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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Tom Sidwell NMCGA President

Friends and Neighbors,

Tom Sidwell President Quay Randell Major President-Elect Magdalena Loren Patterson, Vice President at Large Corona 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 Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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ur Founding Fathers were visionaries who formed a Constitutional Republic that divided power between the central and state governments and allowed citizens to elect representatives to do their bidding in the legislature. As citizens, we have the First Amendment right to advocate for laws, regulations, and policies that may affect our liberty, property rights, family, and businesses. A group of citizens with common interests may form an association to advocate on their behalf to address those common interests.

Agriculture in New Mexico is represented by a number of associations, each with particular interests. NMCGA represents the cattle industry and provides an official and united voice on issues of importance to cattle producers and feeders in New Mexico. NMCGA policies are developed from resolutions introduced in committees by members, or from the floor, voted on by the Board of Directors, and are based on local, state, or national issues that may positively or negatively affect cattle producers.

The ag group, consisting of several agricultural association leadership/staff are mostly unpaid volunteer lobbyists, was formed several years ago to give a greater unified voice for New Mexico agriculture on legislative issues. Legislation is discussed within the group and support, opposition, amendments, etc are generally discussed and strategy developed by the group. Once in a while there will be disagreement on legislatio – some associations may support, others may oppose but differences are worked out within the group.

To help preserve and advance public trust and confidence in the public policy advocacy process, agricultural associations and their leadership/staff/ lobbyists have an obligation to always act fairly and professionally in the highest ethical manner in their dealings with all parties. Ethical behavior comes from within oneself and they should conduct lobbying activities on behalf of their associations with honesty, integrity, and be truthful in communicating factually correct, current and accurate information and not act in a manner that shows disrespect when there is disagreement on some legislative issues. We can respectfully agree to disagree.

It is very important in today’s political environment that New Mexico agriculture maintains a united voice. Our country is deeply divided politically, culturally, morally, and spiritually.

Agriculturalists are salt-of-the-earth grassroots folks facing challenges and these challenges must be met with sound economic and scientific facts. Ecological health of our rangelands should be based on long term trends and not on short term inventories taken during severe droughts. The last 60 years, for those of us that remember, has seen ecological health and land stewardship improve. Of course, there is always room for improvement but this can be accomplished while protecting property rights through a market economy that rewards good stewardship practices. New Mexico agriculture speaking with a united voice can work toward this goal through the public policy advocacy process and do so respectfully.

Hope you all have had some rain. We are greening up some and like everyone else, hope to keep getting more moisture.

See you at Mid-year convention in Ruidoso on June 9 through 11.

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TO THE POINT

What are our options?

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

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iscussions are going on everywhere about the socialist movement in our country both for and against. I readily admit that what we call a “socialist movement” may not fit everyone’s definition of the term. That’s the great part about our country – we can have differing views and still be a free people. Or, at least that’s the way it used to be.

In many cases today, if you disagree with someone you must be the Devil himself and there is nothing that is too bad to do to you.

I must take a pause in my previous thought. I have always believed that the Devil was a he, I don’t know where that knowledge or supposition came from, but there is it. Today I guess I don’t have the luxury of assigning a gender even to the Devil – we must wait until he/she/or other reveals himself.

That brings me to another question…

when I was tooling down the highway in northeast New Mexico yesterday, I saw a few bunches of antelope. There were at least two groups of doe grazing and then further there was a bachelor herd of bucks.

It got me to thinking, since there is a growing number of people in the world that believe animals should have the same rights as humans, does that mean that they will get to make their own gender designations too?

But I digress. Back to the what I believe is a selfish society that is spreading. I heard a sermon recently that talked about the need to be less centered on self and more centered on what we can do for others. It certainly rang true to the needs we have today.

A prime example of the carelessness of people today reared its head when we were loading to come home from the Legislature.

The ag group room is filled with chairs, tables, supplies, a coat rack and other necessities for the meetings that are held three days a week during Session.

Thankfully we had a good crew to help load and Randell Major’s pickup to do the hauling. Naturally that pickup was parked in the lane to have space to get it all in. Just before the truck was filled to the gills, this woman (there is an evermore stark contrast between women and ladies) walked up behind and told us we needed to move the truck immediately – her moving van was blocking about three times the size of the lane behind us and she wanted us out of the way NOW. She was totally oblivious to the fact that we too were moving. She was informed that we would be moving as soon as we were finished. That was the best response I could give on Day 59 of the worst Legislature I

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have been treated to in about 28 years.

So why my question about options? As we survey the situations, we are living in today we do have options. Some are looking to move out of state. Some who can afford it are contemplating moving out of the country. But where else is better to live than New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, you fill in the blank?

Maybe it is time that we spend more time looking out to see what we can do for others than thinking about our own “troubled” lives. That list of doing for others in a legislative sense is explore running for elected office; to seek out someone who will run, and you can support; to support those who have supported us; and to pray for the future of our nation.

The 2020 election is looming, as we can see from the plethora of presidential candidates jumping into the race. In state legislative races in New Mexico and neighboring states, the real election is going to be in the primaries, not the general. With that in mind we are just 13 months from an election day.

Undoubtedly there will be hundreds of million dollars spent on media and campaigning, getting the job of electing those who share our believes done will required

good, old-fashioned hard work. Please start thinking about what YOU can do and how you plan to get it done.

Where does NM stand?

We are tired of hearing how badly New Mexico ranks in oh so many categories across the country. But after the Legislature that had one of the biggest budget surpluses in history AND passed the largest tax increase in a long time there is yet another one to contemplate.

According to a study by PEW Charitable Trusts, there are still nine states in the nation who haven’t yet recovered from the last recession in terms of tax revenues. Guess who’s on that list?

The nine states where revenues were still down from their recession era peaks include: Alaska (-83.7 percent), Wyoming (-37.7 percent), New Mexico (-11.8 percent), Florida (-9.0 percent), Ohio (-7.2 percent), Oklahoma (-6.0 percent), Louisiana (-4.7 percent), Mississippi (-1.4 percent), and New Jersey (-1.4 percent).

The PEW data is for state tax revenues in the third quarter of last year, and shows that in that time period, which ran through September, tax collections for all 50 states, after adjusting for inflation, were up 13.4 percent

compared to their peak in 2008.

The PEW report can be found at www. pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/ data-visualizations/2014/fiscal-50#ind0 .

This isn’t news to ranchers and farmers…

USDA’s Economic Research Service’s Food Dollar Series recently revealed that in 2016 the farmers’ share of the food dollar fell to 14.8 cents, down 4.5 percent from the prior year and the lowest level since the series was launched in 1993, according to a post by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

When adjusted for inflation, in 2009 dollars, the farmers’ share of the food dollar was 12.2 cents, down 11.6 percent from 2015 and again the lowest level since the series began. The farmers’ share of the $1 spent on domestically produced food represents the percentage of the farm commodity sales tied to that food dollar expenditure. Non-farm related marketing associated with the food dollar, i.e. transportation, processing, marketing, etc., rose to a record-high of 85.2 cents.

USDA tracks several other methods of food consumption in the Food Dollar Series.

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Between 1960 and 2007, the share of disposable personal income spent on total food by Americans fell from 17.5 to 9.6 percent, as the share of income spent on food at home fell. The share of income spent on food purchased in grocery stores and other retailers declined from 14.1 percent in 1960 to 5.5 percent in 2007, according to http://beef2live.com/ in an April 28, 2019 post.

At the same time, the percent of income spent on food purchased at restaurants, fast food places, and other away-from-home eating places increased from 3.4 to 4.1 percent. The share of income spent on total food began to flatten in 2000, as inflation-adjusted incomes for many Americans have stagnated or fallen over the last decade or so.

In addition, between 2006 and 2013, food price inflation has been greater than overall inflation, making food more costly.

In 2013, Americans spent 5.6 percent of their disposable personal incomes on food at home and 4.3 percent on food away from home.

Pinpointing exact data for any one year doesn’t seem possible in a web search. The numbers, and sources used here seem to cover the greatest amount of time ranging

sumed at home was 23.6 cents, down 2.9 percent from the prior year. For food and beverages consumed at home, the farm share was 18.9 cents, down 3.8 percent from 2015.

The largest decline in the farm share of the food dollar was in food consumed away from home. The farm share of food away from home was 4.4 cents, down 10.2 percent from the prior year. The smaller share of the food dollar consumed outside of the home is attributable to the costs of restaurant food service and preparation.

For all but the food and beverage dollar consumed at home and the food at home dollar, the farmers’ share of the food dollar is at record-low levels.

But this might be news to eaters…

Americans’ budget share for total food changed little during the last 20 years. In 2016, Americans spent an average of 9.9 percent of their disposable personal incomes on food—divided between food at home (5.2 percent) and food away from home (4.7 percent), according to https:// www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag... food...the.../food-prices-and-spending .

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Finding data for what New Mexicans spend on food is next to impossible. The only source I could find was https://www. nmvoices.org/ . That sight contains two (2) budget calculators. The one that pops up is for 25 rural New Mexico counties. You can put in the county you want and the family size and a budget pops up. For most counties the food budget was steady at $701 per month for a family of two (2) adults and two (2) children.

If you go down below that budget you will this statement: “The Economic Policy Institute also has a Family Budget Calculator for the metro areas of Albuquerque, Farmington, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe, as well as rural New Mexico, that has slightly newer data.”

Looking at that calculator shows that the same family of four pays $784 a month in Santa Fe County, $731 in Bernalillo County, and $721 in Dona Ana County. As for the slightly new data, the family of four in Catron County spends $718 up $17 from the first page.

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International Data This information will create some confusion, but it appears that this data is only on food consumed in the home, and not eating out. There are only eight countries in the world that spend less than 10 percent of their household income on food. Four of these are in Europe: the UK is third at 8.2 percent, followed by Switzerland at 8.7 percent; Ireland spends 9.6 percent and Austria 9.9 percent.

The remaining four countries are spread across the globe. The US spends the least at 6.4 percent, Singapore spends the second lowest amount at 6.7 percent.

Canada spends 9.1 percent on food, while Australia spends 9.8 percent.

Source: www.weforum.org/agenda /2016/12/this-map-shows-how-much -each-country-spends-on-food

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The conference commences on Tuesday May 28 and runs through May 30 at the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, in Albuquerque. Where there may be rooms left available in the WALC block.

This year’s conference will be the 12th biennial with 250+ attendees expected.

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think spring has sprung and summer is on the way. Some parts of the state have received some good moisture and other places are still waiting for it. If we can suffer through the next 60 days maybe the monsoons will come on strong. Some of the forecasts say it is going to be a wet summer, Quien Sabe. I think that anyone who tries to predict the weather in New Mexico is either a new comer or a damned fool.

Most of the calves are probably on the ground and some folks have already branded. Others are just getting started.

Whether you have enough calves to hire a crew for a few weeks or maybe months or if you are a small family outfit it is a good time of the year to be on a cow outfit. It doesn’t seem like ranchers neighbor as much as they did 50 years ago. You used to start at one end of the valley and brand and then the next day go on to the next place.

I guess we are just like the rest of the fast paced world. Maybe we should go back to neighboring a little more.

We are still being bombarded with the fake meat deal. One of the major fast food chains is promoting a near beef burger. I read a deal where a man and his son went in and one ordered the fake stuff and the other a real beef hamburger. They tasted each others meals. The man said that as much as he hated to admit it the fake stuff tasted a lot like beef. I’m not sure how it is made but it has to have a lot of different chemicals in it. This is going to be one of the big concerns to our industry. We have to keep promoting the real thing not some-

thing that was “calved “ in a lab.

Please remember Mid Year Meeting is coming up June 9-11, 2019, in Ruidoso, NM. I hope you have made plans to attend. We need for all New Mexico CowBelles to come participate and get active in advocating for and promoting our industry. We are trying hard to help you all do that so please come help us. I have a personal goal of getting at least one member from each local to attend the Mid Year Meetings. Look for more information for registering in the Wrangler, New Mexico Stockman, and on our website. I look forward to seeing you all.

Another opportunity for all CowBelles to improve their leadership skills, will be at the upcoming WALC Conference May 28-30, 2019. It is in Albuquerque this year. The agenda looks great. NMCB is going to have a booth and try to recruit members for organization. It is a good conference and you will be amongst like minded people.

May God Bless you all!

