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FEATURES­ 15 Angus: Here to Stay / by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson 18 Relevant & Getting Better / by Laura Conway 29 Carter Brangus – Managing Cattle in a Drought / by Heather Smith Thomas 42 More 2015 New Mexico State Fair Junior Winners 44

Eileen Hicks Benefit / by Curtis Fort

46 Alisa Ogden: Cattleman of the Year / by Carol Wilson 66 2015 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Registration Form 67 2015 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Program 114 Red-Headed Step Child No More / by Sharon Niederman 117 Ranchers Fight Radical ESA Lawsuit that would Criminalize Innocent Mistakes 118 Does EPA Need Guns, Ammo & Armor to Protect the Environment?

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DEPARTMENTS­ 10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter / by José Varela López, President 38

To The Point / by Caren Cowan

40 News Update 61 N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle 93 In Memoriam 101 Seedstock Guide 104 Market Place 106 Real Estate Guide 112 Farm Bureau Minute / by Mike White, President, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau 119 On The Edge of Common Sense / by Baxter Black 120 New Mexico’s Old Time & Old Timers / by Don Bullis 121 N.M. Federal Lands Council News / by Frank DuBois 124 My Cowboy Heroes / by Jim Olson 126 View from the Backside / by Barry Denton 127 NMBC Bullhorn 129 Ad Index

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by José Varela López

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Dear Fellow Members and Industry Supporters,

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he Mexican gray wolf made the news once again last month when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) sent a letter to New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Director Alexa Sandoval. The letter, signed by FWS Director Dan Ashe, states that the denial of their request for renewal of a permit to release additional wolves into New Mexico prevents them from carrying out their responsibilities under the Endangered Species Act. FWS further states it “… has concluded that it has independent legal authority, pursuant to Federal statutes and regulations, to engage in all activities regarding the reintroduction of the Mexican wolf in New Mexico.”

The FWS letter continues by adding that “Exercising this authority will allow the Service to import, export, hold and transfer Mexican wolves in the State of New Mexico; and to release Mexican wolves on federal land in New Mexico without a state permit.” So the takeaway message for me is that FWS would like for New Mexico to believe that it doesn’t have any independent authority over activities that take place within its boundaries if they are not in alignment with what the Fed wants. I hope the State does not let this federal overreach stand.

As would be expected, The Santa Fe New Mexican editorial board opined that releasing more wolves was the right thing to do, without any regard for the rights of New Mexicans to protect their property, whether it is a rancher’s livestock or the State’s wildlife.

The Albuquerque Journal also penned an editorial on this issue which was much more responsible, stating “No new recovery plan. No more wolves.”, and, “The federal government appears to be making up the program as it goes. New Mexico is right: A plan first, more wolves second.” While I don’t advocate for putting any more wolves on the ground, the Albuquerque Journal is right.

How is the Department of Game & Fish or the Game Commission supposed to carry out their statutory mandates without the benefit of an updated Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan which definitively states the goals of the program? The current plan dates all the way back to 1982 when the goal was to have 100 wolves “in the wild.” That number has now been exceeded and I have heard informally that the new goal might be 750 wolves in New Mexico and Arizona. It is completely irresponsible for the FWS to disregard the need of this State to have accurate information by which to make informed decisions. Additionally, it’s the height of hypocrisy for the FWS to posit that their non-essential wolf program trumps the rights of the State to protect the interests of its citizens. I frequently question why it is illegal for a person to steal another’s personal property but legal for the federal government to do the same by allowing their wolves to kill someone else’s livestock? I reckon that I’m just not as enlightened as the Feds are.

On a positive note, I attended a wolf meeting in Magdalena several weeks ago that was convened by the U.S. Forest Service and FWS to discuss proposed wolf release sites in the San Mateo and Datil Mountains. The positive thing was that the 40 or so ranchers refused throughout the meeting to agree that any of the proposed sites were acceptable, realizing that they would all be negatively impacted sooner or later.

Sherry Barrett, FWS Mexican Wolf Recovery Coordinator, at one point said that there were millions of Americans who were in favor of the wolf reintroduction program. One of the ranchers retorted that these people are not being impacted by wolves and suggested that FWS release wolves into Central Park in New York City to see if these people wouldn’t have a change of mind. Another rancher passionately implored the others to stand together and not be defeated by the federal juggernaut. As I left the meeting I reflected on how difficult it had to be for these ranchers to have stood there defending their property, livelihoods, families and communities, and having done so in a respectful manner.

With December just around the corner, I’d like to invite you to attend the Joint Stockmen’s Convention in Albuquerque on December 3rd through 5th. We’ll be discussing wolves and many other issues of interest to the greater livestock producing community. We have some great speakers lined up and we’ll have some fun too. Don’t miss out on the largest annual agricultural event in New Mexico.

I hope to see you there.

Hasta pronto,

José Varela López

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he popularity of Angus cattle is not hard to understand. The gentle black cattle are good mothers, easy keepers, and their beef is hard to beat. Those traits, along with a strong national association focused on marketing and performance, are a powerful combination.

The breed was developed in England and Scotland, and first imported into the United States in 1873. At the time, both their black color and the fact that they were naturally polled were very different than most cattle in the United States, and it took people some time to adjust. Through crossbreeding, and the later growth of purebred herds, the cattle proved their worth. Today, the American Angus Association is the largest breed registry in the United States.

Both purebred and commercial cattle producers like the Angus’ maternal traits, gentle disposition, and the quality of the calves they wean at the end of the season.

Cattle buyers also like the calves’ disposition – as well as their natural hardiness and quick weight gain. And beef consumers, looking for a quality product to feed their families, are satisfied with the taste and quality of the end product.

With demand constant, solid genetics and a strong cattle market, it looks as if Angus cattle are here to stay.

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She also likes the breed’s adaptablilty.

“I come from northwestern Iowa, where Angus are very common,” she explained.

“When we moved here, people told us that they wouldn’t do well in this country because the elevation and the heat. Evidently, they have never experienced a hot humid summer in Iowa. The elevation of 6400 feet is no problem, either.”

Genetic profiling is nothing new in the cattle industry, but what once took years of paperwork and record keeping can now be accurately estimated and predicted with a blood test. The Brennands test all of their bulls and heifers with Zoetis HD 50K testing, which analyzes over 50,000 DNA markers.

“This test gives us, and our customers, GE-EPDS accuracy and calibration,” she explained. “As an example, on birth weight a bull’s GE-EPD accuracy equals an average of 13 calves. Growth and efficiency accuracy equals an average of seventeen progeny and maternal traits accuracy equals an average of 14 daughters, according to Dr. Kent Anderson with Zoetis.”

Along with the Zoetis HD 50K testing comes DNA sire parentage verification. If a situation ever arose about the ownership of an unbranded calf whose sire had been tested, a simple blood test would prove his identity.

Currently two companies, Zoetis and GeneSeek, do this type of testing on cattle.

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After moving to the ranch, now starting their 24th year, David and Norma tried a couple different breeds and types of cattle.

They bought their first Angus from Tom Powell in Hagerman, liked the results, and gradually developed their purebred herd.

There is a lot to like about Angus cattle, Norma noted. “They virtually have no health problems, and their docility is amazing. I can get out and walk around the cattle with no problems. They are also very easy fleshing, you very seldom see one

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THE CHOICE IS SIMPLE. Three reasons to use Angus now for long-term profitability.

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Angus calves bring more premiums.

In the good times and bad, Angus-sired calves consistently outperform the competition. The 16-year “Here’s the Premium” study from Certified Angus Beef (CAB) shows Angus calves fetch higher prices than calves of any other breed. In fact, 2014 data show Angus calves brought a combined average of nearly $7 per cwt. more than all other calves of similar size and condition.

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No other breed offers a better balance of the traits you need to stay profitable. Compared to Hereford, Red Angus, Simmental and others, Angus bulls offer significantly lower birth weight, equal or greater yearling weight and substantially higher marbling.* And all registered Angus are backed by the industry’s most reliable genetic evaluation service.

Quality is the pathway to growing beef demand.

Packers surveyed in 2013 reported paying nearly $50 million in premiums for cattle earning the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand, and consumers continue to demand quality. In fact, during the 20082009 economic downturn, CAB® consumer demand continued recordsetting growth — proof that Angus genetics capture attention at all levels of the beef production chain, even when times get tough.

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Relevant & getting better Ninth straight record sales year for CAB

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hen the original Angus beef brand stands above 138 USDA-certified others and charts a ninth successive record year, people wonder how that can be.

The recipe includes a dash of nostalgia, a large helping of credibility and a whole lot of relevance. Throw in its niche at the very top of quality and that certain “it factor,” and you have an all-but-guaranteed formula for longevity.

The Certified Angus Beef® (CAB®) brand rounded out its 37th fiscal year (FY) at the end of September 2015, still leading the beef quality movement because of that one ingredient in particular: relevance.

“We’re here to be more intentional on those things that really strengthen the brand and increase its relevance to our mission and each and every one of our partners and their customers,” says CAB President John Stika. After an 11th consecutive year of sales growth to a record 896 million pounds, 14 million more than last year, he comments, “our goal is to get better.”

That’s what it took to set records in FY 2015. In the fourth straight year with fewer eligible cattle, the brand’s 31 licensed packing plants saw a 1.1-million-head (8 percent) decline in those Angus-type cattle identified. Yet, certified carcass numbers only dropped by 1 percent. Greater utilization of each carcass (261 lb. sold compared to 250 lb. last year) produced the net sales increase of 1.6 percent.

In the face of record high cattle and beef prices tied to tight supplies, cattlemen and women showed they had built in quality and sent their best. That allowed independent graders to certify nearly 67,000 carcasses per week, totaling 3.48 million for the year, thanks to the record high CAB acceptance rate of 27.5 percent. Ten years ago that number was 14 percent.

For any group or brand to progress, each of its component parts must work in unison. Mark McCully, CAB vice president of production, credits the circular workings of supply and demand.

“Angus breeders responded to the market signals and built better-grading cattle which allowed us to grow, thus creating continued on page 20

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more demand and even bigger signals.”

Ranchers’ selection decisions and proactive management worked in concert with the feeding sector’s reaction to a market that demanded more pounds on each animal, more days on feed. In turn, CAB adjusted its hot carcass weight (HCW) specification from a cap of 999 lb. to 1,050 lb., to garner more product for end users, all without compromising the brand’s premium nature.

“The trend for increasing carcass weight is not a new phenomenon,” McCully says, but genetic improvement allowed for greater efficiency. “We found it critical to make an adjustment in our specifications to maintain relevance both to the cattlemen who are growing these larger, more efficient animals, and our licensed partners that need supply of high quality product.”

Those partners – all 17,500 of them – cater to a consumer base that holds quality in higher regard as prices climb.

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Following last year’s trend for the most growth, it built on that to sell a record 334 million pounds, up 10.6 percent over last year. While retail experienced a slight decline of 3.4 percent, it still commanded the leading share of all pounds sold at 41 percent. International sales reached a plateau of 120 million pounds. Tariffs, currency exchange rates and port labor issues contributed to a sales decline in Eastern Asia

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HALES ANGUS FARMS SALE Saturday, March 19, 2016 • 1:00 pm • Canyon, Texas

Sale will be broadcast live on Rural TV for your convenience.

Sale Offering Includes: 90 COMING TWO-YEAR-OLD & YEARLING ANGUS BULLS 40 BRED AND OPEN ANGUS HEIFERS

HALES ANGUS FARMS

27951 S. US Hwy. 87, Canyon, TX 79015 www.halesangus.com • halesangus@gmail.com • 806-488-2274 fax

RICHMOND HALES 806-488-2471 • 806-679-1919 cell

RICK HALES 806-655-3815 • 806-679-9303 cell

53 years of breeding Angus cattle...

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Quality Registered Black Angus Bulls & Females

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while Mexico, the Middle East and Central and South America grew in spite of those challenges.

Breaking the carcass down, the Value-added Products Division had its second-best year as CAB fajita meat, tri-tip and pot roast contributed to 23.5 million pounds sold, 6.3 percent more than last year. End meats led overall growth with a 2.6 percent hike, while middle meat sales were down only 2 percent, a result of record prices. CAB Prime sales set a record at more than 12 million pounds.

Fulfilling purpose

Per its design, Stika says the brand achieves its mission every day the people who raise Angus cattle realize its value.

“Because of those who have been willing to engage this brand and support us in pursuit of our mission statement, Certified Angus Beef has been allowed to become a brand of impact,” he says, “and we are in a better position today to be able to deliver on our original purpose than ever before.”

Part of that involves positioning the brand in targeted areas of influence. For example, 13.5 percent of brand sales were outside of the U.S. in FY 15. To further leverage that presence in 52 other countries and focus on a leading market region, CAB opened a Tokyo office in August.

Takayoshi Hirayama, CAB senior manager there, works to help the brand become more engaged and embedded in the Asian beef product market and consumer community.

Domestically, that impact is easy to note in those who walk through the brand’s Education & Culinary Center (ECC) doors. FY 15 saw 44 new Master’s of Brand Advantages (MBA) students graduate, and the ECC hosted 105 groups. Those were comprised of people in and outside of the beef industry, all with the goal of increasing their knowledge and understanding premium beef’s value.

Demand for hands-on education and the media tools to serve partner needs saw the year end amid construction of an expanded ECC kitchen and meat lab as well as new video and audio production rooms in the main office.

Growth can manifest itself in a number of different ways, Stika says, but relevance is the key.

“If we take the opportunity to expand our perspectives today, I assure you we will have more influence over the results n we expect to achieve tomorrow.”

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Angus, Shorthorn, LimFlex Bulls - Cows - Heifers for Sale John & Laura Conniff 1500 Snow Road, Las Cruces, NM 88005 575/644-2900 • john@conniffcattle.com Casey & Chancie Roberts Upham Road, Rincon, NM 575/644-9583 www.conniffcattle.com www.leveldale.com

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JIM & BARBARA SMITH • 575-760-4779 P.O. BOX 397, MELROSE, NEW MEXICO 88124

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eorge and Vera Curtis came to New Mexico as small children in the early 1900s. Their parents, arriving in a covered wagon, homesteaded in rural Quay County, New Mexico, on the Llano Estacado. Forrest, New Mexico, was the nearest place of commerce, a community built around a rural schoolhouse where their children of the 1920s and 1930s era received their education. George heard of the Aberdeen Angus breed, and much improved genetics that the breed was known for, and made the decision to acquire a registered Angus herd of his own. Traveling across the U.S. in search of the best genetics that money could buy turned out to be quite an adventure for Mr. Curtis but also a memorable quest for the Curtis children of the era. George Curtis and his youngest son James V. Curtis accepted the challenge of competing with the other top Angus breeders of the 40s and 50s at numerous State and regional competitions including the Denver and Ft. Worth livestock shows. When James V. Curtis (Rip) returned from his world travels, sponsored by the U. S. Air Force, with his wife, a North Carolina native and Air Force registered nurse, Thelma, the Curtis team resumed their Angus breeding venture. As cutting edge technology became available in the form of artificial insemination and embryo transplant, the Curtis family began to utilize these new tools to improve the herd focusing on the genetic traits that most needed improvement both in the industry and on the Curtis ranch. George Curtis’ passing in 1977 and his son’s passing in 1994 left the responsibility of sire selection and herd genetics to the present generation of Curtises.

Tamara, Blake and Tye Curtis still operate George Curtis, Inc. today. The Curtis family takes pride in completing three generations in the Registered Angus cattle business. Our pledge is to continue to meet our customers’ expectations of excellence. The easy calving, top gaining, moderate framed stock that the Curtis family has been known for in the past is still available today at George Curtis Inc.

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Good cow herds + performance bulls = pounds = dollars!

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102

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04/03/15

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535

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EPDs & TPR Records available on all cattle. Range-raised, rugged, rock-footed at over 7,000 ft. elevation.

Bulls & Open & Bred Females For Sale at Private Treaty at the Ranch GUARANTEED SOUND & FERTILE STEVE & DEBBIE HOOPER · 575/773-4535 · FAX 575/773-4583 · HC 32, BOX 405 RED HILL RT. , QUEMADO, NM 87829

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Carter Brangus – Managing Cattle in a Drought

by HEATHER SMITH THOMAS Reprinted courtesy of the Western Cowman

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his Brangus seedstock operation is located near Thatcher, Arizona. As a past member of the Board of Directors and past President of the International Brangus Breeders Association, Bart Carter has had experience with cattle in the southern part of the U.S. from Florida across the lower tier of states. “When you look at our operation, compared to eastern Texas, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, however, our operation is vastly different. We started our Brangus program in Arizona in 1997. We purchased some property that was irrigated pasture and wanted a few cattle to have on that pasture. An elderly gentleman I’d known most of my life had been in ranching—for many generations in his family. I called him to see if I could get some cattle and wanted him to go with me to the local livestock auction and pick up a few, and help us get started,” says Carter.

“He said to me, ‘You know, if you are

going to have cows, you could maintain really good cows for about the same price you can keep average cows.’ He thought I should consider having a registered operation and buy registered animals. I thought that was a good idea and he sold me 5 registered Brangus cows. Within a year or two he was starting to slow down his Bryce Carter, a recent NMSU graduate is gradually business—he was about taking over the reins at Carter Brangus.

83 years old at the time— and he sold me about 30 more registered cant heat tolerance and insect resistance.

In our part of the world it’s common to Brangus cows.”

“From that foundation, we developed a have daily summer temperatures of 110 small purebred registered Brangus oper- degrees. Other black cattle are not able to ation. Stumbling onto Brangus, I subse- do as well in these temperatures. There quently was able to find answers to the are many operations in Arizona that have question people ask: ‘Why Brangus?’ Those other types of black cattle but they won’t answers for us are intuitive and based on perform as well in June, July, August and the circumstances of our environment in parts of September as the animals with Bos indicus influence. By contrast the Brangus our part of the country,” Carter says.

Brangus are heat tolerant due to their do very well,” he explains.

Brangus are also insect resistant, comBos indicus influence. A Brangus cow is 5/8 Angus and 3/8 Brahman. “With that Brahman influence they have significontinued on page 30

Southwest Brangus Breeders

2016

Best in the West sale

Selling Brangus Bulls & Brangus Influenced Bred Cattle Saturday, February 13, 2016, 10 AM at Marana Stockyards, Marana AZ (20 min W. of Tucson off I-10) — Viewing Available on Friday, February 12 at the Stockyards

Cattle are range raised in Arizona, New Mexico, & California, & are drought & heat tolerant.

LIVE Bidding Available through: Cattle USA.COM ON SALE DAY For Information Contact: Dr. Bart Carter 928-348-4030; Diane Parker 520-403-1967; or Clay Parsons 520--444-7650

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n BRINKS BRANGUS Ray Westall 1818 Arabela Road, Arabela, NM Ray: 575-361-2070 / Tate (mgr):575-365-6356 nmoil@aol.com n CARTER BRANGUS Dr. Bart Carter 1017 S. 1st Avenue., Thatcher, AZ 85552 928-651-0881 Bart / 928-651-5120 Bryce (Mgr.) bjcmd@cableone.net n LACK-MORRISON BRANGUS Bill Morrison 411 CR 10., Clovis, NM 88101 575-482-3254 Home / 575-760-7263 Cell bvmorrison@yucca.net n PARKER BRANGUS Larry & Elaine Parker P.O. Box 146, San Simon, AZ 85632 520-508-3505 Larry (cell) / 520-845-2411 Office 520-508-3505 / jddiane@vtc.net n LAZY S RANCH WILLCOX, LLC Susan Wilson-Sanders 12325 East Horsehead Road, Tucson, AZ 85749 520-403-8510 / drsue@dakotacoin.net n LUNA – A – RANCH, LLC Randy Armenta 1432 South Marc Dr., Tucson, AZ 85710 520-886-3806 / 520-490-5511 randyarmenta@hotmail.com n RAY BRANGUS & LIVESTOCK Shelby or Lynne Ray 4456 N. Indian Springs, San Simon, AZ 85632 H:520-845-4488 / O: 520-507-1075 n ROBBS BRANGUS R.L. & Sally Robbs 4995 Arzberger Road., Willcox, AZ 85643 520-384-3654 Home / 520-507-2514 R.L. (cell) osonegro@powerc.net n ALMIDA LAND & CATTLE CO. David Gipe and Reuben Verner P.O. Box 286, Paulden, AZ 86334 David: 928-925-5804 / Reuben: 928-925-1507 Rverner82@yahoo.com n DESPAIN CATTLE CO. Brad and Donna DeSpain P.O. Box 475, Marana, Arizona 85653 H: 520-682-3914 / O: 520-429-2806 bridlebitranch@comcast.net n SKAARER BRANGUS Chase Skaarer 9797 E. Shamrock Lane, Pearce, AZ 85625 520-260-3283 / cskaarer@gmail.com n BOBBY VICTOR 2153 SRP, Portales, NM 88130 H: 575-477-2324 / O: 575-760-4154 n EL RANCHO ESPANOL DE CUYAMA Pam Dorian, PO Box 367, New Cuyama, CA 93254 hm./off. ph: 805-245-0434, Doiron@spanishranch.net

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pared with British cattle. “They tolerate a lot of bugs. They are also known for their excellent maternal instincts and mothering abilities. They do a great job on these big ranches, taking care of their calves on their own. In contrast, the registered Brangus operations in the Southeastern part of the country have a different situation. Here we are grazing our cattle on about 36 sections of land. A lot of our grass country is accessible only by horseback.

