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10 President’s Message

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21 Mid-Year Meeting Cancelled 22 Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12) Vacated on ESA Grounds

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12 Wit & Wisdom

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by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

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16 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 20 News Update 22 New Mexico Federal Lands Council News

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30 Collector’s Corner

by Jim Olson

32 In Memoriam 38 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 39 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

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36 Court Rules in Favor of Beef Checkoff

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40 Trading Up in Herd Revenue

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46 Arizona Expects Severe Wildfire Season — & Coronavirus Makes it Harder to Fight

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49 High Plains Processing to Take Over Vacant Packing Facility 66 Trump Keeps ‘Critical’ Meatpacking Plants Open Source: Law 360

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Randell Major NMCGA President

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

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ur Nation is going through very challenging times. Covid-19 has changed the normal routines in most of our lives. We are so blessed to live a rural life and appreci ate this now more than ever. The bickering politics need to cease, and we need to work together on all levels to plan for the future, and our children’s future.

We continue to pray for all the physicians, nurses, and health care providers who have been working so hard and in exposed environments as well as those who are sick and their families. I want to thank all of agriculture who have been hit hard economically and those who continue to make food available to this nation and world. This pandemic has reminded us of our priorities: “Health, family, food, and faith”. If nothing else, this pandemic has helped us realize what is truly important.

On the national and state level, NMCGA, with a coalition of other agriculture groups, sent a letter to both Agriculture Secretary Perdue and Attorney General Balderas requesting them to investigate the big surge in beef prices while the prices for cattle have drastically dropped. On April 8, Ag Secretary Perdue announced that USDA will investigate market manipulation during the coronavirus outbreak and back to the Tyson fire. I would like to thank all our members who sent emails, letters and made phone calls to Washington. Keep up the good work. You are making a difference.

It would be great to have a large packing plant in New Mexico that could slaughter cattle and label as NM and US beef. There certainly is a need, but a lot would be involved to make it profitable. We can plan on having a discussion on this subject and other possible options at our next board meeting. We could also schedule a meeting with smaller independent packers to get their recommendations and ways we can help.

The good news is on March 17, the Tenth Circuit ruled in our favor in the challenge to the critical habitat designation for the jaguar. The court held that the rule designating critical habitat was illegal. The court agreed that the areas designated in New Mexico were not occupied at the time of listing. The court unfortunately did not agree with our argument that the agency’s own findings show that the area was not essential to the conservation of the species. The court instead held that the agency failed to follow its own rules because it did not first determine whether habitat that was occupied at the time of listing was insufficient to conserve the species.

NMCGA has a new updated website www.nmagriculture.org When you get a chance, please take time to check it out.

I hope and pray that you and your families are all safe and doing well.

Sincerely,

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WIT & WISDOM

When the Cat’s Away ...

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

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hat doesn’t mean that there aren’t some ugly things on deck in Congress.

In March before the shutdown, the ever-evil Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) was ready to hit the U.S. Senate Floor — permanently funding about $900 million from offshore oil royalties that would be spent annually in perpetuity (or until offshore revenues run out or are snuffed out) on acquisition of private land by the federal government and on grants to state governments for outdoor recreation projects, including acquisition of private land.

Senate bill 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act (and its predecessors S. 1081 and H. R. 3195), would turn the Land and Water Conservation Fund into a true trust fund, that is, a mandatory annual expenditure not subject to congressional

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appropriation. See pages 12-15 of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3422/ BILLS-116s3422pcs.pdf .

Note that S. 3422 also includes a title to spend $9.5 billion over 5 years to increase maintenance and restoration of National Parks and other federal lands. This title is an expanded version of S. 500, the Restore Our Parks Act. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) introduced S. 3422 on 9th March 2020 with 54 original co-sponsors. It currently has 58 co-sponsors, including 15 Republicans.

President Donald J. Trump tweeted his support on March 3, 2020.

One might think that with the trillions of dollars that have been spent, that cooler heads might prevail… but we are talking about the federal government. Let’s take a look at what the federal government already owns and cannot maintain.

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The federal government owns 640 million acres, which is approximately 28 percent of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the U. S. That land is managed by the following agencies: Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management 244.4

million acres National Park Service 79.9

million acres U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 89.2

million acres Department of Agriculture: U. S. Forest Service 192.9

million acres Total 4 Federal Land Agencies: 606.4

million acres Additionally, the Department of Defense owns 8.8 million acres and a number of other agencies (for example, the Bureau of Reclamation) own the remaining 25 million acres.

Since enactment of the LWCF in 1965, Congress has appropriated $18.9 billion (not adjusted for inflation), of which $11.4 billion was for federal land acquisition. Over five million acres of private land has been purchased by the four federal land agencies.

State grants have been used to acquire over 2.6 million acres of land. So, of that $18.9

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billion, $14 billion, or nearly 75 percent has been spent taking land off the tax rolls.

Doing the math, with $900 billion of annual funding without congressional oversight, we can expect that over $600 billion will be used to acquire YOUR land.

You would, of course, become a “willing seller” after some federal agency cripples your ability to make a living and feed our nation and the world. Federal agencies as well as Congress and individual elected members of Congress are always at work to make life miserable enough for you to move on.

One New Mexico rancher who runs a ranch comprised of private, federal and state land devised an Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) project three years ago that would benefit a riparian area and wildlife as well as distributing livestock to better utilize the range. This rancher is willing to invest substantial resources, both time and money, to accomplish this project.

As you probably know, EQIP is a voluntary conservation program administered by the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The program’s mission is to promote the compatibility of agricultural production, forest

management, and environmental conservation. Through the program, together, NRCS and agriculturists invest in solutions that conserve natural resources for the future while also improving agricultural operations.

A project with so many benefits would seem like a no brainer — until you talk to the local Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office. Remember that the BLM oversees the management of 244.4 million acres and is in line to get billions to acquire more.

According to the BLM, before this project can even get off the ground, all the land involved must be monitored. As any land manager should know, monitoring is an action that must take place over time and at least several years.

Monitoring forward should be a part of the EQIP project and there should be a base-line. But the BLM only has purview over the land it controls. There is no right for agency staff to be on private land and monitoring is not a protocol for the State Land Office. You may get a permit to perform an activity on State Trust Lands but does the BLM really have the time to undertake this additional monitoring when it is not up to date in its own?

Additionally the BLM requires 14 differ-

ent specialists to sign off the project, some of them proudly noting that they are anti-cow.

If ranchers are not allowed to do the conservation work on the lands they have stewardship over granted by the federal government, they have no path for improvement of the land, water and wildlife and no way to enhance their profitability.

Meanwhile, the Senate is poised to act on S. 3422 sooner rather than later on their return to the Capitol. There is a House bill in the works as well with Republican support. The House bill, H. R. 3195, has 232 co-sponsors, including 18 Republicans, plus the Republican sponsor, Representative Jeff Van Drew (R-NY. President Trump’s support of this disastrous bill means that it cannot be defeated in a Senate or House floor vote. Rather than trying to defeat the bill, we must try to gain support in the Senate and from the President for substantive amendments that would make the bill less toxic.

Watch for calls to action as we work in that direction.

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The Mexican wolf impact on New Mexico ranchers gets worse literally by the minute.

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One single mother of four, aged three to 11, and small business owner who ranches along with outfitting and guiding in the Gila National Forrest is living a nightmare right now that is hard to even imagine.

Her ranch has four wolf packs on it. So far this year she has 26 confirmed kills, including two bulls plus cows and calves.

She is yet to be paid for her numerous losses from 2019. A few weeks ago she bought eight pairs to replace some of the kills. The day she mailed the check to pay for them, two of the cows were killed by wolves.

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several wolves who died in the collaring process. The fact that one wolf succumbed is not surprising or should not be surprising to anyone that knows animal husbandry (and I don’t mean animals that are getting married, as one Florida legislator thought when the term was used).

Her 11-year-old has been reduced to screaming at wolves as she rides pastures.

Her choices are becoming limited.

Selling off her private land for development would provide a pretty penny toward ranch debt retirement and college tuition.

Is that really what “society wants?”

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What did the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) have to say about that? Bringing new cattle in who don’t know the terrain and living with wolves invites the kills.

The Defenders of Wildlife promised her $6,000 for a range rider. But when they learned that she was trapping coyotes and had caught some non-target wolves they withdrew the promise.

At first the agencies were pleased to have the wolves caught because they could then collar and vaccinate them. But as one might expect, one female wolf died, apparently of stress. Over time there have been

The FWS has published a Federal Register notice to open a 60-day public scoping period for the development of a supplemental environmental impact statement as part of our court-ordered revision of the 2015 Mexican wolf final 10(j) rule. The Federal Register notice is attached. Comments are due by June 15, 2020. You may submit written comments by one of the following methods: (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal r ul e mak in g Po r t al: ht tps: //w w w. r e g u l a t i o n s . g o v/d o c u m e n t?D = F WS-R2-ES-2020-0007-0001. Follow the instructions for submitting comments to Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2020-0007, which is the docket number for this notice of intent. h t t p s : // w w w . r e g u l a t i o n s . g o v / document?D=FWS-R2-ES-2020-0007-0001 (2) By hard copy: Submit comments by U.S. mail or hand-delivery to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: FWSR2-ES-2020-0007; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/PERMA (JAO/1N), 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803.

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What are New Mexico’s U.S. Senators doing to help? They are working on a grand plan to get authorization and perhaps even funding in the next coronavirus package to allow the WildEarth Guardians to side-step the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and go to directly buying grazing allotments that will be turned over to the agency for retirement.

The WildEarth Guardians are generously offering $150 to $250 per animal unit month to purchase the allotments and are allowing the rancher to keep all the hunting tags they get on their private land. Math is not my specialty, but it looks like if you had a 250 head permit, at the $250, you would only get $750,000. Does that sound like

enough to replace your investment and future income?

So much for saving small businesses and minority owned businesses. It galls me that women are considered a minority, but in today’s world any card is worth playing if it gives you a leg up.

Remember there was a strong push for the first coronavirus bill to include the green new deal, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

Late word from The Hill, by Mike Lillis, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Democrats will push for including almost $1 trillion in the next coronavirus relief package to help states and local governments hit hard by the pandemic.

That figure, Pelosi said, would likely be the single largest line-item of the Democrats’ next emergency package, known as CARES 2, which is also expected to include hundreds of billions of dollars more to help workers, businesses and families weather the crisis.

“We’re not going to be able to cover all of it, but to the extent that we can keep the states and localities sustainable, that’s our goal,” Pelosi told reporters in the basement of the near-deserted Capitol.

Executive Orders & Meat President Trump has been greatly heralded by the livestock community for his recent Executive Order to keep meat processing plants open in the face of the “food chain breaking down.” On the other hand labor unions have been highly vocal in opposition.

It is hard to know on which side to fall.

The ranching community has always been proud of its hard-nosed independence, of not looking for the government to subsidize our small businesses. Watching the market scream up and down on a daily basis is disconcerting at best.

Additionally meat plants are rushing to retool their operations to allow “social distancing” and provide a safer environment for their employees.

Sadly one headline today noted that a plant had opened, but only for the purpose of euthanizing hogs while we see prices soaring for pork products. Prices for beef products are also going straight up. The longer this shelter in place orders stays in place the less money the public has to spend on food — if they have any money at all.

I don’t see any beef euthanasia pro-

g r a m s coming any time soon, but who would have thought our economy would be shut down for months with no real end in sight.

I just don’t know how much more of this shelter in place I can take ...

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ever in my life, since last month’s post, did I think we’d still be und er lockdown for Covid 19. I don’t think anyone could have predicted what was coming this spring.

Did you know that CowBelles has members that were children during the Great Depression? We do! We have a wealth of history in our membership in the state. A lot of us have grandparents that were also children during that time. I remember sitting and listening to mine tell stories about how they had to live and how they had to survive as rural farmers throughout all of that. My great-grandparents and my grandparents, on both sides, picked cotton when they were kids. They had shoes that were resoled with oatmeal carton cardboard.

The best story I remember was my

Granny and her older brother were in charge of their 14-month-old brother while my great-grandma was working at the local cannery. My Granny had put her baby brother in a cardboard box on a mule sled, they had one mule for transportation, and she and her older brother took off to the fishing hole driving the mule sled. After fishing a little bit, they set baby brother back in the box and went back to get their fishing gear. The mule spooked and took off with the sled and baby brother in the cardboard box.

