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Angus – A Winning Combination

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The Red Angus Choice … Color, Grade & Disposition

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Cattlemen’s Toolbox, The Cow/Calf Calculator

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2011 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Program

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Bill King, 2010 Cattleman of the Year

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; President, Bert Ancell; Executive Director, Caren Cowan; n

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EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING

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Seedstock Guide

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by Bert Ancell

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Howdy Folks, ere it is, closing in on Thanksgiving, and we may be as close to what the Pilgrims went through, and what the drought of the 30s and the Great Depression brought. I have talked to members from different parts of the state and some cannot remember a tougher time. Hay trucks are staying busy hauling feed to Texas and New Mexico. The weather service does not paint a pretty picture for us again this winter, predicting another La Niña scenario, but I know, with the Lord’s help and the New Mexico rancher’s resolve, we will still be out there tending to our herds and ranches. Thanks to the Lord for what late rains He did bring to some.

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is considering new regulations on child labor on farms and ranches again. It seems that the government wants to restrict what kids can do out in the country. The DOL has an attitude that the rural youth of America that are under sixteen lack the maturity and common sense to be able to handle livestock or even feed them. Does this mean that a kid can’t even feed his pet dog, cat, or do other chores that kids have done forever on farms and ranches? I think back to when I was a boy, going to brandings, working on fence, windmills, feeding cattle, slopping the hogs, milking the cow, gathering eggs, hunting, trapping, learning how to drive, and still having time to just be a kid. There are too many kids these days that have become couch potatoes playing video games and not learning how to work. There are still many country boys and girls that want to work, to save money to buy a vehicle, buy their own clothes, go to college, or just not be as big a burden on their folks. Will these proposed regulations get to the point that 4-H and FFA projects be eliminated, Jr. rodeos be banned, youth horse shows become extinct, or whatever else the DOL can think of to control our youth. Our government acts worried about the health of our youth, about their obesity, and their training to go into the work force, yet wants to impose more rules and regulations that hinder just that. The truth be known, I believe the government wants to take over the raising of our young, to brainwash them into a new way of thinking, to give handouts to the point that the youth of this nation will be totally dependent to our government for all their needs, and will have lost any independence or desire to improve their surroundings. I hope that the Western states, rural families, and even the kids will stand up and let the Department of Labor know that we free, independent Americans know better how to raise our youth than a governmental agency.

This may seem to be a little early to be thinking about elections, but we only have a year before we go to the polls to elect people to represent us both on the state and national level. The upcoming year may very well be one of the most pivotal we may face as Americans. The state of the union is about as fragile as I have ever seen. We have politicians that believe as long as we have a paper supply, we have all the money we need. Governmental employees seem to be protected by some strange force that let them break laws, lie to the populace, evade taxes, or whatever with no accounting for their actions by the courts. We, as Americans, must also somehow hold our courts accountable for their actions that go against the Constitution. I have been watching the demonstrations, sit-ins, and marches against Wall Street with concerned amusement. Some of these folks have no clue of what they are demonstrating for or against and could be led by a Pied Piper down a path that could bring a total collapse of the American Ideal that our forefathers fought and died for.

The annual convention is fast approaching, and I know our staff will pull together another interesting and informative meeting. Be sure to bring items for the silent auction to help raise money to be used for expenses for the legislative session. We need to be seen and heard in Santa Fe and the silent auction has sure helped to provide our exposure there. I know that it has been a tough year for all of us, but I have always been proud to be associated with a group that have always given, either through donations or work, to help keep this Association active in agricultural concerns in our state and nation. I hope to see you all in Albuquerque the 1st through the 4th of December.

So let’s not get tired of doing what is good.

At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessings if we don't give up.

– Galatians 6:9 NLT

May God Bless Us,

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Jose Varela Lopez Santa Fe Northeast V.P.

Ernie Torrez La Jara Northwest V.P.

Ty Bays Silver City Southwest V.P.

Pat Boone Elida Southeast V.P.

Lane Grau Grady V.P. At Large

Troy Sauble Maxwell Sec./Treas.

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Obama To Back Power Line Projects in N.M., Other States

by MATTHEW DALY/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS he Obama administration wants to speed up permitting and construction of seven proposed electric transmission lines in 12 states, including New Mexico, as it moves to create jobs and modernize the nation’s power grid.

The projects are intended to serve as pilot demonstrations of streamlined federal permitting and improved cooperation among federal, state and tribal governments. The lines will provide electricity in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The projects are expected to create thousands of jobs, help avoid blackouts, restore power more quickly when outages occur and reduce the need for new power plants.

“To compete in the global economy, we need a modern electricity grid,” Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press. “An upgraded electricity grid will give consumers choices while promoting energy savings, increasing energy efficiency and fostering the growth of renewable energy resources.”

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the seven power lines being expedited under the pilot program will serve as important links across the country to increase the capacity and reliability of the nation’s power grid.

“This is the kind of critical infrastructure we should be working together to advance in order to create jobs and move our nation toward energy independence,” he said.

David DeCampli, president of PPL Electric Utilities, and Ralph LaRossa, president of Public Service Electric and Gas. Co., who are teaming up to build a 145-mile transmission line in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, applauded the administration’s efforts.

Their project and others should ensure that high-priority electric infrastructure projects are built and placed in service in a timely manner, the power executives said.

Pam Eaton, deputy vice president for public lands at The Wilderness Society, also hailed the project.

“Building responsibly sited power lines to access world-class renewable resources can put thousands of Americans to work, bring cost-effective clean power to people who need it, and help some of the rural counties in the West hardest hit by the economic downturn,” she said.

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n 1,150 miles of high-voltage lines across Wyoming and Idaho. n A 210-mile, 500 kV line near Salem, Ore. n Two 500 kV transmission lines in Arizona and New Mexico. n A 700-mile, 600 kV transmission line in Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. The project is intended to help develop new wind projects in Wyoming. n A 345 kV transmission line in Minnesota and Wisconsin. n A 145-mile, 500 kV transmission line in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

A formal announcement was expected today. A copy of the plan was obtained by n The Associated Press.

Managing Price Risk is More Important Than Ever

by BRETT CROSBY ecent market volatility in the cattle complex serves as a reminder that cattle prices can change quickly, and effective managers are wise to have marketing strategies that protect against violent price swings. Such strategies may include one or more risk management tools such as forward contracts, futures, options, or insurance. While there is no single marketing strategy that is universally perfect, one thing is clear — the understanding and effective use of marketing strategies and tools is more important now than ever.

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Between 1991 and 2002, the average difference between the high closing price and the low closing price over the life of each of the 12 January feeder cattle contracts was $13.09 per cwt. Since 2002, the average difference between the high and low closing price of the 11 January feeder cattle contracts has been $23.43 per cwt.

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your marketing outlet. Those two factors dictate the type of breeding program you should be pursuing.

Commercial cattlemen operating in the humid Gulf Coast or arid regions of the southwestern United States know just how important the adaptability of Brahman influenced cattle can be. But, marketing those cattle can become a challenge. How do commercial breeders take advantage of the only free lunch in the cattle business, better known as heterosis, and still raise calves that fit today’s marketplace? For many, Brangus may be the answer.

“The advantages you get when you cross a Brahman influenced animal with an English or Continental influenced animal are more dramatic than when you cross different breeds among straight English or Continental cattle,” says Dan Moser, associate professor in the Department of Animal Science and Industry with Kansas State University. “There are biological differences between Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle that when crossed, gain you clear advantages in fertility and longevity.

The adaptability you get is also an advantage during droughts, in harsh climates and in areas where feed resources are limited. Those advantages don’t just apply in the southern half of the United States, but can be universal across many regions of the country.”

Todd Thrift, an associate professor with the University of Florida agrees with that sentiment. “We have data going back 50 years that supports the advantages of hybrid vigor on adaptability, but that advantage becomes greatest in sub optimal environments,” he says. “In other words, the worse the environment, the more some of those adaptability traits are expressed and the better those cattle do compared to their English or Continental counterparts.”

According to Thrift, the advantages in weaning productivity of a Bos indicus/Bos Taurus cross is unequaled, especially in hot, humid or arid climates. “The ability of that Brahman influenced cow to stay in your herd longer is also enhanced because of differences in calving ease, resistance to parasites and even the fact that her teeth last longer.”

Brahman crossed cattle definitely have an advantages when it comes to adapting to harsh environments, but when it comes to marketability, hide color and breed type can hurt you. That’s where the Brangus

breed becomes a potential solution.

“Straight Brahman cattle have challenges when it comes to carcass traits and there is data to support that,” says Moser.

“But, if you use Brangus to infuse heterosis into your English or Continental influenced cattle, then you get the Brahman concentration down to 3/16 and differences in carcass quality become less significant.”

Cattle with a visible Brahman influence can be discriminated against by cattle buyers, but Moser says that by using Brangus as your heterosis hole card, it makes it less likely that a buyer will pick out those differences.

“It’s important for producers to understand that the perception is often not the reality. With Brangus cattle, the data demonstrate you can get an advantage in carcass traits over other Brahman crossbreeding programs,” says Moser. “Being homozygous black for hide color can also be beneficial as it may qualify Brangussired calves for certain branded beef programs.”

What may come as a surprise to many commercial producers is that Brangus actually perform much better on the rail than you might expect.

According to Moser, the large amount of information available about Brahman cattle versus the limited amount that is available about Brangus-sired cattle has added to the perception that using any Brahman influence in your crossbreeding program can be detrimental to carcass quality.

“We know from years of data that Brahman cattle have higher shear force values and lower marbling scores,” says Moser.

“In the 1990s research identified the role of calpain and calpastatin enzymes on tenderness and Brahman cattle have significantly higher calpastatin activity, which is detrimental to tenderness. However, research shows that once you reduce the Brahman influence to 3/8 as in Brangus cattle, or to 3/16 as in Brangus-sired calves, that reduction makes a huge impact on lowering calpastatin activity and increasing calpain activity, thus increasing tenderness.”

A 1997 University of Georgia study that evaluated straight Angus, straight Brahman and crossbred Angus steers with either a 25, 37.5, 50, or 75 percent Brahman concentration showed that the 37.5 percent Brahman (3/8 Brahman-5/8 Angus) calves had the most favorable ratio continued on page 17

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of calpastatin and calpain, the lowest shear force values and were essentially equivalent to purebred Angus when it came to tenderness.

The Germplasm Evaluation program at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center has been characterizing cattle breeds representing diverse biological types for decades and according to Moser, the research indicates that Brangus-sired calves compare very favorably to Continental-sired calves.

“These studies represent large numbers of cattle and years of data where calves sired by different breeds are benchmarked against an Angus and Hereford base,” says Moser. “When fed in Nebraska, the Brangus-sired steers yielded carcasses comparable to Continental breeds for shear force, marbling and percent USDA choice. You almost have to wonder if the cattle were fed in a harsher climate, such as the Panhandle of Texas in the summer, would they have done better due to their environmental adaptability?”

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help dispel some of the perception that just because their cattle have a little ear that they won’t stack up as well against their British or Continental counter parts.

“Tenderness is a highly heritable trait and represents one of the best opportunities for improvement through marker assisted selection,” says Moser. “The frequency of tenderness genes in Brangus cattle is essentially equivalent to what you see in Continental breeds.”

Graham DuBose, a commercial producer from Camden, S.C. knows firsthand the advantage of using Brangus in his breeding program. DuBose was a purebred Brangus breeder until about 1990, so the majority of his cowherd has a lot of Brangus influence. He has been using a twoway crossbreeding system of Angus and

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Brangus to improve the marketability of his calves, while still maintaining the advantages from heterosis that the Brangus breed brings to the table.

“Heterosis is the motivation for me to use Brangus in my breeding program,” says DuBose. “In my mind, the real advantage to Brangus is on the female side and their mothering ability. The breed’s strength lies in the value of heterosis and the impact it has on calf performance, and the merits of Brangus females.” Using Angus bulls on his predominantly Brangus-influenced cowherd has worked well for DuBose, as he’s selling full load lots of feeder cattle via video sales and has been more than pleased with how his cattle have done.

When you boil it down, using Brangus affords a commercial breeder the opportunity to achieve significant increases in cow efficiency while maintaining a largely Angus-based gene pool, which is certainly n favorable in today’s marketplace.

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price variation between contracts (i.e., from year to year) has changed very little, as illustrated by the figure below.

Note that, with the exception of a substantial change in 2011, the average daily closing price of the life of contracts in recent years has been remarkably stable.

All of this suggests that, in recent years, profitability may have varied dramatically between operations depending on the point in time that calves were priced in any particular year.

Several risk management tools can protect producers against short-term price fluctuation. Forward contracts offer flexibility in pricing dates and allow producers to price calves during favorable market conditions. Futures contracts provide an offsetting investment that can soften or eliminate the blow of market downturns.

Options and price insurance (i.e., Risk Management Agency’s Livestock Risk Protection) can be used to create a price floor.

These tools can each be used individually or combined to create an effective marketing strategy in a volatile environment.

Above all, the important thing to remember is that price volatility has clearly increased in recent years. Such volatility can increase the payoff for producers who develop and employ effective, risk-reducing marketing strategies. The volatility can also deliver harsh consequences to producers who fail to recognize n and address its impacts.

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by CAREN COWAN he history of the Brangus breed and the Southwest are so intertwined that the words are almost interchangable.

The breed was developed taking the best of the Angus and making it hardy, heat tolerant, easy fleshing and good traveling with a touch of Brahman.

The Southwest Brangus Breeders Association (SWBBA) comprised of members in Arizona and New Mexico has long provided leadership regionally, nationally and internationally. In the history books Gayland and Patti Townsend, now from Milburn, Oklahoma, but long-time New Mexicans, were the 1999 IBBA Breeder of the Year, followed with Garth Lunt, Safford, receiving the same honor in 2004. The second recipient of the IBBA Pioneer of the Year was Alex Dees, Yuma.

Today R.L. Robbs, Willcox, and Larry Parker, San Simon, represent the region on the International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) Board. Robbs is also the Chairman of Board for Brangus Publications that include the bi-monthly Brangus Journal as well as the FRONTLINE Beef Producer which is published quarterly and has a circulation of more than 20,000 and the annual Semen Directory.

On the home front, Dr. Bart Carter, Safford, leads the SWBBA, and the breed host annual sales in Roswell, this year slated for February 25, 2012 and Marana, which will be held on February 11, 2012 The international aspects have grown as the breed has matured, with the Brangus Journal now reaching more international breeders than US members. For those who have gone high tech, the IBBA now offers a system that allows you to include an image, called a QR Code, that links the ad directly to the data in the herdbook. By utilizing freely available applications for smartphones, the customer is taken directly to the ChuteSide application and the individual animal's performance data is automatically disn played.