We may go several weeks without seeing all of our cows. We do not raise them in small acreages.”

“Our registered cattle are treated a lot like commercial cattle in that they are turned out into large tracts of country and have to calve on their own and raise that calf on their own. They have to fight mountain lions and bears, and groups of coyotes, and still bring in calves to wean every year. That’s a tough job but Brangus cows do very well in that regard,” he says.

“These cattle are hardy and surefooted and can really work the country. They are very athletic. Those are the many reasons we have continued to run Brangus cattle.

It’s a registered operation and we have a

defined breeding and calving season. The bulls go out with the cows May 1st and are brought back in August 1st, which means we’re calving from late January through April. The cows calve out on big pastures and calving season is a difficult challenge for us because we try very hard to tag those calves soon after they are born to have a known birth date and birth weight,” he says.

“Our ranch is about 50 miles away from town where we live, so one of us is headed out there about every other day for those 3 ½ months while we are calving. We are out there with field glasses and doing whatever we have to do to get our hands on those calves. That can be a big job,” says Carter.

“Most of the time it’s not too hard, however, because we work our cattle enough that they don’t try to eat our lunch. They mainly trust and respect us because we handle them a lot. Once in awhile we have a challenging cow that is exceptionally protective of her calf, and I think it’s mainly the ones that have been harassed by predators. If you try to get hold of her calf she’d like to see what’s in your back continued on page 34

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• Troy Floyd Brangus gives you quality,  and uniformity now — performance  when they are more important  than ever! 

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R.L. Robbs

.5” 1” • Consigning a2.5”good selection of 1.5” ACTUAL SIZE high-performing, rock-raised bulls 1 3/4” 1 7/8” and females to the

25TH Silver Anniversary Brangus Bull & Female Sale Roswell • Feb. 27, 2016

1” .5”

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• Brangus-sired calves consistently out perform and out sell ordinary cattle. 

520/384-3654

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4995 Arzberger Rd. Willcox, AZ 85643

in the New Mexico Stockman.

Call: 505/243-9515.

osonegro@powerc.net

Willcox, AZ

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PARKER BRANGUS 

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  

“Brangus Raised the Commercial Way”

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LARRY & ELAINE PARKER

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Joe Paul & Rosie Lack P.O. Box 274 Hatch, NM 87937 575-267-1016 Rachael Carpenter 575-644-1311

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pocket! Those are difficult. We do have to spend a lot of time out there in late winter and early spring with our calves,” he says.

“Then we round up the cattle the first part of October. We bleed all of our cows out on the ranch to pregnancy test with the blood test. We use BioPRYN for the pregnancy test and IGENITY for DNA sire identification. We run in large open pastures with several bulls so our calves all have to be DNA checked for parentage.

Then all the cows are tail bled for the pregnancy test,” Carter explains.

“The BioPRYN test was developed

by Garth Sasser (University of Idaho) in Moscow, Idaho. It’s a good test and we’ve been doing that ever since it became com-

mercially available in 2002. I have some veterinarians who are outstanding and can pregnancy check with good accuracy by palpation down to about 30 days, but I found that we were slipping a few too many membranes by palpating that early, and causing abortions in some of those early pregnancies. This is always a risk when palpating. So we went to using the blood test. It is about 98 percent accurate,” he says.

“We have a feedlot operation so we keep a lot of our heifers here in town. All of our heifers and several of our older cows are synchronized and bred AI. I really like the blood test pregnancy program because we can bleed those animals in about 28 to 30 days after the AI service and within 5 days we can do another synchronization on the open ones,” says Carter.

“We round up the cows and wean calves in October—when they are about 160 to 190 days old on average. Once we wean, we move our cows to mountain pastures for the winter. This is the opposite of other ranchers who bring their cattle down to the valleys for winter. Our mountains are malapai rocks, and those rocks hold the heat. It’s too hot up there for the cows in the summer in those rocks. In the winter those rocks hold the sun’s heat and it’s warmer and grows good grass that time of year. It makes excellent winter pasture for the cows and then they start working their way down in early January and calve out again,” he says.

“We work them out of the mountains in January and let them calve in the lower country. I measure our cows’ fertility by the percent of cows that wean calves.

It’s not enough on our ranch to just have them get pregnant and give birth to a calf.

That calf has to survive and be protected by its mother against predators. So our percent of cows that actually wean calves is something between 78 and 82 percent every year. If they were down in the fields or in controlled environments, that percentage would be higher. But out where they are, there are many things that are

out of our control and out of that cow and calf’s control,” he explains. Sometimes it’s just bad luck.

“We have mountain lion issues and we are fighting with the wolf lobby and the people who want us to have wolves. The mountain lions are bad enough because they will kill a calf a day sometimes. We have to be diligent with a lot of predator control on our place. The mountain lions aren’t a protected species and we can control them. But we also get an occasional Mexican jaguar, coming up out of Mexico, and that is a protected species. They are larger than a mountain lion and tough to deal with,” he says.

Even with the losses to predators, the Carter breeding program culls heavily.

“We allow our cows to be open (or not wean a calf) for 2 years and no longer.

Whether a cow is open or lost her calf before weaning is the same to us. I do have to give them a little latitude because of our predator problem and because of our poor environment. We have some really tough challenges here. So we do allow them to come in without a calf for a couple years.

But if a cow gets to a 3rd year and is either open at the end of our defined breeding season or doesn’t come in with a calf that

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fall, she is culled and sold,” he says.

The ranch is also very aggressive with a herd health program. “The cows are all vaccinated every fall. The calves are vaccinated at weaning and brought into town where they are put into feedlots and get a second round of vaccinations in about 3 weeks. They get another booster at 6 months of age and again at yearling,” says Carter.

“Our goal is to sell seedstock, primarily bulls. We bring our bull calves in and sort them, doing our first cull at 12 months of age. We cull based on phenotype at that age. We also start looking at data. We have them on different feed tests and start looking at that data. But we look very closely at phenotype and sheath; we can’t tolerate a lot of sheath in Arizona because of cactus issues. Those bulls need to have a pretty clean underline. That’s one of our big culling criteria; if we have a young bull that has too much sheath he doesn’t make the grade,” Carter explains.

“We are very critical of structure.

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athletic and able to climb mountains and navigate rocks and washes. A light-boned animal just doesn’t hold up very well. So we are very critical of their bone structure, feet and legs. They have to be sound and straight or they are culled at one year of age,” he says.

“We closely monitor the ones that are left, for another 6 months, and sell them at about 18 months of age. By the time we get them to that age we have quite a bit of data on them. We have their weaning weights and measurements, yearling weights and measurements, and pretty good EPD reliability and accuracy by that point.”

These young bulls are ready to go breed cows. “Brangus mature a little slower than British breeds. When the University of New Mexico has their bull sale they are selling yearlings, though some of them might be 14 months old, and they are able to test those bulls for fertility and breeding soundness. We have found that about 50 percent of our 14-month-old bulls will

pass a breeding soundness exam. This is a little lower than straight Angus or Hereford, but we do sell a few long yearlings.

We get them tested and make sure they will pass their exam. By 18 months they will all pass. If they don’t by then, there’s a problem.”

Some ranchers prefer to buy bulls that are a little older than yearlings, especially if they have to run out in rough country. “I do have several buyers, however, who want to get them as yearlings and put them out in their country. Then by the time they are ready to breed cows they are acclimated to the country they have to work in. They are physically fit and know where the water is, etc.”

The bulls are sold through a sale as well as private treaty. Carter is one of the past presidents of the International Brangus Breeders Association and currently president of the Southwest Brangus Breeders.

“About 8 years ago we started a Southwest sale, which we hold annually at the Marana Livestock yard near Tucson. We try to sell about 50 or 60 bulls as a group, and about 300 to 400 females at that sale. Our ranch sells about 40 percent of our bulls at that sale, and we also have an active private treaty program. Currently we have more private treaty buyers than we can supply bulls for. We are down to 15 bulls that I consigned to our Marana sale in February next year. We get calls every day for bulls and can’t fill the demand,” he says.

“We also have good demand for grassfed beef. Our cull animals—the ones that have color issues or any other issues—we retain and have no problem selling to people who are interested in having a steer or something to butcher. We don’t do a lot, but we will take orders. If someone wants us to take a steer to the butcher for them and sell them the boxes of frozen beef, we

sell those in halves and wholes. This adds a little more to our total program,” says Carter.

FAMILY – Bart Carter has 5 children— including 3 boys. Steven is a detective for the local police department and Michael is an emergency room nurse. He also has 2 daughters—Allisen and Alexis—and 9 grandchildren. “My wife Vicki and the kids have really helped out on the ranch and feedlot. Roundup is a busy time and everyone shows up to help and work. My youngest son, Bryce, graduated a year ago from NM State University with a degree in Animal Science. He is slowly taking over the operation. He has a knack with cattle and a very good eye. I realize that I can’t keep doing this myself forever. He manages everything; he’s the handyman, the repairman and the manager and is doing a good job,” says Carter.

“I am excited about having the next generation step in to take over. It’s a hard thing, if you buy a ranch with no way to perpetuate it.” A person wants to see their lifelong efforts and hard work evolve into something that can be continued on, with the next generation, if possible.

“When you put your heart and soul into something for 20 years or more, and put everything you’ve got into it—all those hours and hours—it’s nice to know that it will benefit the next generation,” he says.

More information about the ranch can be gleaned from the website, and from the Carter Brangus Facebook page that Bryce puts out. “Our ranch is called Poppy Canyon Ranch, and this is obvious on the years that we get a little spring rain. The whole place becomes golden with spring poppies.

We’ve only had that array of gold about 3 times during the past 20 years when we had the rain, and it’s really quite amazing n when that happens.”

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NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences ranked 6th nationally as best value

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ew Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences took sixth place in a recent ranking by College Values Online as one of the nation’s best values among agriculture colleges.

The Best Value Agriculture Colleges ranking measured the top 30 agriculture schools in the country by comparing each school’s average 20-year net return on investment as calculated and posted by payscale.com. The schools also were rated on the cost of tuition, percentage of students receiving financial aid and the number of agricultural programs available at the school.

“This ranking is a direct recognition of the hard work and effort as well as the amazing dedication of all of the faculty and staff of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University,” said Interim Dean Jim Libbin. “It is also a major tribute to the leadership of our former dean, Lowell Catlett, who led the college during the decade before the announcement. We already knew this ranking to be true, now the rest of the country and world know what a true gem the NMSU College of ACES is.”

College Values Online noted that ranking the Best Value Agriculture Colleges is relevant for students today when one realizes that agriculture is still one of the largest industries in the United States. It noted that in 2010, $115 billion in agricultural goods were exported from the United States, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

“The agriculture industry doesn’t just grow food. It also engineers food, evaluates soil, finds ways to minimize environmental impact, develops new methods for resource and energy conservation, and sells and markets agricultural products,” according to College Values Online. “And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The agricultural industry offers a huge number of career options, and we want to connect you with the top 30 agricultural degree programs that constitute the best value for your time and money investment.”

NMSU was rated ahead of numerous other larger universities, such as the University of California, Davis ( number 20), Penn State (number 22) and Colorado n State University (number 26).

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Viva New Mexico

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ong live New Mexico sounds good, right? “Viva New Mexico: A Statewide Plan for Outdoor Recreation” doesn’t sound bad either… right up until you figure out that the goal of the plan is to take more land out of private ownership and reducing the tax base; to delve into health care, education and job placement services; and to develop broad “ordinance and jurisdiction” all with federal Land & Water Conservation Funds (LWCF).

If you are not familiar with the LWCF, it was enacted in 1964. Some of the purposes of the act are to “assist in preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to all citizens of the United States of America of present and future generations and visitors who are lawfully present within the boundaries of the United States of America such quality and quantity of outdoor recreation resources as may be available and are necessary and desirable for individual active participation in such recreation and to strengthen the health and vitality of the citizens of the United States by (1) providing funds for and authorizing Federal assistance to the States in planning, acquisition, and development of needed land and water areas and facilities and (2) providing funds for the Federal acquisition and development of certain lands and other areas.”

The LSWF monies come from taxing offshore oil and gas production. The LWCF provides money to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year for land acquisition. The authorized limit to the fund is $900,000,000. Supporters of the Fund bemoan the fact that less than that is being budgeted annually.

However, there appears to be little care to what happens to the land once it is acquired. The Fund provides maintenance dollars ONLY if those projects are related to crime reduction.

In 2016, the total LWCF federal budget request is $900 million: $400 million in discretionary funding and $500 million in permanent funding as part of a multi-year strategy leading to full permanent funding for LWCF in 2017.

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Io the Point

by Caren Cowan, Exec. Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Assn.

expire. If the government was run like a business, not reauthorizing something would result in it going away. Not so with the federal government. The Endangered Species Act hasn’t been reauthorized since the early 1990s. However Congress continues to fund the enforcement of the ESA through annual budget appropriations.

At press time we don’t know if there was funding in the budget deal reached in late October 2015.

Apparently with the expectation of continued funding, the New Mexico Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department (EMNRD), State Parks Division, has released a draft of “Viva New Mexico: A Statewide Plan for Outdoor Recreation,” a statewide comprehensive outdoor recreation plan (SCORP) which provides recommendations to guide local, state, and federal outdoor recreation providers in achieving a common vision for outdoor recreation resources in New Mexico and identifies the economic contributions of outdoor recreation.

EMNRD says Víva New Mexico, New Mexico’s SCORP is an effort required by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, which administers the federal LWCF. LWCF funds are provided annually to New Mexico for the acquisition and development of outdoor recreation facilities.

The plan helps determine priorities for allocating the LWCF funds. To remain eligible for LWCF funding, each state is required to develop a SCORP every five years. Since LWCF began in 1965, New Mexico has received approximately $212 million for Federal agencies, $42 million for stateside grants, and $7 million for its Forest Legacy program.

The 2010-2014 New Mexico SCORP identified 4 statewide priorities: n Promote the livability of all communities through health and fitness. n Enhance economic vitality. n Properly use and conserve natural resources. n Develop a statewide trail network that facilitates recreation, transportation, and healthy lifestyles.

According to an EMNRD press release,

a statewide survey completed for SCORP process found that 93 percent of adult residents participate in at least one outdoor recreation activity. According to a report prepared by Southwick Associates for the Outdoor Recreation Association in 2013, outdoor recreation supports 68,000 New Mexico jobs and ultimately $458 million in state and local tax revenue. On average, the three million out-of-state visitors who participate in outdoor recreation annually spend approximately $1,000 per trip, or $290 per day. Out-of-state visitors who attend outdoor recreation events spend about $900 on a trip associated with planned outdoor recreation events, an often-overlooked economic driver.

That press release went on to say an annual total spending estimate for outdoor recreation events in New Mexico from visitors from Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado is approximately $385 million. Viva New Mexico was developed with the thoughtful input of a technical advisory committee that included local, state and federal agencies; members of the New Mexico Recreation and Parks Association; the New Mexico Outdoor Coalition; and the New Mexico State Parks Advisory Board.

For those interested in providing comments on the plan, the State Parks Division will offer a simultaneous webinar.

Viva New Mexico may be viewed through this link: http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ SPD/scorp/index.html . Additionally, there is a survey on the EMNRD website to provide input at http://www.surveygizmo. com/s3/2377177/Viva-New-Mexico-Comments . Please take 10 minutes and fill out the survey.

Here are just a few of the items you will be asked to rate: n Provide LWCF stateside funding to local governments. n Accelerate the implementation of federal and county travel management plans to adequately designate and implement suitable OHV routes. n Increase rate of trail implementation through alternative funding sources such as alternative transportation funding, clean air mitigation and volunteers

n Secure funding to staff a position to coordinate implementation and management of the Rio Grande Trail. n Acquire fee-simple, trail easements, or complete land swaps to close the gaps in trails and open spaces to create contiguous recreational opportunities. n Work with partners to identify and complete new National Recreation Trails and side-connecting trails to communities along National Trails and major state trails n Encourage parents to be actively involved in their children’s education and physical activity goals through schoolbased extended-learning programs and providing services to parents (English learning, employment services, accessing healthcare) n Help schools correlate environmental education and physical fitness programs to the state common core standards. n Promote the development of a prescription trails program in more communities throughout the state and provide support to healthcare practitioners to prescribe patients specific activities in specific places n Help schools develop effective plans to improve the health of students by implementing district wellness policies and strong health programs and practices. n Develop partnerships between the healthcare community and local organizations and governments that will lead to increased activity through the use of parks and open space. n Conserve the special places in and around each community through fee-simple acquisition or conservation easements. n Update development regulations, such as wetland regulations, to conserve environmentally sensitive lands and improve resiliency to natural disasters. n Develop and improve ordinances and jurisdiction at the state or local level that protect wetlands, riparian areas, and the buffers around them at the local level, and that ensure that vulnerable and isolated wetlands are protected from impacts. n Improve growth management tools by improving development ordinances and jurisdiction at the state or local level that protect critical wildlife habitats and the buffers around them to limit habitat impacts and fragmentation.

One could conclude that EMNRD is looking to create a monster bureaucracy taking in the functions of the departments of education, health, workplace solutions, tourism and who knows what else, all in the name of spending federal funds.

It even looks like there may be some

double dipping. The New Mexico Department of Game & Fish (NMDGF), that is administratively attached to EMNRD, is currently working on its Statewide Action Plan (SWAP) seeking to secure about $1 million annually for conservation and habitat management funding to protect species of greatest concern, some 455 of them in the state. But the monies are coming from two different funds, so maybe that’s okay.

On the subject of SWAP…

Agriculture greatly appreciates the extra steps the New Mexico Game Commission and the Department Director are taking to receive public input in the SWAP. The Commission will be making a final decision on the SWAP at their November 19, 2015 meeting in Roswell.

Other big decisions…

The Commission will also be hearing the Turner Endangered Species Fund’s appeal of the denial of a permit to bring wolves to private property in New Mexico.

The Commission denied both the Turner and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) permits at their June meeting. The FWS appealed their denial in August. In September the Commission upheld its’ FWS denial.

As expected the FWS has notified the NMDGF that they will ignore the denial and move forward with wolf introduction on federal lands in New Mexico. The State is presently considering potential legal action.

We reiterate, Ted Turner has the right to do whatever he wants on private land that he owns in New Mexico and elsewhere.

He does not have the right to harm other private property owners with his actions.

Given that the wolves go to Turner in preparation for release elsewhere, clearly he is violating the rights of others.

Updates

On the workers’ compensation insurance front, the agricultural community continues to wait on a decision from the New Mexico Supreme Court on whether or not a stay of the Court of Appeals decision regarding the constitutionality of the agricultural workers’ comp exemption.

The briefing on the issue is complete. The Supreme Court could rule tomorrow or never.

At the same time, legislation is being drafted to submit to the 2016 New Mexico Legislature. Please plan on making some time to come to Santa Fe during the Legislature to assist in the passage of this legislation.

Where’s the BEEF?

That’s the question that was asked many times at the 2015 New Mexico State Fair. Where was the big New Mexico Beef Council booth in the Lujan Building? The fact is that the Fair priced themselves out of reach for the Beef Council several years ago.

It was sad to learn that the Fair saw fit to serve a vegetarian meal at the Junior Livestock Sale. And lest you have heard the ugly rumor that we continue to hear, we take a point of personal privilege. For the record, Caren Cowan had nothing to do with the Junior Livestock Sale, good, bad or indifferent, at the invitation of Fair management several months prior to the Fair.n

TSgt. Daniel Demetre recently ordered a couple NM Beef plates for my vehicles while stationed out of state. He proudly shared this photo of his restored 1974 International Harvester 200 truck sporting its new New Mexico Beef plate. It matches the truck so well! Thanks to our soldiers and veterans for protecting out nation ... and for loving BEEF! NOVEMBER 2015

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by JIM BEERS

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he following link from a trusted source is a page and a half letter from the Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to the Director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The US Fish and Wildlife Service recently applied for a New Mexico State Permit to release more wolves in expanded areas in New Mexico.

