for a senator, mine or a single voter’s in California. Maybe stronger is not the right word, but the fact remains that a senator from California represents vastly more people than a senator from New Mexico or Wyoming. The third method, of course, is in selecting a President.

It has been argued strongly, usually every four years, to go to direct voting for President. And that is one change I fear to come out of a modern Constitutional Convention. But the fact remains that we still elect Presidents as the original constitution prescribed; each state has one elector for each Senator and Representative. Closer to one-man, one-vote, but not quite. I fall back on the argument that the two senators give smaller states an edge. Even the smallest state has three electors which matter, where a small states’ one or two thousand voters are a drop in the bucket and not worth paying attention to.

I give this one-man, one-vote example as background to argue strongly for equal representation for states for a Constitutional Convention should the required 34 states come together to make that call.

States do matter, not just the population of each state. This state is sovereign, though we continually lose out to the strong arm of the federal government. And any call for a modern Constitutional Convention must have strict guidelines as to what issues may be addressed with explicit instructions from the voters about what the convention members must do if the boundaries are crossed.

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Represent the US Sheep Industry in the Tri-Lamb Young Leader Program

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he American Lamb Board (ALB) and the American Sheep Industry Association’s (ASI) Young Entrepreneur Committee are seeking two candidates to represent the U.S. in a new Tri Lamb young leaders program. The program is designed to create a forum of young producers and leaders from the US, AU and NZ to share ideas, network and to broaden understanding of sheep production practices in all three countries. Each country will select two young (22-40 year olds) producers who exhibit future leadership potential to participate in the forum for two years. Each country will also select one progressive successful producer leader to serve as a mentor and liaison with the other leaders.

Background

The program will be kicked off in Australia August 10-14, 2016 followed by New

Zealand August 15-18, 2016. Airfare, hotel and other travel expenses will be covered for the participants that are selected to represent the US. The US representatives will develop an agenda and host the AU and NZ producers in 2017. Participation in the forum requires a two-year commitment (2016-2017).

The 2016 trip to Australia will include participation at LambEx, Australia’s premier lamb industry event with more than 900 delegates and 70 exhibitors. All sectors of the lamb industry come together at the LambEx to showcase the Australian industry. The delegates will also spend time in Canberra, which as well as being the nation’s capital, is the headquarters of the Sheepmeat Council of Australia followed by a day in Sydney. Delegates would fly out of Sydney to New Zealand where they will spend three days near Christchurch touring several farms and learning about the different aspects of sheep production in New Zealand.

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n January 12, 2016, Jim Upchurch, Deputy Regional Forester for the Southwestern Region told attendees of the legislative briefing hosted by Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen what most already knew; the federal government does not own the federally managed land within the borders of Arizona.

“About over about 100 years ago, the first chief of the Forest Service coined the phrase, “the greatest good for the greatest number,” and that phrase is still applicable today as we manage the national forests.

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You know them by their names: the Coconino, the Kaibab, the Prescott, the Apache-Sitgreaves, the Tonto, and the Coro-

nado. These forests represent some of the best landscapes within the state and are really prized possessions of the citizens of Arizona,” stated Upchurch.

“Contrary to what you might have heard lately about federal ownership of lands, the Forest Service does not own a single acre of land in Arizona,” continued Upchurch.

“We don’t own a single acre of any land in the United States.”

Had he concluded with that statement, his candor would have been astonishing, but he did not. Instead he told the people of Arizona their land was being managed for “not only the local population but populations of people in New Jersey, New York, and California.”

What the people of New Jersey, New York, and California see of Arizona’s forest is vastly different from what the residents of Arizona’s rural counties see. While the city slickers see great vistas, as they stroll or hike on carefully crafted paths, the people of the West see their big sky filled with black smoke.

The people of the West are being choked by the black smoke emanating from their forests as federal agencies are being choked by self-described environmental groups, who use anti-western people’s rhet-

oric in their fundraising materials and line their pockets with the settlements they win in nuisance suits against the government.

Meanwhile, the visitors from New Jersey, New York, and California return home to watch the national news reports of those crazy renegade ranchers in the west. They are sold the idea that those ranchers are simply anti-government radicals. They do not know that while the Forest Service and BLM allow the land to be ravaged by wildfires, it is the ranchers who are scrambling to keep the forest and range lands from going up in smoke.

Who can blame them though? The people of New Jersey, New York, and California do not understand what it means to live off the land. As a result, they do not understand that to live off the land, one must conserve and protect it.

In his book, Alligators in the Moat: Politics and the Mexican Border, Arizona rancher Ed Ashurst discusses the ravaging forest fires that have consumed range land in the Southwest and the federal government that allows it. He writes of the fires set by the Mexican cartels’ mules as they cross the wide-open border.

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Springs area. A short distance ahead of tree out on a southern border land range. where the Border Patrol agents turned Because she was not free to graze, she died around, a fire had started and several Forest of starvation. He was torn up at the thought Service first responders were in the area of the painful death. The cartels, who tied also with plans to attack the fire. Before the her there, did so to let the rancher know Forest Service personnel or the Border that his death would be as painful should Patrol agents got to the place where the fire he ever make a misstep. originated a short distance from Burro Ashurst speaks for all ranchers when he Springs the Forest Service employees and writes, “The U.S. Forest Service is managed, federal agents were given orders to evacu- or should we say, supposed to be managed ate. The fire would grow in stature and fame under the umbrella of the United States and would burn from the eighth of May Department of Agriculture. The very name until the twenty-fifth of June. The federal “Department of Agriculture” connotes a government would spend in excess of fifty sustained effort to promote a viable plan or million dollars fighting it, and it would course of action to harvest a product off the eventually burn a total of 222,954 acres, or land. Sadly, in twenty-first-century America, 350 square miles. The fire would go down in the case of the Forest Service (and the in history as the fifth largest wildfire in Bureau of Land Management), nothing Arizona history and would become known could be further from the truth.” as Horseshoe Number Two. The origin of Greenlee County Supervisor Robert the fire was never officially investigated. Corbell told his constituents after the Allen The first responders were ordered to evac- hearing that it was important to be there uate before they reached the exact location and be heard. “I think that my being there where the fire started,” writes Ashurst. for the people of Greenlee County and the The Hammonds burned 140 acres and state of Arizona was important. I know that they are villainized, the cartels burned these kinds of meetings are generally 222,954 and more. outside of Greenlee, but if you are not at the The ranchers’ reality is something no table and have some input on the issues one can really understand. One rancher then you are on the menu.” described finding one of his cows tied to a The feeding frenzy continues. News of

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the ranchers and their fight keep the mainstream media busy as they slice and dice the facts to suit the radical rancher narrative. But the truth be told; you will never find a tougher, meaner, gentler, more sensitive and tree-hugging group of people in the world than the western rancher.

“The federal government is obsessed with putting a constantly increasing amount of land under its control, yet it does not increase the appropriation to care for that land. We see massive forest fires that destroy not only trees but the land and habitat for wildlife, including endangered species,” stated Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem. “Arizona has a proven track record of caring for the land it has control over. We have done a far better job than the federal agencies in caring for the land.”

Whatever the truth may be, it is the truth that will save our forests, and range lands.

Until all stakeholders commit to ascertaining the truth, the western lands will be managed for the people who experience them from well-manicured paths and have no understanding or appreciation for the western way of life…. or the life of our lands.

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his proven program, once again offered Angus bulls with calving ease, muscle, and efficiency and a few really nice Charolais on February 13, 2016. There was a good crowd in attendance along with many bidders on Superior.

The high selling Angus bull was lot 16, at $13,000, to a repeat customer. This bull was out of a great cow, B3R 9180, he featured calving ease, growth, along with excellent gain on grass, and marbling. Lot 16 a very complete balanced trait bull.

The 2nd high selling Angus bull was lot 32, at $12,500. Once again out of the great cow B3R 9180.

The 3rd high selling Angus bull was lot 126, at $12,000 out of B3R Back to Basics a high accuracy calving ease herd sire known for his docility and weaned calf value. (“cashable results“ as one customer describes it).

The entire offering averaged $7100. Bulls sold into 10 states.

Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd next annual sale will be February 11, 2017 featuring 200+ Angus and Charolais bulls. This is a top 100 seed stock operation.

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hat do the Kellogg Foundation, the McCune Charitable Foundation, and the Thornburg Foundation all have in common? Besides being some of the most well-endowed and influential foundations in the U.S., they’re also partners in the Resilience in Ag program initiated by New Mexico First and hosted by the NMSU Extension Service. The Resilience in Ag program is an effort to develop a Statewide Resiliency Plan that will: � Create common ground regarding food and agriculture policies Generate ideas for more economic � value for producers and economic vitality for communities � Develop strategies to support young people who want to stay with or get back into agriculture � Address water, land-use, climate and economic challenges facing the agricultural industry Support agriculture’s contribution to � health related solution of consumers and communities � Contribute to worker, consumer and community welfare Statewide meetings are the first step of the plan whereby they receive stakeholder input. The next step is to create a background report which analyzes data from the meeting and incorporates industry research. A task force will then be convened to draft a resiliency plan which will be refined through stakeholder sessions.

The final plan, expected to be finished by July, will be used to secure funding and the implementation phase is where working groups will measure progress and adapt plan strategies.

As you can see, these initial meetings are not just listening sessions, they’re the beginning of an action plan that will be tied to real money, legislation and regulations.

That explains the participation of the above named foundations. And that is also a powerful reason for NMF&LB members to attend and participate. We need your voice to represent conventional farming and ranching. Niche, organic and small scale farms have been well represented at meet-

ings across the state but processors and large scale producers have been largely absent.

Here is a list of remaining meetings, and remember, if you’re not at the table, you’re most likely on the menu! � Farmington, Wed., March 2, 2016 � Crownpoint, Thursday, March 3, 2016 � Shiprock, Friday, March 4, 2016 � Tucumcari, Wed., March 9, 2016

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his was a difficult winter for New Mexico’s farm, ranch and dairy families as a powerful storm caused death and devastation across the eastern portion of the state. “Goliath” brought 80 mile an hour winds and 18 inches of snow the day after Christmas, affecting cattle, sheep and dairy herds.

“Agricultural families stick together and help one another out in difficult times,” says Mike White, President of New Mexico Farm

& Livestock Bureau. “There are families experiencing significant financial hardship as a result of the storm so we created a Cares fund.” New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau Cares offers monetary aid for agricultural families affected by the storm.

“Not only do farmers, ranchers and dairymen need to replace the animals that were lost to the storm, they also need to rebuild barns and fences that were demolished by the high winds,” says Chad Smith, NMF&LB CEO. “That makes it harder to pay for medical expenses or utility bills. We just want these folks to know that we’re there for them and we have resources to help.”

