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We still have plenty of bulls for sale that are ready to go to work! They are out of some of the leading herd sires in the country. These genetics include; NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X, BR Belle Air 6011, CR 5280, LT Long Distance 9001, Keys All State 149X, Connealy Power Surge 3115, Connealy Capitalist 028, Connealy Courage 25L. They work great for us! We are proud of the diversity in cattle and pedigree that we can provide. Their offspring are productive and will increase the profits in your herd, especially when used in a commercial cow herd.We have private treaty bulls and heifers for sale year round. All of the bulls are Trich and Fertility tested and can be viewed at the ranch. For more information give us a call.

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18 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 25 On the Edge of Common Sense

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26 News Update 28 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

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36 View From the Backside

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38 Collector’s Corner

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57 Seedstock Guide 61 Market Place 62 New Mexico Federal Lands Council News

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Tom Sidwell NMCGA President

Friends and Neighbors,

Tom Sidwell President Quay Randell Major President-Elect Magdalena 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 Ty Bays SW Vice President Silver City Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Pat Boone Past President Elida Jose Varela Lopez Past President La Cieneguilla

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o far we have had a dry winter; no snow or rain to speak of although soil moisture is still good and deep from the rains we received in October.

However, we do have a lot of weeds and some cool season grasses started and when temperatures warm up we will have some green-up for a few days. Fortunately, the mountains have received a good amount of snow.

The old saying that “whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting” is true.

The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers have proposed new rule making for Waters of the US (WOTUS).

This proposed definition revision is intended to strike a balance between Federal and State waters and maintain the integrity of the nation’s waters in a manner that preserves the traditional sovereignty of States over their own land and water resources. Public comments on the proposed rule making are due April 15, 2019 and the proposed rule can be found at www.regulations.gov Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2018– 0149.

It is important that the sovereignty of the states over their water and land is being preserved and I encourage everyone to send in comments as this impacts our water use and rights and the use of our land. We know the other side certainly will comment.

There are a number of water bills in the NM Legislature, but as of this writing they haven’t made much progress. The Interstate Stream Commission and New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute will hold a series of water policy talks beginning March 8 to include drought, watershed management, water supply and demand, water conservation, water quality, and water planning.

A Water Initiative Spring Event between NMSU and stakeholders will be held March 20 to help solve New Mexico’s urgent water challenges. These and other events need to be attended by agricultural producers if we want to be at the table and have a say regarding these issues instead of being on the table consumed by others. Remember: whiskey is for drinking and water is worth fighting for.

We had a good turnout for the Legislative Board Meeting on February 18 and 19 in Santa Fe and our legislative team and I appreciate you taking the time to attend this and the committee hearings in the Roundhouse.

Roundhouse feed is on March 14 and the legislative session ends on March 16. Randell Major will bring us up to date on legislative bills in next month’s letter.

Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

Adios for now,

Tom Sid we l l

Tom Sidwell

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TO THE POINT

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

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ith just over two weeks left in the 2019 New Mexico Legislature, there is plenty of uncertainty. There seems to be no stopping some of the more frightening bills. It is critically important that everyone respond to calls to action in coming days.

Numerous measures will dramatically impact nearly all the sectors of the economy that support the state, the nation and most importantly to us, rural economies. Indeed, New Mexico In Depth, a more liberal news outlet, recently ran a story entitled “Life After Coal: San Juan Miners, Economists Wonder What’s Next” by Elizabeth Miller.

It is a tale of a miner’s journey to the Roundhouse to lobby on behalf of his job and the numerous others in his region. He faces the end of his job sometime before the San Juan Generating Station shuts down in 2022.

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What Comes Next…

According to the article, PNM announced plans to close the plant well before its anticipated decommissioning date of 2053, ostensibly because coal-fired power is no longer cost-effective. Nor will that plant allow PNM to comply with increased renewable power requirements lawmakers are contemplating.

Whether PNM replaces coal with a natural gas plant or goes all-in on solar, both see major job losses as they move from construction to maintenance. The plant’s closure is expected to cost 450 jobs, with substantial ripple effects. San Juan County, San Juan Community College and the Central Consolidated School District are projected to lose nearly $9 million in property tax revenue.

Already, the Farmington area has weathered unemployment rates at or above 10 percent in the last decade. Locals report a

sluggish home market and friends underwater in their mortgages.

The aspiration is to replace hundreds of high-paying jobs in a short span of time in a region where economic opportunities are sparse. But it’s like the miner said: It’s assembling a parachute after you’ve leapt from a traveling plane.

San Juan County is not the only place local communities will suffer. Mining legislation threatens to do the same in Grant County.

Numerous oil and gas bills will impact Southeastern New Mexico.

It is baffling that those who worship the Earth don’t understand that it is the Earth that gives us the resources we need to live.

Additionally, it is those resources that provide the basis for our economy.

Meanwhile down at the border…

Ranchers in New Mexico and Arizona continue to plead for a safe and secure environment for their families. The confusion between illegal immigration and a safe and secure border continues to reign.

On the New Mexico side the Cattle Growers’ (NMCGA) have implemented an offense strategy on Twitter and Facebook.

Those avenues have garnered national attention, with President Trump tweeting

out an Albuquerque television report that told the real story about what life is like along the border.

The reaction here at home wasn’t what we might have hoped. In order to clarify the need for safety NOW, the following policy statement has been crafted: New Mexico and Arizona border ranchers have serious security concerns on the Mexican border that reach well beyond immigration and border wall issues.

The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association has had a member murdered on the Arizona side. Another member had an employee kidnapped, beaten and held for days at gun point. No one is safe without a gun moving around their home, barns, corrals and pastures.

Ranchers empathize and sympathize with those who are seeking asylum. Historically the practice on border ranches was to provide food and water for folks coming across the border. Today that is not safe due to the size and number of groups along with the volume of drugs coming across the border.

But while immigration and the wall dominate the nation scene and media, we here at home must have safety and security for our children, families and property.

Concerned citizens of United States/ Mexico border counties are hosting a public meeting on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 1 pm at the United Methodist Church in Deming, New Mexico. The increase of illegal immigrants and drug/human smugglers from Mexico continues to create a common fear among border residents for their safety and the safety of their loved ones.

Pleas for help from not only Washington, but state governments as well, are falling on deaf ears. That, combined with false coverage by mainstream media, has border county citizens fed up. Presentations will be made by a diverse group of industry experts and border residents that have been involved with this ongoing issue for years.

Topics to be covered include health and safety issues, drug and sex trafficking, and animal disease contamination. It is the hope of the planning committee that this meeting will bring the safety and security concerns from those residing in every border county along the United States/ Mexico border to the general public’s attention.

In addition to the general public, other invitees include elected officials from local, state and federal agencies, as well as several media outlets. Work is underway to set up

live streaming of the meeting on Facebook and YouTube. Watch them and your emails for more details on that.

In March 2016 NMCGA members in the Bootheel held a similar gathering in the tiny hamlet of Animas, drawing hundreds of people from across the nation. Unfortunately, the only federal elected official who at tended was then Congressman Steve Pearce.

In southern Arizona a group of ranchers are exercising their First Amendment rights in seeking a redress of grievances from their senators and congressman, according to a post from the Tucson People for the West chapter.

These ranchers must deal everyday with illegal crossings and lack of proper infrastructure that would make our southern border more secure. Unlike politicians spouting talking points, these ranchers have first-hand knowledge of what is really going on along the southern border. The federal government is failing to adequately protect the private property rights of these ranchers.

One of the ranchers, Jim Chilton, has a ranch which lies south of Arivaca, Arizona, and extends to the Mexican border. On the ranch, the Mexican border is marked by a

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four-strand barbed wire fence. That’s all. equipped cartel scouts on top of our Therefore be it resolved, Border ranchThere are many trails from the border mountains to successfully direct drug and ers petition our government to construct through the ranch. Two years ago, Jim set human trafficking; an adequate security barrier such as a Bolup cameras on two of the trails. During that Whereas, although the Tucson Station lard-style fence at the border, good time the cameras captured approximately Patrol Agent-in-Charge and Border Patrol all-weather, well-maintained roads leading 500 trespassers going both north and south. agents try their best to do their job, the lack to the border and along it, adequate, Jim suspects he has recorded drug smug- of access and infrastructure, cartel scout modern flood gates at water crossings, glers. The ranch headquarters has been presence, and rough terrain and inefficient appropriate surveillance technology to burglarized twice and often water supply “Defense in Depth” strategy creates a de monitor Border Patrol personnel and pipes to stock tanks have been broken. The facto “no man’s land” in which border border status, air mobile support, and relismugglers have free run of the ranch ranchers live and work; able communications for Border Patrol because there is no real barrier.

Whereas, the national Border Patrol agents to call for back-up, and forward Their Petition reads: Council Vice President, Art del Cueto, has operations bases near the border barrier to Whereas, one of the most active drug asserted on national television that under effectively secure the international boundsmuggling and human trafficking corridors the present situation, no more than 50 ary between Nogales and Sasabe, Arizona. in the Nation is the international boundary percent of illegal crossers are apprehended; The petition is signed by these ranchers: between Nogales and Sasabe, Arizona; Whereas, Border Patrol agents are Jim Chilton, Chilton Ranch; Tom Kay, Jarillas Whereas, 25 miles along the border headquartered in Tucson, eighty miles and Ranch; John R. Smith, Arivaca Ranch; Ted area south of Arivaca is marked by only an three hours from the border on our ranches Noon, Oro Blanco Ranch; and Lowell Robold four-strand barbed wire cattle fence; and there are no roads paralleling the inson, Tres Bellotas Ranch.

Whereas, the Sinaloa Cartel has control border and no efficient north-south access of this 25-mile international boundary and for the Border Patrol to respond to Electric cars, taxes & road repair… of the thousands of square miles of mini- incursions; and U.S. roads and bridges are in abysmal mally patrolled ranchland adjacent to it Whereas, current “defense in depth” shape—and that was before the recent inside the United States, due to lack of ade- strategy means the Tucson Station Border winter storms made things even worse, says quate border infrastructure, the Border Patrol agents are dispersed across the 4,000 Jay L. Zagorsky, “The Conversation”, in a Patrol has been largely restricted to a square miles of area of responsibility and RouteFifty post.

“Defense in Depth” strategy which is ineffi- are operating in the “backfield” instead of In fact, the government rates over cient due to rough terrain and inadequate operating on the 25 linear miles of the one-quarter of all urban interstates as in fair access and allows the presence of well- actual border; or poor condition and one-third of U.S.

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bridges need repair.

To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state and local governments rely on fuel taxes, which raise more than $80 billion a year and pay for around three-quarters of what the U.S. spends on building new roads and maintaining them.

The yield from these taxes is shrinking.

Cars and trucks get better gas mileage than ever, thus reducing the amount of taxes paid. Then you throw electric cars in the mix.

Presently there are no taxes on the electric charging stations, already in place and those proposed. Nothing is going to road maintenance of those electric vehicles. As the growth of the electric car market continues, road problems will only get worse.

Charging stations operate just like gas pumps, only they provide kilowatts of electricity instead of gallons of fuel. While electric vehicle owners are free to use their own power outlets, anyone traveling long distances must use these stations. And because charging at home is a hassle— requiring eight to 20 hours—most drivers will increasingly choose the convenience and speed of the charging stations, which can fill up an EV in as little as 30 minutes, thinks Zagorsky.

One option could be for governments to tack on their taxes to the bill, charging a few extra cents per kilowatt “pumped into the tank.” Furthermore, I would argue that the tax—whether on fuel or power— shouldn’t be a fixed amount but a percentage, which makes it less likely to be eroded by inflation over time.

On the subject of taxes…

HB 206, a massive new tax bill in the New Mexico Legislature, has passed its first committee. Given the time left in the Session, the chances of this bill making it all the way through the House and the Senate are not great. However, some legislation can grow legs and make a run for sine die. Don’t count this one out yet.

Congratulations are in order!!!

The New Mexico Beef Council’s Dina Reitzel has been appointed to the New Mexico State University Board of Regents!

It appears she will be confirmed by the New Mexico Senate well before the end of the Session and will be representing agriculture soon.

Please join us in extending congratulations to Dina!

Call now to have a look...

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Some of you have had the pleasure of meeting Abby. Most of you who have were afraid of her. She was just doing her job – protecting me.

Abby was born in June of 2005. She came to me from Dr. Steve England and his bride Pam a couple of months after my beloved Betsy left us.

Abby was never a people person dog and she made it perfectly clear that you were never to enter my personal space… like my office or front door. In my nearly 12 years with her, she never bit anyone, but she let you know she would and could if she chose.

Abby was an activist. She had her own Gmail account and often commented on the issue of the day. She was particularly interested in ranching, private property rights and the ability to use federal and state trust lands.

Abby, suffering from liver cancer, left us peacefully on February 17, 2019 at Red Doc Farm near Belen, where she lays at rest.

Bullet is very sad and misses her terribly. If all goes as planned, he will be joined by an Auggie baby sister in late March.

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Featured sires of the bulls selling:

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AHA 43553467 • Scurred JCS Icon 4641 x LJR MSU Whitney 182Z (Whitmore 10W) $16,000 featured high selling bull in our 2017 Bull Sale to Burns Farms and Langford Herefords. Four full brothers sell March 29!

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Greetings from our outfit to yours!

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oy, the last month went fast. It is now February. Winter is fading and spring won’t be far off. Some people are starting to get some calves and others are waiting for a little warmer weather. Whatever your program, I hope the light birth weight bulls work and everyone has a good spring.

Valentines Day is past. I have a very special husband who took me out to a nice restaurant for a nice Beef Steak. We have a Beef Promotion for Mothers Day and Fathers Day, so why not have a Beef Promotion for Valentines Day too.

Watching the news lately is somewhat discouraging both on a State level and on the banks of the Potomac. There are some really scary things going on. The push to

stop trapping is on the agenda again. If the leftist democrats get this passed hunting will be next.

In DC, the newly elected Legislators are making quite a splash. They are all talking about the “Green New Deal” under the cloak of saving the environment they have thrown in a blueprint to full blown Socialism. If it wasn’t so serious it would almost be funny. Some of their goals are getting rid of all fossil fuels in 12 years, converting all of the structures in the United States to energy efficient, meaning everyone has to convert to solar, I guess, and lastly doing away with air travel and REMOVING cows from the environment. Instead of air travel, we are going to have fast speed rails. Not sure how that is going to work if you want to go to Hawaii. They haven’t said what was going to power this fast speed rail.

I wonder how many solar panels it is going to take to move a hundred-car freight train? Maybe they will use wind. There is definitely enough wind in DC to move something. I’m not sure they have thought this one clear through. Besides free healthcare, free college, and a guaranteed wage if you can’t or are “unwilling” to work, well by golly we will just give you the money.