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New Mexico FFA member Ryan Best named National FFA President for 2011-12 t age 4, Ryan W. Best idolized Chuck Norris in his role as a Texas Ranger on the TV series Walker: Texas Ranger.

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tion of rowdy stuffed animals from around the house. He practiced his roundhouse kicks. Once, he even offered his law enforcement services to the county sheriff and a state trooper who he met inside a local convenience store before hitting the candy aisle.

“I was completely devoted to serving the golden emblem that hung on my chest. It signified who I was and began to define my perception of right and wrong,” Best remembers. “My dedication to service hasn’t changed – but it has been refocused.

The focus of my service today has shifted to a different golden emblem that has molded the person I am. My perception of right and wrong has been reinforced through my involvement in FFA and agricultural education.”

As a conclusion to the 84th National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Best was elected National FFA president for 201112.

Joining Best to serve as national FFA officers for 2011-12 are Jason Troendle of Minnesota as national secretary, Kenneth D. Quick Jr. of New York as Eastern Region vice president, Alicia Hodnik of Wisconsin as Central Region vice president, Cain Thurmond of Georgia as Southern Region vice president and Seth Pratt of Idaho as

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“I hope to be a positive influence on the lives of fellow FFA members as national FFA president and am excited about the opportunity to represent the National FFA Organization as an ambassador to the public to share the story of agriculture to Americans across our nation,” Best said.

“Americans enjoy the highest standard of living in the world because of the innovations American agriculturists have used to produce abundant, safe and affordable food, feed, fuel and fiber. It is essential that we embrace the changes facing our industry while maintaining a firm grasp of the traditions upon which our organization was formed.”

Originally from Portales, N.M., Best is currently a junior at New Mexico State University in pursuit of a major in agricultural and extension education and a minor in agricultural economics and business.

He has been named a Crimson honors student and was named to the Dean’s List his freshman and sophomore years. A member of the Elida High School FFA Chapter in Elida, N.M., led by advisor Rodney Savage, he is the son of Kent and Sherri Best.

For the next year, Best and his national officer peers will be the face and spirit of FFA. Collectively, they’ll travel more than 100,000 miles throughout the country as they engage top leaders in business, government and education and lead a host of personal growth and leadership training seminars for FFA members. The team will also help set policies that will shape the future of the National FFA Organization and promote agricultural literacy in genn eral.

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Hauser Named CowBelles’ Man of the Year esley Hauser, Hayden, was recently named the New Mexico CowBelles’ 2011 Man of the Year.

“We are glad to have this opportunity to thank Lesley for his hard work on our behalf over the years, and proud to honor him as this year’s Man of the Year,” said Linda Lee, NMCB President, Alamogordo.

The Lariat CowBelles nominated Hauser for the award in recognition of the time and effort he has contributed to the CowBelles’ annual Five-States Round Up meetings, held each year in Clayton.

Hauser has helped with catering, food preparation, lining up speakers, and in many other areas over the years.

A third-generation rancher, Hauser has lived in the Amistad/Hayden area in northeastern New Mexico, for most of his life. In addition to the ranch, he currently works as a truck driver. Hauser and his wife, Kodie, lived in Texline, Texas until their children graduated from college, and have recently moved back to the ranch. Lesley and Kodie have two children, Jesy and Janae, and three grandsons.

Hauser served as a Union County 4-H leader for twelve years, helping transport and chaperone youth to countless leadership and competitive activities.

Hauser was very active in the Texline community and school system, and served as a city councilman for the Village of Texline. He and his wife, Kodie, served as members of the Texline Volunteer Fire Department and as emergency medical technicians (EMTs). They were both also active in fundraising for the school, community and fire department. In addition, Hauser assisted with Farm Safety Days in Dalhart, which is sponsored by Cargill.

Each year, the New Mexico CowBelles honor a man who has helped further the work of the organization by supporting the group’s activities and projects. “Ranching is a family activity, and that often extends to our agricultural organizations as well,” Lee said. “As CowBelles, we work to promote and support the beef industry on a local, state and national level. We would not be able to accomplish what we do without the help and support of others, often n our families.”

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A Few of New Mexico’s First Ladies nce in a while, a book appears from out of the past that offers a treasuretrove of historical information. One such book, which came to our attention recently, is entitled The First Ladies of New Mexico, by Eunice Kalloch and Ruth K. Hall. Lightening Tree Press of Santa Fe published it nearly thirty years ago. It lists our state’s first 22 First Ladies, from Frances Tarbell McDonald (1912-1916) to Alice Martin King (1971-1974, 1979-1982, and 1991-1994). Mrs. King’s last residence in the Governor’s Mansion is not included in the book since Kalloch and Hall conclude with her 1979-1982 term. These are an interesting group of women.

New Mexico’s first First Lady, after statehood, was Frances Tarbell McDonald, wife of the state’s first elected governor, William C. McDonald. Like most of the wives of our governors, Mrs. McDonald was not born in New Mexico. She first saw the light of day in 1852 in Wisconsin. As a young woman, she emigrated to New Mexico with her first husband, Thomas B. McCourt. They settled in Lincoln County where he died after a few years. She married William C. McDonald in 1891. She was 60 years old when she moved to Santa Fe, and she is said to have been known as “a gracious hostess, entertaining with ease and charm.” She was active in the Episcopal Church and the Woman’s Club. She died at Carrizozo at the age of 84.

Mrs. McDonald’s successor, Margarita C. de Baca, was a native of New Mexico, born in 1873 to a wealthy family of ranchers and sheep men at Peña Blanca. She was also one of the shortest-serving First Ladies. She married Ezequiel C. de Baca, himself well-off and a newspaper publisher, in 1890 and they settled in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Over the next few years, Ezequiel took more and more interest in public affairs and politics, a situation that did not please Margarita. In 1912, Ezequiel C. de Baca was elected as New Mexico’s first Lieutenant Governor. Margarita does not appear to have been particularly impressed with her husband’s new position, and she did not attend the state’s first inaugural. “I just couldn’t make it,”

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she said. She continued to spend most of her time in Las Vegas with her family.

She became considerably concerned when Ezequiel was himself nominated as a Democrat for governor in 1916. His health had not been good — he suffered from pernicious anemia — and she feared that the campaign would be too much for him. He managed, however, and won, only to enter a California hospital soon after Election Day. He returned to Santa Fe on December 30, 1916 and was immediately taken to St. Vincent’s Sanitarium. He never left. The oath of office was administered there on January 1, 1917, and Governor C. de Baca died on February 18 of the same year. The former First Lady returned to Las Vegas where she lived until her own death in 1932.

One interesting occupant of the Governor’s Mansion was Lillie Roberts Hinkle, a native of Texas. An autobiographical sketch about her reads, in part, “In May, 1887, I started from . . . Gillespie County, Texas, with my father and seventeen months old brother, Fred. We were accompanied by . . . Mr. and Mrs. Lee [who] traveled in a new canvas topped hack, in which we children rode and we had a covered wagon to carry food bedding, tent and luggage. We traveled over dirt roads [and] sometimes cow trails. We were six weeks making the trip to Nogal, a distance of approximately seven hundred miles.” Lillie was 12 years old at the time. She met and married James J. Hinkle, called the “Cowboy Governor” long before that sobriquet was applied to Governor Bruce King.¹ Hinkle served one term and returned to Carrizozo. Lillie was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, and it was under her leadership that a contest was held to find a new design for the New Mexico state flag.² One of the best known of New Mexico First Ladies was Carrie Wooster Tingley.

She arrived in Albuquerque from Bowling Green, Ohio, in around 1910 suffering from tuberculosis. She had been born into a wealthy farm and oil family (a main street in Bowling Green was named for her family). It was there that Clyde Tingley, a

machinist at a local auto factory, first courted her. He later followed her to New Mexico where they were married in 1911.

According to Kalloch and Hall, “She had . . . resources and a generous heart, as well.

She was genuinely concerned with those less fortunate than she.” The Carrie Tingley Hospital for children in Truth or Consequences was named for her, and upon her death from leukemia in 1961, one fifth of her estate went to that organization.

Many others of the First Ladies are interesting. The shortest serving was Alice Schwerdtfeger Bolack, who served even less time in the mansion (she actually never moved into it), than Margarita C. de Baca, at thirty-two days. Alice Martin King, of course, served the longest at twelve years. The youngest was Adelaida Joshphine Anaya Cargo, better known as Ida Jo, was 26 when she became first lady in 1967.

The oldest was Francis Lacker Seligman who was 64 when she became first lady in 1931.

We’ll consider the careers of some of the others in future columns.

Notes: ¹ Governor Bruce Kings autobiography is entitled Cowboy in the Roundhouse. ² Dr. Harry Mera submitted the winning design, which was adopted by the legislature in 1925.

Don Bullis’ latest book, New Mexico Historical Biographies is available at area bookstores. He may be reached at donbullis@msn.com, or by going to his webpage at donbullis.biz

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perating at the mercy of Mother Nature – which this year has meant fires and an ongoing drought for many southwestern cattle producers – can be a tough way to make a living. The bottom line for most ranchers is cows that consistently raise quality, marketable calves in good times and in bad.

First imported into the United States in 1873, the Angus breed is proving to be a good fit for many southwestern cattle producers, combining the black hide that remains popular in today’s cattle market with traits such as carcass quality, gentle

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The Angus business is a family business for John and Cathy Heckendorn, who run registered Angus cattle at J-C Angus seven miles east of Moriarty. John’s father, Harry Heckendorn, and grandfather, Ralph Bell, started raising registered Angus at B&H Angus in 1980. In 2002, John and Cathy started their own operation, J-C Angus, with 90 bred cows purchased from B&H Angus.

The ranch is made up of piñon/juniper grasslands at an altitude of about 6,500 feet. Their average cow size is about 1,200 pounds, with a frame size between 5 and 5.5. Through the winter, the cows are supplemented with five pounds of range cubes every other day. “We try to raise our cattle the same way that our commercial buyers treat their cattle, and figure that if they do well for us, they’ll do well for our buyers,” Heckendorn said.

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world,” he continued. “It is important to Cathy and I that they are profitable for every segment of the industry – from the cow-calf producer, to the feedlot, and ultimately to the packer with high quality carcasses producing quality beef resulting in happy consumers and more demand for beef.”

Bulls are marketed through several sales in New Mexico, including the New Mexico Angus Association’s annual sale in Roswell, the Tucumcari Bull Test Sale, and the “Ready to Work” sale in Belen, as well as private treaty from the ranch.

John, who is the immediate past president of the New Mexico Angus Association,

says he likes the Angus breed for its unique combination of desirable traits. “All other breeds have their strengths, like increased frame size or muscling, but with those come less desirable traits, like a wilder disposition or fertility issues. Angus just do really well in our environment.”

The Heckendorns emphasize calving ease, growth, and carcass traits in their cattle. “We have selected for easy calving cattle that also grow quickly and perform in the feedlot. Calving ease is something that we can’t sacrifice for other traits, because if we don’t have a live calf, the rest doesn’t matter. Everything starts with a live calf, and we go from there.”

The family collects a variety of information on their cattle, including ultrasound data, both for their own use and to produce expected progeny difference (EPD)

J-C Angus is proud of the unique combination of desirable traits the breed provides for their operation and their customers.

information for their bull customers. “We believe you can’t improve what you don’t measure,” he said. “We have the technology to do many calculations, which can continued on page 30

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John says he’s not a big believer in selecting for a real low milk EPD. “A milk EPD is an indication of a sire’s daughters’ performance,” he explained. “By selecting for a low milk EPD, you’re selecting bulls whose daughters perform below average, measured by the weaning weight of her calves. We don’t want Holsteins but we continued on page 31

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want females that will perform and wean calves heavier than average while breeding back on time every year.”

“There are cows out there with a high milk EPD that breed back every year and are in good condition and some with a low milk EPD that don’t.” he continued. “The efficiency factor is something that people forget about. We see huge differences in the efficiency of cattle on feed – some convert less than five pounds of feed to a pound of gain, and some need more than ten pounds of feed per pound of gain. This is true in our cow herds as well.”

The family has been participating in New Mexico State University’s Bull Test and Sale, held in Tucumcari, for over 30 years. They have had the top gaining bull and sire groups for six of the past seven years, and hold the record for highest gaining bull over all breeds in the 50 year history of the Tucumcari Bull Test with a bull tested several years ago that gained 5.80 pounds a day.

“By selecting for low birthweights and high weaning/yearling weights, we are really selecting for performance,” Heckendorn said. “Since we’ve been taking cattle to the Tucumcari Bull Test, we have seen tremendous progress in our cattle’s performance and have significantly decreased the cost of gain.”

In 1985, a pen of Heckendorn bulls converted 828 pounds of feed per hundred pounds of gain, and averaged 3.25 pounds of gain per day. In 2003, a pen of their bulls converted 555 pounds of grain per hundred pounds of gain, and averaged 4.91 pounds of gain per day.

John and Cathy have four children: Rebecca, 20; Sarah, 18; Joshua, 15; and Caleb, 11. Like most ranch kids, they are very involved in the cattle operation.

“Cathy and the kids are all good hands, and a big help on the ranch,” John said. “We are fortunate to be able to raise our family in agriculture, the way I was raised.”

To West Texas

The increasing popularity of Angus and Angus cross cattle convinced the McKenzie family, of the 8 Ranch near Fort Stockton, Texas, to incorporate the breed into their commercial operation.

“We saw a need for more Angus breeding stock in west Texas,” Houston McKenzie said. “Many commercial producers are switching to Angus sires, and while bulls are available from Kansas, central Texas,

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and other areas, they are not adapted to our climate.”

Today, Houston and Laura McKenzie raise commercial and registered Angus on the Pecos County ranch, which has been in the family for over 120 years. They also operate a 350-acre alfalfa farm. Their daughter Sarah, who recently returned home with her family – husband Pat Downing and children Henry, Sawyer and Brenna – to help with the operation, is the fourth generation of the family actively involved in agriculture production on the ranch. Their daughter Lydia May lives in Colorado Springs with her husband Anthony and sons Hayden and Mason, and makes staying involved as much as possible a priority.