Individuals and county farm bureaus are contributing to the fund in an effort to support their neighbors. Donations are tax-deductible and 100 percent of proceeds go directly to help families impacted by Goliath. To support the Cares fund, checks can be made payable to NMF&LB and sent to 2220 N. Telshor, Las Cruces, NM 88011, attn.: Cares Relief Fund.

Agricultural families in need can download an application form at www.nmflb.org.

Applications will be accepted until May 1st, monies will be distributed beginning June 1st.

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BAR B RANCH, TUBAC, AZ – 75 head yearlong, 526 acres with 75 acres irrigated, owned by the same family since 1914, large grandfathered water right. Last large tract of land in the area. Improvements need attention. Priced @$1,950,000 – reduced from $2,350,000

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HUNT RANCH, DOUGLAS, AZ – 2462 acres with 2500 state lease, 103 head yearlong, well watered, easy to operate, paved access. Priced @$1,245,500 GOODMAN RANCH, VIRDEN, NM/ DUNCAN, AZ – 640 deeded, W/2120 NM State & BLM lease lands. The carrying capacity is for 50 head year-long, all improvements are in great condtion. This is one of the BEST little ranches in the area. Priced below current appraised value. Priced @$480,000 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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Canyon Colorado – Mora County, NM, GMU 44 8,880 deeded w/601 state lease behind game fence. On Canadian River Gorge with awesome views. Adjoins the Kiowa National Grasslands across river from Mills Canyon Rec Area. Private and secure, excellent roads, heavy electric, back-up generators, animal shelters, and many pasture divisions. Improvements include large airplane hangar, interior stables, fuel tanks, runways, and equipment. Scenic with lots of game – Elk, Deer, Pronghorn, & Turkey. 20 miles from I25 . $550 per deeded acre/$4,884,000 Kiowa Hi Lo – Colfax County, NM, GMU 56 3,860 deeded w/1000 state lease conveniently located 30 minutes from Raton. Great for game, Elk (6 Tags), Pronghorn, & Mule Deer. Two homes plus a bunkhouse/hunter’s quarters with 8 beds & 8 baths. Rolling grasslands framed between Kiowa Mesa and Palo Blanco Mountain, intersected by Carrizo Creek and a protected spring-fed draw. 1000’ of elevation variance makes for a beautiful landscape. Good pasture divisions and fences support this working ranch. $750 per deeded acre/$2,895,000

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Rancho Conchas – San Miguel County, NM, GMU 42 3,156 deeded acres - 3 miles upriver from Conchas Lake. This canyon country ranch is intersected by two watersheds - 3.5 miles of Conchas River & 2 miles of Trementina Creek! Good grass for livestock with bonus of Mule Deer hunting. Load at working pens, then explore old homestead ruins. 45 miles east of I25 and Las Vegas, access is 9 miles from Trementina. The immediate area recently complimented by the designation of America’s newest wilderness at Sabinoso Canyon. $425 per deeded acre/$1,340,000

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RANCHES/FARMS *REDUCED* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer.

Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1,490,000 207+/- Acre Farm, Benson, AZ – 165 +/- acres of tillable land, currently 115 ac in irrigated pasture, fenced and cross fenced for cattle. Carrying capacity one to two head per irrigated acre depending upon management.

Includes home, equipment shed, work shop, barn, shipping corrals. Shallow wells 110’ to 160’ deep two domestic wells. Close to I-10. $1,200,000 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & private, only 12 miles from I-10.

Bighorn sheep, ruins, pictographs.

1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,300,000 $975,000, Terms.

112 Head, Poison Springs Allotment, Lake Roosevelt, AZ – 36,000 acres of US Forest Grazing Permit (possible increase of 112 head). 5 corrals, 13 stock tanks, 6 steel tanks, 9 wells.

335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – +/- 20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit. Good vehicular access to the ranch – otherwise this is a horseback ranch. Scenic, great outfitters prospect. $720,000

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65+/- Acre Farm, Benson, AZ – 800 gpm well with a 450 gpm pump irrigating 23+/- acres of Bermuda pasture. Custom 3BR, 2 BA Home with hickory cabinetry in the kitchen, wrap around 11’ porch, large workshop with concrete floor, equipment shed and fish pond stocked with large mouth bass. $610,000 $599,000 279+/- Acres, San Simon, AZ Parcel 1, 222+/- Acres – $432,000.

Parcel 2, 57+/- Acres with 5 Ac of producing Pistachio trees $150,000. Shallow water in the area. Call Harry Owens 602-526-4965 +/-78 Acre Farm, Virden, NM – with 49+ acres of irrigation rights.

Pastures recently planted in Bermuda.

Currently running 50 head of cattle. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena. Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses or cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $550,000 Terms.

90 Head Cattle Ranch, Safford, AZ 40 Deeded Acres, BLM and State of AZ Grazing Leases. Desert ranch with five sets of corrals, four with wells and one with a spring. The ranch is well watered with 5 total wells, 6 dirt tanks and a spring. $425,500 *NEW* +/-38 Acre Farm, Sheldon AZ – This preppers paradise includes a large 4 BR 3 BA home; canning studio; root cellar; large workshop with covered outdoor work area; irrigated pasture with 600 gpm well, fenced and cross fenced for cattle/ horses; corrals; barn; chicken houses and pens; rabbit pen; garden area, fruit trees, pond and other various outbuildings. The property includes

tractor implements; backhoe; and RV $410,000 *PENDING* 240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, homesite or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & 1200 gpm well. $336,000 Reduced to $279,800. Terms.

900+/- Acre Farm Bowie AZ – 21 registered shallow wells and 4 deep wells. Good supply of quality ground water. Potential pistachio, pecan, or organic farm. Rested for some time and as such qualifies for “organic” status. $2,900/acre.

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HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *NEW* +/-14 Ac Horse Property, Sonoita, AZ – Custom 2861 s.f. home in the Oaks with matching outbuildings including a 2-car garage w/upstairs apartment & a charming vintage carriage house/stable. Modern 4- stall horse barn with a front portico, tack room, and wash area.

Two arenas, and a round pen. Access to USFS. $795,000 20± Ac Horse Property, Pomerene, AZ – 2443± s.f., 4BR, 2 1/2 bath, home with covered porches, fireplace, pool, 2 car garage, RV barn with 15’ covered overhangs, round pen, 8 stalls – 4 covered, shop, tack room, wash area. $499,000 San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000

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Southwest New Mexico Farms & Ranches 3225 THREE SAINTS ROAD, LAS CRUCES, NM - 10 acres total w/approximately 5.5 acres of pecans & 8.09 acres of water rights. Trees are on Netafim sprinkler system which uses considerably less water than traditional flood irrigation. Property can be flood irrigated also if desired. Farm also includes a 60 x 40 Mueller building, shipping connex set on a slab & a 2000 Palm Harbor single-wide in great shape. $299,900

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27.5 ACRE FARM IN SAN MIGUEL, NM - consists of 3 tracts (two 8 acre tracts & 11.5 ac tract) will sell each tract separately for $19,000/acre. Full EBID & irrigation well, community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Take Highway 28 south to San Miguel, east or left on Hwy 192, first right or south on Las Colmenas, then east on Camunez to end DAN DELANEY of pavement. Priced REAL ESTATE, LLC at $399,000 “If you are interested in farm land or ranches in New Mexico, give me a call”

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Good inventory in the Miami, Springer, Maxwell and Cimarron area.

Great year-round climate suitable for horses. Give yourself and your horses a break and come on up to the Cimarron Country.

Miami Horse Training Facility. Ideal horse training facility w/large 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx 3,593 sq ft home, 248.32± deeded acres, 208 irrigation shares, 30’ X 60’ metal sided shop/ bunkhouse, 8 stall barn w/ tack room, 7 stall barn w/storage, 10 stall open sided barn w/10 ft. alley, 2 stall loafing shed, 14 11’ x 24’ Run-In Shelters, 135’ Round Pen, Priefert six horse panel walker. Many more features & improvements. All you need for a serious horse operation in serious horse country of Miami New Mexico. Additional 150 acres available on south side of road. Miami is at the perfect year round horse training elevation of 6,200. Far enough south to have mostly mild winters. Convenient to I-25. $1,550,000.

High Productivity Sub Irrigated Grass Unit, 624.027± deeded acres plus 178± acres grazing. Has supported 80-100 cows since November 2012, with winter supplementation. Exceptional grass producing unit surrounds lake 11 of Maxwell Conservancy and has 70 irrigation shares out of Stubblefield Reservoir. $1,150/deeded acre.

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Miller Krause Ranch. 939.37± deeded acres. 88 Springer Ditch Company water shares. Mostly west of I;25, exit 414. Big views. $559,000.

Maxwell Farm, 280 +/- deeded acres.

160 Class A Irrigation shares, 2 center pivots. Nice barns, small feed lot, owner financing available.

Miami Mountain View. 80± deeded acres w/80 water shares & house. $490,000.

Miami. 80± deeded acres, awesome home, total remodel, awesome views $395,000.

Miami WOW. Big home in Santa Fe Style great for family on 3 acres. $234,000.

Miami Tangle Foot. 10.02± deeded acres w/water shares & meter. $98,000.

Maxwell. 19.5± deeded acres, water, outbuildings, great horse set up. $234,000.

Canadian River. 39.088± deeded acres, w/nice ranch home & river. $279,000.

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955 Acres of Cattle Ranch located just south of Springer.

Well, fenced, crossed fenced.

Ponds, Ocate River.

Horse Training facility with 77.5 acres with 77.5 acre feet of water rights.

Double-walled adobe home with horse barn, corrals, pasture, hay barn, dog kennel, & more.

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

Price: $4,000,000 TOLAND RANCH: Small ranch property located near Cedarvale, NM in Torrance County. Just 15 minutes from the Cibola National Forest and the Gallinas Mountains. Comprised of 1,440 deeded acres situated in two noncontiguous tracts separated by State Highway 42. The north tract is fenced with one water well equipped with an electric submersible pump. A portion of the south tract is not fenced and there is no developed source of water, but several earthen tanks. Excellent grassland.