Yep folks, there are people that stupid and

most of them are running this country.

Charity Saulsberry and I recently went to New Orleans for the American National Cattlewomen’s Association annual meeting.

The meetings were great. The speakers were great even though the news is somewhat discouraging. The people of ANCW and NCBA are working hard on our behalf and our industries behalf. So, I feel we need to continue to support them. If you are not a member of ANCW, I would encourage you to become one. Thank you New Mexico CowBelles for making it possible for us to attend this convention.

AgFest was a big success. We had our new banner displayed with our new logo.

We handed out beef jerky samples. I ordered 300 samples and they were gone in one hour. Of course, we had other literature and were able to continue to talk to people about our product and industry.

Stephanie Avent, I couldn’t have done it without your help.

Ladies, District Workshops are happening March 19 through March 22, 2019.

Specifics can be found on the newmexicocowbelles.org web page. It is my hope that all locals will have at least one representacontinued on page 20 >>

Registered Angus Bulls Available at the Ranch

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dation donation card, designating Mesilla Valley Woman’s Agriculture Scholarship on donation card/check. If interested in donating, Gretchen has a couple of brochures or go to lcpsfoundation@lcps.net. Upcoming dates to remember for NMCB: March 15 – Man of the Year nominations; April 15 – Pat Nowlin Memorial Scholarship applications.

For nominations for either, please let Gretchen know ASAP. District Workshop: For District I and IV, meeting will be in T or C on March 21, 2019 (see flier forwarded in email). Registration fee is $30 per person, payable in advance or at the door. Ag Day – University Hills – Mary Esther will check with Alicia Alba for dates; More to follow.

Upcoming events include LCPS Calendar Art Contest and Mid-Year meeting in June.

Dues are due ($30). Please send check to Janet Witte. Next meeting tentative for March. Meeting adjourned @ 7:15p.m. Submitted by Gretchen Lindsay

tive at their respective workshop. I’m hoping to see you then. Until next month, may God Bless you all!

Respectfully submitted by, Nancy Phelps

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Mesilla Valley CowBelles Minutes of the Meeting for January 30, 2019: Nopalito’s Restaurant – Six members present – Guest speaker, Michael Ray Valenzuela, Las Cruces Public Schools Foundation. Mr. Valenzuela presented an overview of the foundation.

The foundation offers 16 scholarships for LCPS graduating seniors. One particular scholarship Mr. Valenzuela focused on is the Mesilla Valley Woman’s Agriculture Scholarship. This was created in collaboration with a consortium of female Mesilla Valley Farmers. It’s intended to provide one $250 (non-renewable) scholarship each year to a graduating female senior from LCPS district who plans to attend NMSU during the fall 2019, enrolling in some type of Agriculture related degree. He requested help from Mesilla Valley CowBelles in spreading the word throughout the community for awareness and donations to this scholarship.

Donations can be made through the foun-

Chamiza CowBelles – February 7, 2019.

Because president, Jeni Neely, was detained, the meeting was called to order at 12 noon

by Vice President Sherry Ibarra with 11 members present. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved. The treasurer was absent from this meeting.

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Krystie reported first deadline for scholarship applications in the high school is March 27. Applications for the CowBelles’ scholarship will need to be in this first group to score them at April meeting and choose an applicant to submit to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship. Krystie will also submit information via the internet in hopes of contacting any home-schooled seniors who wish to apply.

Nancy reported that Ag Fest went well in Santa Fe. She ordered 300 beef jerky samples. There were so many attendees that the samples were gone in the first hour.

She also gave a brief rundown of trip to ANCW in New Orleans. Lengthy discussion took place regarding upcoming combined District I and District IV meeting. Krystie and her mother-in-law will prepare most of the food but local members were asked to bring desserts. Krystie has tablecloths and table decorations formerly used in a function at her work and will donate the use of them for this meeting. Cathy contacted Tractor Supply who has agreed to donate 50 gift bags. Farm Bureau has agreed to donate “goodies” to help fill the bags and Canyon CowBelles will also bring gift bag items. At the next meeting, group will decide on whether or not to purchase beef jerky for the gift bags. It was suggested to

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After Secretary and Treasurer reports were read, Maggie distributed the RGCB custom t-shirts orders placed last fall. Under Old Business, the cookbook project was solidified with Linda Ritter agreeing to chair the committee which would include Rebecca Moeller and Tana Hudson. Under New Business, the RGCB agreed to host a “Beef for Father’s Day” event. That committee would consist of Annette Hitchcock, Coleen Donaldson and Linda with Rebecca as chair.

Maggie requested that members volunteer to attend the District meeting in her place and several thought the date of March 21

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would work for them. Maggie adjourned the January meeting at 7:40 p.m. The next meeting would be February 21 but a report would not be available for the March edition of “Jingle Jangle”. Meanwhile, the Cookbook committee met February 4 at Mike Hudson’s Farm Bureau Insurance office. Linda found a user friendly on-line publisher to work with and advised that sample cookbooks were on the way to her.

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California Town Launches ‘Goat Fund Me’ for Fire Prevention

appropriations process to find the money. clude, including financing a public There’s a collaborative group in place demonstration of the grazing herds in a mulling options for fire prevention mea- local park. Twenty-eight goats were sures, she added, but rentable goat herds deployed to thin out heavy blackberry book up quickly, and the city risked missing bushes, penned in by an electric fence and the opportunity to clear the land ahead of easily visible to the public. The reaction was this year’s fire season. largely positive, Senum said, aside from a “They’re still in the meeting stage. They few residents whose dogs had run-ins with

by Kate Elizabeth Queram, have another meeting set up for May 1, but the fence (all are fine).

Staff Correspondent, www.routefifty.com the weather could be heating up by then.

The long-term goal, Senum said, is to acing the threat of another fire season, We have to move faster than that,” she said. identify stable revenue sources to release officials in a small town in northern “Time is of the essence. I could not think of goats onto city-owned land each year. The California are turning to a solution that any other way that I could make this happen city put out a request for proposals to area is both modern and retro: harness the any faster.” ranchers and grazers and will prioritize bids power of crowdThe city’s regulations at a council meeting later this month. Over funding to call in allow for the move, as time, the process will hopefully reduce the the goats.

Officials from Nevada elected officials are pro- risk of wildfires while giving the local Thus was born hibited only from using economy a boost, Senum said.

“Goat Fund Me,” a City are crowdfunding crowdfunding to finance “It’s a great opportunity to build our local fundraising campolitical campaigns. The economy around forest restoration,” she paign to secure the rental of a grazing goat campaign, so far, has said. “Our goal is to get those 450 acres rented herds of raised $24,665 of its grazed over the next three years, and set goats to munch $30,000 goal. Many of the precedent that this is what we do, over herd to eat flammable o n f ire - p ro n e those donations are and over again, every single year as long as underbrush on plants on city-owned land.” from local residents, we’re here.” land owned by though others came Nevada City, a 3,100-population town from out of the state and country as news about 60 miles northeast of Sacramento. of the Goat Fund Me spread.

The town, surrounded by a patchwork of City officials have taken some action national forest land and privately held while they wait for the fundraiser to conproperty, owns 450 acres of open space.

The fundraiser’s target of $30,000 will pay rental fees for herds of grazing goats to tend to the most vulnerable 30 acres, much of it along the Deer Creek Environs Trail.

“It’s a creek that goes right through the heart of Nevada City, and it’s the No. 1 fire danger in the entire county,” said Reinette Senum, the city’s vice mayor. “There’s tons of camps, and we get afternoon winds that come up, so if there’s ever a fire—and there has been—it’ll go right into the heart of our town.”

Grazing herds of goats lessen that risk by eating fire-prone underbrush, mostly blackberry bushes, Senum said. A herd of 200 goats can consume about an acre a day, with clean-up crews following along behind to complete the process.

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TTN: This is addressed to teenagers, CO2 accounts for 86.3 percent of all Greentuba players and grown-ups in the house gasses. Transportation (cars and news media who have gotten great trucks) amount to 33 percent of all fossil giggles out of the story that cow flatulence fuels used. is a danger to mankind!

What do we do with all this information?

It can be expected from those that have Eliminate non-essential herbivores? Startthe attention span of a Bartlett pear, but ing with elephants, buffalo, goats, horses, tuba players should know better. prairie dogs and termites. Next they begin Cows do not flatulate. to regulate our diet; no sugar, no organic Allow me to give you a lesson in bovine food (too inefficient) and how about trees? physiology. Cows are herbivores, vegetari- They absorb CO2 and produce Oxygen but ans. They live on grass. Cows are big. 1,000 what if we have too many trees and they lbs. Cows eat a lot of grass. They have four stomachs, the biggest is the rumen. The rumen’s job is to prepare grass and roughage to make it digestible by the other stomachs and the alimentary track. This is done by bacterial digestion and fermentation, and physical maceration.

Now, cows lead a fairly boring life. They graze and chew their cud. The cud is a baseball-size wad of chewed, swallowed, re-chewed, regurgitated, chewed and swallowed grass, ad infinitum. This cud is part of a magnificent digestive mechanism that allows cows and other ruminants to utilize fibrous vegetative material that is otherwise completely indigestible by simple-stomached animals like…people.

For instance, cows can derive nutritional benefit from lettuce! Who’d a thunk it!

People eat lettuce because it is the next best thing to eating nothing. If you wanna lose weight, the best way is to eat…(?). No, not lettuce, Nothing! But nobody wants to eat nothing, so they eat lettuce, which is the next best thing.

This whole issue involves Greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere. There are three; carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide.

METHANE comes from fermentation of organic breakdowns; compost in your flower garden, garbage dumps, rice paddies, wetlands, domestic and wild ruminants, and alcoholic beverages… agriculture produces 5.8 percent of all Greenhouse gasses.

CARBON DIOXIDE comes from fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, their energy production, transportation and use.

won’t let you cut them down? I can picture an army of bureaucrats regulating the use of gasoline, diesel, electricity, construction… wait a minute! They already do!

Back to Cow “Flatulations”; the methane that cows emit comes directly from the rumen. They belch it up. Not as funny, but at least now you know.

In the U.S., 30 million cows emit more methane than all the cars. 125 million cars produce more total Greenhouse gasses than cows. Which is worse for our environment? Hard to say which is more essential; agriculture or transportation? How long can you live without driving?

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NEWS UPDATE

by Bill Lucia, Senior Reporter, www.routefifty.com

Supreme Court Restrains States’ Power to Seize Property

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onstitutional protections against excessive fines apply to states in the same way they do for the federal government, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in mid February.

The decision came in the case of Tyson Timbs and a 2012 Land Rover LR2 v. State of Indiana. Timbs had his $42,000 Land Rover seized by the state after he sold less than $400 of heroin to undercover police.

In issuing the ruling the justices held that a clause in the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, protecting Americans against excessive fines, is “incorporated” against, or applied to, the states.

The clause was one of the last parts of the Bill of Rights the court had not incorporated against the states under the 14th Amendment.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg authored the opinion, which seven other justices joined. Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with the judgment, but wrote a separate opinion.

“In short, the historical and logical case for concluding Eighth Amendment that the Fourteenth Amendment incorprotections from porates the Excessive Fines Clause is overexcessive fines are enforceable w h e l m i n g , ” Ginsburg wrote. against the states the court “Protection against excessive ruled in an Indiana case.” punitive economic sanctions secured by the Clause is,” she added, “both ‘fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty’ and ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.’”

The trial court in the case ruled that the seizure of the Land Rover was “grossly disproportionate” to the gravity of Timbs’ offenses and unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment.

A divided state appeals court issued a similar ruling.

But the Indiana Supreme Court sided against Timbs and declined to review the vehicle forfeiture based on the excessive fines clause. It said the U.S. Supreme Court “has never held that the States are subject to” the constitutional provision.

The ruling vacates that state Supreme Court decision and sends the case back to that court for further proceedings.

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types of pollution discharges trigger the Clean Water Act. The issue reached the high court in two different cases: County of Maui, Hawaii v.

Hawai’i Wildlife Fund and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP v. Upstate Forever. The justices will hear the first one.

Both raise this critical question: If a pollutant travels through groundwater before reaching a federally regulated waterway, does the Clean Water Act apply?

The Maui case involves the discharge of municipal wastewater into injection wells.

Environmentalists allege the county needed a Clean Water Act permit for the discharges because the wastewater seeped through groundwater and ended up in the Pacific Ocean.

The Kinder Morgan case involves the

rupture of a gasoline pipeline in South Carolina. The fuel leaked into groundwater and reached nearby streams. The court has, so far, taken no action on the dispute and will likely resolve it after it decides the Maui case.

Circuit courts agreed with environmental groups in both cases that the Clean Water Act — which governs the discharge of pollutants from discrete “point sources” into “waters of the United States” — applies even when the pollution migrates through groundwater before reaching a waterway that is subject to federal jurisdiction (Greenwire, Dec. 4, 2018).

Proponents of that Clean Water Act interpretation, sometimes called the conduit theory, say excluding pollution-via-groundwater from the statute would amount to a huge loophole for

polluters.

Critics say the theory drastically expands the law to cover discharges of pollutants into groundwater, which is generally subject to state oversight.

Judges have gone both ways on the issue in different cases, and the Trump administration earlier this month urged the Supreme Court to step in to resolve the split.

Separately, EPA is working on an update to its own policy for discharges through groundwater (Greenwire, Jan. 4).

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he warden of the Oklahoma State of Gallup Police Chief Kelsey Pressley and Osborne agreed but asked to be allowed to Prison at McAlester described George asked for a ride out to the Osborne place. change clothes and pack some things.

Guy “Bud” Osborne as “a punk, a louse, Pressley didn’t know where Osborne lived Rowe agreed and followed the ex-con into a habitual liar and absolutely unreliable.” and suggested the agent try the Sheriff’s a bedroom in the small clapboard house.

Osborne was released from the Oklahoma Department. Rowe learned that Sheriff Dee Chief Pressley kept an eye on other Prison in October 1936 and arrested again Roberts was away from the office, fishing members of the family, including Bud’s in the spring of 1937 at Eufala, Oklahoma, near Ramah. He returned to the police 17-year-old wife, Betsy Louise. Pressley for auto theft. He soon escaped from jail department and Chief Pressley agreed to heard a shot and Bud Osborne suddenly and made his way to Pampa, Texas, where drive the federal officer. appeared in the doorway, a gun, a .32 he stole a car and headed toward New After asking around, Pressley learned caliber revolver, in his hand. The chief drew Mexico. Because his criminal activities took that Osborne’s small ranch was near Stink- his own gun but it misfired and Osborne him across state lines, Osborne became of ing Spring, 17, or so, miles south of town. fled out the back door and disappeared interest to the Federal Bureau of The chief found it with no trouble. Wes into some brush.