She said they chased that mule all through town with baby brother bouncing around in the box on the runaway mule sled all the way to the house. They both got a whooping when their mother got home because the top of baby brother’s head was sunburnt from bouncing around in the cardboard box on the runaway mule sled.

There are a hundred other funny stories like that from those times but they also said how hard it was during that time. What we think of as hard these days, they thought was normal. If you have these older generations in your family, NOW is a great time to ask them to tell you stories, and better yet, record them! These memories and stories are priceless and are just a glimpse into

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So, are we really suffering right now with the slow down? Are we suffering from lack of entertainment or convenience more than the actual threat of the virus? Have we made our lives so point and click that we have forgotten how to live and thrive on the barest essentials? Outside of needing our jobs and our paychecks, do we really NEED all of the extras that we’ve become accustomed to?

How many of you are actually enjoying the slow down and the social distancing in public places? I sincerely hope that folks have gotten to have some fun and enjoy some extra time with their families. These are the things that kids remember, not the stuff, they remember the stories like the one I just told you.

Regards,

Charity Ann Saulsberry, President.

Mesilla Valley CowBelles met virtually in April with nine members participating to complete required business. Minutes from previous meeting were emailed out to members. In keeping with COVID-19 quarantine requirements the local chose to select and nominate scholarship winners via email. The scholarship winners were sent into New Mexico CowBelles Scholarship chair.

No other CowBelles locals reported.

New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th of every month.

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t is estimated U.S. cattle producers lose up to $300 million each year because of bovine anaplasmosis, and cases of the disease have been diagnosed in 48 states.

The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine has granted Bayer Animal Health a conditional approval for Baytril 100-CA1 (enrofloxacin) Injectable Solution for the treatment of clinical anaplasmosis in cattle. The product will be available to veterinarians and cattle producers in May 2020.

“Options to address clinical anaplasmosis in cattle have been limited,” said Sebastian Kuszmierczyk, Head of Farm Animal Products in the U.S. for Bayer Animal Health.

“This conditional approval allows us to offer the proven efficacy of enrofloxacin as a new treatment for this potentially deadly disease.”

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The feeding tick transmits the bacteria that infects red blood cells and cause severe anemia. The disease is most devastating to cows ages 3 and older. While younger animals can become infected, calves less than a year old that are infected usually do not show clinical signs of the disease but will become carriers. Cows infected with the disease that recover will continue to be carriers their entire lives.

Much like bovine respiratory disease (BRD), anaplasmosis can be hard to detect.

Anemia and weakness are frequently the first clinical signs. Infected cattle will fall behind the rest of the herd and will not eat or drink. Weight loss is rapid. Cattle can become extremely aggressive if they are oxygen deprived due to the severe anemia.

Oxygen deprivation can also result in abortions in pregnant cows. Constipation, high fever and labored breathing can also be seen. The most critical period is the first four to nine days after clinical signs appear.

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Until now, tetracycline antimicrobials, oxytetracycline injectables or chlortetracycline medicated feed, were the only drugs used in the U.S. for treatment of acute anaplasmosis. In some places, vaccines are also

available to increase resistance to anaplasmosis.

“Our recent research has shown that some of the currently available anaplasmosis treatment options may not be as effective as in the past,” according to Kathryn Reif, MSPH, Ph.D., Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University. “A new treatment option to manage clinical anaplasmosis is a welcome option for veterinarians and producers.”

About Baytril 100-CA1 Baytril 100-CA1 contains the proven molecule, enrofloxacin, and is indicated for the treatment of clinical anaplasmosis associated with Anaplasma marginale in replacement dairy heifers under 20 months of age, all classes of beef cattle except beef calves less than 2 months of age and beef bulls intended for breeding of any age. Not for use in any other class of dairy cattle or in veal calves.

Baytril 100 - CA1 is conditionally approved pending a full demonstration of effectiveness. Baytril 100-CA1 has a reasonable expectation of effectiveness for treatment of clinical anaplasmosis in the conditionally approved classes of cattle when administered for the conditionally approved dosage regimen based on published scientific literature and reports from studies conducted by the sponsor. Enrofloxacin treatment in A. marginale-infected cattle resulted in a decrease in parasitemia and, when evaluated, improvement in clinical variables (hematocrit and rectal temperatures).

Enrofloxacin has been shown to have no adverse effects on cow reproductive performance, pregnancy and lactation, and no effect on calf viability and health.

Federal (U.S.A.) law restricts Baytril 100-CA1 to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian. Federal (U.S.A.) law prohibits the extra-label use of this drug in food-producing animals. Cattle intended for human consumption must not be slaughtered within 28 days from the last treatment. This product is not approved for use in female dairy cattle 20 months of age or older including dry dairy cows. Use in these cattle may cause drug residues in milk and/or in calves born to these cows. A withdrawal period has not been established for this product in pre-ruminating calves. Do not use in calves to be processed for veal.

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Feds Agree to Reevaluate Northern Spotted Owl “Critical Habitat” After Supreme Court Ruling

coalition representing counties, business and labor has reached an agreement with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) that will initiate a public regulatory rule-making process for reevaluating critical habitat designated for the Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The agreement was filed in mid-April in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and is subject to court approval.

The agreement is related to a unanimous 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision finding the ESA does not authorize the government to designate lands as critical habitat, unless it is in fact habitat for the species. The Supreme Court also ruled that courts can review government evaluations of the impact of designating critical habitat, which the lower courts had refused to allow for over 30 years.

The coalition brought legal action after the FWS designated 9.5 million acres of mostly federal lands as NSO critical habitat across Washington, Oregon and Northern California in 2012. This was 38 percent more than was set aside in 1992 following the listing of the NSO. The coalition’s legal action focused on the inclusion of millions of acres of forests not occupied by the species, including over 1.1 million acres of federal lands designated for active forest management activities and where no owls are present.

The ESA requires the federal government to take “into consideration the economic impact, the impact on national security, and any other relevant impact, of specifying any particular area as critical habitat.” The coalition argued the 2012 NSO designation violated the ESA by failing to consider any negative effects from designating areas that aren’t used by the NSO and never will be.

This agreement does not invalidate the 2012 NSO designation, nor does it change the Northwest Forest Plan that sets aside 20 million acres in reserve areas. Rather, it secures a commitment by the Fish & Wildlife Service to reevaluate whether designations are appropriate based on conservation benefits, environmental and economic impacts, and other factors. As with conventional federal rule-making, this regulatory process will offer opportunities for public comment and involvement.

“Our coalition supports balanced federal policies that carefully follow sound science while recognizing and considering the economic and social needs of our rural communities. This agreement will provide a public process that will enable federal agencies to develop a policy that is based in federal law and modern science.

It will also enable agencies to better manage public lands to improve forest health, support local economies, while providing outdoor recreation and habitat for other species.” Travis Joseph, President of the American Forest Resource Council.

“The listing of the Northern Spotted Owl and the designation of critical habitat has had a enormous negative social and economic impact on our rural communities. This agreement is a positive first step toward developing policies that balance the needs of our

communities, while assuring protections for the species.” Tom Lannen, Skamania County (Wash.) Commissioner.

“In addition to costing jobs and critical county revenues, the 2012 NSO critical habitat designation has severely impacted science-based efforts to implement forest management and restoration projects, including in overstocked forests, to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. Millions of acres of federal forests in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California are at risk of fire, disease, insect infestations, and drought putting habitat and communities at risk.” Ray Haupt, Siskiyou County (Calif.)

Commissioner.

“Our coalition supports science-based solutions to recovering the Northern Spotted Owl and mitigating threats to its population. Addressing threats such as the invasive Barred Owl and stand-replacing wild-fires that have devastated occupied habitat will be critical. We believe this agreement will help to restore the social and economic balances in our local communities that they so desperately need.”

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Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP 12) Vacated on ESA Grounds

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n April 15, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana issued an order that could impact energy and development projects across the United States. The court granted partial summary judgment in favor of plaintiff the Northern Plains Resource Council (“NPRC”) in a case concerning challenges to the Keystone XL Pipeline. While the case mostly focused on the permitting for this particular pipeline, the nature of the claims raised resulted in broader implications for nationwide permit (“NWP”) 12, an important nationwide permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”). The court’s ruling vacates NWP 12 and remands NWP 12 back to the Corps, instructing the Corps to complete a programmatic consultation under Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) section 7.

NWP 12 authorizes “utility line activities” that have minimal individual and cumulative adverse environmental effects.

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Activities covered under this NWP include utility lines and associated facilities, and NWP 12 is one of the most commonly used NWPs in energy and other development projects. NPRC and other plaintiffs challenged the Corps’ issuance of NWP 12 on several grounds, including claims under the ESA, the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), and the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”).

The court denied without prejudice the CWA and NEPA claims, recognizing that these claims may need to be revisited once the Corps has completed its ESA section 7 obligations. The court also stayed two other claims specific to the application of NWP 12 to the Keystone XL Pipeline.

However, the court found that the Corps did not comply with the ESA when it failed to conduct a programmatic ESA section 7 consultation when issuing NWP 12. The court’s order enjoins the Corps from authorizing any dredge and fill activities under NWP 12 until the Corps has completed its ESA section 7 consultation obligations.

Given the order focuses on the failure of the Corps on a programmatic nature, this ruling likely has nationwide import. It remains to be seen whether the Corps will try to limit the applicability of this ruling.

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NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS

by Frank Dubois

Enviros challenge grazing in wilderness and the lingering odor of fake wilderness

Grazing in Wilderness

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ew Mexico and other states have been recently blessed with new Wilderness areas, so we are keeping a watch on recent developments concerning livestock grazing in such areas.

Two new events in Colorado, brought to our attention by Wilderness Watch and Western Watershed Project, deal with the issue of motorized vehicles and equipment in Wilderness.

The first instance is in the Black Ridge

Canyon Wilderness, where the enviros have challenged the issuance of ten-year grazing permits because BLM has authorized motorized access to haul camp supplies to support the annual gather, to place salt, and to “check on livestock to avoid or detect emergencies.” Wilderness Watch is claiming ‘this is the only place motor vehicles are allowed for such routine livestock management practices.”

The second instance has occurred in the Powderhorn Wilderness, where the enviros have challenged the renewal of a ten-year permit because the BLM has authorized the use of a chainsaw to clear fifteen miles of cattle movement corridors, the use of a mini-excavator to clean out a stock pond, and the use of Utility Transport Vehicles to haul in fencing materials.

In both instances, the enviros claim a violations of the Wilderness Act, the Congressional Grazing Guidelines, and BLM’s own regulations. They say the BLM failed to analyze the use of nonmotorized alternatives such as using a crosscut saw or the use of pack animals.

As you contemplate how the pending decisions may affect your allotment, keep in mind the following language from the Congressional Grazing Guidelines:

The maintenance of supporting facilities, existing in the area prior to its classification as wilderness (including fences, line cabins, water wells and lines, stock tanks, etc.) is permissible in wilderness. Where practical alternatives do not exist, maintenance or other activities may be accomplished through the occasional use of motorized equipment.

This may include, for example, the use of backhoes to maintain stock ponds, pickup trucks for major fence repairs, or specialized equipment to repair stock watering facilities. Such occasional use of motorized equipment should be expressly authorized in the grazing permits for the area involved. The use of motorized equipment should be based on a r u l e o f p ra c ti ca l n e ce ssit y a n d reasonableness…

Indeed, if you are a wilderness allotment owner, you should have the complete guidelines readily available whenever dealing with the Forest Service or the BLM.

Fake wilderness You have heard of fake meat and fake news. Let me introduce you to fake wilderness.

In December of 2010, during the Obama administration, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar issued Secretarial Order 3310 which

instructed BLM to inventory “lands with wilderness characteristics” on a regular and continuing basis, and further to protect these lands through land use planning. This created a huge controversy among stakeholders and members of congress.

For instance, Idaho Governor Butch Otter testified, “I urge Congress to take back its authority and prevent further development and implementation of Secretary Salazar’s Order. This Order exempts stakeholders, threatens the spirit of collaboration and cooperation, weakens the process, discounts state sovereignty, and sends the message to the citizens of Idaho that the federal government will continue to treat the valuable and diverse open spaces of the West not as lands of many uses, but rather as lands of no use and no access for the people who live and work in Idaho and other western states.”

As a result, Congress prohibited the use of federal money to carry out the order and in June of 2011 Salazar revoked Secretarial Order 3310. That, however, has not stopped the BLM from continuing to implement the policy.