Price: $432,000

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CUNNINGHAM ROAD, LAS CRUCES, NM - 5.76 acres of mature pecans just south of town. Property has a 4” electric irrigation well & full EBID rights. $175,000

O’NEILL LAND, llc

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

www.ranchesnm.com

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

RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE

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

www.Paulmcgilliard.murney.com

n JUST LISTED! Central NM grass ranch – 11.2 sections

+/-, all deeded, choice, open, rolling grama grass country w/2 mi. of hwy. frontage . Information package being prepared.

n JUST LISTED! – Please call for details on 176,000 ac. +/- of choice land in Argentina (beautiful land cleared for soybeans & corn, some cleared & seeded to improved grasses for grazing of thousands of mother cows, some still in the brush waiting to be cleared). n 30,000 HD. FEED YARD – Southeast Texas Panhandle, close to Texas & Kansas Packers. Call or email for details!!!! n CLOUD CROFT, NM – Otero Co. – ¾ miles of the Rio Penasco – 139 ac. +/- deeded, 160 ac. +/- State Lease, 290.27 acre feet of water rights, 2 cabins, excellent grazing, elevation from 7-7500 ft., good access off of paved road.

Terrell land & livesTock co.

575/447-6041 Tye C. Terrell, Jr.

P.O. Box 3188, Los Lunas, NM 87031

TyecTerrell@yahoo.com

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

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

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n CUCHARAS RIVER RANCH NORTH – Huerfano Co., CO buy this well located, choice, grama/western wheat grass ranch & develop the really scenic parts of the ranch for residential subdivisions w/10, 20, 40, 100 acre tracts. 12, 088 deeded ac. +/-, addtl. perks, hunting, fishing, recreation w/a large lake on the ranch together w/the Cucharas River & Sand Creek. PRICE REDUCED!

SCOTT MCNALLY www.ranchesnm.com 575/622-5867 575/420-1237

n TUCUMCARI, NM AREA – 4 irr. farms totaling 1,022.22 deeded ac. +/- with 887.21 ac. +/- of Arch Hurley Water Rights (one farm w/a modern 2 bdrm. – 1 bath home, w/a metal roof, barn & shop) together with 1,063 addtl. deeded ac. +/- of native grass (good set of livestock pens & well-watered). All one-owner, all on pvmt., can be bought together or separately.

AG LAND LOANS As Low As 3% OPWKCAP 2.9%

INTEREST RATES AS LOW AS 3% Payments Scheduled on 25 Years

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n SUPER GRAIN & CATTLE COMBINATION – Union Co., NM - well improved w/15 circles, state-of-the-art working pens, homes, barns, hwy. & all-weather road frontage, divided into 3 different farms in close proximity of each other – can divide. n UNION CO., NM – Pinabetes/Tramperos Creeks Ranch – super country w/super improvements & livestock watering facilities, 4,650 deeded, 3,357 State Lease, one irr. well with ¼ mi. pivot sprinkler for supplemental feed, excellent access via pvmt. & all weather roads.

Lincoln, New Mexico: Historic Vorwerk home with 33+/- acres . Rio Bonito river with 16.5 acre feet of historic water rights dating to 1853.

Elk, mule deer, turkey, barbary sheep.

Brochure at: www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

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Call: 505/243-9515.

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

n RANCHO PEQUENIO – ½ mile E. of Sedan, NM, 320 ac. +/-, all native grass, new fencing, domestic well w/sub, ½ mi. hwy. frontage, one mile of all-weather road.

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n SOUTH CONCHOS RANCH – San Miguel Co., NM – 9,135 total ac.+/-, 2,106 ac. +/- “FREE USE”, 6,670 ac. +- deeded, 320 ac. +/BLM, 40 ac. +/- State, well improved, homes, barns, pens, watered by subs & mills at shallow depth just off pvmt., on county road.

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

n SAN JON, NM AREA – a 160 ac. unfenced tract & a 145 ac. tract w/new fences. Please call for details! n QUAY CO., NM – Box Canyon Ranch – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. deeded, 80 ac. State Lease, excellent access from I-40. n STATE OF THE ART – Clayton, NM area, 1,600 deeded ac. +/-, plus 80 ac. +/- State lease, home, barn & pens in excellent condition, all weather CR road. n FT. SUMNER VALLEY – beautiful home on 20 irr. ac., 3 bdrm/2 bath country home, nice combination apartment/horse barn w/2 bdrms., one bathroom/washroom & three enclosed stalls w/ breezeway, currently in alfalfa, ditch irrigated. n HIGH RAINFALL! ADA, OK AREA – 3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, will divide!

n WHEELER CO., TX – 20 ac., East of Twitty, you will fall in love w/the unique, barn-style, rustic yet modern home, panoramic views, native grass, trees, hunting, semi-enclosed horse barn, city water, all-weather road.

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

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

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

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Just listed north of Roswell – 250 total acres, 168.8 acres of water rights, 6 tower pivot, 7 tower pivot, side roll sprinklers, Shop with living quarters, large hay barn, hay barn and numerous outbuildings. $875,000

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

Check Our Website For Our Listings — www.michelethomesteadrealty.com

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Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 ac deeded, 260,000 ac BLM/State Lease. 11,500 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 17 wells, 2 pumps on CAP canal. $875,000. Con Englehorn C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty Hunt Valley Ranch: 1,173 deeded acres & 320 acres private lease with cowboy house and irrigation well for small pasture and orchard. Located 12 miles NW of St. Johns, AZ. $595,000. Traegen Knight Tres Alamos Ranch/Farm, Benson AZ: 668 acres deeded W/200 irrigated, shallow water, 3 Pivots, present owners running 200 head yearlong. Priced at $2,250,000.

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Rogers Lake: 80 acres SW Flagstaff, adjacent summer leases may be available to sublease. $1,600,000.

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Price Canyon Ranch: 191 head Guest Ranch in SE AZ. Great improvements. $2,950,000. Walter Lane

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34125 RD. 20, MCCLAVE, CO robbherefords@rural-com.com

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Reliable Calving Ease • Moderate Size & Milk • Rapid Early Growth

March 18, 2016

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Gardner Family | www.manzanoangus.com Bill 505-705-2856 | Cole 575-910-5952 | Clayton 505-934-8742 Estancia & Yeso, New Mexico

GARY MANFORD 505/508-2399 – 505/414-7558

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IRISH BLACK & IRISH RED Bulls & Females For Sale

Performance Beefmasters from the Founding Family

RED ANGUS

BEEFMASTERS 55th Bull Sale—October 1, 2016 Private Treaty Females Semen & Embryos

Lorenzo Lasater • San Angelo, TX 325.656.9126 • isabeefmasters.com

Bulls & Replacement Heifers 575-318-4086

JARMON RANCH

www.lazy-d-redangus.com

Cortez, Colorado Steve Jarmon: 970/565-7663 • Cell: 970/759-0986

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CHAROLAIS HEIFERS & BULLS FOR SALE 575-760-7304 WESLEY GRAU www.grauranch.com

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Irish Black & Irish Red sired calves are a favorite among feeders & packers alike. Cow-calf operators like them because of their exceptional calving-ease & high fertility.

T. Lane Grau – 575.760.6336 – tlgrau@hotmail.com Colten Grau – 575.760.4510 – colten_g@hotmail.com 1680 CR 37 Grady, New Mexico 88120

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CANDY TRUJILLO Capitan, N.M. 575/354-2682 1-800/333-9007, ext. 6712 Semen Sales AI Supplies AI Service

CAMPBELL SIMMENTALS BLACK SIMMENTALS & SIMANGUS

Campbell & T-Heart Ranch Sale March 26, 2016 La Garita, CO - L-Cross Ranch Sale Facility

Bulls & Females For Sale 2005-06 SEEDSTOCK PRODUCER OF THE YEAR ROBERT & CHRIS CAMPBELL KYLE & KATIE WALTER 5690 CR 321, Ignacio, CO 81137 970/563-9070 • 970/749-9708

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Bradley 3 Ranch Ltd.

Gary & Tina Bogott 303/517-6112 CELL.

Ranch-Raised ANGUS Bulls for Ranchers Since 1955

Home: 303/702-9729 P.O. Box 622, Niwot, CO 80544 tbogott2@aol.com

www.bradley3ranch.com

Annual Bull Sale February 11, 2017 at the Ranch NE of Estelline, TX

The Herd With Proven Performance M.L. Bradley, 806/888-1062 Fax: 806/888-1010 • Cell: 940/585-6471

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LIMOUSIN RANCH Breeders since 1971 of Top Quality, High-Altitude Registered Limousin Cattle.

For Sale Year-Round BLACK BULLS • BLACK HEIFERS Polled • Horned • Red • Black A.I. Sired from Select Bulls JOEL CRAIG 970/259-0650

14908 Hwy. 550 S. Durango, CO 81303

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PUT YOUR HERD BACK TO WORK. Galloway genetics are ideal for today’s low input market demands.

Feed Efficient • High Yielding carcass w/Minimal Back Fat • Easy Fleshing • Moderate Mature Size • Low BW

970-405-5784 Email: AGBA@midrivers.com

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Bulls & Bred Heifers, Private Treaty Roy, & Trudy Hartzog – Owners 806/825-2711 • 806/225-7230 806/470-2508 • 806/225-7231 FARWELL, TEXAS

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TREY WOOD 806/789-7312 CLARK WOOD 806/828-6249 • 806/786-2078

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Cattle that will produce in any environment.”

BOB & KAY ANDERSON • 575/421-1809 HCR 72, BOX 10 • RIBERA, N.M. 87560

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1-877/2-BAR-ANG

575/743-6904

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Hereford, Texas JOHNSTEVE THAMES KNOLL & LAURASTEVE KNOLL WWW.2BARANGUS.COM

Red Angus Cattle For Sale Purebred Red Angus • Weaned & Open Heifers • Calving Ease Bulls

YOUNG BULLS FOR SALE David & Norma Brennand Piñon, NM 88344 575/687-2185

Raising Cattle that Work in the Real World Quality Registered Black Angus Cattle Genex Influenced Mountain Raised, Rock-Footed n Calving Ease n Easy Fleshing n Powerful

Performance Genetics n Docility

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Producers of Quality & Performance Tested Brahman Bulls & Heifers “Beef-type American Gray Brahmans, Herefords, Gelbvieh & F-1s.”

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928/688-2753 cell: 505/879-3201

Loren & Joanne Pratt 44996 W. Papago Road Maricopa, AZ 85139 520/568-2811

Westall Ranches, LLC Registered Brangus Bulls & Heifers Ray & Karen Westall, Owners / Tate Pruett, Ranch Manager

Call us for ALL your Brangus needs!