Investigation.

Osborne, his wife Ethel, and 13-year-old son, Agent Rowe made it to the yard in front Special Agent Truett E. Rowe, 33, worked J. W., greeted the officers in the door yard of the house where he dropped to his out of the FBI’s El Paso Field Office (which as Bud Osborne fled from the house to the hands and knees. He was losing a lot of at the time took in all of New Mexico). In late barn. Young J. W. went into the barn and blood. He asked the chief to get him to a May, 1937, Rowe learned that Bud Osborne told his uncle that Chief Pressley was hospital as soon as possible. Pressley and had a brother, Wes Osborne, living near outside with a man in a gray suit. Bud and Wes Osborne got the agent into the car and Gallup. The agent took a bus to Albuquer- his nephew walked out of the barn. Agent Pressley headed for Gallup. Later the chief que and then another one to Gallup.

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recalled hearing the agent plead: “Open the door and give me some air! For God’s sake, chief, give me some air!”

Pressley said all the windows were rolled down in his car and he was driving 80 miles per hour. At St. Mary’s Hospital, Sister Mary Carina, a nurse, declared the agent dead.

After he fled the house, Bud Osborne doubled back and took J. W.’s horse which was saddled and standing near the barn.

He mounted up and headed for a bluff called the Hogback west of Stinking Spring.

Undersheriff Dwight Craig heard news of the shooting. He recruited three Navajo trackers and along with Deputy Sheriff Lawrence “Bobcat” Wilson he headed for Stinking Spring in pursuit of the killer. They picked up Bud’s trail and were following it when Chief Pressley and Assistant Police Chief Les Mahoney arrived back at Wes Osborne’s house. The chief saw a rider herding cows along an arroyo and coming toward the house. Pressley, himself a cattleman, noticed that the drover’s stirrups seemed to be much too short, and they were; they’d been adjusted for use by Osborne’s 13-year-old nephew. The officers quickly drove their cars into the small herd

and Assistant Chief Mahoney pulled down on the rider with a shotgun.

“You aren’t as smart as you thought you were,” Pressley said.

“No, but I damn near got away with it,” Osborne said.

Federal Agents from El Paso, St. Louis and Kansas City converged on Gallup. They transferred Osborne from the McKinley County Jail to Albuquerque. At his trial in September, Osborne claimed the shooting was an accident. He said he’d dropped the gun as he and Rowe struggled, and it accidentally discharged. The jury didn’t buy it and on September 30, 1937, Bud Osborne was convicted of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison but was released in the late 1960s. Bud Osborne died in Dallas in 1975, thirty-eight years after he killed Truett Rowe.

Agent Rowe was born at Amity, Arkansas, and educated in Oklahoma City and Houston, Texas. He served in the army and with the Border Patrol before he applied to the FBI in 1934. Famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis (the man who led the hunt for John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and others) wrote on Rowe’s application: “Applicant has a natural investigative ability. [He is] a sharpshooter who is familiar with dangerous

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The FBI accepted Rowe in 1935.

On the day he died, Truett Rowe carried in his pockets and on his person an eightycent round-trip train ticket between Albuquerque and Gallup, $8.49 cents in cash and a loaded .38 caliber Colt revolver.

Agent Rowe was survived by his wife, Victoria. She received two checks from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: one for about $1,000 and a second for about $5,000. The money came from a fund made up of voluntary contributions by the 634 agents who made up the FBI in 1937. She also got a job as a secretary with the FBI field office in Chicago. Hoover said Agent Rowe’s death was an “...irreplaceable loss of a devoted public servant.” The agent was buried at Oklahoma City.

The FBI was created in 1908. Truett Rowe was the ninth agent killed in the line of duty, and the only FBI agent killed in New Mexico.

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A Guide to Anaplasmosis in Your Cow Herd

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naplasmosis is a wide-spread concern to the U.S. beef industry. Cattle in nearly every state are impacted by the blood-borne disease that with proper management can be controlled within your herd.

“With animal diseases like Anaplasmosis, it is very important for cattle producers to have a good working relationship with their veterinarians,” said Kevin Glaubius, Director of Nutrition at BioZyme® Inc. “Any medication for control of Anaplasmosis requires a Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD), only available from your vet.”

What is Anaplasmosis?

Anaplasmosis causes destruction of red blood cells by bacteria called Anaplasma marginale. Upon entering a susceptible animal, the anaplasma bacteria slowly invade the animal’s red blood cells, and after a brief incubation period, the animal’s immune system will try to destroy the bacteria. The animal’s body tries to rid itself of the infection, and doing so, the immune system inadvertently destroys the animal’s red blood cells.

There are two common ways the disease is transmitted. The first is through biological vectors like blood-sucking flies and ticks.

The second way is through contaminated equipment used for castration, dehorning, tattooing and tagging. While preventing parasites on your operation is unlikely, you can disinfect your equipment in between uses to ensure that the disease is not spread between animals between uses.

Once an animal is infected with Anaplasmosis, it becomes a carrier for life. Although younger cattle are less likely to show clinical signs due to their increased red blood cell production, they are still carriers. Older cattle are likely to show the following symptoms: weakness, loss of appetite and pale skin around the eyes, lips and teats. Later, the animal might become excited, show rapid weight loss or yellow-tinged skin. You might have heard Anaplasmosis referred to as yellow-fever or yellow bag due to the discoloration. The disease is often fatal in older cattle, so if you do suspect you have an infected animal, contact your veterinarian as soon as you can.

“Anaplasmosis has a very slow progression. A tick might bite an infected deer or

another infected cow, then later bite one of your cows. The cow’s red blood cells decrease meaning less and less ability to carry vital oxygen, but it might be months later before she shows any signs. And the younger the animal that is infected, the slower it impacts them because they are producing red blood cells much faster,” Glaubius said.

Prevention and Treatment Perhaps the most efficient way to prevent Anaplasmosis is through parasite control. Reducing biological vectors like flies and ticks can be effective through feeds and minerals that contain IGR, or controlling parasites with sprays, tags, or other control methods. You can also provide a medicated feed or mineral that includes Aureomycin, but remember, to work with your veterinarian to obtain a VFD for the medicated feed.

“We use Aureomycin as a control in our products. The vet still has to write a VFD, and likely still has to verify that you have Anaplasmosis or have had it in your herd so you can use Aureomycin,” Glaubius said.

Aureomycin in the VitaFerm® products in not intended for use in cattle that weigh less than 700 pounds. And, to be sure that

all cattle are getting the proper dosage, Glaubius said the antibiotic needs to be mixed in the feed at the proper dose and hand-fed daily as indicated on the VFD. The medicated mineral is not designed for freechoice feeding. As always read and follow label directions, including the instructions on your VFD and check with your veterinarian if you have questions.

If you do have a severely impacted animal, contact your veterinarian. However, the outcome for very weak and down cattle is usually death.

Where livestock exists, parasites will be present. However, you can work to reduce your likelihood of Anaplasmosis with a good veterinarian relationship and a high-quality mineral program.

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Have Democrats Declared a War on Cows?

by Michael Graham, www.starexponent.com

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eports of the death of America’s beef and dairy industries at the hands of the Green New Deal (GND) may be exaggerated, but both farmers and their Philly steak ‘n cheese eating fans have reason to be concerned about policies embraced by progressive Democrats.

Claims by some opponents of the #GreenNewDeal that it would mean an end of the cattle industry in America are inaccurate—for the simple reason that the GND doesn’t offer any specific policies. The legislation actually filed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) is merely a resolution declaring general goals and

directions, not specific laws and regulations. sector (14 percent).

However, the FAQ handout from OAC It’s simply impossible to move forward that originally accompanied the proposal on the GND agenda without a drastic was much more aggressive and, many impact on cattle-intensive industries like farmers fear, far more accurate about the beef and dairy.

GND’s goals.

And so Representative Earl Blumenauer It demands a “a greenhouse gas free (D-OR) has legislation targeting concenfood system,” and bemoans the fact that trated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) GND doesn’t call for an end to all GHG emis- for the alleged damage they are doing to sions because “we aren’t sure we can get the climate. rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.”

Eric Holt-Gimenez says the problem is Supporters of AOC argue that this FAQ “industrial overproduction of food—the document was mistakenly released, a work root cause of agricultural pollution, food in progress, and doesn’t reflect the imme- waste and greenhouse gas emissions.” To diate goals of the Green New Deal effort. discourage over-production, he suggests a However, what’s undeniable is that cows— “guaranteed minimum price for farmers,” and their gaseous emissions—are in the essentially an agricultural minimum wage crosshairs of the climate change activists’ paid by consumers to prop up inefficient, agenda. They have to be. smaller farming operations.

If advocates of the Green New Deal are And New Jersey Senator Cory Booker—a serious about getting close to zero emis- #GreenNewDeal supporter and candidate sions, or even a net-zero target using offsets, for president—stated flatly that the “devasthey have to confront the amount of green- tating impact” of emissions from the meat house gases coming from livestock. In the industry must end.

US, agriculture is responsible for about nine “The tragic reality is this planet simply percent of our emissions. But according to can’t sustain billions of people consuming the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture industrially produced animal agriculture Organization, livestock worldwide account because of environmental impact,” Booker, for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gases. a vegan, told VegNews magazine. “It’s just That’s more than the entire transportation not possible.”

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The media are downplaying the potenAnd Kansas cattle rancher Brandi Boston and Ted Lieu of Los Angeles. Ag jobs tial impact on the agricultural sector from Buzzard Frobose has written an open letter just aren’t a key part of their constituency. the Democrats’ newest policy initiative, to AOC explaining that American ranches “Iowa’s farms are family farms, and so accusing Republicans of exaggerating the “are producing beef in the United States when Washington talks about America case or conflating idealistic goals with real- more sustainably and efficiently than ever ‘getting out of the cattle business,’ it’s not istic policies. But ranchers and farmers have before—did you know that the U.S. pro- just a job. It’s a family,” Katie Olthoff of the gotten the message. duces nearly 20 percent of the world’s beef Iowa Cattlement’s Association told “You may think the #GreenNewDeal is with only nine percent of the world’s cattle? InsideSources. some far-out nutcase dream, but if you’re “I beseech you to please have a conver“About 10 years ago, my husband and I involved in agriculture you’d better view it sation with your constituents and made a huge investment in order to farm. as a threat to your entire way of life,” Texas colleagues that have an agriculture back- Our dream was to be able to raise our kids, rancher Casey Kimbrell tweeted. ground,” Frobose writes. “Cows are not to live in rural Iowa, to live this lifestyle.

Sara Place of the National Cattleman’s the problem.”

When I hear about proposals and regulaBeef Association says the Green New Deal But AOC, who represents Queens, New tions that threaten us, I do get emotional,” “highlights the large divide between people York, doesn’t have a lot of “constituents Olthoff said. that are interacting with the environment with an agricultural background.” Neither “This isn’t about shutting down an indusand growing food every day, and those that do many of the congressional co-sponsors try. It’s about a way of life.” are concerned about environmental issues, of the GND who are from urban districts, but ignorant.” like Representative Ayanna Pressley of

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Environmental Group Has Sued Trump More Than 100 Times

by Jason Hopkins, Energy Investigator, Daily Caller

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he Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is reporting an enormous amount of lawsuits leveled against President Donald Trump since he first entered office.

The Tuscon-based environmental orga-

nization has filed a total of 106 lawsuits against the White House, according to its website’s “Trump Lawsuit Tracker.” The lawsuits, which mostly target Trump’s environmental and energy agenda, average about one per week.

“The Center for Biological Diversity is resisting Trump in every way possible — especially in the courts,” an excerpt of the group’s website reads. “From the moment he took office, our lawyers have been working feverishly to oppose every attempt he’s made to worsen climate change, kill wildlife, endanger public health and

destroy public lands.”

The green group has no plans of slowing down its judicial war with the Trump administration.

The CBD filed a lawsuit in mid-February in the District Court of Washington, D.C., arguing that Trump exceeded his executive authority by circumventing Congress and declaring an emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border. The emergency declaration allowed him to secure billions more in funding to build a wall.

The environmental group also argues that Trump’s use of the National Emergencies Act is illegal in using it to fund his policy goal.

The CBD is joined by numerous other left-wing group and Democratic attorney generals in trying to strike down the emergency declaration in court. A coalition of 16 states sued the president three days later.

The lawsuit, led by the State of California, was filed in the Federal District Court in San Francisco.

“Contrary to the will of Congress, the president has used the pretext of a manufactured ‘crisis’ of unlawful immigration to declare a national emergency and redirect federal dollars appropriated for drug interdiction, military construction and law enforcement initiatives toward building a wall on the United States-Mexico border,” a portion of the lawsuit reads.

The CBD has long targeted Trump’s plans for the southern border. The group filed a lawsuit alongside Arizona Democratic Representative Raul Grijalva, who is currently the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, in April 2017 against the president’s proposed border wall and other immigration enforcement efforts.

That lawsuit is still pending.

Grijalva has long been a supporter of CBD.

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VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE

by Barry Denton

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ew Mexico Governor Michelle Grisham states “NM will not take part in the President’s charade of border fear mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard Troops.”

Governor Grisham is withdrawing all but 11-15 of 80 National Guard troops stationed on the border by former NM Governor Susanna Martinez. She did this in spite of last week’s drug bust of four smugglers with 136 lbs. of marijuana by National Guard Troops in a helicopter, in a remote area on the southwest NM border.

However, what is even more incredible are the stories of rancher’s who live in that area. According to NM rancher Lawrence Hurt of Hurt Cattle Co., Hachita, NM the biggest challenge of ranching in that area is personal safety from drug smugglers.

Mr. Hurt stated, “We have to carry weapons at all times to protect ourselves.”

Please tell me how much concern Gov-

ernor Grisham has for Mr. Hurt and other ranchers in that area. I would venture to say none. I guess the drug smugglers are not threatening Governor Grisham’s life or destroying her property each day, so she is not concerned with a few ranchers. That is a pretty arrogant attitude for a politician that you pay to help you in times of crisis.

AZ Governor Doug Ducey created the AZ Border Strike Force to specifically crack down on drug & human smuggling at the border. Governor Ducey stated that two thirds of AZ’s border has some kind of wall or physical barrier, but “there are other places that you go and can walk right across…and that’s a real concern for me.”

When asked if the border situation was a crisis the AZ Governor responded, “If the definition of a crisis is something that is unstable, and where there is a danger, we certainly have that. Look at the drug trafficking, human smuggling, and child sex trafficking.”