The initial wolf releases in Yellowstone National Park were unique since no State Government has authority over Yellowstone since it was never conveyed to a State and is therefore under what is termed “EXCLUSIVE” (i.e. federal) JURISDICTION. Ninety-nine percent of all other federal lands (Refuges, Forests, Parks, BLM lands, Reclamation lands, Army Corps of Engineer lands, etc.) are under State authority, the same as all the private land ownerships in the State. While the federal trick (the correct word) of releasing wolves on “their” land was unstoppable, the inevitable and planned spread to lands controlled by States was never challenged. Imagine if I moved into your community and released “on my land” large dangerous dogs or wolves or grizzly bears that spread far and wide and created mayhem, death and destruction: would everyone just turn the other way and talk about my sterling character or my high motives?

The federal government cannot, as they do in this letter, say that they will release wolves on “federal” lands as if those lands are on Mars. All those lands ARE IN NEW MEXICO and as such are subject to the authority and jurisdiction of the duly-elected government of New Mexico and their appointed officials such as Director Sandoval!

When the State of New Mexico, at the behest of the thousands of rural New Mexicans from parents and ranchers to dog owners and hunters that have been forced to live with wolves to date and all those targeted for these future wolves, denied the Permit Request to put more wolves in New Mexico – The USFWS simply, “concluded it has independent legal authority to engage in all activities regarding the reintroduction of the Mexican wolf in New Mexico.” They go on, “We will conduct these actions”. n So much for State authority and jurisdiction over resident wildlife (and fish) in the State. n So much for this “Partnership” of “State” governments with the federal government (and all those radical organizations) behind all this stuff from wolves and grizzly bears to windmill farms and global warming fiascoes. n So much for any hope for protection from increasingly rogue actions and claims by a totally out-of-control federal bureaucracy. n So much for all those “promises” of “turning over ‘management’” of (wolves, grizzlies, cougars, etc., etc.) to the States. n So much for all those readers that have called me every name in the book for questioning the honor and claims of federal bureaucrats regarding what they claim about “endangered” wild-

life and native ecosystems and disease and the chaos they are wreaking over a growing segment of rural America.

State bureaucrats for too long have treated the US Fish and Wildlife Service and these harmful programs like things worthy of respect when in fact they have been increasingly destructive to rural America. They have been like young girls dating a rapist. Whatever their motives in the past and truth be told for many of them it was simply their own careers and welfare, some are finally being forced by united and powerful public opinion to stand up against the federal behemoth.

What is resulting is this “peek behind the curtain” (like in the Wizard of OZ) letter that exposes the true nature of these THUGS and their real “partners”, i.e. radical environmentalists with socialist goals for America.

Please read the letter at www.veritas researchconsulting.com/Wolf/Sandoval_ Letter-Mexican_Wolves-20151014.pdf and consider what is in store if we do not stop this federal abuse. Our forefathers went to War with Britain, arguably over less.

Do not be polite and seek “compromise”; do not continue to tolerate the lies about what they are doing to rural America and

indeed all of America. Do whatever you can to: n Replace the %#&^ politicians that condone these travesties. n Replace the judges that look the other way. n Repeal these un-American radical

“environmental”/animal “rights laws and all the abuses they are spawning. n Reduce the size and authority, and refocus USFWS, US Forest Service, BLM, EPA, et al or combine or eliminate them. n Reduce the size of the federal lands n estate dramatically.

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Eileen Hicks Benefit Fund

by CURTIS FORT

T Bronze Sculpture; “Stirrin’ The Gravy”; 29” H; 24” W; 15” D; By Curtis Fort

he San Simon Ranch was established in 1897 by Merchant Livestock Co. and is still owned by descendants of the Merchant Family. Richard Hicks works for the San Simon Ranch west of Eunice, NM, and he and his wife, Eileen, live at the North Camp. Eileen is Human Resources Manager for Leaco Telephone and Internet, whose main office is in Hobbs, 30 miles from the ranch.

On the morning of August 10, 2015, around 7:00 a.m., Eileen was involved in a major car accident near Monument on her way to work in Hobbs. She was air-

lifted to University Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Arriving in very critical condition, she had sustained severe injuries to her head, multiple breaks of her left arm, left leg and a broken collar bone. Over the next three weeks, her breaks were reset, and by September 3rd she had not regained consciousness.

Thanks to many prayers and excellent care at the hospital, she showed some slight response to verbal requests on September 4th and opened her eyes briefly. Over the next few days, she slowly improved and arrangements were begun for her admittance to Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, to receive neurological rehabilitation. That became reality on September 10th,

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when she and Richard were flown there to continue her therapy and recovery. At this time, she continues to make great strides.

She and Richard thank all for their continued prayers.

An “Eileen Hicks Benefit Fund” has been started by friends to aid her and Richard with their expenses during this time.

Tickets are now being sold for $10 each for a drawing for 3 prizes. The first ticket drawn will be for a Curtis Fort bronze sculpture, “Stirrin’ The Gravy”, sponsored

by Bill, Marilyn & Jon Dee Sims, Floyd & Cynthia Sims, and Chloe Sims; the second ticket drawn wins an Antelope Permit sponsored by the Bill Lee Ranch, Lovington, NM; and the third ticket drawn will be for a 223 Rifle, sponsored by the San Simon Ranch and their neighbors, the Deep Wells Ranch, Smith Ranch and Berry Ranch.

The drawing will be held at the Lea County Museum in Lovington, NM, on April 2, 2016.

The $10 tickets can be purchased by mail.

Checks should be made payable to the “Eileen Hicks Benefit Fund”, and mailed to: Eileen Hicks Benefit Fund; P.O. Box 1055; Eunice, NM 88231.

If you would like more information, please call 575/394-3163.

We sincerely thank the New Mexico Stockman magazine for printing this story on Eileen Hicks.

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he hands of a top hand never rest.

Splicing pipelines, fixing a hole in a fence, doctoring a young calf, pounding out a letter to the county manager, tallying figures for the farm and ranch she co-owns and co-operates, dialing the number of a friend in Washington to discuss ag policy … Alisa Ogden’s hands stay busy. She has been known to show up to meetings in town with the tell-tale purple stains of PVC primer around her fingernails which signify she has recently been fixing a pipeline. Alisa Ogden of Ogden Farms and Cattle, is a top hand.

While she chairs a meeting with the poise and confidence of a woman who spends her afternoons at social teas, her hands tell the story of a woman who not only knows agriculture, but does the work of agriculture on a daily basis. They are work-hardened, chore-strong, sometimes bruised, sometimes bloody, sometimes aching and sore, but always ready to reach out to help a neighbor in need, comfort a family member, or give a hand up to those who need her expertise and assistance.

Alisa is the fifth generation of her family to walk the lands and handle the daily work of Ogden Farms and Cattle, near Loving, New Mexico. The pioneering family has survived and thrived in the last 125 years in part because each generation knew that they were responsible for both the stewardship of the land and animals and the responsibility of staying current with and influencing policy decisions that affect agriculture. They not only fulfilled those responsibilities, but, by example, taught the next generation to do the same.

Alisa, named by her peers at the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Cattleman of the Year at their December 2014 meeting, is known by fellow cattlemen as a rancher who is in front of the game when it comes to animal health and range stewardship.

She is also known as a strong woman in a tough world. Someone you want on your side when it comes to a fight. And a friend who sees joy in the simple things and always asks about your family.

Living hand to mouth

The Black River provides wildlife habitat, water for both wildlife and cattle, and a break in the range between Carlsbad and Loving, New Mexico. The year was 1890 when John D. Forehand and his wife, Mary, settled on the banks of the Black River to help develop what is now the Carlsbad Irrigation District. John D. ran primarily horses to sell to the cavalry.

Cattle were just a sideline, but when the cavalry no longer needed horses, the cattle

herd began to grow.

The Forehands survived the depression of the 1930s. In the 1940s, when war ravaged most of the world, Roy Forehand, John D’s grandson, was a member of the New Mexico National Guard and was a crack shot with a rifle. When his guard unit was called for active service, Roy was told he had to stay in New Mexico because he had no sons and because he was raising beef for the United States, thus was already a critical part of the war effort.

When the New Mexico guard unit was captured and was subjected to the Bataan death Alisa was Junior New Mexico Hereford Queen in 1973-1974. She is pictured here at the 1974 Junior Hereford Field Day at the march, Roy suffered Thal Ranch. incredible guilt because After the war, Roy competed across he had been forced to stay behind while all of his friends and fellow New Mexicans had the United States as part of the National gone to serve and suffer halfway around Guard rifle team. He became president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers in 1950 the world.

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drought was too severe and she was forced to sell what she could, move to town and take a job.

After she retired in 1965, Masie resumed her attendance at Cattle Growers’ meetings and she started taking her granddaughter, Alisa, with her to the meetings.

Alisa became a Jr. Cattle Grower and a member of the Jr. Hereford Association.

Her grandmother taught her the value in attending committee meetings to educate herself about not only the production side of ranching, but the political side.

Dirt on her hands

Alisa was a snappy dresser, even in 1957.

and served until 1952. By this time, New Mexico was in the midst of severe drought.

Roy was at home, trying to hold his ranch and cow herd together, when he died at 53 years of age in 1953.

Masie Forehand, Roy’s wife, spent all of her savings trying to feed the cows, but the

Alisa jokes that she became both a farmer and a rancher because her rancher mother, Sue Forehand, married her farmer father, Jim Ogden.

Alisa had four generations of ranch​ ing behind her through her Forehand ancestors and two generations of farming through the Ogden line. B ​ ut like many multi-generational ranch family offspring, she was required to go to college and find a job outside agriculture. Alisa finished her Masters in Athletic Training at Colorado State University and was employed there as Head Women’s Athletic Trainer when she called her father, Jim Ogden, and told

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him she wanted to come home to ranch.

Jim was concerned, because he’d seen the hard life of a single woman on a ranch and he wanted better for his daughter. But he finally agreed, stipulating that he couldn’t pay what Alisa was making in Colorado.

She replied, “It doesn’t matter. Cows just kick back, they don’t talk back.”

“I came back and he taught me,” Alisa remembered. “I started running the ranch. Then he needed a tractor driver and it wasn’t long before I was farming. But the ranch has been my primary responsibility.” Alisa also shares an operating partnership on the family farm called Lookout Farms with her brother, Craig.

Reins in hand

Just the fact that she was in charge didn’t sit too well with a few of the neighboring ranchers, who let it be known that they didn’t want a woman in their corrals.

So the Ogdens stopped neighboring with them.

When asked if she has help, Alisa jokes that she is the manual labor, but welcomes an extra hand when necessary. All joking aside, however, she does the plumbing and the electrical work on the ranch. The cows are watered by the Black River, a well with

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over nine miles of pipeline to storage tanks and troughs, and several other troughs that are serviced by municipal water wells.

The wells mean that Alisa doesn’t have to pull any windmills, but she can fix poly and pvc lines from now until doomsday.

Last December, Alisa had gathered a neighbor’s bull that she had found with her cows. The bull quickly went on the fight and it took her over an hour to get him into a trailer to haul to the farm so the vet could check him for trichomoniasis. She didn’t have time to get hurt since getting to Albuquerque for the NMCGA annual meeting was on hand the next day, but she knew she had to get him checked for the disease. When he was tested, the bull tore up her chute, and then tested positive for trich. She got great pleasure in knowing he would become hamburger!

The mantra, “feed your animals first, then feed yourself. Take care of the ranch before you take care of yourself,” has been as steady as a metronome in Alisa’s life, affecting almost every relationship. She was late to a first date with one gentleman because she was pulling a calf. The same boyfriend later broke up because Alisa prioritized fixing a broken water line above dinner in town.

In 1983, Alisa and her new husband pulled a trailer on their honeymoon so they could stop on the way home and buy some jersey bulls to breed to heifers. “People who are involved in agriculture just understand that they don’t come first,” she shrugged. “I had a water line break the day I took my father to the hospital. I had to leave the hospital and come home and fix the line before I went back and spent the night in the hospital. You take care of what you have to.”

Alisa has always done all the castration and earmarking when the family brands. One year they branded 234 calves in two days. Alisa did her customary jobs, and 18 days later, she delivered a son.

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cows from the farm back to the ranch, she would pair up a bunch of cows and calves, load the truck, go nurse Cody, then hotfoot it back to the corral to get another bunch of cows and calves paired up before the truck returned for the next load.

At three months of age, The Ogden Family in 1969. (l to r) Back row: Karen, Alisa, Susan; front Cody rode on the row: Craig, Sue and Jim. tractor while Alisa planted cotton. She kept a pillow in her The hand that rocks the cradle Alisa has been recognized for outstand- pickup so he could nap while she checked ing accomplishment and honored by many cows and ran waters. He followed her all organizations, but the greatest joy in her over the ranch on a little pony.

When Cody started playing baseball at life comes from her son, Cody.

Cody was a ranch kid from birth. Six five years of age, Alisa made the commitweeks after he was born, Alisa was back ment to be there for her son’s activities. in the saddle, literally. When shipping She was on the sidelines as a trainer for

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his football games and was a member of Loving Mighty Moms, supporting children in their activities at Loving Municipal Schools “Cody is an outstanding young man and that tells you what kind of person his mother is,” asserted Raquel ​Chacon, a lifelong friend of Alisa’s. “Cody is wonderful, and an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

Cody grew up fast, as ranch children tend to do, and learned responsibility early.

He was the first from Loving to enter a service academy and is now a Senior Mechanical Engineer student at the United States Naval Academy.

When Cody was applying to the Naval Academy, Alisa noticed a question on the application form that asked, “While in High School, did you work on a farm or ranch or were you involved in FFA or 4-H?” New Mexico representative Heather Wilson explained that the reason the Naval Academy asks the question is that the success rate of individuals who were involved in agriculture is high because continued on page 52

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ALISA OGDEN We are happy to honor you for your many accomplishments on this proud occasion.

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ALISA

You’ve always served us well.

We appreciate you!

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Lisa, Your family is so proud of you on so many levels. We are proud that you have been recognized for all your leadership in agriculture in New Mexico and across the nation.

We are blessed to be your family (at least most of the time). We thank you for your work and look forward to more great things from you.

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those students have learned responsibility at a young age. The academy saw the value of acknowledging the agriculture lifestyle and what it does for kids.

Cody is one of two javelin throwers from the United States who competed in the Junior Pan American games in Columbia in 2013. He also became a NCAA All-American in 2014. Alisa admitted that if she isn’t on the ranch, she can almost always be located at an agriculture industry meeting or in Annapolis, visiting her All-American at the United States Naval Academy.

Hand in hand

Family is always an important part of Alisa’s life. She raised Cody in a ranch home in which four previous generations of the Forehand family had lived. You can’t live with that much history without learning from it and drawing hope and inspiration from the generations who have sacrificed so much to build the ranch.

Part of the sacrifice of being involved in state and industry issues is that to be avail-

able, Alisa and her brother, Craig, have to travel great distances. It is a long ways from Loving to the state legislature, for example, but Alisa has never complained.

Instead, she and Craig cover for each other. When Alisa is gone to Washington or to a NCBA meeting, Craig pulls the slack. When he leaves for Farm Bureau meetings, she stays at home.

After Jim Ogden “retired” from the farm in 1988, he continued to help and give advice on the ranch. Sue Ogden was thrilled when Alisa was elected president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers, not just because of her daughter’s accomplishment but because her daughter was president of the same organization that her father, Roy Forehand, led half a century earlier.

Alisa learned many life lessons on the family ranch. She roped her first calf while trailing cows from the ranch to the farm for the winter. She was riding a pinto horse named Highball and was tied on hard and fast. “As soon as the rope settled around the calf’s neck, I was saying, ‘Daddy, what do I do now?’” Alisa recounted. “But while the words were still coming out of

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my mouth, the horse had turned around and was walking back to the calf wagon.”

Alisa’s uncles​, Huling and Dudley Ussery,​ weren’t happy that she necked the calf and set to work to teach her to heel.

Years later, after she’d been back at the ranch for a couple years, Sue and Jim left

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for Australia right before they were scheduled to trail the cows back to the ranch.

Alisa fixed breakfast for a crew of cowboys, and when they went outside to saddle horses, fat flakes of snow started falling. “I didn’t know whether I should call off the drive or not,” Alisa laughed. “I asked my uncles​, who were also my surrogate grandfathers, what ​​​ they recommended. They said they would call off the drive. I listened to their 150 years combined experience, postponed the drive and there were three inches of snow on the ground in a couple of hours.”

Alisa doesn’t take family involvement, past or present, lightly.

Her advise to young men or women who want to ranch showcases her passion, “do it because that is how you want to live and raise a family, not for the money. There is no better place to have a child grow up than in the corrals!​“​ “Dad still likes to go and see the cows and watch them eat,” reflected Alisa. “We are so fortunate to be able to keep our parents active and around the ranch that they loved. It was never just a job to them.”

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Joined hands

Parts of the ranch still have not recovered from the devastating drought of the 1950s. When Jim Ogden began leasing the ranch in the 1950s, he didn’t have much money, but he was a farmer who owned a tractor and buck scraper. He used these to build water bars which slowed the runoff of the rain that fell. Eventually grass began to grow on the bare soil.

Jim continued to work with the Bureau of Land Management, which holds the allotment on 2/3 of the ranch, and the State Land Office, which control the remaining 1/3. When Alisa returned, she jumped into range improvement with both feet, completing range studies and Environmental Impact Statements, and working with whatever agency it took to improve the land.

Walking with her across the land is like walking with a Range Conservationist. She drops technical terms in casual conversation because this is just language she is used to using. “She definitely knows all the jargon,” laughed Steve Daly, BLM Range Conservationist. “She could go to

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work for us. We speak the same language and she knows her stuff. She is good about getting out in the field and stomping around and looking at plants. ” Alisa has built fence to keep animals and wildlife from walking on washes and drainages. Net wire fences were built on steep slopes to slow down water and give sediment a chance to build up. Old tires have been anchored in small washes to give a place for sediment to build up and water to spread out. Big bales of hay have been used in large areas. Additionally Alisa has worked with agencies to treat the majority of federal, state and private land with brush killing chemicals, and at this writing, 480 acres are all that has not been treated in the 40-section ranch. Watershed and drainage projects have been done as well.

Her dedication and diligence have earned her the respect of all she works with. Judy Bock of Carlsbad Soil and Water remembers when Alisa helped coach her and the other members of a livestock judging team. “She is always working to better her land.” Judy continued, “Alisa stands her ground. I have a lot of respect for her.”

Ray Keller, Southeast New Mexico Restore New Mexico coordinator, has worked with Alisa some 20 odd years. “She has a vision of what things should look like and works very hard to fulfill that vision,” Ray noted. “She is progressive about fixing eroded areas. She looks for things that need some help and she fixes them so well that you don’t ever know that there used to be erosion there.”

Ray continued, “Alisa is a member of all the conservation groups and is always in the forefront, whether we are talking about water issues or range issues or livestock issues. She is friends with politicians and oil executives and other people of

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influence and is always talking to them. range improvement lies along the Black She starts working before daylight and fin- River. Alisa was willing to put up fences ishes after dark just so she can get every- to keep vehicles from driving to the river thing done in a day.” as long as she could leave some gaps in Steve Daly appreciates Alisa’s ethic the fences to allow her cattle to work the of doing the right thing and cooperating country. Documentation has shown that to get the job done. “She is honest and the cattle haven’t hurt the river in the concerned about last 125 years, the resource,” Steve especially in noted. A good examregards to the “I don’t have to ple of this is the GypTexas Hornquestion where sum Wild Buckwheat, shell Mussel an endangered spehabitat, and I stand with cies that is found on Alisa was willAlisa, she tells me the Ogden ranch. ing to do her “Alisa found a gyppart to keep straight.” sum wild buckwheat vehicles from growing in a cow doing any trail. She took a picture of the buckwheat damage. and brought the photo in to show me. She The Bureau of Land Management has been working to protect its habitat and bestowed the Restore New Mexico award was thrilled to find it growing in the live- to Alisa in 2008 in recognition of all the stock trail because that showed cattle were hard work she has done to improve and not affecting the plant adversely.” better her range.

Steve noted that Alisa is easy to work with. “If I do something wrong, she tells Top hand me. If I do something right, she tells me. I A head-on approach to problems has don’t have to question where I stand with given Alisa a well-deserved reputation for Alisa, she tells me straight.” being solution oriented. “She is more than An example of Alisa’s cooperation for willing to jump in with both feet and see

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if there is common ground, then make the most of that common ground,” noted Caren Cowan, executive director of the New Mexico CattleGrowers (NMCGA).​ Alisa has risen to leadership in everything she has tackled. She first excelled as a member of Junior Cattle Growers, serving as its president, then went on to serve on the Board of Directors and as chairman of several committees in the NMCGA. In 2007 she was elected the organization’s

first and only female president.

“NMCGA has been blessed with so many who have not only been a vital part of our organization, but in their communities​,” Alisa noted. “While serving on the board, and executive committee, I saw the variety of styles of leadership and marvel in the success we, as an organization, have had in those who up stepped up in various roles.

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Thank you for your leadership and the example you have set over a lifetime of active involvement with the Cattle Growers.