In August of 2012 the Congressional Western Caucus discovered two BLM manuals that resurrected the controversial

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policy and that even included language lifted directly from the supposedly revoked Secretarial Order. The Caucus then wrote to Interior saying, “The Department’s recent actions greatly undermine both your commitment to working with us, your duty to follow both the letter and spirit of the Congressional mandate to withhold funding for the Wildlands policy, and the Obama Administration’s commitment towards being the ‘most transparent’ in history. We urge you to withdraw BLM Manuals 6310 and 6320 immediately…”

The BLM manuals have not been revoked administration and BLM field staff are still and that is where we stand today. inventorying and designating “Lands with These lands were originally inventoried Wilderness Characteristics.” under Section 603 of FLPMA and found to The President of the New Mexico Federal be unsuitable for wilderness. So how is the Lands Council, Bebo Lee, has written to the BLM getting around that? By lowering the BLM Acting Director and requested that he standards. Lands with wilderness charac- “rescind Instruction Memo No. 2003-275 and teristics (LWC) do not have to have the BLM Manuals 6310 and 6320”, and that he mandatory wilderness characteristics, i.e., replace those documents with directions they are fake wilderness. And, lowering the the lands under consideration meet the standards means that more lands can be definitions articulated in the 1964 Wilderdesignated under this new criteria. ness Act. Lee also said the new policy Here we are three years into the Trump should state that “no management changes will occur on any lands perceived as LWC until Congress acts on any new designations.”

We know how President Trump feels about fake news. I suspect he would have the same opinion of fake wilderness. Let’s hope his appointees at Interior take note, and rid us of this holdover Obama administration gift to the enviros.

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

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

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U.S. Transportation Sec. Chao Announces $25.22 M to New Mexico Airports in Response to COVID-19

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.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced in mid-April the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $25,229,608 in airport aid to 50 airports in New Mexico to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. This historic grant funding is part of the Trump Administration’s newly created Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Airport Grant Program , an effort to provide unprecedented and immediate relief to American families, workers, and businesses.

“This $10 billion in emergency resources will help fund the continued operations of our nation’s airports during this crisis and save workers’ jobs,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao.

This funding will support continuing operations and replace lost revenue result-

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ing from the sharp decline in passenger traffic and other airport business due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. The funds are available for airport capital expenditures, airport operating expenses including payroll and utilities, and airport debt payments.

“Thank you to the dedicated men and women from the FAA’s Office of Airports for creating an entirely new program in record time to assist airport sponsors in desperate need of these funds,” said FAA Administrator Steve Dickson.

View a list of New Mexico airports receiving funding at https://www.faa.gov/ airports/cares_act/map/, along with funding for all U.S. airports on FAA’s website.

The FAA encourages airport sponsors to spend the grant funds immediately to help

minimize any adverse impact from the current public health emergency. Airport sponsors should work with their local field office on the application and grant-agreement process. Visit https://www.faa. gov/airports/ The CARES Act also provides funds to increase the Federal share to 100 percent for grants awarded under the fiscal year 2020 appropriations for Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and Supplemental Discretionary grants. Under normal circumstances, AIP grant recipients contribute a matching percentage of the project costs.

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n response to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Mexico’s food industry has supplied tons of food to Indian communities across the state and is gearing up to provide more wherever needed.

Participants include private food producers, the Departments of Agriculture, Indian Affairs, Aging & Long-Term Services, Human Services and Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the National Guard, New Mexico State University, the Southwest Border Food Protection and Emergency Preparedness Center at New Mexico State University, the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association, the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau and others.

The project began at the Lujan Grisham administration’s Emergency Operations Center, where many agencies are coordinating efforts to assist New Mexicans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After learning of a need on the Navajo Nation, Marshal Wilson, assistant director of the Agriculture Department’s Agricultural Production Services Division, called Mesilla Valley Produce, which grows, packs and ships produce. Mesilla Valley Produce’s president, TJ Runyan, agreed at once to help.

“By the next morning, his truck was in Albuquerque, and food was being unloaded,” Wilson said.

Runyan said after talking to Wilson, he reached out to growers he thought would have fruit and vegetables in storage. They responded by procuring 80,000 pounds of beans, rice, potatoes, onions, watermelons and apples.

“I was pretty amazed with how quickly it happened, and I was proud of our staff,” Runyan said. “Our team is small, but we were efficient. As a New Mexico company, I’m honored to be able to pitch in and help.”

The New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau also helped. It connected the Emergency Operations Center with J&D Produce, based in Edinburg, Texas, which donated a truckload of onions, and with Colorado Farm Bureau member James Henderson, who provided potatoes.

The National Guard unloaded the food at its armory in Rio Rancho, then distributed it to five staging points on the Navajo Nation over Easter weekend.

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The FAA will use a streamlined application and grant-agreement process to make this funding immediately available for critical airport needs. The funds will be available as soon as the airport sponsor executes a grant agreement.

The CARES Act provides new funds distributed by various formulas for all airports that are part of the national airport system.

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

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

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Services and Homeland Security and Emergency Management, were coordinating with food supplier/distributor Sysco New Mexico to procure food boxes for the San Felipe and Zia Pueblos.

“As many of you know our tribal communities are also some of our most vulnerable communities, through partnerships like these we can continue to ensure deliveries of food, water and other essential supplies to our tribal citizens throughout the state,” said Indian Affairs Department Secretary Lynn Trujillo. “Thank you to all who contributed to getting this food out to our tribal communities.”

In an ongoing effort during the pandemic, the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association is coordinating donations, purchases from small- to medium-size growers, and deliveries.

“We’re trying to not only assist with securing shelf-stable items, but to provide access to fresh produce as well,” said Michael Venticinque, the association’s value chain coordinator, who is leading those efforts.

Also, for the month of April thus far, the Aging & Long-Term Services Department delivered 27,608 food boxes to seniors and disabled adults (including 127 from Adult Protective Services).

New Mexico Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte said these efforts prove New Mexicans and neighboring states can work together to provide food for those in need.

“In times of crisis, it’s amazing how people come together to help,” Witte said.

“This is truly a situation in which New Mexicans are feeding New Mexicans. This is also a reminder of how important farmers are and a reminder of how our local agriculture community is able to provide food to New Mexicans.”

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

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New Hunting & Fishing Opportunities Proposed at Two National WildlifeRefuges in New Mexico

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ontinuing the Trump Administration’s significant efforts to increase recreational access on public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced a historic proposal for new and expanded hunting and fishing opportunities across more than 2.3 million acres at 97 national wildlife refuges and nine national fish hatcheries. This proposed rule is the single largest expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in history. The prop os al comes with a 6 0 - day comment period.

In New Mexico, new proposed refuge opportunities include expanding existing big game hunting to new acres and expanding season dates for existing migratory bird hunting at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge; and opening waterfowl, javelina and feral hog on new acres and acres already open to other hunting, expanding existing migratory bird, upland game, and big game hunting to new acres, and expanding season dates for oryx hunting to align with State regulations at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.

“America’s hunters and anglers now have something significant to look forward to in the fall as we plan to open and expand hunting and fishing opportunities across more acreage nationwide than the entire state of Delaware,” said Secretary Bernhardt.

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hunt Fish Chiefs have been instrumental in our effort over the past two years to streamline our regulations and identify new opportunities for sportsmen and women like no other previous administration.”

“Once the Trump Administration’s effort to eliminate the threat of COVID-19 has been successful, there will be no better way to celebrate than to get out and enjoy increased access for hunting and fishing on our public lands,” said Service Director Aurelia Skipwith. “I deeply appreciate everything sportswomen and men do for

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conservation and our economy, so I am delighted when we can do something to expand opportunities for them. I hope it will help encourage the next generation of hunters and anglers to continue on this rich American tradition.”

Nationwide, this proposed rule would create nearly 900 distinct new hunting and fishing opportunities (an opportunity is defined as one species on one field station in one state). On top of last year’s expansion of 1.4 million acres for new or expanded hunting and fishing opportunities, this prop os a l wo u l d b r i n g th e Tr u m p Administration’s total expansion to 4 million acres nationwide.

This proposal would bring the number of units in the Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System where the public may hunt to 399 and the number where fishing is permitted to 331. In addition, this rule proposes to formally open lands on nine units of the National Fish Hatchery System to hunting or sport fishing.

The proposed rule also continues the effort from last year’s rule toward revising refuge hunting and fishing regulations, so they more closely match state regulations where the refuge is located. This year’s rule also takes a further step in proposing revisions that ensure whenever refuge regulations depart from state regulations, for safety or conservation compatibility reasons, these extra regulations are consistent across all refuges in a given state. The Department worked closely with the states in preparing the proposed rule.

The Service will seek comments from the public on the proposed rule for 60 days, beginning with publication in the Federal Register on April 9, 2020. The notice will be available at http://www.regulations.gov, Docket Number: FWS-HQ-NWRS-2020-0013,

and will include details on how to submit your comments.

The Department intends to finalize the proposed changes in time for the upcoming 2020-2021 hunting seasons. A complete list of all refuges and hatcheries in the proposal is available in the proposed rule. View an online list ( https://www.fws.gov/home/ feature/2020/2020-2021-Station-SpecificHunting-and-Fishing-Proposed-Rule-Narratives.pdf ) and map ( https://www.fws. gov/home/feature/2020/2020-2021-Station-Specific-Hunting-and-Fishing-Proposed-Rule-Map.pdf ).

Background America’s sportsmen and women generated nearly $1 billion in excise taxes last year, supporting critical state conservation programs. These funds are generated by excise tax collections on hunting, shooting and fishing equipment and boat fuel that is distributed to all 50 states and U.S. territories by the Service.

To date, the Service has distributed more than $22.9 billion in apportionments for state conservation and recreation projects.

The recipient state wildlife agencies have matched these funds with approximately $7.6 billion throughout the years, primarily through hunting and fishing license revenues.

In addition to excise taxes collected from these activities, hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities contributed more than $156 billion in economic activity in communities across the United States in 2016, according to the Service’s National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, published every five years. More than 101 million Americans — 40 percent of the U.S. population age 16 and older — pursue wildlife-related recreation, including hunting and fishing.

There are 70 national fish hatcheries visited by more than one million people each year. Hatcheries offer opportunities for viewing the operations and learning about fish, as well as activities such as fishing, hunting, hiking, sightseeing, nature study, birdwatching and photography.

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The Importantance of Provenance

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ne picture of Billy the Kid is worth over 2 million dollars. Another is hardly wor th any thing. The difference—provenance!

According to the dictionary, the word Provenance is a noun which means: 1. Origin or Source; 2. The history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature.

Why is provenance important to collectors? First and foremost, it is the act of being reasonably assured we know the origins of something in a recognized and generally accepted manner. Basically, being comfortable with the authenticity of an item. The more we are assured it is authentic, the more value the marketplace will allow for the item. So authenticity, which of course leads to value, are great reasons provenance is important to collectors.

A fine example of just how important provenance is — is the Billy the Kid photo example. There was an authenticated photo (the one and only) which sold at auction in 2011 for 2.3 million dollars! It had solid provenance. There was a chain of ownership established back to the time it was taken. A copy of the photograph appeared publicly on Jan. 8, 1881, in the Boston Illustrated Police News. Sheriff Pat Garrett used the image twice in his book, “The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid.” The provenance was accepted as iron clad by the collecting world.

On the other hand, there have been a number of other photographs which some claim are also of Billy the Kid. Some, even had pretty convincing circumstantial evidence they were Billy. But just because an old photo looks like him, does not convince the marketplace that it is him. Circumstantial evidence and looking similar to the authenticated photo is a good story, but a long way from convincing the marketplace to shell out big money for it. In this example, solid provenance is about a 2-million-dollar

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difference of the value placed upon the items by the marketplace.

Hallmarked vs. unsigned vintage and antique Native American jewelry is another great example. Most collectors of Native American silver know that much of it was not signed in the early days. As a matter of fact, from the 1970s to current, most Native jewelry is hallmarked, but before that, the opposite was true. Collectors still pay good money for the old, unsigned pieces though.

The value is just based on the quality of a piece.

However, there were a few people hallmarking early on. And those pieces now bring a premium because there is a form of provenance. For example, you can take two bracelets that look almost identical and both are quality work. However, one is signed by the Hopi silversmith Morris Robinson (one of the few guys who signed his work) and the other has no hallmarks. The signed one will bring at least twice as much in today’s market. The reason, we know who made it. We can tie it to a certain person in history. The other item may be just as good of quality as far as workmanship goes, but it is speculatory as to who made it. We can say it was most likely Native made based on the construction and style, but there is no where near the degree of certainty you get with the hallmarked piece.