The McKenzies started building their cow herd with two high-indexing herd sires – one raised by Chris Carrasco and one raised by the Heckendorns – purchased from the Tucumcari Bull Sale in 2001. Every year, they breed a select few cows, and all of the first calf heifers using artificial insemination (AI). They have also purchased bulls from the Midland Bull Test in Billings, Montana, known as one of the top performance tests in the country, McKenzie noted. “Our herd now consists of not only the daughters of the two most high indexing bulls of all time at the Tucumcari Bull Test but also some of the best AI bulls on the market.”

The McKenzies focus on raising bulls to meet the needs of commercial producers, and hold an annual bull sale at the ranch every March. “We are working to produce gentle, hard footed cattle with excellent genetics that are raised in west Texas and adapted to our environment,” he said.

Cattle are raised in large pastures on rocky ground, and know how to eat burro grass, mesquite beans and chamisa on the side of a hill at the time of the sale. “This is something we feel is essential to the success of our bulls,” McKenzie explained.

“There should be little “adjustment period,” the bulls should be ready to go to work when buyers take them home.”

At weaning, calves selected for the bull market are grown out with a weaning ration, and the commercial end of the calves go the family’s Palma Ranch, near Encino. So far, the McKenzies haven’t gotten into the heifer market, but it is an option for the future.

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duce a quality carcass. “We want to give the commercial cattleman the assurance that our bulls will be easy calving and sire fast growing, efficient offspring. We also focus on maternal traits, and want our cows to be able to have their calves, grow them out in the hard country, and still breed back,” he said.

A gentle disposition is another important trait. “We want cattle that are easy to work and try to select for a good disposition. We definitely look at docility in our AI sires and in the bulls that we sell,” Sarah said.

Bulls raised on the 8 Ranch are also used on the Palma Ranch. “We are also commercial cow producers and feed out a lot of our own cattle, so we know the importance of having an efficient calf in the feedlot,” McKenzie pointed out.

Fewer bulls than usual will be offered at the 2012 sale, considering the severe ongoing drought and reduced cow numbers across Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. “We have kept the top half of the calf crop as bulls and are hoping for good rains to help all the ranchers,” Houston n said.

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ursuing a passion for agriculture through further education — that’s the top requirement for the Louis M. “Mick” Colvin Scholarship offered by the Certified Angus Beef® (CAB®) brand.

This year, $15,000 will be split among five undergraduate scholarships, in the amounts of $5,000, $4,000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000.

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A new opportunity, an additional $5,000 graduate level scholarship will also be given to a full-time masters or doctorate student conducting research related to high-quality beef production. Applications for that award are due Jan. 13, 2012.

“The graduate level scholarship will build on what the Colvin Scholarship has always done,” says Mick Colvin, who cofounded Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) in 1978 and served as president for 22 years. “We will be able to groom the next great scientist supporting premium beef.”

The funds given have more than doubled since 2009.

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amount we’ve offered grow over the years,” Colvin says. “Our partners have really pitched in and they’ve made this scholarship what it is today.”

Those supporters raised a record $92,000 in scholarship monies at a golf outing and auction held during the brand’s annual conference this year in Sunriver, Ore. The dollars go into an account that generates the interest proceeds used to fund these scholarships each year. That ensures the longevity of the program and its impact on the industry.

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The top two recipients also win an allexpense-paid trip to the 2012 CAB Annual Conference, September 19-21 in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. This is an opportunity to interact with leaders throughout the production, packing, retail and foodservice industries.

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Lands News My column this month will feature Sheriffs, wilderness, road closures, false court cases, federale drones and my new venture in the cattle business.

NM Sheriffs & Wilderness hree New Mexico border Sheriffs have announced their opposition to Senator Bingaman’s S. 1024 which would create 242,000 acres of Wilderness in Doña Ana and Luna Counties.

Todd Garrison, the Sheriff of Doña Ana County, submitted written testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Forests and Public Lands stating the prohibitions in the Wilderness Act “would stymie my department’s efforts to protect the public safety.” Garrison also said, “given the recent problems of drug and human trafficking, it would seem the height of folly to place such restrictions on law enforcement in this border area.”

Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos also submitted testimony saying the provisions of the Wilderness Act would “hamstring effective law enforcement.” And Saturnino Madero, Hidalgo County Sheriff, noting there are five Wilderness Study Areas in his county “which are being promoted as candidates for future legislation” said he found it “highly inadvisable to create Federal land use designations which prevent, limit or restrict law enforcement activity.”

In addition, the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association recently passed a resolution stating the association “opposes the enactment of S. 1024 which would designate 242,000 acres of Wilderness on or near the border with Mexico.” Add the opposition of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers and there is unanimous opposition to Bingaman’s bill by the law enforcement communities most impacted by its provisions.

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County, California recently testified to the House Natural Resources Committee concerning the Forest Service’s Travel Management Plan. Pointing out that enforcement “is central to the credibility of any law”, the Sheriff said given “the sheer scope of the land mass involved, it will be impossible to consistently or fairly enforce the Travel Management Policy without a massive increase in Federal Law Enforcement staffing which seems unlikely and ill advised.” Sheriff Hagwood testified in addition that “such outrageous impediments to the citizens ability to freely travel public lands have been inflicted upon the citizens by a subset bureaucracy of the Department of Agriculture and not Congress further diminishes its legitimacy in the eyes of the people.”

The Sheriff stated that those who for generations accessed the forest to cut firewood, fish, hike, ride horses, motorcycles, mountain bikes and camp now face “reduced access, restricted and closed roadways” and parking restrictions that are “completely arbitrary and capricious.”

The Sheriff concluded by saying “the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office will not enforce the Travel Management Policy as it exists today. I will not inflict punitive measures against law abiding citizens who would do nothing more than access what have long been recognized as public lands.” Sheriff Hagwood further stated, “The Sheriff’s Office will not create a new class of criminals out of our family, neighbors and guests who endeavor nothing more than enjoying the forest.”

Grant County, Oregon Sheriff Glenn Palmer has notified the Forest Service he was concerned about “the treatment of citizens of this county” by Forest Service law enforcement and the Forest Service’s Travel Management Plan. Sheriff Palmer also questioned the Forest Service's authority to have police operating in the county, citing limitations on federal powers in the U.S. Constitution. “Your jurisdiction as I see it is limited in nature to the Federal Building in John Day,” Palmer wrote. “I want to remind you that all polic-

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ing within the external borders of Grant County are the exclusive responsibility of the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and enforcement of all laws shall rest with the County Sheriff and his designees.”

And Sierra County, New Mexico Sheriff Joe Baca, in response to a recent meeting on a Forest Service Travel Management Plan, posted on Facebook, “Sorry I could not make it last night. Just know that I will not let them close any roads and if they so choose to do so I will arrest them for unlawfully closing a county road. They have no jurisdiction in Sierra County without me and I will not give them any.

You have my support 100 percent and we will keeps the forest open!”

The Sheriff Hoax Case

Over the years I have received many emails concerning a Sheriff Mattis in Big Horn County, Wyoming. The most recent was titled “County Sheriff Can Bust Big Bro: Wyoming Sheriffs Put Feds In Their Place” and like similar emailed articles cites a Federal District Court case usually listed as Castaneda v. United States, No. 96-CV-099.

No such ruling was issued as the case was settled following a settlement conference in 1997. Apparently there has been so much misrepresentation about this case the Chief Judge of the Wyoming Federal District Court felt compelled to issue a statement. If you go to the court’s website, Chief Judge William F. Downes has issued an undated statement, which says in part: We have learned that it has been reported, erroneously, that the court made a legal ruling in the Castaneda case regarding the authority of federal law enforcement officials to conduct operations in the County. There was no such ruling or decision. Instead, the court simply granted a motion, submitted jointly by all the parties, to dismiss the case because the parties had settled.

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activities and duties of federal law enforcement officers and other federal employees in the District of Wyoming.

So please don’t be guilty of passing on erroneous information.

We have a state statute in New Mexico which statutorily cross-commissions certain federal officers and requires all others to be cross-commissioned by the County Sheriff. Bud Eppers and others worked hard to get this bill passed by the legislature and it was signed into law by Governor Gary Johnson. Visit with your local Sheriff to see how he is administering the statute.

Drone, Drone on the range

Readers of my blog know I’ve long been predicting the drones used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan would someday be used by BLM and the Forest Service to determine range condition and monitor cattle numbers. Well, it looks like that day is fast arriving.

Three researchers at the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range and one from NMSU have been experimenting with a 20pound drone that has a 6-foot wingspan

and cruises 700 feet above the earth collecting digital images. They’ve published two studies in scientific journals saying the drone data is “sufficiently accurate to be comparable to information gathered in ground-based surveys for shrubs, grasses and other plants”. The ARS web page says they are gathering digital data on “national parks, forests, mountains, and deserts of the West” from the states of Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.

So there you have it. The BLM and the Forest Service will have their own Spy in the Sky. Smokey Bear will transfer to the FAA and Interior’s buffalo will grow wings.

Salazar Saucers will be flying over your rancho and you will now receive your Cut In Carrying Capacity or Trespass Notice in the mail accompanied by digital photographs, just like the city folks get from red light cameras.

Well I’m gonna fight back.

Check your local feed store for DuBois Drone Detectors that will hang on your windmill. The DuBois Drone Destroyers are still in the testing phase, so watch for future announcements on that baby.

And I’m getting back in the cattle busi-

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

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Calving Heifers on the Bells, 1972

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t was time to start calving those heifers we had gathered out of the Zorro Pasture. Every morning we would load our mounts and haul down to the Windmill Pasture, scatter out and prowl through those heavy heifers. We would make sure our count was right, and if we found one having trouble we would catch her and pull the calf. We made sure the calf was breathing good and then get away from them so mama would claim it. Sometimes the heifer would bounce up and be gone so it took some tall riding and finesse to get her back to smell and claim that calf. It was always a good feeling to sneak back and look over the hill to see her licking him off. When he gets up and goes to sucking, he’s got it made. Every few days as we rode through them we would pick up those that had week-old calves and ease them through the gate into the Zorro. Just going through the gate they would get confused and we would have to hold them up till they were sure which was their calf.

Then we would ease away from them.

They knew that pasture and waters and they were now full fledged Bell ranch mother cows.

Gary Morton was at the La Cinta Camp and Junior Williams was at the Casa Colorado. They also were calving out 150 heifers. Leo, Don and I were at Headquarters along with Jim and Bert in the bunkhouse. Another married puncher living in the little apartment at the commissary was Dick Massey. He has been a good friend ever since and he made a good hand.

He and Gary were old friends. Gary insisted we had to go see a movie one night in Tucumcari, so we did. Still one of my favorite movies, Culpepper Cattle Company was pretty authentic. Soon, we had made some of those wrist cuffs and those that had them went to wearing their pistols. We bought $4 Big Ben pocket watches and carried them in our vest pocket with a little chain and a bullet for a watch fob.

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and some grew handle bar moustaches.

One of the main characters in that movie was named Missoula. It fit Dick, so he’s been Missoula ever since. Just like that movie, we were proud of the outfit we rode for.

One cold morning in March Leo roped our mounts as usual. We loaded in the gooseneck and went to the calving pastures. We unloaded and Leo said to prowl those heifers as usual, and when we got through, to hit a lope to that trail in the Sabinosa and up to the West Bronc Pasture. He was headed there now to try and find those Jersey bulls we were short. At that point the Bells had been breeding their yearling heifers to Jersey bulls to help the heifers calve with fewer problems.

Leo pulled out and we trotted to the Windmill Pasture, and split up to prowl those heifers. On my circle, I rode up on a silly heifer that had a calf and she was dizzy.

She started to run and her calf went through the fence into the Sabinosa. I loped around and tried to hold her up. She wouldn’t hold, so I bedded her down!

Sounds a bit rough to those who have never worked with range stock, but that’s the way you do it. Sometimes a sack of cake and a pickup does well, but with a real cowboy outfit there’s a reason you pack that rope. Missoula and Jim loped up and saw what was going on. I asked Jim if he would try and hold that heifer, whatever it took. I told Jim that Missoula and I would go catch that calf and bring it back. So we went through the gate and caught it. As we were slowly leading the calf back, I told Missoula I would trot ahead to check Jim’s situation. I looked over the rise and scanned the tobosa flat. At first I saw a red saddle blanket, next a hat, next a wild heifer going up that flat with Jim in his saddle tied to her. Grazing close by was his mount named Touchy. Touchy was a snake from the time Fred Romero and I started some colts at the Bronc Pens. Fred named him. Seems that ol’ heifer sold out and

Jim, as he should have, roped her but caught her deep. It broke his latigo and flank billet, so he was sitting in the middle of his saddle, reared back, with both feet in the stirrups. That heifer was pulling him across that tobosa flat. I stepped off, opened the gate and Missoula spurred Johnny Bronco and went to her. He roped her and I picked up her hocks. We got Jim loose from her, got her back with her calf, then let ‘em go. Now we had some tall repair work to do. I had some stout leather strings in my saddle pockets and we got his rig patched up while there was lots of laughing about the wreck. We were hurrying as we knew Leo was waiting on us in the West Bronc Pasture.

So we struck a long trot across the Sabinosa to the trail up the rim to West Bronc. When we got on top we rode to a high point, reset our kaks and rolled smokes trying to get a glimpse of Leo. It was a cold day but the sun was shining and that’s how we caught his signal. He had shown us this handy deal of packing a little mirror in your leggings pocket. When you see someone rimmed out trying to find you in a big country, you can get their attention pronto. Leo was down on the La Cinta Creek where the salt cedar is thick, so we hit a lope. When they worked those bred heifers last fall they dropped all those Jersey bulls in the West Bronc. A few days before, we had made a drag on ‘em and threw them where they could be fed-up good before turning them out with another set of heifers in a couple months.

We were short three or four and I didn’t know how those dairy bulls crave a fight.

The only dairy stock I’d been around was my dad’s milch cow. Leo had figured they would be bushed up and on the hook . . . as always he was right.