– Nancy L. Phelps, NMCB President The April meeting of the Chamiza CowBelles was called to order at 12 noon in Johnny B’s Restaurant in TorC by President, Jeni Neely with 10 members and three guests present. Guests were: Judy Luna, Shirley Myers, and Merry Jo Fahl. Sherry read the Prayer and Creed and all recited the pledge. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and the treasurer’s report was given, both were approved.

Everyone felt the district meeting was a huge success thanks to Krystie and Leona Wear from their efforts in decorating tables to cooking the food. Many thanks to Krystie and Leona! There were 38 attendees and great enthusiasm. A check for $150 will be sent to Canyon CowBelles to help defray the costs of their share of hosting. Ag Day will take place on April 12. The CowBelles will be serving peach cobbler and ice cream.

The WALC conference will be May 28-30 in Albuquerque. The NM State CowBelles will donate $500 to the conference. In exchange, NMCB will conduct a membership drive at the conference. Nancy and Cathy will be attending. The local’s man-of-the-year nominee was the only one submitted, will be invited to attend the May meeting and encouraged to attend the mid-year meeting in June in Ruidoso where he will receive a plaque. The local voted to pay for his room at mid-year. Scholarship applications were reviewed. Only four of the 15 applicants were intending to pursue education in an ag-related field and the field narrowed to one academic and one vocational scholarship. In addition, the local received a request from a local current college attendee to assist him in his last year of college. After discussion, it was decided to award a $3000 academic scholarship to Thomas Bolke; a $2000 vocational scholarship to Hunter Faulkner; and $1000 to Christian Hopkins for his last year of college.

Both Christian and Hunter will be encouraged to apply for the Pat Nowlin Scholarship through the state CowBelles. Merry Jo Fahl, a member of the committee for the Wildfire Protection Plan, gave a short talk regarding wildfire preparedness and told of ways to reduce the risk of fire damage to homes. A large animal rescue class will be held on April 14 at 8 a.m. at the San Antonio Fire Station, Hwy 380 east of I-25 for those who are interested in attending. The meeting was adjourned at 1:12 p.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the home of Kelsey McCollum, April 11 with eight members present. Sandy McKenna, president, opened the meeting with Invocation, pledge and creed. One of the dear continued on page 20 >>

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members and friend, Dorothy Billberry, passed away with services to be held April 13 in Clovis. A memorial will be sent to Pat Nowlin Scholarship fund in her memory.

The scholarship committee had met and the following two students will receive the $500 scholarships: Amanda Sleep, Ft. Sumner, and Brandon Gutierrez, Santa Rosa.

Under Old Business, the bar-b-que plate will be served at the Old Fort Days, June 8 in the school cafeteria. Beverly Overton and Karen Cortese, coordinators, will have sign up sheets at May 9 meeting for workers and desserts. Sandy and Kelsey also reminded the group of the Southwest District 4-H meeting to be held Thursday, June 20 in Ft. Sumner and all will be helping prepare, serve and clean-up for 400 people. All members are asked to mark calendars for both events with red letters! Under New Business, the group were asked to supply the Ft. Sumner Womens Club annual banquet honoring AB Honor Roll students with hamburger patties. The program consisted of members sharing their favorite thing and it was so enjoyed by everyone.

From a live baby lamb to turquoise jewelry to wedding band from a spouses grand-

mother to handmade quilts to flowers and meeting to follow at Pete’s Restaurant given 20 years ago that do not die, and the in Belen. Ericka Garcia, Kaite Thompson and stories that came with each item was a Anne Hodnett were the winners of the Beef blessing for sure! GREAT FUN IDEA! Joan Ambassador contest. The program included Key, Secretary lots of good information from Brenda The regular monthly meeting of the Logan-Ag in the Classroom. AnnounceChuckwagon Cowbelles’ was held at the ments: May 6-8 – ANCW Region VI Sunrise Mountainair Assembly of God Church in Resort Bear Lake, Utah May 28-30 – WALC, Mountainair. The meeting was called to Albuquerque NM. r/s Welda Grider, Secretary order at 10:30 by President Lyn Greene on Mesilla Valley CowBelles held a virtual April 9, 2019. The CowBelle Invocation, meeting for updates: 1. Ag Days (KKM) will Pledge of Allegiance, & CowBelle Creed was be May 9-10, 2019 at the Farm and Ranch recited. Two Guests were welcomed. Heritage Museum. Needing individual(s) to Minutes from February 12, 2019 (no meeting help with Beef Presentation. Each session in March) were accepted as mailed. Trea- is 15 minutes, seven times each day. Please surer report, Presentation of Bills & let Janet or Teresa Dean know if you can Membership report. Mountainair Rodeo help. 2. LCPS Calendar Art Judging is May Committee sent a notification. By acclama- 14, 2019. More information to follow. 3. tion, it was decided to again pay the fee to NMCB Mid-Year meeting will be June 9-11, display banner at the Rodeo Grounds. Fund 2019 in Ruidoso, NM. The previous dates of raising is progressing quite well. The raffle June 7-9 as announced are for 2020. More will end at NMCB Mid-Year Meeting with information in upcoming NMCB Wrangler the drawing held at that time. Handbook and NM Stockman for this event. pages were distributed Discussion of May Gretchen Lindsay Winery Tour which is the Jaramillo Winery.

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in 1941. Opal’s parents, D.O. and Mattie Jones, came to Lincoln County in 1914 LaMoyne’s great grandmother, Sophie and were farmers and ranchers who Pfingsten came from Trinidad, Colorado, ran Hereford cattle also. Opal inherited to Angus, New Mexico, with a herd of some of her parent’s ranch which helped cattle. Bar E X Brand belonged to Sophie expand her and LaMoyne’s ranching Pfingsten. She had the Bar E X brand at operation. Opal Peters taught school in that time and registered it in the New Capitan for 28 years. Much of her salary Mexico Territory at Las Vegas, New was used to expand and support the Mexico, in 1881. Her husband was a gold cattle ranch. miner and had little interest in the cattle.

Glenda Peters Armstrong is LaMoyne’s Her daughter Emma Pfingsten Peters & Opal’s only child. She married Leslie Bragg, who was LaMoyne’s grandmother, Armstrong in 1962. Leslie’s grandparents continued to raise cattle in Lincoln were also ranchers who ran Hereford County. cattle. Jim & Elizabeth Armstrong brought Gilbert Peters, who was LaMoyne’s some of the first registered Hereford father, also continued to run cattle in into Catron County and ran Hereford Lincoln County. LaMoyne’s mother was cattle in Catron County until the 1940s.

Chloe Zumwalt Peters. She cared for an His other set of grandparents, Sid & Edna elderly man for years to help acquire the Armstrong, ranched with Hereford cattle first piece of the ranch. LaMoyne was in Catron County until 1965. (Yes, both their only child. LaMoyne took his col- sides of his family were Armstrongs) lege money to buy more land in Lincoln Leslie and Glenda have three children: County. He and Opal Jones were married Renee Armstrong Grant(Kevin), Lynden Armstrong, and Tanya Armstrong Bequette. These three grandLaMoyne & children have Opal in their given LaMoyne and Opal four backyard, 1988. greatgrandchildren: Kyra Grant Monzingo(Justin), Rhett Grant, Kenzie Bequette, and Kagan Bequette.

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enough to run a herd of registered Hereford cattle and a herd of registered Angus cattle. The long range plan was to use their own bulls on their commercial cattle. As Lincoln County became crowded with people it became evident that it would be necessary to expand somewhere else. In 1976 expansion was started into DeBaca County. Three ranches have now been purchased in DeBaca County. The first hay producing farm was purchased in 1979 in DeBaca County.

Irrigated circles were also purchased and feed is now grown to background some of the calves. These purchases helped with the realization of the second part of LaMoyne’s & Opal’s dream – to produce some of their own feed for the cattle. In 2000 the ranch name was established as Cornerstone Ranch with Ephesians 2:20 as the ranch motto: Jesus Christ being the Chief Cornerstone.

A registered Angus herd was started in 2005. Cross commercial cattle were also purchased in 2005. The next year it was plain to see that the commercial black calves were not near the cattle that the Hereford calves were, plus the fact that the Hereford calves outweighed the black calves by several pounds. The calf buyer made the following comment – when you have worked on your black cattle as long as you have the Herefords you will see a different set ofblack cattle from the ones you have today.

In 2017 one of our buyers told us that we could paint our Hereford cattle black

and our Angus cattle red and white and he wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

With the passion that LaMoyne instilled in his family, we strive to produce functional cattle that fit our southwest environment and fulfill his dream for our family.

LaMoyne passed away in 2013.

Today, four generations live and work on the ranch. Opal Peters turned 99 in December 2018. Glenda & Leslie Armstrong, Kevin & Renee Grant, and Justin & Kyra Monzingo, along with the rest of the family, strive to uphold vision and values that Gil & Chloe and Opal & LaMoyne instilled in the family in the day to day operations of the ranch.

Give us a call sometime or come see us, we would love to visit!

LaMoyne Peters shooting a six-shooter from atop a pet bull. LaMoyne once returned an entire bull battery to the Peters Ranch while riding this bull and trailing the rest of the herd.

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“Pursuing a post-graduate degree is something that takes drive and dedication, and it’s not cheap,” said Tom Sidwell, NMCGA President, Quay. “For some careers, it’s a necessity. We want to encourage students who come from an agricultural background pursue their goals, and at the same time, hope to broaden production agriculture awareness in non-typical agricultural fields.”

Applicants must be New Mexico residents, have a background in beef cattle production, and be pursuing a post-graduate degree. Financial need will be considered, but is not a prerequisite. Preference will be given to NMCGA members and their families. Scholarship applications are available on the NMCGA website, www. nmagriculture.org, or by calling the office at 505-247-0584.

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

Applications must be received in the NMCGA office by May 27, 2019. They should be sent to: New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, Attention: Graduate Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. Applications can also be emailed to nmcga@nmagriculture.org and must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. on May 27.

The scholarship will be awarded at the NMCGA’s Mid-Year Meeting, scheduled for June 9-11, 2019 in Ruidoso.

The NMCGA has represented the ranchers in New Mexico and the West since 1914 and has members in all 33 of the state’s counties as well as some 19 other states.

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Even though I’ve owned cattle since I was a sophomore in high school I’ve never been a “rancher”. I had my first “cow herd” as a junior in high school consisting of four registered Angus heifers and a bull and my first job out of college was being a cowboy, But I still wasn’t a rancher. Even when I had 100 cows, two loads of stockers on grass and 100 head of fat heifers in a feedlot I never considered myself a rancher. A cattleman? Yes. A rancher? No. Even though I aspired to be one ever since I rode my first horse, I never was a rancher because I never owned a ranch.

Although I had all the accouterments: a Stetson, silver buckle, boots, a cow dog to ride in the back of my truck, a rope, spurs, a pair of hay hooks and a brand (US on the right hip), I never had that one thing that would make me a rancher: real estate.

Ever since I got my first subscription to a cow newspaper as a kid, I yearned to own one of the ranches advertised for sale. I drooled over ranches and dreamed of one that I wouldn’t have to drive for half an hour to get to. I desperately wanted a place I could build a proper handling facility and a decent shack for my wonder horse Gentleman. But who wants to make improvements on a leased ranch that belongs to someone else? And so I got by with facilities that made me the laughing stock of the county. You can imagine the ribbing I took every time they helped me work cattle in corrals that included a set of bed springs, a dairy stanchion and the hood of a ‘56 Cadillac. (The dairy business must have been good in 1956.)

I looked for a ranch that made economic sense but never found one. If I did buy a place that cost five grand per cow/ calf unit I wouldn’t have any money left to stock it. That’s another thing I’ve never had that many ranchers have and that’s a bank loan. I didn’t want the cows to

own me so I haven’t financed one hoof of livestock ever since I had to buy my first steer with a bank loan that gave me ulcers when I was 16!

We don’t go in debt for anything.

We’ve owned our own home outright for 35 years and have started eight successful businesses and every one was self-financed. I have no doubt that using OPM (other people’s money) I could have been a big shot by now, but I’m terribly insecure. I’ve been poor before and didn’t like it much.

There’s other reasons I can’t be called a rancher. I’ve never owned an ATV, cattle truck, or tractor nor do I have any desire to do so. And because I never hired anyone to do something I could do, I’ve never had a hired-hand either, although my wife would argue that point.

