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NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, NM 87194 505-243-9515 Fax: 505-349-3060 E-mail: caren­@aaalivestock.com

Official publication of ... n New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association nmcga20@gmail.com P.O. Box 850, Moriarty NM 87035 Office: 505.247.0584 , Fax: 505.842.1766 Physical Location: 809 First Street, Moriarty NM 87035 Pres­i­dent, Bronson Corn

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10 NMCGA President’s Message

by Bronson Corn, President

12 Just the Facts ... & Then Some

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

16 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 19 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 22 News Update: USDA Offers New Tools in HPAI Fight; Young American Farmers Get Support; USDA Designates New Mexico as National Drought Disaster Area 24 Food & Fodder

n New Mexico Federal Lands Council newmexicofederallandscouncil@gmail.com 3417 Avenida Charada NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 President, Ty Bays

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37 Riding Herd

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38 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

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45 View From the Backside

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48 Marketplace 49 Seedstock Guide 52 Real Estate Guide 66 In The Arena

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FEATURES

by Don Titus, ACSC, shared with the American Policy Center

34 EPA Threatens Locally Produced Beef Source: The Malone Institute

36 Fewer Cattle But More in Feedlots

by Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Cow-Calf Corner

41 As Solar Capacity Grows, Some of America’s Most Productive Farmland is At Risk

by P.J. Huffstutter & Christopher Walljasper, Reuters

44 Gray Wolf Trapped in Colorado Was from Great Lakes Population, Feds Confirm

by Dac Collins, Outdoor Life

46 “Good” Food Purchasing Group Has Deep Ties to Animal & Environmental Extremism Source: Protect The Harvest

58 APHIS Bolsters Animal Disease Traceability in the US 62 New Mexico High School Rodeo Association – Mia Castagnetto Story and photo by Julie Carter

63 Ute Lake Camp Meeting 64 Do You Need Windmill Repair?

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65 New Mexico Rodeo Association Secretary Janice Aragon Story and photo by Julie Carter

18 USDA Issues New Testing Requirement for Dairy Cattle Amid Bird Flu Outbreak 26 Interior Department Announces Expansion of National Wildlife Refuges in Three States

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Thank You! To all who helped make our 20th annual sale a huge success! From our neighbors down the road to producers from around the world, we are grateful to everyone for their interest in the Red Doc program. We work incredibly hard to provide the most dependable cattle to go work in your herds. If you haven’t had a chance to visit the farm, we welcome visitors any time throughout the year! We are family run in all aspects of our operation and would love to show you around.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Bronson Corn NMCGA President

Bronson Corn President Roswell Tom Paterson President-Elect Luna Dave Kenneke NW Vice President Cimarron Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr SW Vice President Datil Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Becky King-Spindle Vice President at Large Moriarty Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Peralta Loren Patterson Immediate Past President Corona

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have been blessed to travel to all four corners of the state in the last few months and I am proud to say that we live in an extremely beautiful and unique state.

You can go from dry desert lands in the southeast to mountain ranges with live water in the southwest, to beautiful rolling hills of the northeast, and the combination of all in the northwest.

People in the livestock industry have got to be the most resilient group of individuals around.

What other Group of individuals will willingly work 15-plus hours a day for breakeven pay, and be happy to do it? I would say that list is pretty short. I firmly believed that God put each and every one of us on earth for a reason, and there’s a reason that less than two percent of the population is involved in production agriculture. The reason why that number is less than two is because the other 98 percent can’t fathom how we manage to take care of everything that we do on a day-to-day basis, work through the droughts, poor markets, all the breakdowns, and all of the blood, sweat, and tears, simply because we love it. So I want to applaud each and every one of you for keeping your heads up, and keeping the next generation of ranchers involved!

That being said, since we are less than two percent of the population, we have to stay engaged.

We are the minority in the United States, and if we don’t stand together and let our voices be heard, then we will lose everything! Ways that you can stay involved is by coming to our meetings and learning about our issues, but the way that you stay engaged is by voting. I don’t care who you vote for, I just care that you vote! I have had too many conversations with people who are complaining about certain issues being shoved down our throats, then whenever I asked if they voted they said no. My answer to them is quite simple, if you didn’t vote I don’t want to hear your complaints.

Whenever you are headed to town to go vote, call your neighbor, call your friends and family, tell them to go vote. This is the way we can make the difference, if you are happy with the way things are going then keep on keeping on, but if you’re like me and dissatisfied with the way that ranchers are being treated, then let’s all do what we can to make a difference for the next generation.

I have had some people ask me in the last few days what I believe the three biggest things affecting agriculture right now are, and that’s a hard thing to answer but this is what I told them.

The first thing that is affecting agriculture is the policies pushing back on us making the cost of living so high that we can’t sustain. The second thing is that there is a push from governments around the world to pull land out of production agriculture and pay them in the name of conservation.

But the biggest thing I believe that is pushing agriculture back is that most of us have fought tirelessly to keep our operations alive, and our kids see it, they see the struggles that we face day in and day out and they decide that this is not the life for them. So let’s do our part to try to make this way of life something that our children want to come back to. Let’s show the world that we are proud to be the ones producing the food that sustains themselves and their families!

God Bless You and Your Family, and “Y’all Have A Good’en”

Randell Major Past President Bronson Corn, NMCGA President

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JUST THE FACTS ... & THEN SOME

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

A Little Good News to Start

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that charges would not be refiled. It has been alleged by Kelly’s legal team that the prosecution cost taxpayers more than $1,000,000.

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He reported to the County Sheriff’s office seeing groups of individuals armed with rif les and backpacks on his Santa Cruz County, Arizona property before firing warning shots in the air. He later found a body against a mesquite tree a hundred yards from his house. Kelly was arrested for first-degree murder and placed under a $1,000,000 bond.

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US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) had released a pair of Mexican wolves on the Bill McDonald ranch in the far southeast corner of the county near the New Mexico border.

Clearly this release had been in the works for some time without notice to ranchers throughout the county. Wolves have strayed into the county in the past but have been hazed out quickly.

As a reminder, local wolf sightings should be reported to the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Ranch Patrol Officers: Cody Essary, 52 0 -559 -73 8 2 or Je s s e M it c he l l , 520-353-5664.

The following info is from the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service: You May: ЇЇ Harass a wolf without injuring it, and report this within 7 days. ЇЇ Kill or injure a wolf in the act of killing your livestock on private or tribal lands, and report it within 24 hours. ЇЇ Kill, injure or harass a wolf in the defense of human life, and report it within 24 hours.

Under the current rules, you may not: ЇЇ Kill a wolf in the act of injuring livestock on public lands. ЇЇ Kill a wolf feeding on dead livestock. ЇЇ Kill a wolf just because it is near your property. ЇЇ Kill a wolf in the act of injuring your pet. ЇЇ Enter official enclosures or rendezvous sites (where there is denning behavior). ЇЇ Shoot a wolf just because you thought it was a coyote or something else.

Take of endangered species will be investigated by FWS Law Enforcement. It is work noting that the area is also critical habitat for the jaguar.

tion voted against the bill. With elections not far away, it is time to pay attention to how our members of Congress are voting.

The bill will move on to the US Senate, but there may not be much likelihood that the Senate will take it up in this Congress.

Animal ID USDA APHIS finalized it rule on animal disease traceability regulations for certain cattle and bison in late April. The rule came out in mid-January 2023 with final comments due in April 2023.

This rule is the culmination of goals established by USDA to increase traceability, one of the best protections against disease outbreaks, and enhances a rule finalized in

2013 for the official identification of livestock and documentation for certain interstate movements of livestock, according to APHIS. The final rule applies to all sexually intact cattle and bison 18 months of age or older, all dairy cattle, cattle and bison of any age used for rodeo or recreation events, and cattle or bison of any age used for shows or exhibitions.

On the funding front for animal ID, after the passage of the Agriculture Appropriations bill earlier this year, it was learned that the measure contains $15 million for animal ID. However, the funds were not earmarked for a specific project(s). Work is being done in Congress to prevent the spending of these funds.

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BLM Conservation Rule The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its new Conservation Rule for comment in April 2023. The Final Rule was released on April 18, 2024.

While the voluminous rule is still being studied, it is clear that there will lots of litigation filed in multiple jurisdictions in the West. There will be more on this in the coming months.

In anticipation of the final rule, Representative John Curtis (R-UT) introduced HR 3397, the Western Economic Security Act (WEST Act) in May, 2023. The bill was voted on by the US House of Representatives on April 30, 2024 and passed on a vote of 212 to 202. The vote was by partisan.

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JINGLE JANGLE

Speaking of Neighbors…

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ast month we got a visit from some of our neighbors. It was our pleasure to host the ANCW Region VI Meeting in Las Cruces on April 11-12. Cattlewomen from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah all gathered for a packed two days of presentations, meetings, hands-on beef education lessons to take home, and we capped it all off with a tour of the meat lab and feed mill at NMSU’s College of ACES. And the weather was just about as beautiful as it could get for spring in New Mexico!

I have to admit — it was my first Region meeting. I was so impressed by the caliber of ladies who joined us! Each of them is passionate about the beef industry and our way of life. Young and mature alike, we all were on the same page about where we are and where we need to go to continue supporting ranchers and farmers in their pursuit of beef production and stewardship. We learned how social media interactions can help with that, how to expand our thinking and partnerships with our state Beef Councils, how to value our members and the time they commit to our organizations, and how new technology can be of assistance for things like fences (or lack of fences).

We had a great set of workshops on how we can help educate youth and adults alike about the nutritional value of beef, and how ranching is a sustainable industry through stewardship. Our panel discussion gave us a chance to laugh at some of the “worst advice ever given”, and we also learned how to plan for the future of our operations through careful and diligent succession planning.

And to showcase the new facilities at NMSU was encouraging as the college is really working to teach and expand their reach. Not to mention that our Beef Ambassadors shined a bright light on the future of agricul-

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ture by being there.

I can honestly say I think we all left Las Cruces a little brighter and more encouraged than when we arrived. The opportunity to network with new friends and catch up with old ones was just icing on the cake. I would be remiss though, if I didn’t give a huge THANK YOU to our sponsors! Your support really helped make our meeting shine. To our Planning Committee– you knocked it out of the park and were amazing hosts. To our speakers– you left a lasting impression that gave us something to go home and work on.

To our attendees– thanks for coming! We truly hope you enjoyed your time in New Mexico!

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Yucca CowBelles and Wool Growers met Tuesday March 26, 2024 in the home of Carol Gutierrez in Mayhill, to cut out brands for the Brand Quilt that Carol makes every year to raffle off at the Eddy County Fair. There were 10 members attending. After cutting out all the brands and enjoying refreshments, President Joan Kincaid called the meeting to order. Carol Gutierrez led prayer and Kathi Hendricks read the CowBelle Creed.

MaryKay McCollum reported new name tags are ordered and will be mailed. The cost was 486.00 plus shipping. Joan shared a report on the Quilt Show that was in the Artesia newspaper. Michelle Brown attended and said it was very nice. Carol’s quilt was featured in the article. Her weather quilt records the weather history of Elk NM. The Artesia Quilt group meets once a week and they make lap quilts for residents in the nursing home. Everyone brought New Mexico themed items to fill a tote bag for the Region VI meeting in April. Everyone shared what they have been doing the past month and plans for Easter etc. Meeting adjourned.

After the meeting lunch was enjoyed together at Mayhill Café and a shopping spree at Rustic Luck. Respectfully submitted by Tina Kincaid Secretary The Powderhorn CattleWomen met in the Beverly Carter home in Fort Sumner with Beverly Overton and Kelsey McCollum as hostesses on April 11, 2024, with eight members present and one guest. Vice-President Judy called the meeting to order and lead the Invocation, Pledge, and Creed. Mary read the minutes and they were approved.

Carol gave the Treasurers report and it was accepted. Old Business– Scholarship Committee reported that they had not received an application as of today. New Business– Woman’s Club will have their hamburger fry for the honor students on May 6th. Group will provide the beef. Friends of the Library

Auction– It was decided to donate two packages of cocktail napkins to the auction. Sarah will contact Nancy Phelps to get CowBelle Dinner napkins. Group decided to purchase a case of Dinner napkins. BBQ– The ladies decided using the Large Hamburger buns for the $10 plate and Smaller Hamburger Buns for the small plate and charge $7 for the small plate. Courtesy cards were sent to Yetta Bidigain and a get well to Ann Sleep. The meeting was adjourned at 11 a.m. Sarah Fitzgerald from the Beef Council gave a very interesting program on the Beef Checkoff Dollars. All enjoyed a lunch of Chalupa burritos. Mary McClain Sec. Mesilla Valley CowBelles held their meeting virtually and submitted a scholarship nominee after a final vote at the previous meeting. The group provided several door prize items and two baskets for the ANCW Region VI meeting filled with a variety of donated New Mexico products. Three of the members attended the conference; it was very well attended and enjoyed by all! Great job New Mexico CowBelle Officers and others! Erica Garcia invited ladies to the Women of ACES Sigma Alpha Tea Party on NMSU campus. This group has helped with many Ag Days and Ag Explorer activities.

Submitted by Janet Witte New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. As a reminder, 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. Have a great year!

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USDA Issues New Testing Requirements for Dairy Cattle Amid Bird Flu Outbreak

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he United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued new mandates aimed at limiting the spread of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (HPAI) H5N1 virus recently discovered in some dairy cattle, including in New Mexico.

HPAI is a contagious viral disease, typically found in wild birds, and is highly fatal to domestic poultry. While HPAI causes less severe illness in dairy cattle, the disease remains a concern for livestock and humans who come into contact with infected animals.

Beginning Monday, April 29, 2024, a Federal Order will be enacted to monitor and better understand the extent of the HPAI virus and continue efforts to reduce its spread. The Federal Order will require the following measures: Mandatory Testing for Interstate Movement of Dairy Cattle

Prior to interstate movement, dairy to APHIS. cattle are required to receive a negative Samples submitted to an approved test for Influenza A virus at an NAHLN laboratory are typically returned in approved National Animal Health one to three days. APHIS will cover the cost Laboratory Network (NAHLN) of mandatory testing at all NAHLN laboratory; laboratories.