Old bits and spurs are another prime example. There were a lot of old, handmade bits and spurs from the late 1800s and early 1900s that were not hallmarked. However, some were. Even though there are those who can identify (with a fair amount of accuracy) who a particular spur maker was by the style and engraving, items made by guys who were hallmarking back then will realize a premium in today’s marketplace.

G.S. Garcia is a prime example. Most of the items produced in his shop were marked with the hallmark of his shop and they bring top dollar today because we know where they came from. We know he hired the best bit and spur makers available and they put the G.S. Garcia brand on the items. However, there were makers who produced just as nice of items, but unless those items were marked, the ones made and marked by the G.S. Garcia shop will bring more. Much more! The reason? There is provenance (a hallmark) tying the Garcia items to a certain point and place in history.

It is not just speculation or an, “it sure looks like so-and-so’s work,” type of situation. The market responds accordingly.

Besides the importance of provenance with regards to who made a particular item,

historical event provenance is also very important. An item that can be tied to a certain event in history will always bring more than a like-kind item with no story behind it. But again, provenance is extremely important. Just because it has a good story, or the seller says it was used in a certain historical event, does not necessarily make it more valuable. The more evidence you have tying it to a particular event, the better the marketplace will respond with regards to value. A good example of this is a Colt Single Action Army revolver that had provenance tying it to the battle of the Little Big Horn. One with such provenance sold at auction a few years back for $460,000! Meanwhile, a like-kind Colt SAA with U.S. markings and unknown historical ties will generally bring not more than $10,000 (depending on condition that number can vary greatly).

It is easy to understand the importance of provenance as to the authenticity and value of a piece, but there is another question. Is the provenance real? Any time money is involved, especially when the amounts can be significant, there are people who try to manipulate the system.

Fake hallmarks, fake documents, conjured up stories, hearsay, and much more is often passed off as potential provenance. So buyers/collectors should beware and do your due diligence. Educate yourself on the items you intend to collect. When possible, deal with reputable dealers, auctions and sellers. We always advise buyers/collectors to keep as much information with the piece as possible. At the very least, get a written receipt with a basic description and the amount paid. If possible, write down the history that came with it or print out any research you find on the item. It may help tremendously at some point in the future.

Remember, don’t just buy the story, buy the item based on its provenance. With any type of collectible or historical item, the more iron clad the provenance, the more substantial value the marketplace will allow for it.

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Team USA Takes 3rd Place in Young Breeders Competition

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eam USA traveled to Queenstown, New Zealand, to compete in the Young Breeders Competition during the 2020 World Hereford Conference, Mar. 7 through 13. Abigail Spindle, Stanley, New Mexico; Taylor Belle Matheny, Mays Lick, Kentucky.; Tyler Allan, Schulenburg, Texas; and Keayla Harr, Jeromesville, Ohio, were the four National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) members representing the U.S. Team USA brought home first place honors in the presentation module of the competition with a speech about bridging the gap between urban and rural populations. The team’s victory earned the opportunity to share their presentation with the 400 attendees at the World Hereford Conference. Spindle placed second overall in the judging contest and Matheny followed with a third overall placement.

Allan placed fourth in the herdsmanship module, which was a combined score from the judging and showmanship contests.

“We were proud of how we finished the competition, but more importantly, we made friends from around the world and learned from and enjoyed each other’s company more than we ever could have imagined,” said Matheny, who is also the NJHA board chairman.

Nine teams representing seven countries competed at this year’s event in New Zealand’s southern island. Other contests included a quiz bowl, fence-building, agribusiness, meat cuts, animal health and genetic modules along with judging, fitting and showing competitions at the Wanaka A&P Hereford Show.

“This was a journey of a lifetime for these young adults and it was so neat to watch them network with the teams from across the globe as they competed and represented America on the world’s stage. I look for this experience to open doors for future networking opportunities with Hereford breeders and junior members from other counties,” said Amy Cowan, director of youth activities and foundation.

The U.S. will host the next World Hereford Conference in 2024.

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Pictured right to left are Abigail Spindle, Keayla Harr, Tyler Allen and Taylor Belle Matheny.

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NMDCA Archeologist Weaves Blanket Made of 17,000 Turkey Feathers Alexa Henry Web Exclusives & Highlights, New Mexico Wildlife

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n 2018, Mary Weahkee, an archeologist and anthropologist with the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, was asked to try her hand at a particular task that dates back to more than 1,000 years ago: weave a blanket made of turkey feathers.

Weahkee taught herself the technique, the process of winding each feather around yucca cord, by examining ancient blankets housed at museums around the western United States.

Juan L. Ulibarri, 90, Colonias, New Mexico, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at Guadalupe County Hospital. Juan was born on January 28, 1930 to the home of Margarito Ulibarri and Cecilia (Valencia) Ulibarri in Aguaje Blanco Ranch, south of Colonias. Juan was raised on the Aguaje Blanco Ranch and attended school in Colonias. After his education he engaged in the stock business as a lifelong cattle rancher. Juan knew his business well, and though the work was hard, he enjoyed all aspects of ranching life. He also ensured that his children were active and involved in the family ranch. Juan was a lifelong parishioner of Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church and he loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. Juan is survived by his son, Juan Ulibarri, Jr. (Debbie), daughter; Jennifer Ulibarri (Fernando), both of Aguaje Blanco Ranch; four granddaughters; and a great-granddaughter. He is also survived by the mother of his children; Bobbie

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Producing this large, two by three-foot blanket took 18 months using 17,000 feathers from 68 turkeys. She tried out the technique twice before, producing two one by one-foot samples a few years ago for the museum at Chaco Canyon and the Aztec Monument Museum.

“I looked at how the ancestors were creative and patient,” said Weahkee, who is of Comanche and Santa Clara descent. “It’s a labor of love.”

Calling the weaving method “a simple technology,” Weahkee said it took her about a day to teach herself how to weave with feathers and yucca cord, she said.

While there are a handful of other small samples in a few western museums, Weahkee’s is the largest known blanket ever made in modern times.

Tracking down that number of body feathers from so many turkeys would require some help. She reached out to the Department of Game and Fish and was put

Guinn, Santa Rosa; sister; Zenovia Martinez; Albuquerque; and brother Willie Ulibarri, Las Vegas, as well as numerous nephews, nieces, family and friends. The family regrets that the services will not be open to the public due to the statewide restrictions pertaining to the COVID-19 Virus. In cooperation with the Governor’s order, services are limited to the immediate family only. However, the family does kindly ask that you keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

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

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in touch with Storm Usrey, conservation education manager with the Department.

Usrey, a turkey hunter himself, gave Weahkee the pelts from turkeys he harvested. He also asked friends and family members who he knew harvested birds to offer the body feathers to Mary as well. “I tried to step up and get her as many body feathers as I could,” he said.

Jack Young, archeologist and tribal liaison with the Department of Game and Fish, said the Department has an ongoing request from several pueblos for wild turkey feathers. “It’s that big of an icon for modern pueblo cultures to use turkey feathers in ceremonial use, and in prayers,” he said.

Feather robes originated during what archeologists call the Pithouse phase, when people began to explore agriculture and become more sedentary, around 700 AD. This is also when people started to keep turkeys as livestock, raising them specifically for harvesting their feathers. “They weren’t keeping them entirely for meat but for the feathers, similar to keeping sheep for wool,” said Young.

Turkey-feather robes were found in Anasazi burials—in particular, what was interpreted as high-status burials as well as cases of some child burials. Eventually, turkey feathers were no longer the preferred material; cotton soon replaced turkey feathers for producing textiles, Young explained.

“Turkey feathers would have been an ideal choice for a blanket, as the large feathers from a turkey would be a lot easier to work with than small song bird feathers,” said Casey Cardinal, resident game bird biologist with the Department of Game and Fish.

Feathers provide excellent insulation, continued Cardinal, noting that there are several feather types on birds, but semiplume and down feathers are the primary insulators. Birds use these feathers to trap pockets of air around their bodies. The combination of feathers and air can keep them warm, even during extremely cold weather. Preening and fluffing are ways that birds can adjust the amount of air, and the insulation level, around their bodies.

Another key reason for using turkey feathers: turkeys as a species are more easily subject to domestication than many other bird species, as they are non-migratory and can be lured in by artificial food sources.

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environmental groups, celebrated the win.

“This decision is a huge victory for clean water,” he said in a statement. “The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to blow a big hole in the Clean Water Act’s protections for rivers, lakes, and oceans.”

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissent that was joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Justice Samuel Alito wrote a separate dissenting opinion that accused the majority of going beyond the text of the Clean Water Act. “If the Court is going to devise its own legal rules, instead of interpreting those enacted by Congress, it might at least adopt rules that can be applied with a modicum of consistency,” Alito wrote. “Here, however,

by John Kruzel, thehill.com the Court makes up a rule that provides no he Supreme Court recently sided with clear guidance and invites arbitrary and environmentalists by giving a broad inconsistent application.” reading to the types of water-borne Michael Kimberly, an attorney at McDerpollution covered by the Clean Water Act. mott Will & Emery who co-authored an In a 6-3 decision, the justices held that a amicus brief in support of the Maui County, permit is required for either a direct dis- criticized the majority opinion as setting an charge of pollutants into federally regulated “amorphous” new environmental standard. rivers and oceans or its “functional “Not only is the decision vague, but it equivalent.” leaves countless responsible landowners “Suppose, for example, that a sewage potentially liable for discharges from ‘point treatment plant discharges polluted water sources’ to ‘navigable waters’ that aren’t into the ground where it mixes with groundwater, which, in turn, flows into a navigable river, or perhaps the ocean,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority.

“Must the plant’s owner seek an EPA permit before emitting the pollutant?” he continued, referring to the Environmental Protection Agency. “We conclude that [a permit is required] if the addition of the pollutants through groundwater is the functional equivalent of a direct discharge from the point source into navigable waters.”

At issue in the case was whether Maui County in Hawaii violated the Clean Water Act, the landmark 1972 environmental law, by injecting wastewater underground without a permit that then seeped into the Pacific Ocean.

In siding with environmental groups, Breyer was joined by his fellow liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, as well as more conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts.

The decision returns the case, County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to apply the new “functional equivalent” test.

David Henkin, an attorney with Earthjustice who argued the case on behalf of

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actually anything of the sort,” he said.

The case arose in the spring of 2012, when four Hawaii environmental groups sued Maui County to stop a municipal water treatment plant from pouring millions of gallons of wastewater each day into wells running hundreds of feet deep, where the treate d s ewage combin e d with groundwater.

A study showed some of the wastewater later surfaced at popular beach areas, and the environmental groups said pollutants contained in the discharge had interfered with nearby coral reef and triggered invasive algae to bloom. They argued the county was operating in this way without a federal permit, in violation of the Clean Water Act. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals eventually sided with the environmental groups, prompting an appeal to the Supreme Court.

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Tech Researcher Receives USDA Grant to Study Global Farm & Trade Policy Effects on Agriculture

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he U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of numerous agricultural products, including soybeans, cotton, corn, pork and wheat. Any change in domestic agricultural or trade policy, whether it’s at home or abroad, affects America’s agricultural economy.

Over the last few years, several countries, including the U.S., have enacted new domestic policies or broken trade agreements and developed new ones. This has influenced, both positively and negatively, the U.S. export market, which is vital for American farmers, growers and agribusiness firms.

Just what those effects are, or could be, is the subject of a new study by Stephen Devadoss, the Emabeth Thompson Endowed Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. Along with Sherzod Akhundjanov, an assistant professor of applied econometrics and statistics at Utah State University, the researchers will attempt to develop a comprehensive trade model and analyze the effects of farm subsidies and trade policies on U.S. agriculture.

Their study is supported by a $499,770 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

“The United States is the leading exporter of many agricultural commodities, so the export market is vital for U.S. farmers, growers and agribusiness firms,” Devadoss said. “Increasing trade tensions, as have been playing out recently, will harm the U.S. agricultural sector. This study researches this important topic to assess how various countries’ domestic policies and trade policies impact U.S. exports and the sustainability of U.S. agriculture.”

The U.S. agricultural export market has seen quite a bit of change and volatility over the last few years.