I’m ashamed that I never achieved “rancher” status. I’ll never forget the time I was at a bull sale where some loud mouth tried to embarrass me in front of my friends by saying, “You’re no cattleman, you’re just a newspaper peddler.

You don’t have any skin in the game.”

At the time I owned a weekly cattle newspaper, was working 100 cattle sales a year as a ring man, was the announcer for the nation’s second largest cattle video auction, and all our assets were tied up in things that went “moo.” I sure felt like a cattleman.

My wife doesn’t consider me a rancher either. While I was traveling she was overseeing our cow herd, lambing out our flock of sheep, and receiving loads of trader cows in our broken down facilities that I bought cheap. She still reminds me of the 105 degree day I dumped three loads of trader cows on her while she dealt with three sets of triplet lambs that refused to identify with their crazy mothers. This was all squeezed around working eight hours at her job as a cashier in a grocery store. Believe me, when we talked that night on the phone she called me a lot of names, but none of them was “rancher”.

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Checkoff Reform Bill Reintroduced in the Senate

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Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act (OFF Act) of 2019. The same bill, then co-sponsored by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), was excluded from the farm bill during the 2018 mark up. Paul and Warren have returned to co-sponsor OFF again in 2019.

The senators say contractors are misusing checkoff funds, in some cases, for example, by using fees their constituents pay into the program to lobby for legislation that might work against their interests.

In a news release, the senators say the OFF Act would: ЇЇ Clarify and fortify the prohibition on checkoff programs from contracting with organizations that lobby on agricultural policy ЇЇ Establishes program standards that prohibit anticompetitive behavior and engaging in activities that may involve a conflict of interest Requires transparency through publication of checkoff program budgets and expenditures, and means for audits of compliance

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he Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion & Research Board (CBB) has named Gregory Hanes of Colorado as its new chief executive officer, effective June 17, the organization said in a news release.

Hanes takes over for Scott Stuart, who was named CBB CEO in December 2017. The association did not announce Stuart’s departure or provide any additional background.

Hanes joins the CBB from the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) in Denver,where he most recently was vice president of international marketing programs. Hanes also served as the USMEF liaison to the beef industry and worked closed with a variety of national and state beef organizations.

From 2006 to 2009, he was the director of the USMEF’s Tokyobased office, where he was responsible for all activities occurring in Japan. During his time as the USMEF Japan director, Hanes lived in Japan for nearly 11 years.

Hanes currently serves as the chair of the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council (USAEDC), a group composed of 80 U.S. commodity trade associations, farmer cooperatives and state regional trade groups from around the country, representing the interests of growers and processors of U.S. agricultural products.

In addition to a master’s degree in international management with an emphasis in marketing from the Thunderbird School of Management at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Hanes also holds a B.A. in economics from Colorado College. He was born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyo.

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fter 34 years with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), the past four as CEO, Kendal Frazier announced his plans for retirement in late April. Frazier’s career began as a farm broadcaster in Kansas, where he also served as director of communications for Kansas Livestock Association, before moving to Denver, Colorado, to join the staff of the National Cattlemen’s Association (NCA), predecessor organization to NCBA. During his career, he served the beef industry through some of its most challenging times and events.

When NCA merged with the National

Livestock and Meat Board in 1996, Frazier was a member of the team who worked with staff and beef industry volunteer leaders to address a steep decline in demand, helping to address the consumer concerns which had led to losses in market share and falling prices. This work ultimately helped to reverse those declines and set the industry on a new, consumer‐focused path.

Frazier was also instrumental in helping secure the passage of the checkoff referendum and worked to secure resources for the first checkoff funded public relations and issues management work conducted

by NCBA as a contractor to the Beef Checkoff in 1998. That prescient work would prove to be vital to the long‐term success of the beef industry in 2003, when the first domestic case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was announced. The work done by Frazier and the NCBA team helped maintain consumer confidence around the globe and ensured that every effort to minimize the impact on the beef industry was minimized.

NCBA will begin the search process to select a new CEO immediately, and Frazier will remain in place to assist with the transition process, until Dec. 31, 2019.

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

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n unusual set of circumstances led to the shooting death of Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputy W. L. Jerrell in February 1884.

On New Year’s Eve in 1883, two men dressed in the style of miners, dismounted their horses and walked into Barncastle’s store in the town of Doña Ana, north of Las Cruces. They produced pistols and robbed the store of several hundred dollars but overlooked several thousand dollars stashed in a safe. They tied up storeowner John Barncastle and warned him, upon pain of death, not to stir until they were out of sight.

Barncastle was not intimidated. He had arrived in New Mexico with the California Column in the early 1860s. He’d remained after the close of the Civil War, married a local woman, Josefa Melendres, and was successful as a merchant and stockman.

He’d also served as county treasurer and ran

Stage Robbers Kill Deputy Sheriff for senator from the southern part of the territory. A posse was quickly organized and Barncastle offered an initial reward of $100 for the capture of the thieves, dead or alive.

Neither the pursuit nor the reward resulted in the capture of the bandits. By late January, other citizens of substance had contributed and the reward was up to $1,000. One of the outlaws had been identified as George Hester.

A man named Walters had gone after Hester and it had been agreed that his expenses would come out of the reward money. Some days later, Walters wired back to Las Cruces that he had traced Hester to Seven Rivers in southeastern New Mexico, but that he needed more money to continue the chase. Another man, H. C. Harding, was sent along with additional funds and instructions to assist Walters. Word soon reached Barncastle that Harding never got past El Paso where he pawned his gun, the 1

coat the storekeeper had loaned him, and gambled away the expense money.

Word also reached Las Cruces that Hester had left Seven Rivers and was headed southeast to Fort Concho, near San Angelo, Texas. W. L. Jerrell, owner of the Montezuma billiard hall in Las Cruces, volunteered to go after the outlaw and Sheriff Guadalupe Ascarate appointed him deputy.

By early February, Jarrell had reached San Angelo and had apparently met with no success in locating Hester. On the morning of February 5, he boarded a stagecoach bound for Abilene. Also aboard the coach was Sgt. L. S. Turnbo of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers.

A few miles outside San Angelo, the coach met another stage coming from Abilene. Its driver reported that he’d been robbed just a few miles back. The driver of Jerrell’s coach elected to continue his run.

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only Jarrell and Turnbo were armed. They drew their guns and held them at the ready in the event of hold-up. Soon a shot was heard and bandits ordered the stage to halt.

Jarrell immediately fired at one of the outlaws, who fired back. Turnbo also opened fire and a bandit clasped his hands to his stomach and fell to the ground. The horses bolted and the stage raced away from the scene of the attempted robbery as the thieves continued to fire at the vehicle. Several bullets pierced the coach and one passenger was slightly wounded, but two bullets hit Jarrell: one hit him in the back and one broke his collarbone. The coach hurried back to San Angelo where Deputy Jarrell died later the same day.

The officer was initially buried in San Angelo, but later exhumed and returned to

Las Cruces for interment. The City of San of nerve and brave as a lion.”

Angelo paid all transportation and burial costs for Deputy Jarrell.

Endnotes History does not record that George Seven Rivers was located about 15 miles north of Hester was ever captured and prosecuted present day Carlsbad. Nothing of the original town for the Barncastle robbery, nor does it remains today.

Jarrell is also said to have owned mining properties record that the stagecoach robbers who killed W. L. Jarrell were ever captured and in the Organ Mountains and at White Oaks.

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EPA Won’t Regulate Pollution that Moves Through Groundwater Ariel Wittenberg and Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E News reporters

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PA won’t regulate any pollution to surface waters that passes through groundwater.

The Clean Water Act regulates pollution to surface water and requires permits for so-called point-source discharges to them.

But questions have remained about whether the law regulates any pollution that ends up in surface waters, or only direct discharges.

EPA now says it’s the latter.

“The agency concludes that the best, if not the only, reading of the Clean Water Act is that Congress intentionally chose to exclude all releases of pollutants to groundwater from the [point source] program, even where pollutants are conveyed to jurisdictional surface waters via groundwater,” the agency wrote in an interpretive statement posted online in mid-April, 2019.

If pollution travels through groundwater, EPA says, it “breaks the causal chain” between a source of pollution and surface waters.

That could affect regulation of pollution from a variety of sources, including seepage from coal ash and manure management ponds, sewage collection systems, septic system discharges, and accidental spills and releases.

The guidance comes as the Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments on the same issue.

But the memo contradicts arguments EPA and the Department of Justice made on the same case three years ago.

“The case law does not require the means by which the pollutant discharged from a point source reaches a water of the United States to be a point source,” the agencies wrote in a brief to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in County of Maui, Hawaii v.

Hawai’i Wildlife Fund.

That 2016 brief further concludes that while the Clean Water Act clearly does not regulate groundwater, the law does cover “the movement of pollutants to jurisdictional surface waters through groundwater with a direct hydrological connection.”

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The 9th Circuit ultimately agreed with the agencies, as did the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a separate case.

The Supreme Court takes up the 9th Circuit case this fall.

EPA’s memo also contradicts multiple regulations dating back to the 1990s related to specific sources of pollution, including those for combined animal feeding operations, and feedlots, which clarify that while groundwater pollution itself is not to be regulated, pollution that reaches surface water is.

Now, however, EPA argues that the Clean Water Act clearly does not extend to such pollution, and that arguments it made before the 9th Circuit “take insufficient account of the explicit treatment of groundwater in the Clean Water Act.” Because the Clean Water Act mentions groundwater only in reference to guidance and funding for states and because the act does not include groundwater in any of its regulatory sections, EPA now says “any circumstance in which a pollutant is released from a point source to groundwater is categorically excluded from the Clean Water Act’s coverage.”

“When analyzing the statute in a holistic fashion, Congress’ intent becomes evident: Congress did not intend for the [point source] program to address any pollutant discharges to groundwater, even where groundwater may be hydrologically connected to surface waters,” EPA writes.

“While no single provision of the Clean Water Act expressly addressed whether pollutants discharged from a point source that reach jurisdictional surface waters through groundwater are subject to ... permitting requirements, when analyzing the statute in a holistic fashion, congressional intent becomes evident,” the statement says.

Vermont Law School professor Pat Parenteau said he was surprised EPA didn’t opt for a more nuanced approach.

“I thought they would tighten the direct hydrological connection [standard] with space and time,” he said. “They could have layered that with lots of requirements that would have made it very difficult for these citizen suits to go forward.”

Environmental groups acknowledge that the landmark environmental law does not regulate groundwater itself but say that’s not the same as allowing pollution to reach surface water if it travels through groundwater. continued on page 32 >>

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They have argued in favor of regulating surface water pollution when it can be directly traced back to a point source, regardless of whether it first traveled through groundwater.

That’s what happened in the Maui case, where environmentalists sued the county alleging a link between municipal wastewater injection wells and pollution that seeped through groundwater into the Pacific Ocean (Greenwire, Feb. 19).

Earthjustice lawyer David Henkin, who represents the environmentalists in the case, slammed EPA’s new interpretation as a political move.

“This notion that discharges that reach navigable waters via groundwater were not covered under the Clean Water Act is a total repudiation of four decades of consistent EPA positions,” he told E&E News. “It just makes it clear that this is purely political and not based on any principal.”

Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Frank Holleman said EPA’s guidance is a handout to polluters, noting that it would exclude discharges made even inches away from waterways if the pollution first traveled through groundwater.

“They are exempting major lakes and rivers from the Clean Water Act protections whenever a polluter doesn’t extend their pipe all the way,” he said.

He said it is “illogical” to exclude groundwater-to-surface-water pollution from regulation, saying that in some cases, the cause of pollution is “as easy to trace as pollution that falls through the air before landing in waterways.”

EPA’s arguments that it is merely adhering to the Clean Water Act don’t hold water, Holleman said.

He noted that the list of examples of regulated point sources in the Clean Water Act itself includes sources like wells, combined animal feeding operations and rolling stock that do not discharge pollution directly into surface water.

“Obviously you don’t put a well in a river; you put it in the ground nearby,” he said.

“But logical consistency, statutory language and protecting the nation’s water resources are not the goals of this administration.”

Supreme Court case looms Holleman said he hopes Supreme Court justices will see those inconsistencies when the high court considers the Maui case this fall.