Owners of herds in which dairy cattle As of April 25, USDA has confirmed the ЇЇ test positive for interstate movement presence of HPAI at 33 dairy cattle facilities will be required to provide in eight states, including New Mexico. USDA epidemiological information, including has also confirmed that the same HPAI virus animal movement tracing; genotype detected in dairy cattle has also been found at eight poultry facilities in five ЇЇ Dairy cattle moving between states must meet condition criteria specified states, including in New Mexico. by the USDA Animal and Plant Health The New Mexico Department of AgriculInspection Service (APHIS). ture, the New Mexico Livestock Board, the These steps are required immediately for New Mexico Department of Health – lactating dairy cattle. Requirements for other working in conjunction with other state and classes of dairy cattle will be based on scien- federal agencies and members of the agricultific factors concerning the virus and its ture industry – activated the New Mexico evolving risk. For complete interstate move- Agriculture and Livestock Incident Response ment requirements, visit the APHIS website. Team (NM-ALIRT) in March. To date, Mandatory Reporting NM-ALIRT remains active and is diligently working with all impacted parties. ЇЇ Laboratories and state veterinarians must report positive Influenza A nucleic acid detection diagnostic results (e.g. PCR or genetic sequencing) in livestock to APHIS; ЇЇ Laboratories and state veterinarians must report positing Influenza A serology diagnostic results in livestock ЇЇ

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BEEF NUTRITION INSIGHTS AT NM COWBELLES REGION 6 ANCW MEETING The NM CowBelles hosted the Region 6 American National CattleWomen Inc. (ANCW) Meeting in Las Cruces on the NMSU Campus last month. NM Beef Council Registered Dietician, Kate Schulz, shared valuable insights and research related to beef consumption. In a world where nutrition information can be overwhelming, she emphasized the importance of clarity in the current nutrition landscape, which can confuse even seasoned healthcare professionals. With a focus on protein—specifically beef—Schulz explained how beef, with its rich protein content, plays a vital role in nourishing our bodies across all life stages—from infancy to aging. Beef provides essential micronutrients like iron, zinc, choline, and B vitamins. Whether it’s a tender steak or a hearty stew, beef’s versatility makes it a beloved choice in a variety of dietary patterns.

The Beef Checkoff continues to work educating medical professionals and consumers about lean beef, sharing the definition of “lean beef” and its impact on health. Backed by nearly 20 research studies, lean beef can be

part of a healthy eating pattern.

The session included exciting results from the Beef Checkoff “Strong Minds Strong Bodies” campaign directed at physicians.

Post campaign results indicate a whopping 91% of physicians either recommended or intend to recommend beef for school-aged children. The campaign’s impact was evident, emphasizing beef’s role in supporting growing minds and bodies.

Closing the session, Schulz discussed the upcoming Fuel for Success banquet scheduled for NMSU student athletes in the Fall semester. She also introduced the Sports Nutrition Game Plan, developed by the Texas Beef Council, which is a free program targeting high school student athletes, coaches, trainers, and parents. Each component focuses on proper nutrition principles, sports-specific guidance, and the essential role of beef in fueling training, performance, and recovery. NMBC also plans to introduce this program to NM high school athletes in the next school year. 

ANCW ATTENDEES LEARN ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BEEF CULINARY ARTS PROGRAMS

Patty Waid presents to an enthusiastic crowd at the ANCW conference.

Patty Waid, NM Beef Council Beef Foodservice and Education Consultant, presented a program entitled “NMBC Introducing Beef Education into High School and College Culinary Classrooms” as part of the American National Cattlewomen’s Region VI Conference.

Cattlewomen from New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California, Wyoming and Texas attended the conference and learned about NMBC partnerships with culinary programs at NMSU, CNM, and high schools in New Mexico.

Patty provided an in-depth look as to how classes are planned with an emphasis on content, presenters, and an up-close, personal format to include students in all aspects of the class. Beef industry information is introduced to the students on production from “Gate to Plate”. The cattlewomen were able to see a behind the scenes look at how to plan these beef classes while working with faculty, chefs, students, and program professionals to offer a solid Beef program as part of the student’s semester coursework. 

ANNUAL CHEF ARTIST DINNER The New Mexico Beef Council was thrilled to sponsor the New Mexico State University’s School of Hotel Restaurant Tourism Management’s annual dinner held in the beautiful La Quinta Ballroom at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm in Albuquerque. This exclusive event for one hundred guests included a tour of the farm, opening reception and silent auction topped off by an incredible five-course meal featuring beef short ribs.

Each course was paired with an excellent selection from a New Mexico

NMBC Registered Dietician, Kate Shulz, addresses ANCW Region VI attendees using easy-to-understand infographics.

winery. The dinner is a required element of the HRTM curriculum where the students help prepare and serve the dinner. 

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NMBC R.D. MEETS WITH NMSU DIETETIC NMBC’s registered dietitian, Kate Schulz, presents beef information STUDENTS to NMSU students.

NMBC SPOTLIGHTED AT NEW MEXICO ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

The New Mexico Beef Council sponsored an enlightening education session during the New Mexico Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (NMAND) Annual Meeting, which was held virtually last month. The session, titled “Strengthening Your Voice and Amplifying Your Reach in the Nutrition Community,” provided valuable insights for dietitians and dietetic interns.

Joseph Lippold, MAL, RYT, TI-CPT, and Tony Castillo, MS, RD, LDN, led the session, offering participants an engaging opportunity to connect virtually and expand their professional networks. As the world continues to adapt to virtual interactions, this session emphasized the importance of building connections and fostering collaboration within the nutrition community.

Lippold and Castillo highlighted specific resources available through the New Mexico Beef Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). These resources empower dietitians by providing access to cutting-edge information and research related to beef nutrition.

program welcomed New Mexico Beef Council’s Kate Schulz, registered dietitian, to an interactive session with dietetic undergraduate students and interns. Schulz’s presentation focused on her personal and professional career path as a dietitian working closely with the NMBC. She emphasized the importance of nutrition education and the role of beef in a balanced diet. Her passion for promoting health and wellness inspired students to consider the diverse paths within the field of nutrition and dietetics.

During the session, Schulz delved into the latest research on beef consumption and its impact on heart health. She highlighted the nutritional benefits of lean beef, dispelling common misconceptions and shared evidence-based insights emphasizing the role of protein, vitamins, and

THE TWO PROFESSIONALS FOCUSED ON TWO KEY TOOLS: 1. Beef Nutrition Education Hub: This

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By fostering connections and providing access to relevant resources, the New Mexico

minerals found in beef. The NMBC provided a beef lunch for the 25 students and faculty as she discussed dietary choices, recipes, and the joys of cooking with beef. In addition, students received water bottles, beef recipe booklets and other goodies from NMBC as appreciation for the students’ participation. Professor O’Donnel thanked Kate for making herself accessible to the students in the future, to further discuss internship opportunities, career paths, or beef-related questions. The collaboration between NMSU and the NMBC continues to foster

Beef Council and NCBA contribute to the professional growth of dietitians. As the field of nutrition evolves, these collaborative efforts ensure that dietitians remain well-informed and equipped to serve their communities effectively. 

knowledge, passion, love for wholesome food, and serves as a reminder that dietitians play a vital role in shaping healthier lives, one plate at a time. 

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May 15-17 Indian Livestock Days Albuquerque

May 13-14 Dairy Consortium Clovis, NM

May 19-25 US Beef Academy Corona Ranch, NM

JUNE 2024 May 22-24 USMEF Spring Conference Kansas City, MO

June 6-8 Dairy Producers of NM Meeting Ruidoso, NM

June 9-14 Youth Ranch Management Camp CS Ranch, NM

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TBA New Mexico Beef Council Meeting

July 8-11 NCBA Summer Business Meeting San Diego, CA July 16-19 NM Farm & Livestock Bureau Summer Meeting Ruidoso, NM

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NEWS UPDATE

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USDA Offers New Tools in HPAI Fight

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o help scientists uncover new clues on how the deadly highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) spreads, the USDA has provided genetic sequences of the virus.

In total, the agency released 239 genetic sequences of H5N1 virus from dairy cows, poultry and wild birds to help researchers figure out how the virus is now able to infect bovines, and how it is spreading in dairy herds.

The data from USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will speed up the research that scientists are conducting to ultimately protect dairy cows and humans, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. Their previous efforts were limited by the few genetic sequences received from Iowa State University, while the APHIS data will include H5N1 virus sequences from blackbirds, cats, cattle, chickens, grackle, geese and racoons and will be available on a rolling basis.

Meanwhile, recent confirmations of HPAI cases among poultry in Michigan and New Mexico, along with bovine influenza A virus (BIAV) cases in dairy cattle in eight U.S. states, prompted USDA agencies to consider the use of vaccines in those animals. APHIS has announced that the development, efficacy and production and vaccination costs will be reviewed with potential developers of any potential vaccine program.

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Young, Beginning & Small American Farmers & Ranchers Get Support

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griculture lender American AgCredit has created a new role that will focus on supporting young, beginning and small farmers and ranchers.

Jason Runyan will serve as the Mission Programs Manager for the fifth largest Farm Credit cooperative, ensuring that American AgCredit is responsive to the credit needs of all types of agricultural producers.

“The average age of a farmer in the U.S. today is over 57 years old,” Runyan said. “Young, beginning and small farmers and ranchers are paramount to the continued success of American agriculture and our nation’s food security.”

American AgCredit provides short-term, interest-free funds to FFA and 4-H students involved in animal projects, and specialty lending programs for young, beginning and small farmers and ranchers.

After the Farm Credit of New Mexico and American AgCredit merger in October of 2023, the newly combined cooperative funded a $10 million endowment to provide grants and direct funds to New Mexico agricultural organizations that support the next generation

of farmers and ranchers.

“Firmly rooted in American AgCredit’s core values is an unwavering commitment to the communities where we work and live,” Runyan said. “The Rural Roots Endowment will support the next generation of farmers and ranchers – like FFA, 4-H, junior livestock, and scholarships – as well as protect New Mexico agriculture, fight hunger in New Mexico, and continue ag education in New Mexico.

Last year, American AgCredit invested nearly $1.4 million in donations, sponsorships, scholarships, volunteer hours and special programs focused on young and beginning farmers and feeding people.

Growing up on his family’s ranch operation in eastern New Mexico, Runyan has a strong agricultural background. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and master’s degree in Agriculture Business from New Mexico State University, he brings 10 years of Farm Credit experience with him to the role, including experience in credit underwriting, capital markets, and business development.

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USDA Designates New Mexico as Drought National Disaster Area

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.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Visack notified New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grishman on March 25, 2024 that all 33 of the state’s counties have been designated as primary natural disaster areas due to the recent drought.

The Secretarial disaster designation makes ranchers and farmers in the primary counties eligible to be considered for Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loan assistance, provided eligibility requirements are met. Ranchers and farmers have eight months from

the date of the Secretarial disaster designation to apply for emergency loans.

The FSA considers each emergency loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of production losses and the security and repayment ability of the operator.

Contiguous counties in Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah also qualify for the assistance.

For more information please contact your local FSA office.

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little fancier, maybe with frosting and sprinkles. Maybe for a special occasion, holiday or bake sale. Something that has a fine crumb and melts in your mouth and looks inviting, too. This will put those round, decorated sugar cookies in the grocery store bakery to shame.

This recipe is old and I don’t think the original intentions of it was for a fancy cookie. I got it from an old neighbor and friend who said their grandmother always made these for the threshing crew. That alone will tell you it is pretty darn old, going back to the days when a whole crew was required to do the work one man and machine can do in a fraction of the time nowadays. This is a tested by time favorite recipe. I often cut this recipe in half since I rarely bake for a bake sale or have that many mouths to feed. If you do have a bake sale coming up these usually sell very well. Since they are pretty and oversized, they’re also a great money maker.

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ookies always seem to be a favorite on ranches and farms. Even if they crumble. From toddlers to grand-folks, everyone loves cookies. I believe they are one of the original on-the-go snacks. I think at brandings, gatherings, any type of “crew” work it is hard to beat having cookies to hand out. I’ve made lots of cookies in my life, I usually made quick ones when my kids were growing up, the kind you can just drop on the sheet and throw in the oven with little muss or fuss.

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Place in the refrigerator and chill for 15 to 30 minutes.

Turn the oven onto 350 degrees On a floured board roll out the dough 1/4 to ½ inch thick. These cookies are somewhat cake-like, you don’t want this rolled thin. Cut into circles, I use a large water or tea glass to cut these. I don’t recommend using fancy shapes since this soft dough doesn’t hold shapes well. They are almost cake-like.

Place on a greased cookie sheet, don’t crowd. They will spread a bit and puff up.

Bake 10 to 15 minutes, until the edges are barely beginning to show golden brown, you want them soft.

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Interior Department Announces Expansion of National Wildlife Refuges in Three States

support working lands, and expand opportunities for outdoor recreation.

“The National Wildlife Refuge System and the tremendous work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service play an invaluable role in providing vital habitat for wildlife species, offering outdoor recreation access to the public, and bolstering climate resilience across the country,” said Secretary Deb Haaland. “By recognizing that nature is one of our best allies in addressing the climate crisis, today’s expansion of our Refuge System helps advance our locally led vision he US Department of the Interior has to conserve and protect our treasured announced the expansion of four exist- outdoor spaces for current and future ing national wildlife refuges, creating generations.” “voluntary” conservation of up to 1.13 million “Today’s announcements are the culminaacres of wildlife habitat in New Mexico, tion of longstanding partnerships with states, North Carolina and Texas. conservation partners and local communiInvesting in and expanding the National ties to conserve and restore vital landscapes Wildlife Refuge System, managed by the U.S. that are important to all of us and numerous Fish and Wildlife Service, furthers the fish and wildlife species,” said Service DirecBiden-Harris administration’s work to tor Martha Williams. “By working with our support community-driven efforts to con- partners including Tribes and private landserve and restore the nation’s lands and owners, the Service will conserve important waters through the America the Beauti- habitat that supports recreation and working ful initiative. Under Secretary Haaland’s lands, protects species, addresses the biodileadership, the Department has also estab- versity crisis and builds resilience in the face lished four new Refuges that will help of climate change.” conserve important fish and wildlife habitat, The Service works with willing property

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owners to expand refuge boundaries through fee title or voluntary easement acquisitions.

The new expansion areas include: ЇЇ Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge (NC) may now conserve up to 287,000 acres of floodplain habitat along a 137-mile stretch of the Roanoke River from Weldon to the Albemarle Sound, to support rare and at-risk species like the Atlantic sturgeon, cerulean and Swainson’s warbers, bald eagles and migratory waterfowl. The refuge was established in 1991 to protect the forests in the Roanoke River floodplain, considered to be the largest intact, and least disturbed, bottomland forest ecosystem remaining in the mid-Atlantic region. ЇЇ Aransas and Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuges (TX) may now conserve up to 150,000 additional acres of habitat in the Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes ecoregion of Texas to support whooping crane, Eastern black rail, Attwater’s prairie chicken, mottled duck and other wintering waterfowl.