P.O. Box 955, Capitan NM 88316 • Cell: 575.365.6356 • Ranch: 575.653.4842 • email: taterfire@hotmail.com

Zoetis HD 50K 50,000 DNA Markers (Combined w/Angus EPDs provides the most accurate & complete picture of the animals genetic potential)

Bulls & Heifers FOR SALE AT THE FARM

DNA Sire Parentage Verified AGI Free From All Known Genetic Defects BVD FREE HERD Available NM Angus Sale March 5, 2016 Also Private Treaty Born & Raised in the USA

Registered Polled Herefords

Cañones Route P.O. Abiquiu, N.M. 87510 MANUEL SALAZAR P.O. Box 867 Española, N.M. 87532 PHONE: 575-638-5434

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21st Annual Bull & Heifer Sale Saturday, March 19, 2016 – Canyon, Texas 27951 South U.S. Hwy. 87, Canyon, TX 79015-6515 Richmond Hales • 806/488-2471 • Cell. 806/679-1919 Rick Hales • 806/655-3815 • Cell. 806/679-9303

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Good veterinarians are hardly ever on time.

It doesn’t pay to be a tightwad when it comes to buying a horse, vaccines, a good cow dog or feeding the replacement heifers. Buy the cheapest bulls and you’ll sell the cheapest calves.

Never let the lady from Pooch Pampadours, the local sheep shearer, or the gardener give you a haircut.

You’ll either get fleas, your hair will look like a topiary poodle or it will take a year to grow out.

When cattle prices are sky high, sell every calf you own. The time to build your herd is after the crash. Don’t play any game where the house makes all the rules. Hear that futures traders?

I don’t care where you live, don’t buy a house where the monthly payment is larger than the square footage.

Example: a $4,000 monthly payment for a 900 square foot condo. Never buy anything mechanical that is bigger than your home and always remember, you can’t buy a ranch that you can pay for with cattle. Still, there’s no better investment in the world.

You can learn a lot by frequenting the coffee shop where farmers hang out, like how to apply for all the government programs for feed and fencing.

Never take an ovulating mare to a branding or a roping.

As military folks learned the hard way, “Never volunteer for anything.”

Don’t overload your trucker. He’ll find a way to make you pay for his overweight ticket.

Any cow you save by pulling out of a bog hole, or feeding until the paralyzed mother can walk again, will be crazy mad to kill you any time she sees you.

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Never mount a horse in the vicinity of a rock garden or a cactus patch.

Where the grass is good you’ll have no water, where the grass is bad you could open a water park. And just because it hasn’t rained in six years doesn’t mean it will this year.

Don’t use the clean towels in the bathroom or kitchen. They are for guests.

The night you’re too tired to check the heifers will be the night all breech birthers will calve. Or try too, anyway.

Don’t sell your cattle off the ranch to a man who owns an auction market.

Instead, consign them to his auction and cut out the middle man.

Never own a cow you have to milk twice a day. The wilder the cows, the easier they’ll be to gather. The gentler the cattle the easier it will be for someone to steal them. The more Holstein in your cows the least likely a rustler will bother. If your cows are half Holstein leave all gates unlocked, have the cattle accessible and make it as easy as possible for the rustlers.

The easiest way to get your neighbor to fix his share of the fence is to spread the rumor that you have trich in your herd.

Wealth is a highly heritable trait.

Always look inside your hat before you put it on and never wear lace up work boots to ride a horse. Cowboy boots have pointy toes for a reason.

The better the meal you serve at your branding the less proficient your help will be. Never serve chicken or a vegetarian entrée if you want any decent help in the future.

Don’t feed cattle with your own money. Use the bank’s.

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Fita Witte of New Mexico, Awarded Outstanding CattleWoman of the Year

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ita Witte was named the 2015 Outstanding CattleWoman of the Year by the American National CattleWomen, Inc. (ANCW) at the Annual Cattle Industry Convention in San Diego, California.

Witte has served in many important roles throughout her tenure as a CattleWoman. Witte, joined the Roadrunner CowBelles in 1963 and has been an active part of the CattleWomen ever since. She became the New Mexico state president in 1991, served as Region VI director for four years and continuing on to become American National CattleWomen president in 2008.

Fita has been a tireless supporter of not only the beef industry, but agriculture and rural life at large. Even after she and her husband, Jerry, retired from the ranch, she has remained active in Mesilla Valley CowBelles. Witte was an active member in the National Beef Cook-off for over 23 years and served on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board for six years. Named ANCW Beef Promoter of the year in both 1998 and 1999, Witte continues to serve ANCW as a trustee of the ANCW Foundation a 501c3 organization.

The strong relationships Witte has built with CattleWomen across the country are remarkable. Lyn Greene, ANCW Member, said, “With boundless energy, Fita has devoted time and talent to local, state and national CowBelles and CattleWomen. She has kept ANCW front and center at our state meetings by informing and sharing her experiences and expertise at every opportunity.”

Dina C. Reitzel, Executive Director of New Mexico Beef Council, says this of Witte, “The extraordinary thing about Fita is she will do whatever job/task that needs to be done, from the menial to the most elevated of callings.” Further, Rachel H. Ricklefs, President of the Silver Spurs CowBelles said, “She has friends all over the continental United States that stand with her in her cause to promote beef.”

Witte has also served on the New Mexico Beef Council and Cattlemen’s Beef Board, New Mexico Cattle Growers and the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau. She has been a member of ANCW for 53 years and has been quoted as saying, “You have to be involved in the industry and with the organizations who support your industry… If you don’t promote your product, nobody will do it for you.”

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very year the line just gets longer and longer,” observed Bernarr Treat, NMBC chairman. He and other members of the NMBC served participants barbecue beef sliders, barbecue sauce, coleslaw and jalapenos as they each built their beef sliders according to taste.

The theme of the NMBC booth was, “Educating Consumers, Supporting Producers”.

The event attracts leaders, staffers, business people, and others from all over the state, giving representatives of the NMBC the opportunity to “see and be seen” while they renew old acquaintances and shake hands with new ones. The NMBC is on hand to provide the public with a highly visible, highly positive industry presence.

“AgFest goes a long way toward educating people about the importance of agriculture – especially beef – to the state’s economy,” said Dina Chacón-Reitzel, executive director of the NMBC. “We are happy and proud to be a key part of this wonderful event.”

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1. Bruce Davis, NMBC Director, offers a beef slider to AgFest guest.

2. Kenneth McKenzie enjoys the company of a sweet baby at AgFest.

3. Tom Bertelle, NMBC volunteer “extraordinaire” helps serve-up-the-beef!

4. FFA State President, Mitchell Pinnell and FFA State Secretary, Josh Beaver help in the Beef Council booth at AgFest 2016!

5. AgFest Guest says, “more beef, please”.

6. Guest at AgFest enjoys the free beef recipes and information at NMBC booth.

7. 4-H and FFA’ers smile for the camera…BEEF! 8. Bernarr Treat, NM Beef Council Chairman, visits with AgFest attendee.

9. Bernarr Treat, NMBC Chairman and Representative Don Tripp, Speaker of the House, greet each other at AgFest.

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AGGIE NOTES From the Animal Resources Dept.

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Who is the New Extension Specialist?

by Dr. Kert Young, Extension Rangeland Brush & Weed Specialist

started in mid-January as the Extension Rangeland Brush & Weed Specialist for New Mexico State University (NMSU). My experience with invasive plants began on our farm in western Idaho where we raised beef and dairy cows. Later, college and work experience would continue my relationship with invasive plants. I studied rangeland related coursework at Treasure Valley Community College, Eastern Oregon University, Oregon State University, and Brigham Young University. My research work during graduate school focused on brush and weed ecology and management.

I had the opportunity to work with several plant species especially juniper, piñon, cheatgrass, medusahead, bluebunch wheatgrass, and squirreltail. I practiced my training as a licensed professional pesticide applicator for Washington County in Idaho where thistles were a common target among other noxious weeds.

My natural resource work continued as a rangeland management specialist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in southern Idaho. I served the public by working with private landowners to develop resource management plans and apply best management practices to conserve natural resources. Some of the improvement projects I worked on included revegetation, livestock water development, fencing, confined animal feeding operations, rotational grazing plans, irrigation systems, wetland restoration, wildlife habitat, and biological weed control. I listened to local landowner concerns and engaged the public at soil and water conservation district meetings and cattleman association meetings.

Most recently, I worked as an NMSU Assistant Research Professor (postdoctoral) under direction of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Jornada Experimental Range. I led development of the Chihuahuan Desert Rapid Ecoregional Assessment funded by the Bureau of Land Management.

In these landscape assessments, we synthesized current scientific understanding of the ecological structure and function of the

ecoregion and the effect of ecological drivers (e.g., invasive plants, climate change, grazing, human use, urban and industrial growth, fire, and restoration practices) on the condition of several ecosystems and wildlife species. We used conceptual models, structured decision making, geospatial layers, and narratives to discuss the ecology and management of the ecoregion and address land management questions.

I look forward to working with you on rangeland brush and weed management related issues. Please let me know how I can assist you. My email address is kry@nmsu. edu and my extension number is 575/646-4948.

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The Department also offers pre-veterinary studies – our graduates have a high acceptance rate into veterinary medicine programs. We offer graduate degrees at the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy levels.

The M.S. or Ph.D. in Animal Science can emphasize nutrition or physiology, and offers a Ph.D. in Range Science to study range management, range ecology and watershed management.

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New Mexico Ag Expo Set for March 18 & 19 in Portales

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he 24th New Mexico Ag Expo, sponsored by Plateau, opens its two-day show March 18-19 at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds in Portales, New Mexico. This is the first year the event has been held in March.

The Expo is sponsored by long-time title underwriter Plateau. Other sponsors include C&S, Inc., Roosevelt County Electric Coop., Xcel Energy, New Mexico Gas Company, Yucca Telecom, U.S. Bank and Western Bank. The event is organized and run by the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce and New Mexico State University Extension Service. This year’s move to March will avoid conflicts with other events and hopefully be a little warmer than normal, said Chamber Executive Director Karl Terry.

“We didn’t want it to be too late in the spring for people to be able to apply the techniques and products they see at the show this growing season, but at the same time February weather can sometimes be a little rough,” said Terry. “This will be after the time change and well before time to start planting.”

According to Ag Expo Chairman Patrick Kircher, who develops the programs presented at the show, home and garden segments have steadily become more popular. With that in mind, gardening seminars are planned for both afternoons along with a morning session on Saturday with New Mexico State University (NMSU) Home Economist Mindy Turner on homemade food gifts.

The March timing has also brought back the Tumbleweed Classic Cow Dog Trial, sanctioned by the Southwest Cattledog.

The event features some of the top working dogs in the area competing all day in the outside arena in runs that test their abilities.

The show is free to watch and those interested in entering their dogs are welcome.

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“What is a VFD and what does it mean?” will feature Dr. John Wenzel, NMSU Extension Veterinarian addressing the Veterinary Feed Directive and what it will mean to producers. The VFD is the new regulation restricting who can use feed grade antibiotics and how producers can access them.