Former EPA lawyer Kevin Minoli, now at the law firm Alston & Bird LLP, said EPA’s interpretation might earn less deference in the Supreme Court case, given that the agency crafted it in response to litigation and without going through a full rulemaking process under the Administrative Procedure Act. “All those things lessen its value in front of the Supreme Court,” he said. “It may be different if this was a long-standing interpretation that was done through a notice-and-comment rulemaking under the APA. That’s when you get into the world of deference. When it’s developed during litigation, in response to litigation, it is not going to be generally as persuasive or influential to the court.”

Minoli also said the policy falls far short of EPA’s goal to clarify the issue because the new interpretation does not apply in areas where courts have already ruled otherwise.

That includes the 9th and 4th circuits, which cover 14 states in the West and Mid-Atlantic regions.

“It perpetuates the uncertainty for years to come,” he said. “It locks in, until the Supreme Court decides, differential treatment depending on what state you’re in.”

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NMSU Launches Mobile-Accessible database of Navajo Nation Rangeland Plants

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New Mexico State University has launched a mobile-accessible web database, “Selected Plants of Navajo Rangelands” at navajorange.nmsu.edu, to help agricultural professionals, ranchers and others on the Navajo Nation identify typical range plants to help maximize rangeland ecology, productivity and sustainability.

Gerald Moore, Navajo Tri-State Federally-Recognized Tribes Extension agent, identified a need for updated educational resources for Navajo rangelands management.

“We had a 1981 publication Navajo Nation Range Management Handbook from the University of Arizona, but it was not in color, or Internet accessible,” Moore said.

Moore turned to NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Innovative Media Research and Extension department to help design the new tool, “Selected Plants of Navajo Rangelands.”

“This website is the first of its kind with the Navajo plant name written and spoken,” Moore said.

The “Selected Plants of Navajo Rangelands” website includes information about 198 Navajo rangeland plants. Plants are identified by both their English and Navajo names.

They are also searchable by plant type, common name, scientific name, flower color, habitat, growing season or special concerns.

“The website includes easy to see information about each plant, such as if it is good forage or toxic to livestock and wildlife; if there are any dangers for humans, such as poisonous, or causes skin and eye irritation; or if it is invasive or noxious,” Moore said. “The page also identifies positive use of the plant in rangeland management such as stabilizes soil, drought-tolerant or prevents erosion.”

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the same information and is intended for download to a mobile device for use in the field.

“I think it will be a useful tool. I wished it had been available when I was doing rangeland management workshops on the Navajo Nation,” said Nick Ashcroft, former NMSU Extension range management specialist.

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Feedback from 44 agricultural leaders, including farmers, ranchers and land officials, indicated that 95 percent believed people in their community would use these resources. They cited images, plant name and spoken Navajo as the most useful aspect of the tool.

The group surveyed was evenly divided between those who primarily used Navajo names for plants and those who primarily use English names for plants. A small minority used scientific names and one respondent used Hopi names.

“The agricultural leaders felt the guide would be useful to their friends, children, teachers, parents and grandparents, with more than half of respondents specifying its usefulness to children,” said Amy Smith Muise, editor with NMSU’s Innovative Media Research and Extension department.

“Nearly all respondents, 95 percent, felt that this guide would help the next generation and that it would support healthy rangeland management.”

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contract is easily created and can take many forms. The most familiar is a formal written document, but with certain exceptions (such as a real estate contract for sale) a contract can be valid if made verbally or even if written on the back of a napkin. Any contract is valid so long as an offer is made and accepted, both parties have the mental capacity to make a contract, the contract has a legal subject matter, and the contract is grounded on some form of mutual benefit (i.e., “consideration”).

Once a valid contract is made, however, it is not so easy to get out of. Without appropriate contract terms, the unwary may suffer unintended consequences. There is no limit to the different kinds of provisions that may be included in a contract. Nevertheless, some important contract provisions include land descriptions; liability and indemnity clauses; default, termination, and waiver clauses; venue and choice of governing law clauses; attorney fees; and contract terms providing clarity.

agreement to accept liability for the other person’s actions and without a provision to limit liability can result in being liable for simple negligence. For example, a landowner may lease his or her land to a lessee to allow the lessee to graze cattle. If one of the lessee’s cattle escape onto a roadway and causes a car accident, the car accident victim may include the landowner in a lawsuit to recover personal injuries. If the landowner included an indemnity clause in the lease requiring the lessee to fully indemnify the landowner, the lessee would be fully liable for the lawsuit with the car accident victim. On the other hand, a party to a contract may agree to be liable for only his or her own knowingly willful or intentional acts. Determining which degree of liability is appropriate will depend on the purpose of the contract and what each party is willing to accept.

Default, Termination, and Waiver Clauses. Default and termination clauses allow parties to terminate a contract for a breach of contract or other reason. Without a default clause, parties to a contract may have to resort to the courts to determine what should happen if a breach of contract occurs. This can be time consuming and

expensive. Even in absence of a breach or default, a termination clause that allows the parties to terminate the contract within so many days after providing written notice may allow the parties to get out of a contract that suddenly becomes undesirable or the parties’ relationship turns sour. In addition, a waiver clause should be included in a contract with a default clause. Without a waiver clause, a party may not be able to terminate a contract if the party accepts some cure of a default from the other party.

For example under a contract containing a waiver clause, if one party fails to make a timely payment, the other party may accept a late payment without waiving his or her right to terminate the contract for a default regarding payments.

Venue and Choice of Governing Law. Designating a particular venue in a contract means that disputes involving the contract will be heard by a particular court; generally in a particular county and state. Moreover, a particular state’s law can be designated as the law governing the interpretation of a contract. These provisions can be especially important when each party to a contract lives in different states. If no venue or choice of governing law is designated, a

Land Descriptions. It is vitally important to include a detailed description of the land in any contract involving land or real estate. Such contracts may include leases, easements, and contracts for sale. Not only may it be required by law to include a description of the land (such as in contracts involving real estate), but it is also important to avoid confusion or unanticipated results. Fence-lines or other property boundary markers are frequently inaccurate. A detailed land description can help a landowner know where the true property boundaries are to prevent squatters and adverse possession claims. For easements, describing each parcel that is to benefit from an easement may prevent the easement from being lost as to certain parcels if they are later subdivided and conveyed to someone else. For leases, if a lease is too broad and the lessor does not specifically describe the land to be leased, the lessee may choose to use lands the lessor did not intend the lessee to use.

Liability and Indemnity Clauses.

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court may have to determine venue and law key terms are not included in a contract. For based on which state the defendant resides example, without a definition of what a in. This can be very inconvenient and det- “mineral” is, an oil and gas company could rimental for a party who lives in the western end up being entitled to valuable dinosaur part of the United States and who is suing fossils rather than the landowner. Further, a large company headquartered in blank spaces should never be allowed to Delaware. remain in a contract. There is no guarantee that the blank space will be filled in later, Attorney Fees. The general rule is that and will likely lead to considerable litigation each party bears his or her own attorney if not filled in before a dispute occurs. This fees. Parties can deviate from that general can be particularly true if a certain number rule by drafting a provision for attorney fees or price is omitted, and the number or price to be paid by the losing party, or by a par- changes over time or the parties have difticularly designated party. Often, such ferent expectations of what the number or clauses are included in a contract in an price should be. Generally, a court will effort to discourage litigation. However, enforce the terms of a contract without caution should be taken by a party con- resorting to outside evidence. However, if tracting with a much larger or more affluent a contract is unclear, a court will require the party. In this regard, a modest landowner parties to produce evidence of what their may not want to risk having to pay a large intentions were, which could also include company’s expensive attorney fees if the the necessity of expert testimony. If an landowner happens to lose. expert’s testimony is needed, it can be expected that the party will spend a subContract Terms Providing Clarity. stantial amount of time and money on Contract clarity is crucial to avoiding signif- litigation. icant litigation. Misused or misspelled words can result in changing the meaning Conclusion. In the end, these are only of an entire contract. It can be impossible some of the potential provisions and issues to predict how any term in a contract will that can be encountered in a contract and be interpreted, especially if definitions of it is impossible to thoroughly discuss in this

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article every possibility. Every contract term raises numerous pros and cons which will vary depending on individual circumstances, and which should be discussed in detail with a qualified attorney. Conferring with a qualified attorney before signing a contract can save thousands of dollars later down the road when unanticipated situations arise.

Bethany A. Gross is an Associate Attorney with the Falen Law Offices, LLC with a primary focus on property, environment and natural resources law.

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Judge Shoots Down N.M. Ranchers’ Claims Against Air Force

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federal judge has grounded the claims of New Mexico ranchers who blamed the Air Force for earth-hugging overflights and loss of a wind energy lease.

U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler on Friday dismissed the two-pronged Fifth Amendment takings challenge brought by ranchers Buddy and Donna Taylor.

The Taylors have owned and operated since 1999 a 6,395-acre cattle ranch located near New Mexico’s Cannon Air Force Base as well as a training range. They have two beefs with the Air Force, both potentially relevant to other property owners and wind energy developers.

“In their complaint, the Taylors claim that the [Air Force’s] actions amounted to both a physical and regulatory taking of their property under the Fifth Amendment,” Wheeler noted.

Cannon is home to the Air Commandos of the 27th Special Operations Wing, who handle an assortment of what the Air Force calls “special missions” that include “infiltration/exfiltration.” According to the Taylors, Air Force pilots have “regularly” flown about 20 to 500 feet above their land during training.

Other property owners elsewhere have been similarly aggrieved by military overflights, though these complaints can be a hard sell.

To succeed, courts have ruled, property owners must show that planes flew directly over their land, the flights were frequent and at a low altitude, and the flights “directly and immediately interfered” with the owners’ enjoyment and use of the land.

In 2012, for instance, a Virginia resident

named Jeanette Andrews sued over the Administration would not issue a required noise and vibrations erupting from the “no-hazard” determination for the tall turF/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighter jets flying bines of the GreenWing project. out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Sometimes, these FAA determinations Beach. The claims court dismissed the case, spur controversy. citing a lack of “factual support.”

In 2010 the agency issued 130 “no-hazWheeler concluded the Taylors, as in the ard” determinations for an offshore wind Andrews case, failed to back up their claim farm proposed on Nantucket Sound. A about the frequency of overflights. group called the Alliance to Protect Nan“Notwithstanding the [Air Force’s] alleged tucket Sound, among others, successfully interference, the Taylors continue to challenged FAA’s initial action, and in 2017 perform their cattle ranching operations the developer pulled the plug on the Cape se emingly without interruption,” Wind project (Greenwire, Dec. 19, 2017).

Wheeler noted.

In the Taylors’ case, though, Wheeler The alleged regulatory taking involved noted that FAA never issued a determinaa 2008 lease contract between the Taylors tion one way or another concerning and a company called Wind Energy Proto- GreenWing. types LLC. The lease would have allowed “The FAA’s purported informal indication use of land for the GreenWing project, of its position is not a sufficiently clear deciwhich was to include turbines more than sion,” Wheeler stated, adding that he 200 feet tall. “cannot review the Taylors’ claim because it The lease provided an option term fee is not yet ripe.” of $3 per acre per year, plus additional royAnd even if an FAA determination had alties depending on whether wind turbines been issued, the government argued in a were constructed on the property. Wind brief, a “hazard/no hazard determination is Energy, though, exercised its option in 2012 advisory and does not have legal effect in to terminate the lease. authorizing the FAA to prevent plaintiffs (or The Taylors blamed Cannon Air Force anyone else) from constructing turbines on Base officials for allegedly suggesting to this property.”

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A candidate’s policy, Bernhardt at Interior and astrophysicists on your ranch

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Warren tells us “it is wrong to prioritize corporate profits over the health and safety of our local communities.” Therefore, she says, “on my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that says no more drilling — a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases, including for drilling offshore and on public lands.” A stroke of the pen and we have a moratorium. Keep in mind

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She also accuses Trump of committing “the single biggest rollback of protected lands in U.S. history” and states “I will use my authorities under the Antiquities Act to restore protections to both monuments (Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante) and any other national monuments targeted by this Administration.”

Warren has plans for the Land and Water Conservation Fund too, declaring she would make spending on the program “mandatory.” It will not matter what else happens to the budget – war, depression, overall spending cuts – fully funding this land acquisition program must happen.

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Warren has a plan for some of those who lose their jobs. “I will recruit 10,000 young people and veterans to jump-start a 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps — and increase the budget of AmeriCorps’ oneyear fellowship program to fund it. This will create job opportunities for thousands of young Americans caring for our natural resources and public lands, deepening their lifelong relationship with the great outdoors” she says. I guess the rest will begin a “lifelong relationship” with being unemployed.