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only benefit ranchers, but all private land owners. Another benefit is that it has carWe are unique in that our members volun- ried over​, in many cases, to surface lessees teer so much of their time to participate being consulted on the impact drilling will in leadership positions throughout. When have on leased surface.

I was at the legislature, our membership Because of Alisa’s extensive experience was known well for getting boots on the in dealing with oil and gas interests, she ground and butts in the seats!​”​ has been invited to several western gathS​he has also served on the National Cot- erings of the energy industry to talk about ton Council and the National Cattlemen’s the bridges between multiple uses of land.

Beef Association (NCBA) Board of DirecAlisa also serves on the BLM Resource tors as well as Advisory Committhe group’s tee, was a member Cattle Health of a NMSU Pres“New Mexico is unique and Well Being idential Search in that we already had Committee. committee and She was one of is active in her a woman executive, so a small group church and local having a woman telling community, often of NCBA members who were ending up as treacowboys what to do appointed to surer and/or parliathe by-laws wasn’t anything new...” mentarian of many revision comgroups. mittee.

Fur“I prefer order thermore, she represented the beef indus- in a meeting and am a little anal about it,” try at the U.S. Department of Agriculture she smiled. ​ in developing a set of regulations that will “She has been approached by numerprotect animal health yet promote prof- ous citizens of Eddy County and encouritable production in the face of bovine aged to run for County Commission,” tuberculosis (TB). noted Woods E. Houghton, Eddy County Her credits include dealing with the Ag Agent. “This is a tribute to the local perstate’s powerful oil and gas industry and ception and appreciation of her leadership negotiating the strongest S​urface ​O​wner​ skills. She won’t run, though.”

P​rotection A ​ ​ct in the United States being Along the way, she has become known passed in the New Mexico Legislature​ as a strong-minded advocate. “Alisa would . This was a collaborative effort among have probably gotten into many fistfights many groups but Cattle Growers’ took the if she were a man,” stated Bert Ancel, who lead. Because of this act, surface owners followed Alisa as president of NMCGA. have a voice in drilling operations which “She has never backed down to the bullies occur on their private surface. This did not of the world. She has gone out of her way

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Alisa’s meeting management and parliamentarian skills were handed down from her mother Sue.

to help NMCGA and the people in agriculture as a whole.”

Linda Davis, another renowned cattleman and leader, noted, “Alisa has done an amazing job of keeping her ranch operating efficiently. She showed such a strong

sense of fiscal responsibility when she was president of Cattle Growers. I tremendously admire her.”

“Whether on a local, state, or national stage, Alisa has shown that her leadership style has the combination of qualities necessary to get things done,” noted Jose Varela-Lopez, current Cattle Growers president. “We are blessed to have her in our industry and her recognition as Cattleman of the Year is a testament to that fact.”

When a straight-shooting female who knows and speaks her mind was elected as president of NMCGA, to work closely with a straight-shooting female executive, some people expected fireworks. “I am sure that there was a pot of money out there betting on when she and I would have our first big blowup,” noted Caren Cowan. “We never had it, so I want to know where the money is.”

“New Mexico is unique in that we already had a woman executive, so having a woman telling cowboys what to do wasn’t anything new,” Alisa explained.

“She did all she did while she was a single Mom who had to travel great distances

to represent and defend our industry,” Caren noted. “And she was always a joy to work for and with. She brings joy to the Cattle Growers meetings, and it is important to be able to laugh with each other and among ourselves.”

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Back in Eddy County, Alisa deals with challenges every day. Eleven ranches in the county have tested positive for Trichomoniasis, and Alisa quotes the old adage “you are only as safe as your fences are strong.” She tests her bulls in and out of the cowherd, sells open cows, and times her breeding. Despite all the precautions, any herd can acquire the disease with just one neighbor’s bull getting into the wrong pasture. Alisa keeps her fences in good shape, is diligent in management, and tests every animal that gets though her fences.

She is also passionate about education, and credits the Cattleman’s College and Southwestern Beef Symposium ​ for being teaching valuable skills​and teaching ranchers about new and better ways to

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raise cattle.​ “She does take care of business,” noted neighboring rancher Fred Beard. “She always does her part and then some. There have been some ranches that have changed hands because of this trich problem, and she educates the rest of us.”

Jimmy Richardson is another neighboring rancher. “Alisa’s folks were pioneers in Eddy County, which means she has deep roots in the area,” he explained. “She has a good feel for what we can expect from the landscape and she is wise about taking what we have and using it wisely.”

Jimmy continued, ‘What distinguishes Alisa from the typical ranchers is that she cares about the whole aspect of the livestock business and its effect on others, not just what she can get out of it. She is a pretty broad thinker who is never selfish.”

“She is a hard worker,” affirmed Alisa’s cousin, Mark Forehand. “She gets out there and gets things done, never complaining. She supports the industry, not just as a producer, but in the political and legislative aspects as well. That takes a lot of time.”

Jimmy provides bulls for the Ogdens and thinks a great deal of the whole family.

“Alisa is an outgoing person. The first time

you meet her, you feel like you have known her a long time,” he stated.

Rex Wilson, former NMCGA president, concurred. “She is inclusive and makes everyone feel welcome,” he commented.

“I’ve admired that about her.”

Hands up for another 100 years

Alisa (c) shares a moment with another long-time ranching family, Phil H. and his mother Yetta Bidegain.

Cody is Alisa’s first passion, but she is also deeply committed to carrying on the agriculture tradition, both in farming and ranching.

It couldn’t be more appropriate than to honor Alisa Ogden for exemplifying the best of the cattleman in the same year that NMGA celebrated its first 100 years.

As Alisa herself noted in one of the countless speeches she delivers across the country, “Many days we wonder if we are gaining ground in our quest to improve

the rangeland. As we drive and ride across the pasture, the list of ‘to do’ projects is far greater than the ‘got done’ list. Although our ranch is small, my son is the sixth generation to have a hand in it. My hope is that someday, he will want to continue the legacy of his family.”

Alisa Ogden is truly a top hand, and as such she is celebrated and appreciated by n all of New Mexico Cattle Growers.

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present a Social Media 101 course at our Annual Meeting on Friday, December 4 at 4:00. She’s going to show us how that smartphone we’re carrying around in our purses can be a tool of influence, beyond belief. So join us to learn how you can use social media to start “Making a Difference!”

– Dalene Hodnett, President, New Mexico CowBelles.

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A new report, conducted by the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) shows how lawmakers and voters interact on social media. And it is fascinating how responsive congressmen are to facebook posts and tweets. The survey shows “…that a relatively few number of constituents can get through to their members of congress on social media, possibly influencing lawmakers’ decision-making. Eighty percent of staff surveyed said 30 or fewer responses to their social media posts are enough to get the office to ‘pay attention.” Thirty responses.

That’s one CowBelle local deciding to target their attention on the Endangered Species Act, or the dietary guidelines, or new animal antibiotic regulations. Imagine the impact your group can have when it takes just 30 responses to garner a law-

maker’s attention!

But, as mentioned above, there’s a catch, it has to be via social media. “The authenticity of a tweet or Facebook post, whether by a citizen or lawmaker, has the inescapable power to change minds,” said Bradford Fitch, President and CEO of CMF and co-author of the report.

Here are some key findings: n 70 percent of the respondents agreed that “social media have made Members/ Senators more accountable to constituents;” n 76 percent agreed that “social media enabled us to have more meaningful interactions with constituents;” n 63 percent agreed that “in the next five years more constituent communications will come in via social media than email, phone and other means.”

As you can see social media has a big impact! We’re going to need to learn some new tricks, but fortunately we’ll have a great teacher. Lauren Schlothauer, our New Mexico Beef Ambassador, who also won on the national stage, is going to

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The tours are geared toward the Millennials. The day features a ranch tour with education on nutrition, animal welfare and land issues by guest speakers from the state Beef Council. Participants are shown 6 cuts of beef and given information on food safety. There is a beef cooking demonstration featuring grilled beef with lunch afterward. Ranch families telling their stories have the most impact on changing the attitude of the consumer. Giving tours does change attitudes. Recruiting Millennials is done by the CowBelle/Cattlewomen locals groups. The six steps to giving a tour are 1) choose your target audience; 2) know what you are going to do; 3) choose a time frame that is comfortable for the audience; 4) transportation – provided by tour or by audience driving themselves; 5) set up recurring tour dates; 6) anticipate audience questions and have appropriate responses ready. A matrix for setting up a tour can be obtained from Jo Stanko. The second presentation was “Step Away From the Nuggets – Please Drive Through” by Tana Garnett and her sons, Hayden and Hunter. The boys gave a demonstration of children cooking Crescent Philly Cheese Steaks. Tana has a kid’s cookbook for New Mexico CowBelles, with continued on page 64 NOVEMBER 2015

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illustrations by Wheeler Hughes, which will be available in December. The third presentation was “Beef – Does the Protein”

by Jo Stanko. Part of each Beef Check-Off dollar goes to valid and unbiased research on beef nutrition. Handouts for this presentation are available for download from the Colorado Beef Council. Importers of beef to the US have to pay Check-Off dollars also. Beef dollars in the US are down about 33 percent due to smaller herds and drought conditions. Studies have found beef fats are equivalent to olive oil. The BOLD diet with 3 oz of beef per day has the same low level of cholesterol as the DASH diet that is primarily vegetarian. The key is the 3 oz-serving size of beef. Beef is nutrient dense. All proteins are not equal. Beef is a complete protein. Red meat helps the body utilize iron and zinc. With the trend toward vegetarianism it is important to know that humans are omnivores, requiring meat and plant foods. Beef keeps you fuller longer. It has amino acids and essential nutrients. Beef is important for all ages and during pregnancy. Older adults need more good proteins to maintain muscle and strength. Nutrition teaching should start when children are in tweens. When teaching or advocating beef as protein do not make it the only meat or the consumer thinks the education is biased. The afternoon presentation was “Incorporating Technology to Improve Management at Reproduction” by Marcy Ward, Ph.D, NMSU Extension Livestock Specialist.

The public wants the cattle industry to go back 20 years and not use technology. Cow numbers are at an all time low, but are slowly rising. Genetics have been improved in cattle through breeding to increase productivity with fewer animals. Less than 20 percent of beef producers use pregnancy diagnosis. There is a 79 percent increase in conception rate with synchronized conception. Ultrasound detects pregnancy in the first 17 – 21 days. Genomics consists of parentage, disease, sex, EPDs, and heritability of traits. Genomics reduces the risk of purchase. Respectfully submitted by, Marianne Rose, New Mexico CowBelles Historian The Powderhorn Cattlewomen met October 13, 2015 at the DeBaca County Extension Office. Business included the procedure for reimbursing speakers at monthly meetings, changing the yearly meeting schedule to include an August rather than a July meeting, and electing a 64

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nominating committee for 2016 officers.

The meeting was adjourned for lunch and a program on slow cooking/multi-cookers

by Quay County Extension Agent Brenda Bishop. Submitted by Kelsey McCollum Pinon CowBelle meeting, September 30, 2015. Members met at Martha’s Generation 2 Restaurant for a dinner meeting, which President Tootie Clavel thought would be a way to thank everyone for their hard work during the annual dinner for the county fair. There were nine members and one guest present. Tootie again thanked everyone for the work each committee and members did and then reviewed the ingredient amounts purchased and used.

The group will participate in the Health Fair Oct. 15 in Mosquero by the HC Health Council using the beef by product poster and hand outs. The CowBelles will serve a dinner on Saturday, October 24 at the Brock ranch for $15 per plate to 20 to 25 people. Members discussed menus. Members were reminded that it is time for dues to be paid – $20 and sent to Darlene. Officers will be elected at the October meeting. Tootie reminded members that Pinon wil be hosting the District workshop for area locals in April 2016. The NMCB annual meeting will be in December. Tootie will prepare the president’s report to be sent in for this meeting. Members thanked Dolores for the delicious meal! There was no further business, meeting adjourned by Tootie. Respectfully submitted, Barbara Shaw Chuckwagon CowBelle minutes, october 13, 2015. The meeting was held at the First Baptist Church in Mountainair.

There were 12 members and one guest in attendance. The bucket was passed around and $75 was collected for Horses for Heroes. Speaker, Laura Bittner, Extension Home Economist, Valencia County Director. Her subject was on Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse and Prevention. Some of the facts include: n Prescription drug overdoses kill more people than motor vehicle crashes. n Deaths from prescription painkillers have reached epidemic levels in the past decade. n Every county in New Mexico is higher in drug overdose deaths than the U.S. average. n Per CDC, in 2013, New Mexico was the 2nd highest state in the country at 23.8 deaths per 100,000 people. n More New Mexico women die from prescription drug overdose than overdoses from illegal drugs. n Most elderly individuals cannot easily

tolerate the recommended adult doses of most medications.

Points to remember: n Take medications as they have been prescribed by doctor. n This includes not forgetting or doubling up if dose forgotten. n Be sure to read any warnings on the bottle and in the information packet included with the medication.

For old, unused drug take-back (return), go to NM Department of Public Safety; 6301 Indian School NE, Suite 301; Albuquerque, NM from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. After the presentation, the group shared their recent life experiences. There were joys, concerns, and general updates concerning what all had been doing in the past month.

Members continue to pray for several members, spouses and other family members and friends. The minutes of the September 8 meeting were read. Vera Gibson moved and Cindy Robison seconded; the minutes were approved as amended. Vera Gibson gave the treasurer’s report. There were no bills to present. The nominating committee has presented the following slate of officers: President: Lyn Greene; Vice President: Cookie Conant; Secretary: Welda Grider; Treasurer: Tommie Aber.

Nominations may still be made from the floor. Chuckwagon dues of $35 are now due. ANCW will bill everybody separately.

The (estimated) mileage and hours are due to Carolyn Chance by November 10. Next month’s meeting will be November 10 (not 11 as stated in our books) at the Christian Center in Mountainair. It will be a potluck and the speaker will be Zack Riley, NM Farm Bureau Area Director. December’s meeting will be December 8 at 5:30 p.m. at Pete’s Restaurant in Belen. Spouses, friends, and potential new members are welcome. Afterwards, the group can enjoy the Bugg Christmas Lights at the Harvey House across the street from Pete’s.

Please let Carolyn know by December 7 how many will be attending. A few hostesses and meeting places are still needed for 2016. Please check with Carolyn or Cookie if you are interested or have some ideas. Respectfully submitted, Rebecca (Bec) Campbell, acting secretary.

New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters by the 15th of each month to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com

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2015 Joint Stockmen Convention Schedule TENTATIVE

Thursday, December 3, 2015 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Trade Show Set-up

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration

Hallway / TS / LC

8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Range Improvement Task Force

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Cattlemen’s College Sponsored by ZOETIS

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9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

New Mexico Livestock Board

10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dairy Producers of New Mexico Board Meeting

TAM/COZ

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

NMCGA Past President’s Meeting

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Trade Show Reception Hallway / TS / LC Sponsored by NEW MEXICO BEEF COUNCIL & TRADE SHOW EXHIBITORS

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Hospitality Suite Sponsored by ALLIED INDUSTRIES

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

N.M. Hereford Association Meeting

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

N.M. Beef Cattle Performance Association

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5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

YCLC “Cheers and Beers” Reception

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Ag Leadership Alumni Reception Sponsored by NMCGA, NMWGI, NMFLC, DPNM, NMFLB

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Cowboy Christmas

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Hospitality Suite Sponsored by ALLIED INDUSTRIES

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Friday - December 4, 2015 6:30 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.

NMCGA Board Breakfast Sponsored by Clovis Livestock Auction

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7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.

NMCGA Finance Committee

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8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Children’s Lounge TBA Sponsored by New Mexico Stockman Magazine

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration

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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Trade Show

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8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

AG POLICY GENERAL SESSION

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Silent Auction

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NMDA International Room

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10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Scrapie Task Force Meeting 10:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. NMCGA Promotion & Marketing Committee, NMCGA Theft & Health Committee; NMCGA Research & Improvement Committee POLICY & RESOLUTION SESSION

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NMCGA Nominating Committee

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Children’s Lounge TBD Sponsored by New Mexico Stockman Magazine

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7:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

N.M. CowBelles General Membership Meeting / Awards / Officer Installation

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration

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8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

Trade Show

Hallway / TS / LC

8:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.

NATURAL RESOURCES GENERAL SESSION

YUC

8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

M-44 School

AZT

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Silent Auction

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Cattlegrowers’ Foundation Meeting

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

NMCGA Feeder Committee

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10:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Joint Wildlife Committee; NMCGA Oil & Gas Committee;

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10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. NMCGA Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee

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SAN

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Stockmen’s Luncheon Sponsored by HI PRO FEEDS & MERIAL

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1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

NMCGA Board Meeting

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2:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

NMCGA General Session

KOKO KOKO

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1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Family Luncheon Sponsored by FARM CREDIT OF NEW MEXICO PROPERTY RIGHTS GENERAL SESSION

YUC

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

NMCGA 2015 Board Meeting

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

NMSU Roundtable N.M. CowBelles Board of Directors

AZT TAM

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Attitude Adjustment

ATR

3:40 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

NMCGA Private Property Committee, Joint Federal & Trust Lands; NMCGA Tax & Special Issues; Public Relations POLICY & RESOLUTIONS SESSION

Dinner/Dance

PBR

YUC

3:45 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

Allied Industries Committee

SAN

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

NMCGA Cross Cultural Committee

AZT

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

7:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE J ose Varela Lopez, La Cieneguella President

Pat Boone, Elida President-Elect

John Conniff, Las Cruces Vice President at Large

Randell Major, Magdalena Southwest Vice President

Jeff Bilberry, Elida Southeast Vice President

Blair Clavel, Roy Northeast Vice President

Ernie Torrez, La Jara Northwest Vice President

Shacey Sullivan, Los Lunas Secretary/Treasurer

Bert Ancell, Springer Past President

Rex Wilson, Carrizozo Past President

Caren Cowan, Albuquerque Executive Director

Dale Armstong Ty Bays Scott Bidegain Jim Bob Burnett Mike Casabonne Jack Chatfield Emery Chee Cliff Copeland Mike Corn Caren Cowan Joe Culbertson Linda Davis Joe Delk Milford Denteclaw John Diamond Tracy Drummond Roy Farr Sage Faulkner Larry Foster Shane R. Goemmer Lane Grau Jim Grider Anita Hand Nikki Hooser Heidi Humphries Seth Hyatt Jim Jackson Dustin Johnson Bobby Jones Stan Jones

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John Keck Deming Curt Kelling Cuervo David Kincaid Piñon Levi Klump Animas Justin Knight Tucumcari Marjorie Lantana Crownpoint Oliver (Sato) Lee Mountainair Boe Lopez Springer Bill Marley Roswell Kenneth McKenzie Encino Jeff Menges Safford, AZ Tom Mobley Dona Ana Louis Montoya La Plata Joe Bill Nunn Deming Tom Payne Roswell Kyle Perez Nara Visa John Richardson Winston Bob Ricklefs Cimarron Charlie Rogers Clovis John Romero Albuquerque Alfredo J. Roybal Santa Fe Carlos Salazar Medanales Troy Sauble Maxwell Tom Sidwell Tucumcari Becky Spindle Stanley Gary Stone Weed Kimberly Stone Capitan Felicia Thal Buena Vista Jim Thorpe Newkirk Bernarr Treat Roswell Mike Wear Hillsboro Randy White Albuquerque Steve Wilmeth Las Cruces Kendall Wilson Carrizozo

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Kris Wilson Bell Ranch Pat Woods Broadview

NON-VOTING MEMBERS:

Ryan Perry Allied Industries Committee

Susan Navarro Allied Industries Committee

Dr. Jim Libbin Interim Dean, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at NMSU

Dalene Hodnett N.M. CowBelles

Bob Homer NMCGA Insurance Administrators

Jim Lyssy Insurance Services of N.M.

ew Mexico Cattle Growers’ N Past Presidents * DECEASED *1914-1916 *1916-1918 *1918-1920 *1920-1922 *1922-1924 *1924-1926 *1926-1928 *1928-1930 *1930-1932 *1932-1934 *1934-1936 *1936-1938 *1938-1939 *1939-1941

Calvin Glenn Piños Altos Wm. Ray Morely Datil Victor Culberson Silver City T.E. Mitchell Albert Hugh L. Hodge Silver City C.M. O’Donel Bell Ranch Tom P. Talle Las Vegas T.A. Spencer Carrizozo Robert H. Royall Tyrone Albert K. Mitchell Albert Lee S. Evans Marquez A.D. Brownfield Deming Oliver M. Lee Alamogordo Con W. Jackson Las Vegas

*1941-1943 Tom Clayton Separ *1943-1946 E.G. Hayward Cimarron *1946-1948 George A. Godfrey Animas *1948-1950 G.W. Evans Magdalena *1950-1952 Roy Forehand Carlsbad *1952-1954 Ed Heringa Clayton *1954-1956 Sherwood Culberson Lordsburg *1956-1958 Dick Snyder Clayton *1958-1960 W.I. Driggers Santa Rosa *1960-1962 John Stark Deming 1962-1964 Will Orndorff Roswell *1964-1966 J.L. (Les) Davis Cimarron *1966-1968 Noel Rankin Silver City *1968-1970 W.O. Culbertson, Jr. Las Vegas *1970-1972 Reuben E. Pankey Santa Fe *1972 -1974 Alvin Stockton Raton *1974-1976 Charlie T. Lee Alamogordo *1976-1978 Albert J. Mitchell Albert *1978-1980 Phil Harvey, Sr. Cave Creek, AZ 1980-1982 Phillip Bidegain Tucumcari *1982-1984 Bob Jones Crow Flat 1984-1985 Don Hofman Tucumcari *1985-1987 Peter T. Mocho Belen *1987-1989 W.F. (Dub) Martin Santa Fe *1989-1991 H.W. (Bud) Eppers Roswell 1991-1993 Bill King Stanley 1993-1995 Wesley Grau Grady 1995-1997 Bill Humphries Tucumcari 1997-1999 Bob Frost San Jon *1999-2001 Jimmy R. Bason Hillsboro 2001-2003 Phil H. Bidegain Tucumcari 2003-2005 Don “Bebo” Lee Alamogordo 2005-2007 Bill Sauble Maxwell 2007-2009 Alisa Ogden Loving

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Bert Ancell Wagon Mound Rex Wilson Carrizozo

Cattleman of the Year

1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974

George Ellis George Cureton Prof. John Knox J.L. Doak Mrs. Linda Lambert A.B. Cox A.D. Brownfield George A. Godfrey Lee R. Hammond G.W. Evans Lee S. Evans Albert K. Mitchell Marshall Sellman Floyd W. Lee J.C. Neafus Joe Pankey Alvin M. Stockton Sherwood Culberson Noel Rankin W.O. Culbertson, Jr. George Pendleton R.E. Pankey Fred Daugherty

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he Bud Eppers Memorial T “Bud’s Contract” Award Winners 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Frank DuBois Las Cruces John Fowler, Ph.D. Las Cruces Howard Hutchinson Glenwood Ron White Monticello Caren Cowan Albuquerque Karen Budd-Falen Cheyenne, Wyo. Chris Allison Mesilla Park Mike Casabonne Hope Lewis Derrick Artesia Alice Eppers Roswell Nick Ashcroft Las Cruces Dr. Jerry Schickedanz Las Cruces Dr. Sam Smallidge Las Cruces Laura Schneberger Winston

This award is presented by the New Mexico Federal Lands Council

ruce and Alice King Service B Memorial Award 2009 Chuck Stocks Albuquerque 2010 Frank DuBois Las Cruces 2011 Linda Davis Cimarron 2012 Timothy Jennings Roswell 2012 Andy Nunez Hatch 2013 David Abbey Santa Fe 2014 New Mexico Department of Agriculture

Cattle Growers’ Committees (Note: Unless otherwise noted (*), all NMCGA members are welcome & entitled to vote in the committees of their choice.)