“Feed grad antibiotics are a valuable tool and in order to use them producers are going to have to have a working relationship with a veterinarian,” said Patrick Kircher, Roosevelt County Ag Agent. What is a VFD and what does in mean will start at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, February 18th in the Art Room located in the Idsinga Pavilion north of the Roosevelt County Event Arena.

The focus of the Ag Expo has always been on providing producers with information on products and techniques that allow them to solve problems and grow their operations. Terry says that goal remains unchanged. The Expo’s reach includes thousands of dairymen, farmers and ranchers.

The show normally attracts more than 150 vendors and 200-300 representatives.

Booths run the gamut from dairy equipment and tractors and implements to irrigation systems and seed. While most vendors are from the plains states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, the Ag Expo attracts businesses from as far away as Canada and California.

Other activities include the Rotary Club pork chop luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday. Tickets are $12. The antique tractor parade and a live chuckwagon village with cooking displays and samples will also be a part of the fun. Food vendors, featuring barbecue as well as breakfast burritos will be on site both days. The hours of the show are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Expo attendees, 18 and over, will have the opportunity to win a brand new 14-foot stock trailer. Entry forms must be validated at various vendors to be eligible for the drawing.

There is no admission to the grounds or any of the events (except the luncheon) during the Expo. For applications or more information about vendor booths or attendance call 800/635-8036, email the Expo at chamber@portales.com or visit the website at www.nmagexpo.com.

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History of Public Lands Grazing Part Two: Grazing Regulated by Federal Agencies

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ost of the federal lands were historically used by livestock, yet the government failed to make provision for stock-raising. Thus, too many ranchers tried to use the same lands, since there was no way they could gain legal title.

Local stockmen’s organizations were created to try to bring order, but only partially worked because they had no force of law behind them. Competition for the grass forced abuses that would never have happened if a range unit could have been claimed and used by each rancher like a homestead. Frustrated ranchers saw the damage happening and were helpless to halt it. They begged Congress for some sort of permit or leasing system that would provide orderly use and protect the range (and the livelihoods dependent on it) from destruction.

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after the turn of the century (with creation of the Forest Service after those lands were locked up from homesteading), and belatedly on the public domain in 1934 with passage of the Taylor Grazing Act, which was created in heated controversy. One issue was states’ rights; the West was not keen on federal government having control over such vast areas within their states.

Bringing order to the range was also a painful process by that late date. Some stockmen were forced out of business (especially the sheepmen and horse raisers who had no base property—since that was a necessary criterion for a grazing lease) since there was not enough range to go around.

Regulation of the range evolved during the days of drought, depression, and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal socialism. The original plan when the Taylor Act was proposed, was to lease the land to the rancher.

But the final Act, shaped and colored by the New Deal federal planners, provided a basis for complete federal management of the “leases”, by the Department of Interior.

The Taylor Grazing Act satisfied no one— not the stockmen, who wanted simple leases, nor the Department of Agriculture, which had been feuding with Interior,

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wanting control over the grazing lands for itself. The amazing thing was that the Act was passed at all, after 50 years of futile effort by the livestock industry. It left the ranchers forever dependent upon government-administered grazing lands. The western rancher and the federal government have had to exist in an uneasy partnership ever since.

With more orderly use, under the permit system devised by the Taylor Act, the depleted range areas began to recover. The ranchers who ended up with permits were assured of a specific pasture, and they could invest time and money in fences to control the use of those pastures, and they also created water developments and other improvements.

POLITICS OF FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT – The Grazing Service was plagued with political problems from the start, however. In 1946 it became the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Administration of public land by the growing bureaucracy of Forest Service and BLM had ups and downs, colored by politics and feuding between Interior and Agriculture, and money problems. The main fact of life for any bureau is gaining sufficient funds from Congress. Many range studies and range condition reports (including the infamous FS document “The Western Range”, published in 1936) were propaganda documents to convince Congress of a need for money or bureaucratic expansion. In 1936 the FS was trying to grab the public domain lands from the Department of Interior, and published “The Western Range” to try to show that lands had deteriorated under private ownership and Interior’s administration, and that the FS had superior qualifications for managing all grazing lands.

The BLM has also resorted to propaganda tactics, such as the often quoted 1975 Range Condition Report, prepared by BLM for the Senate Committee on Appropriations, January 1975, which painted a grossly distorted picture in its attempt to gain more money for BLM expansion. The government agencies periodically did studies, but the results were often slanted to justify administrative policies. Most of the range research was done to achieve fundamental goals, often for political advantage. Since most studies were done by the same agency doing the administering, there was a tendency to slant the research to justify the administration process.

For instance, in the early Grazing Dis-

tricts in Montana, employees were instructed to determine range condition and report on what percent of their areas were in each classification. Their surveys showed 80 to 90 percent of the land in good to excellent condition. But when their boss in the state office saw the figures, he insisted they were wrong—because the district would not get money for range improvement with figures like that. So the figures were changed. Only 10 to 20 percent of that range could be in good or excellent condition, and 80 percent had to be “poor” (this was stated by Dan Fulton in his book Failure on the Plains, published by Montana State University in 1982). This type of figure juggling has added “credibility” to the myth that all the ranges were overgrazed and exploited by greedy, ignorant ranchers, until the government stepped in to “save” the range by regulating the ranchers.

Management of public lands has been a mix of science, tradition, and politics, with the rancher caught in the middle trying to grow livestock and grass. The rancher is the only true range manager, for he is the only one actually on the land. The health and future of the land affect his future—and he wants to make sure he has a future on the land. But the government agencies and pseudo-environmentalists have not understood this very basic fact, and have often thrown many obstacles in the way of good management, rather than trying to work with the ranchers.

CONFLICTS OVER RANGE USE – Good range management is still being thwarted today by the fact the rancher has no real security or tenure. If he has tenure, he can plan for the future and know he will still be there to benefit from his good management of today. But tenure is now more uncertain than ever, as other interests clamor for more say in public land decisions, and many interests are opposed to livestock use of public lands. The preservationist aspect of the conservation movement wants livestock reduced or eliminated, not understanding or not wanting to understand that the health of rangelands and wildlife habitat depend on periodic grazing.

The federal agencies try to balance and juggle the demands of various interests, and grazing has been getting the shorter end.

Yet the demands of users and potential users and “protectors” of public lands are not irreconcilable if some common sense and cooperation are used. Grazing is a use that does not alter the natural condition of the land (as some other uses do) and can

be compatible with many uses. Wildlife and wildlife habitat, recreation, timber, archeolivestock complement one another on a logical sites, etc. It is not politically popular well-managed range. One reason game to be sympathetic with the livestock numbers have increased so much in the industry. past 60 years is because the range improveSo the rancher feels threatened. His exisments done by ranchers have benefited tence is totally dependent on the range and both livestock and wildlife. Timber produc- he feels entitled to some kind of assurance tion benefits from grazing; otherwise the and consistency from his federal landlord. ungrazed grass would compete with young But there is none. Personnel changes trees or give cover to rodents that damage within the agency, or a new administration, young trees. Well managed grazing often bring major political changes--and improves rather than impairs watershed the changes almost always lean toward the values and riparian areas. “reduction of livestock” agenda.

We must remember that these lands Agency people come and go. Some are were grazed by bison for millions of years, easy to work with and have common sense and other herbivores. Grazing is a natural and imagination—able to figure out ways and necessary use of the land, for best eco- to resolve problems, while others are logical health, yet has been criticized by authoritarian or openly antagonistic to people interested in wildlife, recreation and grazing, not wanting to help the rancher in wilderness (people who do not understand any way. The rancher has to stay on the land the long-term history of the land and the (while the administrators come and go) and naturalness of grazing, the importance of pick up the pieces, trying to adjust to each the grazer in an ecological balance). Politi- new policy and trying to get along with cal pressures from these segments of the each new overseer. There is no guarantee public have mounted. The good relation- of tomorrow. A new manager, a new policy ship that sometimes existed (with sincere (such as Rangeland Reform ‘94), or a law efforts between ranchers and federal land passed by Congress to satisfy environmenmanagers) has often been undermined by tal groups, may make the rancher’s good more “important” duties of BLM and FS as management efforts all for nothing—as his administrators of wilderness, wild horses, permit is reduced or even taken away.

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And some interests want the rancher to pay a much higher fee for his lease, not understanding the tremendous out-ofpocket costs involved in using public lands (as compared with private leases) that the rancher must endure in order to keep using his range. These include maintenance costs, herding, the expense of more bulls per 100 cows (a necessity in large pastures), inability to legally control predators or poisonous plants, less gain on the cattle and poorer breeding percentages, etc. The range is no bargain. It is merely the only available summer pasture for many ranchers, and if it is priced too high they will be out of business. The tenure question for the rancher is just as critical today as it was at the turn of the century. We haven’t progressed very far at all.

Ranchers are dependent upon land they can never own, and probably never lease in a conventional manner—land that may be made off-limits to grazing if extremists in the environmental movement have their way. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) gave other interests a way to take BLM to court over its grazing programs, such as the 1974 suit by the Natural Resources Defense Council forcing BLM to do extensive environmental impact state-

ments on all range areas. Environmental groups use many laws (Wild Horse Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, Federal Land Policy Management Act and many others) as tools in their efforts to eliminate grazing.

The EIS process forced by the NRDC suit was frustrating to both ranchers and BLM alike. Ranges had greatly improved between 1934 and 1974, yet environmental groups ignored that fact and took BLM to court to force more livestock cuts. The easy way out for BLM, faced with court suits and lack of funds, was to cut numbers, regardless of whether the reductions were justified. The 1970s and early ‘80s were a time of turmoil and strained relations between BLM and ranchers. The passage of FLPMA (Federal Land Policy Management Act) made it clear the land would be held forever in federal ownership, and gave BLM a full range of executive powers and duties.

The EIS process, with BLM trying to please a growing public antagonism to grazing (due to propaganda by environmentalist extremists with a political agenda) spurred ranchers to join other westerners thwarted by the expanding federalism, and the Sagebrush Rebellion of the ‘70s began. People dependent on

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public land for their livelihoods were fighting back. They felt the government should not be allowed to make decisions without first consulting the people affected. The West needs some say in managing its own affairs. The Sagebrush Rebellion was only one small skirmish in a long battle (states’ rights and self-determination have been an issue in the West from the beginning) and won’t be the last, as long as the West is controlled by rules made in the East.