According to Devadoss’ research, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), created in 1994, has increased trade over the last 25 years from $293 billion

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Environmentalists Sue BLM Over Grazing in San Pedro Conservation Area

to $1.1 trillion. Under the current administration, NAFTA was renegotiated into the U. S . , M e x ic an, C ana dian Agre e ment (USMCA).

U.S. agriculture is heavily dependent on Canada and Mexico, the two biggest agricultural export markets for the U.S., accounting for 28 percent of the U.S. corn by Ariana Brocious, news.azpm.org market and 8 percent of soybean exports.

So, the USMCA, once it is implemented, will onservation groups sued the Bureau have a significant effect on U.S. agricultural of Land Management in early April for export efficiency. what they say is a failure to protect the Also, the U.S. has engaged in trade dis- San Pedro Riparian National Conservation putes with countries around the world that Area from harm caused by livestock grazing. have led to trade wars and retaliatory tariffs The conservation area was established imposed by both sides. Devadoss said these 30 years ago to protect the area’s unique trade wars will have significant impacts on landscape and ecosystems. Last year the the U.S. agricultural sector, even when the BLM published a new resource managetrade wars don’t initially involve agricul- ment plan guiding decisions on the tural products. property for the next couple decades.

For example, the U.S. and China entered The plan allows a handful of grazing into a trade dispute that saw the U.S. permits to continue and also allowing impose tariffs on Chinese aluminum and grazing as a vegetation tool. Cyndi Tuell steel imports. This led China to impose with Western Watersheds says that violates retaliatory tariffs on goods that it viewed the BLM’s legal responsibility to “protect, would hurt the U.S. the most, particularly enhance and conserve” the SPRNCA set out farm products such as soybeans, corn, by Congress. Her group and others objected sorghum, beef, pork and poultry. Canada to these moves during the public comment imposed tariffs on U.S. commodities such period for the plan and also filed an offias orange juice, maple syrup, farm chemi- cial protest. cals and cucumbers when the U.S. imposed “We’ve been trying to convince them to tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. meet the requirements of the law for almost Through this research project, Devadoss 10 years and they decided not to do that, so hopes to develop and implement theoret- we were left with no choice but to sue,” ical trade models, then simulate that model Tuell said. to show the effects brought on by the Tuell said it’s well understood by scienvarious trade agreements and trade wars tists that livestock grazing can damage around the world. riparian areas by destroying streambanks “It is worth noting that even when the and vegetation and impairing stream quality. disputes are related to non-agricultural “And the BLM just turned a blind eye commodities, such as intellectual proper- against all those effects in the interest of a ties, steel and aluminum, other countries couple of livestock producers that have a engage in a tit-for-tat fight by strategically very small number of cows that are doing targeting sensitive U.S. agricultural com- a large amount of damage,” Tuell said. modities for tariff retaliation,” Devadoss The suit was filed by Advocates for the said in the research proposal. “Since the U.S. West on behalf of Western Watersheds, The is the No. 1 exporter of agricultural prod- Sierra Club and the Center for Biological ucts in the world, with more than $135 Diversity. billion worth of exports, these trade wars The BLM said it’s reviewing the overwhelmingly hurt U . S . litigation. agriculture.”

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The event will feature keynote sessions and breakouts aimed at cow-calf, stocker and feeder producers. Sessions will provide practical, actionable, information on topics such as: animal health, genetics, marketing, nutrition, reproduction, forage and range management, finance and more.

One of the first confirmed speakers is Brandi Buzzard Frobose, a Kansas rancher, blogger and communications professional who was named National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s 2019 Advocate of the Year. Frobose writes about her family and their Kansas ranch

on her blog, “Buzzard’s Beat.” She con- children 12 and under. nects with readers by sharing stories Attendee registration is now open at about raising cattle and starting a ranch www.cattleu.net. An Early Bird Discount with her husband, raising their young rate of $85 is good through April 30. daughter, and more. Frobose will keynote Regular registration price starting May 1 the first day of Cattle U, as well as conduct will be $135 per person. a breakout session on advocacy methods Cattle U Trade Show space is currently for today’s cattlemen. available, but filling up quickly. Exhibitors Another confirmed speaker will be have the opportunity to save 20 percent Dave Nichols, owner of Nichols Farms in on booth space rates until April 30 as well. southwest Iowa. The Nichols family To inquire about how your company can markets bulls, semen and embryos exhibit at this premier educational event throughout the world. Dave Nichols will for cattle producers, contact Zac Stuckey speak to the importance of using every at 316/516-3670 or zstuckey@hpj.com. tool available to today’s cattle producers For more event information and to see in order to make the best herds the general schedule at a glance, visit even better. www.cattleu.net.

The two-day program will feature keynote speakers each day, breakout sessions, a trade show, and a special social event planned exclusively for Cattle U attendees July 29 at the Dodge City Roundup Arena prior to the Roundup Rodeo performance. Rodeo tickets are available as an add-on to registration for $19 for adults 13 and older and $10.25 for

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More Allegations Emerge Against HSUS “Sanctuary” Source: Humane Watch

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]hen the vast majority of 79 chimps eat their own feces, this is a major problem.” That is among the latest in a string of allegations against Project Chimps, a Georgia sanctuary for retired chimpanzees that is an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States.

The allegations come from a vet tech who worked at Project Chimps for three years, who says she represents a cohort of nearly a dozen whistleblowers who are speaking out with their concerns about how chimps are treated at the HSUS-controlled sanctuary.

The whistleblower says she sought internal and watchdog help before going public, but was not only disappointed at the lack of effective response–she got fired. She says the board chair of Project Chimps sent out a threatening email against people speaking out.

Among her allegations: ЇЇ Chimps eating feces and smearing them on the wall due to lack of access to habitat. ЇЇ Improper treatment of a nasty wound that festered. ЇЇ Improper treatment of parasites; one chimp had 10 days of bloody diarrhea before receiving the correct medication. ЇЇ The on-call veterinarian is a small animal (cat and dog) vet – not a primate specialist. ЇЇ A focus on accumulating more chimps as opposed to improving the facility for chimps already there.

Project Chimps issued a letter denying these accusations and blaming a “small group of detractors.” The letter also tellingly asks people not to speak out if they are approached – but to instead report that to Project Chimps. That smells to us like Project Chimps is more focused on damage control and reputation than on animal welfare. It reminds us of when HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle blamed his #MeToo problem on “a coordinated attempt to attack me and [HSUS].” (He later resigned in disgrace.)

For years, HSUS criticized the chimps’ former residence, the University of Louisiana, where they were used to support medical research. HSUS’s public relations narrative is that the university exploited them while HSUS saved them. In reality, the university may well have been the better caregiver. [

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Court Rules In Favor of Beef Checkoff

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big win for the beef checkoff and 15 state beef councils around the country as the U.S. District Court ruled in favor of USDA and the Montana Beef Council in the case filed by R-CALF USA. On Friday, March 27, Judge Brian Morris denied R-CALF’s request for an injunction to stop certain state beef councils from collecting checkoff dollars.

In his ruling in favor of USDA and the Montana Beef Council, Morris cited that USDA has entered into Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with state beef councils that give USDA significant discretion to approve or reject any all promotional activities. Under the MOU’s state beef councils agree to submit to USDA for pre-approval any and all promotion, advertising, information and research plans and projects.

Each state beef council collects $1 from cattle owners for each head sold. Half of that dollar is sent to the national Cattlemen’s Beef Board to promote beef and the other 50 cents stays in the state to be spent on beef promotion, research and education, at the direction of the state beef council.

In 2016, R-CALF filed a complaint in Federal District Court against USDA and Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue. The group alleged that because some state beef councils are not elected or appointed by the government, they are not producing government speech. Therefore, R-CALF said, the state beef councils are private organization and cattlemen should not be required to fund private speech.

In June of 2017, Judge Morris granted R-CALF a preliminary injunction preventing the Montana Beef Council from collecting checkoff dollars, unless a cattle producer provides a prior affirmative consent authorizing the Beef Council to retain half of the producer’s assessment. Consequently, if a producer did not provide a consent form, all of their checkoff funds went directly to the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.

A year later, R-CALF moved to expand their legal campaign to apply to 14 more state beef councils. Judge Morris granted the motion to expand the lawsuit to include Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

The most recent ruling by the U.S. District Court was precipitated by summary

judgment from a magistrate judge that also sided with USDA and the Montana Beef Council.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association praised the court’s decision with CEO Colin Woodall saying, “The foundation of the Beef Checkoff has always been state beef councils that collect checkoff funds and determine how those investments are used for research, marketing and promotion efforts in individual states. Those efforts are directed by the same cattlemen and cattlewomen who pay the checkoff, so this victory goes a long way toward ensuring they continue to direct those investments.”

Woodall emphasized that NCBA will continue to stand with state beef councils whose work is crucial to maintaining beef demand throughout the nation.

Montana Stockgrowers Vice-President Jim Steinbeisser who ranches in Sidney said that “This is great news and has been a long time coming. Who better to decide where checkoff dollars are spent then Montana ranchers and beef processors? It’s a great system and it’s shame that we’ve had to bypass it for so long.”

Steinbeisser said that the stellar consumer demand we see for beef today is a result of the work done by ranchers and the beef checkoff for over 30 years. “When the checkoff started, demand was just dropping steadily and chicken was kicking our butt. It took some time to kick in but when it, the checkoff really proved itself to be very effective.”

Steinbeisser said that we’re still getting a lot done with the checkoff, despite that one dollar buying a lot less today than it did when the checkoff started. He add that “We’ve got some other issues to work with that are outside of the checkoff, with our markets. But the checkoff has done an excellent job.”

R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said they are disappointed but not surprised by the ruling. They are not satisfied that state beef councils will operate under the MOUs in perpetuity. Bullard is also concerned about the money that beef councils send to NCBA and the U.S. Meat Export Federation. He says those dollars and the speech they pay for are not accountable to the federal government.

It’s not yet clear if the Montana Beef Council will be able to suspend the consent form process for ranchers. R-CALF has 60 days to decide whether or not to appeal the court’s decision.

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f you’re like me, you were busy with your spring cattle work on the ranch when the Coronavirus seemed to come out of nowhere and upend everything in our world.

Fortunately we have excellent resources, provided by your contributions to the Checkoff, to help us navigate these unchartered territories. The New Mexico Beef Council works closely with the NMDA, USDA, Cattleman’s Beef Board, and Beef Checkoff contractors like the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. All of these organizations are closely following daily developments and reporting back to me and the other Council members. Here are just a few actions that have been taken on your behalf in the past couple months: ЇЇ With the closure of dine-in restaurants, our national research has found that more consumers are searching for easy and quick recipes and food preparation online. NMBC responded to this trend by committing to additional digital advertising for the next three months that focus on quick and easy beef meal prep, like Cheeseburger Mac. ЇЇ NMBC has added a Coronavirus tab on its website, NMBeef.com, to keep producers and consumers informed on steps taken to insure the beef supply chain remains safe and uninterrupted. ЇЇ Our industry is working closely with Congress, USDA and many other regulatory agencies to remove possible barriers to beef production. Our presence in Washington, D.C., will help keep the supply chain full and create the necessary food security required by consumers through the entirety of this event. Consumer demand for beef remains strong, and producers across the industry remain ready to provide the safe, delicious, high-quality protein that’s required and desired around the globe. ЇЇ Another checkoff-funded program is our Beef News Now e-newsletter that goes to more than 2,600 supply chain Quick and Easy Cheeseburger Mac digital subscribers. These ad is served up to New Mexicans

subscribers are segmented into retail, foodservice, and nutrition-focused lists to help them understand that beef is the most valuable protein for their business. Several of these are sent each month providing information about market research, wholesale beef prices, and other information that helps showcase to our supply chain operators that beef is the most valuable protein.

Additionally, for cooks who may not be as savvy, Beef. ЇЇ It’s What’s For Dinner.com is promoting quick, easy meal prep through videos like Beef 101: Burger Bar and Skillet Cooking. We have also produced longer form video and entertaining spots like Cast Iron that can be found on social media, YouTube and other digital advertising platforms. As a result of NCBA’s efforts, there has already been a 68 percent increase in organic search traffic back to BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com. Be sure to follow Beef.

It’s What’s For Dinner on social media, like, and share this content.

In closing, I want to remind everyone that we are all in this together and we’ll pull through. I urge you to visit our website, NMBeef.com, to view all of our resources. Be well and God bless.