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1978 Ike Wiggins Wagon Mound

1979 Jerry Clayton Lovington

1980 A.F. (Frank) Flint Bard

1981 Charlie T. Lee Alamagordo 1982 Von Cain Mountainair 1983 Dick Snyder Clayton 1984 Jiggs Dinwiddie Jal 1984 Tom Linebery Kermit, TX 1985 Edith Pankey Truth or Consequences

1986 Bob Jones Crow Flat

1987 Phillip Bidegain Tucumcari

l988 H.W. (Bud) Eppers Roswell

1989 Don Hofman Tucumcari

1990 Linda Davis Cimarron

1991 Peter T. Mocho Belen

1992 Felicia Thal Buena Vista

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1994 Ben & Jane Cain Truth or Consequences

1995 Frank Dubois Las Cruces

1996 Huling “Jupe” Means Buckhorn

1997 Rob Cox Organ

1998 Bill Humphries Lindrith 1999 Rusty Tinnin Bell Ranch 2000 Oliver “Sato” Lee Mountainair 2001 Bob and Jane Frost San Jon 2002 Don Cullum Bakersfield, CA 2003 R.C. (Dick) Manning Deming 2004 Joe & Vivian Culbertson Amistad 2005 Jimmy R. Bason Hillsboro

2006 Phil H. Bidegan Tucumcari

2007 Gretchen Sammis Cimarron

2008 Don “Bebo” Lee Alamogordo

2009 Wesley Grau Grady

2010 Bill King Stanley

2011 Bob Ricklefs Cimarron 2012 Bill Sauble Springer 2013 Sterling Spencer Carrizozo 2014 Alisa Ogden Loving F E D ER

Ag Policy Committee Theft & Health Sub Committee

Curt Kelling, Cuervo Charlie Rogers, Clovis

Chairman Vice-Chairman­

Promotion & Marketing Sub Committee Alicia Sanchez, Belen Chairman Boe Lopez, Springer Vice-Chairman

Research & Improvement Sub Committee

Kris Wilson, Bell Ranch

Chairman

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Allied Industries Committee

Ryan Perry, Roswell Co-Chairman Susan Navarro, Los Lunas Co-Chairman

(All Allied Industries members are welcomed and encouraged to vote on this committee.)

Bruce Davis, Springer Bill King, Stanley

Membership Relations Committee Cross Cultural Sub Committee

Feeder Committee

Bill Sauble Maxwell Phil H. Bidegain Tucumcari

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Finance Committee

Rex Wilson, Carrizozo Chairman All Past Presidents as well as NMCGA Executive Committee

John Romero, Albuquerque Chairman Dustin Johnson, Farmington Co-Vice-Chairman

Membership Sub Committee

NMCGA Executive Committee

Public Relations Sub Committee

Becky Spindle, Stanley Chairman Scooter Sanchez, Belen Vice-Chairman

Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Sub Committee

Litigation Committee

Mike Casabonne, Chairman Hope Jim Jackson, Vice Chairman Albuquerque Howard Hutchinson Alma Jim Grider Carrizozo Bebo Lee Alamogordo Sato Lee Mountainair Alisa Ogden Loving

Crystal Diamond, Winston Chairman Seth Hyatt, Las Cruces Co-Vice-Chairman Kendall Wilson, Carrizozo Co-Vice-Chairman

Legislative Sub Committee

Pat Boone, Elida Chairman Nikki Hooser, Santa Fe Co-Vice-Chairman

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Natural Resources Committee Water Sub Committee

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Born and raised in Clovis, New Mexico, Pierce won his first trophy saddle in 1947 at a Clovis roping, and saw the potential to make good money. After his first year at Eastern NM University, B.J. hit the road with rodeo veteran, Shorty Matlock, and claimed the prize at more than a few events. After acquiring his prize horse, “Iodine”, Pierce continued to rodeo every summer until well into the 1960s, winning or placing at nearly every big show in the country, taking money away from San Francisco, Pendleton, Tucson, Denver, Salinas, Cheyenne, Reno, Omaha, Lewiston, New York, Klamath Falls, Kansas City, Vernon, Merced, and many others. But if cash was low on the road Shorty would arrange a foot race or quarter pitching contest, always relying on B.J.’s speed to win any race.

Pierce and Cotton Rosser of San Luis Obispo, California were two contemporary cowboys who considered rodeo a means to finance their education. In just his first two summers of traveling with Shorty, Pierce won enough prize money to fully pay his and his wife’s college tuition. As a graduate of Eastern New Mexico University with a Master’s Degree in Education, Pierce is fondly recalled by many in the Clovis area as an elementary teacher and principal.

In 1952, Pierce won the coveted Champions Cup at the 2nd Annual Clovis Championship Roping in Clovis hosted by the Clovis Mounted Patrol, which touted a $10,000 purse. His average time of 71.6 beat the second place roper, Don McLaughlin of Smithfield, TX (1990 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee) by a full five seconds! At age 22, B.J. had shown his mettle in his home arena against 16 veteran ropers including Troy Fort (1986 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee); John D. Holleyman of Ysleta, Texas: Toots Mansfield (1981 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee); Roy Lewis (2011 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee); Junior Vaughn of Elida, New Mexico; Buddy Groff (2000 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee); Lanham Riley (1993 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee); Ray Wharton (1994 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee); Doyle Riley (1998 Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee), and more. At the time, Pierce was quoted as saying, “The calves were big ‘mussy sons of a gun” with a bunch of Brahman in them.” His prize money was $3,400 but the man who

won the Calcutta, through B.J.’s win, paid him another $1,000. In today’s dollars, the $500 entry fee he paid would calculate to almost $4,500 and the winnings would compare to a payoff of $35,700.

He finished third in the Rodeo Cowboys Association (now PRCA) world standing for three consecutive years from 1951 through 1953. Pierce sports a belt buckle with three diamonds that represent three calf roping championships at Pendleton, OR. He remains and is the only calf roper to have earned the title three times at Pendleton.

While competing at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Pierce was approached by a talent scout. B.J. wired home that he was going to be “rich &

famous”. The scout presented B.J. and a few other cowboys to a prospective client, who looked them over from head to toe and watched them walk. But when they had him take his hat off, that nearly bald head doomed the deal! He wired back home, “No hair. No Money.” Pierce traveled from Madison Square Garden straight across country to the Cow Palace in California in just a few days. And once made the trip to compete in Havana, Cuba.

He served as the Rodeo Cowboys Association’s Calf Roping Director in 1956, and was named All-Around Cowboy at the San Angelo, Texas Stock Show Rodeo that same year. Author Willard H. Porter (Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee – 1991) included B.J. Pierce in his 1967 book “13 Flat”, stating,

“When B.J. leaves his horse he goes to the calf in a quick, running motion. He gets there as fast as any man in the game.

He is fast and furious in his ground-work movements, hardly ever making a bobble.

He’s always ready and on his toes, never off balance.”

In keeping with his fun-loving style, B.J. ended his Rodeo Hall of Fame induction speech by saying that he could finally retire now that he had “been awarded this high honor.” He is now home in Clovis planning his big 90th birthday celebration for late August 2016. With a lifetime of friends, family and 33 years of elementary school students, it’s bound to be a big deal.

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ollowing last month’s milestone decision to keep the beleaguered greater sage grouse off the endangered species listing, federal agencies in Utah have temporarily closed more than 233,000 acres of public and national forest lands for up to two years while they determine if the lands’ importance to the ground-based bird habitat is such that they should be made off limits for a longer period.

The temporary closure would not affect existing permitted activities on the lands with the shutdown only applying prospectively, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said. The federal agencies are taking comments on the proposal through December 23. BLM and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced the start of the arcane process under the 1872 Mining Law with a publication in the Federal Register September 24, shutting out the lands to any new mining activity for the interim two-year period.

Two days earlier, the Obama administration decided to protect the greater sage grouse with public-private conservation programs at the state level and not through listing of the ground-dwelling bird under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Interior Secretary Sally Jewell called the public-private effort the largest land conservation effort ever undertaken (see Daily GPI, September 22).

The effort is “consistent with the unprecedented effort to conserve the greater sage grouse and its habitat,” a BLM Utah spokesperson said. An interactive map of the areas included in the closure is available on the BLM Utah website.

During the temporary segregation period, the BLM and USFS will complete environmental analyses to determine if the lands should be formally withdrawn to protect the sage grouse habitat.

“The process will invite participation by the public, tribes, environmental groups, industry, state and local government, as well as other stakeholders,” the spokesperson said. The federal agencies said neither the temporary closure or a permanent one would stop ongoing or future mineral exploration or extraction operations for operators with “valid pre-existing mining claims.” Other preauthorized activities similarly could take place.

Under the Federal Land Policy & Management Ac (FLPMA)t, the Interior Sec-

retary can withdraw the lands for a maximum of 20 years, and that can be extended.

BLM’s acting director in Utah, said the overall sage grouse conservation strategy is driven by a search for balance between habitat protection and resource development on public lands.

“The BLM’s land use plans were a key element in the Fish and Wildlife Service’s determination that the greater sage grouse no longer needs the protections of the Endangered Species Act, and the future of the bird depends on the successful implementation of these plans,” Whitlock said.

The BLM’s decision to defer leasing in parts in Utah comes during an overall decline in drilling activity. Utah accounted for roughly 2.1 percent of all oil and gas rigs working in the United States during the summer of 2012, but had just five operating rigs during the week ended October 9, 2015, good for just 0.6 percent of the national total.

First-Ever NWSS Angus Pen Heifer Show

Sign up by Nov. 20 to take part in this one-of-a-kind opportunity at the National Western. or generations, the carload and pen Angus bull show has been a unique tradition at the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver, Colo. New this year, exhibitors can enter their registered-Angus heifers in the competition that ranks their ability to present a uniform group of cattle.

The first-ever NWSS Angus Pen Heifer Show will take place Jan. 16, 2016, down in the Yards.

“We’re really looking forward to hosting the pen show for Angus heifers this year,” says Jaclyn Clark, American Angus Association events and education director.

“The breed’s leading maternal traits will be on display as breeders take part in this one-of-a-kind competition.”

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Nov. 20 is the ownership and entry deadline for all participants in the carload and pen show, SuperPoint Roll of Victory (ROV) and junior Angus shows.

No late entries will be accepted, and exhibitors can sign up online at www.nationalwestern.com.

Association events during the NWSS kick off with the Angus Bull Sale Show at 8 a.m. Jan. 13, 2016, and continue through Jan. 16, 2016.

The Marriott City Center Denver will again serve as the headquarter hotel for the week’s events, and participants are encouraged to go online and book their rooms early. For more details on the Angus activities during the NWSS, visit www.angus.org.

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agricultural procedures and innovations by planting experimental cotton and alfalfa seed varieties, and by improving water use efficiency, to name a few. He was one of the first farmers in the Pecos Valley to own a laser plane. Jim served on the boards of Carlsbad Irrigation District, N.M. Crop Improvement Association, N.M.Cotton Advisory Committee, and was a member of numerous other civic, agriculture, and community organizations.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church Carlsbad and attended FPC Ruidoso while residing in their second home in San Patricio. Jim and Sue were active supporters of NMSU and the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, and received the A J Crawford Pioneer Award in 1995 from the Carlsbad Foundation. In 1981, Jim was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni by the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at NMSU. In 1988, on the 100th Anniversary of NMSU, Jim was honored as one of the Ag College’s 100 Outstanding Graduates. Jim is survived by his children:

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Susan Ogden Benting, Nashville, Tennessee; Karen Ogden Cortese (husband, Nick), Ft. Sumner; Alisa Ogden, Loving, and Craig William Ogden (wife, Teresa), Loving; grandchildren Alana Benting Garcia, (husband, Ernesto); Jay Cortese and wife Tara; Michael Benting and fiance Diane Hutchinson; Ross Cortese; Brett Cortese; Joseph Ogden (wife,) Tessa: Linsey Ogden; and Jay Cody Stell; and five great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law Ann Langlinais, Elizabeth Smith, brother-in-law Harlen Smith; and two nephews.

Joseph William Blair, Lordsburg, passed away October 11, 2015, at his home. Joe was born April 8, 1932, to William Oscar and Mary Wilmoth Blair in Safford, Arizona. He attended his first grade of schooling in Eden, with his mother as his teacher. The next few years of school were in Aravaipa and Klondyke, then he went to sixth grade in Safford through his sophomore year. He graduated from Morenci High School in 1949. He attended the University of Arizona, majoring in animal science. While at the university, he lived in the Aggie House and was on the rodeo team. He went to work for the university farm in Tucson, graduating with a master’s degree in 1957. He spent his entire life in agriculture, starting his career with the Valley National Bank as its agricultural loan officer and then for Ray Cowden Livestock. He eventually found his way back to the Gila Valley, where he farmed for many years. Joe was a prominent cattle buyer and alfalfa hay grower and broker in Arizona, and then expanded his operations into New Mexico. He was one of the largest hay traders in northwest New Mexico and eastern Arizona.

Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com.

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

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

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*NEW* 100 Head Scenic Ranch, Benson, AZ – +/-40 Acre deeded forest inholding, USFS Middle Canyon Allotment, 3 corrals, 5 wells, 3 dirt tanks, 8 springs 8 water storages, 8 pastures. Abundant feed! Don’t miss this incredibly scenic ranch. $699,000 *NEW* 65+/- Acre Farm, Benson, AZ – 800 gpm well with a 450 gpm pump irrigating 23+/- acres of Bermuda pasture. Custom 3BR, 2 BA Home with hickory cabinetry in the kitchen, wrap around 11’ porch, large workshop with concrete floor, equipment shed and fish pond stocked with large mouth bass. $610,000 Virden, NM – +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights. Pastures recently planted in Bermuda. Currently running 50 head of cattle. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena.

Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses or cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios,$550,000 Terms.

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

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

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Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane Red Top Ranch: 3,800 deeded acres in SE AZ. Priced at $197 per deeded acre. Walter Lane Wildhorse Basin Ranch: Yavapai county, 864 deeded, 6701 State Lease, $3,900,000. Con Englehorn

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Crooked H: Central AZ, 126 Sections, 450 head Winter Range/664 summer Range. $2,375,000. Traegen Knight Tres Alamos Ranch/Farm, Benson AZ: 668 acres deeded W/200 irrigated, shallow water, 3 Pivots, present owners running 200 head yearlong. Priced at $2,500,000. Walter Lane Liberty Ranch: 1917 Deeded aces in SE Arizona. $950,000.

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

High Productivity Sub Irrigated Grass Unit, 624.027± deeded acres plus 178± acres grazing. Has supported 80-100 cows since November 2012, with winter supplementation.

Exceptional grass producing unit surrounds lake 11 of Maxwell Conservancy and has 70 irrigation shares out of Stubblefield Reservoir. $1,150/ deeded acre.

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Maxwell Farm, 280 +/- deeded acres.

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

Miami Mountain View. 80± deeded acres w/80 water shares & house. $510,000.

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

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

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

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

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

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ANTON CHICO RANCH: 3,057 deeded acres located within the Anton Chico Land Grant south of I-25 between Santa Fe, NM and Las Vegas, NM in San Miguel County. The Pecos River forms the southern boundary with the Santa Fe National Forest on the property’s northern boundary. Rolling terrain with a scattering of cedar, juniper and piñon trees. Partitioned into 4 pastures with one well (not in use), pipeline and surface tanks. No structural improvements. Access is primitive and there are no utilities extended to the property. Priced to sell at $700,000 JACKSON RANCH: 8,000 ± acres of excellent grass country located 45 miles northwest of Roswell, along the Chaves/Lincoln County line.

Grazing Capacity owner controlled estimated at 200 AUYL. Nice, functional improvements watered by two wells and an extensive water pipeline system. Price: $2,500,000 TOLAND RANCH: Small ranch property located near Cedarvale, NM in Torrance County. Just 15 minutes from the Cibola National Forest and the Gallinas Mountains. Comprised of 1,440 deeded acres situated in two noncontiguous tracts separated by State Highway 42. The north tract is fenced with one water well equipped with an electric submersible pump.

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3225 THREE SAINTS ROAD, LAS CRUCES, NM - 10 acres total w/approximately 5.5 acres of pecans & 8.09 acres of water rights. Trees are on Netafim sprinkler system which uses considerably less water than traditional flood irrigation. Property can be flood irrigated also if desired. Farm also includes a 60 x 40 Mueller building, shipping connex set on a slab & a 2000 Palm Harbor single-wide in great shape. $299,900 CUNNINGHAM ROAD, LAS CRUCES, NM - 5.76 acres of mature pecans just south of town. Property has a 4” electric irrigation well & full EBID rights. $175,000 20.86 ACRE PECAN ORCHARD JUST OFF CARVER ROAD, LAS CRUCES, NM - Property has good access, cement ditches, 2 irrigation wells & full EBID rights. This is a nice, mature orchard w/development potential. - $572,000 Orchard may also be purchased w/additional 1.25 acres (for a total of 22.11 acres) & a wonderful 2869 sq. ft. 4br/3ba home. Home includes refrigerated air, beautiful yard w/gazebo & in-ground pool, workshop, 2 car garage, & much more.