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the heifers, any problems?” We said, “No problems . . . we found them all and there were several new calves.” He said he had found those bulls over at the salt lick and went to easing them toward the bronc pens, but they “no savvy” easy. One whirled around and came on the hook, then they all outlawed. They were right over there in that salt cedar. He said, “If we can get a loop on them we will choke on ‘em or do whatever it takes. Then we’ll lead ‘em over to the road, sideline them and jerk them in a trailer.” We all knew we had to get ‘em out of that brush to catch ‘em. I told Leo that if someone was willing to go in a-foot and come to the edge of the thicket when they charged him, we’d smear a loop on ‘em when they busted into the open. I knew Missoula craved action and sure enough, he said he’d do it. So we followed Leo to edge of brush and Missoula hobbled Johnny Bronco back a-ways. Jim, Leo and I tightened up and drew our horn knots down tight. Missoula hung his leggings on a bush but kept on his hooks, as a true puncher. If one of those toros got him he’d at least go wearing his spurs. He took a last

puff on his Prince Albert and waded into that brush. It was real quiet for a while . . . just the noise from him pushing through those limbs. Then lots of limbs started breaking as a bull took after him. Right where I sat on Tom Cat, Missoula busted out of that brush with Mr. Jersey bull blowing snot on his wranglers and reaching for him with his front hoofs. I ripped a loop on

him and went the other way, we stretched him out by the road and left him there sidelined, with dirt in his eyes. Missoula did the same on the other two with Jim and Leo catching the second they came out. I always liked Missoula a lot and after that day I was sure he had a bucket of guts and would do “to ride the river with.” n Another good day on the Bells.

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“The Red Angus are so wonderful to work with,” she noted, “and a lot of my bull buyers have switched to Red Angus to get the carcass quality they need to top the market along with the docile disposition that makes bulls easy to handle.”

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In that way she has developed a purebred herd renowned for its heat tolerance, low birth weights, sound feet and legs, and animals that maintain their condition through the good and bad years, like the drought that the region has experienced this year.

“It has truly been a blessing to be involved with Red Angus, the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) and its programs as well as the great people across the cattle industry,” Mary says. She encourages young people getting into the cattle business to take a hard look at the breed.

“We are always happy when we can help

someone else get started, and we enjoy showing our cattle to everyone,” she continued. She remembered one customer that she developed simply because he drove by the Lazy D and often saw her out working on foot by herself with everything from bulls to calving heifers.

A recent milestone in the Dobry Red Angus program is that Jay Anthony, Jal, New Mexico, recently was awarded a Grid Master Award. Anthony has been using Lazy D Red Angus bulls for more than 10 years. “Red Angus programs help purebred and commercial breeders increase their profits,” Mary points out, “and that’s why we are all in the business.”

While seedstock producers are often in direct competition with fellow breeders to gain market share, they also harbor a spirit of cooperation that brings them together

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petition” that describes competitors within an industry cooperating to increase the size of their market share, then competing individually for clientele.

Mushrush said Red Angus breeders combine their resources to increase the demand for Red Angus genetics beyond what each member could do individually. This includes submitting data for accurate genetic descriptions for commercial producers, as well as coming together for events like conventions to share ideas that increase the overall genetic value of Red Angus.

Co-opetition in Red Angus extends beyond individual breeders to include other breed associations. For the past 10 years, the RAAA has pooled data with the Canadian Angus Association and, last year, combined datasets with the American Simmental Association to increase the accuracy of EPDs for a true multi-breed database of over 9 million animals.

The strength of this database is documented through the use of Total Herd Reporting (THR) of all progeny – not just those good enough to register – hence

eliminating reporting bias from data used to calculate EPDs. RAAA’s objective is to not only provide a better product for commercial producers, but to also supply services that help customers receive better returns on their cattle.

One of these services, the Feeder Calf Certification Program (FCCP), enrolled 125,525 head in 2011, representing a 13.1 percent annual growth over the past four years. This USDA genetics-, age- and source-verified program will continue to expand and offer more services and profitability opportunities for cattlemen using Red Angus genetics.

The FCCP “yellow tag” adds marketability to Red Angus-influenced calves through USDA-approved genetics, age and source verification, and the RAAA offers additional tools to help producers find a buyer for their cattle.

Every Red Angus bull customer has access to a variety of RAAA marketing programs such as FeederFax, an email-based notification for Red Angus-sired calves marketed by video auctions, through private treaty sales or at livestock markets.

FeederFax is distributed to RAAA’s active buyer base.

The Red Angus Stockyards, a web-based listing on RedAngus.org, has marketed nearly 100,000 head of replacement females, Red Angus bulls and/or Red Angus-influenced cattle.

For ranchers looking to market their calves in a more traditional manner, each fall and winter, RAAA staff helps organize Red Angus Feeder Calf Sales held in livestock markets spread across the U.S. “All of these marketing options give producers the opportunity to add value to their calf crop and, along with the use of the FCCP ‘yellow tag,’ can secure Red Angus bull customers” continued sucn cess,” said Mushrush.

Grid Masters Exceed Carcass Specifications, Break Record Red Angus producers meet the challenge to producer higher carcass quality

ed Angus ranches and feeders achieved a new level this year as 64 loads of cattle – over 2,500 head – met and exceeded the strict carcass yield and quality combinations to earn Grid

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Master status.

The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) presented 47 producers with the Grid Master Award at the Red Angus National Convention held in Durham, North Carolina this fall. This is the largest number of Grid Masters ever recognized in the eight-year history of the award.

“The RAAA presented a challenge to breeders, commercial ranches and feed yards to harvest Red Angus cattle at tighter quality and yield specifications than ever before,” said RAAA Director of Value Added Programs Myron Edelman. “Not only did Red Angus producers hit a more difficult target, they exceeded the Grid Master record for the third consecutive year.”

To increase the challenge, RAAA raised the threshold by increasing the percentage of cattle that grade Choice or better, while lowering the percentage of Yield Grade 4 carcasses.

Red Angus cattle not only produce valuable carcasses, but they are very good at meeting grid specs that increase the profit margin on the rail, said Edelman. Producers who enroll their Red Angus-influenced cattle in the Feeder Calf Certification Program (FCCP) and apply the yellow Red Angus tag are eligible to submit harvest data for Grid Master consideration.

Conventional-fed cattle meet the following requirements: n Min. of 30-head lot size n Min. 85% Choice or higher n Max. 5% Yield Grade 4 n Min. Grid Score of 100 To account for the different finishing characteristics of natural-fed cattle, lots must meet the following criteria: n Min. of 30-head lot size n Min. 90% Choice or higher n Max. 10% Yield Grade 4 n Min. Grid Score of 100 All four major packers – U.S. Premium Beef, JBS USA, Tyson and Cargill –harvested Red Angus Grid Master qualifiers in 10 different plant locations. Myer Natural Angus reported the largest number of Grid Master winners with 30 lots, and the Painted Hills Natural Program also harvested award-winning Red Angus cattle.

“Challenging those who produce and feed Red Angus cattle has proven to only make them rise to the level of the task,” said Edelman. “This has strengthened the value of Red Angus by building reputations of cattle that we know have proven maternal traits, the ability to efficiently convert feed and produce a valuable end product.”n

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by PAUL H. GUTIERREZ, CASEY DANLEY AND JERRY HAWKES ecord keeping and planning is an important management function for any business, particularly for one as unpredictable as the cow-calf business.

However, good record keeping and planning will not lead to improved profits unless the records are used to identify management opportunities, costs savings, and/or improvements. The current drought in New Mexico and throughout the Southwest has the potential to become a long-term condition. Identification of opportunities and improvements may be critical to maintaining margins and staying in business.

A good way to start looking for production, marketing and other management opportunities and improvements is by taking a hard look at production costs, such as cow costs. Analysis of production costs provides important benchmark data for planning and insights into being “a lowcost producer,” even during a drought. To avoid unintended consequences, cutting cow costs must be examined carefully.

According to Integrated Resource Management (IRM) data, low-cost producers have lower annual cow-carrying costs, lower winter feed, and total supplement cost, and lower interest on debt. In addition, low-cost producers have higher reproductive rates and heavier weaning weights than high-cost producers. IRM data also identified a few cost areas such as pasture, bulls and herd health where low-cost producers spend just as much as high-cost producers. These are areas where spending less often causes a potentially larger drop in herd productivity and ultimately raises all costs.

One of the best tools for evaluating cow costs is the enterprise budget. The enterprise budget can be thought of as an expanded version of the cow-calf profit formula, where: Profit or loss = Revenue – Expenses, or

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Profit or loss = (price x production) – cost of production, or Profit or loss = [((%calf crop x weaning weight) x price) +((%cull livestock sales x weight) x price)] – costs per cow Many beef cattle enterprise budget formats are available; web links to several cow-calf enterprise budget formats are provided at the end of this article, including the sample budgeted presented here.

In this sample cow-calf enterprise budget, (Table 1) a net profit or returns above total operating costs is estimated for a 200 head cow-calf, spring-calving enterprise.

Assumptions such as herd size, death loss, replacement rate, weaned calf crop, weights and price of market livestock are shown at the bottom of the budget. Values and costs are reported on a per cow and a total basis. To create a similar set of estimates, use values from your record system, farm loan application or Schedule F (Profit or Loss Form Farming) tax form or both. Be sure to adjust these figures from your records or Schedule F to reflect costs for the cow-calf enterprise only.

Initially, identify all possible cost categories for your cow-calf enterprise and report a value. Adjustments can then be made to initial cost allocations. For example, if fuel and oil costs are reported for cattle and crops, then a portion that reflects the approximate fuel and oil costs for the cow-calf enterprise should be allocated to cattle. If costs for hay and cattle production are combined, and all or a portion of the hay is fed to the cows, then an equivalent portion of hay production costs should be charged to the cow-calf enterprise.

Lines 6 through 33 report the cost categories for our budget example in Table 1.

Feed, the first major item is reported in lines 6 through 10 (also reported on line 18 of your Sch F). Total feed costs for our example are $37,920 or $189.60/cow (line 11, $37,920/200 cows). Of the total operating costs reported, $93,486 (line 33), feed accounts for 41% of the total.

Depending on the year and the individual ranch forage and management situation, feed costs typically will account for

25-50 percent of total cash operating costs, often the difference between a low cost and high cost producer. In drought years it is not uncommon for feed and pasture cost to exceed 50 percent of total operating cost for many producers. However, drought or no drought, if feed and pasture costs exceed 60 percent of total cash operating costs, an in-depth analysis of feed production, purchasing and management should be made.

Cowherd productivity goals (i.e. weaning weight, cow size, milk production) should be synchronized with the ability to maintain least-cost supplement and rations as well as sufficient forage availability. The primary physiological value of cattle is their ability to utilize forages.

Therefore, to lower and efficiently “manage” feed costs, the focus should be on the amount of supplemental feed beyond the nutrient value provided by grazed forages, which typically determine the competitiveness of cow-calf enterprises. The most profitable cow-calf producers have the lowest feed costs relative to their less profitable contemporaries.

Lower cost producers are not poor nutritional managers. They focus on grazed, renewable forage resources instead of expensive purchased or mechanically harvested feeds. Grazing management is the most important factor for successful and sustained range livestock production in any economic or environmental climate. Ultimately, livestock producers are in the business of forage production. A management plan or strategy is intended to keep producers in business.

Some specific strategies to lower feed costs include: n Know production costs n Minimize feed waste n Test harvested feeds for nutritional value n Feed heifers separately from cows n Feed low-condition-score females separately n Minimize dependence on fossil fuels, when possible n Cooperate with fellow producers to buy bulk supplemental feed to lower per unit cost n Do NOT use nutritional “quick fixes” or “cure-alls” n Price feed by nutritional basis, not weight n Evaluate alternative feed sources (i.e., crop residues, processing by-products) n Avoid additional debt from equipment and machinery purchases continued on page 96

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The economy has hit all of us hard. But we cannot roll over and allow the “green” (red if you follow Lee Pitts) groups to condemn and destroy our industry or impose new rules and regulations that will end our heritage and traditions. New Mexico Agriculture will continue to stand together and fight for our way of life.

As our population continues to grow, farmers and ranchers are being asked to provide more with less. While all production styles have a role to play, it is through continuous advancements modern agriculture that we will achieve these goals. New Mexico Agriculture is made up of families that are hard working, dedicated to their land, animals, and producing wholesome and nutritious products for citizens of New Mexico and America.

We need your presence at the 2011 Joint Stockmen’s Convention to help develop policies that will guide us through the 2012 and we need your voice and support as we carry out our policies to decisions makers.

Together Every Step Of The Way New Mexico Agriculture will prevail and be stronger for years to come. So pull on your boots, step up to the plate at convention and have your voice heard.

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Defending Agriculture to a Skeptical Public ary Sides, PhD, is the beef and feedlot nutri2011 Pfizer Cattionist with Pfizer Anitlemen’s College mal Health.

He has Keynote Speaker Gary Sides, PhD been with Pfizer since 2003. Sides has extensive beef industry nutrition experience, compiling 20 years with organizations such as Intervet / Hoechst-Russell Vet, Cargill Animal Nutrition and Moorman Manufacturing Company. Before putting his nutritional expertise to work for Pfizer and beef producers, Sides spent two years as a livestock extension specialist with Texas A&M University, located in Fort Stockton, Texas. Additionally, Sides was a research scientist with Utah State University. Based in Lima, Peru, he worked in the Andes Mountains above 14,000-feet elevation, studying the reproductive and nutritional characteristics of South American ruminants. He also taught at La Molina Agricultural University in Lima.

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He currently lives in Sterling, Colorado, with his wife, Colleen. They are the parents of four sons with whom he shares a great interest in hunting, fishing and n sports.

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

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1:45 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

N.M. CowBelles Board & General Session

3:40 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

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

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4:10 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

Joint Federal & Trust Lands

4:40 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.

NMCGA Tax & Special Issues

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

N.M. Hereford Association Meeting

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

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5:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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1:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

NM Horse Equine Industry Summit

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

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KOKO

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

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NMCGA 2011 Board Meeting

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

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Scott Bidegain Jeff Bilberry Linn Blancett Diane Bowman Jim Bob Burnett Mike Casabonne Gerald Chacon Jack Chatfield Emery Chee Brad Christmas Blair Clavel John Clemmons John Conniff Tom Cooper Cliff Copeland Caren Cowan Joe Culbertson Bruce Davis Joe Delk Milford Denetclaw Lewis Derrick Roy Farr Sage Faulkner Larry Foster Sid Goodloe Jim Grider Phil Harvey, Jr. Mike Hobbs Heidi Humphries

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New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Officers EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Bert Ancell, Springer President Rex Wilson, Carrizozo President-Elect Lane Grau, Grady Vice President at Large Ty Bays, Silver City Southwest Vice President Pat Boone, Elida Southeast Vice President Jose Varela Lopez, Santa Fe Northeast Vice President Ernie Torrez, La Jara Northwest Vice President Troy Sauble, Maxwell Secretary/Treasurer Alisa Ogden, Loving Past President Bill Sauble, Maxwell Past President Caren Cowan, Albuquerque Executive Director

Conchas Dam Elida Aztec Crownpoint Hope Hope Espanola Mosquero Bloomfield Wagon Mound Roy Elida Las Cruces Las Cruces Nara Visa Albuquerque Amistad Springer Mesilla Park Shiprock Artesia Datil Los Ojos Las Cruces Capitan Carrizozo Mesilla Cimarron Tucumcari

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Albuquerque Farmington Dell City, TX Broadview Deming Cuervo Pinon Capulin Animas Mountainair Alamogordo Springer Magdalena Roswell Roswell Yeso Yeso Dona Ana La Plata Blanco Springer Roswell Deming Gila Cimarron Clovis Albuquerque Medañales Cimarron Tucumcari Stanley Capitan Duncan, AZ

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Buena Vista Roswell Magdalena Newkirk Albuquerque Las Cruces Broadview

NON-VOTING MEMBERS Shacey Sullivan Kevin Floyd Lowell B. Catlett Jane Frost Linda Lee Bob Homer Jim Lyssy

Allied Industries Committee Allied Industries Committee College of Consumer and Environmental Sciences at NMSU N.M. Beef Council N.M. CowBelles NMCGA Insurance Administrators Insurance Services of N.M.