No matter what moniker you put on these proposals – the Pocahontas Public Lands Policy, the Progressives Public Lands Policy, the Putrid Public Lands Policy, or Warren’s War on the West – you can summarize it as follows: Profits are bad Oil is bad ЇЇ National monuments and the like are good ЇЇ Even the small puddles on your property will be regulated ЇЇ Federal acquisition of land will be mandatory, and ЇЇ Thousands will lose their jobs There is your peek at the progressive-enviro agenda. I hope you enjoyed it. ЇЇ ЇЇ

New boss at Interior The U.S. Senate has confirmed David Bernhardt as the new Secretary of Interior.

Bernhardt had served as the deputy secretary since 2017 and as the acting secretary since former Secretary Zinke resigned in January of this year. During the George W. Bush administration Bernhardt had served as deputy chief of staff and counselor to then-Secretary of Interior Gale Norton.

Later in the Bush administration he was named as DOI’s director of congressional and legislative affairs. In 2006 President Bush nominated him to be the solicitor of the department. Bernhardt was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and held that position until leaving the department in 2009.

Bernhardt then returned to the Colorado-based law and lobbying firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Shreck, became chair of their natural resources law division and represented clients such as the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Westlands Water District in California, which just happens to be the largest irrigation district in the country. Interestingly, on behalf of Westlands, he sued

Interior over their restrictions imposed to protect an endangered salmon. It is this period as a lobbyist that has created much of the controversy surrounding his nomination. Opponents claimed he had represented so many clients on different issues that it raised a myriad of ethical and conflict of interest issues.

The vote to confirm Bernhardt as Secretary was 51-46. The two New Mexico senators split their vote, with Tom Udall voting no and Martin Heinrich voting yes.

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE

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Inheriting the Family Farm

he latest statistics show that less then two percent of the population is directly involved in production agriculture. It is a function of an increasing overall population and a limited amount of farm ground. Technology is able to keep up,

so that less bodies are required to produce an ever increasing cornucopia of food and fiber.

But on a personal level the story isn’t quite so simple.

Tom was raised on a dairy farm in the

Great Lake region; 300 cows, 900 acres. His grandfather established the farm and passed it down to Tom’s father.

Tom’s childhood memories are of work.

By the time his mother came in to wake him and his two brothers for school, she and dad had already finished the morning milking. By nine years of age he was already part of the family farm. Until he was old enough to milk he pushed cows to the barn, fed calves, forked silage and did whatever kids do, which was plenty.

High school activities like dances, meetings, sports and girls all hinged around milking time and chores. He didn’t need to work at McDonalds during summer vacation. If he wanted work there was plenty at home.

He went to college. His two brothers left to work elsewhere. Now Tom is 33, married with kids and has a good job at the local Coop. Dad has been using hired labor since the boys left, but Dad is getting older.

Tom makes his daily rounds, does his job and is active in the community. But hovering over everything he does is that niggling feeling that maybe he should go back to the farm.

Afterall, it is a showplace. The results of uncountable man hours and love and sweat poured into it by two generations preceding him. It made him the good man that he is. And he could run it well if he chose to.

Guilt rides him like the winter fog off Lake Michigan.

In my opinion Tom need not feel guilty.

Nor should his parents place that onus upon the shoulders of their inheritors. Each person had their own calling.

But I would suggest that there are many with no inheritance who would leap at the chance to own a farm. Immigrants, hired men, college grads, feed salesmen and pencil pushin’ farm boys whose dream is to work their own place.

It would be ideal if both the parents and their kids could cooperate to actively seek out those potential pardners and integrate them into the operation. With the idea they could eventually buy it out. It would be to everyone’s relief and good for the continuing productivity of the farm. In other words, take’m into the family.

To farm you must love the land. That’s the only reason I can think of that explains why farming is an occupation where labor is never counted as a business expense.

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USDA Launches New Tools to Help Manage Loans, H2A Applications Source: USDA

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griculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced in early April, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched two new features on farmers. govto help customers manage their farm loans and navigate the application process for H-2A visas.

“Customer service is our top priority at USDA and these new features will help our customers as they manage their farm loans and navigate the H-2A temporary agricultural visa program,” said Perdue. “In my travels across the country, I have consistently heard people express a desire for greater use of technology in the way we deliver programs at USDA. As we adopt new technology, we are introducing simple yet innovative approaches to support our farmers, ranchers, producers, and foresters as they support the nation every day. It’s my goal to make USDA the most effective, most efficient, most customer-focused department in the entire federal government, and farmers.gov is a big step in that direction.”

In 2018, Secretary Perdue unveiled farmers.gov, a dynamic, mobile-friendly public website combined with an authenticated portal where customers will be able to apply for programs, process transactions and manage accounts.

collaborate further with the U.S. Department of Labor on farmers.gov H-2A Phase II – a streamlined H-2A Visa Program application form, regulations, and digital application process that moves producers seamlessly from farmers.gov website to farmers.gov portal to U.S. Department of Labor’s IT systems.

Managing Farm Loans Online: The self-service website now enables agricultural producers to login to view loan information, history and payments.

Customers can access the “My Financial Information” feature by desktop computer, tablet or phone. They can now view: ЇЇ Loan information; ЇЇ Interest payments for the current calendar year (including year-to-date interest paid for the past five years); ЇЇ Loan advance and payment history; ЇЇ Paid-in-full and restructured

loans; and Account alerts giving borrowers important notifications regarding their loans.

To access their information, producers will need a USDA eAuth account to login into farmers.gov. After obtaining an eAuth account, producers should visit farmers.gov and sign into the site’s authenticated portal via the “Sign In / Sign Up” link at the top right of the website.

Currently, only producers doing business as individuals can view information.

Entities, such as an LLC or Trust, or producers doing business on behalf of another customer cannot access the portal at this time, but access is being planned. ЇЇ

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Navigating the H-2A Visa Process: Focused on education and smaller owner-operators, this farmers.gov H-2A Phase I release includes an H-2A Visa Program page and interactive checklist tool, with application requirements, fees, forms, and a timeline built around a farmer’s hiring needs.

The H-2A Visa Program – also known as the temporary agricultural workers program – helps American farmers fill employment gaps by hiring workers from other countries. The U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of State, and state workforce agencies each manage parts of the H-2A Visa Program independently, with separate websites and complex business applications.

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ew Mexico’s Environmental Department in its lawsuit, filed March 5, 2019 against the Air Force maintains the contaminants, two polyflouraoalkyl substances known as PFAS, which are found in nonstick coatings such as Teflon, as well as in firefighting foams used to extinguish petroleum-based fires have contaminated groundwater.

Millions of Americans have already been exposed to the compounds as they are present in about one percent of the nation’s water supply, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The rampant migration of the toxins through water sources has led to the contamination of 1,500 water systems, but the concentration and exposure increases dramatically on and near military bases.

The health effects of exposure to an excess of PFAS include thyroid disorders, reproductive and developmental complications, increased liver enzymes and decreased vaccination response, according to EPA findings collected nearly 20 years ago.

The lawsuit addresses violations at both Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the Canon Air Force Base, near Clovis, New Mexico.

But these bases are only two of at least 126 military bases in the U.S. that have been found responsible for PFAS contamination in groundwater. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced this in June 2018, though its first water inspections began years earlier. During the past year, both state and congressional efforts to address that exposure have begun.

Currently, cleanup of the contaminant is in litigation, leaving the ranching and farming industries at risk in New Mexico and beyond.

2016 to complain of symptoms they felt in 2017 and 2018 the government tested originated at the Wurtsmith Air Force Base. 524 drinking water systems throughout In June 2016 the Assistant Secretary of the nation.

In November 2018 site inspection testing Defense—Energy, Installation & Environment directed all military departments to at Holloman Air Force Base revealed levels test drinking water systems on base and of toxicity in the groundwater that were off-site in the surrounding areas.

18,000 times higher than recomAbout three million Americans get their mended levels.

“We’re extremely concerned about the drinking water from DOD sources, according to the U.S. Office of Accountability, and contamination,” NMED Secretary-designate James Kenney warned when inspection reports from Holloman were published in January. “But we’re also extremely concerned about the Air Force’s lack of remedial response.”

In 2018 the DOD also tested off-base wells near Cannon Air Base for PFAS contamination, where a range of concentration levels exceeded the recommended exposure limit. Inspections traced this contaminant to pits on the base where Air Force firefighters had trained to extinguish fires on aircraft.

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Quality Act to the Air Force in relation to Cannon. In December the state issued a corrective action permit, which detailed the PFAS that required immediate cleanup.

On January 17, 2019 the Air Force argued the details of the permit with a federal action lawsuit that amended the demands of cleanup from the permit. As plaintiffs the Air Force is challenging the NMED’s authority and ability to compel cleanup.

Soon after, the defendants responded with their own litigation against the military branch.

“In the absence of cooperation by the Air Force, the New Mexico Environment Department will move swiftly and decisively to ensure protections for both health and the environment,” NMED Secretary James Kenney said on March 5, 2019.

Air Force representatives have declined to comment on the state’s legal action against them but have defended their response to PFAS contamination since detection.

According to Mark Kinkade from the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, the military has provided alternate water to those areas where activity on bases likely contributed to

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Andrew Wheeler approved will not include plans to create a formal drinking water standard in relation to the compound.

As such, there is no regulation of PFAS in the Safe Drinking Water Act. The non-enforceable EPA health advisories issued in 2016 state that the maximum exposure level of PFAS should not exceed 70 parts per trillion, or 70 nanograms per liter. Samples at Holloman base reached as high as 1.29 million parts per trillion.

New Mexico state representatives reacted strongly to the news of the threats to their drinking water supply. A bipartisan congressional committee formed to urge Wheeler to address the widespread contaminant and adjust the federal standards.

Congress Writes Letter Urging Action on Safe Drinking Water Twenty senators, including Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), penned a letter to Wheeler to encourage his speedy action.

“We urge you to ensure that EPA’s National PFAS Management Plan includes a commitment to develop federal drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act,” the letter reads. “We also request that EPA provide briefings to our offices on the agency’s efforts on this issue, as well as regular updates on the progress of those efforts.”

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of the checkoff programs, they can better control how these dollars are spent in promoting animal agriculture.

The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act (S.935) introduced by U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would address undue influence within checkoff programs by lobbying organizations. The legislation is supported by the Humane Society of the United States.

Specifically, the legislation would: ЇЇ Stop federally mandated checkoff dollars from being transferred to parties that seek to influence government policies or action relating to agriculture issues. ЇЇ Enforce the prohibition against conflicts of interest in contracting and all other decision-making operations of the checkoff program. ЇЇ Stop federally mandated funds from being used for anticompetitive programs or from being spent to disparage another commodity in the marketplace. ЇЇ Increase transparency of the individual boards’ actions by shedding light on how federal checkoff funds are spent and the purpose of their expenditures. ЇЇ Require audits of each program every five years to ensure their activities are in compliance with the law.

While USCA is encouraged by the legislation’s attempt to curb abuses of checkoff dollars, the OFF Act does not specifically address the necessary enhancements and changes within the Beef Checkoff Program that must be implemented for the program to remain effective and operate efficiently for all U.S. cattle producers.

Further, the bill goes too far in naming all 22 checkoff programs, many of which do not share the problems which plague the Beef Checkoff Program.

A successful modernization of the Beef Checkoff Program would include: ЇЇ Separation of the Federation: The Federation must be separated from a policy organization. The Federation should be a standalone group. Any funds allocated to the national effort should go before the beef operating committee (as it operates as a joint committee). ЇЇ Improved Efficiencies in Enabling Change: A streamlined and improved mechanism for making changes to the beef checkoff must be achieved. Any changes to the Checkoff must be

done via feedback from the entire cattle industry. Representation must be improved, via such efforts as an industry working group. ЇЇ Direct Contracts: The Cattlemen’s Beef Board must be allowed to contract directly with vendors, institutions, and private companies versus being required to contract through industry group organizations for services and programs. This will improve efficiencies and costs within the Checkoff.