Orchard & home priced at $851,000 HIGHWAY 478, SOUTH OF VADO, NM - 7+/- acres of mature pecan trees w/ EBID & ground water rights (includes irrigation well). The property includes a large equipment shed partially enclosed w/office/apartment & a single-wide home w/6 stick-framed stucco additions to put the square footage at almost 2400 sq. ft. $299,000 27.5 ACRE FARM IN SAN MIGUEL, NM - consists of 3 tracts (two 8 acre tracts & 11.5 ac tract) will sell each tract separately for $19,000/acre. Full EBID & irrigation well, community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Take Highway 28 south to San Miguel, east or left on Hwy 192, first right or south on Las Colmenas, then DAN DELANEY east on Camunez to end of REAL ESTATE, LLC pavement. Priced at $399,000

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

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RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE n EQUINE HAVEN – Deaf Smith Co., TX. - 15 ac. +/- of choice property located adjacent to the city limits on Hereford’s north side. Homes, barns, saddle shop (no equipment or furnishings), numerous horse stalls w/runs, automatic waterers, 11 lots platted, property zoned for horses & livestock, round pen & large arena, on pvmt. & all-weather road. Owner motivated! n RAILROAD SPUR & GRAIN ELEVATOR –fully operational railroad spur & grain elevator in top condition w/recent renovation of leg. Facility is located at cross roads of I20 & US 84, has great lease income! Sweetwater, TX area. n RANCHO PEQUENIO – ½ mile E. of Sudan, NM, 320 ac. +/-, all native grass, new fencing, domestic well w/sub, ½ mi. hwy. frontage, one mile of all-weather road. n MIAMI, TX. – Edge of town, 137 ac. +/- well improved w/home, barns, pens, etc., adj. 1,200 ac. of native grass & 1,089 ac. of native grass adjacent to Miami airport. Can sell tracts together or separately!

We currently have a cash buyer for 200 - 3,000 acres of grassland, combination grass/cultivated land or straight cultivated land in the area between Dallas & Houston (or perhaps further East) with or without improvements.

Brokers welcome!

n UNION CO., NM – Pinabetes/Tramperos Creeks Ranch – super country w/super improvements & livestock watering facilities, 4,650 deeded, 3,357 State Lease, one irr. well with ¼ mi. pivot sprinkler for supplemental feed, excellent access via pvmt. & all weather roads. n QUAY CO., NM – Box Canyon Ranch – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. deeded, 80 ac. State Lease, excellent access from I40.

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Canadian River Canyon Ranch – 3918 deeded acres near Roy, two miles of river. Abundant wildlife and unlimited landowner elk permits! Easy access, electricity to property, great value at $455/acre. $1,785,000 Peña Blanca Farm – Charming 21-acre irrigated farm on the Rio Grande just minutes from both Santa Fe and Albuquerque! Pre-1907 water rights, small house, hay barn, and shed. Owner financing available. $575,000 Pecos River Ranch – 1481 deeded acres with over 3 miles of exceptional Pecos River frontage! Unique spring-fed river, great bass fishing, lots of wildlife.

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n CONCHOS LAKE AREA – well improved 11 section ranch +/-, mostly deeded w/small amt. of BLM & State, homes, barns, pens, watered by subs & mills at shallow depth just off pvmt., on co. road.

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n STATE OF THE ART – Clayton, NM area, 1,600 deeded ac. +/-, plus 80 ac. +/- State lease, home, barn & pens in excellent condition, all weather CR road. n CAPITAN GAP 80 ACRES – NE of Capitan, NM, south of the Capitan Gap & joins the Forest w/the village of Lincoln being just a few miles away.

One elk permit is allowed. Good access & electricity close. Scenic! n BEAUTIFUL AREA, DEV. POTENTIAL – Alto/Capitan, NM – 8,060 ac. +/- (deeded, Forest & State Lease) super location w/pvmt. on two sides in close proximity to the Capitan/Alto 15.6434 ac. property w/tremendous pens & improvements. n CUCHARAS RIVER RANCH – Huerfano Co.,CO - buy this well located, choice, grama/western wheat grass ranch & develop the really scenic parts of the ranch for residential subdivisions w/10, 20, 40, 100 acre tracts. 12, 088 deeded ac. +/- w/an addtl. 33,000 deeded ac. +/- available for sale across the hwy., addtl. perks, hunting, fishing, recreation w/a large lake on the ranch together w/the Cucharas River, Santa Clara & Sand Creeks. n HARDING CO. – Starter ranch, 1,875 deeded ac. +/-, 901.9 ac. +/- CRP, well-watered w/subs, mills & pipeline, 3 bdrm./2 bath brick home, garage, shop/ livestock, metal barn & pens, 7 miles fr. town, co. road. n PICK THE SIZE OF RANCH YOU WANT – Let’s divide this 10,432 ac. +/- ranch in the Matador Texas area, large lake w/permits for dam & right-toimpound in place to add tremendous aesthetic value to the ranch together w/hunting, boating, fishing, commercial & residential development potential.

Can be bought by the pasture or in multiple pastures. n PRICE REDUCED! TRIPLE DRAW RANCH – Crockett, Co. - 1,458 +/ac. high-fence ranch, well improved w/hunting lodge, good hunting including axis. Good access w/hwy. frontage. n HIGH RAINFALL! ADA, OK. AREA – 3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, will divide! n UNION CO., NM – Amistad area, 976.42 ac. w/612 ac. formerly under pivot irr., presently enrolled in CRP @ $45.60 per acre, per year, irr. wells & pivot points all connected w/UG pipe.

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Doll Baby Ranch, Payson AZ 175 head, 148 acres deeded w/36,000 forest allotment. Grandfathered Water Rights off of live water, 1½ hour north of Phoenix, AZ. Price Reduced to $2,750,000 Slash TL Ranch, Tombstone AZ. 14,000 acres, 300 head yearlong, improvements need attention. Priced @$1,500,000 Lazy NJ Ranch, Gleeson AZ. 7060 acres, 150 head yearlong, strong grass country. Priced @$1,350,000 Hunt Ranch Douglas AZ. 2462 acres with 2500 state lease, 103 head yearlong, well watered, easy to operate, paved access. Priced @$1,245,500 Goodman Ranch, Virden NM/Duncan AZ. 640 deeded, W/2120 NM State and BLM lease lands. The carrying capacity is for 50 head year long, all improvements are in great condition.

This is one of the BEST little Ranches in the area. Priced below current appraised value. Price $540,000.00

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Government Food Fights

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emember when margarine was the latest greatest thing and it was so much healthier than butter?

Remember when salt was bad for you, and everyone, including your wife and Mayor Bloomberg, wanted to eliminate it from your diet? While Michelle Obama removed all salt shakers from the school cafeteria and let’s not even get started on the dangers of red meat.

Now we know that the field of nutrition, much like climate change, is always changing and what was out of your diet last year should be in this year.

Coffee, eggs, fats, the list goes on & on.

In fact the science is so fluid that recently the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the group that helps shape USDA’s dietary recommendations, recently

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concluded that “available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and [blood] cholesterol.” So although the dietary guidelines have cautioned against cholesterol heavy foods for 40 years, they have now removed any warning about their consumption. This must be a relief to egg farmers since per capita egg consumption has dropped about 30 percent from 1961 when the American Heart Association first issued the warning.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is also revising their recommendations having recently stated that “There is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease.” This after a researcher discovered that people who consumed more milk fat had lower incidence of heart disease.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, is also getting in on the act, issuing a statement expressing their concern about the science behind government’s salt advice.

“The current [salt] guidelines are based on almost nothing,” said Suzanne Oparil, a former president of the American Heart Association and a distinguished professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Some people really want to hang onto this belief system on salt. But they are ignoring the evidence.”

This all comes on the heels of the decision by U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services to not include the issue of sustainability in the 2015 dietary guidelines. “We will remain within the scope of our mandate ... which is to provide nutritional and dietary information,” they wrote in a joint statement. “We do not believe that the 2015 DGAs [Dietary Guidelines for Americans] are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability.”

There had been an effort by the environmentalist movement to include in the guidelines a recommendation against red meat consumption because of its “negative effect on the environment.” This would be a blatant disregard of the nutritional aspects of beef in favor of an agenda.

In fact, did you know that the American Heart Association’s “Heart-Smart” label now is displayed on eight cuts of lean beef? So why would the government want to eliminate it from your diet? Because the National Resources Defense Council claims that cattle flatulence is causing global warming.

Fortunately, government agencies declined to yield to environmental activists, this time. But the guidelines are revised every five years so this will continue to be a perennial food fight. We need to stay vigilant and participate in the process by reminding our neighbors that like the science of nutrition, like the science of global warming, there are changes that occur every day and government recommendations should not be based on a scin ence that cannot be substantiated.

An insult to ag producers

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n January 2015, Michael Moss, a writer for the New York Times who has a history of sensationalism as it relates to food and animal agriculture, wrote an article alleging inhumane practices at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) here in Clay Center, Nebraska. In response, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Inspector General (USDA OIG) began a review of USMARC practices and overall operations, and released its interim report.

Despite USDA affirming it stands behind USMARC’s protocols and scientists, the article, “Animal activists condemn USDA interim report on Clay Center,” (LJS, Oct. Oct. 4) included only the perspectives of critics. The article even quoted Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States – an organization dedicated to ending animal agriculture – without a single account from a Nebraskan employed or impacted

by USMARC. Mr. Pacelle criticized the OIG finding that many allegations hurled in the Times piece were practices “in line with industry norms.” What does this mean? It means what Michael Moss saw at USMARC was in

many ways consistent with what he would see on any farm. Piglet mortality, predation, and inclement weather are complications you would find on operations of all sizes using a variety of production practices. To suggest such incidents occur because of carelessness or negligence is an insult to producers, who are animal lovers by nature, feed their families the very products they grow, and understand healthy, comfortable animals are far more sustainable.

Other allegations addressed in the interim report include the claim that USMARC does not employ enough veterinarians to provide proper animal care and oversight, which is patently untrue. The report explains the Center’s Veterinary Medical Officer (VMO) has the right to attend any and all medical procedures, and reviews health records to ensure proper animal care. The VMO is assisted by an experienced research technician and four additional veterinarians employed onsite by the Great Plains Veterinary Education Center – well beyond standard practice.

The OIG also responded to the notion that USMARC exists primarily to “help producers of beef, pork and lamb turn a higher profit ... ,” an idea which completely disregards the food safety and secu-

rity, improved animal handling, nutrition enhancement, and resource protection research happening at the Center every day.

Employees at USMARC surely are baffled by the struggle to garner support right here at home. The center is quite literally the envy of agriculture researchers worldwide. The research there is a cooperative effort between producers, veterinarians, scientists and other stakeholders to improve animal health and food safety, and the contention that their practices are anything less than humane has no basis in reality. Ignoring science and refusing to embrace agriculture research will only result in putting growers of all sizes out of business and increasing the cost of food.

Don’t be fooled by carefully constructed articles and soundbites by animal activists.

Extremists know there is a growing gap between food and farming, and they continue to use misinformation to drive an agenda beyond improving animal welfare.

Agriculture – especially animal agriculture – is not always pretty, but it’s not a secret.

If you want to know more about where your food comes from, there are experts across Nebraska who welcome questions n along with open, honest dialogue.

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Red-Headed Step Child No More

by SHARON NIEDERMAN

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ary Dobry of the Lazy D Ranch in Hobbs, began her Red Angus herd in 1962. “When I started, it was not a popular breed; there weren’t many breeders,” she says. “But I’m a single lady, I ranch by myself, and it’s such a wonderful breed to work with. They are easy keepers, even through the drought, with a wonderful disposition. Their disposition is just outstanding,” says the former vice-president of the Southwest Red Angus Association “It’s really rewarding to me that buyers come back year after year. When I started, you could hardly find a red cow in the pastures when you were on the road. Now, when I drive around the country, my head keeps almost spinning around with all the red I see. I drive around wondering: is that one of my bulls?”

Current association president Tim Head concurs. “Twenty years ago Red Angus was the seventh or eighth most popular breed in the nation. It’s up to fourth or fifth now.”

Red Angus cattle do well even in the meager range of the arid southwest.

Indeed, the Red Angus became the “red-headed step-child” in 1916, when the Angus association disallowed registration of the genetically identical recessive

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breeder’s organization known as the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA), today headquartered in Denton, Texas.

They acquired the reds out of black herds with the intention of developing an excellent breed that could stand on its own. Their goal: To use every scientific method and data measurement available to make Red Angus the most profitable Tim Head says Red Angus-sired calves have produced any- breed on the market to where from $10-$50 per calf over all other crossbreed calves crossbreed for beef cattle. sold.

The Southwest Red Red-Headed Stepchild Angus Association now continued from page 114 has 17 active members who ranch within a region that extends from the northern be born with red hides.

In response, toward the end of WW II, border of Arizona to Southern California in 1945, several U.S. cattlemen started and the Pacific Ocean and includes Ariselecting and breeding reds that had been zona, New Mexico, and the semi-arid descropped from the best black Aberdeen ert of West Texas.

The organization serves its members Angus herds in America. Then, in 1954, seven breeders gathered to establish a by maintaining ads in targeted publica-

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try. They include: ease of becoming pregnant; calving ease; richness and quality of milk; maintenance energy, that is how much forage is required to reproduce; and stayability, or sturdiness, as to how long it remains in the herd.

Now the association has developed two new EPDs. They are the Grid Master, a complex measure of carcass quality that includes the ribeye area, back fat, and marbling; and the Herd Builders, that is, the identification of individual animals whose progeny contributes to the profitability of the herd.

The Total Herd Reporting of Red Angus creates a more truthful form of reporting, Head says, because it disallows selective data.

“The Red Angus are hot,” says Head, of Quality Genetics Red Angus. “I sell everything I can raise private treaty, right off my land.” According to Head, using data acquired from livestock auctions, Red Angus-sired calves have produced anywhere from $10-$50 per calf over all other crossbreed calves sold.

According to the Red Angus Association of America’s first executive secretary, Sally Forbes, “Waldo Forbes, Sr. (the organization’s first president) was above all interested in developing a breed performance program rather than building a new breed for its own sake and the charter members of the Association were...much of the same mind.” So, from the beginning, performance data was required for registration of all cattle. The ultimate goal was to initiate a system to objectively evaluate and select cattle based on traits of economic importance.

“Over a variety of fronts, the RAAA has either led the industry or been an early adopter of new technologies. This maverick attitude allowed the RAAA to adopt philosophies and technologies that were deemed too risky or unconventional by n other associations.”

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ssociations of farmers and ranchers in the Southwest have just moved to intervene to oppose an activist group’s lawsuit that seeks to radically expand prosecutions under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. The activist lawsuit aims to impose criminal liability for “takes” (i.e., harms) that happen by innocent mistake, such as by not recognizing the species, or not knowing it was listed, or causing harm in an entirely inadvertent and unintended way.

The activist lawsuit is Wild-Earth Guardians v. U.S. Department of Justice, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The organizations that filed a motion to intervene are: the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, and New Mexico Federal Lands Council. They are all represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), the leading watchdog organization for limited government, property rights and a balanced approach to environmental regulations. Donor-supported PLF represents these organizations free of charge, as with all PLF clients.

The clear language of the ESA spares innocent people from prosecution by limiting criminal liability to offenders who “knowingly” harmed a listed species.

Under what is officially known as the McKittrick Policy, the U.S. Department of Justice interprets the “knowingly” requirement in the term’s literal sense, so that criminal liability does not apply unless the defendant knew that her actions would cause “take” and the identity of the species affected.

WildEarth Guardians is suing to invalidate that DOJ interpretation and policy, and twist the ESA’s intent, by imposing criminal liability even when there is no knowing commission of a wrong. The law-

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suit is directed at harms to Mexican wolves in the Southwest, but its effects would extend nationwide, to “takes” of any of the more than 1,500 species on the ESA list.

Law-abiding Americans are at risk of being branded environmental offenders

“This lawsuit is yet another disturbing example of overcriminalization,” said PLF Staff Attorney Jonathan Wood. “It threatens law-abiding Americans with imprisonment for innocent, ordinary acts, and it threatens the rule of law by seeking to have a statute rewritten by judicial edict.

The plaintiffs are asking the courts to ignore that Congress only permits those who ‘knowingly’ take a species protected by the Endangered Species Act to be subject to severe criminal penalties.

“For western farmers and ranchers, the immediate concern is that they could face criminal penalties for mistaking a protected wolf for a coyote, or for inadvertently and unintentionally harming any of the dozens of other ESA-listed species that call the Southwest home,” Wood noted. “But WildEarth Guardians’ lawsuit will affect more than farmers and cattlemen. Literally every American could face some level of potential risk, because activities that we take for granted—including driving, biking, or walking—could lead to criminal punishment if you somehow harm one of the more than 1500 species on the ESA list.”

“If this lawsuit is successful, there could be grave consequences for ranchers in New Mexico,” said Caren Cowan, Executive Director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. “If a rancher attempts to protect her animals from what she honestly and reasonably believes to be a predator that isn’t covered by the ESA, that rancher will be in danger of fines and imprisonment if she turns out to be mistaken in that belief. This would be an unjust and oppressive punishment for innocent actions by ranchers who are simply trying to be responsible stewards and protect their livelihoods, in a good-faith and law-abiding way.”

“Without the protection afforded by the McKittrick Policy, New Mexico’s farmers and ranchers could lose everything they have,” said Chad Smith, CEO for New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau. “There are many situations that can lead to the accidental killing of an endangered species and this policy is the only thing that prevents a mistake from becoming jail time.”

The case is WildEarth Guardians v. U.S. Department of Justice.

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Does EPA Need Guns, Ammo and Armor to Protect the Environment?

by STEPHEN MOORE, NEWS.INVESTORS.COM

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he Environmental Protection Agency spent millions of dollars over the last decade on guns, ammo, body armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned aircraft, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear and other military-style weaponry and surveillance activities, according to a new report by the watchdog group Open the Books.

The report raises questions about why EPA’s enforcement division employs wellarmed “special agents” who appear to be conducting SWAT-type operations on American businesses and households it suspects of wrongdoing.

Illinois-based Open the Books scanned tens of thousands of checks written by the EPA and totaling more than $93 billion from 2000 to 2014.

The audit discovered hundreds of millions of dollars of questionable expenses, including high-end luxury furnishings, sports equipment and “environmental justice” grants to raise awareness of global warming.

It also revealed that seven of 10 EPA workers make more than $100,000 a year and that more than 12,000 of its nearly 16,000 employees were given bonuses last year despite agency budgets that were supposed to be constrained by budget caps and sequester cuts.

EPA’s $8 billion budget also found room for more than 1,000 attorneys, which would make the agency one of the largest law firms in the nation.

And more than $50 million of EPA funds since 2000 went to international organizations — dollars that flowed to countries such as China and Mexico. These activities appear to have little or no connection to the EPA mandate of safeguarding the air and water here in the U.S. But the eye-grabber in the report is the agency’s ongoing military-type purchases.

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industry and preparing to use deadly force to enforce EPA edicts.

“We were shocked ourselves to find these kind of pervasive expenditures at an agency that is supposed to be involved in clean air and clean water,” said Open the Books’ founder, Adam Andrzejewski.

“Some of these weapons are for full-scale military operations.”

Those who keep an eye on the agency have also been stunned by such outlays.

“EPA has always been primarily an agency that is involved in analysis and regulation. Even its enforcement arm is mainly involved in litigation,” notes Marlo Lewis, who covers environmental issues for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

“Since when did we start going down this road of allowing agencies of government to engage in military-style operations?”

In 2013, the EPA was involved in what many residents called an armed raid at a small town in Alaska where local miners were accused of polluting local waters. Fox News reported that EPA “armed agents in full body armor participated.”

The Justice Department has reported that there are now 40 federal agencies with more than 100,000 officers authorized to carry guns and make arrests. They include the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Park Service.

EPA has numerous joint projects with the Homeland Security Department. In 1988 the agency’s criminal enforcement division was granted police powers.

The EPA website describes the activities and mission of the criminal enforcement division as “investigating cases, collecting evidence, conducting forensic analyses and providing legal guidance to assist in the prosecution of criminal conduct that threatens people’s health and the environment.” But nothing about the use of lethal force.

Asked for comment on the Open the Books findings, EPA said purchases of armaments are necessary for “environmental crime-fighting.”

“For more than 30 years,” it said, “there has been broad, bipartisan agreement about the importance of an armed, fully-equipped team of EPA agents working with state and federal partners to uphold the law and protect Americans.”

The equipment is needed to “access potential crime scenes as quickly as possible,” it added.

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EPA expenditures on “criminal enforcement”

■ $1.4 million for ‘guns up to 300mm” ■ $683,000 for ‘communications security equipment” ■ $300,000 in “infrared technology for homeland security needs” ■ $380,000 for “ammunition” ■ $210,000 for “camouflage & other deceptive equipment” ■ $208,000 for “radar & night-vision equipment” ■ $58,000 in “miscellaneous weapons” ■ $31,000 for “armament training devices” ■ $42,000 for “special ammunition” ■ $118,000 for “urgently needed police radios” Source: Open the Books

more than 30 years at the agency says of the Open the Books report: “EPA has been increasingly captured by the environmental left, and the purchases of military-style armaments has increased accordingly.”

The new report comes at a time when the EPA is under fire over a new regulation approved by the agency to tighten ozone emission rules. The National Association of Manufacturers calls it one of the most expensive EPA rules ever.