Established in 1937, Aransas NWR serves as a refuge and breeding ground and for migratory birds and other wildlife and is best known as the

wintering home of the last wild flock of endangered whooping cranes.

Establishing in 1983 and designated an Internationally Significant Shorebird Site by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, Big Boggy NWR is a stronghold for the threatened eastern black rail and provides seasonal and year-round habitat for large populations of waterfowl, wading birds, waterbirds, and shorebirds. ЇЇ Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (NM and TX) may now conserve up to 700,000 acres of habitat in the Southern High Plains along the Texas-New Mexico border to support sandhill crane, pronghorn and lesser prairie chicken, as well as a full suite of other wildlife that rely on the grasslands, playa wetlands and saline lake habitats of the Central Grasslands.

Established in 1935, the refuge is the oldest national wildlife refuge in Texas and is best known for hosting one of the largest concentrations of lesser sandhill cranes in North America.

The four final Land Protection Plans for these expansions were developed through public processes and informed by input from

local landowners, Tribal leaders, state wildlife agencies, and other stakeholders. The Plans outline land protection priorities for these refuges that will inform the Service’s interest in acquiring parcels from landowners who are willing to sell property (fee-title) or property rights (conservation easements or cooperative agreements) through purchase or donation.

The Service develops Land Protection Plans to fully evaluate the establishment of new refuges as well as expansions to existing refuges. The approved expansion boundaries, which guide future refuge acquisitions, include priority areas where conservation efforts will have the highest anticipated benefit to wildlife and habitat. These priorities all contribute to fulfilling the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the Service has added over 500,000 acres through “willing” seller land acquisition and conservation easements. With today’s expansions, this Administration has approved the potential to acquire more than 1.6 million acres in fee-title and easements across the Refuge System.

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NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS

Secretary of Interior Haaland recently announced the expansion of four National Wildlife Refuges for a total of 1.13 million acres:

by Frank Dubois

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ecall that Biden issued Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”, and that Section 216 of that order tasked federal agencies to protect 30 percent of our nation’s land and water areas by 2030. This will be quite a task as their figures indicate only 12 percent of our lands are currently protected.

It has started, and it appears the 2024 elections are playing a major part in this.

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Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge (NC) may now conserve up to 287,000

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Aransas and Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuges (TX) 150,000 acres

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Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (NM and TX) 700,000 acres.

Interior assures us that each of the four Land Protection Plans “were developed through public processes and informed by input from local landowners, Tribal leaders, state wildlife agencies, and other stakeholders. The Plans outline land protection priorities for these refuges that will inform the Service’s interest in acquiring parcels from landowners who are willing to sell property (fee-title) or property rights (conser vation easements or cooperative ag reements) t hroug h pu rchase or donation.”

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administration has just finalized their so-called “conservation” rule or to be more technically correct The Conservation and Landscape Health Rule. BLM says the rule is needed to put conservation on an equal footing with mining, timber and grazing, while critics say it moves away from multiple use by giving priority to conservation.

“By putting its thumb on the scales to strongly favor conservation over other uses, this rule will obstruct responsible domestic mining projects and compound permitting challenges, further deepening our already grave foreign mineral import reliance,” says the National Mining Association.

The NCBA says the final rule runs counter to the agency’s multiple use mandate under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA). The rule, says the NCBA, “rearranges agency priorities” and places “an outsized focus on the use of restrictive Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) designations that have compromised land and water health across the West.” The result is “a framework that gives the BLM more restrictive land management” which will produce “increased conflict on the landscape.”

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The types of conservation addressed in 800,000 signature petition to Biden and Sec- Interior press release, this Public Land Order this rule are protection and restoration. On retary Haaland urging them, before this 7940, “protects, preserves, and promotes the the restore side of things, there were differ- year’s election, to use their authority in the scenic integrity, cultural importance, recreences of opinion on whether livestock Antiquities Act to designate additional areas ational values and wildlife habitat grazing can be one of the methods used for in seven states: California, Arizona, Colo- connectivity of the lands and surrounding restoration purposes. rado, Nevada, Oregon, Illinois and area.” This leads me to ask about the I’ll just let the BLM explain this for you: Maryland.

Mimbres proposal, “Why has no President “Some commenters argued that managed Notice that New Mexico is not mentioned or Secretary of Interior of either political grazing can in fact achieve land health stan- and that I have previously written of the party, in all these years felt this area needed dards and that specific practices, such as enviro effort to establish a 245,000-acre this amount of protection?” They didn’t care targeted grazing, have been used to create Mimbres Peaks National Monument in the enough about it to even do a simple withfire breaks, manage invasive species, and Deming area. Let’s combine that with an drawal like Haaland did for Placitas? promote land health. Other commenters action just taken by Secretary Haaland. On I will close by reiterating my astonishargued that livestock grazing is incompatible April 18 she used her authority to withdraw ment that enviros and other supposed with restoration and that grazing should be 4200 acres near Placitas. According to an proponents of democracy continue to e l i m i n at e d i n a re a s u nd er goi ng restoration.”

“This rule is not establishing or revising regulations governing the BLM’s grazing program and does not contemplate using or not using grazing as a land health management tool. As previously discussed, conservation takes many forms on public lands, including in the ways grazing and many other uses are carried out. This rule focuses on conservation as a land use within the multiple use framework and develops the toolbox for conservation use that enables some of the many conservation strategies the agency employs to steward the public lands for multiple use and sustained yield. Grazing as a management tool may fit within these strategies.”

Now isn’t that perfectly clear to you? Do you now have a better understanding of how this rule may affect your allotment?

It really doesn’t matter what you or I think. What counts is the opinion of the powers that be. John Podesta, the White Gordon Morris, Chairman of the Board/EVP House climate change hit man says, “Today’s Mac Langford, President/CCO final rule from the Department of the Interior is a huge win for ensuring balance on our public lands, helping them withstand the challenges of climate change and environWE’RE HONORED TO mental threats like invasive species, and BE YOUR HOMETOWN making sure they continue to provide serBANKERS. vices to the American people for decades to Please call Colten Grau to arrange come.” a visit. He’s working hard for our ag The other thing you need to watch out for community and he’s eager to go to Colten Grau, Vice President is “resilience.” The BLM claims that they work for you! cannot manage an area for multiple use and sustained yield unless it is resilient. Ride or Give us a chance to compete for drive around your place and see if it is resilyour land and operating loans! ient. Don’t know what that means? You best be finding out. linkedin.com/american-heritage-bank-nm Then we have the national monuments. facebook.com/americanheritagebanknm Nine months ago Biden traveled to instagram.com/ahbclovis Arizona to designate the 917,000-acre Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument, www.ahbnm.com the fifth one of his Presidency. And now we learn a coalition of enviros has presented an American Heritage Bank • Toll-Free: 1-866-762-2800

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support the Antiquities Act. There is no requirement for public input prior to a monument being designated. Whether or not the public has a chance to comment is completely at the discretion of the President. There is also no requirement to weigh the environmental consequences of such designation.

NEPA doesn’t kick in until after the monument is designated.

One person, the President, can designate however many acres he wants without limitation, without public input and without considering the environmental impact of his action.

Giving one person that kind of control over 640 million acres does not sound like democracy to me.

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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States Embrace Climate Action Plans Under the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

by Dan Titus, ACSC, shared with the American Policy Center from his Agenda 21 article

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n September 20, 2023, the Biden administration met at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York with the goal of recommitting to the [United Nations] 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals—SDGs. A White House fact sheet stated, “The United States is committed to the full implementation of 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, at home and abroad… At their core, the SDGs seek to: ЇЇ

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means public-private partnerships, which is crony capitalism. In this scheme there are winners and losers, where profits are privatized and losses are socialized on the backs of middleclass Americans. ЇЇ Advance social justice – This means placating and advancing people based on their skin color. At its core it is discriminatory. ЇЇ Promote good governance – This skirts our elected form of government and injects unelected special interest initiatives into our lives, where no one gets to vote. ЇЇ Ensure no one is left behind – This means catering to protected classes and minorities in order to create “capacity building” for initiatives and redistributive wealth schemes. Under Diversity and Inclusion (DEI), these classes are awarded “equity” and “inclusion” based on their skin color.

In a Ping-Pong game of executive orders, President Obama put the federal agencies into the SDGs; President Trump got SDGs out; President Biden put them back in during the first week of his administration. Congress has done nothing to reel them in.

Biden sent an envoy to California to study what the state has done with its radical climate bills in order to put the ideas to work in the $1.2 trillion dollar Infrastructure Bill and the $720 billion dollar Inflation Reduction Act. In order to “incentivize” states, the federal government offers grants for voluntary, nonbinding, United Nations SDGs. In other words, states don’t have to do this; however, they sell out for the money.

In order to take advantage of bribe money called grants, States have inserted themselves into California-style climate action plans to reduce arbitrary greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). People can no longer say, “It’s just happening in California.” You are California…

According to the EPA, “States submitted climate action plans under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. In 2023, under the first phase of the $5 billion program, EPA made a total of $250 million in grants available to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 80 MSAs, four territories, and over 200 Tribes and Tribal consortia to develop ambitious climate action plans that address greenhouse gas emissions. 45 states are now covered by a climate action plan. 5 states: Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, South Dakota and Wyoming decided not to participate.”

There’s capitalism; everything else is collectivism

for comparison. iagenda21.com/ wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ACSCLetter-to-RC-City-Council-6-20-2023RC-Budget-Adoption-Final. pdf?mc_cid=416839eee1&mc_ eid=39d4a4b242

Sustainability is collectivism: It’s a worldview where free individuals must give up their rights and private property for the collective good; where everyone is equal—equally poor. It is antithetical to the United States Constitution; therefore, it is unconstitutional. 3. Find your “EPA” State CAP and/or city/ Even though it’s voluntary, that does not stop county CAP, download it and start its implementation by the government. your critique using the example above.

Sustainability can be defined as artificial Your city/county CAP will be at their scarcity under the guise of conservation. Its website. www.epa.gov/inflationgoal is transformation through control of reduction-act/ society by behavior modification and social priority-climate-action-plans-statesengineering. It is using less of everything: msas-tribes-and-territories?mc_ Less food, less energy, less choice, less water, cid=416839eee1&mc_eid=39d4a4b242 less mobility and less freedom.

Google your city/county name and the At its core, its rationing, all contrived by words, “Climate Action Plan”. unelected agencies, boards, bodies, commissions, nonprofit corporations, international 4. Send or deliver your CAP critique to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) your local state representative and and Indian tribes. This ‘governance’ is demand to know how it got into the designed to replace our representative form state and tell them to get rid of it of ‘government’ by turning elected public because it surrenders everyone’s officials into to rubber stamps, installing property rights, protected by the prepackaged solutions, for problems that Constitution, to the United Nations. If don’t exist. you email, be sure to confirm that the Once climate actions plans become law recipient received the message. Type at or have ordinances attached to them, propthe top of the page “please confirm erty owners will have a difficult time receipt of this email and distribution.” unwinding them. Ordinances are now being drafted in the city of Rancho Cucamonga, California.

How to push back: Steps to review and critique a CAP

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Are Climate Action Plans (CAPs) mandatory?

Are Green House Reductions (GHG) mandatory? ЇЇ Are ordinances in CAPs mandatory?

Answers: NO, NO and NO… ЇЇ

Dan Titus is affiliated with the American Coalition for Sustainable Communities (ACSC). Their mission is sustaining representative government; not governance, by collectivist-oriented unelected agencies and commissions.

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EPA Threatens Locally Produced Beef

The new rule involves a major shift in the standards has never extended beyond direct technology-based effluent limitations guide- discharge facilities and this rule significantly lines and standards (ELGs) for the meat and expands their regulatory overreach. poultry industry, threatening their liveliThe Kansas Natural Resource Coalition hoods by forcing them to add water filtration (KNRC) filed comments opposing the prosystems to their facilities. posed rule and was joined by other county What does this mean to small meat pro- coalitions and American Stewards of Liberty. cessing facilities? It’s been reported that the KNRC, an organization of 30 Kansas couninitial cost to install a water filtration system ties, states these proposed rules will “regulate bringing them into compliance be $300,000 indirect discharge facilities” that “departs to $400,000 with a minimum of $100,000 from constitutional and statutory authority” annual maintenance. This would force many significantly altering the balance between small meat processing facilities to shutter state and federal powers.

Source: The Malone Institute their doors.

They also state that the proposal “gives n January 23, 2024, under Biden It is also a direct attack on the buy local priority to environmental justice goals and Administration guidance, the Envi- foods movement. If local meat producers no emphasizes ecological benefits, but the EPA ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) longer have a nearby facility to process the jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act is not proposed a new rule that will bring 3,879 meat, they will no longer be able to provide based on ecological importance or environmeat and poultry products (MPP) processing their product direct to the customer at food mental justice.” facilities under their jurisdiction. markets or online.

Demonstrating that the “comment This was swiftly followed by an abbreviThe EPA initially promulgated the MPP period” was mere window dressing to meet ated comment period which closed on March ELGs in 1974 and amended them in 2004. formal federal comment requirements, 25, 2024, and then immediate implementa- Currently, they only apply to approximately immediately on March 25, 2024 the EPA tion of the rule change. All justified by 150 of the 5,055 MPP facilities in the industry. jammed through a finalized version of its wastewater levels of Nitrogen and Phospho- But, in the EPA’s Benefit Cost Analysis, they devastating new interpretation of the Clean rus coming from animal meat processing, state that “EPA estimates the regulatory Water Act, which it has titled “Effluent Limmirroring the WEF agenda to minimize options potentially affect 3,879 MPP itations Guidelines and Standards for the Nitrogen runoff from European farms which facilities.”

Meat and Poultry Products Point Source has sparked the widespread farmer protests Accordingly, the history of EPA’s regula- Category.” throughout the European Union. tion of MPP eff luent guidelines and Clearly this is another case of aggressive, arbitrary and capricious EPA regulatory overreach, directly analogous to the recent Supreme Court case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. 697 (2022), a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to the Clean Air Act, and the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate The carbon dioxide emissions related to climate TheDepartment DepartmentofofAnimal Animal&&Range RangeSciences Sciencesisispart partofofthe the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental change.