– Matt Ferguson Chairman, New Mexico Beef Council

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ЇЇ The Beef So Simple e-newsletter goes to more than 4,500 consumers and has an open rate, on average, of about 55 percent (compared to e-newsletters that on average have a 20 percent open rate). They are typically sent twice a month with content around trending and popular recipes to help inspire consumer confidence in cooking beef. ЇЇ Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. is another Checkoff-funded program. BIWD is offering tips and ideas for batch cooking and leftovers to provide stress-free meal planning with a nutritious punch. ЇЇ As shelter-in-place situations become more widespread, the consumer marketing team flagged noticeable shifts in Google search trends, and resulting changes to online behaviors due to COVID-19. ●Ї Comfort foods like meatloaf, pasta and slow cooker recipes have seen increased Google searches in the past two months. ●Ї People have been searching for “Ground Beef Recipes” twice as much as normal. ●Ї Food and grocery delivery searches have had a 2.5x increase compared to normal. ●Ї “Immune Boosting Foods” searches have increased by almost 4 times, showing that some consumers want to find foods that can help keep them healthy. ●Ї There has been a large increase in searches for appliances like freezers and refrigerators for extra food storage.

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e have taken a twist on the Beef Substitutes debate with a series of tongue-in-cheek videos. Well known chefs are preparing innovative dishes that substitute beef for another protein in dishes like Peking Chuck with Top Chef finalist, Joe Sasto, a beef take on Peking Duck; and Cowlamari, prepared by Chicago Chef, Lamar Moore, as he replaces surf with turf.

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

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

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz

Rio Rancho Observer

Selected sources: Lauren Gray, “Influenza Epidemic in New Mexico, 1918”, Office of the New Mexico State Historian Richard Melzer, “A Dark and Terrible Moment: The Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918,” New Mexico Historical Review, July 1983 Clifford M. Rees, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, “Spanish Influenza in New Mexico, 1918,” ABA Health eSource, December 2005

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o historian who wrote about the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 failed to mention its juxtaposition with the conclusion of World War I, on November 11, 1918. The most telling comparison is that an estimated 11,000,000 military personnel and 7,000,000 civilians, of all participating nations, died in that conflict between 1914 and 1918. No doubt that 18,000,000 lost lives is a significant and tragic number. By comparison, though, an estimated 20,000,000 to 40,000,000 people worldwide died in the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919; equally significant and tragic.

The United States suffered about 116,000 combat fatalities in the war, and 675,000 U. S. citizens died of the flu in the two-year period 1918-1919 (which is more than the total number of Americans killed in all the wars fought in the 20th century).

In New Mexico, the figures are that 93 military people were killed in World War I, and as many as 5,000 New Mexicans died from the flu out of 50,000 cases. Some sources show the number as only 1,000, out of a population of 360,350 (per the 1920 census). These figures are at such a variance because there was no system for record keeping at the time. In 1918, New Mexico had only been a state of the union for six years, and it was the only state in the union that did not have a health department: any health department. What that meant was there was no mechanism, and no personnel, available to fight the spread of the disease which ran its course from early October until early November. New Mexico Republican Governor Octaviano A. Larrazolo (1859-1930), who served in office in 1919 and 1920, created a health department when he signed a house bill on March 15, 1919.

Historian Richard Melzer has correctly called the 1918 epidemic “a truly dark and terrible moment in New Mexico history.”

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Trading Up in Herd Revenue

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n any market, one of the most straightforward means of increasing herd productivity and revenue might be one too easily taken for granted: selecting heifers that breed early in the breeding season.

“Heifers that become pregnant early in their first breeding season remain in the herd longer and are more productive,” Cliff Lamb, head of the animal science department at Texas A&M University. “The number one reason we cull animals early in the herd is because they fail to breed during the breeding season.” This was during an annual Cattlemen’s College.

In fact, using data from the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center—some 25,000 heifers—Lamb explained heifers that became pregnant within the first 21 days of their first breeding season weaned the equivalent of three-quarters of another calf during their production lifetime, compared to heifers that didn’t conceive until after 21 days.

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Heifers. “Ideally, heifers should reach puberty approximately 60 days before the beginning of their first breeding season, increasing their chances of becoming pregnant and allowing them to conceive earlier in the season. The timing of first conception is also important to the overall productivity of a heifer.” He adds that mature cows that calve at the beginning of the calving season also wean heavier calves.

Weight and age are two primary drivers of age at puberty in heifers; adequate nutrition is key.

“It is important to consider that Bos taurus (European) beef heifers generally reach puberty at 55–60 percent of their expected mature body weight. With that in mind, the use of a target average daily gain (ADG) is a common and effective way to prepare heifers for breeding,” Lamb says. “It is recommended that Bos Indicus (Brahman) influenced heifers achieve 60–65 percent of their mature body weight before the breeding season starts. A nutritional program should be capable of providing sufficient energy and protein to heifers so they can attain this final target weight before the beginning of the breed-

10 percent less in cows that require assistance of any kind Proving It ЇЇ Provide sufficient resources for her During his tenure as assistant director of calf to reach its genetic potential the University of Florida’s North Florida ЇЇ Raise a calf genetically capable of Research and Education Center at Marianna, performing to expectations. If a heifer Lamb and fellow researchers verified the has a calf that doesn’t perform, the real-world benefits of getting heifers bred heifer is culled earlier in the season. ЇЇ Maintain the Body Condition Score for Lamb inherited management of a 300their conditions. That keeps them away head cow-calf operation. About half the from having to manage more than one mamas are Angus or Sim-Angus; the other group of heifers and cows in terms half are Brangus or Braford. Management of nutrition was loose and the calving season long. ЇЇ Be calm ​“ We decided that from a production From a management standpoint, they standpoint, the number one thing we followed these rules needed to select for was pregnancy,” Lamb ЇЇ Only heifers that become pregnant says. He adds that reproduction has four within the first 25 days of the times the economic impact on herd ecobreeding season are considered as nomics than any other trait. replacements Specifically, Lamb and his crew devel- ЇЇ The breeding season will be tightened oped a set of non-negotiable rules for cows as much as possible to enter and remain in the herd. Every ЇЇ Every female is exposed to female must: synchronization and artificial Calve by the time she’s 2 years old insemination (AI). Rather than think of ЇЇ synchronization as way to get semen in ЇЇ Calve every year the cow or heifer, Lamb encourages ЇЇ Calve without assistance—that includes replacement heifers and any producers to think of it as reproductive amount of assistance. Lamb explains technology that stimulates cycling that data indicates pregnancy rates are With heifer selection and these rules in mind, Lamb emphasizes their first criteria was breeding within the first 25 days. Rather than select heifers and then hope enough of them get bred on time, they synchronized and bred 90 heifers. Typically, 70-80 heifers were bred on time. That left them 10-20 to cull based on other criteria in order to arrive at the 60 needed replacements.

The results were stunning.

A higher percentage of cows and heifers calve within the first 30 days each succeeding year. After six year, calves were worth $169 per head (price constant basis) more, much of it due simply to a higher percentage of calves being born earlier in the season. ing season.”

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et me count the ways. This Coronavirus Pandemic has been the perfect vehicle to show us that we do not have any rights that politicians do not allow us to have. While I was impressed with the Trump Administration’s response to the pandemic, it did enable a few power hungry governors and mayors to go overboard destroying peoples’ rights in a hurry.

Stop and think about it, the American people were asked to do something unprecedented and voluntarily shut down their country, which they did admirably.

However, in some states they were rewarded by a hostile governor demanding even more from them. It’s obvious already that the extremes the liberal governors were calling for were completely unnecessary and unconstitutional.

For instance on Easter Sunday, a Kentucky church defied Coronavirus orders from Democrat Governor Andy Beshear.

Their in-person service was met with a large police presence, including spilled boxes of nails at the parking lot entrance. Can you imagine not being allowed to attend church in America?

Also, just a few days later a federal judge ruled that Greg Fischer the Democrat mayor of Louisville’s stunning ban on drive-in services was unconstitutional. The pastor of On Fire Christian Church sued. Governor Beshear’s statewide plan to order people to quarantine if they attended church was bashed by Republican Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell.

In Louisiana, Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church near Baton Rouge said, “They would rather come to church and worship like free people than live like prisoners in their own homes.”

Louisiana Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards had a ban on gatherings of ten or more people, which church spokesman Joe Long argued that the ban violated the right to religious freedom protected by the U.S. Constitution.

week the Trump administration is coming out with guidelines for the states to resume business. Let’s hope everyone gets well and recovers. I do thank all the brave doctors and nurses taking care of our Coronavirus patients.

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This has to be the most absurd incident yet. To me the one that reeks of Communism, is that you are told to use hotlines and other online forms provided by your local governments to report neighbors who don’t obey. As an American citizen, how could you ever bring yourself to do such a thing as report your neighbor?

Those are all ridiculous occurrences, but which side is being more ridiculous? Yes, I realize that we have to take a few precautions with the out break of the Coronavirus, but where does it end?

What is the point of being safe if the government can take away your livelihood because a few people are sick? Not only have the areas with democrats in charge gone overboard with new rules and enforcement, but they seem to like it. Let’s hope, they are never again in charge of the entire country. I can just see them shutting the entire country down for virtually nothing.

On a serious note, I think the Coronavirus scare has shown just how generous and concerned this country is for helping its fellow man. However, many have given up their livelihood to help others recover. I think that is a monumental sacrifice, which should not be asked of them.

We have never done this before in our country’s history and I think it was a bad precedent to start now. I will say that it is truly amazing what the Trump administration did accomplish in regard to logistics in getting the right items where they needed to go.

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tate fire officials say the COVID-19 pandemic will reduce their ability to use on-the-ground crews to fight what is expected to be a severe season of wildland blazes.

John Truett, the state fire management officer, said it won’t be as simple as replacing individual firefighters with aircraft.

“We’re always strapped for aircraft. There’s not enough aircraft in the nation once we all start getting going,” he explained.

“This is going to be one of the most challenging seasons we’re going to have,” Truett said.

The problem goes beyond the unusually wet winter, which has produced a bumper

crop of grasses that will now dry out.

“There’s a greater risk of fires continuing across the landscape that normally would stop on natural barriers or maybe some dirt roads,” Truett said. “We can expect those features not to hold this year.”

But the real issue, Truett explained, is the virus — and, specifically, the protocols from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for keeping people apart to prevent the spread.

The virus-caused limits create problems on multiple levels, he said.

One is being able to share information.

“On a fast-moving, evolving fire, we need to have constant face-to-face communications.”

“We’re trying to walk that balance between transmitting the COVID-19 and firefighter safety,” he said. “It’s a very, very fine line out there in what we do.”

He said the plan is to try to contain the fires when they are small.

But when a fire turns into a major blaze, it could involve up to 1,000 firefighters in crews that often camp in the field for days at a time.

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The virus creates another complicating factor on the state’s use of crews from the Department of Corrections.

Truett said those firefighters are available now. But when inmates return from the field to prisons once they’re no longer needed, they will have to be quarantined, to prevent the spread to the larger prison population if they picked up something on the outside.

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n the midst of Covid-19, one of the deepest psychosies’ is loneliness. “Social distance,” sliding take-out tacos under the door, being served pizza across the counter like a Frisbee, having to carry a measuring tape and whip it out like Marshall Dillon to confirm 6 feet every time some masked stranger comes your way...all to prevent civil discourse and staying friends. IT IS DEPRESSING. Those of you historians familiar with the pioneers who came west know they often found themselves in the lonely isolation that some of us are feeling today. Yet we RISE TO THE OCCASION, BRAVE AND INSPIRED TO MAKE THE BEST OF IT. Blue lonesome is dang hard to handle Especially out where the road ends So any excuse for a party Is welcome, and bound to make friends.

The Cowboy Ball Once, a pilgrim seekin’ some solace Staked a claim a long way from town.

He’d come from the itch of the city And in six months he’d settled down.

He built himself a small cabin He sat on the porch one fine day When he saw a rider approaching.

He saw him from miles away.

The rider said he was up country And rarely came this way at all But he thought he’d be a good neighbor By throwin’ a cowboy ball!

But lonesome can pray on a body And the stranger sounded sincere “We can dance all night if we want to, Play music and toast the Frontier!

We’ll eat and we’ll drink and be merry, I’ve whiskey enough for us all...

So whattya say, are ya willin’ To come to a cowboy ball?”

The pilgrim was mullin’ it over, “Ya say they’ll be whiskey and dance?