Several years ago, the pork industry made these kinds of changes and today has a 91 percent approval rating and a $25 to $1 return on investment. The approval rating of the Beef Checkoff is around 70 percent and has a return on investment of $11.2 to $1. Failing to address the unique needs of the Beef Checkoff Program will result in a program that is not be strong enough to defend itself against attacks from the outside—and will continue to minimize the voices of our own producer stakeholders.

The Beef Checkoff program is currently missing the mark on how to connect with millennials and the incoming Generation Z. These groups are the current, and next set, of consumers and as producers we must be looking at new and innovative ways in reaching this key demographic. An example of great checkoff work was at this year’s SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin brought thousands of pounds of cheese to the largest annual gathering of ‘innovators’ and media industry representatives. The result was plenty of media coverage of the event and attendees leaving with a positive dairy experience.

USCA strongly encourages the consideration of the above necessary amendments to the Beef Checkoff program before Congress is forced to consider sweeping changes to all of our nation’s commodity checkoffs. These programs provide much needed support to our nation’s agricultural producers and should be rightfully managed.

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minted in 92.5 percent (.925) pure silver and The silversmithing trade slowly worked its 7.5 percent copper. This alloy was known as way west along with colonization.

COLLECTORS “Sterling Silver.” Then, in 1238, Henry III In the United States, there is no law CORNER passed a law that said no silver items could stating precious metals have to be hallby Jim Olson be made which were “worse than the king’s marked, however, if a quality mark is used money,” and therefore, sterling silver (ie: sterling, coin silver, etc.) then it is also became the standard for silver items. In required to be marked by the artist or man1300 Edward II passed a law saying no item ufacturer. This way, if there is ever a question made of silver could be sold until it had as to the metal content, the maker can be been assayed and marked with a hallmark traced and held accountable. Obviously this dedicated for the purpose of verifying the law was not adhered to well as you will silver content. So now we have the first often see items that say nothing more than widely recorded silver hallmark. Along the “sterling,” or “coin” silver, etc. way, England added additional requireDown south, the Aztecs were making ments of the silversmiths until they gold and silver jewelry when the Spanish dvanced collectors of Native Ameri- eventually had a system of being able to tell arrived in what is now Mexico. The arrival can and Southwestern style jewelry the metal purity, maker, city and date where of the Spaniards however, brought new will most often turn an item over and an item was made, just by looking at the techniques and designs to the Natives. With inspect the back of it after glancing at the hallmarks. This system eventually became an abundance of silver in Mexico, this evenfront. In many cases, the back can tell them one of the most highly structured hallmark- tually became the metal of choice for just as much as the front. You can tell about ing systems in the world and is still used Mexican silversmiths. The craft crept northconstruction (hand-wrought or casting throughout the United Kingdom to this day. ward along with the colonization of Mexico.

Silversmiths in Colonial America were History tells us this is likely where the Native method, etc.) and also, that is where you will generally find the hallmarks. What do predominantly of European descent and Americans of the Southwest first came into the hallmarks tell them? they typically used hallmarks. Their trade contact with the art form. The Spanish did Here is a little history of hallmarks: Way was brought over from England and neigh- not have a mandatory hallmarking system back in 1158, King Henry II passed a law boring countries, where, as stated above, like their European neighbors, but they did stating that all British silver coins had to be hallmarks had been in use for a long time. have a voluntary system which was generally adhered to and also followed when they started making items in the “New World.” Most of the items were hallmarked.

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Early 1900s manufacturers of South- purity instead of a fractional interest (such As you can tell, hallmarks are very western style jewelry however, often as .925 or .900, even though they mean the important to know about when studying hallmarked their products. Companies like same thing). Much of the rest of the world jewelry, however, they can be faked, so you Pacific Jewelry, H.H. Tammen, Arrow uses the fractional interest numbers. should always deal with reputable sellers Novelty, Bell and others would hallmark In summary, most jewelers in the United who stand behind what they sell. Besides their jewelry for silver content and also with States hallmark with the words Sterling or educating yourself about the hallmarks, their company marks. It was predominately Coin Silver rather than their counterparts, you should always buy something that the individual silversmiths who did not .925 or .900 and they also use an identifiable appeals to you and that you will enjoy mark their items at that time. hallmark or signature to identify them- owning.

That all started to change in about the selves as the artist. A lot of times, when you 1930s. You see, when “Native American” see the numerical versions of silver content style jewelry started to gain in popularity on a piece, it can be an indication of an item with the tourist visiting the Southwest in made elsewhere in the world. Remember the early 1900s, opportunist jumped in and though, much Native American and Southstarted producing Southwest style jewelry that competed with the authentic Native pieces. This eventually became such a problem that in the 1930s, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) stepped up to address the issue. They implemented a hallmarking system that, while well-intended, was not user friendly and did not last long.

It did however serve as a catalyst for the hallmarking of Native silver jewelry in the Southwest.

From the 1930s till the 1970s, the progress was slow. Most Native jewelry was still not hallmarked as old habits and beliefs tend to hang on. However, in the 1970s, there was a huge turquoise jewelry boom.

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s part of the oldest law enforcement agency in the State of New Mexico, the NEW men and women MEXICO of the New Mexico LIVESTOCK Livestock Board BOARD serve and protect an industry that has been operating in the western territory of what is now the United States for over 400 years. Though New Mexico did not become a state until 1912, our agency was formed in 1887 as the Cattle Sanitary Board. The Sheep Sanitary Board formed two years later.

The two organizations merged in 1967, becoming the New Mexico Livestock Board which continues today as an agency of the State of New Mexico.

Our mission is to protect the integrity of New Mexico’s livestock industry. Our team of about sixty full time inspectors and another sixty full- and part-time deputies continuously patrol and perform inspections around our state to help keep our livestock free from disease and safe from theft.

In order to be effective in that mission, we have to have inspectors that are well trained, but that all starts with having the kind of background that makes an inspector successful in his or her career.

The process of hiring an inspector begins with the State Personnel Office (SPO) mandates of applying for the posted position and the vetting of the candidate

by SPO to ensure they applicant has the required three years’ experience in livestock or a degree in animal science.

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In 1998 under the federal program “the Endangered Species Act” this Mexican Grey Wolf was reintroduced to AZ and NM. In AZ at last count there were 116 wolves in AZ alone. It sounds to me that the organizations that promote this nonsense are disappointed in the numbers after 20 years.

Recently in Prescott, AZ, Mark Cook with an organization called “Wolves Of The Rockies” did a presentation to middle school, high school, and college students about the attributes of increasing the numbers of the Mexican Grey Wolf in AZ and NM. Number one, it is a great example

sors. A written test is scheduled and given to the applicants by our office staff at a formerly agreed upon location. The test consists of normal animal husbandry questions, brand laws, and health topics that anyone growing up on a ranch or in the agriculture industry would be able to reasonably answer. A score of 70 percent in required to pass.

Once the candidate has passed the written exam, a field test is scheduled by a Supervisor. These tests are given at an auction barn where there is a number of cattle bearing different brands. Supervisors and Inspectors will sort through the cattle the day before the test with the objective of finding ten head of cattle with different brands in order to challenge the applicant and to give the proctors an idea of the knowledge of the candidate, who is scored on the accuracy of reading the brands and handling of the cattle.

If the field test is passed, an interview is conducted and later an intensive background and reference check. All of this is done with the goal of getting the most qualified candidate hired as a brand or livestock inspector. It has been said that our process is too demanding and puts too much pressure on the applicant. But the reality is that an inspector, in day to day activity, experiences much more pressure and must be able to make hard decisions without wavering.

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of how lost in the leftist agenda our public schools are.

Only one side of the issue was presented, so why would this be allowed in a public school? I can guarantee that most children attending the presentation have never lived in an environment where a wolf can have devastating effects on their own family and how well they live.

According to the December 31st, 2018 edition of the Free Range Report, “In Catron County, NM, aggressive Mexican gray wolves are terrorizing residents. Here wolves are killing pets in front yards in broad daylight, and forcing parents to stand guard when children play outside.

The threat has become so ominous the local school district has decided to place wolf shelters (kid cages) at school bus stops to protect school children from wolves while they wait for the bus or parents.”

Since when, should children be shut in cages, so wolves can roam free? This is complete regression in my view. Funny, how these left-wing organizations never want to reintroduce a nearly extinct species of rats back into the cities where they live.

However, they are more than happy to try and tell rural people how they should live with their predators. Here is a partial quote from author Aldo Leopold that appears on the home page of “Wolves Of The Rockies”, “The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the range.”

I am sorry folks, but to me this is the most empty-headed statement that I have heard yet. My interpretation is that Mr. Leopold thinks the wolf is on a mission to keep the range balanced. It’s pretty bad when humans think that animals are their equal in mind, and are just on earth to run the place justly.

I think if you are so in love with the Mexican gray wolf that you ought to buy your own land to run them on, and keep them at your own house. I do not want them at mine.

This is one case where the “Endangered Species Act” of 1973 has backfired because it has been misused by extreme environmental groups and their influence on parts of the United States government. I know our own editor Caren Cowan has been at the forefront of this issue and I commend her for her efforts on behalf of the rancher.

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Our Watershed, Our Water

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ope you’re having a great spring and that you’ve gotten some rain. Some good news for New Mexico’s farmers and ranchers is that snow pack at the head waters of the Rio Grande is 135 percent above median levels. Snowpack is also above average in the Gila region and in the Sangre De Cristos. This bodes well for farmers who depend on river water to irrigate their crops. In fact, some are saying the Rio Grande could reach a 25-year high, good news after last year’s record lows.

Additionally, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is calling for a wet spring with elevated chances for the El Niño to continue into summer. Our famers, ranchers and reservoirs would all benefit from a wet summer so let’s keep our fingers crossed.

I recently attended the New Mexico Department of Agriculture’s (NMDA) stra-

tegic plan meeting in Las Cruces. The goal was to provide input that would help NMDA plan for the future. They put us in groups and one of the people in my group was Ralph Vigil of the New Mexico Acequia Commission. Acequias are community operated and organized water irrigation systems. Some of his concerns were if the acequias would be able to survive and maintain in the future with pressures concerning adjudication and the choices and effects the members decisions could have on those remaining to stay active in an agricultural operation.

NMF&LB member and Northern New Mexico Stockman Association President Carlos Salazar was most concerned about the current forest revision plans and how they affect their members. Many of the residents in his rural community go back over 200 years. There is a long history of tradition, culture, and heritage of which all of this in one way or another is tied to the land. Knowledge that has been passed down through the generations is priceless.

They have been caretakers of the land long before New Mexico became a state. You would think agencies would take advantage of this wealth of knowledge when drafting such plans.

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I live in the Southeastern corner of the state, but the primary watershed for all the Pecos River and the Rio Grande come from the North. The actions that occur in the North have an impact all the way down. To some extent, we are all tied together, thus you want sound plans that have multiple use included to maintain a vibrant and healthy forest Until next time, do justly, love mercy, walk humbly.

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inmates convicted of drug crimes. In my book, this is releasing a predator that needs to be extinct. Just think of the manpower that it took to get those inmates convicted in the first place. I wonder how the policeman that risked his life to capture this guy feels?

Why would a policeman ever want to risk his life again if this is the result? These people are not political prisoners, these folks convicted of felony drug crimes hurt our society in so many different ways. If you look at some of their records, they were repeat offenders that did other horrible crimes. I think it will be interesting to see how many of these people will be arrested and convicted once again. Let’s see how many of them return within five years of being released and how much more damage they do. Why experiment when we already know the final result?

One of my favorite quotes from the Bible is Proverbs 17:16 which states: A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart is at his left. This becomes some of the best common sense that you can learn and in today’s United States it becomes truer each day. I am just shocked by the lunacy of some of our elected officials and the ignorance or apathy shown by voters.

Face it, we have plenty of wolves in our government that want to become celebrities and feed off the taxpayer. Many are not concerned with the good they could do for the country, but seem to have their own personal agenda or the agenda of the money that put them there.

As ranchers, farmers, and agricultural people we are becoming extinct. There are less of us all the time and we independents have become victims of corporate agriculture in addition to the leftist agenda. My best advice is to fight it in any way that you can to survive. We may be growing smaller in numbers, but we are still the toughest and most resilient sector of people in this country.