College of Agricultural, Consumer & EnvironmentalSciences Sciences According to the EPA, after months of Four on-campus animal facilities house: study and testing to look for bacteria, viruses beeF CaTTle/horses/swine/sheep and so on, what they actually found in the Students can major in Animal or Rangeland Resources and are provided with the very wastewater of processing facilities was Nitrobest of “hands on” academic instruction by our faculty. Fully equipped labs allow gen and Phosphorus. Two of the fundamental students access to cutting-edge research in: elements which all living things are com• The Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland LIVESTOCK NUTRITION / GENETICS / PHYSIOLOGY / posed of (Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Research Center (The College Ranch) – ENDOCRINOLOGY / MEAT SCIENCE / WOOL / 64,000 acre ranch just outside of Oxygen, Phosphorus).

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• Clayton Research Center hosts research “pollutants” from entering local water The M.S. or Ph.D. in Animal Science can emphasize on shipping protocols, particularly supplies. evaluating the health and performance of nutrition or physiology, and offers a Ph.D. in Range newly received cattle, and nutrition and The EPA anticipates these new rules will, Science to study range management, range ecology management from feedlot to slaughter and watershed management. at least, result in the closure of 16 processing facilities across the country at a time when Dr. John Campbell hallford––575-646-6180 575-646-2515 Dr. Shanna Ivey––575/646-6180 575-646-2515 /• Dr. Dr. Dennis John Campbell our country’s meat producers are already http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs/ http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/anrs struggling to survive due to bottlenecks in

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USDA certified facilities. However, on the high side EPA estimates include an impact range of up to 845 processing facilities.

The EPA acknowledges (via the Federal Register) that this rule change will have far-reaching impacts up and down the supply chain from consumer prices to producer losses.

A press release was just put out by a consortium of protein producers who have said this will cost “millions more than the EPA’s highest estimates and result in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs.”

It gets worse Facilities can bypass these new regulations by drastically reducing their weekly/ annual pounds processed. However, the US population continues to grow (largely due to immigration) at a rate that we’re currently incapable of feeding with record low volumes of meat production. Reducing pounds processed will have sizable impacts upon food security, as will further closures, and supply chain disruptions. These issues have now risen to the point of being a national security threat.

Problems in the rule change The rule change fails to provide clarity or funding to local water treatment facilities for testing or range of acceptable levels of runoff, and in my opinion over-steps federal authority (WOTUS jurisdiction) by dictating local water rights. Especially as the EPA acknowledges most water used in processing is from a well source, or privately owned water source. ЇЇ The rules fail to account for foreign inputs, and actually incentivize domestic closures, prioritizing imported meat products in a manner conducive to the monopolistic multinational conglomerate beef producers who are not US based. This, at a time when the US has gradually become a net importer yet facing critical infrastructure collapses, such as Key Bridge. ЇЇ The rules specify 17 species of endangered animals that may become affected by the salt residues (a byproduct of the process they want used to turn biomass into gas), as these salts flow “downstream” from processing facilities. This is bogus language to attempt to establish jurisdictional standing, as the rules do not differentiate between facilities that are near navigable waters vs facilities that have private water rights.

However, for those who do comply, as impact our food supply for years to come. opposed to reducing production, they’ll be Congressmen Ron Estes, Kansas, and Eric left open and vulnerable to future lawsuits Burlison, Missouri, have proposed H.R 7079, from environmental activists over endan- the “BEEF ACT” (formally known as gered species. These lawsuits have historically H.R.7079 - Banning EPA’s Encroachment on become costly, with states eventually caving Facilities Act), as a means of prohibiting the to the demands made, as evidenced by the EPA from using its deferential authority Oregon Dept of Forestry v Cascadia in filing (Chevron doctrine) to interpret the Clean after filing - Spotted Owl to CoHo Salmon - Water Act. However, this legislation curresulting in the drastic reduction of privately rently has a one percent chance of being owned timber lands and logging contracts. enacted, and only a four percent chance of passing out of the House Committee on ЇЇ The rules currently allow for the off-gassing of the biomass as it Transportation. becomes C02 and methane, but say In parallel to direct legislative action, nothing about future carbon taxes, or there is clearly a need to mount a legal chalfinancial burdens that may be incurred lenge to this action, one which can build due to the additional carbon outputs upon the precedent established by West Virvia the new carbon credit/taxes the ginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, Biden Administration created via the which should benefit from the anticipated Commodities Credit Corporation.

Supreme Court action to overturn the Oregon, California and Washington Chevron Deference legal precedent which have already instituted state versions of currently enables this type of regulatory Cap and Trade legislation e.g. requiring overreach. companies to purchase these carbon credits in order to remain in business.

Aside from the massive overreach in relation to non-navigable waters of the US, typically locally regulated, or an authority reserved to the states to regulate, these new rule changes have the potential to negatively

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Fewer Cattle But More in Feedlots

by Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist

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he April cattle on feed report pegs feedlot inventories at 11.82 million head, up 1.49 percent from one year ago.

Feedlot inventories continue to be stubbornly slow to decline despite declining cattle numbers. The latest report included the quarterly breakdown of feedlot inventories by gender. The number of steers on feed April 1 was 7.266 million head, up 1.7 percent year over year and the heifers on feed inventory was 4.555 million head, up 1.1 percent from last year. Heifers made up 38.5 percent of total feedlot inventories, down from 39.7 percent in January. While the heifer percentage in feedlots remains above the average of the past ten years, the decline from January to April is an encouraging sign that heifer feeding is perhaps slowing. During rapid herd expansion in 2015-2017, the heifer percentage of feedlot inventories dropped below 34 percent and averaged below 33 percent for ten consecutive quarters, i.e. two and onehalf years. Heifer feeding is expected to decrease significantly more in the coming

months.

Feedlot placements in March were down 12.3 percent year over y e a r, a l a r g e r decrease than expected. In fact, feedlot placements have been declining for many months in response to decreased feeder c at t le s uppl ie s .

Figure 1 shows that average monthly feedlot placements (12 month moving average) in March were at the lowest level since April 2017. Total placements in the last six m o n t h s (O c t o ber-March), which would account for the bulk of cattle currently in feedlots, is down 2.3 percent from the same period one year ago.

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How, then, can feedlot inventories be above year earlier levels as they have been for the last seven months? The answer is that feedlot marketing rates have fallen even faster than placement rates. Fewer cattle are staying in feedlots longer. In the latest cattle on feed report, March marketings were down 13.7 percent year over year, with monthly marketings just 14.4 percent of the March 1 feedlot inventory. Figure 2 shows the average (12 month moving average) feedlot marketings as a percentage of cattle on feed. Average feedlot marketings in March were 15.4 percent of feedlot inventories for the past twelve months, below 15.5 percent for the first time in data back to 1997.

Feedlots have an incentive to keep inventories as close to capacity as possible. One way is to slow down the turnover rate effectively making fewer cattle turn into larger inventories. The result is more days on feed and heavier carcass weights. Steer carcass weights have averaged 25 pounds heavier year over year for the past four weeks, with heifer carcasses over 21 pounds heavier. There are limits to how much feedlots can slow marketings, but feedlots are expected to push carcass weights as far as possible in the coming months. Feedlot inventories are expected to decline in the next few months despite feedlot actions to delay the inevitable.

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

What’s In Your Pockets?

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ou can tell a lot about people by what’s in their pockets. You might find a horseshoe nail in a farrier’s pocket, a pipe that doesn’t smell like tobacco in a doper’s, a duck call in a hunter’s vest, throwing rocks in a juvenile delinquent’s and an assortment of buckles, snaps and latigo in the apron pocket of a saddlemaker. The back-pocket-wallet of a Hell’s Angel will be hooked with a chain but it’s the plethora of unmarked thousand dollar bills in the pockets of a Congressman that ought to be more securely tied down. Easy come, easy go.

When I was flying all over the country my favorite way to pass the time was to sit next to the X-ray machine where TSA employees asked flyers to empty their pockets. In small town airports like Redding and Redmond I took a seat on the other side of a glass wall and observed. It was like looking through people’s trash, only legal.

It would make a great TV show. Host Samuel L. Jackson would ask contestants, “What’s in your pockets?” And then a celebrity panel would then guess what they did for a living.

Ranchers were always easy to identify by the alfalfa leaves and stems that fell out of their pockets onto the conveyor belt. In the front pocket of their long sleeved shirt you’d find a file of auction market cards chronicling their livestock purchases dating back 17 years. There’d also be a stub pencil, tally book, reading glasses in a soft case, scraps of paper, toothpick, a four-year-old speeding ticket, Maalox or Tums, a blue scour bolus and nary a sign of coin or cash. All their liquid assets were tied up in cows. Surprisingly I rarely saw a rancher pull out a comb, probably because most ranchers, if they had any experience at all, had lost most of their hair.

It was easy to tell the ranchers from the cowboys because of what was NOT in the cowboy’s pockets. There’d be no keys because you don’t need a key to start a horse, they rarely owned a home and cowboys usually don’t need a key to access their gold, cash, or will in their safe deposit box because they don’t have any of those things. The only thing they owned that would set off the alarms would be a can of Copenhagen, a pair of wire cutters on their belt and a trophy buckle they won at a ranch rodeo for cow mugging. You’d also find a thick stack of lottery tickets which is the only way a cowboy is gonna get rich and buy his own spread.

I was always amazed at what people no longer carried. As a teenager I always had at least two necessities in the pockets of my jeans: a pocket watch with my name engraved on the back and a three-bladed Case knife, both of which were rights of passage when I was young. When the day came when you bought your first knife you became a man.

Nowadays, if you flash either of those things in an airport you’ll be body slammed to the ground by security cops and arrested for being a terrorist. They’d think your knife was a weapon and your pocket watch was some sort of timing device, which it really was. Fewer and fewer people carry or wear

watches these days because they get the time, a nd e ver y t h i ng else, f rom t hei r smartphones.

If you observe a modern young person you’ll see they have more pockets than ever and their backpacks runneth over. In many respects they are like turtles in that they carry everything they own with them.

Besides watches and knives, another product category that must have taken a beating with the rise of smartphones is Cross pens. They used to be handed out by corporations to good customers or employees marking 30 years of service. Many a graduate were honored to receive a Cross matching gold filled pen and pencil set. Not any more though as cell phones, iPads and laptops have rendered pens, pencils, and notepads redundant pieces of ancient technology.

Although I’d like to see the technology buffs try to cut a steak at a bull sale barbecue with their smartphone, or castrate a bull calf with an iPad.

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

Col. N.A.M. Dudley: Contentious to a Fault

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author donbullis@msn.com

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ieutenant Colonel Nathan Augustus Monroe Dudley (1925-1910), sometimes referred to simply as N.A.M. Dudley, had a high-profile role in New Mexico’s Lincoln County War, although it was not to be envied.

Dudley was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the 10th United States Infantry in 1855 and while his military career would generally be considered successful, he benefited greatly by having friends in high office, apparently in both the military and on the civilian side of things. He was court-martialed three times, and even when convicted he was given light, insignificant sentences.

The third of his trials resulted from foray into the Lincoln County war.

In that case, as commander of nearby Fort Stanton, Dudley engaged his troops in the Five Days Battle in the town of Lincoln (July 15-19, 1878) which was the major engagement

of the Lincoln County disorder. Members of flight.2 the McSween faction were forted-up inside It is fair to note that military personnel McSween’s house. They were opposed by did not actively participate in the violence by members of the Murphy-Dolan faction led firing on the McSween house. Their very

by Sheriff George Peppin, a stone mason by presence was enough to intimidate the trade appointed to the job, not elected, and defenders and put them to flight. sometimes referred to as the “quasi-sheriff.”

As a matter of law, such military action On July 19 Dudley led a troop of 60 cav- by Dudley was prohibited under the posse alrymen—including an array of officers in comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.§ 1385) which had rank from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel— gone into effect a month before, on June 18, armed with a Gatling gun and a mountain 1878. Assistant Adjutant General in Washhowitzer into town.1 While he alleged that ington, D. C., R. C. Drum, issued General he did so to protect “women and children” it Order No. 49 on that date which directed the was clear to all that his intervention was on attention of all military officers to its provithe side of the Murphy-Dolan-Riley faction, sions; one of which was that military and the tide turned very quickly against the personnel could not be used in civil matters Tunsdall-McSween-Chisum bunch. By that without the express authority of the Presievening Alexander McSween was dead, as dent of the United States, obtained through were three of his men (Harvey Morris, Fran- normal military channels. cisco Zamora and Vicente Romero) and the Dudley therefore faced a military board survivors, including Billy the Kid, were in of inquiry which began on May 25, 1879, and

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of growing crops and crop land caused by its independently confirm them. Project develAs Solar Capacity construction activities” outside the project oper Orion Renewable Energy Group LLC site and “not remove topsoil” from the prop- directed questions to NextEra. Grows, Some of erty itself. Still, subcontractors graded The solar industry is pushing into the U.S. Duttlinger’s fields to assist the building of Midwest, drawn by cheaper land rents, access America’s Most roads and installation of posts and panels, he to electric transmission, and a wealth of Productive said, despite his warnings that it could make federal and state incentives. The region also land more vulnerable to erosion. has what solar needs: wide-open fields.

Farmland is At Risk theCrews reshaped the landscape, spreading A renewable energy boom risks damaging

fine sand across large stretches of rich topsoil, Duttlinger said. When Reuters visited his ave Duttlinger’s first thought when he farm last year and this spring, much of the saw a dense band of yellowish-brown land beneath the panels was covered in yeldust smearing the sky above his low-brown sand, where no plants grew.

Indiana farm was: I warned them this would “I’ll never be able to grow anything on that happen. field again,” the farmer said. About oneAbout 445 acres of his fields near Wheat- third of his approximately 1,200-acre farm field, Indiana, are covered in solar panels – where his family grows corn, soybeans and and related machinery – land that in April alfalfa for cattle – has been leased.