According to Judicial Watch, John Ladd is one of many ranchers in the southeastern corner of AZ. More than a half million illegal immigrants have been apprehended on his land alone and he has also discovered fourteen dead bodies. Ladd said that 70 percent of the traffic coming through his ranch is

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human smuggling and 30 percent is drug smuggling. Ladd has traveled to Washington seven different times, but government officials have done nothing. Is this how a rancher in the United States of America should have to live? Why can’t the United States protect rancher John Ladd and others like him?

National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd spent a large part of his career with the agency patrolling this exact area and he knows it inside and out. According to Judd, it has gotten much worse in Ladd’s area and more violent.

On a more personal note, I have friends that live in Patagonia, AZ, which is also close to the border. They work in Tucson and stay there Monday through Thursday. Then they come back home Thursday night through Monday morning. Three different times they have come home to a house full of illegal aliens. They are illegal in more ways than one. Numerous other times they have been broken into.

This just seems insane, because some of our leaders in Washington and in our state houses think it’s more important to have labor and votes, than safety. Next time you are at your local Chamber of Commerce meeting see what their take is on illegal immigration.

The Chamber of Commerce is one influential lobbying group that is a likes to look the other way when it comes to illegal immigration. The United States Congress seems to fail us all because they just will not do much about it. In the meantime the border rancher is being overrun with criminals.

It is almost laughable that any eastern pundits or politician would have any idea about what goes on at our border. Our ranchers and other good citizens have to live with the crime at our border, they cannot just talk about it. The politicians and pundits certainly have their comments about something they can have no knowledge of. Even if they talk to the residents and the Border Patrol, they never seem to hear what is being said.

Today our Pres. Donald Trump got some of the money for his wall, more surveillance, and more manpower, but he intends to declare a national emergency to get the rest of the money for this project. If you don’t think the wall works, then check out last year’s 1128 murders in Juarez, Mexico to 26 murders in El Paso, TX, just on the other side of the wall. I still find it difficult to believe that the US Congress is against defending America’s borders. Hopefully, soon there will be help on its way.

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COLLECTORS CORNER

by Jim Olson

Fake Indian Jewelry

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serious issue facing buyers and col- by selling products they knew were lectors of Native American jewelry is imports as the real thing. At least one the problem of imports and other has been convicted. non-Native items being sold as Native Anytime there is money to be made American made. In recent times, the “Al in selling desirable items, there are Zuni” bust (as it has become known) has always those who try to cut corners and been the latest “sting” operation to receive sell lesser products as the real deal. media attention. It seems law enforcement Greed is most always the motive. Today officials tracked a we are going to bunch of jewelry touch on one imported from the Real stones do not scratch se gment of jewelry which Philippines and is often found it intereasily and when a real spersed with “faked”—that of authentic items in “Native American stone scratches it is generally style” inlay jewelry. v ar i o us sh o ps more of a gouge ...”

Most Native across the Southinlay jewelry has west and elsewhere. The shops were all related in one traditionally come from the Pueblo of Zuni. way or another and several men were They became known as master lapidaries in arrested for blatantly deceiving the public the early days of Native jewelry production

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Philipino Insert – front and back

(the early 1900s or so) and they pioneered the inlay style of jewelry set in sterling silver, starting around mid-century. However, there is much more inlay jewelry made today than could possibly be produced in that one small community. To take up the slack and fill a need in the market, members of other tribes also produce inlay jewelry. Unfortunately however, inlay jewelry is also imported from over seas and mixed in and sold as Native made (as mentioned above).

This happens more often than you think.

A trained eye can usually spot the imports. However, sometimes it may not be easy to tell. Here are a few tell-tale signs to watch for if you are looking to purchase Native American style inlay jewelry.

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marks on it (this rule does not apply to older pieces made in the early 1970s or before).

Also watch for modern inlay with generic initials for hallmarks. Almost all modern artists use identif iable hall-

Rounded Fake Inlay with generic initials on back

marks. A lot of fakes either have no hallmarks (other than sometimes “sterling”) or have a generic initial like a “B” or a “C” etc..

Most of the early (1970s - 80s) imports had no hallmarks, but the devious sellers soon figured out people were becoming suspicious of that as most Native artists had started using hallmarks by then, so they began having the overseas shops put a hallmark on the items. Usually it was a single, generic letter. As time went on, folks became suspicious of those, so the importers started getting the stuff hallmarked with a couple of generic letters, such as “DD” or “YZ” and things like that. Not all generic initials are fakes, but if that is how an item is hallmarked, ask the seller for a reasonable assurance as to who it might be. There are sources out there to compare Import examples of known artist’s hallRing with marks and work. .925 stamp The use of a silver content hallmark of .925 instead of sterling also should raise a red flag. Native American artists almost always use the sterling mark instead of .925 to indicate the item is made using sterling silver (although both hallmarks actually mean the same thing). Some of the early imports used to come in with a .925 on them because that is what is commonly used to denote “sterling” in much of the world. Folks caught

onto that pretty quickly though and the importers soon had their stuff stamped with a sterling hallmark instead of a .925. If you ever see an inlay item marked with .925, be cautious. If you see one stamped “sterling,” but no maker’s hallmark, also be cautious.

A lot of fakes use “block,” synthetic or plastic materials instead of real stones.

Look closely (use a jewelers loupe if necessary). The scratches are a dead give-a-way on used items. Real stones do not scratch easily and when a real stone scratches it is generally more of a gouge, whereas fine scratches like you might see on a hard plastic child’s toy look differently—and that is what a fake “stone” or hard plastic scratches look like. The man-made stuff just looks different under magnification whether new or older. If the inlay is too rounded at the corners, or domed, that can also be suspect and is usually an indication of fake “stones.” Not all rounded corners are from fake inlay, but when “inlay” (ie: block or plastic) is actually a poured mold (which is common), it is most always rounded at the edges or domed overall.

Very fine and symmetrical silver pieces (spacers) separating the various stones should also be looked at closely. A lot of channel inlay with little, very fine silver pieces between them are machined, not handmade. These are actually inserts

Import Ring with .925 hallmark

of so-called channel inlay and they are set into ready-made settings just like a calibrated turquoise cabochon would be.

Unfortunately, some of this type of work is done at shops here in the Southwest as well.

It takes a trained eye to see the difference between those mass-produced inserts and a fine jewelers work.

In the case of figural inlay, look closely at the figures. The imports almost never get the people or animals right. The folks doing the work tend to depict people and animals as they see them in their culture. It is hard for someone overseas to see things through the same eyes as someone living in Western New Mexico, for example. The faces are usually a dead give-a-way.

Replication in pieces is also a big red flag.

If you see numerous inlay items that all look the same, over and over, in different sizes or slightly different styles, watch out. A true artist very rarely replicates the same item over and over (and handmade items always have slight variations from one to the next).

Artists may have a certain style they are known for and do it with regularity, but if you see a tray of rings, for example, that all look almost exactly alike and there are several in each size, that is a good indication of “shop” work (usually imported).

Of course there are exceptions to every rule and you should study the overall appearance of the item. For example, there is a particular artist who is well known for fine inlay work. However, there have also been import items made with his hallmark faked on them. A lady I know went to a Home and Garden show in Phoenix and bought a “hallmarked” piece from a fasttalking vendor who said it was the real deal.

That very same weekend, she went to an artisan’s fair in the area and just happened to stumble onto a booth where the real-life artist was selling his fine jewelry. She proudly showed her new piece to the artist, only to be embarrassed when he told her he did not make the item, it was an import.

The fakers are now even using hallmarks from known artists!

Older items from the early 1970s and before are not always hallmarked, so it is good to educate yourself about what you are buying and what it should look like.

Having a good, general knowledge is a must. That, and as always, you should deal with a reputable dealer who knows what they are selling and is willing to stand behind it—just in case they got it wrong or made a mistake. And remember, if a deal seems too good to be true, it usually is!

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Invasive Species Have Some States Seeking Increased Federal Partnership

by Dave Nyczepir, News Editor, www.routefifty.com

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tate wildlife officials recently called for increased partnership between federal agencies and state and local governments to better prevent, control and eradicate invasive species.

Invasive species are not native to the U.S., and when they infiltrate an ecosystem it can cause an array of problems, disturbing both the environment and local economies.

More than 5,000 invasive species now inhabit the U.S. causing about $120 billion in economic damage annually, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But the Invasive Species Advisory Committee, which provides recommendations to the U.S. Department of the Interior, recently concluded that federal agencies lack the authority to effectively combat that impact.

“As daunting as the task of managing invasive species can be, successful management is realistic and achievable through partnerships involving federal, state and county agencies; non-government organizations; land-grant universities; and, critically important, the private landowner,” said Slade Franklin, weed and pest state coordinator with the Wyoming Department of Agriculture.

Speaking before the Senate’s environment committee, Franklin detailed Wyoming’s struggles controlling cheatgrass, a weed that consumes large amounts of water, degrades soil, displaces vegetation, and fuels catastrophic wildfires. The state’s 50-year fire cycle has been reduced to three years with the spread of cheatgrass, he said.

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percent of those 12 million rangeland acres ened to destroy 35 thousand acres of had been invaded by cheatgrass, according wetlands within 50 years—resulting in $35 to the Bureau of Land Management. million in economic losses due to the Cheatgrass is a winter annual that dies damage to tidal fish and shellfish nurseries. and fuels the fire cycle just as Wyoming’s Because of “adequate funding and staff other perennials—which feed the endan- resources,” all known populations of nutria gered greater sage-grouse among other are gone and not a single one has been species—are greening. discovered in the region in several years, The National Interagency Fire Center Rogerson said. reported that 2017 wildfire firefighting Not all state officials at the hearing asked costs reached $2.9 billion across 10 million for increased federal funding and regulaacres—$290 per acre. Farmers can treat tions. Terry Steinwand, director of the North cheatgrass for a mere $60 an acre, Franklin Dakota Fish and Game Department, said his said, and they’re “passionate and financially agency was seeking more funding from the motivated.” state legislature through higher fishing Other efforts to tackle invasive species license fees because that’s a “primarily have recently gotten some congressional state role.” assistance. When Congress reauthorized If his agency has any challenge it’s that the Water Resource Development Act in of lacking the manpower for constant monOctober, lawmakers included provisions itoring of high-value, high-risk areas with targeting invasive species like Asian carp in certain invasive species, he said, but federal the Great Lakes. collaboration has never been an issue.

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican and the committee’s chairman, Republican, said that the reason his state also put forth the WILD Act with ranking might require less federal support is member Sen. Tom because there Carper, a Delaare fewer federal ware Democrat, lands there than More than 5,000 invasive which has passed i n W yo m i n g , the Senate and which is more species—from plants like contains addi than 40 percent tional measures cheatgrass to rodents like nutria— federal land. for combating Franklin said invasive species.

Wyoming would inhabit the U.S. causing about The bill would like to see parts require federal $120 billion in economic damage of the National agencies working Environmental on invasive Policy Act annually.” species projects to imp rove d to coordinate and offer grants to stakeholders remove categorical exclusions for new invafor innovative controls like smart fish sive populations and treatments. Approval passage systems and advance DNA detec- processes for new herbicides and other tion of invasives. management tools also vary in length Joe Rogerson, program manager for between federal agencies, which can slow wildlife species conservation and research control efforts. at the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife, “Some [agencies] can do that fairly said more federal financial support quickly,” Franklin said. “Some take several is needed. years and millions of dollars to do the risk “States currently don’t have sufficient assessment.” resources to tackle all of the threats outlined within their wildlife action plans, so we are unable to address threats facing fish and wildlife populations from invasive species,” he said.

One of the best examples of a federally supported eradication effort was the handling of nutria, a semi-aquatic rodent with large orange teeth native to South America, in the Chesapeake Bay region in the early 2000s, Rogerson said. A prolific breeder and voracious eater of grasses, nutria threat-

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Freeman Ranch Dominates at the National Western Texas Longhorn Show Colorado ranch wins grand and reserve championship titles at the prestigious National Western Stock Show.

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Freeman Ranch’s championship titles from the show include Grand Champion Non-Haltered Mature Cow, Grand Champion Non-Haltered Bull, and Reserve Champion Non-Haltered Steer.

In a close competition that judge Larry Smith called an “outstanding group of Longhorn females,” it was Freeman Ranch’s twelve-year-old Winning Smile who won her respective division and was ultimately crowned the Non-Haltered Mature Cow Grand Champion.

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Fifty won his division and the overall Non-Haltered Bull Grand Championship, making it the second bull in Freeman’s herd to win the National Western Grand Champion title.

To round out Freeman’s team of champions was Chicago 15/5, Reserve Champion Non-Haltered Steer.

As a longtime supporter and proud member of the National Western Stock Show, Russell Freeman considers it a great honor to win at this prestigious exhibit.

“The National Western is a cattleman’s show, not just show cattle. More real American and international cattle people walk through the yards during the National Western than all the other big

shows combined. To be able to participate at that level and bring home a championship is very humbling. I’m blessed to be part of it!”

Freeman Ranch acquired its first Longhorn cow herd in 2014, and since that time has built a solid and reputable operation providing the Longhorn industry and its clients with superior quality and genetics.

Freeman has a strategic and proven approach to creating champions.

“We select our foundation stock based on a beef cattle phenotype,” says Freeman. “Frame size and muscular expression are important, mixing in rapid horn growth and you have a chance of creating a winner.”

This is the 43rd annual Texas Longhorn show held during the National Western, starting in 1975 with a National Championship steer show.

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Kevin Mills, senior vice president of policy for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, concedes as much.

But, after more than 18 months of analysis and discussions, his organization believes it’s a feasible idea. “We’re confident that this is something we can do,” Mills said during a phone interview.

“It will take some effort over a period of year s to b r in g i t to g e th e r o f course,” he added.

The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy was founded in the 1980s. Its mission is reflected in its name: it works to convert unused railroad corridors, and other spaces, into public trails. The idea of a transcontinental path has been alive within the organization since its early days, Mills said.

It wasn’t until the past couple of years, though, that the conservancy began to look more closely at the idea. Mills explains that part of what it was waiting for was enough segments of trail to be completed around the U.S. to potentially make up about half of the route, a threshold the group says has now been reached.

Examples of these existing segments include the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park trail, which runs about 185 miles between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Maryland.

To the west, there is also the Ohio to Erie Trail, which spans about 270 miles between Cincinnati and Cleveland. Shorter offerings were built too, like the Casper Rail Trail in Wyoming, a six-mile connector in one of the Cowboy State’s largest cities.

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options for incorporating into the nationwide route, including the 212-mile Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail, in Washington state — envisioned as the national trail’s western terminus.

Come May, the group intends to release more details about its plans, including a finished “needs assessment” and a map with specific route options. After that, the conservancy will likely turn its attention to “catalytic projects” that could help fill in gaps between existing trails.