There’s also a fight in Washington over whether federal agencies can withstand another sequester spending reduction without jeopardizing vital services. The White House says further agency cuts would be disastrous.

But reports such as the latest by Open the Books are sure to be promoted by Republicans as evidence of rampant waste and misspending.

Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation

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Ellen Degeneres Pizza LUNATICS DEMAND ELLEN DEGENERES REMOVE LEATHER FROM CLOTHING LINE! OH, NO! Care2 gathered more than 1,800 signatures! To the dismay of animal rights activists and vegan martyrs, her “luxury lifestyle” brand of clothing has added a $250 pair of Brazilian shoes.

I would guess Ellen is a pretty tough cookie. She has promoted herself as a vegan and animal rights advocate. Now she’s offended them. It’s common whenever the extremist’s lobbyists get their claws into susceptible, famous prey like Ellen, they cling like kudzu. Some quotes of her predators now heaping shame and disappointment on her: “I’m so saddened…”, “…I hope our voices will remind her…”, “…it isn’t just heart breaking, it’s baffling.”

Lately Ms. DeGeneres has moved off the end of animal right and vegan activism. She was thrown insults by the parasitic extremists for treating her crew to a pizza party. The pizza was contaminated with cheese! Not a felony in the real world where now less than 2 percent of the U.S. population claims to be some sort of vegetarian, and the number is declining.

She also became the face of Cover Girl, which tests on animals and is not plant-based. Would they rather test on humans, maybe Syrian refugees pounding at the gates of Europe? Ms. De explained her vegetarian choice because, “I’ve never seen a happy cow.”

She lives in a different world than most of us. She has gone

overboard to help causes she believes in, but time goes by and the edge wears smoother. I don’t think she hates 98 percent of Americans because we eat steak, chicken nuggets, BBQ ribs, Ben and Jerry’s, pizza and yogurt. It’s likely that her television audience is made up of regular people, 98 percent of whom eat meat and don’t protest Cover Girl.

We live in a real world. In her world it is hard to see us in the audience when the stage lights are bright. She is limited to advisors that she pays. Eventually a performer, politician, or columnist begins to believe that he or she knows more than their fans. The logic is, if they like me, then I really must know what I’m talking about! And their enabling sycophants lead them around by the nose.

Care2 claims 32 million members. They stirred up 1,800 petition signatures and called it a “Massive Back Lash!” Ms. De’s television audience when she last hosted the Oscars in 2014 was 44 million. If she’d asked for a show of hands from the 44 million head audience, how many of them liked cheese on their pizza, whataya think?

She has done well as an entertainer. Any entrepreneur who becomes successful the hard way deserves credit and, she may not be as gullible as it seems. Or maybe she’s beginning to walk in our shoes for a while? I’ve seen thousands of contented cows.

I also have a personal reason to tell her to “stand her ground”.

The first time I was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, the show ran long and I was the last act to appear that night.

In Johnny’s sign-off he apologized for not having the time for another guest waiting in the Green Room, “An up and coming young comedienne, Ellen Degeneres, maybe next week.”

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New Mexico’s Old Times and Old Timers

By DON BULLIS . . . Don Bullis is the author of ten books on New Mexico. Go to www.DonBullis.biz for more info.

the Battle of Brazite

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eneral Stephen Watts Kearny (17941848) and his “Army of the West” occupied Santa Fe on August 18, 1846 without firing a shot (although considerable blood was shed only a few months later with the Taos Revolt in January 1847). In December 1846, though, as the United States prosecuted the Mexican War (1846-1848), there was a battle fought in southern New Mexico that the Americans called the Battle of Brazito. (The Mexicans called it La Battalla de los Temascalitos.”)1 General Kearney left Santa Fe bound for California by late September 1846, leaving Colonel Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887) in command until Colonel Sterling Price (1809-1867) could replace him. Once Price arrived, Doniphan and his Missouri volunteers marched south along the Rio Grande and reached the village of Doña Ana by mid-December.

A detachment of Doniphan’s command reconnoitered to the south while the main body and the supply trains were stretched out for miles along the Camino Real, or Royal Road. J. T. Hughes, a soldier in the Missouri Cavalry of the day, wrote the following account of what happened then.

“On the morning of the 25th of December [1846], a brilliant sun, rising above the Organ Mountains to the eastward, burst forth upon the world in all its effulgence.

The little army, at this time not exceeding 800 strong, was comfortably encamped on the east bank of the Del Norte [Rio Grande]. The men felt frolicsome indeed.

They sang the cheering Yankee Doodle and Hail Columbia. Many guns were fired in honor of Christmas Day. But there was not need of all this, had they known the sequel.”

The march had continued past noon when Doniphan called a halt for the day.

Camp preparations were underway when someone noticed a large cloud of dust approaching from the south, and soon advanced scouts reported that the enemy approached.

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fell into line under whatever [unit] flag was most convenient. As fast as those in the rear came up, they also fell into line under the nearest standards. The officers dashed from post to post, and in an incredibly short space of time the Missourians were marshaled on the field of fight.”

The Mexicans, commanded by General Antonio Poncé de Leon, amounted to about 1,300 men: more than 500 of them regular dragoons from Vera Cruz and Zacatecas, and the remainder volunteer infantry and cavalry from El Paso and Chihuahua.

They formed a battle line to the east. It is important to note that most of the Missourians were armed with 1841 model “Mississippi” rifles of .54 caliber, albeit of the muzzle loading variety, and sabers. The Mexicans were using .70 caliber smoothbore muskets, which were much less accurate and had a shorter range, and lances.

The Missouri sharpshooters repulsed several charges by Mexican soldiers on both flanks and a considerable degree of confusion in the Mexican ranks resulted.

Hughes reported, “Not more than 500 of Col. Doniphan’s men were present when the battle commenced. The rest fell in line as they were able to reach the scene of the battle. Those who had been far in the rear during the day when they heard the firing came running in haste with their arms in their hands, to bring aid to their comrades, who were then engaged with

the enemy. This created such a dust that the enemy supposed a strong reinforcement was marching to our support. This circumstance, also contributed to strike terror into the Mexican ranks.”

Some sources report that the battle lasted for an hour, but Hughes wrote, “. . . the battle continued about 30 minutes.” Mexican causalities were 71 killed (one sources says 43 were killed) five captured and an estimated 150 wounded, including General Poncé de Leon himself.

Among the Americans, eight men were wounded; none killed.

Doniphan and his command marched into El Paso on December 27 where they seized five tons of powder, 500 arms, and four artillery pieces. They left El Paso and marched on south to Chihuahua in February 1847.

As to where, exactly, the Battle of Brazito took place, no one seems to be quite sure.

Charles Haecker has done a lot of work in trying to pinpoint the battlefield, and even he is not sure. Geographer Hal Jackson writes that Brazito School, south of Las Cruces, is pretty close to where the fighting took place.

Brazito translates from the Spanish as “little arm.”

In this case it was a small arm of the Rio Grande near where the fight took place. Temascales are, according to archaeologist Charles M. Haecker, “beehive-shaped ovens used as sweat lodges by the native inhabitants of the region.” The hills near the battlefield apparently reminded the Mexicans of such structures.

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Selected sources: Philip St. George Cooke, The Conquest of New Mexico and California, an Historical and Personal Narrative, Horn and Wallace Charles M. Haecker, “Brazito Battlefield: Once Lost, Now Found,” New Mexico Historical Review, July 1997 J. T. Hughes is quoted from A History of the Mesilla Valley-1903 by Maude Elizabeth McFie (Bloom), annotated by Jo Tice Bloom Hal Jackson, Following the Royal Road, A guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, UNM Press Rathbun & Alexander, New Mexico Frontier Military Place Names, Yucca Tree Press (Don Bullis’ latest book, New Mexico Historical Encyclopedia, is scheduled for publication by Rio Grande Books in the near future.)

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Lands News

by FRANK DUBOIS Monumental grazing problems, a “terrorist rancher” injustice, & laser fences for airborne avians

Boy, was I wrong

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along with others, felt the anti-grazing language in the recent Presidential Proclamations designating the two new national monuments in New Mexico would set a precedent for all future monument designations. Environmental nirvana had been reached. The enviros had lost some recent court cases seeking to limit grazing in national monuments and they needed new language in the Proclamations that would prevent such losses in the future. They sought language that would allow them to tell the public that grazing was still allowed yet give them the legal hook to come in at a later date and have grazing removed or severely limited, and they got just what they wanted in the New Mexico proclamations.

Recall the New Mexico proclamations had the consistency language, saying grazing could continue as long as it was “consistent with the protection of the objects identified” in the proclamation. The result is any current or future grazing practice will be subservient to the protection of those objects. Multiple-use is discarded.

Then in July of this year, Obama issued a proclamation designating the 700,000 acre Basin and Range National Monument in Nevada. When checking the grazing language in the Nevada proclamation – surprise, surprise – the consistency language is nowhere to be found. In fact, it’s just the opposite as the proclamation goes out of its way to say the monument designation will not affect grazing: Nothing in this proclamation shall be deemed to affect authorizations for livestock grazing, or administration thereof, on Federal lands within the monument.

Livestock grazing within the monument shall continue to be governed by laws and regulations other than this proclamation.

In the New Mexico monuments, graz-

ing is subservient to all the other objects to be protected, while in Nevada the monument designation has no effect on grazing. How can this be? Where is the “consistency” in this? Why are ranchers in one state treated differently than ranchers in a similar situation in another state?

You’ll have to ask NM Senators Udall and Heinrich. The consistency language comes right out of their legislation, the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act. In Nevada, Obama got his monument, but Harry Reid protected the ranching families in his state. In New Mexico, Obama got his monument, and Udall and Heinrich stuck us with the most anti-grazing language yet to appear in a monument designation.

Ranchers as Terrorists

After a two-week trial in July of 2012, Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46, were found guilty of setting fires that caused damage to federal property. One fire burned 139 acres of federal land, the other only 1 acre. The Hammonds claimed the fires were for range management purposes, the federal prosecutors said they were set for more nefarious reasons. Now-retired U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan sentenced Steven Hammond to one year and a day in prison for setting intentional fires in 2001 and 2006, and ordered Dwight Hammond to spend three months behind bars for his involvement in the 2001 blaze.

That should have been the end of the story. But it wasn’t.

The feds appealed claiming the ranchers should have received mandatory sentences of five years. They had charged the ranchers with violation of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. That’s right, the feds were using a law aimed at terrorists to prosecute the ranchers and that law required the mandatory sentences. Judge Hogan had ruled that 5-year sentences would “shock the conscience”, would be grossly disproportionate to the offenses committed and violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the feds, however, and returned the case for sentencing. On October 7 of this year, both Hammonds received the mandatory minimum sentence of five years for deliberately setting fires that spread from their property onto federal land. For comparison, other federal laws that carry five-year minimum sentences are for treason, child pornography, using a gun while committing a violent crime or importing drugs.

That should have been the end of this sad story. But it wasn’t.

Capital Press posted an online article about the five year sentences and a person who identified himself as Greg Allum posted three comments on the article, calling the ranchers “clowns” who endangered firefighters and other people in the area while burning valuable rangeland.

The real Greg Allum, a retired BLM heavy equipment operator, called Capital Press and complained he hadn’t posted those comments. “They’re not terrorists. There’s this hatred in the BLM for them, and I don’t get it,” Allum said.

The publication undertook a search of the Internet Protocol address associated with the comments and discovered the computer was owned by one of BLM’s offices in Denver, Colo.

Treat ranchers as terrorists and then use a government computer to publicly disparage them. One is an injustice and the other is an abuse of federal equipment to ridicule private citizens.

Oregon Farm Bureau President Barry Bushue says this “is an example of gross government overreach, and the public should be outraged. Today’s verdict is also hypocritical given BLM’s own harm to public and private grazing lands, which goes without consequence.” Bushue continued, “This prosecution will have a chilling effect across the West among ranchers, foresters, and others who rely on federal allotments and permits.”

Collaboration anyone?

Laser fence

I’ve previously written about Toad Roads, Bee Highways, Prairie Dog Peanut Butter and Chicken Coop Solar Panels. To that we can now add Laser “Light Fences” for Airborne Avians.

An electric cooperative in Hawaii is spending $2 million a year to keep birds from flying into power lines. Working with the Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project, this program uses lasers designed to focus green beams parallel to power lines near known flight paths of seabirds. “These experimental techniques, if effective, could drastically reduce the cost to KIUC and its members for protecting endangered seabirds,” says the cooperative.

What we really need is a Laser “Heavy Fence” to keep government agents away.

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

Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship NOVEMBER 2015

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My Cowboy Heroes

“Paddy Ryan

by JIM OLSON

Pioneer Bronc Rider”

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he Paddy Ryan bronc spur made by Oscar Crockett originally sold for $6.50 silver mounted on one side, $5.50 plain nickel finish or $4.50 plain steel. Some say the spur was actually designed by Ryan, others say Mr. Crockett simply had Ryan endorse this particular model. Either way, spur collectors and western enthusiast everywhere have most likely heard of the Paddy Ryan spur. But just who was Paddy Ryan?

John F. “Paddy” Ryan was a Minnesota native. He was born on October 1, 1896.

His father, James Ryan was a pioneer and homesteader. The family moved to Ismay, Montana in 1910. This is where Paddy got his cowboy education—working on the family homestead and for neighboring ranchers. He entered his first rodeo at Miles City, Montana in 1916. He competed in most every event at one time or another, but bronc riding and bulldogging where his favorites.

Paddy cowboyed and rodeoed around Montana until he joined the United States Army during WWI. He was mostly stationed in France and spent approximately

two years there. After returning from the war, Ryan became a full-time cowboy, traveling the country in pursuit of rodeo dough.

As the Wild West shows made a transformation into becoming rodeos, more like what we know today, Paddy Ryan was one of the top bronc riders of that era. He followed rodeos and Wild West shows regularly throughout the teens, twenties and into the early 1930s. He won most of the big shows of the day including Pendleton, San Antonio, Cheyenne, Salt Lake, Calgary and Madison Square Garden. He competed at the first ever Tucson Fiesta De Los Vaqueros in 1925, a place he would eventually call home. In 1924, he was awarded the prestigious Roosevelt Trophy, the equivalent of winning the World Championship today.

In those days, the Roosevelt Trophy was a rotating award. The winner got to keep it for one year and then turned it in the following year to the subsequent winner.

However, in 1925, Paddy’s friend, Will Rogers, had a replica made that could be kept. He presented it to Paddy as a gift.

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Ryan treasured the trophy for the rest of his life. In 1974, he told the Tucson Daily Citizen in an interview, “I suppose that was my biggest thrill in rodeoing.”

During the 1930s, Paddy retired from rodeoing and became a full-time rancher near Sheridan, Wyoming. However, he came out of retirement at age forty to enter the Sheridan, WYO rodeo one last time. He won the bulldogging event and went out on top, never entering a professional contest again. However, he did serve as a rodeo judge on numerous occasions.

During his rodeo days, he traveled with his best friend and fellow bronc rider, Bob Askin, also from Montana. The duo rodeoed hard, played hard and fought hard together. Ryan was known for being a colorful character and hard fighter. His slight form did not bother him from tackling a large steer, riding the meanest bronc or scuffling with a larger man. But it was all in good fun, he normally shook hands and partied with his “competition” afterwards.

Rodeo historian, Willard Porter, wrote of Paddy, “In all sports, men emerge from time to time that are so charismatic, so theatrical, that the press takes them into its collective fold to heap upon them colorful adjectives. Such a man was John F. Ryan, better known to the rodeo world as Paddy.”

After ranching in Wyoming for nearly thirty years, he moved to Tucson in the early 1960s. In 1974 he told the Tucson Daily Citizen, “I’ve lived a good, full, busy live and I’m content now to take it as it comes. I’ve got a lot of wonderful memories. I’ve enjoyed the years…I’ve done my riding and now the youth has it.”

Ryan and his wife Elizabeth had two daughters, Patricia and Cynthia. Elizabeth’s obituary on December 13, 2001 read, “Elizabeth was a kind and gentle person who loved animals and traveling.”

Paddy preceded his wife in death, passing on November 23, 1980 at his home in Tucson. The great pioneer bronc rider, John F. “Paddy” Ryan was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1978.

His legacy and the collectible spur which n bears his name lives on to this day.

Calf Scramblin’ Eastern New Mexico Style!

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wo or three inches of rain and at least a foot of mud didn’t deter 40 youngsters, their parents, their county agents, their sponsors and other interested spectators from making the most (mostly mud) of the first ever Eastern New Mexico State Calf Scramble in Roswell in mid October.

This was no ordinary scramble, aside from the rain and mud. This Scramble allow 40 youngsters from the ages of 9 to 14 to try and halter one of 20 small calves turned out in the arena during the ranch rodeo. The kids who caught and haltered calves were required to bring them to a square in the center of the arena.

For their troubles, the winners received $500 to put toward a livestock project of any kind to show at any fair during 2016.

The idea is to get younger kids involved in livestock projects at as early an age as possible.

“It was the most fun I ever had,” said Kindal Smith, Logan, one of the winners. Her grandmother, Matelena Smith remembers Kindal’s father saying the exact same thing to a television camera when he participated in one of the first calf scrambles at the New Mexico State Fair.

Thanks to all of these sponsors who made the first ever Eastern New Mexico State Fair Calf Scramble possible: New Mexico State office of the Bureau of Land Management, Alisa Ogden, Nikki Hooser & Kathy Longinecker, Farm Credit of New Mexico, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ / Junior Cattle Growers’, New Mexico Stockman magazine, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, NM Farm & Livestock Bureau - Young Farmers and Ranchers Program, T&M Cattle and T&C Farms, Eddy County Farm & Livestock Bureau, Waide Irrigation (Cliff Waide), Farm Bureau Financial Services, Chaves County Farm & Livestock Bureau.

And thanks to all these participating young agriculturalists (winners are in italics): Reyleigh Lamb, Zachary Rich, Cael Alderete, Brighton Wooton, Rhett McCarty, Caleb Scott, Alexis Benton, Payton McCarty, Carter Munson, Jonathan Herrell, Felysse Montano, Chisum Rush, Zane Rush, Taylor Mendoza, Hannah James, Kayden Queener, Avery Cavett, Cole Kircher, Kolby Hutchins, Wyatt Arm-

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FROM THE BACKSIDE

Left Coast Cowgirl

by BARRY DENTON

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everal years ago I sold one of our working cow horses to a city gal from the left coast. I will call her “Boomerang.”

The horse was a true beauty with muscles and shine everywhere. This horse had all the right Lenas in its pedigree to be a star and I counted myself lucky to have him. The horse was cut late so he looked very much like a stud with a big jaw on that pretty head.

He was a little difficult to get started, but after awhile he looked forward to his training. I was excited to ride him everyday because he was as talented as he was beautiful. Just about the time I was getting him going, well, I had an accident which laid me up for a couple of years. My accident was unrelated to the horse, but it was clear I would not be riding for a long time.

My wife finished up his training and showed him several times and did quite well in the reining and working cow horse classes. However, he was not her favorite horse and she was already overwhelmed with horses to show. We made the decision to sell the pretty sorrel as he was going very well and looked like a million bucks.

This was too nice of a horse to sell just anywhere so we advertised him in a national horse magazine. It was not long before we had several calls on him and one lady wanted to come over from the left coast to see him. This is how we met ol’ Boomerang.

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horse trailer pulled in with Washington State tags on it. Out hops this “want to be cowgirl” dressed in fashion style buckaroo boots and a rhinestone studded hat that would rival Nudie or Manuel. She dripped with turquoise jewelry of the Navajo version. I was beginning to think if she ran out of money she could trade jewelry for my horse. I could not wait to see her tack.

We ventured out to the training barn to see the horse and she liked him right away. The horse on the other hand was looking at her with one eye ball showing white, something I had not seen him do previously.

However, he was well broke at the time and he put up with her. I took her for a short ride around the ranch so she could get used to him a little. We rode out by the roping chutes and she wanted to know what those were. The next thing Boomerang wanted to know was if you could rope on this horse she was astride. I assured her that you could.

That was the wrong thing to say. We switched horses and I swung a rope off of this horse and even did a few rope tricks.

My nice sorrel horse just stood there and went to sleep. Next we traded horses again and she wanted to try roping. I showed her how to build a loop and suggested that she try and just throw at the ground in front of the horse first. The only thing I told her not to do was hit the horse with the rope.

Immediately she whacks old sorrel and he is just giving me the evil eye. After she did it the second time I suggested that we get off our horses and try roping the dummy on the ground first until she could handle her rope better.

Boomerang informed me that she had a PhD and did not appreciate being involved with anything that was considered a dummy. I assured her that even the most intelligent ropers started out roping a dummy.

Boomerang could build a loop, but she could not swing one. It kept wrapping around her arm as she attempted to swing it. I never really had seen anyone accomplish that so many times in a row. I had kept my cool for a long time, but how dense could this lady be?