2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar The Dunns Bridge Solar project is a subLLC, for one of the largest solar develop- sidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, ments in the Midwest. the world’s largest generator of renewable On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022, energy from wind and solar. Duttlinger said Duttlinger said, his phone rang with ques- when he approached NextEra about the tions from frustrated neighbors: Why is dust damage to his land, the company said it from your farm inside my truck? Inside my would review any remedial work needed at house? Who should I call to clean it up? the end of its contract in 2073, as per the According to Duttlinger’s solar lease, terms of the agreement. reviewed by Reuters, Dunns Bridge said it NextEra declined to comment on the would use “commercially reasonable efforts matter or on what future commitments it to minimize any damage to and disturbance made to Duttlinger, and Reuters could not

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some of America’s richest soils in key farming states like Indiana, according to a Reuters analysis of federal, state and local data; hundreds of pages of court records; and interviews with more than 100 energy and soil scientists, agricultural economists, farmers and farmland owners, and local, state and federal lawmakers.

Some of Duttlinger’s farm, including parts now covered in solar panels, is on land classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the most productive for growing crops, according to a Reuters analysis.

For landowners like Duttlinger, the promise of profits is appealing. Solar leases in Indiana and surrounding states can offer $900 to $1,500 an acre per year in land rents, with annual rate increases, according to a Reuters review of solar leases and interviews with four solar project developers. In comparison, farmland rent in top corn and

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soybean producers Indiana, Illinois and Iowa averaged about $251 per acre in 2023, USDA data shows.

Farmland Partners Inc, a publicly traded farmland real estate investment trust (REIT) has leased about 9,000 acres nationwide to solar firms. Much of that ground is highly productive, said Executive Chairman Paul Pittman.

“Do I think it’s the best use of that land?

Probably not. But our investors would kill us if we didn’t pursue this,” he said.

Some renewable energy developers said not all leases become solar projects. Some are designing their sites to make it possible to grow crops between panels, while others, like Doral Renewables LLC, said they use livestock to graze around the panels as part of their land management. Developers also argue that in the Midwest, where more than one-third of the U.S. corn crop is used for ethanol production, solar energy is key for powering future electric vehicles.

Some agricultural economists and agronomists counter that taking even small amounts of the best cropland out of production for solar development and damaging valuable topsoil impacts future crop potential in the United States.

Common solar farm construction practices, including clearing and grading large

sections of land, also can lead to significant some way with large-scale, ground-based erosion and major runoff of sediment into solar panel sites they had identified as of waterways without proper remediation, 2021. according to the U.S. Environmental ProtecThe total power capacity of the solar opertion Agency and the Justice Department. ations tracked in the data set represents over Solar development comes amid increas- 60 gigawatts of electric power capacity. In ing competition for land: In 2023, there were the following two years, solar capacity has 76.2 million - or nearly eight percent - fewer nearly tripled, according to a December 2023 acres in farms than in 1997, USDA data report from the Solar Energy Industries shows, as farmland is converted for residen- Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie. tial, commercial and industrial use.

To better understand future land-use In response to Reuters’ findings, USDA patterns, Reuters analyzed federal governsaid that urban sprawl and development are ment data to identify cropland that USDA currently bigger contributors to farmland classified as prime, unique, or of local or loss than solar, citing reports from the statewide importance. Reuters also reviewed Department of Energy and agency-funded more than 2,000 pages of solar-related docresearch. uments filed at local county recorders’ offices in a small sample of four Midwestern Building On Prime Cropland counties – Pulaski, Starke and Jasper counNo one knows how much cropland ties in Indiana, and Columbia County in nationwide is currently under solar panels Wisconsin. or leased for possible future development.

The counties, representing an area of land Land deals are typically private transactions. slightly bigger than the state of Delaware, are Scientists at the United States Geological where some of the nation’s largest projects Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s are being developed or built. The sample is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have not necessarily representative of the broader been compiling a database of existing solar United States but gives an idea of the potenfacilities across the country. While that tial impact of solar projects in farm-heavy project is incomplete and ongoing, Reuters counties. found that around 0.02 percent of all cropReuters found the percentage of these land in the continental U.S. intersected in counties’ most productive cropland secured by solar and energy companies as of end of 2022 was as follows: 12 percent in Pulaski, 9 percent in Starke, 4 percent in Jasper and 5 percent in Columbia.

Jerry Hatfield, former director of USDA Agricultural Research Service’s National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, said Reuters’ findings in the four counties are “concerning.”

“It’s not the number of acres converting to solar,” he said. “It’s the quality of the land coming out of production, and what that means for local economies, state economies and the country’s future abilities for crop production.”

More than a dozen agronomists, as well as renewable energy researchers and other experts consulted by Reuters, said the approach to measuring solar’s impact was fair. The news agency also shared its findings with six solar developers and energy firms working in these counties. Three said Reuters’ sample size was too small, and the range of findings too wide, to be a fair portrayal of industry siting and construction Bill Martin: 970-302-5834 practices.

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While the land needed for ground-based solar development to achieve this goal won’t be even by state, it is not expected to exceed 5 percent of any state’s land area, except the smallest state of Rhode Island, where it could reach 6.5 percent, by 2050, according to the Energy Department’s Solar Futures Study, published in 2021.

Researchers at American Farmland Trust, a non-profit farmland protection organization which champions what it calls Smart Solar, forecast last year that 83 percent of new solar energy development in the U.S. will be on farm and ranchland, unless current government policies changed. Nearly half would be on the nation’s best land for producing food, fiber, and other crops, they warned.

Fuel Debate Five renewable developers and solar energy firms interviewed by Reuters counter that the industry’s use of farmland is too small to impact domestic food production overall and should be balanced with the need to decarbonize the U.S. energy market in the face of climate change.

Doral Renewables, the developer behind the $1.5 billion Mammoth Solar project in Pulaski and Starke counties, does not consider corn or soybean yields in its siting decisions.

Instead, the company looks at the land’s topography, zoning and closeness to an electrical grid or substation – and tries to avoid wooded areas, ditches and environmentally sensitive areas, said Nick Cohen, Doral’s president and CEO. Shifting corn acres for solar? “I don’t see it as replacing something that is vital to our society,” Cohen said. Solar can make farmland “more productive from an economic perspective,” he added.

Indiana farmer Norm Welker says he got a better deal leasing 60 percent of his farmland to Mammoth than he would have growing corn, with prices dipping to threeyear lows this year.

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by Colorado Parks and Wildlife after the rancher reported it to a CPW wildlife officer.

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“This is not a wolf from the ten recently not have a GPS tracking collar or show any released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife in signs that a collar had been removed, and December 2023,” the USFWS spokesperson CPW’s wolf activity map does not show any told Outdoor Life. He added that the federal of the state’s known wolves passing through agency was working with CPW to investigate the county in recent months. An unnamed the discovery, as gray wolves in the Great neighboring rancher told The Fence Post he Lakes population — unlike wolves in the thought the wolf could have been someone’s Northern Rockies — remain under federal pet, but there is currently no other evidence protections as an ESA-listed species. supporting this theory.

The wolf was an 84-pound male, and it It is possible that the wolf made it all the was caught by a trapper in a legal leg-hold way from the Great Lakes to Elbert County trap that had been set for coyotes, according on its own. Gray wolves are known to roam, to The Fence Post. Body grip devices, foot- and in 2023, researchers tracked a collared hold traps, and cable device traps are wolf from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that prohibited in Colorado, but landowners who traveled more than 4,000 miles over an are eligible for a 30-day agricultural trapping 18-month period. exemption can still use these devices, accordMinnesota is home to the highest number ing to state regulations. The USFWS has not of gray wolves in the region, with an estireleased a cause of death or any other details mated population of more than 2,500. A map as part of its open investigation. from 2018 shows that the Minnesota DepartEven more puzzling is how a wolf from ment of Natural Resources has observed wolf the Great Lakes region ended up in Elbert packs as far south as Anoka County. That County, which lies in eastern Colorado not county is located not quite 900 miles as the far from the heavily populated Front Range. c row f l ie s f rom E lb er t C ou nt y, Elbert County butts up against El Paso Colorado.

County, where Colorado Springs is located.

The county seat of Kiowa is less than 50 miles southeast of Denver and roughly 25 miles east of Interstate 25.

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fter we finished working horses the other day there was a bunch of us sitting around the barn discussing horses, cattle, ropes, bits, training methods etc. When we had finished our cowboy bull-session we started on the evil that has highjacked our country.

Some of us were veterans that had been to Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Part of our group had traveled extensively in the United States and other countries for work.

Finally, the last part of our group had stayed in the same area and worked most of their lives. Our group included Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. With all the different backgrounds and experiences, we have had one thing that brought us together and that was horses.

If you took horses out of the equation, we had all grown up respecting God, family, and country. Naturally, we were all wondering why those three vital tenets of life in America were trying to be erased.

There are a host of other items they are trying to do the same thing with, such as responsibility, the work ethic, and honesty.

Maintaining the last six items are the most important responsibility that you have as an American citizen.

Funny thing, but our little horse group agreed on all these items. We might not agree on the best way to train a horse, but the consensus was that we all agreed on how we ought to live.

For instance, let’s talk about God for a minute. Like it or not this country was founded on Judeo-Christian values. One of our most important founders Patrick Henry of Virginia stated, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!” Because of these very things we have freedom of religion. Without them it would

not exist. Any American citizen can worship offer. While I agree that a handful work at how they want to. their job honestly, the vast majority enjoy the It seems that over the last 60 years or so power and try to advance it any way the can. there has been a movement to destroy famiOne way they try to gain power is via lies. The evil forces at work like to encourage political persecution. Previously it was divorce, abortion, and having the govern- always a tool reserved for dictatorships, but ment raise your children. It is blatantly it is very prevalent in the corrupt political evident that destroying the family unit has arena today. Some of our present leaders rank been high on the priority list. right up there with Castro, Stalin, and I would like to focus on good citizenship Mussolini. for a minute and a little of what it entails.

Presently there is a war on American Because we learn from history, it should not Agriculture from our own government. How be rewritten or eliminated from our public did a bunch of flag waving, hardworking, tax schools or public venues. paying, loyal citizens become the targets of Monuments and statues of historical evil? You may want to set up an appointment figures should never be desecrated. Flying with your favorite New Mexico, Arizona, or the American flag, teaching school children California governors to discuss this matter. what it stands for, and flag etiquette should American farmers, ranchers, horse trainbe taught to each and every one. ers, cowboys, cowgirls, veterinarians, The daily reciting of, “The Pledge Of Alle- horseshoers, cow trimmers, haulers, etc. all giance” should be restored to the American deserve a much better America than what we classroom. are getting.

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by Americans. Yet, it has been under threat for decades by animal and environmental extremists who vilify traditional agriculture, especially animal agriculture, in pursuit of their mission to impose misguided ideologies on the citizenry. Nevertheless, demand for the unequaled flavor and nutrition of animal-derived products remains strong. A 2023 Gallup Consumption Habits poll revealed only four percent of the U.S. population are vegetarians, and merely one percent are vegans.

Despite the incessant, crusade-like campaigning by this fanatic minority, it’s clear that meat, dairy products, and eggs remain preferred components of most American diets. Sadly, there are certain subsets of our population whose food choices are systematically being restricted, replaced with meals that align with the animal and environmental extremist agendas.

In 2011, the Good Food Purchasing

Program (GFPP) was founded in Los Angeles.

It has since been embraced by 45 institutions, including schools, prisons, hospitals, and municipal cafeterias in numerous cities nationwide. The program is designed to “shift institutional food purchases” to align with “core values.” Two of these values are “animal welfare” and “environmental sustainability,” which already exist as basic principles in American agriculture and have for generations. GFPP’s iteration of acceptable foods is a dangerous, virtue-signaling reinvention of established national dietary guidelines. GFPP misrepresents its mission with the predictable utilization of feel-good language and mainstream talking points to disguise the subversive and authoritarian nature of its program.

Redefining “Animal Welfare” for Ideological Purposes

GFPP Aligns with Environmental Extremist-Backed Criteria Regarding environmental sustainability, the program purchases from suppliers that reduce or eliminate the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, improve soil health and carbon sequestration, reduce fossil fuel energy inputs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce carbon and water footprints, protect water resources, and reduce or eliminate single-use plastics and other resource-intensive packaging. They list a number of preferred certifications for their various suppliers, ranging from “wildlife friendly” to “food justice certified.”

To offset the increased expense of meeting these criteria, GFPP focuses on “shifting toward local producers to reduce travel and storage cost of perishables, or redesigning menus to reduce more expensive meat purchases by substituting produce and alternative proteins.”

Cattle rancher Shad Sullivan summed up this so-called “sustainability” in a February 2024 FOX Business segment: “Sustainability is nothing more than production and consumption control.”

“Control” is a common goal among extremist groups.

In the realm of animal welfare, GFPP purchases from suppliers that are focused on meeting animals’ physical, mental, and behavioral needs throughout their lives, which is aligned with existing American agriculture operations. However, when GFPP’s animal extremist ties are revealed, it’s clear that its definition of these needs has more to do with the animal rights of anthropomorphic Hollywood productions than scientifically sound, fact-based animal welfare and husbandry practices.

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to “reduce total animal weight of animal products sourced to reduce number of animal lives per meal served.”

GFPP states that it utilizes the “power of procurement to create a transparent and equitable food system that prioritizes the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment.” Listed among GFPP’s national partners are groups such as the ASPCA, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), Farm Forward, and Friends of the Earth. Its “generous” supporters include the United States Department of Agriculture (our tax dollars) and the globalist Rockefeller Foundation.

A biased, agenda-driven and factually questionable study issued by the Rockefeller Foundation found Americans spend $1.1 trillion on food annually, but the actual alleged cost to our society is three times that dollar amount due to rising health care costs, climate change, and biodiversity loss.

GFPP marches in lockstep with animal and environmental extremism, which coincidentally aligns perfectly with the current globalist agenda. In 2014, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, stated: “Governments have few sources of leverage

over increasingly globalized food systems – but public procurement is one of them. When sourcing food for schools, hospitals and public administrations, governments have a rare opportunity to support more nutritious diets and more sustainable food systems in one fell swoop.”

GFPP Has Well-Established Ties to Extremism The push to adopt GFPP in various cities is primarily led by animal and environmental extremists. This has been ushered in without input from, or a vote by, citizens. A glaring example of this was San Francisco’s implementation of GFPP in 2020, which was championed by the local animal extremist group Compassionate Bay. Noteworthy is the city’s GFPP manifesto listing the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) as a national partner. OCM is not about competitive markets – it’s about restricting competitive markets to achieve its ideological, social engineering, and virtue-signaling goals. As one might expect, Compassionate Bay parrots the deliberately inflammatory and inaccurate “factory farming” label commonly used by extremists to malign modern farms, ranches, and animal feeding operations. “Truth” is not a Compassionate Bay core competency.