So far the conservancy doesn’t have concrete cost estimates or timeline goals it’s willing to share publicly. Mills described state and federal dollars are the most obvious funding sources for completing the trail, but noted that private money could also flow toward some segments.

Part of the group’s work involves communicating with state officials, often transportation and parks department heads, about the prospect of the trail, to gauge and build political will.

“Typically people are impressed with the vision and they want to be part of it,” Mills said.

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The conservancy is trying to plan the route so it maximizes the amount of trail built upon old railroad rights of way, which tend to have gentle grades, rather than steep hills. But it could traverse other types of land. Surfaces would likely be pavement, crushed limestone, or gravel.

If the project comes together as it’s tentatively imagined a person on a mountain bike, or road bike with wider tires, would be able to ride from the D.C. metro area, to Washington state, while avoiding the stress and risks of busy roads. Mills acknowledges that if the project moves ahead, there could be phases where it incorporates some road travel, before the entire trail is complete.

But why do it? Are that many people really clamoring to cycle from one coast to the other on a trail? Mills makes a few points here, some of which have to do with the different types of users.

Adventure tourism companies and others, he says, anticipate that there will likely be demand from riders interested in completing coast-to-coast rides, which raises the possibility of “eco-tourism,” and the boost it could provide to rural communities along the route.

And while some people might travel the route in one shot, others might do it in pieces, over several years, Mills added. This is similar to the way some hikers travel the Appalachian Trail.

But there’s also an expectation that the nationwide bike and pedestrian thoroughfare, if it does come to fruition, would be an asset for local users as well, who might choose to use it on the weekend or for a daily bicycle commute, with local trails serving as branch routes.

Mills likens it to the interstate highway system, which is used for both long and short-distance travel.

“Part of the reason why it’s going to work is because we’re getting richer and richer regional trail networks in all the towns along the route,” he said. “So what we see is this is kind of the spine.”

“If you think about it that way, where it’s part of a nationwide network that’s bringing greater connectedness and vitality to all of the regional networks along the way and that you’ll have users of all those sorts,” he added, “you start to get the feel for the why.”

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Selecting Sires, Balancing Budgets

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electing and purchasing herd sires is not a simple, split-second decision to be made in the heat of a bull sale, and the decision shouldn’t be taken lightly when bull selection accounts for more than 75 percent of a herd’s gene flow in just two generations. Prior to walking into a seedstock sale, commercial cattlemen should be informed and prepared, set a budget and, hopefully, stick to it.

In today’s market, a good rule of thumb is that five feeder calves is about equal to the value of one quality bull. But Stan Bevers, practitioner in ranch economics at the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management, cautions that, in a fluctuating market, that can be give or take. So before producers start guessing how much they should spend on bulls, they first need to know what they are looking for in a bull. That means understanding expected progeny differences (EPDs) and how they play into the producer’s operational goals, as well as developing a relationship with their seed-

stock supplier.

For commercial cattlemen, knowing what traits are necessary to improve their cow herd plays a vital role in choosing what breed of cattle will fit into their system. A producer also needs to consider their cattle’s end goal, such as if they are being kept for replacement heifers, or if their endpoint is weaning or backgrounding.

“Assessment of these factors will help point you to the best breed for your needs and the combinations of maternal, growth [and] carcass traits that best fit your operation and environment,” says Bob Weaber, Ph.D., professor and cow-calf Extension specialist at Kansas State University.

Weaber suggests using selection indexes as tools to point producers to the best overall candidates across a range of traits, making sure the index matches both production and marketing scenarios.

Seedstock suppliers should want to know their customer’s operational goals so that they can help them reach those goals, so developing a relationship with your seedstock supplier is helpful when it comes time to make such a big purchase.

“We can provide recommendations from our sale offering that help attain those goals,” Weaber says. “Once you receive our

sale catalog, make a short list of bulls, roughly three times more than you actually need to purchase, that f it your specifications.”

Bevers suggests that buyers call their seedstock supplier prior to the sale, because nobody knows the bull offering better than they do.

“Ask them if they think the bulls you have circled will fit. Ask them what they think,” Bevers says. “Get every piece of information you can.”

Aside from asking the seedstock supplier, it’s important for producers to understand how EPDs play into their herds’ genetic goals. Weaber says EPDs are the most effective tools available to describe the genetic differences between animals within and across herds.

“EPDs are much more effective genetic predictors than actual or adjusted performance records,” Weaber says. “If an EPD is available for a trait, it should be used instead of an animal’s own performance record for that trait.”

For example, Weaber recommends using Calving Ease (CE) rather than Birth Weight (BW), if available, to select bulls that minimize calving difficulty because CE EPD calculations include BW data and other

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To gain a better understanding of EPDs, Bevers encourages buyers to ask their seedstock supplier, county agent or local veterinarian for help.

When it comes to budgeting for herd sires, rather than asking the supplier what he thinks top picks will sell for, Weaber suggests evaluating the supplier’s prior year sale averages to get an idea of what to expect in terms of purchase costs.

“Building a budget is a difficult thing,” Bevers says. “From a rancher’s perspective, you’re trying to minimize what you spend because that’s what everyone has told you to do. But when you go look at what bull sales are, and all of a sudden they’re thousands more than they were a year ago, it makes a guy squeamish.”

When looking at where herd sire purchases fit into a budget, it’s often more of a question of where the purchase fits into the year’s cash flow. Bevers says he has observed that most ranchers look at what they spent the previous year, add a reasonable amount and hope they don’t go over it.

“Or, you can go through the math exercise and estimate that if you spend $1,000 more on one bull versus another and, say the first bull’s EPDs are putting him five pounds heavier than the contemporary, that’s five pounds at $2 a pound, that’s $10,” Bevers says. “If you know he’s going to do 30 or 40 calves per year, [that bull’s value] is worth more than the second bull.”

If a producer can do the math and evaluate the value of each bull they are looking at, it’s easier to assign a budget relative to

your operational goals and stick to it in the heat of the sale.

“When I used to buy various livestock, I had the catalog ahead of time, and I had my max that I was going to pay written beside them,” Bevers says. “In my mind, relative to what my budget is, I can only pay $7,500 for that bull.”

If it got past that amount, Bevers would wish the purchaser luck.

“And not because the bull’s not worth it,” he says. “That’s what the market says he’s worth today, but that doesn’t fit my goal as a cow-calf guy right now, including what my budget is.”

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oftentimes offer their best bulls near the front of the sale, although sometimes they do sprinkle higher quality bulls through the sale. So in theory, if a producer can be patient and wait until the end of a bull sale, he might be able to find some high-quality bulls for a lower price.

As producers prepare to select and purchase their next herd sire, Bevers and Weaber agree it’s not a decision to take lightly.

“Like most things in life, preparedness is the key to making an informed decision,” Weaber says. “In this case, an informed purchase.”

“While it seems like a simple decision, it can be pretty complex from the sustainability and perpetuity of a cattle herd; probably up there near the top of the most important things,” Bevers says. “If you want any type of genetic progression on your cow herd, my gosh, that’s an important decision to get the right animal.”

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very year the line just gets longer and longer,” observed a guest at AG Fest. The wait is worth it! Members of the NMBC served participants sliced beef sliders with all the fixins’ as each guest built their beef sliders according to taste.

The theme of the NMBC booth was, “Nicely done Beef. New Mexico Rancher’s and Farmer’s.”

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.”

1 CONGRATULATIONS N.M. BEEF PRODUCERS! ONE OF THE FIRST BILLS SIGNED IN THE 2019 N.M. STATE LEGISLATURE, IS THE N.M. “COUNCIL ASSESSMENT.” The assessment will provide additional funds to boost promotion, consumer information and research programs conducted by the N.M Beef Council (NMBC). Senator Pat Woods and Representative Candie Sweetser sponsored the key legislation, that will become effective July 1st, 2019.

Presenting the framed bill are Eva Woods, producer and wife of Senator Pat Woods, and Bill Gomez, past Representative and sponsor of the original bill. Receiving the gift are Caren Cowan N.M. Cattlegrowers’ Executive Director, Dina Chacón-Reitzel, NMBC Executive Director, and Matt Ferguson, NMBC Vice Chairman.

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4. Quick council huddle. L-R: John Heckendorn, Kenneth McKenzie, Marjorie Lantana, Susie Jones, Don Umbrage, and Zita Lopez 5. AgFest. Half the fun is the food, and the other half are the friends. Marjorie Lantana and Luis Montoya, say hello.

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Each day of the academy focuses on current methods and technology used in beef production. This event is under the direction of New Mexico State University of Extension Animal Sciences and Natural Resources, Texas Agri-Life Extension, and Colorado State University. The faculty of the academy consists of Extension Specialists and Professors from the three collaborating universities. The US Beef Academy was formed to provide a unique, intense educational experience for the students that attend.

Day one focuses on the consumer of beef and their desire to purchase a safe and wholesome product. Presenters will speak on food safety, proper cooking methods, how genetics and production methods can influence the quality of the product, and conduct a taste panel for the students to witness for themselves these differences can make on the final product. This day is sponsored by the New Mexico Beef Council. Day two focuses on animal health and (Above) 2018 U.S.B.A Students at NMSU Corona Ranch. welfare, with top(Right) Beef Day at U.S.B.A, 2018

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The USBA is truly a national and international program. In 2018, the roster included students from New York, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico. The USBA has hosted students from fourteen states and Mexico.

DVM John Wensel, NMSU CES says, “the opportunity for students to interact with others from outside their home area greatly enhances this educational experience and provides an opportunity for students to form lasting friendships with others that have different backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints of the beef production industry. The faculty of the U.S. Beef Academy are pleased that the future leaders of the beef industry will have received at least a portion of their knowledge in Corona, NM!” The academy has strong national corporate support including the title sponsor, Zoetis Animal Health, bag and book sponsor Zinpro Performance Minerals, and day sponsors; NM Beef Council, Zoetis Animal Health, Zoetis Genomics, ADM Nutrition IMI Global, and beef sponsor, Hurt Cattle Company of Deming, NM. If interested in learning more about USBA contact Dr. John Wenzel at jwenzel@ nmsu.edu, or 575-534-7562.

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For more information about your beef checkoff investment visit MyBeefCheckoff.com 2018-2019 DIRECTORS – CHAIRMAN, Tamara Hurt (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Matt Ferguson (Producer); SECRETARY, Zita Lopez (Feeder).

NMBC DIRECTORS: John Heckendorn (Purebred Producer); Jim Hill (Feeder); Kenneth McKenzie (Producer); Susie Jones (Dairy Producer); Marjorie Lantana (Producer); Dan Bell (Producer)

BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Bill King (Producer) FEDERATION DIRECTOR,

Tamara Hurt, NMBC Chairman

U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, Kenneth McKenzie

For more information contact: New Mexico Beef Council, Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Executive Director 1209 Mountain Rd. Pl. NE, Suite C, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505/841-9407 • 505/841-9409 fax • www.nmbeef.com

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he U.S. border with Mexico is just under 2,000 miles. Look at a land ownership of New Mexico and Arizona and you will see that much of that land is federally owned, which automatically involves federal lands ranchers in the many border issues currently being discussed.

What is it really like to ranch on this border today?

In a recent interview Russell Johnson, a fourth-generation rancher from near Columbus, New Mexico explained the problems he has experienced:

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People have broken into buildings and homes Cattle theft is a big issue since much of the border is only a barbed wire fence Vehicles have been stolen In instances where the illegal immigrants get lost or are forced to drop out of the group, they set grass fires to signal for help Fences that divide pastures have been cut Floats and water towers have been destroyed, draining water systems for cattle.

When entering the U.S. clips are removed and the wires are stood on for vehicles to pass, but if the Border Patrol is encountered they turn around and “just barrel through it.”

Eighty-three-year-old Warner Glenn’s family first moved to the Arizona-Mexico border area in 1896. Glenn says that while illegal immigration has always occurred in the area, the ones coming through now are “hard-core”, especially the “drug guys.”

Glenn tells CBN News that, if they go by a residence and “there’s nobody there, they are going to go in and look around. And firearms, top of the list, any kind of jewelry, top of the list, cash, top of the list…”

“We don’t lock the doors because they’d

entered the U.S. and traveled inland for twenty miles or so. The Border Patrol claims this is the most efficient and effective method of apprehension in these remote areas.

The combination of these two policies, driving illegal immigrants to remote areas but not interdicting them at the border, has left folks residing in these areas in a vulnerable situation. This is where we are seeing the reported thefts and vandalism perpetrated against the ranching community. In essence, the border has been moved inland, and these folks are suffering the consequences: homes being entered, vehicles stolen, cattle stolen, interior fences cut, water tanks destroyed and so on. Ranchers have been shot and a hired hand has been kidnapped.

Many of them are living in fear. Commissioner Edwards says, “…they shouldn’t have to live in fear that somebody is going to steal their vehicle or their four-wheeler or their horses, just because they live on an international border.” “Some of my residents go back and forth across the border because they actually have some family on the other side of the border, and they fear retaliation from the cartel if they cooperate and [try] to do something about the border

problem”, said Edwards.

These families, in essence, have been abandoned by their country and you can certainly understand why they believe this is an emergency. They are tired of living in an area that has been ceded to the cartels and have every reason to demand immediate action to resolve this untenable situation.

Until 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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ANIMAL & RANGE S C I E N C E S The Department of Animal & Range Sciences is part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences

Four on-campus animal facilities house: beeF CaTTle/horses/swine/sheep Students can major in Animal or Rangeland Resources and are provided with the very best of “hands on” academic instruction by our faculty. Fully equipped labs allow students access to cutting-edge research in: LIVESTOCK NUTRITION / GENETICS / PHYSIOLOGY / ENDOCRINOLOGY / MEAT SCIENCE / WOOL / TOXICOLOGY / WATERSHED & RANGELAND ECOLOGY / WEED & BRUSH CONTROL / PLANT SYSTEMATICS / GRAZING MANAGEMENT

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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just break the window anyway,” says Billy Grossman, another rancher in the area.

Grossman says illegal crossers have entered his home several times and he recently caught one trying to steal his pickup. After law enforcement arrived, Grossman found a bail of marijuana in the back of his truck and quite a few items that had been stolen from his home.

Matt Thomas, a Pinal County deputy, says, “They’ve gotten more advanced and there are more numbers. They set up their own networks now and they pretty much control the terrain and those networks.

They have good control of them visually which means that if we go in by air or by land they know that and so they can adjust they can shut down operations and they can maneuver around us.”