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Past Presidents * DECEASED *1914-1916 *1916-1918 *1918-1920 *1920-1922 *1922-1924 *1924-1926 *1926-1928

Calvin Glenn Wm. Ray Morely Victor Culberson T.E. Mitchell Hugh L. Hodge C.M. O’Donel Tom P. Talle

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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 Bill Littrell J.L. (Les) Davis Jasper Koontz Ike Wiggins Jerry Clayton A.F. (Frank) Flint Charlie T. Lee Von Cain Dick Snyder Jiggs Dinwiddie Tom Linebery Edith Pankey Bob Jones Phillip Bidegain H.W. (Bud) Eppers Don Hofman Linda Davis Peter T. Mocho Felicia Thal F.F. (Chano) & Stella Montoya Ben & Jane Cain

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Frank DuBois John Fowler, Ph.D. Howard Hutchinson Ron White Caren Cowan Karen Budd-Falen Chris Allison Mike Casabonne Lewis Derrick Alice Eppers

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Bruce and Alice King Service Memorial Award 2009 2010

Allied Industries Committee Shacey Sullivan, Albuquerque Kevin Floyd, Roswell

Albuquerque Las Cruces

Chuck Stocks Frank DuBois

Chairman Vice-Chairman

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

Cattle Growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Committees

Feeder Committee

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

Greg Moore, Wagon Mound Bill King, Stanley Bruce Davis, Springer

Ag Policy Committee

(All active New Mexico cattle feeders are welcomed and encouraged to vote on this committee.)

Chairman Vice-Chairman Treasurer

Theft & Health Sub Committee Curt Kelling, Cuervo Mark Whetten, Newkirk

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Finance Committee Alisa Ogden, Loving

Promotion & Marketing Sub Committee Blair Clavel, Roy Darrell Brown, Artesia

Chairman Vice-Chairman

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Research & Improvement Sub Committee Larry Foster, Las Cruces

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Litigation Committee Phil H. Bidegain, Chairman Jim Jackson, Vice Chairman Jimmy R. Bason Howard Hutchinson Mike Casabonne Jim Grider Bebo Lee Sato Lee Alisa Ogden Bill Sauble

Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Sub Committee Boe Lopez, Springer Kate White, Friona, TX Heidi Humphries, Tucumcari

Tucumcari Albuquerque Hillsboro Glenwood Hope Carrizozo Alamogordo Mountainair Loving Maxwell

Rex Wilson, Carrizozo Roy Farr, Datil

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Membership Sub Committee Kimberly Stone, Capitan Diane Bowman, Crownpoint Amanda Mayfield, Lordsburg

Chairman Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman

Public Relations Sub Committee Jon Swapp, Duncan, AZ

RANCH RAISED

Chairman

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Natural Resources Committee Natural Resources Sub Committee Bob Ricklefs, Cimarron Tracy Drummond, Reserve

Cross Cultural Sub Committee

Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman

Legislative Sub Committee

Membership Relations Committee

Milford Denetclaw, Shiprock Dustin Johnson, Farmington

Vice-Chairman

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Water Sub Committee Joe Culbertson, Jr., Amistad Randell Major, Magdalena

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Wildlife Sub Committee Mike Hobbs, Cimarron Gene Whetten, Magdalena Scott Bidegain, Conchas Dam

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Renewable Energy Sub Committee Jack Chatfield, Mosquero Stan Jones, Broadview

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Federal & Trust Lands Sub Committee Chairman Vice-Chairman

Jim Grider, Carrizozo Jeff Bilberry, Elida Carlos Salazar, Medeñales

Chairman Co -Vice-Chairman Co-Vice-Chairman

Oil & Gas Sub Committee Bob McCrea, Roswell Irvin Boyd, Eunice

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Nominating Committee Bill Sauble, Chairman Rex Wilson, Vice Chairman All Past Presidents and Mike Casabonne Phil Harvey, Jr. Nikki Hooser Randell Major Stella Montoya

Maxwell Carrizozo Hope Mesilla Springer Magdalena La Plata

Taxation & Special Issues Sub Committee Justin Knight, Tucumcari Tom Sidwell, Tucumcari

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Resolutions Committee Nikki Hooser, Springer Becky Christmas, Wagon Mound All Committee Chairmen

Chairman Vice-Chairman

Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc. Property Committee Private Lands Sub Committee Brad Christmas, Wagon Mound Lane Grau, Grady

Chairman Vice Chairman

Phil H. Bidegain, Tucumcari Sunny Nixon, Santa Fe Charles Fleming, Clovis Linda Davis, Cimarron Laura Hall, Albuquerque Kay Payne, Roswell Jack Roberts, Las Cruces

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New Mexico Wool Growers’ Inc. Officers President 1st Vice President 2nd Vice President Secretary/Treasurer Immediate Past President Executive Director

John Cooper Alice Eppers R.C. (Punch) Jones Ronnie Merritt Mary Skeen

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PO Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194 • 2231 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Ph. 505/247-0584 • Fax: 505/842-1766 nmcga@nmagriculture.org • www.nmagriculture.org NOVEMBER 2011

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Madlyn Cauhape Truman Pierce T.L. (Sonny) Watts Truman Pierce W.W. Roach Mike Casabonne Art Evans Steve Lewis David Kincaid Pete Gnatkowski Scott McNally Mark Marley Ron Merritt Tom Runyan Russell Leonard Mike Corn Joan Kincaid Jim Cooper

Hope Roswell Piñon Roswell Caprock Hope Roswell Artesia Piñon Carrizozo Roswell Roswell Yeso Piñon Hope Roswell Piñon Tinnie

Originally, the Association was the New Mexico Stock Growers’ Association formed in 1884. It was a loosely organized group of local livestock protective associations determined to maintain a Territory-wide association. * Mr. Farr died June 12, 1927, while serving his second term. Floyd W. Lee, then a vice president, was named acting president to complete the term, was elected president in 1928 and continued to serve by unanimous annual re-election until the convention of 1960. ** During the term of Madlyn Cauhape, it was decided that the president would serve from July to July, Madlyn only served one year.

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Sheepman of the Year 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 *1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

James Sachse, Las Cruces Herbert M. (Hub) Corn, Roswell R.L. (Louis) Merritt, Yeso R.C. (Punch) Jones, Tatum George Casabonne, Hope Al Snipes, Roswell Lloyd Treat, Roswell H.W. (Bud) Eppers, Roswell John Cooper, Tinnie Art Evans, Roswell Truman Pierce, Roswell Ernest Perez, Encino Joseph Skeen, Picacho Ronnie & Beverly Merritt, Yeso David & Joan Kincaid, Piñon A.W. and Janice Gnatkowski, Ancho John P. Cauhape, Piñon Albert Perez, Vaughn Martin Yriart, Roswell Robert B. (Bob) Naylor, Roswell Anthony (Tony) Treat, Roswell Mary Skeen, Roswell Pete & Sarah Gnatkowski, Ancho

*** Truman Pierce was elected president in July 1978. In April of 1979 he became very ill and T.L. Watts finished the year and then was elected president. Truman was made first vice president and fulfilled his term of office after T.L. Watts.

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New Mexico Sheep & Goat Council Antonio Manzanares, Tierra Amarilla Russell Leonard, Roswell Mike Corn, Roswell Tom Runyan David Kincaid Mercedes Cravens

New Mexico Beef Council Officers

Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Piñon Piñon Encino

Jim Bob Burnett, Hope Darrel Brown, Artesia Bernarr Treat, Roswell Dina Reitzel, Albuquerque

Andres Aragon Las Vegas Bruce Davis Springer Alicia Sanchez Belen Art Schaap Clovis David McSherry Deming Mark McCollum Fort Sumner Jane Frost, NCBA Director San Jon Wesley Grau, Beef Board Dir. Grady Tammy Ogilvie, Beef Board Dir. Silver City Sec. of Agriculture, Jeff Witte, Ex-officio, Las Cruces

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Medeñales Dell City, Texas Hope Eunice Carrizozo Claunch Glenwood Tinnie Animas Cloudcroft Yeso Deming Socorro Magdalena Maxwell Winston Dexter Albuquerque Santa Fe Las Cruces

New Mexico Cowbelles’ Officers Linda Lee, Alamogordo Beverly Butler, Columbus Babbi Baker, Estancia Sharon King, Capulin Lyn Greene, Mountainair Karen Kelling, Cuervo Frida Havens, Cuba Lee Hauser, Clayton

President President-Elect 1st Vice President Secretary Treasurer Past President 2010 CowBelle of the Year 2011 Man of the Year

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2011 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Cattlemen of the Year Sponsor Farm Credit of New Mexico & CoBank

Trade Show Reception Sponsor New Mexico Beef Council

Cattlemen’s College Sponsor Pfizer Animal Health

Family Luncheon Sponsor Farm Credit of New Mexico

Stockmen’s Luncheon Sponsors Animal Health International Hi-Pro Feeds

Awards Banquet Sponsor Council for Biotechnology Information

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You AreTo Invited

Cowboy Christmas Friday, December 2, 2011 • 6:30 p.m.

Kokopelli Room • Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North

Advance tickets $30 per person / $50 per couple includes dinner, beverage of your choice and more fun than you’ve had in a long time! Come rub shoulders and swap stories with some of the West’s greatest sculptors, artists and authors all from New Mexico! Their latest work, complete with signature, will make great holiday gifts and treasures for eternity. Bring along your city cousins and introduce them to COWBOYS & NMCGA COWBOY CLUB!

Silent AUCTION Find all of your perfect Christmas gifts at the 2011 Joint Stockmen’s Silent Auction

AUCTION HOURS Friday, December 2 9:00 a.m.

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LOCATION Gallery Room Better Yet – bring in items to donate!

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Pfizer Cattlemen’s College

C onv entio n Hi ghlig hts

Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.

Special Guest Speaker Gary Sides PhD, Nutritionist Pfizer

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION • DNA Testing; Increasing Your Bottom Line • New Technologies / Feeding the World • Drought Management – Market Implications – Safety Nets • Future Outlook – Climate & Cattle Numbers

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ATTEND OUR MEETINGS DURING THE JOINT STOCKMEN’S MEETING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011 om 1:45 p.m. in the Las Cruces Ro 2011 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 7:00 a.m. in the Kokopelli Room

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To find the CowBelle chapter nearest you, please contact PAT JONES, 505/963-2314.

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Order No. 001-01000 DIMENSIONS: Length Overall 93" Height 74" Width Overall 37" WEIGHT: 920 lbs.

Value Chute Reg. . . . . . . . $3,100 SALE . . . . . . $2,499

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Manual Chute Reg. . . . . . . . $2,999 SALE . . . . . . $2,399

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Value Manual Headgate Order No. 011-01096 Reg. . . . . . . . $799 SALE . . . . . . $699

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taneously providing even pressure, reducing chance of injury • Drop-side pipes allow animal access from either side • Chute bottom adjusts to animal’s size at 7, 12 and 17 inches.

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A New Angle on controlling your livestock.

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2011 Joint Stockmen’s Convention

DEADLINE FOR PRE-REGISTRATION: November 15, 2011

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Includes all meals, speakers, meetings & regular events

Adult Registration (Includes two luncheons & dinner/dance.) $125.00 x Children (Under 12. Includes two luncheons & dinner/dance.) $50.00 x Nonmember $200.00 x Child Daycare Box Lunch $10.00/day x

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Cowboy Christmas

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Single Event Registration Convention Registration Nonmember Convention Registration Family Luncheon Joint Stockmen’s Luncheon Banquet/Dance M-44 School

Friday Saturday Saturday Saturday

$ 50.00 x $ 110.00 x $ 35.00 x $ 35.00 x $ 60.00 x $ N/C x

ATTENTION: A limited amount of meal tickets will be sold at the convention, so please purchase tickets in advance.

Make all checks payable to: NMCGA • P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194

Note: Pre-registration Deadline November 15, 2011. No refunds. Remember to make your reservations early!

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott Pyramid North for a limited time at $79 plus tax per night.

To make reservations call 1-800-262-2043. Ask for Joint Stockmen’s rate.

Attention CowBelles: CowBelle Breakfast – Pre-Registration: $25. At Door: $30 (if available) DEADLINE: November 20, 2011 Please send check payable to: NMCB Lyn Greene HC 75, Box 22, Mountainair, New Mexico 87036 NOVEMBER 2011

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Bill King Cattleman of theYear

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ill King believes in education.

But he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take a traditional route to get it.

While his peers were sweating it out in college classes, Bill spent three or four days a week in auction markets all over the state of New Mexico, buying the 7,000 to 8,000 calves to go on feed at King Brothers feedlots. Or he was analyzing bills and brokering deals as legislative liaison for his father, legendary New Mexico Governor Bruce King.

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And he was already working as a New Mexico Cattle Grower, with old-time cowmen like Alvin Stockton, Tom Lineberry, Marshall Sellman and Von Cain as his instructors. Bill learned his lessons well.

As he has since the late 1960s, Bill cares for his land and cattle near Stanley, New Mexico. Around Stanley, the name King is just about synonymous with cowman. Bill is that cowman. It is a responsibility to an industry and a family name that he doesn’t take lightly. His commitment to the cattle industry and his depth of knowledge and giving to that industry are what prompted fellow cattlemen to name Bill King as their 2011 Cattleman of the Year.

As Bill navigates the backroads around Stanley, he isn’t just answering questions for the Stockman. He is also checking commodity quotes on his phone, calling to ensure that the bulls that were moved today have enough silage, and checking another pasture to make sure all the cattle had been moved out. He points out homesteads along the way, some that were settled before New Mexico became a state, others that still are farmed or ranched by Kings, and those that were bought by the King family in the last 40 years. He also points out where family members still live, and it becomes obvious that Bill King is a man with a deeply rooted sense of family, tradition, heritage, and love of the land.