Compassionate Bay’s website states: “We started with one goal: to facilitate passing animal and environmentally friendly legislation in the state of California. We are a grassroots group of volunteers dedicated to seeing political change that addresses factory farming and the climate crisis.”

They boast of being part of a cabal that successfully passed the state’s 2019 fur ban and led the coalition of climate organizations and animal rights groups that pushed for San Francisco to adopt GFPP. Further, they state: “Inspired by SF’s Good Food Purchasing Program, in the summer of 2021 we successfully lobbied the Berkeley City Council to pass a resolution to cut their spending on animal products by 50 percent by 2024 with an end goal of 100 percent.”

ingly, also listed as a supporter is the You might be surprised to hear that there is, environmental extremist group Western in fact, a CAFO in Berkeley: Golden Gate Watersheds Project (WWP), which primarily Fields horse racing track. The stables at this targets western ranchers who utilize feder- track confine upwards of 1,200 horses, many ally managed public lands to graze of whom are in stalls for 20+ hours a day.” livestock.

Ahead of the proposed measure’s signaThe coalition has until the beginning of ture-collecting deadline, Golden Gate Fields March 2024 to collect 30,000 signatures from announced its closure in July 2023. Owners Sonoma County voters. If the signatures are stated their racing operations would be concollected, they will be submitted to the solidated in southern California. Golden County for verification. If verified, the Board Gate Fields opened in 1941. of Supervisors could pass the ordinance, which would then appear on the November Vigilance and Engagement – More Important Than Ever 2024 ballot.

Programs such as GFPP are being adopted Extremists Apply the Term “CAFO” to across the nation, usually without the benefit Non-Agricultural Organizations of a vote by “we the people.” Other examples Feedlots have long been a target of the of this scenario include the C40 Cities initiaanimal extremist movement. However, it is tive and vegan lunches forced on New York important to note they are applying the term City public school students. Currently, these to operations other than animal agricultural initiatives tend to be confined to larger, facilities. This is an example of the agenda urban, liberally run cities. However, groups to eliminate any form of human/animal such as GFPP have the potential to infiltrate interaction. For extremists, criteria for a medium and smaller cities, spreading their CAFO has been distorted beyond regulatory disinformation, rhetoric and propaganda to and industry definitions. Extremists include rural parts of the nation. small operations with all types of animals in These groups are relentless in their the “CAFO” category. These groups admit attempts to alter America’s food production in a footnote that small operations have and consumption to satisfy their unquenchnever been a CAFO by regulatory definition, able thirst for control. We stand for freedom but can be designated so on a case-by-case of choice and A Free and Fed America™. We basis by an extremist group. Basically, if urge Americans to become better informed these loons want to target an operation for about how the food we eat is produced and any reason, they could. Their definition even why it is important for the United States to encompasses horse facilities, with a small remain food-independent, improve food “CAFO” being anything fewer than 150 security for those in need, and support the horses. hard-working farmers and ranchers who The Compassionate Bay website states: keep us fed with safe, nutritious, affordable, “But this ordinance is not merely symbolic. accessible, and plentiful food.

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Salvage yard: Tractors, Combines, Hay & Farm Equipment Online auctions: We can sell your farm, ranch & construction equipment anywhere in the U.S. Order parts online at farmstore.online – 15% rebate www.kaddatzequipment.com

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575/835-1630 • Fax: 575/838-4536 Lemitar, N.M. • williamswindmill@live.com

TANK COATINGS ROOF COATINGS

Available for Metal, Composition Shingles or Tar Roofs. Long-lasting and easy to apply. We also manufacture Tank Coatings for Concrete, Rock, Steel, Galvanized & Mobile tanks.

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602/258-5272

Robbie - Mobile: 505/350-0767 RobbieOffice: 505/832-1400 Office: 505/832-1400 Ben • Fax: 505/832-1441 Mobile: 505/350-0767 Fax: 505/832-1441 Mobile: 505/321-1091 Ben - Mobile: 505/321-1091

Williams Windmill, Inc.

DESERT SCALES & WEIGHING EQUIPMENT

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100 -11,000 Gallons In Stock

VIRDEN PERMA-BILT CO.

806/352-2761

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Not Just a Little Better — A Lot High Specific Gravity, Heavy Weight Long Warranty Black NRCS Tanks Lifting Eyes — 24 Inch Manhole Please call for the BEST SERVICE & VALUE.

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Lazy J&G Sales

Cloudcroft, NM • 1-800/603-8272 nmwatertanks.com

575-447-2508

Containers For Sale / Rent New or Used. All sizes are available.

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Oil and Gas Development Issues Water Rights/Water Quality/Water Disposal OCD Hearings Title/Boundary Disputes Easements/ Access issues Right-of-Way/Condemnation Permitting/ Leasing BLM, Forest Service, State Lands Mineral Development Business Dissolution/ Probate Ranch Sales/ Leases/ Purchases Wind & Solar Leases/ Pollution/ Environmental Gas

Pete V. Domenici, Jr., Esq. 320 Gold Avenue SW – Suite 1000 Albuquerque, NM 87102 505/883-6250 • 505/884-3424 Fax www.DomeniciLaw.com

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Weanlings & Yearlings

Please call for a price quote

FOR SALE —————— TYLER RIVETTE O: 281/342-4703 • C: 832/494-8871 harrisonquarterhorses@yahoo.com www.harrisonquarterhorseranch.com

WE ARE A LOCAL COMPANY IN BUSINESS IN NEW MEXICO SINCE 2005. OUR INVENTORY IS LOCATED IN NEW MEXICO. DELIVERY IS AVAILABLE.

MARKETPLACE TO LIST YOUR AD HERE CONTACT CHRIS@AAALIVESTOCK.COM OR 505-243-9515, x.28

SALES AND SERVICE, INC.

BULLS FOR SALE At Private Treaty

Mixing / Feeding Systems Trucks / Trailers / Stationary Units

Sheldon Wilson • 575/451-7469

cell: 580-651-6000 – leave message

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WES O’BRIEN • Cell 806/231-1102 800/525-7470 • 806/364-7470 www.bjmsales.com 3925 U.S. HWY 60, Hereford, TX 79045

BRUSHMASTERS, LLC • Mastication of Trees & Understory • Elimination of Invasive Plant Species • Hunting Access Lanes • Utility Easements Clearing • Wildlife Habitat Restoration • Pasture Reclamation • Road & Levee Right-of-Way Maintenance Coby Bartram, Owner 575-202-3885

2631 San Andres Dr., Las Cruces, NM 88007

bartramcoby@gmail.com

CANDY TRUJILLO Capitan, NM 575-354-2682 480-208-1410 Semen Sales AI Supplies AI Service

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Angus Cattle Rick & Maggie Hubbell Mark Hubbell

Verification Premium Opportunities Age and Source NHTC TT-AN3 TT-Grass Raised

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505-469-1215

Quemado, NM • rick@hubbellranch.net

Complete Compliant Compatible www.technitrack.com

Bulls & Heifers

John Sparks 602-989-8817 Agents Wanted

RANCH RAISED

MOUNTAIN RAISED

WINSTON, NEW MEXICO

STEEL BUILDINGS FOR SALE All steel buildings engineer certified for State of N.M.

• Commercial & Agricultural • Barns, shops, farm equipment storage • Quality and Service first…

• 25 years in business STEEL STRUCTURES UNLIMITED 505-424-7025 steelstructuresnm@gmail.com • www.steelstructuresunlimited.com

Russell Freeman • Kelly Waide & Ryan Waide

575-743-6904

Bar J Bar

HEREFORD RANCH Since 1893 • Se Hable Español

BULLS & HEIFERS – PRIVATE TREATY TEXAS / N.M. RANCH: 5 Paseo de Paz Ln., El Paso, TX 79932 Jim: 915-479-5299 • Sue: 915-549-2534 OKLA. RANCH: Woods County, OK • barjbarherefords@aol.com

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GRAU RANCH CHAROLAIS

www.olsoncattle.com

BRED FOR FERTILITY, DOCILITY, BIRTH WEIGHT, & HIGH GROWTH You Don’t Have To Be The Biggest To Be The Best

Chase & Justine Skaarer 520-260-3283 Willcox, Arizona

HEIFERS & BULLS FOR SALE 575-760-7304

STEVE & GINGER OLSON WESLEY GRAU www.grauranch.com

Hereford, TX | (806) 676-3556 Steve@olsoncattle.com

RED ANGUS

Bulls & Replacement Heifers 575-659-9202 2022 N. Turner, Hobbs, NM 88240

www.lazy-d-redangus.com

Bradley 3 Ranch Ltd. 200 Angus Bulls 90+ Charolais Bulls

Annual Bull Sale February 8, 2025 at the Ranch NE of Estelline, TX M.L. Bradley, Cell: 940/585-1062

www.bradley3ranch.com

McPHERSON HEIFER BULLS

Casey

BEEFMASTERS seventy-five years !

— 2nd Oldest Beefmaster Herd — — Highest IMF Herd in the Breed — — Most Fertile Herd in the Breed — — Closed Herd Since 1967 — CaseyBeefmasters.com Watt, Jr. 325/668-1373

Functional Cattle Sold PVT Treaty Muscled Virgin Bulls-CSS Semen

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Maternal, Moderate Thick & Easy Fleshing Reliable Calving Ease THE GARDNER FAMILY Bill Gardner 505-705-2856

www.manzanoangus.com

 ½ Corriente, ½ Angus bulls.

All Solid Black Virgins ½ Corriente, ½ Angus Bred Heifers & Young Pairs Solid Black Matt • 806/292-1035 Steve • 806/292-1039 Lockney, Texas • Claude, Texas Columbus, New Mexico

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TO LIST YOUR HERD HERE CONTACT CHRIS@AAALIVESTOCK.COM OR 505-243-9515, x.28

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Charolais & Angus Bulls

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

719/456 -1149 34125 Rd. 20, McClave, CO robbherefords@gmail.com

2-Year Old Reg. Limousin Bulls Proven Genetics, range ready!

- Selling over 250+ head annually

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Running Creek Ranch

THOMPSON RANCH ANGUS BULLS AND HEIFERS REGISTERED & COMMERCIAL RANGE ACCLIMATED

Reg. Herefords, Salers & Optimizers

Private Treaty BULL SALE La Junta Livestock – La Junta, CO

CLINTON CLARK 32190 Co. Rd. S., Karval, CO 80823 719-446-5223 • 719-892-0160 Cell cathikclark@gmail.com www.ClarkAnvilRanch.com JOE FREUND 303-341-9311 JOEY FREUND 303-475-6062

WWW.THOMPSONRANCH.NET MOUNTAINAIR, NEW MEXICO RANCH: 575-423-3313 • CELL: 505-818-7284

PAT KELLEY 303-840-1848

Bulls & Heifers

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FOR SALE AT THE FARM

Registered Polled Herefords

MANUEL SALAZAR 136 County Road 194 Cañones, NM 87516 usa.ranch@yahoo.com PHONE: 575-638-5434

T. Lane Grau – 575.760.6336 – tlgrau@hotmail.com Colten Grau – 575.760.4510 – colten_g@hotmail.com 1680 CR 37 Grady, New Mexico 88120 MAY 2024

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PASTURE OR RANCH LEASE NEEDED REAL ESTATE GUIDE

Lost cattle, pasture, and improvements in wildfires Need a home for 800 Head or Less Bred Heifers and Cows. Easy care, no calves only adult cattle, and Cake broke.

Currie Smith 806-674-6366 or currie@acsmith.com

THE SAND CAMP RANCH (PRICE REDUCED) The Sand Camp Ranch is a quality

desert ranch with an excellent grass cover and above average improvements. Located in southern Chaves County east of the productive Pecos River Valley. The ranch is comprised of 2,380 +/- deeded acres, 6,074 NM State Lease Acres, 23,653 Federal BLM Lease Acres and 480 acres Uncontrolled, 32,107 +/- total acres (50.17 Sections). Grazing Capacity set by a Section 3 BLM grazing permit at 405 Animal Units Yearlong. The ranch is watered by five primary wells and an extensive pipeline system. This ranch is ready to go, no deferred maintenance. Price: $3,672,000. This one of the better ranches in the area. It is nicely improved and well-watered. You won’t find anything comparable for the price. Call or email for a brochure and an appointment to come take a look.

EIGHT MILE DRAW LAND 740 ± Acres of unimproved native grassland

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located four miles west of Roswell in the Six Mile Hill area with frontage along U.S. Highway 70/380. This parcel is fenced on three sides and adjoins 120 acres of additional land that may be purchased. Great investment. $600 per acre.

Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Bar M Real Estate, LLC P.O. Box 428, Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 Cell: 575-420-1237 Website: www.ranchesnm.com

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Ben G. Scott – Broker Krystal M. Nelson – NM QB 800-933-9698 5:00 a.m./10:00 p.m.

RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE We need listings on all types of ag properties large or small!

■ HEART OF CATTLE COUNTRY – Clayton, NM area – 8,858.63+/- Deeded, 1,003.34+/- Leased purchased acres, 160+/- ac. State Lease, watered by a large spring, numerous wells & pipeline w/a large income stream from CO2 production, new grasslands CRP program, wind lease & possibility of carbon sequestering income in addition to income from livestock production & hunting.

■ CONSIDER TRADE FOR HOME IN THE AMARIILO, TEXAS AREA – Clayton, NM area – 80 acres deeded w/large, nice mobile home in good condition, secluded yet accessible in Harding Co., NM. ■ PRICE REDUCED! YESO EAST RANCH – De Baca Co., NM - Hwy. 60 frontage. 6,307± deeded, 1,556± State Lease and 40± uncontrolled acres. Terrain is gently rolling with good grass and is divided into three pastures. Wildlife includes antelope, some mule deer, quail, etc. The ranch has good improvements (including home) convenient access and has been well managed.

■ UNION CO., NM – Just out of Clayton, NM, 2 sections +/- located on pvmt. complete with two ½ mile +/- sprinklers & irrigation wells w/an addtl. large feedyard & one section of land irrigated by four ¼ mile sprinklers & irrigation wells. Two sections or the feedyard w/irrigated section can be purchased together or separately.

■ VAUGHAN RIVER RANCH – 11,628.76 ac. +/- deeded - a scenic, live water ranch on the Pecos River south of Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. Excellent example of a southwestern cattle ranch with wildlife to boot all within minutes of the convenience of town. Call us to take a look!