Joel Edwards, a County Commissioner in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, tells us pretty much the same thing. “The cartels have a lot of the latest technology; the people that are coming across, they have sophisticated communication equipment. They’re not just desperate migrants. These people are … up on technology, they’re up on weaponry. Their loads that they’re carrying are worth thousands and thousands of dollars.

They are protecting it because that’s how t h e y ’r e m a k i n g t h e i r m o n e y, ” Edwards explains.

This was all recently confirmed by reporters from KPHO who set out to see if there really were scouts for the cartels residing in the U.S. It didn’t take them long to find one, just south of Phoenix. One of the reporters actually entered one of their camps. He reports: “What I see amazes me. It’s like a small military forward operating base. I see gear boxes covered in camouflage material, bags shoved into cracks in the boulders, a kitchen with a stove set up under a rock overhang (I assume to avoid detection by helicopters) and solar panels set out to recharge the scouts’ electronic equipment.”

The ranchers and other inhabitants along the border have been put in this precarious situation by two different Border Patrol policies. One started in El Paso with Operation Hold The Line. Border Patrol agents were placed within eyesight of each other along the Rio Grande for the purpose of diverting illegal immigration from urban areas to the remote areas along the border.

This proved to be highly successful, for the urban areas anyway.

The exact opposite approach is used in the remote areas, where the policy is to interdict illegal crossers after they have

• The Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (The College Ranch) – 64,000 acre ranch just outside of Las Cruces • The Corona Range & Livestock Research Center – 28,000 acre ranch & facilities in Corona, NM • Student organizations, including a Block & Bridle Club, Pre-Vet Club, Range Club, Horsemen’s Association, Therapeutic Riding Club, & Judging Teams • Clayton Research Center hosts research on shipping protocols, particularly evaluating the health and performance of newly received cattle, and nutrition and management from feedlot to slaughter

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counterparts in the three bordering states.

These efforts have launched the first Texas-New Mexico Livestock Investigators conference in Ruidoso. This two-day training conference was held on February 12–13 and included many subjects related to agriNEW MEXICO culture crimes. Topics included groups LIVESTOCK active in agriculture crimes, livestock theft BOARD investigations, case reporting, joint intelliby Shawn Davis gence sharing and other networking should Executive Director provide our inspectors with more skills in the development of future cases. n January 31, 2019 a meeting was Comparing tactics, procedures and disheld in La Jara, Colorado to discuss cussing ongoing and past cases were topics the successful efforts of the New of interest during the evening networking Mexico Livestock Board and the sessions. The differences in our missions Colorado Brand Inspection Diviwere discussed and acknowledged by sion. Area Supervisor Gary Mora both agencies. While the Texas investiAnother factor for loss is when was present for the meeting and gators operate solely with objective of stated that patrols in New Mexico finding the stolen livestock and equipherds are taken to mountain ment after the theft; New Mexico uses during the grazing season contributed to the positive results. pastures where there are other variables a preventative approach with our inspection system. The meetings should Colorado and New Mexico brand inspectors have been such as predators and lightning strikes.” help our New Mexico Inspectors shore working together successfully, Colup the investigative aspect that Texas is orado Inspector Deb Vernon, well known for, particularly in prosecunoted that the collaboration efforts with Similar work with the Texas side has had tions of agriculture related crime.

A big thanks to Janet Witte, and Tracy law enforcement will continue as they seem good results as well. Two recent cases have to be working thus far. Producers are grate- resulted in a total of 33 head of cattle being Beck for their work in coordinating the ful that the numbers have gone down. returned from Texas sale barns to New event. And to Kelly Hamilton for providing Chad Cochran, president of the San Luis Mexico owners. All four of the Area Super- the platform with NMDA and the DepartValley Cattleman’s Association, said that visors with the New Mexico Livestock Board ment of Homeland Security Emergency owners are also keeping a better eye on have devoted a considerable amount of Management to cover the costs of the herd numbers. Adding that another factor time and effort in creating a working rela- conference. for loss is when herds are taken to mountain tionship with their neighbors and pastures where there are other variables such as predators and lightning strikes.

In January of this year, Area Supervisor April Riggs, Inspector Darby Makloski, and Brand Inspector Johnny Gilbert stopped an

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illegal shipment of horses and cattle coming from Colorado. The animals were impounded and proof of ownership was eventually confirmed. There were some health issues with the horses, and once a negative coggins test was returned, all the animals were released to the owner.

Area Supervisors Gary Mora and April Riggs, acting on information from Colorado inspectors, stopped an illegal shipment of horses in the Northeast part of our state on February 8. No citations were issued in New Mexico, but Colorado inspectors were handed over the documents for prosecution in their jurisdiction.

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ongtime rancher and cowboy, Tom Kelly, 93, passed away with his family by his side at his home in Water Canyon near Magdalena on February 14, 2019. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 1, 1925, to Frank and Elizabeth Tinguely Kelly. When Tom was two years old, his family moved back to New Mexico to live on the family ranch in Water Canyon that his grandfather established back in the early 1880s. Tom operated that ranch his entire life. Outside of Water Canyon, Tom and his father leased a ranch at Engle in the early ‘50s, and after his father’s death he leased the upper place of the Lazy SO ranch.

Then from 1960 to 1989, he leased the old Criswell Ranch in Catron County, northwest of Datil. Late in 1989, he and Hilda moved their cattle to the lower place of the Lazy SO owned by her uncle Arch Rienhardt.

Mike, their son, currently manages the ranches. After graduating Magdalena High School, Tom was drafted into the Army during World War II, and served in New Guinea and the Philippines. He served a term as Socorro County Commissioner and later as the Road Superintendent and was a member of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. He also was a great historian and storyteller of cowboy and miner antics in the New Mexico Territory.

He co-authored “Cowboy Spur Maker: the Story of Ed Blanchard” with Jane Pattie. Tom is survived by his wife Hilda Kincaide Kelly; daughter Sue Williams and husband Joseph, their daughters Anna Langley and husband Jim, Heather Van Hooser, husband Mark; daughter Kimberly Gard and her children Kelly and wife Nicole, Sarah and husband Jake Osborn; son Mike and wife Delrae, their sons Bradley and Wesley and his wife Caitlyn and numerous great-grandchildren Tom was one of the few remaining old timers in New Mexico. He and his stories will be greatly missed.

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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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Why the Future Won’t Be Vegan Source: ethicalomnivore.org

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he Ethical Omnivore Movement stands as a counterbalance to the vegan movement, which is currently fashionable, but whose popularity will be short-lived.

Ethical omnivores and vegans actually share many of the same values: sustainability, health, animal welfare… but arrive at very different answers over the question of how to achieve those goals.

The biggest difference between an ethical omnivore and a vegan is that veganism is ideological, whereas ethical omnivorism is evidence-based. In other words, if the evidence showed that eating only plants was better for the environment, for our health, and for animals… we’d eat plants!

On the other hand, vegans frequently maintain the rightness of their creed despite evidence to the contrary. They repeat their articles of faith like a mantra, programming them into their neurons, convincing themselves that they have the answer and that their position will eventually be vindicated and become the norm.

Here’s a message that was recently sent to EOM through Facebook: The future will show that the vegans are correct. Be on the right side of history.

I believe this person is totally wrong.

Veganism is NOT the future, for many reasons, and it’s easy to understand why simply by looking back at our history so far.

History Has Spoken The biggest reason is that we already have history. The human race is the result of millions of years of evolutionary history, and that evolution has made us omnivores.

History has already spoken.

Animals’ diets do evolve, but it takes a heck of a long time. We have a good picture of how ours has evolved, and it is pointing in the opposite direction. We started out as mainly vegetarian primates and have evolved to be omnivorous, but with meat

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and other animal products as a vital dietary component.

The history of humans’ diet is marked by two major shifts: one very early, followed by another much more recent change.

The First Great Evolutionary Shift: Hunting The first major change in our diet when we started hunting and eating a lot more meat, which occurred about two million years ago.

In this period, we became less hairy and primarily bipedal, which helped us run long distances to chase down prey. We also developed larger brains as we developed tools and techniques to access more calories (such as using hand axes to break into skulls, and cooking with fire).

As a result, our intestines got shorter because we were getting more calories from meat, fish, and fat (which are almost completely broken down in the stomach) instead of starchy plant matter (which decomposes more slowly through bacterial activity in the gut).

Compare our physiology to that of the gorilla, which eats plants almost exclusively.

As you can see from the shape of the animal, the gorilla has a far longer intestinal tract (colon in particular), allowing it to store huge numbers of bacteria that break down cellulose and other plant matter that we cannot digest.

Like most other apes, a gorilla’s brain only uses about 8 percent of its body’s energy at rest. A human’s much larger brain, however, requires 20 percent of your available energy. On the other hand, the gorilla’s massive digestive system needs far more energy than our shorter omnivore digestion.

Our digestive systems are actually closer (in terms of proportion of intestine of overall length) to dogs, cats, and pigs than they are to the other great apes.

The evidence clearly shows we have evolved away from a mainly plant-based diet to a more meat-based one. There is no way we could develop or support our huge brains without the far greater amount of calories and nutrients that meat and animal products provide (in particular saturated fats).

The Second Great Shift: Agriculture The second most significant change in human diet is far more recent, occurring in the last ten or twenty thousand years (that’s just the last 1 percent of the evolutionary timeline since we became hunter-gatherers).

Agriculture enabled humans to settle in one place and to grow our own food, which we did by domesticating wild animals and plants. Our modern diet contains very few truly wild foods; most of what we eat is has been bred from a wild ancestor to deliver more calories with less work, from cattle and pigs to grains and vegetables.

The advent of agriculture enabled us to have more children and also led to things like civilisation (living in permanent towns) and capitalism.\ One of the downsides of the change to an agrarian lifestyle is that the cheap energy that agriculture offered came at the expense of variety in diet. Instead of hunting and foraging for whatever foods were seasonally available, we could turn to stored foods such as potatoes and grains, which provided the energy and substance we needed but without the variety of micronutrients that we previously sourced from Nature’s larder.

Interestingly, this seems to have resulted in a backslide in our evolution. As our diets became less varied than those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, archaeological records show that humans actually got shorter and our brains smaller over the last few millennia.

The evolutionary history paints a very clear picture. The awesome and unique faculties of homo sapiens originally came about thanks to hunting and eating animals, whereas the shift away from hunting and gathering to farming has led to a decline in our faculties.

So How Can Veganism Be the Future?

Some people have argued to me that moving away from eating animals and animal products represents the next stage of human evolution.

While I can appreciate this might make sense to some people from a spiritual perspective (although I disagree even on that point), it runs counter to the millions of years of history we have behind us.

Since Weston A. Price first set out on his travels, every aboriginal human tribe ever discovered has meat, fish, and/or other animal products as a significant part of their diet.

And yet there certainly seem to be some people today who seem to do well in the long term on a plant-only diet. That then raises another question…

If we collectively decided that we know better than Nature, and agreed that the world would be a better place if we didn’t keep and eat animals… would a future vegan world

even be possible?

I don’t believe it is possible for humanity to go vegan, for a few reasons.

Health The first major obstacle to universal veganism is human health. Despite the frequent claim that a whole-food plant-based diet is universally healthy, there is simply far too much evidence from people who have tried to survive vegan and have been forced to abandon the lifestyle and diet.

You don’t need a peer-reviewed scientific study when there are so many personal accounts of the vegan diet being insufficient to sustain long-term health. (Here are just a few.)

One obvious group that cannot be vegan is anyone with methylation issues.

Because a plant-only diet cannot supply all the nutrients your body needs to support balanced methylation, those who are overmethylated simply cannot be healthy without animal products.

Note: I’m not saying that it is not possible for anyone to thrive long-term on plants alone. Some people may benefit from the cleansing effect of eating only plants, at least in the short-term, but it clearly isn’t a permanent option for everyone.

Vegans will often argue that eating plants requires less space than eating animals, and they’re partially correct, but it would be an error to take that information and conclude that we should turn all farmland over to plant production.

According to research carried out in 2010 by the World Bank, 37.7 percent of our planet’s land area is considered agricultural, whereas 10.6 percent was arable (i.e. able to be ploughed).

That means 25 percent of the land can be farmed but cannot be used to produce row crops like grains. This is what is known as marginal land, and includes hillsides, forests, dry grasslands, steppe, etc. All these areas can (and do) host a variety of large animals that can provide nutritious food for humans in a sustainable or regenerative way, but cannot be turned into arable land.

What’s more, what we think of as modern agriculture is totally unsustainable.

We are facing a global crisis of soil depletion, with between 40 and 100 years of harvests remaining before the soil is either lost or poisoned beyond use.

areas and it is almost entirely dependent on a global food system of trans-national trade.

It is primarily an affluent, urban indulgence that could never support today’s human population, never mind a few billion more.

We all agree that health matters, sustainability matters, and animal welfare matters.

But the answer is not to abandon our natural diet and lifestyle.

History will not prove the vegans right.

We have plenty of history and it has already proved them wrong.

If humanity is going to have a future, it won’t be vegan, because it must be beyond sustainable, rebuilding our soils and restoring our water and air.

Going back to our pre-human ape diet would be a retrograde step, not evolution.

Our next phase of evolution must see us continue to coexist with our domesticated plant and animal food sources in ways that work in harmony with Nature’s laws.

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Conclusion Veganism is really only viable for a minority of people who live in wealthier

Self-sufficiency We also have to consider the sustainability of our diets. A healthy vegan diet needs to include a wide range of plants, which might typically include oils from a variety of nuts and seeds, coconut, avocado, B-12 derived from algae or yeast, as well as a selection of fruits, tubers, and leafy greens.

I live in a temperate climate in England, and grow some of my own food. With my experience, I do not know how it would be possible to produce a sufficient range of plant-based foods to deliver all a body’s nutritional needs for twelve months of the year in a self-sufficient way.

In other words, to have a lifestyle that is both vegan and healthy is only possible due to trans-global trade, which will ship avocados from Mexico and quinoa from Peru to your local grocery store.

As soon as the oil runs out, or some global catastrophe halts global trade, will mean it is practically impossible to source a complete plant-based diet year-round.

To me, a diet that relies on shipping, air freight, and other technology is neither natural nor sustainable.

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Ranchers are Scared to Report Drug Trafficking Crimes

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f ranchers in our own country are scared to report crimes, not of internal criminals, but of foreign invaders at our border, is that a national emergency? And if their properties are being used for drug smuggling, does that count as drugs coming in between ports of entry in the minds of the media? And if you live in a poorer county at the border in New Mexico, are you as much of a citizen as a resident of Maryland or Virginia?