But he is also a man who knows

Bill King the budding cowboy

how to adapt and change with the times.

For instance, the family doesn’t feed thousands of steers a year like they did in the 1970s. Instead, Bill has devoted his time and attention to the purebred cowherds and the bulls he sells each year.

It is not something that just happened.

Bill is a thinker, and one of his favorite quotes came from a livestock magazine.

“You go through life and you don’t think much about adapting and changing,” he stated. “Then, one day, you get to the point where you say, ‘I’m not going to change any more.’ And then you die.” Change, in his opinion, is that important.

Bill still leases land to run cows from his mother’s family, the Martins, who homesteaded in 1907. His father’s family, the Kings, arrived in New Mexico in 1917.

Grandfather King had a job working for Trinidad Bean Pool in the 1930s. The job enabled him to keep his family fed in a time when all the dryland farmers were leaving the Estancia Valley. Grandfather King moved his family to Trinidad for a couple of years, and when they came back to the Stanley area, he had enough money to buy tax titles to land. continued on page 84

Congratulations to my brother Bill King for being selected Cattleman of the Year!

I am very proud of Bill for following his dreams and carrying on the ranching tradition in our family. I know it’s hard work and New Mexico cattle growers like him are an important part of the fabric of society that makes our state and country what it is today. Next time someone asks, ‘Where’s the beef ?’just ask my brother. I think I speak for the entire extended King family when I say, “Good goin’Bill!”

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Bill’s father, Bruce, and his two brothers, started farming the land in the 1950s.

They also started feeding cattle about this time. The market was high in California, so the brothers bought a little truck which could haul 20 steers and headed to Los Angeles to sell fat cattle. “My uncles lost their wheels in California and said they weren’t going back to California, no matter what the market was,” Bill laughed.

Agriculture in the 1950s was able to

The Bill King Family at 2010 Joint Stockmen’s Convention(l to r) Becky, Tom & Jordan Spindle, Beverly Merritt, (brand pelt designer) Stacy King, Ronnie Merritt, Bill King, Abby Spindle, Dnette Wood, Jenny, Josh and Lincoln Caldes. Front row, Cash & Charlie Spindle.

return more money to the producer than it generally does today, so when the brothers got a little money saved up, they bought more land. They eventually bought the Bond ranch west of Albuquerque and rented what is now the Valles Caldera.

King Brothers controlled half a million acres of New Mexico ranchland at one time in the mid-1980s. They raised three thousand calves a year, which they fed out in their own feedlots, and bought another 8,000 to 10,000 calves a year to feed.

Bill and his brother, Gary, grew up in the cattle business. They also grew up in politics. When Bill was three, his father was elected county commissioner in Santa Fe County. “My memory was of listening to 40 guys giving speeches at precinct meetings,” he related. “In Santa Fe County, those speeches were given in Spanish and English. I thought I couldn’t stand listening to another speech. I guess I just got worn out when I was young, because I never did want to run for office.”

A young cowman

But he did want to be a cowman. When he was very small, Bill was known to ditch school and hide in the backseat of the car on days he knew his Dad was headed for the auction markets. “Grandad would usu-

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ally relent and let Dad go with him,” laughed Becky, Bill’s daughter. “Dad always wanted to be a cowboy. And he’s always had a head for numbers. He can figure out how much a load of cattle will bring in about two seconds, doing all the math in his head.”

In 1967, while a junior in high school, he bought his first registered Hereford cows. “My Mom, (Alice King), went with me to get them, because Dad didn’t think the registered business was such a good idea,” he remembers. “I bought three heifers from Marshall Sellman of Watrous.

I got home and put them in an old wooden pen. The heifers broke out and got in a hayfield. Two of them bloated and died.

Dad said that registered cows were always problems and that I needed to turn the other registered heifer out with the commercial cows.”

But when Bill visited with Marshall and told him two heifers had died, Marshall instructed the young cowman to come to his sale and he’d get credit for two heifers.

“I said it wasn’t his fault that the heifers had died, but he insisted,” Bill remembers.

“Marshall was just good to kids. So I went back and got two more heifers.”

After he got out of high school, Bill

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went to the Tesequite Ranch and bought 10 year old cull cows from the Mitchell family. “It was an economical way to break into the business,” he stated. “I’d try to get one or two calves out of those cows and improve my herd.”

Bill was also interested in land. He went to the local courthouse and got a list of all the homesteads in the area. He then wrote every family, offering to buy land. Only one family responded in 1968, but that purchase of rangeland for $25 an acre gave Bill a foothold in the valley he’d grown up in. Over the years, he’d be contacted again and again by individuals who wrote, “You wrote a letter once, asking if we’d like to sell our land. We are ready now.”

Bill bought parcel after parcel. “When land got to $100 an acre, my Dad said I’d better stop buying, because it was getting way too high,” he laughed. “When he and his brothers started buying, they were giving five to seven dollars an acre.” Bill now farms 4,000 acres of farmland and runs cattle on another 50,000 acres of grassland, in addition to leasing land from both the King Brothers and the Martin family.

As Bill was building his cowherd and putting together ranches and farms, his father’s political career was heating up in a way which would help shape and define Bill’s life. Bill’s graduation from high school in 1969 coincided with the first time Bruce ran for governor. Bruce was the cowboy of the King Brothers, so when he took office in 1970, Bill quit college and came home to buy the feeder cattle needed for the family’s feedlots.

Charles Kahn was also buying a lot of cattle in those days. ‘We might leave early in the morning and get home at 3:00 the

next morning,” he remembers. “It was a lot of work.”

Bill remembers the days fondly. “It was a real good education to go to those sale barns and deal with the cattle traders,” he stated. “I was lucky because I learned a lot from those guys. I can still remember buying cattle from Ike Wiggins in Springer. He was kind of an icon in that country. He’d buy all the The Family Vacation 1993 – NCBA Convention in calves from the area, Hawaii (l to r) Stacy, Becky, Bill & Jenny. load them on a train, and send them to Iowa. It State Lands committee and went with was real interesting to hear him talk. He chairman Von Cain to negotiate grazing told me once that some years, he’d be the leases. richest guy in the area, but other years he Bruce had been part of the Santa Fe legwent broke doing what he was doing.” islative scene since 1958, so Bill was very Political education

Bill was also watching and learning in Santa Fe. He remembers his Dad and Alvin Stockton and others working on the Greenbelt law, which has been good for New Mexico for a long time. At the tender age of 19 he was put on the Cattle Growers’

comfortable with that environment. When Bruce was elected governor again in 1978, he made his eldest son a proposition. “It is winter,” he said, “Why don’t you just stay here in Santa Fe and lobby for me?”

Bill did. “It was a lot of fun,” he rememcontinued on page 86

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bers. “And very interesting. Back in those days, half of the legislature was ranchers.

They said that if you wanted to count the votes, you needed to count the cowboy boots and divide by two.”

Bill has wisely used his political acumen for the cattle industry over the years.

Bill’s neighbor Jim Berlier spends a lot of time lobbying in Santa Fe himself, but noted that “Bill has enough access with influential people that he can get more done in a day than all the rest of us can, put together, working the whole session.”

“He is a problem solver,” commented Bebo Lee. “Bill works behind the scenes and doesn’t care who gets the credit. He just gets things done. He has a very good read on people and is really astute. He can listen to someone and know the answer before the person even finishes asking the question.”

Bebo continued, “Bill knows how the political process runs better than close to anyone we have in the association, probably. Some governors haven’t helped us a lot,” continued Bebo, “But Bill has been there for the industry, making sure we weren’t getting hurt, no matter what the

Former Governor Bruce King (l) and Bill (r) shared a passion for the cattle industry.

leadership was.”

Becky agreed. “He doesn’t mind leadership positions. But he is just as happy staying in the background and getting things done. He doesn’t enjoy the front and center position much.”

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a conflict or problem in politics, Bill will sure listen to both sides of the story and be very fair,” he commented. “We in agriculture are very lucky to have someone who is so known and respected as Bill. From the north to the south, everyone knows Bill and it is sure important to agriculture to have such a well-respected spokesman.”

Becky added, “He is patient and a good mediator. He can listen to all sides and be quiet and fair, but when he finally says something you had better listen to it.”

Bebo is also grateful for Bill’s optimistic viewpoints. “He always believes that you can work through something,” Bebo commented. “He never gets real pessimistic.

Even when something bad happens he thinks we can work through it and get it turned around where we can live with it in the industry. I guess I’m staying he has a lot of foresight and sees things a little more in-depth than some of us do.”

Bebo and Bill Sauble are both former presidents of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association and know the tremendous amount of effort that people in their position put forth legislatively. Sauble commented, “I go to Bill for advice because no one has a better handle on taxes than Bill.

The number of people he knows is phenomenal and no matter what the issue is, Bill knows the people involved and knows how to make a difference.”

Meanwhile, back on the ranch

A tour of Bill’s feedlots now shows a lot of empty pens. “I like to tell people that my banker lost his nerve,” he jokes. “But the truth is that I sleep a lot better, too.” continued on page 91

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This rancher truly has adapted with the times. Instead of keeping the pens full of feeder steers, he now runs herds of registered Hereford, Angus and Charolais mama cows, which produce the 300 bulls that he sells annually. He chose the three breeds due to the beef industry’s emphasis on marbling and feed efficiency. “This is the best of the breeds that we have to work with now,” he stated. “Because we had the feedlot, I started buying cows that had more carcass data and feed data, and we are producing a more economical calf.”

Neighbors Phil Wallin and Jim Berlier buy all their genetics from Bill. “He has done more to improve beef genetics in this state than any other single individual I know,” asserted Jim. Bill feels that the industry as a whole may be getting ready for better times.

“Demand is good, export demand is up and maybe the cattle business will have a few good years,” he noted. “Our national cowherd is very small right now, but we’ve managed to keep the amount of meat we are producing the same. That speaks to our efficiency. In the 1970s a 400-pound calf was a pretty good calf, but now we are producing 500 to 600 pound weaning calves. Likewise, we now expect a calf to gain four pounds a day. Used to be that 2.5 pounds was a good gain.”

Bill still stewards land that was homesteaded by his pioneering grandparents, and he understands the attitude that says, “let me work my land and be left alone.”

But he doesn’t give in to it.

“Now if you take that stance, you will be left behind,” he warned. “Politicians and other factors have more effect on our business than things like water, wells and fences. Our paradigm has shifted, so it is important to have someone like Cattle Growers represent us in the urban and

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political scene. Stay involved,” he urged.

“Show up. You will have more effect than you think.”

Bill lives what he preaches. He served as New Mexico Cattle Growers’ president in the early 1990s and was in part responsible for turning the Cattle Growers’ meeting into the Joint Stockman’s meeting. He also served as regional vice president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association the year that NCBA and the Beef Board merged. He has represented New Mexico on the Texas Cattle Feeders board of directors and was chairman of the Livestock Board. Additionally, he recently served as president of the American Hereford Association. Bruce King, former governor, understood the importance of Cattle Growers and once joked that “it is easier to be elected governor than to be elected Cattle Growers president.”

Many years in public service has given Bill a lot of perspective on some of the problems. “When you are in an organization, you face the same issues and things over and over,” he noted. “I’ve gone back and read the history of the national cattlemen’s meetings in the late 1800s. They fought the federal government, had problems with packer consolidation, had too many new regulations, and basically the

Bill King – a straight shooter from an early age.

same battles we still fight today. The only difference is that in those minutes I’d read about them fighting with the railroads, and we now have truckers.” continued on page 94

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He continued, “When you face the same issues over and over again, you need to be able to stand back and let the newer generation see how they will handle things.

Sometimes it is good to step back and let someone else handle those things.”

However, some continuity is also important. “The best thing Cattle Growers have done is keeping the GreenBelt Law intact for us all of these years,” he noted.

“We couldn’t afford to ranch if we had to pay the market value on these ranches.

Alvin Stockton worked hard on this law, and lots of the younger generations are still working to keep this a New Mexico law. It is one of the most important things we can keep.”

Leading a legacy

Politics and cattle buying, farming and haying and the livestock industry had to move over in importance in Bill’s life while his daughters were growing up. Bill raised three daughters, Becky, Jenny and Stacy.

Becky remembers that her Dad never missed a ball game or livestock show or parent-teacher conference when the girls were growing up, and he follows the same principles with important events in his grandchildren’s lives. “He is never too busy for the family stuff,” Becky noted gratefully. “He always fits it in.”

Becky and her husband, Tom Spindle, live on the ranch. Tom has been on the Beef Council and is farm foreman. Becky keeps the ranch books. Their two eldest daughters, Jordan, 14, and Abby, 12, won their showmanship classes at the New Mexico State Fair. One showed the Champion Charolais, the other showed Reserve Champion. Cash is seven and just won the mutton busting event at the county fair.

“The announcer said he set a record because he scored a 93,” related Bill. “Of course, we were all proud and he got a free pair of boots.” Charli, five, will likely grow up to judge livestock and show steers and heifers, just like the elder siblings.

Bill’s daughter Jenny and her husband, Josh Caldez, live in Albuquerque, where Josh is the IT person for Sandia Federal Credit Union. Jenny works on the ranch books and cooks for the ranch. The family’s noon meal eaten together at Bruce and Alice’s home, cooked by Jenny, keeps each of the King daughters and Tom and Bill abreast of what is going on with the business and each other’s lives. Josh and Jenny’s two sons, Hayden and Lincoln, are 13 and four.

Stacy lives in Albuquerque as well but drives to Moriarity daily to keep books for King Butane. “All my girls have been interested in the ranch and the cows,” Bill noted. “They used to show heifers when they were kids, and they are all good help.”

The girls call their Dad “Big Boss” behind his back . . . but they do so with affection. Each has chosen to stay involved with the family business because of their great respect for their father and the love for agriculture that he passed along to his daughters.

“Dad is always there for us, no matter when we need him and we always learn something new every time we talk to him, said Stacy.”

“Among the things Dad has taught us is to think before you speak,” she said. “That is helpful – when I remember to follow it.”

Stacy also pointed that the King family traditions including the daily morning coffee meetings at the El Comedor in Mortarity that today often include three generations of the legendary family.