■ UNION CO., NM – This 1,966 +/- acre ranch located just south of Clayton, New Mexico is in some of the most soughtafter grazing land in the Continental U.S.A. The ranch will be excellent for a yearling operation, with high quality grass, good fences and water.

■ KB RANCH - Kenney Co., TX – KB Ranch is a low fenced 802 +/- acre property that is surrounded by large ranches. The ranch has abundant whitetail and is also populated with turkey, dove, quail, hogs and varmint species. Axis are in the area and have been occasionally seen. The ranch lies approximately 9 miles south of Bracketville on TX 131 and is accessed by all weather Standart Road.

■ COLFAX COUNTY NM GETAWAY – 1,482.90 ac.+/grassland (1,193.59 ac. +/- Deeded, 289.31 ac. State Lease), great location near all types of mountain recreation.

■ ANGUS, NM – 250 +/- acres with over a 1/2 mile of NM 48 frontage. Elevations from 6,800 to 7,200 feet. Two springs along a creek. Ideal for future development or build your own getaway home.

■ GREER CO., OK – Choice 480 ac. tract of choice farmland located just south & east Mangum, OK. Please call for details!

■ UNION COUNTY, NEW MEXICO – CLAYTON, NM. – 44 acres located approx.. 2 miles south of Clayton, NM on Hwy 87 on the East side of the highway. This property has about ½ mile of highway frontage and would be great for residential housing, commercial development or addtl. RV development (adjoins the 16.75 ac. RV park).

the BRAND that sells the LAND. THE 44 BAR RANCH SUBSTANITAL WATER RIGHTS CATTLE, ELK, MULE DEER, ANTELOPE 18,601± TOTAL ACRES - 6,750± DEEDED ACRES SIERRA COUNTY, NM - $7,850,000

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Brad DeSpain 520-429-2806 Paul Ramirez 520-241-3333

RANCHES/FARMS *AUCTION* 472+/-Acre Organic Apple Orchard offered in 5 Tracts Tract 1 – 158+/- Acre with approximately 131 ac of trees, 24,075+/- s.f. of apple processing facilities, cold storage, retail center, two homes, & wells.

Tract 2 – Spacious 3 BR, 2 Bath residence on 1.7+/- Acre Tract 3 – 6 6+/- Acre with approximately 59 acre of trees, and new well.

Tract 4 – 145 +/- Acre, with approximately 125 acre of trees, mfg home, and well.

Tract 5 – 100+/- Acre, with approximately 96 acre of trees and well.

Auction to be held April 4, 2024, Online and live. Don’t miss the opportunity to own all or part of this great property.

Contact Paul Ramirez for auction details and Harry Owens for property details.

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*NEW* Farm - Apache Grove, AZ – 335+/- total acres along the scenic Gila River. 120+/acres of decreed water rights.

Pivot and pastures planted in Bermuda. Owner runs 150 head. One bedroom apartment over garage/office, 30’ x 150’steel barn, plus smaller steel barn, shop/feed room/ tack room, excellent corrals, with squeeze chute, calf table and scale. Must see! $2.5M

*REDUCED* 1883.45+/Acres, McNeal, AZ – Frontier Roads. Good access, 2 registered wells, dirt tanks, fully fenced.

Current owner runs 80+/- head seasonally $941,725 Reduced to $847,552 Call Paul Ramirez 520-241-3333.

150+/- Acre Farm, Willcox, AZ – 120 Acre full circle pivot with two wells. Ideal location for hay, pecans, pistachios, wine grape cultivation or other crops. Good water, productive soil. Convenient access to I-10. $525,000 *PENDING* 305+/- Acres of Land on Ash Creek Pearce, AZ – Excellent potential for agricultural development, qualifies for organic farming, cleared of Mesquites in 2010, good prospect for pecans, wine grapes, corn, cotton, hay. FAA approved landing strip, two domestic wells, fenced and cross fenced. Ask about the solar options available with this property. $457,000 *SOLD* 98+/- Deeded Acre Farm, Bonita, AZ – Great farm in a picture-perfect setting! Two small pivots with 35 acres of water rights. 3 BR, 2 BA Shultz mfg home; 3-sided hay/machine shed, 1,560+/- s.f. shop, hay shed, Connex box, nice set of guardrail and steel corrals with crowding tub, squeeze and scale. 250 gpm irrigation

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well with 20 HP motor and 13,500+/- gallons of storage.

Runs about 40 head of cattle. $750,000 *SOLD* 200-300 Head Cattle Ranch, Marana, AZ – 112.8 +/- Deeded ac; 150+/- ac of pasture, 3,700+/- ac of sublease, 14 +/- ac of farm fields, HQ on State Land. 2nd mfg home on deeded. 2 sets of good steel pipe corrals $1.9M

www.chassmiddleton.com 5016 122nd STREET LUBBOCK, TEXAS 79424 • 806-763-5331 Sam Middleton 817-304-0504 • Charlie Middleton 806-786-0313 Jim Welles 505-967-6562 • Dwain Nunez 505-263-7868

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HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *SOLD*ONLINE AUCTION, Pearce, AZ - Four offerings located in the grasslands at the foot of the beautiful Dragoon Mountains. Sold prior to Auction Lot 1 featured stunning, custom 3 BD, 2 BA territorial style home on 5.5 +/-. Sold Prior to Auction Lots 3, and 4 included 3 vacant, 1+ acre land parcels for a total of 3+/- acres each. Sold at Auction Lot 2 – 3- 1+/- acre lots for a total of 3+/- acres.

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0.14+/- Acre Building Lot, Maricopa, AZ – A great opportunity to own a corner lot in the desirable community of Tortosa.

Ideal for a small builder or buyer wishing to build their dream custom home. One of only two lots available in the area, the other lot is adjoining this one. Utilities to the lot, back block wall in place. $110,000

Riding for the brand … is our time-honored tradition StockmensRealty.com I UCstockmensrealty.com *Each United Country Franchise office is independently owned and operated.

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■ BERRENDA CREEK RANCH — 231 AYL, 51± section cattle ranch — Hillsboro, NM. 32,870± total acres, 120± deeded acres, 23,646± acres of BLM, 9104± acres of NM state land, 12 wells, 9 dirt tanks, 1 spring, 3 pastures, 165,000 gallons of water storage.

Priced at $1,432,200 ■ SMITH RANCH — 19.28± section cattle ranch plus 335± acre farm located in Road Forks, N.M. The ranch has 12,343± total acres, 3721± deeded, 2400± acres of NM state land, 6222± acres of BLM, 154 AYL headquarters has mnfctrd homes, shed row barns (equipment/commodity storage), corrals, cattle chute. The north farm has 163± acres (149 +/- is fallow), the south farm has 173± acres, seller retains a “life estate”. Ranch has been in the same family since 1905. Priced at $2,300,000

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■ CAPROCK MOUNTAIN/VAN METER RANCHES Lordsburg, NM 546 AYL cowcalf operation consists of two adjoining BLM allotments totaling 75 +/- Sections 48,178 +/Total acres 3,445 +/- deeded acres 34,452 +/acres of BLM, 10,281 +/- acres of state land the carrying capacity is 546 AYL plus 5 horses w/ two separate headquarters w/barns & corrals, facilities included, silencer cattle chute, scales, semi-load chute & multiple pens with feed bunks, 40’ x 60’ barn plus a commodity barn 9 wells; 5 electric submersibles, 3 solar wells, one windmill, one spring & 12 dirt tanks, 100,000 gallons of water storage 26 miles of pipeline that connects to each well 12 pastures & 5 traps, 5 sets of working corrals strategically placed on the ranches. Black Angus & black baldy running age cows, Angus bulls, bred replacement heifers & equipment was negotiated. Sale Price Undisclosed.

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Tamra S. Kelly, Broker (928) 830-9127 tamra@aglandssw.com Check out our website!

www.aglandssw.com

REDUCED!!Double U Ranch in Tombstone, Arizona – The historic Double U Ranch located at the foothills of the scenic Dragoon Mountains near Tombstone, Arizona in Cochise County.

The Double U Ranch consists of 6,315 contiguous acres of deeded land and a 2,320 acre Arizona State Land grazing lease. With incredibly beautiful views and vistas, this working cattle ranch has excellent feed, plentiful water and gentle terrain with good fences, roads and range improvements. The Double U is easy to manage resulting in a profitable operation on one of the largest contiguous deeded land parcels in the state of Arizona. Exterior fences are locked, limiting access and protecting the livestock operation while creating excellent mule deer and white tail deer habitat unspoiled by public impacts. In addition to other small game species, remarkably all three types of quail, (Gambel, Mearnes and Scaled) are plentiful on the ranch.

Offered at $9.2 million, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own a working cattle ranch on one of the largest remaining contiguous acres of private land in the rapidly growing State of Arizona.

SOLD! – FX Ranch in Dewey, Arizona – With a carrying capacity of 250 CYL, the FX offers an opportunity to raise quality cattle close to all amenities and near the desirable communities of Prescott and Sedona. The headquarters parcel consists of over 12 acres with a beautiful log home, a managers house, a barn and corrals. Located south of Dewey-Humboldt on Highway 69 the headquarters is approximately 20 miles from downtown Prescott and 40 miles from Sedona. The headquarters enjoys a four season, mild climate at 4500 feet in elevation. Cattle and brand included. $2,690,000 !RK Ranch in Prescott, Arizona – The RK Ranch is a smaller working cattle ranch located approximately 25 miles north of Prescott, Arizona. The ranch is currently carrying 25 CYL. The RK Ranch encompasses approximately +/-6,736 total grazing acres supporting up to 45 CYL. With 110 deeded acres surrounded by USFS this little ranch is truly a gem of a gentleman’s ranch.

Equipment and cattle included. $2,200,000

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!Randall Ranch in Ash Fork, Arizona – This well watered, working cattle ranch includes 85.88 deeded, non-contiguous acres, 5,749 leased acres from the State of Arizona and 12,000 acres of adverse grazing. The current owner operates a cow-calf operation. The ranch historically runs 250 mother cows producing high quality Angus calves with weaning weights between 500 to 550 pounds. Cattle available! $1,250,000 !Broken Horn D Ranch in Prescott, Arizona – The Broken Horn D Ranch provides a unique turnkey opportunity to own a remarkable cattle ranch/ beef business property nestled in the picturesque Williamson Valley, Arizona. This distinctive offering is the perfect balance between seclusion and accessibility. With 77 acres of deeded land including 50 acres irrigated pasture, state and private leases this ranch runs 130-180 cattle. Equipment and cattle included. $3,389,000 UNDER CONTRACT! Triangle C Ranch in Reserve, New Mexico – This working cattle ranch is located east of Reserve, New Mexico in prime grazing lands.

Carrying 625 CYL the ranch is located in gentle, rolling grasslands consisting of 2,320 +/- deeded acres, a private lease and a 25,055 acre BLM grazing allotment. Many improvements including two homes, bunk house, hangar, air strip, large shops and working facilities. $4,895,000 UNDER CONTRACT! Cottonwood Springs Ranch in Red Rock, New Mexico – The Cottonwood Springs is a beautiful, high desert working cattle ranch located approximately 28 miles north of Lordsburg, New Mexico in Grant County. With a carrying capacity of +/-250 CYL, the ranch is well improved with two homes, shop, corrals, interior and exterior fences, working cattle facilities and exceptional water improvements. $2,550,000 SOLD! Partridge Creek Ranch in Ash Fork, Arizona – 85,000+\- acres of strong grazing allowing for 800 animal units year round. 420 acres of deeded land, 480 Arizona state lease, remainder secured by deeded grazing rights. $4,200,000 MAY 2024

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DOUBLE BAR R RANCH, NOGALES, AZ — 110 deeded, w/12,224 NF Grazing land, runs 380 yearlong, Great improvements, high rain area. Priced at $3,500,000

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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 I have many qualified Buyers looking for Ranches. Give me a call Patronize Our Advertisers

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Sam Hubbell, Qualifying Broker 520-609-2546

O’NEILL LAND, llc P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714 • 575/376-2341 • Fax: 575/376-2347 land@swranches.com • www.swranches.com

MAXWELL FARM, 140+/- deeded acres with 103.75 +/- irrigable acres of Class A water shares.

Property has a domestic water meter also utilized for livestock.

Currently a flood irrigation system but would suit installing a pivot. Property is bounded on the south with SHW 505 and the west with Rufuge Rd, on the east with the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge. $320,000

CONTRACT PENDING

MIAMI DREAM, 14.70 +/deeded acres. Approx 1,583 sq ft 2 bedroom 1 bath home. Real country living with barn wood siding, porches, recent remodel for remote workspace. Irrigation and horse facilities, 57 Wampler St., Miami, NM $370,000 $345,000

BAR LAZY 7 RANCH, Colfax County, Moreno Valley 594.38 +/- deeded acres, accessed off blacktop between Eagle Nest and Angel Fire. Historic headquarters.

Currently used as summer grazing, pond and trees accessed off

county road on rear of property as well. Presented “ASIS” New Survey, $4,000,000 $3,800,000 SPRINGER VIEW, 29.70 +/deeded acres. Large house being remodeled, shop, trees, old irrigation pond. All back off highway with great southern aspect. 311 Hwy 56, Colfax County. $209,000 $205,000

CONTRACT PENDING

MAXWELL, 408.90 +/- Deeded Acres. 143.05 Irrigable Acres/ Shares with TL pivot covering approximately 80 acres, with balance dry land. Property has one water meter used for livestock, but could support a home as well. There are two troughs located in the middle of the property.

Electricity for pivot is back toward the middle of the property as well.

Property has highway frontage on NM 505 and Highline Rd, a County Rd. Back up to Maxwell Wildlife area. Colfax County, NM.$599,000

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SPECIALIZING IN FARMS, RANCHES AND LUXURY HOMES

9300 N Knowles Rd. Hobbs, NM

This incredible farm and ranch property is a unique gem with custom updates and luxurious amenities. This customupdated home includes a kitchen with granite countertops, a large island, double ovens, a gas cooktop, custom cabinetry with its open floor concept, and custom cabinetry and lighting throughout the house. And if this wasn’t enough, there’s also a newly renovated apartment for your family or guests to enjoy!

This farm and ranch property is convenient and practical, with multiple barns and outbuildings. You’ll also have access to an irrigation pivot system, approximately 47.8 acres of water rights, and around 13.5 acres of pecan trees. Don’t miss this once-in-alifetime opportunity to own a truly remarkable property!