The ranchers’ cries for help against policies that would put them out of business were heard—for awhile—and BLM had to change course a little, partly because of changes in administration and a swing

U.S. E. coli outbreak blamed on Australian beef

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Australian beef has been blamed for mass E. coli outbreak at U.S. fast food chain Chipotle despite authorities finding the cause of the outbreak in 14 states unclear.

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he Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly closed their investigation after being unable to pinpoint any of the 64 ingredients used by the restaurants as the likely culprit.

Publicly the Mexican food chain stated the same, but privately beef supplied by Australian farmers since 2014 has been determined as the cause, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

“Chipotle concluded the E. coli was most likely from contaminated Australian beef,” the Wall Street Journal said.

The restaurants are continuing to serve Australian beef but have reportedly begun tak ing additional precautions, including testing the beef for pathogens and implementing measures to avoid staff members directly handling raw meat.

Hundreds of people across the US are believed to have fallen ill after eating contaminated food from Chipotle.

The first outbreaks linked to the chain were reported in July last year and were followed by seven other reports of major outbreaks.

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away from the environmentalist-oriented whom rather than actual concern for the leadership it had enjoyed during the Carter land; the ranchers are mere pawns in the years. During the 1980s the federal land- struggle for control. The larger picture lord attempted to listen to the ranchers looms grim as we lose more and more of again. The Stewardship programs were our freedoms and local control over our created, and other efforts to work with the daily lives. ranchers and give them some voice in manSo-called environmentalists are using aging the range, such as the Cooperative every opportunity to sway public opinion Management Agreements (CMA). Progress against land users like ranchers, using conwas made in resolving major concerns. But troversies over riparian area management, some environmental groups fought these “ecosystem management”, the grazing fee progressive moves at every turn. Some issue, etc. to force ranchers off the range, refused to participate in the Stewardship and are becoming very good at using the program or any attempts at reconciliation Endangered Species Act (and right now one and cooperation in reaching shared goals of their tools is the sage grouse) to have and purposes, and they took the BLM to control over even our private land. The procourt over the CMA’s. They didn’t want posed grazing regulations in the Clinton/ ranchers to have any control of the range Gore administration were geared to drastior any part in management. cally reduce or eliminate grazing, and the Today we’re still struggling over public ecological-biodiversity issue continues to land policy; pressure is even heavier from threaten agriculture in general. The Obama anti-grazing interests. Environmental administration is unfriendly to public land groups and self-appointed earth-watchers grazing interests and is very unfriendly to who want to protect our planet from all state/local control. actions of man (having little concept of We don’t know what the future holds. history, biology, archaeology, geology or Logic implies that if concerned folks who true ecology) are using every tactic they can are interested in the health of the land work to eliminate grazing, and any other “uses” together on the problems, we can solve the of the land. It is a power play—more a basic conflicts, IF we have a government matter of politics and who will control that respects private property rights and

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There will always have to be trade-offs and compromises. The West, which is dependent on public land for its economy, must probably forever share these vast areas within our states with a dominating East that will always outnumber and outvote us, telling us what we will or won’t do with our lands, since there are often conflicting demand for the same areas.

Public land policy will always be colored by politics, and therefore will be inconsistent and ever-changing.

Those of us who depend on public land for our livelihood and way of life can only hope to keep the public informed and educated, aware of the history and importance of this land, and of the good job we are doing as stewards. Perhaps that is the only way we can be assured of a workable landlord-tenant relationship in the years to come.

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At that time he spent about one full day a week just keeping records. He had no choice if he wanted to be a farmer in Scotland.

Can you imagine the amount of paperwork you would have with a thousand head? What is the point of all this control? I will bet you that the government guys that had to read these records do not have a clue about what they are reading. I would guess think about this. Government authorities that they are taught that the records should create hysteria about a topic that advances follow a certain pattern and if they vary their agenda. The folks get scared and from that then they check it out further. report their neighbors before their neighJust think of the added government employees you would have to have to read bors report them.

We have seen this before and fought the blasted things. I realize most of this is wars over it. Why are we letting it creep into done with computers, but it is still time America; the land of the free and the home consuming. If more and more rules and of the brave? regulations are heaped on you then that Perhaps you will not be thrown into a diminishes your freedom as well.

Finally, I am certain you all have seen the concentration camp if your tool shed is not on the assessor’s map, but this is one way recent events concerning the Nevada of diminishing your freedom a little at a ranching family, the Bundy’s. It is a sad tale time. The fact that they fly over your prop- in America no matter whose side you are erty taking photos is creepy enough. Why on. What I would like to know is who are the cowboys that were hired do we have by the government to a governround up cattle on the ment that I can remember a time spies on Bundy Ranch when this all started? My point is what normal when the government decent cowboy would citizens?

A few used to help its ranchers. Now agree to be involved in that travesty? Why would years ago the Departyou ride against your own there seems to be a concerted kind for a few dollars? ment of Who shot the cattle and Agriculture movement to get rid of us. what was the point of wanted you to volunteer for a government chipping that? program of livestock. Under the guise of Lastly, it looks to me like our country is safety once again, the gist was that they pretty divided after the last eight years and could help contain diseased livestock this I am certain that was the goal. I can remember a time when the government used to way.

I am not certain how many of you volun- help its ranchers. Now there seems to be a teered for this, but it cannot be a good concerted movement to get rid of us. I think thing. First of all, why does the government it is a shame that the only effective weapon need to know where all your cattle are and we have against bad politicians is being when you move them? If you haul your able to vote them out. They can do so much horse to a roping, then not only do they damage while they are in office and are very know where the horse is via the chip, but seldom held accountable.

It is not the hard working person that is also where you are as well.

In other words this is a preliminary step the problem in this country. This is an electoward more control. The last time I visited tion year. Read up on what’s going on and Scotland I stayed with some folks that try to vote for someone that endorses owned a dairy farm. It was incredible to me freedom! that they had to keep track and record every shot they gave their cattle. There was a record that was sent to the government of what happened to each and every cow throughout its lifetime.

The farmer milked about 60 head and probably had 40 or so dry cows and calves.

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ecently I attended a public meeting with a local tax assessor. One of the primary tenets of the assessor’s speech was for the public to report any suspicious activity that they might see their neighbors doing.

For instance if you saw your neighbor adding a window to their house, you are supposed to report it. If your neighbor replaces clapboards with aluminum siding you are supposed to report it. Heaven forbid if your neighbor added a tool shed out back.

First of all, why would you ever care what your neighbors do? Secondly, as long as it’s not hurting you, why bother? I thought we had government officials and airplanes taking aerial photos to keep track of country folks on a regular basis?

To me, it is hard to believe that we are in America. I know of some towns where you have to approach a board before you can change the color of your house. It just baffles me how apathy sets in and people forget all about the freedom they once had.

Folks are very willing to give up freedom in exchange for government protection.

Protection from what?

Whether or not your neighbor is taxed for adding his tool shed in the back yard should not concern you in the least. American citizens spying on each other is truly a crime in itself.

Where I was raised there were many refugees from Nazi Germany working on farms and ranches. These folks were displaced from their homes, abused in concentration camps, and were lucky enough to escape those conditions. Their stories were disgusting, heart breaking, hard to imagine, and fantastic.

I will never forget the horror on their faces when they related some of these tales of being ripped out of their homes and forced to exist in squalor. Some refugees never knew they were being watched and others did. The ones that did went into hiding.

However, the common thread in all these stories is that all had been reported to the authorities by their neighbors. Let’s

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other than Buffalo Bill Cody was the most gained national fame years earlier, thanks famous Wild West show producer. to a dime novel written by Ned Buntline. It Volumes have been written about was titled, The Scouts of the Plains. Cody was William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody (Feb- the hero of this highly sensationalized story. ruary 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917). So here Then, in 1872, he traveled to Chicago to star we will just focus on the Wild West. His in a theatrical version of the book. show is often credited with being the first Afterwards, for about the next ten years, Chris Ledoux, a World Champion rodeo of its kind. However, it was not the first Wild Cody was acting (mostly just playing cowboy turned singer, sang a line that went, West show ever held or even the first himself) in various plays, often known as “You pull in off the highway to another rodeo. cowboy contest (aka rodeo) ever held. But “border dramas,” which were really smallTo another crowd of people think it’s just a it was the biggest and best of its time. scale Wild West shows. They featured Wild West show.”

Buffalo Bill opened his show in 1883 in real-life frontier characters, Indians, fancy ou may not realize but today’s rodeo, North Platt, Nebraska. But even Cody shooting and so on. This is most likely does in fact, have roots deep inside himself had already been in show business where the idea for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West the Wild West show arena. None for some time before that for others. He had originated.

From the beginning, audiences loved Cody’s portrayals of frontier events at the Wild West shows. There was an attack on a Deadwood stage, Pony Express relay races and the reenactment of Custer’s Last Stand.

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Twain also once wrote, “...It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctly American. If you take the Wild West show over there you can remove that reproach.”

The show influenced many twentieth-century portrayals of “the West” both in film and literature. It also had a lot to do with how early-day rodeo was born.

Many of the show’s “cowboy events” such as roping, riding and bulldogging were popularized in the Wild West arena before finding a permanent place in a rodeo arena. Not that these events weren’t already in rodeos. “Cowboy Contest” had been taking place in the West for many years (one of the earliest being recorded at Santa Fe in 1847). It’s just that the international exposure and popularity of Wild West shows reached far beyond the ability of an annual Fair, or Pioneer Days celebration (which is where most early cowboy contests, aka rodeos, were held). Without the Wild West shows traveling the world, entertaining millions of folk who knew nothing about cowboy skills, rodeo would not have enjoyed the early success it did.

Most of the early-day rodeo stars worked both the “Cowboy Contests” (rodeos) and the Wild West shows. Foghorn Clancy, rodeo’s first professional announcer and earliest historian, described the difference between a “contest” and a “show” as being: in one the cowboys put up an entry fee and competed for prize money and the latter being where a cowboy simply drew a salary for his performance. By the early 1900s however, many shows (rodeos) were a combination of these scenarios. Slowly but surely, cowboys were paid less and less on a salary bases and more on a “winning” basis. This was one of the ways (along with other modifications) that Wild West shows slowly morphed into rodeos by the 1920s or so.

Although there were hundreds of different Wild West shows in business from the late 1800s through the first two decades of the twentieth century, Buffalo Bill’s was by far the measuring stick. All others were judged by how they compared to it.

Just like most good things however, they come to an end eventually. For many reasons, including World War I, the invention of motion pictures, a decline in shooting as a spectator sport (baseball and football were increasingly popular now), the era of the Wild West fizzled out. Riding and roping were now showcased in what was becoming known as “rodeos,” which,

at the time were greatly condensed ver- staged for years afterward, the era of the sions of Wild West shows. They were also Wild West is generally said to have died in considerably less of a production and less 1917, along with its greatest showman, expensive to produce.