In a wide-ranging conversation with Joel their four-wheeler or their horses, just Edwards, one of the county commissioners because they live on an international border.” in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, he Edwards explained that the folks in expressed deep concern for his constitu- Washington live near counties that are coments in this hard-hit county. “One of my pletely protected and have robust resources primary responsibilities is to try to see that to deal with internal crime, yet his county the residents of my county can enjoy a solid is left in the lurch dealing with “sophistiquality life and they don’t have to live in fear cated cartels” coming over an international for their lives,” said Edwards. “You know, border. And that is scaring his residents. they shouldn’t have to live in fear that “Some of them are afraid to even come somebody is going to steal their vehicle or forward because they live right there on the border,” said Edwards of the ranchers encountering drug traffickers dressed in paramilitary getup. “Some of my residents go back and forth across the border 928-776-9007 because they actually have some family on Toll Free: 877-928-8885 the other side of the border, and they fear retaliation from the cartel if they cooperate 2150 N. Concord Dr. #B and [try] to do something about the Dewey, AZ 86327 border problem.”

Visit us at: As I’ve reported before, Hidalgo County www.yavapaigas.com has just four sheriff’s deputies for a county dc@yavapaigas.com of several thousand square miles, with no law enforcement presence in the border ranch areas south of Highway 9. The county has money to add only two more deputies, a drop in the bucket for an area that size.

YAVAPAI COUNTY’S OLDEST LOCALLY “You know, we’re a poor county. The average income in this county is small, considerably OWNED PROPANE COMPANY small compared to the part of the country where the media lives,” said Edwards.

SAME OWNER SAME VALUES SINCE 1987 Perhaps that is why the media sees no “START WITH THE BEST – STAY WITH THE BEST” emergency at the border. Hidalgo County alone has been forced to absorb roughly half of the more than 60 groups of 100-300 migrants at a time being smuggled through by the cartels since last October. While the cartels strain our Border Patrol with the health care and welfare of the migrants, they engage in their other criminal activity.

Edwards called the media’s assertion that drugs only come in at the points of entry “asinine” and invited anyone from the

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media to come on a tour with him and his two colleagues on the county commission, rancher constituents. told me the ranchers have witnessed a dis“You know, we visited ranchers that actu- turbing change in the migrants’ attitudes, ally showed us pictures of the drug which is further concerning the ranchers. trafficking and told us stories about it. The “When ranchers would encounter criminals cartels have a lot of the latest technology; the people that are coming across, they have sophisticated communication We’re a poor county. The equipment. They’re not just desperate migrants. These people are … up on average income in this technology, they’re up on weaponry.

Their loads that they’re carrying are county is small, considerably worth thousands and thousands of dollars. They are protecting it because small compared to the part of the that’s how they’re making their money.”

Edwards shared the pictures from the country where the media lives.” trail cameras passed on to him by some of his rancher constituents: Link for photos: on their property, in the past, they used to www.conservativereview.com/news/bor- ask to use the rancher’s phone, ask for food, d e r - c o u n t y - c o m m i s s i o n e r - r a n c h - water, and/or transportation. Now they ers-scared-report-drug-trafficking-crimes/ demand it, by stating you will give me a ride, After looking at these pictures, now under- you will give me food, and you will give me stand the predicament in which these ranchers must live. They are at least one or two hours away from any civilization, with no cell phone reception. Given that there is no permanent federal, state, or county law enforcement presence to protect them, Edwards told me his ranchers are too scared to share their stories with the media. But he did direct me to a Facebook post of Kari Wade, a constituent in his county, who responded to those who don’t see any emergency at our border: Isn’t this why we have a military? Why are our own citizens less worth protecting than citizens of foreign countries in the Middle East?

This is not even right at the border.

Edwards tells me that anything south of Interstate 10 is within the drug trafficking corridor. That is roughly 70 miles into the state. Yet the state’s governor doesn’t even think there is a problem!

Many of the illegal aliens passing through are growing bolder and more belligerent. Tisha Green, who is the county manager appointed by Edwards and his

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your phone.”

What about fencing? As I reported in my last article on Hidalgo County, Edwards warned that the fencing is so poor that the cartels even drive vehicles over the wired fencing and place ramps over the Normandy barriers. That “happens a lot” in his county.

What allows the cartels to tie down border agents, who are essentially the only law enforcement lifeline for the ranchers? The endless flow of the migrants and the caravans. Recently, El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agent Fidel Baca told Fox News that the large groups of migrants are not showing up specifically in this remote location “by coincidence.” It’s the criminal organizations taking advantage of the remoteness of the area to do their work.

Thus, as long as the magnet of catchand-release continues, the cartels will have

Pictures from a trail camera passed on to Joel Edwards, Hidalgo County Commissioner in New Mexico, by some of his rancher constituents.

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their strategic diversion to tie down the agents and endanger the local residents with their smuggling activity. Recently Breitbart Texas posted leaked photos of the overcrowded conditions in the El Paso CBP detention center. But a large number of those migrants initially pass through Hidalgo County, New Mexico, which has much fewer resources and is being strained every day. David Whipple, the head of the seven-man EMS team in Lordsburg, the Hidalgo County seat, confirmed to me last week that the migrants are usually transferred to El Paso after about three days.

Thus, everything you see in the large holding facility in El Paso begins as a colossal strain on a county of 5,000 residents.

This is important as the president considers his next steps following his declaration of an emergency at the border.

While a border wall is effective, catch-andrelease is the cause of the problem and something that can be ended using executive power. Moreover, we need the military to protect these residents as Border Patrol deals with the legal land mines of asylum processing. This is why we have a military.

This is not about using military personnel for immigration processing, but to repel what is quite clearly a foreign invasion of paramilitary groups.

The media and politicians living in their gated communities could never relate to what Edwards deals with as a county official at our frontier, because to them, an emergency is if they only get three bars of signal on their phones one day.

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This is the perfect time of year to begin creating a defensible space. This means creating a buffer zone or fire break around the home that is free of grass, shrubs, trees, and other flammable materials such as wood piles. Starving an approaching wildfire of fuel will help decrease the fire’s intensity and improve the probability of a home surviving the burn.

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“Many communities around the state where homes are directly adjacent to forested or natural areas are vulnerable to wildfire. Property owners can take some simple steps to protect their homes and businesses from this risk.” said Steve Hattenbach, Forest Supervisor.

“Taking the initiative to be well prepared for a wildfire will not only ensure the survivability of your home and property, but also the safety of your family, neighbors, and firefighters,” said Donald Griego, State Forester. “Programs such as Firewise USATM ; Ready, Set, Go; and Living with Fire are excellent resources

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On the allotment are a line cabin, two sets of corrals, one with a loading chute at the highway. $1,100,000 *NEW OFFERING* 223 Head Spanish Stirrup Ranch West, Deming, NM. – A portion of the historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch; a solid working cattle ranch in the Florida

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Property is fenced for cattle. $350,000 *REDUCED* 98+/- Acre Farm, Pomerene, AZ – 70 plus irrigated acres with an 800 gpm well that has a 16” casing, records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and fenced. Suitable for

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Livestock water is provided by five wells and a buried pipeline system. Headquarters improvements consist of a main residence, a secondary residence, feed barn, maintenance shop and overhead feed bins. Pasture design includes ten pastures and several smaller holding traps. There is a set of pipe shipping pens with scales and loading chute. The terrain is diversified, which varies from nearly level and gently sloping to steep rocky mesas with a good stand of cedar, juniper, piñon pine and some ponderosa pine. Good mule deer habitat.

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CATRON COUNTY: a diversified ranch offering “Lots of Water” for irrigation and sub-irrigation meadowlands, a private 15 acre lake stocked with fish supported by “free flowing springs.” These meadows also support a good “drought proof cattle operation” for 250 - 275 AU’s. Hunting for elk, mule deer, antelope and all kinds of water fowl. 18,760 Total Acres with 9579 deeded acres, 8004 acres state and 1180 acres BLM. There is no public road access to the ranch except for one 800 acres pasture and the balance is kept locked and hunting is controlled on about 17,900 acres. Two modest set of improvements. A unique opportunity to own a nice Ranch providing grazing and diversified recreational uses while having a strong investment in the State’s limited resource “WATER!” HARDING COUNTY: this small 10 section ranch is one of those hunting properties that’s surrounded by large grazing operations with private access to the Ranch and no public roads; thus providing an ideal, extremely scenic, rough natural terrain supporting perfect wildlife habitat which includes elk, mule deer, bear, mountain lion, turkey and waterfowl. Several wells and numerous large dirt reservoirs. No living facilities. A perfect, private getaway!

CHAVES & LINCOLN COUNTIES: about 16,043 total acres with only 480 acres BLM and over 15,560 acres of deeded land. Runs 300 AU’s yearlong on a wide variety of strong native grasses! Open country with some moderate hills and one major drainage known as “15 Mile Draw” which supports unusually strong wells and good quality water. Modest improvements.

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Things You Should Know about Limousin Cattle 1. Limousin cattle are a French breed, supposedly originating from the Marche and Limousin regions. They haven’t remained trapped on French soil however, as over 70 different countries are now home to the breed.

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Their frame-size compares as average amongst their European counterparts, be it continental or British. Bulls weigh an average of 1,100kg, while cows reach about 700kg.

about the tricky business of calving, particularly if there’s only one person on hand to assist the cow on small farms.

5. Perhaps the strongest quality of the Limousin breed is its high immune system. The usual bovine illnesses are rarely found in these cattle. However, it’s still always important to properly vaccinate and tend to these animals. If any unusual behaviour or symptoms are spotted, be sure to contact your local vet.

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weight at a slightly thriftier rate than some other breeds. However, they mature quite late, meaning that weight gain isn’t as quick as some continental breeds.

7. Although primarily used in beef production, Limousins are popular sires for dairy farms. Since their calves are quite small, breeding with Friesians for example is quite popular.

Limousin-Friesian crosses are considered excellent suckers of high value.

8. Beef from Limousins are held in quite high esteem. Their carcasses have up to 80 percent meat yields in some cases! The ratio of good beef to waste products like bone and fat is excellent.

They also have good marbling quality, making for great tenderness. Dressing percentages are, on average, about 58 to 63 percent in Limousin crosses; a good five percent higher than the average in other breeds!

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ny producer wanting to have more cows and heifers calve in daylight hours should try to delay putting out hay and cubes until late in the day.

“This practice has been around since the 1970s thanks to work out of Canada. It may sound like an old wives’ tale but it works and has unbiased research behind it,” said Eldon Cole, a field livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension.

According to Cole, there are numerous reasons producers like calves to be born in daylight hours.

First, the temperature in the winter should be warmer in the daytime so there is less of a chance of the calves chilling. Second, if assistance is needed it should be easier to find whether it is from a neighbor or a veterinarian. The third reason could be less sleepless nights for the owner or caretaker of the cows.

“The late feeding time should start at least four weeks before the beginning of the calving season. Research trials from Canada and the United States has varied the late feeding time from 4 in the afternoon to 10 p.m.,” said Cole.

There are some problems if a producer has cattle on pasture where they can graze all day long. Some southwest Missouri cattle producers who strip-graze stockpiled fescue religiously can wait until late afternoon to move the fence to fresh pasture.

“The class of females that are of most need for daytime calving are first-calf heifers. If your management system allows your feeding time to be altered to very late afternoon, I would encourage you to try it,” said Cole.

Field studies and researchers all have seen daytime calvings move to around 80 percent plus when late in the day feeding is practiced.

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AGGIE NOTES From the Animal Resources Dept.

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ew Mexico State University Southwest Beef Reproductive Management Program is launching a new artificial insemination school to help cattlemen manage their reproductive program.

“AI is a largely under-utilized technology in New Mexico,” said Craig Gifford, NMSU Extension beef cattle specialist. “There has been a really big misconception that AI is just for dairy cattle, and isn’t used in a big pasture situation. But there are big ranches that use it and continue to use it, indicating that AI is profitable in this type of production system.”

The next NMSU AI School will be in Los Lunas from April 10 through 12, at Southwest Event Center on State Highway 6, west of Los Lunas. The course will be taught by Gifford; Marcy Ward, NMSU Extension livestock specialist; and other NMSU Extension specialists and agents.

“There will be classroom presentations from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 10 and 11, and hands-on palpating of cows on Friday, April 12,” said Newt McCarty, NMSU Extension’s Valencia County agricultural agent. “This is a great opportunit y for cat tlemen to learn this breeding method.”

Topics during the two-day classroom session will include female cow reproductive anatomy, estrus-synchronization and semen handling.

“We will practice handling of the semen straws from the nitrogen tank to thaw unit,” Gifford said. “We will have actual cow reproductive organs for the participants to see the anatomical structures and understand how AI works. Plus, we will use our cow model to practice the AI procedures.”

The third day, participants will put into action what they learned in the classroom as they work with live cows.

Registration fee is $285, which includes an ABS Artificial Insemination handbook.

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April 1 to register. Alternatively, visit nmbeef. demands at the Tucumcari and Los Lunas nmsu.edu for online enrollment. For those schools, Gifford hopes to offer this who attended Tucumcari AI school, the program at other locations around the state. “If the demand is there, we will one-day, hands-on workshop is $185.

“This type of program taught in neigh- continue to host these schools. Get in boring states runs $500-plus, but we are contact with your local County Extension trying to keep costs as low as we can,” said Office and let them know if you are Gifford. “The handbook itself is worth this interested.” registration fee. The participants will be able to take it home as a reference manual.”

Besides providing all of the teaching material, ABS Global, a world leader in providing bovine genetics, reproduction services and technologies, has donated the equipment for the school, such as the re your grape vines out of control and semen tanks, thawing units, practice semen need to be pruned? straws and guns.

“We can’t thank ABS Global enough for New Mexico State University’s College their contribution,” Gifford said. “Without of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmentheir generosity, it would have been very tal Sciences can help you learn how to difficult to host these schools.” prune the plants so they will produce bounThis is the second AI school NMSU has tiful fruit. held this year. The first was in Tucumcari A free hands-on pruning workshop will Feb. 26-27. be hosted by the Rio Arriba County Coop“We have added the hands-on palpating erative Extension Service office from 10 a.m. day to the Los Lunas school, because we to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 14. NMSU Extenhave access to live cows thanks to all the sion viticulturist Gill Giese will lead help from the folks at the SW Event Center,” the workshop.