And maybe a kiss in the moonlight?”

The stranger said, “Yeah, there’s a chance.”

“So what should I wear?” asked the pilgrim, “It sounds like a pretty good do.”

The stranger said, “Heck, it don’t matter, ‘Cause, Pilgrim, it’s just me and you”

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The company is investing $1.6 million into a building at 27 Sale Barn Rd., Las Vegas, and set to refurbish the vacant facility with modern equipment, ventilation, waste collection, receiving, and refrigeration. High Plains plans to begin operations in the second half of 2020 and hire 20 employees over the next three years with a total annual payroll of $655,200.

Owners Joanna and Chip Meston, a Colorado ranching couple, see the expansion into New Mexico as a way to integrate their business and provide processing services throughout the northeast part of the state.

High Plains has identified restaurant, hospitality, and retail consumer markets in Asia and the United States for its products.

“New Mexico has a widespread and healthy livestock industry,” Chip Meston said. “There are a lot of people who want to see this business succeed. We will be a value-added business in a community that values agriculture.”

Johanna Meston is an anesthesiologist and the business is particularly mindful during construction to take precautions during the COVID-19 health emergency.

The Mestons are still optimistic the business can open by summer.

The state of New Mexico has pledged $100,000 from its LEDA closing fund to assist the business with land, building, and infrastructure improvements.

“We are seeing an uptick of companies that want to be in New Mexico,” Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes of the Economic Development Department said. “It’s more important than ever that we can still offer LEDA investments to help them grow

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San Miguel County is the fiscal agent for the LEDA grant.

“San Miguel County is excited that the facility will soon have new life. It will provide a much needed service and economic boost to the county, which will ultimately have a positive impact to the entire northeastern portion of the state,” Planning and Zoning Supervisor Alex Tafoya said.

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The New Mexico Department of Agriculture is encouraging farmers, ranchers, and everyone within the agriculture industry to respond to the census online, over the phone or by mail.

Upon completion, the census determines how more than $800 billion in federal funds will be distributed in communities across the nation, including $7 billion per year in New Mexico. The funding supports roads, schools, healthcare, public safety and essential service programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and National School Lunch Program.

Research suggests that every New Mexico citizen unaccounted for results in a loss of approximately $3,745 every year.

“Every community in the state of New Mexico will be impacted by the data collected in the 2020 Census,” New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte said. “Ten minutes impacts the next 10 years. Let’s ensure that every New Mexican is counted.

I encourage every farmer, every rancher, and everyone in the agricultural community to do their part in completing a census form.”

Lack of census participation has already cost New Mexico and the nation valuable programs including market surveys.

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I can vividly remember my first camping experience. When I was about five years old my father brought home a “doghouse” (a shack where oil well drillers and roughnecks ate and took breaks) he was given after a drilling company abandoned a site.

My father brought the doghouse home on a low bed and by the time he got it off the truck using pry bars, pipes and winches it was ready to fall apart. My Mom took one look at the delapidated doghouse and put her foot down. “I will not live next door to

that shack,” she proclaimed. But she sure enough did.

My brother and I were so excited about our new clubhouse that we begged our parents if we could “camp out” in it the very first night. I was dying to try out my new sleeping bag my grandparents gave me. So we unrolled our bags, turned out the flashlight and tried to go to sleep but little did my father know when he got it, that doghouse was haunted. It made all sorts of creepy noises and scary images kept flashing by its broken windows. I theorized, “I betcha some guy fell from the derrick and died and it’s his ghost that haunts our new clubhouse. That’s why it was free.”

My brother scoffed at the idea but to make a long story short, I lasted until about nine o’ clock before I “had to go inside to use the bathroom.” My brother only lasted another half hour before he followed me inside. He claimed he wasn’t scared and only came in, “To check on the health and welfare of his younger brother.”

Ha! That would have been a first!

We tried several more times but never did make it all night and slowly we lost interest in the clubhouse so my mother turned it into a dollhouse for my sister with frilly curtains and old wallpaper. We eventually ended up burning that dirty old doghouse for firewood.

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Initially we were devastated to learn that all the state and federal campgrounds were closed. “Wait just a darn minute,” I said. “We have a 9,000-acre state park out our back door why don’t we just camp in our backyard. We can roast some wienies and burn some marshmallows and camp out like the good old days.”

It was hard to find a place to unroll our sleeping bags amidst all the rattlesnake holes and poison oak but I finally found a site that was only semi rocky. It was a cloudless night and a bright moon and I said, “We ought to do this more often. Just look at all those stars. Even if only a few of those stars have planets it’s likely there is some kinda life out there. Just look at all of them. The fact that we can see so many, do you know what that means?” I asked my wife.

“Yeah, it means you forgot to put up the tent!” she replied.

Now I must stop here and explain that for 40 years my wife and I have lived on the outskirts of a small town called Los Osos. If you know your Spanish you know that means “The Bears.” There used to be millions of them in these parts and I started telling my wife how the California Missions had been saved from famine by all the bears they killed right in the mountains where we live. The thought of that, of slithering rattlesnakes and the howling coyotes made sleep difficult. I made it until about nine o’clock before, “I had to go inside to use the bathroom.” My wife came in about a half hour later. She said she wasn’t scared mind you, she just “Wanted to check on my me.”

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

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

Priced at $6700 per AUYL or $2,650,000

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■ GRENVILLE, NM – 740 ac. +/- located just S. of Grenville w/223 acres +/- on the west/south side of Hwy. 87 & 522 ac. +/- located on the west/north side of the railroad right-of- away which parallels Hwy. 87, all in native grass, great area for a homestead in close proximity to Mount Capulin & all of the NM Rocky Mountain recreation areas!

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

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

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

■ CAN BE DIVIDED! BLANCA CREEK RANCH – Quay/Guadalupe Cos., NM – 10,191.44 Deeded ac. + 1,640 State ac. – Well improved ranch with excellent access. Level to gently rolling with some arroyos.

Located along I40 between Albuquerque, NM and Amarillo, TX. A beautiful, new, custom built home is situated at the headquarters along with a well-built 150 X 115 shop (80 x 150 enclosed and heated), outdoor arena, horse barns, pens & other improvements.

The ranch is well watered and has very good to excellent fence.

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

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

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

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

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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 Call for a brochure or view on my website: www. ranchesnm.com

BLACKWATER DRAW RANCH – Nice well improved ranch property

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

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

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

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

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

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SUMNER LAKE, State Road 203, River Ranches Estates, River Ranch Road lots (at intersection with 203) $18,900 each.

State Road 203 frontage lot. $25,000 SAN ANTONIO, Zanja Road, 4.66 acres farmland with Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District water rights. $69,000 PIE TOWN, 142 Webb Ranch Road, Corner lot at just over 20 acres in Wild Horse Subdivision North of Pie town. Electricity, well, small cabin & horse corrals. $75,000

Paul Stout, Broker

575-760-5461 cell 575-456-2000 office officeoffice

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CUERVO, Mesita Pass Road, 148.13 acres of land in Mesita Ranch Subdivision. Perfect for a new home site, hunting or grazing. $85,000 FENCE LAKE, 295 Pine Hill Road, 2bd/3ba home on 60 acres, corrals, outbuildings. $295,000 RIBERA,340 CR B41E 32.6 acres with 3bd/2ba home on Pecos River, Hay Barn and outbuildings. Just over 20 acres in alfalfa and grass hay production. $695,000 CUERVO, 1130 Aguila Road. 3bd/1ba home with corral on 56.6 acres at the foot of Cuervo Mesa. $85,000 MAGDALENA, 47 Angus Loop, 3bd/2ba home on 11.04 acres.

Horse barn and corral. Beautiful views of Magdalena Mountain. $180,000

WANTED: Farms and Ranches — Broker has over 45 years experience working on and operating a family farm and has been a farm owner since 1988.

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

Lifetime rancher who is familiar with federal land management policies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Priced @$300,000 TYLER RANCH/FARM — York Az, 544 deeded with 173 irrigated, along with 14,000 state and Blm lease land. 300 head mother cows yearlong. Priced @$2,300,000 SMITH DRAW, SEPAR, NM — 7760 deeded, 11,275 State, 2560 BLM runs 300 head yearlong. Good strong country nice improvements.

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

Sam Hubbell, Qualifying Broker 520-609-2546

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NAVARRO RANCH consists of 21,632 total acres with 3,509 acres of deeded land with the balance being state lease and a small BLM permit. The ranch has an excellent location just 25 minutes from the Tucson International airport and offers a great elevation to produce feed. The ranch is well watered with most of the wells being on private land. The ranch offers a variety of wildlife for recreational enjoyment opportunity. $7,500,000 Wesley Miller 928-245-6560 | wesley@ranchland.com www.RanchLand.com

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P.O. Box 244 585 La Hinca Road Magdalena, NM 87825

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

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PAUL McGILLIARD Murney Associate Realtors

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Cell: 417/839-5096 • 800/743-0336 Springfield, MO 65804

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RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 440 Head Spanish Stirrup Ranch, Deming, NM – The historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch is in the Florida Mountain range containing 663+/- deeded acres, 16,963+/- acres BLM grazing permits; 5,184+/- acres of State grazing lease; and 12+/- sections of adverse grazing. A traditional working cattle ranch with rolling to mountainous terrain, good browse and grass, excellent water with storage tanks and drinkers. There are 13 wells with new pumps. Headquarters include a 3 BR, 1 BA remodeled historic brick/rock home, carport, garage, tack house, shipping corrals, horse and hay barns. Five additional sets of working corrals. $2,250,000

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Paul Turney – 575-808-0134 Stacy Turney – 575-808-0144 Find Your Favorite Place 2825 Sudderth Drive, Suite F Ruidoso NM 88345 O: 575-336-1316

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AG LAND LOANS As Low As 4.5% OPWKCAP 4.5%

INTEREST RATES AS LOW AS 4.5% Payments Scheduled on 25 Years

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

in beautiful Apache National 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* 68+/- Head Three Brothers Ranch, Tombstone, AZ – Good starter or retirement ranch in the San Pedro River

*PENDING* 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. Good location with views, near the Gila River and quick access to Highway 75. $350,000 *NEW PRICING* 30+/- Head Orduno Draw Ranch,Tombstone, AZ – An excel-

lent value! Small desert ranch in the San Pedro 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. Has one well that needs equipping, a dirt tank, and is fenced. Borders the San Pedro River National Conservation Area and has easy access from Highway 80. This would make a great starter or hobby ranch or complement to a larger holding. Adjoins Three Brothers Ranch also offered by Stockmen’s Realty, LLC. $275,000 *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 browse and grass country. Several good sites for a home on deeded. $287,000

SOLD

HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *REDUCED* 40+/- Acre 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, & 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 $1,799,000 *SOLD* +/-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

SOLD

*REDUCED* Acreage in San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the beautiful San Rafael Valley, where open spaces, wildlife, ranching history &

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*REDUCED* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Located

valley with sweeping views, good access, grass, browse and water. 320+/- ac. deeded, 5,403+/- ac. State lease, 2,961+/- ac. BLM permit. Easy terrain with access from Hwy 82 and Tombstone. 3 wells, 2 storage tanks with drinkers, 2 dirt tanks, set of wood & wire corrals. Adjoins Orduno Draw Ranch also offered by Stockmen’s Realty, LLC. $600,000

private dreams live. Pristine scenic San Rafael Valley acreage w/lush grasslands, beautiful views, unspoiled night skies & ready for your personal footprint. 152 Acres for $304,000 & 77 Acres w/ well & shed for $177,000 *NEW* 27+/- Acres in Virden, NM – Fenced property w/Gila River frontage, 4.5 +/- acres irrigation rights, 2 wells, older mobile home. Some equipment included in sale. Call for more infomation. $75,000

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Holding Cattle for a Better Market? Let Your Banker Know.

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attlemen know all about the best-laid plans. Because it seems if it’s not Mother Nature wreaking havoc, market volatility steps in. This spring, COVID-19 has been the culprit.

With uncertainty in the markets, many have elected to delay selling. But what happens if their loan payment is due soon?

Ken Leiber, a Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association director and president of National Finance Credit Corporation of Texas, said communication is key — and the last thing lenders want is to be surprised.

“You can lay out your plan, but in the cattle business, you still have to react and adjust along the way,” Leiber said. “It’s your business to manage as the producer, but when you change your mind and your plans, it’s time to talk to your lender. Tell him what you’re thinking and why you’re thinking that.”