Buffalo Bill Cody. Bill died while visiting his As a sign of the times, Cody’s show sister’s home in Denver. He was buried on began to have financial difficulties. In 1913 Lookout Mountain overlooking Denver and he borrowed money from a Denver busi- the Plains. It was reported that more than nessman, Harry Tammen (one of the early 18,000 attended the funeral. manufactures of “tourist” Indian jewelry, From that time, and through this day, but that is another story). Cody fell behind rodeo is how the public get its “Wild West” on the payments and when the Wild West fix! stopped in Denver to do a show, Tammen had it seized. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was sold at auction in Denver to satisfy the debt.

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ur current beef price whirlwind is not only impacting feeder cattle and slaughter cattle prices, it is also dramatically impacting the cost to develop replacement heifers. Heifers born in the spring of 2014 and developed and bred in 2015 are probably going to hold the record for all-time high costs for years to come.

Bred heifers born in the spring of 2015 and developed in 2016 are projected to cost considerably less. How much less? That is the subject of this Market Adviser.

I use a six-step process to project the full economic cost of developing a pregchecked heifer. The six steps are: ■ Period 1 — conception to weaning ■ Period 2 — weaning to breeding ■ Period 3 — breeding to pregnancy check in the fall ■ Total the costs of all three periods ■ Adjust for heifer conception rate ■ Adjust for cull heifer credit We’ll use these six steps to project the cost of developing replacement heifers on my demonstration herd in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska. This is a 250-head beef cow herd, where the management goal is to raise a sufficient number of replacement heifers to maintain 250 cows each year.

Figure 1 presents the input numbers that we use to generate a preg-checked heifer to be transferred into the main beef cow herd in October 2016. The raised replacement heifer was weaned in late October 2015. She entered into a drylot grower program based on a target breeding weight. She will then be transferred to grass in the spring, when she will be bred and stay until preg-check time in early October.

Since we are after a preg-checked heifer, accumulated costs are adjusted for heifers that are sold as opens, and the income from the cull open heifers is adjusted back to the production costs. The accumulated replace-

ment costs of the remaining preg-checked heifers are transferred into the foundation cow herd. Once transferred into the cow herd, they become part of the foundation herd and are part of the cow herd’s production costs. The costs from preg-check to first calf are considered part of the foundation herd’s costs of production.

Period 1 — conception to weaning: The costs associated with this period are based on the market value of the heifer calf at weaning in October 2015. In this case, a 554-pound heifer calf, held back for breeding, was valued at a slight premium of $198 per cwt, giving a total market value of $1,097 at weaning.

Since this heifer could have been sold at weaning in 2015, this market value has to be part of the opportunity costs in raising replacement heifers. Quite often, this opportunity cost is left out in heifer cost discussions; nevertheless, it is a real economic cost of raised replacement heifers.

Period 2a — wintering to pasture turnout: Figure 2 presents the production parameters used to project the wintering costs. A target weight going to grass of 798 pounds was calculated for a projected winter average daily gain (ADG) of 1.3 pounds per day. A ration utilizing ranchraised feeds was formulated around that target ADG. Ranch-raised feeds are valued at market value, not costs of production.

Figure 3 summarized the cost of the winter growing period. Feed costs, based on projected eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska feed prices, were a little over half of the projected total wintering costs of $211. The breakeven cost to grass is projected at $164 per cwt. The projected price for 2016 grass time is $150 per cwt.

Period 2b — wintering to breeding costs: Since grass turnout date is before breeding, a short period on grass time is added into the winter grower costs to cover weaning to breeding. The cost of grass is projected on a $32 per animal unit month (AUM), where a growing heifer is considered 0.9 of an AUM. Daily supplement cost was added, giving a total wintering-to-breeding cost of $247.

Period 3 — breeding to preg-check: This period’s projected costs are presented in Figure 5. With breeding time around June 1 and preg-check time scheduled for Oct. 1, that gives 4.1 months of pasture grazing.

Breeding costs are based on a $5,000 bull utilized on 20 females per year over four years. The calculated annual breeding cost is projected at $65 per exposed heifer.

Total cost for Period 3, breeding to preg-

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Six Steps to project the cost of developing replacement heifers on demonstration herd in eastern Wyoming & western Nebraska.

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check, is projected at $211 per heifer in the heifer development program.

Total cost summary: The costs of all three periods are added for a total of $1,555 as the projected costs of developing a group of 2016 preg-checked heifers (Figure 6). While a small-cost item, note that each time period had an interest cost on the previous period’s production costs added in.

Typically, not all heifers exposed end up pregnant. In this case, 85 percent are assumed checked as pregnant. This can vary from ranch to ranch. If the calculated $1,555 average group cost of all heifers is divided by the percent checked pregnant (0.85), the average cost of a pregnant heifer is $1,830. But the value of the cull open 2016 Events currently being planned. heifers sold on the market must be taken Watch the NM Stockman for more into account. Based on a projected $170 cull heifer price, the adjusted cost of the remaininformation coming soon. ing preg-checked heifers is $1,579 per head.

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Meet Pat Boone, NMCGA President

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ew Mexico r a n ch e r s have a strong tradition of neighboring – helping each other and working together to get the job done.

For eastern New Mexico cattleman Pat Boone, Pat Boone, NMCGA President who was elected president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association in December, that’s what it’s all about. “I was raised with and believe in the philosophy of neighboring, and that’s what I want to do as President.”

“It’s not about me, it’s about the Association, about helping our neighbors,” he continued. “I’m just stepping up and trying to do my part, like many people have done before me, and I hope that others will continue to come along and pass it forward.”

Boone has deep roots in the New Mexico cattle business. His ranch, located between Elida and Kenna, has been in his family for generations, when his great, great grandfather, Bill Littlefield, moved to New Mexico from Texas.

As part of an agreement to construct a new Texas state capitol building in Austin, Major George Littlefield divested his interest in the LIT Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, and moved to New Mexico in the early 1880s with his brother Bill and nephews Phelps and Tom White. Bill Littlefield first settled on a place northeast of Roswell on the Pecos River known as the Bosque Grande with a rich history, including both Charles Goodnight and John Chisum, and the Whites settled on the nearby Four Lakes Ranch. A year or two later, Littlefield moved his headquarters to the ranch where Boone lives today, where a live spring still flows.

Boone’s great-grandfather, the first Patrick Henry Boone, married Littlefield’s daughter. Boone’s grandfather ran a ranch in Littlefield, Texas, for his uncle, Major George Littlefield, where Boone’s father – who became an attorney and judge in Littlefield – and Boone and his sister were raised. After attending Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, for two years, Boone moved to the New Mexico ranch for good. “As soon as I could get to the ranch, I

went,” he said.

Boone and his wife, Cindy, married in 1975 and moved to the ranch in 1977 where they raise Angus-base commercial cattle.

The couple has two children: a daughter, Sarah, who lives with her family in Wimberly, Texas, and a son, Cinco – the fifth Patrick Henry Boone – who coaches basketball at Angelo State University.

Getting more people, especially younger people, involved in the Association is his number one focus as President. “To a great extent, those of us that are active in the Association are the older guys,” Boone pointed out. “I know that when you are raising kids, and being involved in their lives, it is difficult to do – I know I couldn’t have done what I am doing when I was younger.”

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Of the many issues that ranchers and the Association face, it all comes back to protecting private property rights, he explained. “We must keep our private property rights in the forefront. Everything trickles down from there – state land, federal land -our ability to make a living is tied to staying on the land.”

“There are myriad groups out there dedicated to getting people off of public lands, and I don’t know what they are thinking,” he continued. “With what our people contribute in taxes, funding and supporting schools, hospitals, roads, and communities, those groups are just killing rural America.

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I don’t think they realize what they are doing.”

Looking back, everyone has people who helped set them on their current path. For Boone, one of those people is Dr. Lowell Catlett, former Dean of New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. “I was a sophomore in high school, just plugging along, when Lowell Catlett, a National FFA Officer at the time, came to speak to our FFA Chapter and changed my life,” Boone said.

“He inspired me, he stunned me so much that I got involved in leadership in my FFA Chapter and 4-H, and have stayed involved since.”

Boone has been very involved in community and industry groups, including his local Soil & Water Conservation District board, the Elida School Board and the Portales/Roosevelt County Electric Board. He has also had an active Christian music ministry for many years. “If you get asked, you just do it. That’s the way I was raised,” he noted.

He credits fellow eastern New Mexico cattleman Carl Lane Johnson for pushing him to take a more active role in the industry. While helping Cindy’s family, the Goods, work cattle on their Lea County ranch, Boone got to know Johnson, one of their neighbors. “At that time, he was very active in the Cattle Growers, and always talking about what was going on, the battles they were fighting, and encouraging me to get involved.”

Boone attended his first NMCGA meeting in Espanola about 20 years ago.

Although he only knew a handful of people when he got there, he knew many more when he went home and those he met made a lasting impression.

Boone says that he doesn’t have future political aspirations after completing his term as President. “I always want to serve my neighbors and community, but am ready to spend more time with my family.”

Moving into NMCGA leadership is a big commitment – two years as President-Elect which includes helping represent the Association at two legislative sessions in Santa Fe, two years as President, then two as Past President chairing the Association’s Finance and then the Nominating Committees.

Boone said he kind of grew into the job, and was able to take a leadership position after the droughts of ’11 and ’12 forced him to cut his cattle numbers. “I was glad to do it, and am glad I did,” he noted. “I have really enjoyed it so far, and am looking forward to what comes next.”

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IN MEMORIAM << cont. from page 16 was always top priority and her grandchildren loved her famous bear hugs and chocolate chip cookies. Frances was a lifetime member of the Roswell Reading Club as were her mother, Fern Schultz, and daughter, Mary Maloney. She is survived by her children: James T. Jennings, Jr. (wife, Ann); Mary J. Maloney (husband, Dick); John M. Jennings (wife, Mikele); Thomas E. Jennings; Timothy Z. Jennings; and Carol J. Rolfs (husband, Michael); 20 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. A special thanks to long time assistants Estella Marquez and Peggy Voigt, and health care givers Rose, Margaret and Dora.