“We are basically a cow family,” related Becky. “We don’t have many pictures that don’t include a bull in them. Going to the National Western and the Kansas City Royal were just what we did when we were growing up. Our summer vacations every year were to

The New Mexico State Fair has always been a King family affair. (l to r) Stacy King holding Abby Spindle, Tom Spindle, Bill King, Jordan and Becky Spindle.

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the Junior Hereford expos. We’d travel as a family and see all our friends when we got there.”

They have also learned about citizenship and community from their father’s example. “No one knows how much Bill does to help the youth,” noted Phil Wallin.

“Every year at the county fair it is unreal how much he does to help the youth. If someone’s pig isn’t selling for enough, he’ll buy it, even though he has already bought several animals. He is just as generous with the junior rodeos and girl’s softball teams. He just keeps on giving.”

What he learned from his mother and father, Bill is now passing on to future generations. “Public service is very important to our family,” Becky stated. “That is just what people do. You help others out. Dad lives that example.”

Jim Berlier knows this firsthand. He was recuperating from back surgery and had been unable to put together the steers he needed to stock the ranch. Somehow, Bill heard about it. He said he had steers coming off of wheat pasture and might as well sell them to Jim. “Within 24 hours, 300 steers were branded and turned out in my pastures,” relates Jim. “Bill acted like it was no big deal, but it meant the world to me. I just lay here in my bed and he solved my problem.”

Though Jenny does most of the daily cooking for family meals, Bill maintains he likes to cook for the family and always hosts the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. “We prepare some side dishes, but Dad enjoys cooking for us,” Becky stated.

“He is an avid golfer, as well, but beyond that, he just works. You could say we are just a working family.”

Those who know him best say that solving problems is what Bill King does best.

Whether he is representing an industry he loves in the halls of power or sorting cows to turn out into breeding groups, he is analyzing situations, figuring angles and thinking about what is best for all concerned. The man who farms 4,000 acres and runs 1,000 mother cows on another 50,000 acres is always thinking, figuring, drawing conclusions and looking for a better way. And he is also grateful for the lessons he has been taught along the way, and the cowmen and politicians who taught those lessons.

“I’ve been lucky,” he summarizes. “This is a pretty good life.”

And fellow cattlemen feel that they are the ones that are lucky to have Bill King as a friend, neighbor, and spokesperson.

When it comes to educating others within and without the industry, Bill King leads n the class.

inMemoriam Vanneta Ann Beach, 68, Levelland, Texas, passed away on September 27, 2011.

She was born November 1, 1942, in Lampasas, Texas to Guy Van and Cleta Noreen Carpenter Smith. She graduated from Artesia High School in 1960 and moved to Clovis after she married Jerry Beach June 1, 1963 in Artesia. She had lived in many communities over the years including Hereford, Texas, and Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. Vanneta and Jerry moved to Levelland, Texas in 2009 to be close their grandchildren. She was a member of the Curry County Extension Club, and Cotton Ridge Church at Levelland, Texas. Survivors are her husband; two daughters, Nancy Beach, Stamford, Texas and Jeri Ann Beach Dewbre (husband, Dane) Levelland, Texas; two grandchildren, and one brother.

Annette “Boogie” Torres, 48, Mescalero passed away on October 5, 2011 following a valient battle with cancer. She was born February 3, 1963 at Mescalero to Anita and George Parker Lester Sr. She worked at the Inn of the Mountain Gods

over 30 years and was the Retail Director.

She graduated from Tularosa High School in 1981 and was Miss Mescalero #8. She married Jordan Torres Sr. on November 6, 1984. Annette was a 4-H mother and a bridge across the many cultures of New Mexico and the world. She took great pride in her family and the artwork of her husband. She is survived by her husband; three children, Jordan Jr., Theodore, and Tanis; mother, Anita Lester; brothers and sisters, Tammy Torres, George Lester Jr., Joel Lester, Becky Lester, Gilda Tenorio, Dwight Evans, Sharolynn Evans, Marla Evans, Rena Chee, Thelton Lester, Marvil Lester; Aunts, Sadie Comanche and Viola Morgan; and several nieces and nephews.

Nancy Gail Jackson, 65, Lordsburg, passed away on September 27, 2011. She was born May 4, 1946 to James W. (Bill) and Daisy Phelps in Fall River, Massachusetts where she resided the first ten years of her life. After living around the nation, Nancy and her family settled in New Mexico in 1964. In December of that year she

married George Jackson, Jr. Nancy and George spent the next 46 years residing in Grant and Hidalgo counties ranching and selling the insurance and real estate.

Nancy was active in the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, the New Mexico Cattle Growers, the Copper Cowbelles, and the Tabosabelles. Nancy is survived by her husband and daughters Stacy Zunich and Connie (husband, Stewart ) Rooks and four grandchildren. She is also survived by her father James W. Phelps, Sr., step mother Grace Phelps, mother-in-law Dorothy Jackson and sister Linda (Richard) Hall, brother’s in law Tom (wife, Thorma) Jackson, Joe (wife, Melba) Jackson, sister-in-law Sandy Phelps and numerous nephews and nieces.

Thomas P. Foy, 96, Bayard, passed away at him home on October 8, 2011. A survivor of the Bataan Death March in World War II, and former state legislator, Foy was born is Silver City, and lived in the continued on page 117

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An on-site mill keeps your feed costs low and quality high. Paco Feed Yard uses the most modern and cost efficient equipment. Computerized steam flaking, monitored by our consultant nutritionist, ensures higher feed efficiency. Cattle get on feed quickly and produce maximum gains at a lower cost.

Paco Feed Yard also does a superior job of timely feeding. We have an excellent ratio of feed trucks to number of cattle, so your cattle aren’t left standing, waiting for feed. The bunks are monitored closely and Excellent Facility & Feeding Program management reviews consumption records daily.

IDEAL GROWING CONDITIONS / Attention to your cattle’s health by our consulting veterinarian protects your investment and provides optimum gains. With the assistance of a computerized health system, our highly-qualified cowboy staff provides each pen of cattle with the best care possible. Paco provides clean pens with ample space to keep stress at a minimum. Excellent water, abundance of local feed grains and a mild, dry climate provide the most economically favorable conditions for your cattle to reach their potential.

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Let the cattle harvest the forage Avoid selection for extremes in mature weight and/or milk production n Match the breeding system to the forage management plan Labor, in larger operations, is often a high-cost category. Labor costs exceeding $55 per cow should be evaluated, not including labor of the ranch owner, which could be three to four times as much as hired labor costs. Still an objective evaluation should be made for hired labor.

Other cost categories that can be problem areas are: 1. Repairs and maintenance (line 13) 2. Supplies purchased (line 15) 3. Fuel, oil, lubricants (line 17) These three categories are often used as a “catch all” for the many different trips to town for a $20 part. A penny here, a few dollars there — it all adds up. In the example budget, total other operating expenses were $32,866 or $164.33 per cow (line 23).

(The cost or value per cow is the total cost divided by cow herd size.) Cowherd size is the beginning year inventory of breeding heifers and cows (200 head in the example).

Indirect or overhead costs are those that must be paid whether or not a calf is produced. These costs include real estate taxes, insurance, utilities, interest and depreciation. In some operations, interest can be a significant part of indirect costs.

Depreciation, although a noncash cost, is a good indicator of the level of capital investment. A very high depreciation figure per cow would indicate lots of new paint or expensive purchased breeding stock.

It is important to examine the level of return being received relative to the dollar amount invested. Total indirect cost for this example was $22,700 or $113.50 per cow (line 29). Total direct costs and indirect operation cost were $467.43 per cow (line33). This $467.43 per cow is our estimate of our annual cost to maintain a cow and is very useful information as we evaluate production and marketing and related drought management strategies. You are encouraged to determine what your annual cow cost is.

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The enterprise budget presented here is one tool for determining cow cost. Being a “low-cost producer” will be critical to survival during this prolonged drought. This will require good management, which is a goal-directed activity. It takes time, energy, and effort to be a good manager.

Below is a list of additional cow-calf enterprise budget resources that can be used to determine annual cow costs.

For additional Cow-calf enterprise budget information and methodology visit: NMSU Coop Ext. aces.nmsu.edu/drought/index.html; Texas A&M Agri-life agecoext.tamu.edu/?id=954; Iowa State Extension www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/livestock/html/b1-21.html; Oklahoma State University beefextension.com/new%20site%202/cccalc.html

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Grant Award Helps Veterans Return Home To Farm and Ranch hile some veterans returning home have jobs waiting for them, many do not and are returning to rural areas where jobs can be scarce. The USDA Risk Management Agency has awarded the Center for Rural Affairs, Farmer-Veteran Coalition, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and eight additional partner organizations with funding intended to introduce new veteran farmers and ranchers to various areas of agriculture, and thereby find solutions to the employment and economic challenges facing so many rural veterans.

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“Farmers Union is thrilled to be able to offer assistance to returning veterans. No one is more deserving of spending a rewarding life on the land than those who have willingly helped to defend the United States of America,” said Richard Oswald, President of Missouri Farmers Union. “We will do our best to repay them.”

According to Starkweather, the project will allow veterans to learn strategies and implement plans for farm/ranch start-up, including financing, land access, and business development. Veterans will also learn to access the resources available to them for technical assistance, production and marketing information, and mentoring.

For more information on beginning farmer and rancher programs and for future developments of this project, see [http://www.cfra.org/renewrural/farm].

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project are the Center for Rural Affairs, Farmer-Veteran Coalition, Swords to Plowshares, Kansas Farmers Union, Missouri Farmers Union, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Kansas AgrAbility Project, Nebraska AgrAbility Project, and Missouri AgrAbility Project.

Rural America has experienced a chronic exodus of family farmers and ranchers out of agriculture.

That fact, coupled with a lack of young families going into agriculture has changed the landscape of much of rural America, physically and demographically. The 2007 Census of Agriculture revealed that the average American farmer is 57 years old and climbing, with 35 percent of all farmers over age 65.

Rural Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small cities and towns are, however, less prepared to absorb returning veterans than many urban centers. The Iraq and Afghan Veterans of America have noted that veterans returning to rural communities were having the hardest time reintegrating into civilian life as these communities lacked both viable employment opportunities and access to needed veteran services. The Carsey Institute noted that only 24 percent of employed young adults, ages 18 to 24, hold full-time jobs in rural communities.

Starkweather believes that several of these economic and demographic challenges may also be opportunities. Farmers who are at or approaching retirement age control half of all farm and ranch land in rural America, meaning that most of those farmers and ranchers will be looking for ways to transition their operation into younger hands in the not-too-distant future. Traditional rural employment in farming, logging, mining, fishing and small manufacturing have been declining for decades. Nonetheless, the smallest of farms have increased in the past decade, coincident with the great consumer interest in locally grown, organic and specialty foods.

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EAST RANCH – 22,000 ± Deeded A cres along w ith 4,000 ± lease acres located 25 miles north of Capitan, New Mexico all w ithin Lincoln County.

600 + A .U’s yearlong. Nice improv ements w ith good w ater distribution. Excellent grama grass country w ith a solid turf. $285.00 per deeded acre throw ing in the lease land.

MOATS RANCH – 12,000 ± Deeded A cres along w ith 7,300 ± lease acres and 1,920 uncontrolled acres located approximately 30 miles north of Rosw ell along and on both sides of U.S. Highw ay 285. 400 A .U.’s yearlong grazing capacity. A v ariety of grasses include grama, tobosa and giant sacaton. $200.00 per deeded acre throw ing in the lease land w ith seller financing av ailable to a qualified buyer.

POKER LAKE RANCH – 12,000 ± Deeded acres w ith 300 acres of lease land located on the north slopes of the Capitan Mountains all w ithin Lincoln County. 300 A .U. yearlong grazing capacity. Div erse terrain to include draw s w ith ponderosa pines to open rolling grassland. Nice improv ements w ith good w ater distribution. Call for price.

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HWY 1055/303 RANCH – 8 section ranch with new set of pens, concrete bunks, truck/cattle scale and commodity barn, mobile home, watered by subs, mill & pipeline, hour from Lubbock, Texas, mule deer & quail.

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exciting opportunities for beginning farmers – and the veterans who would become farmers.

“The participation rate of young rural Americans in the military is and has been far above the national average for at least two decades. When veterans receive training and secure agricultural employment in rural communities, rural America is strengthened, all of America is strengthened,” said Starkweather.

According to the grant application, veterans can build on their discipline and sense of service and use farming or ranching to reintegrate into society gracefully and fruitfully. They can also repopulate and re-energize rural communities. Some assistance to launch a new generation of veteran farmers and ranchers can help ensure their successful entry into farming and ranching and a successful return to their country.

The Center for Rural Affairs and its partner organizations will hold educational workshops in Nebraska and Kansas to provide information and introduce resources on specialty crops, livestock, land access, financing, crop insurance, production & marketing high value crops, and resources for beginners, veterans and the disabled.

The project will also include farm tours of sustainable grain, vegetable and livestock operations, as well as presentations on organic certification, production techn niques and marketing.

W-R Ranch 30,148 Acres 20 Miles South of Elida, NM · 6,520 Deeded Acres · 14,988 BLM Acres · 650 Animal Units Year Long · 1/ 2 sand country, 1/ 2 hard country · Good water; windmills & submergible tanks · Extensive pipeline system · Modest improvements for living quarters · Call for Price Charles Bennett United Country Vista Nueva, Inc. (575) 356-5616 www.vista-nueva.com

Southwest New Mexico Farms and Ranches MAHONEY PARK: Just 10 miles southeast of Deming, N.M. The property consists of approx. 800 acres Deeded, 560 acres State Lease, and 900 acres BLM. This historic property is located high up in the Florida Mountains and features a park like setting, covered in deep grasses with plentiful oak and juniper covered canyons. The cattle allotment would be approx. 30 head (AUYL). Wildlife includes deer, ibex, javalina, quail and dove. This rare jewel would make a great little ranch with views and a home site second to none. Price reduced to $550,000.

SAN JUAN RANCH: Located 15 miles south of Deming, N.M. east of Highway 11 (Columbus Highway) on CR-11.

Approximately 24,064 acres consisting of approximately 2684 acres Deeded, 3240 State Lease, 13,460 BLM, and 4,680 uncontrolled. The cattle allotment would be approx. 183 head (AUYL). There are 6 solar powered stock wells with metal storage tanks and approximately 6-1/2 miles pipeline. The ranch has a very diverse landscape consisting of high mountain peaks, deep juniper & oak covered canyons, mountain foothills and desert grasslands. There is plentiful wildlife including deer, ibex, javalina, quail and dove. A truly great buy! Price reduced to $550,000.