Gifford said. “Anyone who attended the “We are excited to team up with Dr. Giese Tucumcari school can attend Friday to prac- to offer this workshop,” said Donald Martitice on cows.” nez, NMSU’s Rio Arriba County agricultural There are several reasons for a producer agent. “We have quite a few growers in the to use AI to breed their cow herd. area who have an interest in corrective “It is a way to minimize the cost for smaller pruning their backyard grape vines.” herd operators while getting some of the The workshop will begin at the county best genetics in the world without having Extension office at State Road 554 in to buy a bull,” Gifford said. “It can also be Abiquiu for a PowerPoint presentation. used if the producer wants to change direc“After the presentation on the best time tion of the breeding program by selecting to propagate and prune, and general vinegenetics specific for the desired results. yard maintenance, we will go to the Sam “It is also a way to utilize terminal crosses Jewel Farm and actually get hands-on expein this arid environment. You might be able rience pruning,” Martinez said. to use a bull through AI that you would not The workshop is limited to 20 participants. necessarily want to keep the daughters of, Snacks will be provided. Participants are but it might improve the calf’s muscle and asked to bring a sack lunch, pruners, frame score and make them more market- gloves and sun protection. able. Additionally, the benefits of getting cows calving earlier in the season can increase profitability in both fall-weaned market calves and replacement females.”

Another reason is to control bovine Trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease.

“In trich-prone areas of the state, this he New Mexico Pueblo Farmer and might be a management tool,” Gifford said.

Rancher Conference will be in Albu“A pregnant cow can’t catch trich. So having querque this year. her bred before release to graze in areas New Mexico State University’s College where she could come in contact with an of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmeninfected bull will help prevent the disease tal Sciences, and the Institute of American from spreading.”

Indian Art’s Land Grant program are hosting After evaluating the participation the conference Wednesday and Thursday,

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March 27-28, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, and fiber needs, it is our responsibility to 1901 University Blvd. NE in Albuquerque. make sure women have educational oppor“There is a full agenda of topics that will tunities, and are encouraged and provide valuable information to the partic- empowered to take on the challenge,” said ipants,” said Tory Hougland, NMSU Marcella Talamante, NMSU Extension agent Extension Outreach agricultural agent. “The in Rio Arriba County. program is divided into the first day’s sesThe task force, comprised of Cooperative sions focused on farming, and the second Extension Service agents in northern New day’s sessions focused on ranching.”

Mexico counties, will host a “Strengthening Various U.S. Department of Agriculture Our Agriculture Roots: Empowering Women agency representatives will have a panel in Agriculture” Conference Wednesday and discussion to open each day’s sessions. Thursday, April 24-25, in Taos at the Sage Updates from the agencies will be discussed. Brush Inn and Taos County Fairgrounds.

Farming topics will include vegetable Participants will receive an introduction selection, soil and cover crops, irrigation to the hands-on skills and knowledge management, food safety basics, hoop needed to operate or work for a house production and chile health and farm or ranch. production.

“There will be workshops on family Ranching topics will include cow-calf dynamics while operating an agricultural nutrition, when to call a vet, beef cattle operation, inheritance option, taxes and marketing, alfalfa and forages, and a calving marketing,” said Steve Lucero, NMSU Extendemonstration. sion agricultural agent in Sandoval County.

The free, two-day event is part of the “Also, hands-on workshops on low-stress New Mexico Pueblo Beginning Farmer and cattle handling, trailer and tractor safety.”

Rancher Program, funded by the USDA The “SOAR” conference is limited to 50 National Institute of Food and Agriculture, participants. and the New Mexico Pueblo Outreach Online registration is available at http:// Project, funded by the USDA Office of Advo- www.soar2019.ezregister.com. Cost is $80, cacy and Outreach. which includes dinner Wednesday. A Lunch and snacks will be provided. limited number of scholarships are availPre-registration is required for lunch able on a first-come, first-served basis for count. Contact Tory Hougland or Daniel residents living in nor thern New Bird at 505-852-0480, or Augusta Mexico counties.

Archuleta at 505-852-2668 by March 19 to For more information on the seminar and register. scholarships contact Lucero or Talamante at 575-588-7423 or losojos@nmsu.edu.

Special room rates are available at Sage Brush Inn for the “NMSU Ag” group.

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omen are taking a larger role in the American farming and ranching industry as they reclaim their connection to the land.

According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, nearly one million women are working America’s lands, which represents 31 percent of American farmers. Together these women are generating $12.9 billion in annual agricultural sales.

In New Mexico, 34 percent of farmers are women, contributing $88.5 million to the state’s economy.

New Mexico State University’s New Mexico Small Farm & Ranch Task Force is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion of women in agriculture.

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ete Campos has a dream for the future of New Mexico and he is asking New Mexico State University for help in achieving it.

The New Mexico Senator for District 8 in northern New Mexico approached the land-grant university with a desire to improve the economy of the state.

The concept that came forth from Campos’ meeting with NMSU President John Floros is a three-year pilot project to establish Agribusiness Accelerators in three regions of the state.

“I had full confidence that our land-grant university would rise to the occasion with a concept to help our economy and young people,” said Campos, a former educator

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and superintendent of Las Vegas City Schools, and former chief executive officer of Luna Community College in Las Vegas.

The three regions targeted for the pilot program are Northeast including Union, Colfax, Mora, Harding and San Miguel counties; Northwest including San Juan, McKinley and Cibola counties; and East Central including Quay, Guadalupe, De Baca and Torrance counties.

The Agribusiness Accelerators project is guided by planning completed by the regions as part of the Stronger Economies Together initiative, a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development initiative in partnership with the nation’s land-grant institutions.

“The SET program seeks to address economic development challenges that rural communities face by encouraging, facilitating and supporting efforts to design and implement multi-county economic development plans and projects that strategically build on current and emerging economic strengths of the region,” said Michael Patrick, NMSU Extension specialist in economics development.

“When we looked at the SET plans for the regions a common term appeared – agribusiness accelerator,” said Kathy Hansen,

NMSU’s Arrowhead Center director. “There were common concerns – challenges of local food scarcity, starting up value-added businesses and training a future workforce.”

The only thing holding back the SET regional plans was lack of money and facilitators to drive the projects forward.

Campos assisted with the need for financial support by introducing Senate Bill 257 in the New Mexico Legislature in January for appropriations of $1.4 million from the general fund to establish the Agribusiness Accelerators in the three regions.

“The appropriation piece will be included in House Bill 2, the general appropriations act,” Campos said. “We are not really sure what the monetary level will be because the Legislature has many needs to consider.”

The collective effort among NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service and Arrowhead Center will facilitate the project as it meets the three goals.

“Our goals are to increase the supply and accessibility of local produced food, increase value-added agribusiness activity and foster entrepreneurship, business development and job creation in the regions,” Hansen said.

The first goal will address on-the-ground

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food production challenges throughout the regions.

“The proposed activities will include the creation of small farm incubators in each region for new farmers, on-site training and mentoring for current farmers and producers,” Patrick said. “These incubator farms will resemble the Bernalillo County “Grow the Grower” program.”

The second goal will focus on supplying a support system for value-added agribusiness to start, grow and thrive.

“Accelerator programs will be established in each region where mentors from a pool of Arrowhead’s Enterprise Advisor network, and NMSU faculty and staff will help new and existing agribusiness enterprises with idea development, customer discovery, product development, marketing and continued support,” Hansen said.

The third strategy will support another group of stakeholders – students – through e x i s t i n g N M SU e n t r e p r e n e u r i a l programming.

“The proposed activities include delivery of a dual-credit high school entrepreneurship course, summer camps for middle school students and extracurricular programs for K-12,” Hansen said. “Also, Arrowhead Center’s college student business incubator, Studio G, will be expanded to address the unique needs and challenges students face as they try to start a business.”

Campos sees the key to the region and state economic future is the entrepreneurial programming.

“The true meaning of life is how we prepare the next generation to keep moving in a very positive direction,” Campos said. “There is going to be great care as we cultivate the future of our young people’s success. We want to show them that there is a way for their creative ideas to come alive and allow them to support a family wherever they choose to live, especially if it is rural New Mexico.”

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I’m afraid if Fulghum’s essay was written today to reflect current attitudes it would be called “Everythin I Know I Learnt In Collage” and would contain modern day wisdom such as . . .

Go in debt $200,000 to get a BA degree in blog writing and then go back home and live with your parents until you’re 35 and try to land a job waiting tables.

Climate change is real and the earth will self destruct in 20 years if we don’t stop cows from farting.

America is a rotten place and our founding fathers were a bunch of creeps and jerks.

Success in life is best measured by the number of your Facebook friends and You Tube subscribers.

Anyone who makes over $100,000 a year should have to pay 90 percent of it in income tax.

The energy that powers electric bikes and electric cars is all produced by windmills and solar panels. All coal plants should be shut down and while we’re at it, we should tear down all dams.

The stock market is evil.

It’s a waste of time to learn to spell or write because a computer will do that for you.

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gricultural leaders Dean Rolando A. Flores, New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte will continue their listening session for a third year.

“The best way to know about the agricultural issues is to listen to the stakeholders in the state,” said Flores.

The first sessions will begin a 6 p.m.

Tuesday, April 2, at the Grant County Convention Center in Silver City.

“We look forward to meeting with New Mexico residents,” Witte said.

“These sessions prove them the opportunity to engage in a face-to-face conversation with us.”

Two additional sessions are scheduled for June 17 at McGee Park in Farmington, and July 17 at the Eddy County Fairgrounds in Artesia.

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ver thirty years ago Robert Fulghum wrote a short essay that overnight made him one of the most beloved writers in America. The essay was called “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” It contained sage advice such as, “Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit. Flush.

Take a nap every afternoon. Be aware of wonder.” The essay was read into the Congressional Record, recited by Paul Harvey and quoted by Dear Abby and led to a multi-book deal for Fulghum who, by the way, had once been a working cowboy, among other jobs.

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It’s not impolite to put your phone on speaker and talk loudly in a crowded restaurant so everyone can hear both sides of your idiotic conversation, nor is it impolite to roll down your windows and turn your car radio up so high the base notes register on the richter scale.

Joining the Army, Navy or Marines is for suckers.

Eating too much Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream won’t make you fat because its founders were greenies.

Species didn’t start becoming endangered until loggers, ranchers and miners stated wiping them out.

The only way to get rich in America these days is to buy a winning lottery ticket.

You should put more thought into the design of your tattoos, your computer passwords and what emojis you use than you do in selecting a “partner”. (Notice I did not say spouse.)

All Americans should be ashamed of themselves for all the evil things our country has done.

Everyone should be entitled to a free college education, free medical care, a good job and paid maternity leave for both the sperm and egg donors.

All cops are evil and kneeling during the National Anthem will stop them from killing black people.

Books are dead, rap is forever, skateboards and social media are the future.

Humans were never meant to eat meat or wheat, or drink milk.

Vegans rule!

Socialism is much better than capitalism and the best examples of the utopia-like conditions possible under socialism are the havens of Cuba, Venezuela, and the former USSR. All men are jerks.

If a person finds himself or herself deeply in debt for school loans, is presently living out of their van with no job prospects, one can always go back to college for further education and a PhD and then become a highly paid college professor who knows everything.

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Bradley 3 Ranch …

The Wide Body Sale Report

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radley 3 Ranch has spent 61 years bringing innovative ideas to their bull buyers. This year was no exception as a pre-sale record crowd was given a presentation about the American Angus Association’s new commercial feeder calf program called Angus Link. Chris Engel director of the program from St Joseph, Missouri was on hand to present the program and answer questions.

Saturday was cold and crisp as bidders from 12 states purchased bulls in the sale.

When the final gavel fell, 181 Angus Bulls had sold for an average of $5,184. Top selling bull was a Yon Final Answer son out of a B3R Electorate daughter presented as Lot 1. He sold for $22,000 and went to repeat buyer ABS Global. Lot 1 when scored

by Zoetis for their All-Purpose Index was in the top ½ of 1 percentile. Lot 55 was the second-high selling bull at $15,000 and is headed to California. Lot 10 sold to a repeat B3R buyer in Texas for $13,500.

The Charolais offering was the largest

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ever at Bradley 3 Ranch as 65 bulls averaged $4,858. Top selling Charolais bull was Lot 224; B3R Ring Da Bell 813 that sold for $7,500 to a Texas Buyer. Second high Lot was Lot 223 going to a repeat buyer in Idaho for $7,000.

It was another great day for Bradley 3 Ranch as 246 bulls sold for an overall average of $5,098. Mark February 15, 2020 on your calendar for the next Wide Body Sale.

▫ Agricultural Women Seek Nominations for Next “Diamond in the Rough”

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arn Your Spurs will be the theme of the 12th Biennial Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference (WALC), to be held in Albuquerque, May 28 through 30, 2019. This year marks the 20th anniversary of WALC and its impact on women in agriculture. Over 250 women from across New Mexico are expected to come together to sharpen their rowels on etiquette, selling

yourself, time management, and organization. They will also attend a great tour and hear top-notch entertainment.

The ‘Diamond in the Rough’ award was created to recognize an outstanding woman in New Mexico agriculture and highlight her efforts and contributions. Initiated by the Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference (WALC) and its various sponsors, the award has been given at each of the previous conferences during a special awards ceremony. Nominations are currently being accepted for those women that, through their actions, strive to make New Mexico’s agricultural industry a prosperous, viable component of the Land of Enchantment.

This conference, held every two years, draws women from all types of agriculture.

“Today’s agricultural women are integral parts of their families’ agricultural operations, in addition to their traditional roles, and we feel that they deserve to be recognized for their contributions,” said Erica Valdez, Diamond in the Rough Committee Co-Chair.

Nomination forms can be found at www. nmflb.org and must be received by April 15, 2019 to be considered.

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RANGE LAND Forage Workshop

A Day Event to Learn Range Improvement Techniques!

Thursday, April 4th 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Rio Arriba County Extension Office/ Rural Event Center Off Hwy 554-House 122A, Abiquiu, NM 87510 Join us and learn range improvement techniques with Forage Kochia/Range Changer Seed and other grasses for range and irrigated lands.

Presenters will be: Dr. Keven Jensen, USDA ARS Dr. Mark Marsalsis, NMSU Forage Specialist Free light lunch will be available.

Door Prizes to be given too!

This is a Free Event!

Small booths with informational material will be available.

For more information please contact Rio Arriba CES Ag Agent Donald Martinez at 505 685-4523. Please RSVP

by March 30th by calling 505 685-4523 or via email donmart@nmsu,edu

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Express Ranches NEW MEXICO BULL SALE

Wednesday - March 20 - 1 p.m. (MST) at the Cuervo Creek Ranch Newkirk, New Mexico

SELLING 95 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 2018. Complete performance records and EPDs will be available on the bulls. Bulls will be trich and fertility tested. These bulls are stout, full of muscle and ready to go to work. They are also hard-footed and will get out and travel the country.

Join us Wednesday, March 20 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

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Give us a call for more information or a sale catalog.

www.expressranches.com

Kevin Hafner, Express Ranches 405-641-8100 Mark Whetten, Cuervo Creek Ranch 575-403-8152 Casey Whetten, Cuervo Creek Ranch 435-213-5023 MARCH 2019

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