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BAR M REAL ESTATE SULTEMEIER RANCH – First time offering of a ranch that has been owned and operated by the same family for over 70 years. Fifteen miles southeast of Corona, NM in Lincoln County. 11, 889 Deeded Acres, 1,640 Federal BLM Lease Acres and 2,240 NM State Lease Acres. Grazing Capacity estimated at 300 AUYL. Water provided by five wells and pipelines. Improved with two residences, barns and corrals. The ranch had a good summer with abundant grass. Good mule deer habitat. Call for a brochure or view on my website. Price: $4,400,000 19th STREET FARM – Located just outside the city limits of Roswell, NM. Six total acres with 5.7 acres of senior artesian water rights. Improved with a 2, 200 square foot residence, horse barn with stalls, enclosed hay barn with tack room and loafing shed. Price: $400,000 COCHISE RANCH – Ranch property located just west of Roswell, NM along and adjacent to U.S. Highway 70/380 to Ruidoso, NM. Comprised of 6,607 deeded acres and 80 acres of NM State Lease acres. Water is provided by three solar wells and pipelines. Fenced into several pastures and small traps suitable for a registered cattle operation. Improvements include two sets of pens, shop, and hay barn. Price: $2,500,000

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WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/- state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease.

Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road. Nice headquarters and good access to above rim. Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000

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Significantly reduced to $550,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres, 2 parcels, excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at end of private road. $489,000.

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COLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/- deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with amazing 360 degree views.

MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, Reduced $398,000 $349,000 NM. Very private approx. 4,800 sq ft double COLFAX COUNTY, NM, 20 +/- deeded acres, walled adobe 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq ft adobe home with many custom features, 77.50 +/- deeded with upgrades, barn, fruit trees, private setting, acres with water rights and large 7 stall barn, reduced to $365,000. Also house with 10 acres insulated metal shop with own septic. Would and 10 water shares offered at $310,000. suit indoor growing operation, large hay barn/ MAXWELL SMALL HOLDING, home with equipment shed. $1,375,000. horse improvements, fenced, water rights and MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, 19+/- deeded acres. Handy to I25 on quiet NM. 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irri- country road. $260,000. gation shares, 2 center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available.

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740 Apache Mesa Road: Los Montoyas, NM – 1,320 total acres on Apache Mesa sw of Las Vegas, NM. New 4 stall barn w/attached living quarters, a bunk & bath house & equipment shed. 2 wells , several dirt tanks & springs. List price is $1,598,900

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RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 320 Head Mountain Ranch, Reserve, NM – 350+/- ac deeded, +/- 54,088 ac USFS permit. Stunning Setting in the ponderosa pines with fish ponds, streams, elk, and turkey. Includes four log homes, lg. bunkhouse, barn, tack room, round pens, arena & shipping pens. This is a horseback ranch with rugged country. Turnkey with cattle, equipment & furnishings. Great opportunity for income from cabin rentals. $2,800,000 *REDUCED* 250+/- Head Turkey Creek Ranch, Greenlee, AZ – In Apache Sitgreaves Forest, 108+/- deeded ac, 32,000+/- ac Pigeon Allotment.

499 head Allotment currently permitted for 250 head in 2019. 3 BR Ranch house, Bunk house, cabin, barn, tack room, Shop, corrals. Also a fenced garden area, fruit trees, & animal pens. Solar powered w/ generator. Horseback country with cedar, pine, mesquite and oak. Good grasses and water. Six pastures. $2,000,000 *REDUCED* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Located in beautiful Apache Sitgreaves Forest with 56.6+/- acre deeded inholding, and 23+/- section USFS grazing permit. A well improved and maintained horseback ranch, with $70k thinning project for increased fire protection recently completed on deeded land. The headquarters is located in a scenic valley setting with solar power; two homes; barn with tack room, hay storage, horse stalls; shop; corrals with crowding pen and squeeze chute; root cellar/cold meat storage; hen house, irrigated gardens and orchard. The permit and HQ’s are watered by springs, creeks and dirt tanks.

On the allotment are a line cabin, two sets of corrals, one with a loading chute at the highway. $1,100,000 $995,000 *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 Mtn. range, with excellent water, good grasses and access close to town. +/- 299 deeded acres, 8,443+/- acres BLM permit, 2,981+/- acre State lease, and approx. three sections open range. Five wells, 5 drinkers, storage tanks, dirt tanks, springs.

One large pasture with two sets of corrals. $950,000. Also: 204 Head Florida Mountain Ranch, Deming, NM – Eastern portion of the historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch. Rolling to mountainous terrain, excellent grasses, browse and water. +/- 15 deeded acres, 7,880+/- acre BLM permit, 800+/- acre State lease, and approx. two sections open

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range. Six pastures/traps and three sets of working corrals. 7 wells, pipeline to storage tank and drinker, and springs in upper country. $950,000. The entire ranch with HQ’s, additional deeded, BLM, State and adverse acreage offered for $2,250,000. *NEW* Geronimo Farm South, Ft. Thomas, AZ – Consists of 295 +/- acres with 43.2 acres of water rights in the Gila River valley. In an area with a long growing season this property is well suited for high end produce marketed to restaurants and specialty retailers. Other potential uses include nut trees, container plants, horse farm, small and large livestock. 90 minutes from Tucson and Phoenix markets. Divided into two offerings: Parcel One has 208+/- ac with 35.8+/- ac of water rights and 1,200 gpm irrigation well. Includes a vacation cabin, large recreation building and pomegranate orchard. $399,000 Parcel Two has 87+/ac with 7+/- ac of water rights, two-family home, large steel barn, and outbuildings. $150,000 *NEW* 30+/- Head Orduno Draw Ranch, Tombstone, AZ – Small desert ranch in the San Pedro River valley of Cochise County, Arizona.

320+/- ac. deeded, 2,780+/- ac. State lease, and 560+/- ac. BLM Allotment. Easy terrain, gentle hills with mesquite, acacia, and creosote, and several major draws with good browse and grassy bottoms. One well, dirt tank, fenced. Borders the San Pedro River National Conservation Area, and has easy access from Hwy 80. Great for starter/hobby ranch or complement to larger holding. $350,000 *NEW* 30 +/- Acre Farm & Ranch, Sheldon, AZ – Pasture for 10 hd, gated pipe irrigation; alfalfa, pecan trees. Two wells, roping arena; Comfortable Palm Harbor triple-wide manufactured home, 2X6 construction, stucco exterior, set on cement slab; 1-car garage.

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 crops, pasture, or nut trees. Located close to I-10, town, schools and services. Great value at $350,000

*SOLD* 60 Head Desert Ranch, Deming, NM – Nice starter or retirement ranch with easy access and gentle country. 65+/- deeded ac, 18,766+/- ac. BLM, State, & City Leases, with uncontrolled adverse lands. 5 wells, 4 sets of corrals, 2 large pastures and one smaller good for weanlings; all fenced. Easy

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browse and grass country. Several good sites for a home on deeded. $287,000

HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *NEW* 40+/- Last Stand B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ – An exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue. The Territorial, two-story 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. A true destination property w/a pool & two cabana guest rooms, 3 casitas, event barn, horse facilities, roping arena, recreation room w/racquetball court, and fishing pond. Neighbors public conservation land with trails. Powered by 80 solar panels connected to the grid, one well w/pressure tank & storage, also fenced for livestock.

Mature landscape & fruit trees. Property could also be converted to a vineyard/winery. $1,975,000 *REDUCED* 158+/- Acres Up to 736+/Acres, Willcox, AZ – 3 parcels of undeveloped high desert, ready to put into production with grapes, trees, organic crops or conventional farming. Development potential or horse property in good location only one mile from Willcox, and 3 miles to I-10. Several shallow wells on property. Paved and dirt road frontage. Property is fenced. 158+/- ac. -$189,000; 261+/- ac. -- $365,400; 316+/ac. – $395,000; 736+/- ac. for $799,000 *NEW* +/-103 Acre Horse Property, St. David, AZ – Lovely custom 2,298+/- s.f. 3BR, 2BA home near the San Pedro River on a hill with valley views.

Has one domestic well. Space for horse facilities.

Property is fenced for livestock. Includes a large 2-bay garage/shop and artist’s studio building. $470,000 Also available: 71+/- Acres of Land - With 50+/- ac. cleared for horse facilities, farming or development. $190,000 *REDUCED* San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the beautiful San Rafael Valley, where open spaces, wildlife, ranching history & private dreams live. 152 Acres for $304,000 & 77 Acres w/a well for $177,100 *NEW* 260+/- acres, Geronimo Farms North, Ft. Thomas, AZ – In the Gila River Valley of Graham County, north of Highway 70. Undeveloped land with potential for subdividing into smaller horse properties or ranchettes.

13 wells allowed. Part of the larger Geronimo Farms South offerings. Great investment opportunity. $169,000

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■ WE CAN DIVIDE this Springfield, Co. ranch/farm/ feedyard – 1,440 ac. +/-, strong water area, great potential for a dairy or a feedlot expansion, feedlot on property is permitted w/the beginning process of permitting a large dairy already in place, homes, barns & pens, three irrigated circles.

■ TOP OF THE WORLD – Union Co., NM – 5,025.76 +/- ac. of choice grassland w/state-of-the-art working pens, recently remodeled bunk house, barbed wire fences in very good to new condition, well watered, on pvmt.

■ WE CAN NOW DIVIDE THE PAJARITO RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM as follows: 3501.12 ac. +/- of grassland w/a commercial water well located adjacent to I40 w/ capability of producing large incomes together w/a great set of pens, a 17,000 gal. water storage tank, overhead cake bin, hay barn & other stock wells.

700.89 ac. +/- of grassland can be purchased in addition to the 3501.12 ac. The beautiful, virtually new custom built home w/all amenities and a large virtually new metal barn w/an apartment inside on 40 ac. can be purchased separately or w/the ranch.

■ POST, TX. – 6,376.92 acre ranch in Kent Co., TX on pvmt. & on all weather roads w/a virtually brand new custom built home, state-of-the-art barns & pens, a complete line of farm & ranch equipment, a registered Red Angus herd of cows, mineral income w/potential for commercial water sales & secluded, beautiful areas w/bluffs & meadows around every turn in the road, an excellent supply of stock water from subs & windmills, deep year round dirt tanks & The North Fork of the Brazos River through the ranch.

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Priced @$1,100,000 SMITH DRAW, SEPAR, NM -– 7760 deeded, 11,275 State, 2560 BLM runs 300 head yearlong. Good strong country nice improvements. Priced @$3,100,000 CANELO SPRINGS RANCH – Canelo AZ 4972 acre total with 160 deeded, 85 head year round, live water, beautiful improvements and country. Priced @$3,500,000 THE FOURR RANCH DRAGOON AZ – 1280 deeded acres, 11610 AZ state, and 3689 NF Acres. Runs 300 head, Well-watered, lots of grass. Priced @$4,250,000

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BENNETT LAND COMPANY of Clovis, New Mexico, is a real estate brokerage company that deals exclusively in the marketing of agricultural properties throughout the southwestern portion of the United States. Established by Bud Bennett of Clovis, New Mexico in 1974, Bud is a third generation New Mexican. Over the past 20 plus years Kurt Rowley of Rowley Land Company and Bennett Land Company have worked successfully together marketing properties. Kurt is also one of the lead real estate appraisers in New Mexico and West Texas. Consequently, our clients get two for the price of one.

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WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT US? Ask your neighbor, banker or attorney, chances are they have personal knowledge of us or know someone who does. We still do business the old fashion way by relying on our reputation, prior clients and word of mouth. With more than 70 years of combined knowledge and experience we work diligently to meet our clients needs. We strive to be discrete in all our transactions in order to protect our clients and the integrity of the properties we sell. If you are looking to sell or buy a farm, ranch or dairy in New Mexico or West Texas give us a call.

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Real Estate brokerage limited to the marketing of agricultural properties. bbennett@plateautel.net • 575-762-3388 • www.bennettlandco.com 904 Colonial Parkway, Clovis, New Mexico 88101 Kurt Rowley - Rowley Land Co. 575-742-0954

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Visions of Grilling Season Warmer Weather Means Beef

by Tamara Hurt, Chairman, N.M. Beef Council

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pring is warming up and grilling season will soon arrive. With that in mind, we are looking at retail beef sales patterns from past summers when consumers fired up their smokers and grills, as summer planning for the NM Beef Council is in full swing.

While a lucky few may have access to their grill year-round, the peak “grilling season” typically begins with Memorial Day and ends on Labor Day. This 15-week stretch includes four big holidays (with Father’s Day and 4th of July) and many kids are out of school, so it’s prime time for outdoor cooking and celebrations.