I knew I wasn’t that bad of a teacher because last week the Lions Club had brought a contingent of 11 teenagers from Japan that did not speak English. I had them all roping the dummy pretty well within an hour.

After showing her the correct way to swing the rope for the 35th time I was getting pretty frustrated. I might have said

something that rhymes with “cheese and rice.”

She was shocked that I would say something like that to a very wealthy lady of stature. Needless to say, but the price of my horse just went up again.

We finally finished the roping lesson and Boomerang said she needed to ask me some serious questions about the horse. I wondered if I would have to call my vet in for this episode.

I was astonished when she asked me if the horse’s mane and tail would grow more. Next she implied she was tired and asked if we had a tack room. I could not figure out why those two questions went together. As we got back to the barn she asked me to hold her horse while she went to my tack room.

I am a little partial to my tack room and my great equipment I have acquired over the years so I was not very thrilled about this. I finally tied up the two horses and went to see what she wanted in the tack room. Boomerang was almost yelling at me that this was not a tack room.

I said well, it is a room full of horse tack, what are you talking about? Boomerang then went on to explain that the tack room at her barn had a sink, a refrigerator, a bathroom, and was tastefully decorated.

Funny thing, but I thought the old Garcia Bit Co. poster and the pinup girl were quite exquisite enough decoration for a bunch of bridles and saddles. She sure was disappointed when she had to go to the house for the bathroom.

I ended up selling Boomerang the horse.

My sorrel horse had stood very still while she put on his plush silky shipping boots.

He was smiling at me like a Cheshire cat as he boarded his air ride trailer. He knew he would never be asked to work hard again.

Pretty much all he had to do was eat and enjoy his life of luxury. Going for a trail ride twice a week would be his lot in life.

The rest of the time he would be luxuriating in a vast green pasture and just have to come in for his evening oats.

The primary reason I called this left coast cowgirl Boomerang was she reminded me of when I was a kid. Someone had been to Australia and brought me back a real boomerang. I worked at it for two months before I could get it to come back to me. However, when it did it would always come from a weird angle and hit me on the side of the head. That accurately describes my experience of selling a horse n to a left coast cowgirl.

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Get Grilling Contest

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hamrock Foods Company hosted the third annual “Get Grilling (with BEEF!)” Contest at the Shamrock Foods EXPO recently in Albuquerque. Shamrock Foods invited their customers to enter their best Gold Canyon Angus re cipes online, and a panel of judges chose three recipes to compete live at the EXPO. Celebrity Chef, Antonia Lofaso, Cutthroat Kitchen and Top Chef, was there to judge which recipe was the “Best of the West”, along with last year’s winner, Regan Whitehead, and New Mexico Beef Council Executive Director, Dina Reitzel. The winning recipes were: First Place: Chef Tatsu Miyazaki – Savoy de Mesilla, Las Cruces, NM. Recipe: Stuffed Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Burger with Balsamic Glaze & Pesto Mayo Second Place: Chef Don Nason – Big Ds Downtown Dive, Roswell, NM. Recipe: Big Kahuna Burger Third Place: Chef Diego Trujillo – Fat Sat’s Bar N Grill, Belen, NM. Recipe: Inside Out Patty Melt The competition had a great turn out, and the first place winner won $1,000 and bragging rights! The Get Grilling Cookoff went on to the other EXPOs in Shamrock Food’s territory – Arizona, California, and Colorado.

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A. Winning burger, Stuffed Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Burger with Balsamic Glaze & Pesto Mayo.

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B. Get Grilling (with BEEF!) Contest attracted a large audience of foodservice professionals at Shamrock Food’s recent expo.

C. (L-R) Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Beef Council Director, Regan Whitehead, past contest winner, and Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso, eagerly wait for tasty beef burgers to judge.

D. Antonia Lofaso, Cutthroat Kitchen & Top Chef, interviews contest winner, Tatsu Miyazaki, Savoy de Mesilla. Tatsu is a past winner of the NMBC’s Chef’s Beef Mystery Basket Competition.

U.S. Meat Exports Disappointing in August

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.S. beef struggled in August, remaining below year-ago levels, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), contractor to the beef checkoff. August beef exports totaled 185.5 million pounds, down 18 percent from a year ago. Beef export value was down 24 percent to $498 million, the lowest in 18 months. For the first eight months of 2015, exports were down 11 percent in volume to 1.55 billion pounds and dropped 5 percent in value to $4.31 billion.

Beef export value per head of fed slaughter has averaged $286.51 this year, up $9.28 from the same period in 2014.

Exports accounted for 13 percent of total production and 10 percent for muscle cuts, each down about one percentage point from the same period last year.

An already-tough global business climate became even more difficult on Aug. 11, when China’s devaluation of the yuan added pressure to the currencies of several key importing countries and large competitors against the U.S. dollar.

Customer currencies moving significantly lower included the Korean won, the Taiwanese dollar and the Mexican peso.

On the competitor side, the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian dollars have traded at the lowest levels since the global financial crisis, the Brazilian real hit record lows in September, and the euro and the Chilean peso are at their lowest levels in 12 years.

“Although our direct red meat exports to China are quite limited, the aftershocks of China’s currency devaluation and concerns about the global economy were felt across the world,” said Philip Seng, USMEF president and CEO. “This definitely impacted demand in many of our key export destinations.”

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to narrow in recent weeks. Australian cattle producers are finally rebuilding their herds after nearly three years of drought-induced liquidation.

“A long-awaited slowdown in Australian cattle slaughter finally materialized this summer, and Australian beef exports have begun to pull back from their record pace,” Seng explained. “It is important that we continue to identify opportunities to recapture and defend market share so that U.S. exports can finish strong in what has been a very difficult year.”

Import slowdowns in Japan and Hong Kong, weak Mexican peso hamper beef exports Japan’s August beef imports from all suppliers were down 36 percent yearover-year, including a 31 percent drop from the United States, as its frozen inventories remain at very high levels.

Through August, U.S. exports to Japan were down 9 percent in volume (323 million pounds) and 11 percent in value ($906.4 million) as lower prices for short plate and other popular cuts failed to stimulate demand. Prior to the recent slowdown in Australia’s production, Japanese importers continued to stock up on Australian beef, benefiting from lower tariffs through the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement and the weak Australian dollar.

Japan remains the leading destination for U.S. beef, however, as exports to Mexico are feeling the impact of record lows for the peso – falling 8 percent in volume (314 million pounds) and 4 percent in value ($712.1 million) in the first eight months of 2015.

Hong Kong took its smallest volume of U.S. beef in more than three years in August, as January-August exports dropped 25 percent in volume (155 million pounds) and 23 percent in value ($514.1 million).

On the positive side, beef exports to South Korea remained ahead of their

2014 pace through August, increasing 10 percent year-over-year in volume (185 million pounds) and 8 percent in value ($565.5 million).

U.S. beef continues to perform very well in Taiwan, with exports climbing 7 percent in volume (53.8 million pounds) and maintaining a record value pace ($220.9 million, up 16 percent). In both Korea and Taiwan, U.S. beef continues to expand its share of chilled imports, with increased retail featuring.

Although January-August exports to the Middle East were lower than a year ago, the region saw an uptick in demand in August for variety meats destined for Egypt, as well as muscle cuts to the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Complete January-August export results are available on the USMEF statistics webpage.

Checkoff Shares Protein Science with Nutrition Experts

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he beef checkoff, in partnership with the Egg Nutrition Center and National Dairy Council, recently shared checkoff-funded protein research with the Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) Dietetic Practice Group (DPG) at their annual symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., with 430 Registered Dietitians (RD) in attendance.

“The evidence-based Advanced Practice Protein Summit held during the symposium provided a great opportunity for the checkoff to discuss protein science, misperceptions and contemporary applications for practitioners,” says Jo Stanko, Nutrition & Health Subcommittee co-chair and cow-calf producer from Steamboat Springs, Colo.

“It was also a venue to share valuable

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checkoff-funded protein research with nutrition communicators for the purpose of continued relationship-building.”

Over the course of the 120-minute session, the speakers presented on: n Questions and misconceptions related to protein intake and quality (Nancy Rodriguez, PhD, RD) n Proteins and the post-prandial period, along with a review of the overall role of dietary protein for optimal gut function, stability of the post-prandial period, etc. (Harvey Anderson, PhD) n Optimizing protein across the adult lifespan with a focus on interactions with exercise (Stuart Phillips, PhD) The three sponsors hosted a special, invitation-only reception for leading health professionals to provide networking opportunities directly with the keynote protein research panelists.

The reception offered a chance to further establish and strengthen relationships with key SCAN DPG members, and share new information on benefits of high-quality protein. A total of 28 guests attended the reception including Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic (AND) spokespeople and academic key opinion leaders in the field of sports nutrition and wellness. A Q&A session opened up the networking reception, allowing time for attendees to continue the dialogue with the protein researchers following the earlier keynote session. Then, a protein-centric menu featuring beef, eggs and whey was served while guests, researchers and sponsors engaged in further conversation.

During the reception, Academy (AND) Spokesperson and Registered Dietitian, Jessica Crandall, shared her takeaways from the session and reception reporting that “the inadequacy of protein at breakfast is having an impact on her clients.” She also was encouraged to learn that “sarcopenia and aging are problems that can be offset by exercise and protein.” Another attendee reported that she has been “recommending higher protein intake for quite some time now and it was great to get that validated!” n

2015 – 2016 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Bernarr Treat (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Alicia Sanchez (Purebred Producer); SECRETARY, Tamara Hurt (Producer).

NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); David FEDERATION DIRECTOR, Bernarr Treat (Producer) U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, David McSherry McSherry (Feeder); Mark McCollum (Feeder); Milford BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Tammy Ogilvie (Producer) Denetclaw (Producer); Jonathan Vander Dussen (Dairy Producer); Tamara Hurt (Producer); Darrell Brown (Producer).

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Ken Babcock Sales............................................... 105 Bale Buddy Manufacturing, Inc................................ 94 Bar G Feedyard...................................................... 43 Bar Guitar Liquid Feed Co., LLC.............................. 87 Bar M Real Estate........................................ 108, 109 Beaverhead Outdoors........................................... 108 Best in the West Brangus Sale................................. 29 BJM Sales & Service Inc........................................ 105 Black Angus “Ready for Work” Bull Sale................... 24 Pat Boone.............................................................. 50 Border Tank Resources.......................................... 105 Bovine Elite.......................................................... 105 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd...................................... 26, 103 Brennand Ranch............................................. 26, 101 Butterfield Trail Ranch, LLC..................................... 56 C

C Bar Ranch................................................... 26, 103 Carlsbad Soil & Water Conservation......................... 54 Carter Brangus............................................... 32, 103 Mike Casabonne..................................................... 53 Casey Beefmasters................................................ 103 Cattlegrowers Foundation...................................... 129 Cattleman’s Livestock Commission.......................... 80 Caviness Packing Co., Inc........................................ 66 Don Chalmers Ford................................................. 37 Emery Chee........................................................... 57 Circle S Feed Store................................................. 49 Clavel Herefords..................................................... 52 Clovis Livestock Auction.......................................... 42 Coba Select Sires.................................................. 103 Chip Cole Ranch Real Estate................................. 108 Conniff Cattle Co., LLC.................................... 26, 103 John Conniff........................................................... 50 Copeland & Sons.................................................... 56 Cornerstone Ranch................................................. 19 Cowboy Christmas................................................ 112 Cox Ranch Herefords............................................ 103 R.L. Cox Company.......................................... 92, 105 CPE Feeds Inc...................................................... 105 CS Cattle Co........................................................... 50 Culbertson - Whatley Ranch.................................... 58 George Curtis, Inc........................................... 27, 101 D

Dan Delaney Real Estate...................................... 109 Milford Denetclaw................................................... 50 Denton Photography............................................. 119 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment.................... 104 Desert Willow Veterinary Service.............................. 58 Diamond Arrow Ranch............................................ 58 Diamond Seven Angus ..................................... 12, 56 Domenici Law Firm, PC.......................................... 59 F

Fallon-Cortese Land................................................ 60 FBFS / Monte Anderson.......................................... 81 FBFS / Larry Marshall............................................. 95 Farm Credit of New Mexico....................................... 8 Farmers & Stockmen’s Bank.................................... 77 Farmway Feed Mill.................................................. 45 Ferguson Ranch.................................................... 116 Five States Livestock Auction .................................. 92 Troy Floyd.............................................................. 32

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Genex / Candy Trujillo..................................... 24, 101 Giant Rubber Water Tanks........................................ 95 Goemmer Land & Livestock.................................... 87 Grau Charolais...................................................... 102 Grau Ranch...................................................... 6, 102 Lane Grau.............................................................. 52 Wesley Grau........................................................... 53 Guadalupe Mountain Fencing.................................. 55 H

Hales Angus Farms......................................... 20, 101 Hall-Gnatkowski..................................................... 55 Harrison Quarter Horses........................................ 105 Hartzog Angus Ranch...................................... 14, 102 The Hat Ranch....................................................... 52 Headquarters West Ltd.......................................... 108 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell.................. 110 Henard Ranch........................................................ 43 Hi-Pro Feeds............................................................ 2 Don & Abby Hofman.............................................. 56 Bob Homer............................................................ 57 Hooper Cattle Company.......................................... 28 Nikki Hooser........................................................... 56 Hubbell Ranch................................................ 23, 101 Hudson Livestock Supplements............................... 41 Hutchison Western.................................................. 69

Paul McGillard / Murney Association...................... 109 McKenzie Land & Livestock..................................... 18 Merrick’s Inc........................................................... 76 Ron Merritt............................................................. 53 Mesa Feed Co......................................................... 81 Mesa Tractor, Inc.............................................. 72, 104 Michelet Homestead Realty................................... 109 Chas S. Middleton & Son...................................... 108 Miller Angus........................................................... 20 MIX 30.................................................................. 88 Monfette Construction Co................................ 80, 105 Motley Mill & Cube Corporation.............................. 85 N

New Mexico Ag Expo.............................................. 83 New Mexico Angus & Hereford Association.............. 18 National Animal Interest Alliance........................... 113 New Mexico Beef Council........................................ 53 New Mexico Cattle Growers Insurance..................... 73 New Mexico CowBelles........................................... 44 NM Department of Agriculture................................. 75 New Mexico FFA Foundation................................... 55 NM Federal Lands Council....................................... 36 New Mexico 4-H Foundation................................... 54 New Mexico Mutual................................................ 11 New Mexico Premier Ranch Properties.................. 107 New Mexico Property Group.................................. 111 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences........... 35, 54, 91, 93 Joe Bill Nunn.......................................................... 57 O

Inn of the Mountain Gods......................................... 7 Innovative Solar Systems, LLC................................. 63 Insurance Services of New Mexico........................... 71 Isa Beefmasters.................................................... 102

Ogden.................................................................... 51 Old Mill Farm & Ranch Supply................................ 98 Olson Land and Cattle.................................... 26, 102 Jim Olson............................................................. 124 Onate Feed Mill, LLC.............................................. 74 O’Neill Land......................................................... 108 Will Orndorff Co...................................................... 58 Out West Manufacturing.......................................... 93

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Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment............. 104 David & Joan Kincaid.............................................. 56 Bill King Ranch................................................... 3, 56 L

L & H Manufacturing.............................................. 89 Lack-Morrison Brangus........................................... 32 Lantana Cattle Co................................................... 57 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus.............................. 102, 115 Lazy S Ranch Willcox LLC....................................... 31 Lazy Way Bar Ranch..................................... 102, 116 Sato Lee................................................................ 52 José J. Varela López................................................. 57 Jim Lyssy................................................................ 57 M

Randell Major......................................................... 57 Manford Cattle............................................... 26, 102 Manzano Angus.............................................. 22, 102 Mathers Realty Inc. / Keith Brownfield................... 110 Matlock & Associates.............................................. 82 M-Hat Angus.......................................................... 22 McGinley Red Angus............................................. 116

P Bar A Angus Cattle...................................... 21, 102 Parker Brangus....................................................... 32 Paul’s Vet Supply..................................................... 57 Perez Cattle Company............................................. 26 Phase-A-Matic, Inc................................................. 84 Phillips Diesel....................................................... 104 PolyDome.............................................................. 99 Power Ford........................................................... 125 Pratt Farms.......................................................... 101 Premier Real Estate.............................................. 107 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction......................... 97 Purina Animal Nutrition........................................ 132 Q

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc......................................... 62 R

Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co....................................... 34 Ranch–Way Feeds................................................. 100 Ranch Land Co..................................................... 111 D.J. Reveal.............................................................. 82 Richardson Cattle Co............................................... 48 Riley & Knight Appraisal, LLC............................... 109 Rio Hondo Land & Livestock Co.............................. 34 Robbs Brangus....................................................... 32 Robertson Livestock.............................................. 105 ROD Ranch............................................................ 32 Roeder Implement.................................................. 95 Roswell Brangus Breeders Co-Op ......................... 131 Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale....................... 33 Roswell Livestock Auction Co................................... 40 Roswell Wool.......................................................... 79

Sachse Red Angus................................................ 116 Salazar Ranches..................................................... 24 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service.................................. 59 Santa Rita Ranch.......................................... 116, 102 Bill Sauble.............................................................. 57 Sci-Agra Inc................................................... 96, 104 Scott Land............................................................ 110 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC......................... 108 Sierra Alta Ranch, LLC............................................ 50 Singleton Ranches.......................................... 53, 104 Skaarer Brangus..................................................... 35 Southern Star Ranch....................................... 30, 101 Southwest Beef Symposium.................................... 86 Southwest Brangus Breeders Assn........................... 30 Southwest Red Angus Assoc.......................... 101, 116 Stockmen’s Realty................................................ 107 Joe Stubblefield & Associates................................. 107 Superior Livestock Auction & Supply........................ 94 Swihart Sales Co................................................... 104 T

TechniTrack, LLC................................................... 105 T4 Cattle Company................................................. 47 Terrell Land & Livestock Co............................. 57, 108 The Ranches........................................................... 48 Thompson Ranch.................................................... 16 Three Mile Hill Ranch.............................................. 26 Ernie Torrez............................................................. 55 Candy Ray Trujillo’s Black Angus.............................. 26 2 Bar Angus................................................... 24, 101 U

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W&W Fiberglass Tank Co......................................... 87 Walker Martin Ranch Sales.................................... 110 Wear Ranch............................................................ 52 Weaver Ranch........................................................ 12 West Wood Realty................................................. 106 Westall Ranches, LLC...................................... 13, 103 Westway Feed Products, LLC............................. 5, 122 Williams Windmill, Inc..................................... 59, 104 Rex & Carol Wilson................................................. 50 Pat Woods.............................................................. 53 WW - Paul Scales................................................... 84 W

Yavapai Bottle Gas.......................................... 86, 104 Tal Young, P.C.......................................................... 82 W

Zia Agriculture Consulting, LLC.................. 24, 92, 106 Zinpro............................................................ 58, 123

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We are consigning to the

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Our 25 th Commemorative Silver Dollar will be given to bull buyers at this year’s sale! .5”

1”

2.5”

1.5”

ACTUAL SIZE

2.5”

Roswell Brangus Sale

February 27, 2016

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1 3/4”

1 7/8”

1 7/8” 1 3/4” 1.5” 1” .5”

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— Consigning — 20+ Bulls Brangus & Angus+ 45 Bred Heifers

RAISED IN OKLAHOMA – THE SAME WAY WE RAISED THEM IN NEW MEXICO!

37/4 NEXT STEP IKE 134 ANGUS PLUS MONEY MAKER LUCKY 455

129/4 NEXT STEP LUCKY 13 121/4 NEXT STEP LUCKY 13

C O N TA C T R O SWE L L BR A NGUS B R EED ER S C O O P FO R B R A N G U S B U L L S A N D FEM A L ES

Floyd Brangus TROY FLOYD P.O. Box 133 Roswell, NM 88201 Phone: 575/626-4062

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Lack-Morrison Brangus JOE PAUL & ROSIE LACK P.O. Box 274, Hatch, NM 87937 Phone: 575/267-1016 • Fax: 575/267-1234 Racheal Carpenter 575-644-1311 BILL MORRISON 411 CR 10, Clovis, NM 88101 Phone: 575/760-7263 Email: bvmorrison@yucca.net lackmorrisonbrangus.com

Parker Brangus LARRY PARKER San Simon, AZ 85632 Days: 520/845-2411 Evenings: 520/845-2315 Larry’s Cell: 520/508-3505 Diane’s Cell: 520/403-1967 Email: jddiane@vtc.net or parker_brangus@yahoo.com

Townsend Brangus GAYLAND and PATTI TOWNSEND STEVE TOWNSEND P.O. Box 278 Milburn, Oklahoma 73450 Home: 580/443-5777 Cell: 580/380-1606 Steve’s Cell: 580/380-1968 NOVEMBER 2015

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