Robert LaVoy Finicum, 54, Cane Beds, Arizona, was murdered the day before his 55th birthday on January 26, 2016. LaVoy was born to David and Nelda Finicum on January 27, 1961 in Kanab, Utah. He had six siblings, Sherre, Guy, Jody, Jill, Misty, and Tadi. LaVoy was married to Dorthea Jeanette Finicum on February 18, 1994 and together they have eleven children, Thara, Belle, Tell, Tawny, Arianna, Brittney, Mitch, Thomas, Challice, Danielle, and Tean. Combined they have 19 grandchildren with three more on the way. LaVoy went to school in Page, Arizona. He served a full time mission in the Dakotas for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of which he was a faithful member his whole life. He served in many church positions; among them: the Young Men’s program, Ward Mission leader, Elders Quorum president, a High Priest leader and a member of the Bishopric. LaVoy worked many years in property management but his passions were helping children and ranching. LaVoy had over 50 foster boys whom he was able to have in his home and mentor over the course of the past 19 years. He loved working on his ranch and teaching his children how to ride horses, brand cows, and most of all, to follow Christ. LaVoy loved God, his family, and his country. He believed that the Constitution of the United States was inspired by God and he was willing to, and did, die while defending our freedoms stated within.

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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NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS

by Frank Dubois

All about the Bundys and will Obama slam New Mexico again

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n February 10th Cliven Bundy was travelling from Nevada to Oregon, where his two sons were being held in jail and four holdouts remained at the Malheur Wildlife refuge. His travel was interrupted by SWAT teams at the Portland International Airport, where he was arrested at 10:10 p.m. Bundy, 69, was then booked into the Multnomah County jail at 10:54 p.m. on charges related to the 2014 standoff at his Nevada ranch.

Cliven Bundy and four others have been charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, use of a gun in a crime of violence, assault of a federal officer, threat-

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ening a federal officer, obstruction of justice, interference with interstate commerce by extortion and interstate travel in the aid of extortion. Each of the 16 charges carries a minimum sentence of between five and 20 years and a $250,000 fine.

The indictment has some interesting things to say about the vaunted BLM law enforcement officers, stating they committed key tactical errors including ceding the high ground to their opponents and underestimating the strength of their “attackers.”

Fifty BLM rangers were guarding 400 cattle confiscated from Bundy and penned in a temporary corral at the bottom of a wash. According to papers filed with the court, when the Bundy family and their supporters arrived to claim the cattle, the rangers found themselves in a life-threatening situation.

The indictment states: “The officers at the (corral) gate were dangerously exposed. They were in the open and low ground at the bottom of the wash, below highway bridges that towered more than 40 feet above them and surrounded on the sides by steep embankments of high ground.”

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at the bottom and no natural cover or concealment to protect them from the gunmen on the high ground, their only protection being their body armor and the vehicles they happened to drive to the gate.” “…the officers had no choice and were forced to leave and abandon the cattle to Bundy and his co-conspirators…”.

I remember thinking at the time the DC Deep Thinkers had come to their senses and called off the dogs. Not so. They were simply out maneuvered by a superior force and made to retreat from the field.

As a result of the Battle of Bunkerville in Nevada and the occupation of the wildlife refuge in Oregon, however, Cliven, Ammon and Ryan Bundy are in jail and facing multiple charges.

What do we make of all this?

Peter Walker, a professor at the University of Oregon writes: “Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values – owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town in Harney County, and the community told it to go away.”

While Nancy Thorner & Bonnie O’Neil write in the Illinois Review: “Granted, the conflict that created the situation in Oregon is far from over. The

National Ranching Heritage Center hosts 46th annual Ranch Day April 9

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ctivities for the young and young at heart will highlight the 46th Annual Ranch Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 9 at the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) in Lubbock.

More than 4,000 visitors attend Ranch Day each year as more than 150 volunteers work to make the NRHC come alive with living history demonstrations and hands-on experiences for the whole family. The popular event will also include hands-on ranch science activities, a ranch horse skills demonstration by the Texas Tech Ranch Horse and Rodeo teams, a stick horse rodeo, music, dancing, and a magic show at the 6666 Barn.

Guests are encouraged to participate in such historic activities as visiting with living history docents to learn about life as a pioneer, leather working, washing clothes on a washboard, churning butter,

ranchers involved have accomplished their primary goal of having their concerns made public, although not to the extent of those who rioted, thrashed, and burned Ferguson or those who marched on the streets of large cities chanting “No justice! No peace!

No racist police!”

And they conclude: “Unfortunately in calling attention to their plight, one rancher paid the ultimate price, his life, for doing so. Will the authorities now be more open to initiating productive discussions to hear ranchers’ concerns? The fate of the protestors arrested and taken into custody might be an indicator of what the future might hold for the Great Basin region of this nation.”

Your humble observer thinks what may be happening on our side of the aisle is what has been going on with the enviro-left for many years. Radical elements take action that brings media and political attention to a particular issue, paving the way for more moderate partisans to offer compromise solutions. Time will tell if this is actually occurring, and if so, will it be as effective as the enviro-left model has been in influencing national policy.

Will Obama strike again?

President Obama recently designated three new national monuments in Califorand riding horses. Science activities will include learning about wind energy, exploring animal science, and investigating plants and soils.

The “Ranch Hand Experience” program will allow visitors (ranch hands) to get work cards when they arrive and have their cards stamped as they complete each activity. After six activities, visitors can take their stamped work cards to the Matador Office to receive cowboy pay that can be spent at the Waggoner Commissary.

The NRHC is a unique 27-acre museum and historical park that offers educational programs and exhibits to promote interest in ranching history and contemporary ranching issues. Located at 3121 Fourth Street adjacent to the Texas Tech University campus, the center provides 48 authentic dwellings and ranch structures from some of the nation’s most historic ranches. NRHC does not charge an admission fee for its activities but encourages donations to suppor t its educational programs.

nia – Sand to Snow National Monument, Mojave Trails National Monument, and Castle Mountains National Monument – totaling 1.8 million acres. “This president has misused and abused his executive power more than any of his predecessors in an attempt to distract from his true environmental legacy which will be one of mismanagement and undue economic hardship in rural communities,” said Brenda Richards, Public Lands Council President.

Further, the PLC is expecting another 10 million acres to be set aside in the waning days of the Obama administration.

Areas in New Mexico may be on that list.

There have been several press accounts of a proposal to designate 120,000 acres as the La Bajada Mesa National Monument in northern New Mexico, and we should remember the BLM has suggested that 1.2 million acres be set aside in the Otero Mesa of southern New Mexico.

“Everybody is coming to me with their wish list,” says Interior Secretary Sally Jewel.

You take your wish list to one person, who then takes it to one other person, who can grant you your wish. Under this model, three people can determine how 640 million acres are managed. No public hearings, no debate, no involvement of Congress. And this model is being heavily used by the current administration. You know, the same folks who promised “sound science” and transparency in the management of these lands.

Let’s call it the Tres Amigos Treehugger Triangle, and any member of Congress who opposes significant revision of the Antiquities Act should be branded as supporting this three-person power trip.

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

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

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE

by Baxter Black, BaxterBlack.com

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s radical Islamic terrorists continue their penetration of the Unites States and mentally deranged psychos attack unsuspecting pedestrians, our country seeks solutions. Conservative Constitutional fundamentalists stand by the law and support arming everyone! Whereas progressive liberals insist on disarming everyday citizens and depend on government to protect everyone! Yet compromise is hard to find.

Speaking for myself, I know many reasonable supporters of the 2nd Amendment and the NRA who would be amenable to some restrictions on sales of some automatic weapons or ground to air missiles, for instance. So why can’t we compromise with the Anti-2nd Amendment’s political promises? Simple…we do not trust our own government. We know there are those who would disarm us all.

The wisdom of our forefathers was prescient. They knew that men in power would immediately begin to take freedom away from the citizens they serve. The most precious of which is freedom of speech. We have reached a point in our history where plutocrats are trying to outlaw anything offensive they determine might hurt someone’s feelings. Like termites, these opponents of free speech gnaw away at our most powerful right…the right to speak our mind. An American citizen should not have

throttled media mince around, clouding the truth in the name of political correctness and diminishing our right to vocally object. Where does it end?

The writers of the Constitution built an impervious wall to protect our precious Right of Free Speech. It is called the 2nd Amendment, to wit… “. . . necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and to look over her shoulder before she bear arms, shall not be infringed.” How expresses her opinion, be it religion, pro- clear is that? fanity, racist, unkind, profound, offensive, Though many power seekers down untrue or beautiful. In a country founded through the ages have tried every legal on a Christian moral foundation, we encour- maneuver to taint, disclaim, and misinterage “Love thy neighbor as thyself” as a pret the 2nd Amendment as vague, “out of guide. But, by law, we permit the foulest of context”, outdated, not applicable in a behaviors to be allowed. The government modern world and susceptible to “execudoes not have the right to deny the First tive order”, they have failed.

Amendment to any lawful citizen. Nor do NOTE: The 1st AMENDMENT COULD NOT states or cities. No court, mayor, governor EXIST WITHOUT THE 2ndAMENDMENT. As soon as or college presthe gun banners ident has the . . . necessary to the security right to restrict can disarm us, T HE PEO PLE, legal citizens of a free State, the right of the democracy will from voicing be on its way their opinion. people to keep and bear arms, shall out.

It’s very But they do.

So how do depressing to not be infringed.” How clear is that? watch injustice, these specious needless killing, political weasels get around the law? The writers of and terrorist bombing in our own backyard, our Constitution could see them coming. but most of all, it is a sad state of affairs They knew that somewhere down the road when we cannot trust our elected and government officials would try to eliminate appointed leaders.

P.S. December 2015 Congressional the 1st Amendment, the Right of Free Speech. We are watching them in action survey: 9 percent approval. today. It is the first step toward dictatorial control. Laws being enacted by unelected bureaucrats, uncontrolled looting and crime under the guise of legitimate protest, cartels smuggling people and drugs across our border, terrorists with no name, yet the

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Express Ranches New Mexico Bull Sale

Wednesday - March 23 - 1 p.m. (MST) at the Cuervo Creek Ranch Newkirk, New Mexico

SELLING 110 ANGUS & HEREFORD BULLS Big. Stout. Aged Bulls.

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hese Express Ranchesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bulls have been developed on a high roughage diet in the semi-arid terrain of New Mexico at 5,000 ft. elevation since the summer of 2015. Complete performance records, EPDs and ultrasound data will be available on the bulls. Bulls will be trich and fertility tested. This group of bulls is stout, full of muscle and ready to go to work. These bulls are hard-footed and will get out and travel the country.

Plan to join us Wednesday, March 23 in Newkirk.

8:00 a.m. Viewing of Bulls :: 11:30 a.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. Express Bull Sale

We look forward to working with you.

2202 N. 11th Street Yukon, Oklahoma 73099 Bob Funk, Owner | Jarold Callahan, President 800-664-3977 | 405-350-0044 www.expressranches.com

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