Consumers say beef is frequently their top grilling season protein. Retail sales data certainly supports this as high-value middle meat steak sales jump over 5 percent from average during this time frame.

Ground Beef remains a steady player throughout the year but shines in burger form during these summer months. An added bonus for retailers is how beef in the cart helps drive sales across the entire store, so capturing these summer beef sales helps propel meat case and total store performance.

We are expecting 2019 grilling season beef sales to top 2018 beef sales.

2018 grilling season beef sales were particularly robust as dollar and pound sales were 6.2 percent and 6.1 percent

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higher respectively on 0.1 percent higher prices. Ground Beef dollar sales led the charge with an 8.3 percent-dollar increase whereas Rib and Loin steak dollar sales were 6.6 percent higher from the prior year. The top selling cuts remained Ribeye and Strip Steaks, while Tenderloin Steak, Tenderloin Filet and T-bone Steak sales became more prominent (Table 1).

Consumers clearly opted for quality as they more frequently chose these premi-

um cuts during the 2018 grilling season when compared to the prior year.

Beyond the high-end, Top Round First Steak (commonly sold as London Broil) reaches the top ten list during grilling season, as this flexible cut works well on the grill when marinated and can serve a family or guests. By pounds, Brisket (Deckle-Off) also makes the grilling season list, as smokers see more summertime action, as well. Cuts that typically achieve the biggest jump in grilling season sales, however, include Kabobs, Coulotte Roast and Bottom Sirloin, where 58 percent, 49 percent and 47 percent of annual sales, respectively, occur during this 15-week span.

Zeroing in on the four grilling season holidays, we look at sales during the week prior to or including each holiday to indicate what consumers are most likely putting on their grill for the occasion. For total beef, 2018 Memorial Day sales were highest, followed

by Father’s Day, Labor Day and the 4th of July.

Father’s Day is typically dominated by steaks on the grill, whereas

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VISIONS OF GRILLING cont. from page 65

Memorial Day and the 4th of July are the biggest grilling weeks for Ground Beef.

Comparing 2018 beef sales during these holiday weeks to the prior year, (Chart 1) shows how Rib and Loin steak sales were significantly higher for Memorial Day and Father’s Day (with stronger Father’s Day sales being driven by price). Fourth of July steak sales showed modest declines prior to rebounding for Labor Day. With Ground Beef (Chart 2), Memorial Day and Father’s Day sales zoomed higher, the 4th of July increase was price driven, and Labor Day savings propelled sales higher.

Grilling season is a big time for beef at retail.

Summer holidays are particularly robust for beef sales, although preferences change somewhat by occasion. The NM Beef Council and our counter parts are rolling out marketing promotions and retail partnerships to move beef products beyond sales enjoyed last year.

Beef demand isn’t only strong at retail.

Ninety-seven percent of food service establishments report having beef on the menu, which has been shown to increase restaurant traffic by 45 percent.

From restaurants to retail, consumers clearly want beef on their plates. With beef supply on the upswing and consumer demand increasing, the beef industry is gaining momentum, and this trend looks to show no signs of slowing down in 2019.

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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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Willo Jean Baird Brown, was born at which eventually became a 2400 head home in Pedernal, New Mexico on Septem- operation. Jean also became a Licensed ber 8, 1932. Her parents were Foster E. “Bill” Practical Nurse and worked at Mercy Hosand Bertha Dorrell Baird. The family moved pital for 11 years. Jean was passionately to Aztec, NM when she was 16 years old. active in the Church of Christ, the RepubliShe graduated from Aztec High School and can Party, Farm Bureau, the Colorado then attended NMSU where she met the Woolgrowers, the American Sheep Industry, love of her life, Alton K. “Casey” Brown. They and Make it With Wool, contributing countmarried in 1951. Casey and Jean moved to less hours and funds to these organizations.

Laramie, Wyoming to attend the University She was recognized and honored as a “Lifeof Wyoming and where J. Paul was born. time Servant” of the Republican Party and The family moved to Pomona, CA, where was voted Camp Tender in 2017 by the Casey started the Agriculture program at Colorado Wool Growers. Jean is survived by Cal-Poly and where Lindy was born. Their her sister Frances (Mike) Stone; her children: next move was back to Colorado and New J. Paul (Debbie) Brown, Lindy (Bim) Kerr, Mexico where David and Les were born. Dave (Libeth) Brown, Les (Mary Ellen) Brown, They bought a farm at La Plata, NM and a and Teresa Tenorio; 16 grandchildren and Navajo Trading Post in Farmington. Not many great-grandchildren. long after, Teresa, their fifth child was born.

Max Romero, 74, Belen, passed away on To supplement the family Jean bought a March 12, 2019. He was a Junior High and fabric shop. Casey and Jean realized their High School Biology and Chemistry teacher dream of having a range sheep operation for 25 years in Belen, and a steward of agriwhen they bought their first 700 ewes culture and animals. He was active with the

New Mexico Hereford Association, and very accomplished in all aspects of building a home, farm, and ranch with his own hands and the help of his wife and family. He is survived by his wife Joan S. Romero, sons Max-Jayde and Manuel (Myles) Romero, daughter Melanie Nancy Romero, Sister Adela (Husband Tayo) Garcia, Sister Mary (Husband Gene) Gabaldon, Brother Dennis (Wife Marie) Romero. He is also survived by brother in laws Dr. Roland K. Sanchez (Wife Elia), Adolf Sanchez (Wife Kathy), Fred Sanchez, and by many endearing nieces and nephews. Max had a very generous spirit to all people in all walks of life, so in lieu of flowers, the family asks that you donate in Max’s name to your favorite charity, or plant a tree.

John Sproul, 62, Douglas, Arizona, passed away on March 22, 2019 as a result of complications with diabetes. He was born on December 30, 1956 in Douglas to Bob and Shirley Sproul. He attended

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Douglas public schools and graduated from their families. She also always kept three and Technology; Select Small Business and Douglas High in 1974. He attended Cochise loving dogs. Shari was astute in cattle the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. In College where he obtained his pilot’s breeding and genetics. Her favorite trip for 1978, he was the first Republican to join the license, Central Arizona Community College the past 18 years was the Bradley Bull Sale Hispanic Congressional Caucus. In addition and the University of Arizona where he where she competed with high dollar to his congressional duties, he represented studied agronomy. He worked most of his buyers for the best bargains in the pens. New Mexico as a delegate to every Repubprofessional career at and retired from Shari is survived by her mother, two sisters, lican National Convention from 1972 to Arizona Public Service and Southwest Gas a brother, many nieces and nephews and a 2004. After retiring from Congress in 1988 Company. John was an avid team roper and world of friends. While the Lord took her he was asked and became the Secretary of calf roper. He also was a steer wrestler and home way too soon and it was sudden for Interior under President George H.W. Bush. had a short lived career as a bull rider. He us left behind, we can take solace knowing He was widely regarded as a moderate at rodeoed through high school, college and that she is in green pastures with Spring the time of his unanimous Senate confirmaroped for most of his life. He was extremely calves sired by her beloved Angus bulls. tion in February 1989 and served all four proud of his grandfather, Frank Sproul, who Manuel Lujan, Jr., 90, Albuquerque, years of President Bush’s term. His tenure at was also a long-time team roper. John is passed away at his home on Thursday, April the Interior Department has since been survived by his son Taz, who is studying 25, 2019. Born Saturday, May 12, 1928, on commemorated with an award in his honor. fire-fighting in the Phoenix area; brother the San Ildefonso Pueblo, the eighth child Each year the Department awards the Robbie (wife, Pam) Sproul, Pearce; his sister of Manuel and Lorenzita (Romero) Lujan. “Manuel Lujan, Jr. Champion Award” to Becky (husband, Mark) MacGowan, The family moved to Santa Fe in around employees who exhibit outstanding work Phoenix; five nieces and nephews; numer- 1930 where he graduated from St. Michael’s in carrying out the Department’s mission. ous cousins; and paternal Aunts, Ruth High School in 1946. He attended St. Mary’s In addition, the Department and it’s Bureau Sproul Williams, Elfrida; and Mary Ella College of California for one year, transfer- of Indian Affairs honored him by dedicating Sproul Cowan, Tombstone. ring to St. Michael’s College in Santa Fe, the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Sharon (Shari) Morrow, 63, Folsom, where he graduated in 1950. After college, Albuquerque, in his name. Since leaving passed away in her sleep on April 15, 2019. he began to work in the family business, office, he worked as a lobbyist and a public Shari was born into a multi-generational The Manuel Lujan Insurance Agency. In speaker. In 2004, he helped launch the HisBannon ranching family in Folsom on Feb- 1965 he opened a branch of the Agency in panic Alliance for Progress Institute, a ruary 15, 1956. She attended area schools Albuquerque. Before starting his career in conservative think-tank focusing on ecoand graduated with an animal science politics, he served as Vice Chairman of the nomic and “family value” issues from a degree from New Mexico State University New Mexico Republican Party, served on Hispanic perspective. He also served as a in three years – livestock team. After college the Bernalillo County Crime Commission, member of the Executive and Financial she returned home to Folsom where she and held leadership roles with the Coro- Boards at The Inn of the Mountain Gods in ranched and raised three amazing daugh- nado Kiwanis and the Knights of Columbus. Ruidoso until his death. ters, Erin, Maggie and Rory. All of these He was elected to the United States Conyoung ladies have established themselves gress in 1968 and served 10 terms. While in Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com. with great careers and are growing families. office he served on the House Committees Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Shari loved to spend time with the girls and of Interior and Insular Affairs; Science, Space, 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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A Lazy 6 Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Aero Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Ag NM FCS, ACA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Bar Guitar Liquid Feed Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Bar J Bar Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 71 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 61 Beaverhead Outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Bennett Land Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Big Mesa Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 BJM Sales & Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Border Tank Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Brennand Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Carter’s Custom Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Casey Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Cauthorn & Griffin Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Caviness Packing Co., Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

CKP Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Clovis Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Coba Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Chip Cole Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 CPE Feeds Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Crockett Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 George Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 45 Dairy Producers of NM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dallas Safari Club NM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Davis Hats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Denton Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Desert Scales & Weighing Equip . . . . . . . . 42 Diamond Seven Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Domenici Law Firm, PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Fallon-Cortese Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 FBFS / Monte Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 FBFS / Kevin Branum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

FBFS / Larry Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 48 Farm Credit of NM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Five States Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . 35 Freeman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Genex / Candy Trujillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Grau Charolais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Grau Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 44 Green from the Ground Up . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Hales Angus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 46 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell . . 63 Henard Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 High Plains Ranchers & Breeders . . . . . . . 28 Hi-Pro Feeds / Sendero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Hudson Livestock Supplements . . . . . . . . 27 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Inn of the Mountain Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Insurance Services of NM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Isa Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 J & J Auctioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 JaCin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 J-C Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equip . . . 42 Bill King Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 L & H Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Lack-Morrison Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Lazy Way Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Major Ranch Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 McPherson Heifer Bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Mead Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Mesa Tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 49 Michelet Homestead Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Miller Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Monfette Construction Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Mossy Oak Properties NM Ranch . . . . . . . 62 Paul McGillard / Murney Associates . . . . . 63 NM Cattle Growers Insurance . . . . . . . . . . 21 NM Federal Lands Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 NM Premier Ranch Properties . . . . . . . . . . 63 NM Property Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 NM Purina Dealers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 NMSU ANRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 36 NM Wool Growers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 O’Neill Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Perez Cattle Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction . . . . . 23 Punchy Cattle Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 RanchWay Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Red Doc Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 43 Ridgeline Outfitters LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Rio Grande Scales & Equip . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Tom Robb & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Robertson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . . . . . . . . 26 Running Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 James Sammons III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 St. Vrain Simmentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service . . . . . . . . . . 43 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty . . . . . . . . . . .61 Singleton Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Skaarer Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Southwest Red Angus Assoc. . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Spike S Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Stockmen’s Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Joe Stubblefield & Assoc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Swihart Sales Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 TechniTrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Terrell Land & Livestock Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Thompson Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 47 3C Cattle Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Three Mile Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 United Country Farm & Home . . . . . . . . . 63 United Fiberglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 W&W Fiberglass Tank Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Walker Martin Ranch Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Western Tank & Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Western Trading Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Brinks Brangus / Westall Ranch, . . . . . 47, 69 Westway Feed Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Williams Windmill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 43 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Yavapai Bottle Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 42 Zia Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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