M ORE HUST L E , L E SS HAS S L E RUIDOSO — 575-258-8656 • FT. SUMNER — 575-355-2855 OUR BROKERS: Ashley White (505) 360- 9819

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Keli Cox • 575-937-4616 Nick Cortese • 575-760-3818 Kelly Sparks • 575-760-9214 Rye Richardson • 575-430-0777

Jymmy Kay Cox • 512-921-8877 Donda Richardson • 575-937-1056 Jackie Higgins • 806-787-5814 Jenna Lawrence• 575-937-8849 Dixie Brown • 575-937-1049

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“Rapid traceability in a disease outbreak will not only limit how long farms are quarantined, keep more animals from getting sick, and help ranchers and farmers get back to selling their products more quickly – but will help keep our markets open,” said Dr. Michael Watson, APHIS Administrator.

One of the most significant benefits of the rule for farmers and ranchers will be the enhanced ability of the United States to limit impacts of animal disease outbreaks to certain regions, which is the key to maintaining our foreign markets.

By being able to readily prove disease-free status in non-affected regions of the United States, we will be able to request foreign trading partners recognize disease-free regions or zones instead of cutting off trade for the entire country.

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Mexico. The New Mexico Federal Westerman addressed those assembled Lands Council (NMFLC) works to address on many issues facing his Committee includthem. ing consideration of Endangered Species Act At our April meeting in Socorro we were revisions, the Bureau of Land Management pleased to be joined by former Congress- Final Conservation Health Rule that had woman Yvette Herrell, and via zoom by U.S. been released just prior to the meeting, monHouse of Representatives Committee on ument designations, US Forest Service

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(USFS) cattle slaughter in the Gila National Forest, Wild & Scenic Rivers and more.

The NMFLC briefed the Chairman on additional issues facing federal lands users in New Mexico. Those included the fact that the cause of the 2022 Black Fire in the Gila has never been disclosed. The fire burned well over 300,000 acres. Floods following the fire destroyed land well beyond the scope of the fire. The NMFLC will be requesting an investigation of the origin of the fire and the dispersal of funds to non-governmental organizations for rehabilitation.

An additional issue discussed at the meeting and with the Chairman was the notice from the Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) that range riders are sought to gather stray cattle. Ranchers in the area report that the VCNP has taken down border fences that keep the cattle out of the Preserve.

Russell Johnson, Deming, gave a presentation on the proposed monument designations and the group passed a resolution in support of the effort to stop the designations.

The Gila National Forest will be celebrating the 100 years of Wilderness in June in Silver City. The NMFLC will share a booth with the Grant County Soil & Water Conservation District.

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ia Castagnetto is a senior at Magdalena High School where she is winding down a season in her life that defines her unstoppable determination in spite of significant setbacks and challenges. Her July 5th birthdate perhaps explains the firecracker within this petite 17-year-old.

Growing up in youth rodeo competitions, she always loved barrels the most, but found she was also good at poles, so when she got to high school rodeo, she kept that as a second event. A knee injury kept her from goat tying. Mia finished her junior year 7th in the NMHSRA barrel racing standings, after qualifying in the top 10 at the State Finals and making the short-go. As a sophomore, she had qualified for the National High School Rodeo Finals in barrels but fell just short of making a return trip.

Calling Lemitar, home, Mia has been a member of FFA and a livestock exhibitor since the 8th grade. She started out with hogs

and goats and then moved on to lambs and steers. “I’ve showed rabbits and chickens, I’ve done it all,” she laughs. Last year was her final in the showring, finishing after many project hours with two steers, a lamb, three goats and three hogs. Projects start early in the year during rodeo season so juggling school, livestock projects, arena practice and enough daylight hours is always the challenge.

“Last summer, I won Grand Champion with one steer named Whisper.” She also received the buckle for Champion Homebred Goat, who was nameless. “One year I named all my animals and I got too attached, so I stopped naming them. My steer this year was the only one with a name,” she explained.

Mia’s rodeo life took a hard turn last summer when she lost her amazing black mare, Royal. She had run Royal since her 8th grade year. “When we got her, she still needed some training, so my mom worked with her first. My freshman year is when we

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really clicked,” Mia said. They were a solid team through the end of Mia’s junior year but Royal had injured a knee that would ultimately require surgery.

In July, she lost Royal post-surgery while she was still in recovery. The devastation of that loss still brings Mia to tears, but like a true competitor, she climbed on her back-up horse, Moonshine, and rodeoed through this past fall. Her other horse, a chestnut mare Latte, will get the call for her first spring rodeo at Lovington. “She’s a lot like Royal was, that’s the reason that I click with her.

She has a lot of power and will,” she said. “It’s still hard, but I am excited.”

“My mom has played a major part in my rodeo career,” Mia says of Heather Castagnetto. “She’s the one that brought horses into my life and taught me everything I know.”

Mia’s older sister Savannah also rodeoed for a couple years along with Mia until graduating. Her younger brother Daymen (also her dad’s name) is a 7th grader, livestock exhibitor and is learning to rope.

Savannah says Mia is determined and stubborn in a good way. “She refuses to let anything affect her when she has set in her sights on something. She doesn’t get too far into her head. She’s a very compassionate person that loves animals, loves helping. She has a really soft heart.”

Mia, although spending her senior year in all honor classes, says she is not a “school person.” She thinks she’s headed to college after high school for a business or radiology degree, but still hasn’t decided if she’ll college rodeo. She has no shortage of work ethic, currently employed at three part-time jobs around her school and rodeo schedule.

Giving a nod to her “other rodeo moms,” Brenda Cain, Sage Faulkner and Jaclyn Greenwood-Martinez, she says her favorite part of the sport of rodeo is, “the friends and family that come along with it. It’s one big family.”

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te Lake State Park, in Northeastern New Mexico just west of Logan, will be the site for the 14th Annual Ute Lake Camp Meeting, May 29th through June 1, 2024 The annual Camp is located three miles west of Logan on highway 540 S. Loop in the State Park. The Camp theme is “That they might be with Him!” The Ute Lake Camp Meeting evolved from the legacy of the Mesa Redondo Cowboy Camp Meeting which began in 1978 and met for 19 years on the BOWEFARMER ranch, located south of Tucumcari, then relocated to Curry Co. Fairgrounds in 1997. Then the meeting met for ten years at Ned Hauk Park North of Clovis. Camp was inactive for 2008 and 2009. 2010 saw the Camp name and location changed to Ute Lake Camp Meeting.

Daily Schedule is as follows: Coffee available at the “Snack Shack” 6am Breakfast 7am Discipleship 9:30am Morning Worship 10:45 am Lunch 12:30 pm Prayer time 4:30pm Supper 5:30pm Evening Worship 7pm “Campfire Fellowship” after evening Service till 10 pm

tales. Music and Worship leader is James Golden, Farmington. Pat Scarth will lead discipleship. The Youth Pastor who will provide daily activities for youth in grades 6th through 12th will be announced. The children’s ministry will be led by Destanee Scioli for 4yr. olds through 5th grade in the Children’s Tent for their services during adult services at 9:30am, 10:45am, and 7pm.

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NMRA State Secretary Janice Aragon

by Julie Carter

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or the better part of 20 years, Janice Aragon has served as the New Mexico Rodeo Association’s (NMRA) State Secretary. This is her final season with the association as she is retiring after this year’s State Finals in October.

Janice moved to New Mexico from her home state of Montana where she met Dave Aragon while he was attending college in Dillion, Montana on a wrestling scholarship.

Dave was from Belen so after they married, they moved to Silver City where Dave had a job and Janice finished school.

It was after marrying Dave that Janice first started rodeoing. Her background was only that she had ridden and competed in 4-H timed events as a child. She already had plenty of athletic ability, having been a sought-after track star in Montana including ending up 4th in the nation in the quarter mile. Janice said her competitive nature and athleticism was based on knowing “you didn’t have to be the best, you just had to have a brain and a work ethic.”

This kind, savvy gal put in plenty of rodeo area time long before she took up keeping the books for NMRA. She has been a breakaway roper, team roper, barrel racer and hazed steers for her steer wrestling sons when they high school rodeoed.

She’s left-handed and at the request of Dave, she had to learn to rope right-handed so she didn’t “mess up the calf roping horses.”

Her rodeo career’s longevity led to her competing at four Senior National Barrel Races.

Dave and Janice raised two sons, Jake (Chief Credit Officer of Legacy Farm Credit) and C.J. (Rodeo Coach at Sul Ross State University). When Janice and Dave both retired from teaching in New Mexico, they decided to follow their sons to Texas so they would be closer to their families, especially the three grandkids (Jake’s two boys Jaden and Jaxon and C.J.’s daughter Lauren) Sadly, after 49+ years of marriage, Dave passed away in 2021.

When Janice first took the reins of the NMRA office in 2004, she filled both the State Secretary and Central Entry Secretary positions. She did that for seven to eight years along with working a full-time job.

“It was a lot,” she said, “But it actually made sense. You knew who the members were, you knew the contractors, the commit-

tees. So much easier to keep track of things.

But I was glad when they hired someone for the Central Entry job.” She has worked for six different NMRA presidents over the past two decades.

With her hands-on connection to regional rodeo in New Mexico, Janice has some candid opinions about what has changed in rodeo and the NMRA. “The biggest, it’s hard for the association and the committees right now in New Mexico to get sponsorships. Youth and standalone specialty events have expanded so much, if sponsors have to make a choice, they’ll help the kids. There is only so much money to go around.” An echoing lament is how hard Covid hurt rodeo. “So many that used to support rodeo either went out of business, or were forced into serious financial situations, where they just can’t help now,” Janice said.

Janice taught Kindergarten and College (“about the same thing,” she said with a laugh) and many grades in between, along with art, special ed, shop, and coached volleyball. She has a Master’s in Reading and Literacy and worked as a Reading Coach to teachers. She also has a degree in art which led to her hobbies of making blue jean quilts, stained glass wall hangings (rodeo events)

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and many other creative endeavors.

“I’m going to miss the people and the connections I had with everyone in the NMRA,” she said. “But I have some purpose in life now in another direction. I have one bang-up barrel horse waiting for me to get my knees heeled up and my granddaughter in Alpine, Lauren, 9, is competing in rodeo. I plan to be her number one cheerleader.”

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Aero Tech, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Ag Lands Southwest . . . . . . . .55 AgTrust Farm Credit . . . . . . . . . 2 American Heritage Bank / Colten Grau . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Antonio & Molly Mazanares . . . 29 B&R Construction . . . . . . . . . .48 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Bar J Bar Herefords . . . . . . 17, 49 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . 52, 57 Beaverhead Outdoors . . . . . . .53 Bill King Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 BJM Sales & Service Inc. . . . . . .49 Border Tank Resources . . . . . . .39 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. . . . . . . . .50 Brinks Brangus / Westall Ranch, . . . . . . . . 11, 51 Bronson Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Brownfield Ranch & Farm . . . . .54 Brushmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Carter Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Carter’s Custom Cuts . . . . . . . .68 Casey Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . 50 Cattlegrowers Foundation . . . . 62 Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction . . 32 Cauthorn & Griffin Insurance . . . .3 Caviness Packing Co., Inc . . . . .26 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . 54 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . . . . . .51 Clovis Livestock Auction . . . . . 25 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . .49

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Dairy Producers of NM . . . . . . .33 David & Joan Kincaid . . . . . . . .29 Debbie Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Denton Photography . . . . . . . 47 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . . . . .48 Diamond Seven Angus . . . . . . 50 Domenici Law Firm, PC . . . . . . 48

Express Scales Services . . . . . . 63

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Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . 24 FBFS / Larry Marshall . . . . . 21, 46 FBFS / Monte Anderson . . . . . .45 Five States Livestock Auction . .35 4 Rivers Equipment . . . . . . . . . .9 Genex / Candy Trujillo . . . . . . .49 Grau Charolais . . . . . . . . . 13, 51 Grau Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 71 Hall & Gnakowski . . . . . . . . . .29 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . .48 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Henard Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Hi-Pro Feeds / Sendero . . . . . . . 7 High Plains Ranchers & Breeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .49

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Hudson Livestock Supplements . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . .70 J & J Auctioneers . . . . . . . . . . 12 James Sammons III . . . . . . . . .57 JaNeil Anderson . . . . . . . . . . .68 Jemez Springs . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment . . . . . . . . . 48 L & H Manufacturing . . . . . . . .49 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . .50 Lazy J&G Sales . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Lonestar Stockyards, LLC . . . . . 42 Lyssy & Eckel Feeds . . . . . . . . .70 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . .50 McKenzie Land & Livestock . . . .15 McPherson Heifer Bulls . . . . . . 50 Mesa Feed Products . . . . . . . . 64 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . 27, 48 Mike Casabonne Family . . . . . .29 Monfette Construction Co. . . . .48 National Animal Interest . . . . . 44 NM Federal Lands Council . . . . 60 NM Purina Dealers . . . . . . . . . 72 NM Wool Growers . . . . . . . . . .28 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 34

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O’Neill Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Olson Land and Cattle . . . . . . .50 Pasture or Ranch Lease Wanted . 52 Pat Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Paul McGillard / Murney Assoc. . 58 Perez Cattle Company . . . . . . .49 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Punchy Cattle Company . . . 39, 45 Red Doc Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Republic Ranches, LLC . . . . . . .57 Rio Grande Scales & Equip. 48, 61 Roswell Lvsk & Farm Supply . . . 29 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . 22 Running Creek Ranch . . . . . . . 51 Rusty’s Weigh Scales & Service . 66 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . . . . . . . 50 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Select Sires Member Coop. . . . .51 Sidwell Farm & Ranch RE, LLC . .57 Skaarer Brangus . . . . . . . . 38, 50 Sowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Steel Structures . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Suther Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 T & S Manufacturing . . . . . . . .59 TechniTrack, LLC . . . . . . . . . . .49 Terrell Land & Livestock Co. . . . 57 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Thompson Ranch . . . . . . . 51, 66 Tom Robb & Sons . . . . . . . . . .51 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 United Country Real Estate . . . 54 United Fiberglass, Inc. . . . . . . .36 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Verde Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . 56 Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . . . . . . .48 W&W Fiberglass Tank Co. . . . . .65 Walking Spear Land & Cattle . . . 37 West Star Herefords . . . . . . . . 49 Williams Windmill, Inc. . . . . 43, 48 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . 41 Yvette Herrell . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Zia Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . .56

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