He said whether a rancher is considering a new marketing plan or has decided to retain ownership at the feedyard, the lender wants to know.

“Let’s say you’ve got cattle on wheat pasture right now and you know it will run out next month and you don’t want those cattle to go backward,” Leiber said. “The clock is ticking so you want to communicate, ‘Here are my options and here’s what I think I’m going to do.’”

He also encourages producers to bounce ideas off their lender.

“You might want to approach it like, ‘This is what I’m thinking. Shoot holes in it,’” Leiber said. “What’s the downside risk to this? What am I missing? What am I exposing myself to? And what are the other areas of risk that I’m blinded to?”

Market volatility is a sharp knife on both sides of the blade, he explained: “It can slice you going up or down. Just remember if you’re saying, ‘I don’t like the market today,’ you need to have a plan if it drops more next week.”

He said it’s important to be on the same page when it comes to the amount of risk you’re willing to take as a rancher, but also the amount of risk that the borrower can stand before it becomes the lender’s risk.

“It all comes back to communication,” Leiber said. “If your lender knows you’re going to be calling him to let him know where you are and how your plans have

changed, he’ll go further down the road with you there. It gives your lender confidence that you recognize and are actively managing your situation. I like to my tell customers I know we have a good loan relationship when they’re worrying about their business more than I’m worrying about it.”

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How Forestry can Contribute to Economic Recovery

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s you know, the federal government has passed measures to help vulnerable Americans and businesses cope during the shutdown.

Now they are looking at ways to promote economic recovery. We think investments in federal forest management – specifically in timber, vegetation management and forest road programs – would improve forest health, while supporting domestic manufacturing, transportation, family wage jobs and e conomic re cover y in many communities.

Federal land management agencies have a long history of partnering with the private sector in managing natural resources, thinning overstocked forests, and making improvements to public lands. In return for the sustainable harvesting of timber, the forest sector has provided billions of dollars to the National Forest System, helping pay for forest roads, campgrounds, trails and other amenities on national forests. There is a need and an opportunity to do more.

In late March a coalition of forestry and industry organizations sent letters to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriators and to the President, suggesting investments for four key U.S. Forest Service and BLM programs that can provide effective economic stimulus. In addition to providing conservation benefits, it would provide a strong return for the American taxpayer, as the agency’s timber program supports 16.5 new direct and indirect jobs for every one million board feet harvested.

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Perez Goes 3-for-3

Wins 3rd Mom’s Choice Gold Award for the Rocking R Ranch Series

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enPower Book Marketing Services and Rocking R Books are pleased to announce that New Mexico author Connie Perez has received a third Mom’s Choice Gold® Award for her Rocking R Ranch picture books.

Farming on the Rocking R Ranch is the third installment in the series to win the prestigious award. “I’m honored to have all three books in the series receive such high honors,” says Perez. “The Mom’s Choice Awards showcases the best in family-friendly products, and I’m immensely gratified that all three books in the series have received their highest-level award.”

Farming on the Rocking R Ranch continues to educate young readers about life on a working ranch, while also introducing new elements to returning readers. In this third book, rancher Rosie works diligently to fulfill her dream of hosting a Halloween event on the ranch. To accomplish this, Rosie, Rusty and Raspberry have to prepare sections of the land for crops, water them, and once fall arrives turn them into fun activities for children and families.

Home on the Rocking R Ranch is the first book in the series and gives readers a glimpse into the necessary tasks required in order to keep the ranch going during all four seasons of the year. The second book in the series, Kuper Visits the Rocking R Ranch, follows the ranch adventures of a yearlong guest who learns how to appreciate ranch life in northern New Mexico.

Perez draws on her own experiences working on a New Mexico ranch for all three of her award winning books and combines that knowledge with her teaching background to craft stories that are educational and entertaining. Through vibrant illustrations by the author herself, and easily accessible dialogue, Perez brings the essential elements of the craft to children both inside and outside the ranching community.

In addition, a glossary combined with labels on every page gives young readers the chance to expand their vocabulary.

Connie Perez is a native New Mexican, ranch wife, mother, grandmother, and retired elementary school teacher. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and after retiring was eager to find a way to cope with her diagnosis. She picked up a paintbrush, and wrote and illustrated two companion volumes on ranch life for young

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Trump Keeps ‘Critical’ Meatpacking Plants Open Source: Law 360

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n April 28, 2020, President Donald Trump designated meatpacking plants as critical infrastructure amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a move meant to address concerns about potential liability for the packing companies.

Trump signed an executive order deeming meat processors to be critical under the Defense Production Act, which should shore up the food supply chain and remove a “legal roadblock” for those companies, he said in a press conference at the White House.

“With the meatpacking and the transportation, we have had some difficulty, where they’re having a liability that’s really unfair to them. … [We’re] taking the liability which frees up the entire system,” Trump said.

“There’s plenty of supply. It’s distribution.”

The order designates meat and poultry in the food supply chain as “critical and strategic materials” under Section 101 of the DPA, a statute that gives the president broad authority to address issues deemed necessary for “the national defense.”

It notes that both outbreaks among workers and actions by states related to COVID-19 may have led to large processing facilities being shut, and tasks the U.S Department of Agriculture with taking “all appropriate action” to ensure meat processors continue operating, while also following recent guidance on worker safety from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The president said he had worked with Tyson Foods Inc. on the order, which came after the company’s chairman, John Tyson, issued a statement saying closures of its pork, beef and chicken plants would result in “millions of pounds of meat [disappearing] from the supply chain” and shortages of its products in grocery stores.

Tyson Foods is the biggest meat processor in the U.S. and one of several processors that have temporarily shuttered plants or slowed down operations, due both to pressure from local authorities and unions, as

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well as thousands of workers staying home because they are sick or are concerned about getting sick.

“The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson said. “We have a responsibility to feed our country. It is as essential as health care.

This is a challenge that should not be ignored. Our plants must remain operational so that we can supply food to our families in America.”

Keeping those plants operational was a “delicate balance because Tyson Foods places team member safety as our top priority,” he said.

Trump’s directive was slammed by Democrats and some workers’ groups, with House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott, D-Va., saying in a statement that the “profoundly disturbing” order would force workers into working in dangerous conditions.

“If the Trump administration plans to use the Defense Production Act to force meat processing plants to stay open, the American public must understand that workers will continue to get sick and die,” Scott said.

“The administration would better reflect the best of America’s values if it used the DPA to mandate the production and distribution of personal protective equipment, while issuing an emergency workplace safety standard to protect workers from COVID-19,” Scott added.

Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union — the largest U.S. union for meatpacking workers — said in a statement that although the union shares concerns about the food supply, the safety of workers must come first.

He urged the White House to enact “clear and enforceable” safety standards compelling meatpackers to provide personal protective equipment and daily testing of workers, as well as physical distancing at all plants and paid sick leave.

“Simply put, we cannot have a secure food supply without the safety of these workers,” Perrone said.

Representatives for several meatpackers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Additional reporting by Vin Gurrieri and Adam Lidgett. Editing by Stephen Berg & Aaron Pelc.

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children. She lives in northeastern New Mexico where she continues to ranch, write, enjoy life and spoil her grandchildren.

Home on the Rocking R Ranch, Kuper Visits the Rocking R Ranch, and Farming on the Rocking R Ranch are available through independent and online booksellers, including Amazon.

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New Mexico Livestock Board Encourages Brand Holders to Renew Brands Online

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he New Mexico Livestock Board reminds registered brand holders that their current card expires July 2020 and encourages renewals to be completed early online at https://www.nmlbonline. com/brands.

Due to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declaring a State Public Health Emergency, the office of the New Mexico Livestock Board is following directives and taking proactive measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. All in-person services and transactions are suspended indefinitely.

The following services are provided on the website: ЇЇ Brand renewals ЇЇ Brand searches ЇЇ Access to brand applications to submit by mail ЇЇ Access to brand transfer forms to submit by mail ЇЇ Review and updates on animal health ЇЇ Entry permit information and requirements ЇЇ Access to statutes and rules related to livestock in New Mexico

For questions or more information, call 505/841-6161 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday or email Barbara.

Hoffmann@state.nm.us.

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Mary Dobry riding with her “two-horse” method of success--hard work & grace from above.

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he Lazy D working with other breeds. Finding that the you can’t take the country out of the girl.” The In 1993, Mary says she had a few cows, but Ranch was Red Angus cattle halter-break and trailer easily, not much land, and she knew she couldn’t daughter of Oscar Shipley, Mary grew up with founded Mary says, “ I love them, and I’m ’hands-on’ raise enough cattle to make money. She briefanimals and livestock on her father’s farm in in 1992 and is with my animals – I’ve been called the ‘cow ly considered raising horses, but ultimately Chickasha, OK. located just north whisperer’. I can walk out in the pasture with opted for registered seed stock. “I looked at A former trick rider, Mary shares her attracof Hobbs, New several different breeds, and most of the time I my bulls, and walk right up to them,” but tion to her unusual occupation. At a rodeo in Mexico. We are in Chickasha, riding a little white horse at the was cautioned not to get in the pen with a bull. cautions that their gentle nature wasn’t the only reason she selected this breed. “They are the southeastern People asked, “Are you by yourself? You don’t back of the arena, she spotted a man also easy-keepers,” gleaning the best from available corner of New want this breed ... for any number of reasons.” riding a white horse. The man offered rides to feed. And, maybe most importantly, Lazy D Mexico about five Remembering the day she discovered the the youngsters present, and offered Mary a bulls are educated professionals, adapting miles west of the Texas/New Mexico line. The breed, Mary says, “I’ll never forget it.”

Driving ride as well. “I put my arms around the horse’s quickly to their surroundings and says Mary, elevation is 3,692 feet at a latitude of 32° 45’ in her car, she spotted a woman hand-feeding neck. He asked me if I would like to have the “They go straight to work.”

N and longitude of 103° 13’ W. The climate at some red cows in a field.

“I was wearing a horse.” When Mary located her father to obtain our ranch is semi-arid with the average rainfall The Lazy D Ranch is home to some of the permission, he instructed her to stay away from white pantsuit, and I climbed over the fence of 15 inches per year. The summers are hot finest Red Angus breeding stock in the and went to talk to the woman. She handed and dry with daily high temperaSouthwest, and Mary and her tures averaging in the low to mid Lazy D bulls have We had the 2015 Senior Champion Bull & Calf Champion Bull award-winning 90s. At night the temperatures drop been featured in private and invitato the mid 60s. Typical winters are national sales, including in Fort Worth. Out of the 6 bulls that were walking for Grand tion-only clear and cold with nightly low temone private sale where only two peratures averaging in the mid 20s bulls were featured.

Champion, 2 were from the Lazy D. We had Reserve Overall and the highs averaging in the mid Asked what makes her most to high 50s.

Champion Bull with our Senior Bull proud, Mary responds that she is The ranch overlies the Ogalala most pleased with the continued me some cubes, and I fed the cows. I decided aquifier which allows us to grow our own feed. the man. “I reported back to the man, who support from local ranchers and cattlemen. She that this was the breed for me.”

The grazing ranges from winter wheat to jose talked to my dad. I took the horse home that has always been a “hands on” owner with the wheat grass. In the areas under cultivation, the night from the rodeo.”

Mary researched the breed thoroughly, study- attitude that “even if you’re the best you can soil is a sandy loam while on the natural grass ing genetics and expected progeny differences, still get better.” She also strongly believes in With a team of two white horses, Mary started land it is rocky. the “two horse” method of success, hard work known as EPDs. “I breed to produce a six-foot to train and experiment with Roman riding. She and grace from above. to six-foot-two frame to get the leg-length Red Angus breeder Mary Dobry describes began riding professionally at the age of 13, herself as the “chief cook and bottle washer” ranchers want.”

Mary, along with the rest of the Lazy D bunch, and was scheduled to appear at Madison Square at the Ranchers’ Steakhouse and Buffet, and would like to invite you to see some of the Garden as a novelty act. Because Mr. Shipley Similar to the Black Angus in size, but “number one hay slinger and calf puller” at the became ill and wouldn’t allow her to go to New finest Red Angus breeding stock available in described as gentle and easy to handle, Mary Lazy D Ranch in Lovington, NM. the Southwest.

York with anyone else, the performance was has sold many to people who are tired of — Thanks to our friends/partners at The Lea County Tradition “You can take the girl out of the country, but cancelled.

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