26.47-ACRE FARM for sale off Shalem Colony Road. Borders the Rio Grande river. 13.55 acres EBID surface water rights / 26 acres primary & supplemental ground water rights. Priced at $380,000 177 ACRE FARM BETWEEN LAS CRUCES N.M AND EL PASO TEXAS: Hwy. 28 frontage with 132 acres irrigated, 45 acres sandhills, full EBID (surface water) plus a supplemental irrigation well, cement ditches and large equipment warehouse.

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63.59 ACRE FARM: - Borders the Rio Grande river. 49.44 acres of EBID irrigation and 63.5 acres of ground water (18" well) and cement ditches. From La Mesa, NM go south on Hwy 28, then east on Dawson Road to the end.

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TEXAS & OKLA. FARMS & RANCHES • Magnificent 90 Hunting – Cattle/Horse Ranch 50 miles E. of Dallas, 35 miles W. of Tyler, White pipe fence along FM Hwy. 3,700 sq. ft. elaborate home, flowing waterway, lake.

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• 532-acre CATTLE & HUNTING, NE TX ranch, elaborate home, one-mile highway frontage. OWNER FINANCE at $2,150/ac.

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• 1,700-acre classic NE TX cattle & hunting ranch. $2,750/ac.

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• Texas Jewel, 7,000 ac. – 1,000 per ac., run cow to 10 ac.

• 256 Acre Texas Jewel – Deep sandy soil, highrolling hills, scattered good quality trees, & excellent improved grasses.

Water line on 2 sides rd., frontage on 2 sides, fenced into 5 pastures, 5 spring fed tanks and lakes, deer, hogs & ducks.

Near Tyler & Athens. Price $1,920,000.

• 146 horse, hunting cattle ranch N. of Clarksville, TX. Red River Co. nice brick home, 2 barns, pipe fences, good deer, hogs, ducks, hunting priced at $395,000.

• 535 ac. Limestone, Fallas, & Robertson counties, fronts on Hwy. 14 and has rail frontage water line, to ranch, fenced into 5 pastures, 2 sets, cattle pens, loamy soil, good quality trees, hogs, & deer hunting. Priced at $2,300 per ac.

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FALL SPECIAL Rio Mimbers Farm Deming, NM – 461 total acres with 5 irrigation wells; 3 natural gas & 2 wells electric submersible, 383 acres in drip irrigation, 35 acres are flood irrigated. Located 14+/- miles east of Deming, NM on HWY 549. Listed at $2,966,000 Equestrian Dream! Las Cruces, NM – Two brick homes; built in 2003 w/2213 sq ft & built in 2006 w/2606 sq ft, in ground pool; each with standing seamless metal roofs, refrigerated air, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on demand water heaters, split floor plans. Metal barn w/tackroom, indoor stalls with automatic water systems plus an apartment, covered outdoor stalls, pole barn, new well, 5 acres with riding area & pasture, paved access to the subject property. Listed at $850,000 MATHERS REALTY, INC. 2223 E. Missouri, Las Cruces, NM 88001 575/522-4224 Office • 575/522-7105 Fax • 575/640-9395 Cell

*NEW* 411 Head Double Circle Ranch, Eagle Creek, AZ USFS Allotment, 13 ac of deeded, 4-BR, 2-story rock home, barn, corrals, & outfitters camp. HQ centrally located in a secluded draw. Well improved with 16 large pastures, 36+ miles of new fencing, 30 miles of new pipeline with several major solar pumping systems, additional water storage & numerous drinkers. $1.5M Tu rnk ey w/220 head of Longhorn Steers, Horses & Equip. Terms 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Great Guest Ranch Prospect Pristine, and private, only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,500,000 Terms.

250–400+ Head C attle Ranc h Sheldon, AZ – 1,450 deeded acres, +/-30 sections BLM, 150+ acres irrigated farm land. Nice HQ includes two rock homes, good set of steel shipping & horse corrals, 30' x 20' barn, 9 livestock & domestic wells & 4 irrigation wells. There is deeded access to the ranch off of a paved highway & power to the headquarters. $1,500,000, $1,250,000 Terms. *NEW* 130 Head Sundown Ranch, southeast of Sonoita, AZ – 984 Deeded Ac, 2700 Ac USFS Grazing Lease. Vintage ranch home, bunk house, excellent working corrals, beautiful rolling grasslands with oaks. $988,000.

320 Ac Farm, Kansas Settlement, AZ – This working farm has 2–120 acre Zimmatic Pivots, a nice site built home, large workshop & hay barn. 5 irrigation wells, 2 domestic wells. The property is fenced & cross fenced. Great set-up for pasturing cattle. $1,250,000, $975,000, Terms. 35% down at 6% for 10 years.

Wickenburg, AZ – 216 Head Cattle Ranch. Scenic, lush high desert vegetation. 103 deeded acres, State, BLM & 3,100 acres private lease. Well watered w/tanks, springs & wells. Abundant feed, numerous corrals & great steel shipping pens. $850,000.

Rainbow Valley, AZ, 300 Head Cattle Ranch – Excellent desert ranch owned & operated by the same family for 40 years. Well improved w/BLM & State grazing leases. HQ on State land, well watered. $650,000. $500,000.

Young, AZ 72 Acre Farm – Under the Mogollon Rim, a must see, w/small town charm, mountain views. 1,000 gpm well, home, 1800s museum, 2 BR cabin, shop, & barn. Excellent for horse farm, bed & breakfast, land or water development. +/- 62 acres & well for $1,700,000; home & other improvements. $424,500, Seller Financing.

Santa Teresa Mtns, Fort Thomas AZ – 200 acre Plus 17 head BLM allotment, private retreat, two wells. Very remote & extremely scenic w/sycamores, cottonwoods & beautiful rock formations. $300,000, Terms.

Greenlee County, AZ, 139 Head Ranch – Year long USFS permit w/two room line camp, barn & corrals at HQ. Remote horseback ranch w/limited vehicular access. Sheldon, AZ. $175,000 with +/- 90 head of cattle.

NEW MEXICO PROPERTIES Listed Cooperatively with Action Realty, Cliff, NM, Dale Spurgeon, Broker 112 Head Mountain Ranch, Collins Park, NM – This gorgeous ranch is now the total package w/a new log cabin completed in 2009 w/a new well & storage, septic, & solar package; finished tack/bunk house; & excellent set of working corrals, USFS YL permit & 115 deeded acres w/tall pines & meadows. Includes equipment $725,000 or less acreage and lower price call for details. Terms.

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189 Head, Reserve to Collins Park, NM Two USFS Allotments consisting of +/65 Sections and +/- 33.7 acres of deeded forest inholding. Beautiful setting in the tall pines and meadows.

Improvements on deeded land include an old cabin, bunk house, corrals, and barn. Adjoins 112 head ranch combine them to run 300 head. Reduced to $500,000 with 80 head of cattle.

157 Acres Deming, NM – Fenced w/a nice pipe entry, close to town, paved access, mtn. views, power. Owner will split & carry! $160,000. $130,000.

HORSE PROPERTIES * R ED UCE D PR ICE – IN CR EASED A CR EA G E * S a n P e d r o R iv e r n o r t h o f + B e ns on, A Z – ⁄ - 345 ac re Professional Horse Breeding Facility, 55 acres of irrigated pasture, 900 gpm well. 2 homes; barn w/office, apt., tack room, feed room, & storage area; 12 stall barn; 7 stall mare motel; lab/vet room; lighted riding arena; insulated workshop; & hay storage area. $ 2.4 M. Re duc e d to $ 2.1 75M .

T e rm s A v ai l ab l e. * N E W * 175 Ac Gentlemen’s Farm/Ranch, Arivaca, AZ 3200 s.f. Custom home, with +/- 34 irrigated acres, pistachio grove, horse barn/shop, hay barn, and rental apartment. $ 1 .4 M . * S O LD * 120 Acre Helm Wheel Estate, Florence, AZ. Historic Ranch HQ. Spacious hacienda w/ open floor plan, 3 BR, 4 baths. Guest house, bunk house, arena. $5 5 0 , 00 0 . * NE W* Wi l l c ox , A Z , 187 Ac, NW of Willcox, AZ Remote, private, retreat near Muleshoe Ranch Preserve at the base of the Winchester Mountains. Lovely 1700 s.f., 3 BR, 2 bath mfg home and property. $2 7 9 ,0 0 0 .

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jinglejangle Happy Thanksgiving To You and Your Families ast month many of our members went to the Five States Round-Up in Clayton, New Mexico. This was hosted by the Lariat CowBelles for the 37th year.

This is quite an accomplishment for any group and we salute you ladies! They always put on a very nice event with agricultural information, a good beef luncheon and a nice style show. Their sponsors in the area show much support and many of us bought items from them, as well purchasing our in house products to support New Mexico CowBelles. Our new T-Shirt was available for purchase, but the new bumper stickers weren’t available yet.

These new bumper stickers will be brought to our meeting in December for purchase. While supporting the New Mexico CowBelles also remember to support the New Mexico Cattle Growers Silent Action.

We are all getting ready for the New Mexico CowBelles 2011 Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, the first week of December.

This is in conjunction with the Joint Stockman’s Convention, which includes New Mexico Cattle Growers and New Mex-

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ico Wool Growers, Dairy Producers of New Mexico, and the New Mexico Federal Lands Council. Reservations are available for this Joint Stockmen’s Convention by calling the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North at 800-262-2043. The deadline is Nov. 15 .

We will be having a NMCB Board of Directors meeting on Friday, December 2 starting at 1:45 p.m. This is for the state officers, district representatives, local presidents, committee chairs, but is open to our members as well. Our NMCB Annual Membership meeting will be held the next day, December 3, starting at 7 a.m. We will be having a breakfast meeting which isn’t included in the Joint Stockman’s registration, so please mail your $25 to Lyn Greene. This breakfast registration deadline is November 20. We don’t have registration at the door, because the hotel needs a count beforehand, so please get your money in to reserve your place. This is a really good time to reconnect with your friends around the state and a great way to meet new members. During our meeting on Saturday, we will have Jill Ginn, American National CattleWomen President as our guest speaker, the elections of New Mexico CowBelle officers, the 2011 Beef Ambassador Winners for Junior

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DATES TO REMEMBER: Membership drive is still on for NMCB 2012 – started Oct.1 Deadline for CIA Packet Reports due to President Elect – Nov. 15 Deadline for Volunteer Time Sheets due to President – Nov. 25 Joint Stockmans Convention in Albuquerque – Dec. 1-4 NMCB Board of Directors Meeting – Dec. 2 NMCB Annual Meeting – Dec. 3 & Senior division will present a program, as well as the installation of our new 2012 NMCB officers. It will be a full meeting and hopefully much enjoyment for those who come. Just a reminder that this is the time to pickup your 2011 packets on Saturday and update your Red Book when you get back home.

I would like to thank Lynn Sewert for asking me to be an officer in New Mexico CowBelles several years ago. A real learning experience has taken place since then, but I am grateful for this opportunity. I have had many people give me support and advice to whom I say thank you. I couldn’t do this without your help and this includes my family.

This is the time of year that many people are thinking of the changing seasons and all that entails in their daily lives. We know that this seasonal change is a signal that the weather is cooling off and hoping that the end of the year will be good to our businesses.

With all the different entities trying to tell those in agriculture how to do their job and putting more rules and regulations in place to hinder business, each day is a new challenge. I hope that your determination carries with it hope and faith into the next year, and since we are lucky enough to be connected to the land in a special way, we are all blessed. Those “do-gooders” who may hear the call of Nature, don’t realize that we who make our living from the land are doing the best possible job to care for the land and feed the world. This is not just a job to us, it is our way of Life.

Thank you for all you do each and everyday!

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Transportation’s meeting in Fort Sumner on November 16 and 17, 2011 was read.

The DeBaca County Commission asked if CowBelles would provide a meal for 40 people attending this conference. Membership voted to provide a “beef” meal.

Members volunteering to help President McKenna plan and serve this meal will be Dorie Tucker, Karen Cortese, Ellen Vaughan, Beverly Ann Overton and Fances Fikany. After the meeting, Karen Cortese gave an interesting program about her January, 2011 trip to Israel. She told the group that the climate in Israel is very similar to that in DeBaca and Guadalupe Counties. The Israeli Government owns all the farmland in their country and gives farmers a 49-year lease. Farmers grow flowers and vegetables for export. They also grow bananas. Plants are watered with a drip system. At this time they have a salt cedar eradication program because cedars were introduced to the area several years ago to eliminate erosion; very similar situation to that in New Mexico. Karen reported that salsa, roasted peppers and chili were frequently on the Israeli menus however they had a slightly different taste than what is served in New Mexico. Carolyn Bedford, Secretary With 10 members present, Lariat CowBelles met on October 12, 2011, at the Rabbit Ears Café. The new location of the State Fair Beef booth: in a quieter place; people were looking for recipes and information, and overall sales were down this year was discussed. Time sheets are due.

The 5 States Round Up was discussed. 187 invitations were mailed out, 75 people paid, and 72 people attended. The decorations were made up of organza, wine glasses, vases with flowers, and candy. The silent auction had 26 items up for bid. The brisket dinner by Ben Creighton was excellent and the buffet worked much faster than a sit-down meal. There were very nice gifts for each attendee from Farmers and Stockmans Bank and First National Bank of New Mexico. The November meeting will be a membership meeting. Any women interested in joining Lariat CowBelles are invited to come to that meeting which will be held Nov. 9, at the Rabbit Ears Café. The election of new officers for 2012 was held. President: Owaissa Heimann; Secretary: Shea Arnett; and Reporter/Historian: Marianne Rose. The Hertzstein Museum is no longer retaining the Lariat CowBelles’ scrapbooks. The scrapbooks are being stored by the Lariat

President for now. Sharon King is running for President Elect of New Mexico CowBelles. Marianne Rose was voted as Lariat CowBelle of the Year. Respectfully submitted by, Marianne Rose Reporter, Lariat CowBelles The 37th Annual 5 State CowBelle Round Up, “Understanding Consumer Trends in Beef Demand”, was held October 5, 2011, at the air park in Clayton, NM. There were 72 guests attending from Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Updates were given, such as the Food Pyramid has been replaced by the My Plate to make it easier for the consumer to understand. There were handouts available on different topics on beef, such as recipes, posters with the new cuts of beef, and information from the Beef Council. The first program was a telephone webinar “Consumer Shifts in Thinking and Behavior – Impact on Beef Demand”, presented

by John Lundeen, PhD, Executive Director of Marketing for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association from Denver, Colorado.

He discussed the beef industry’s long range plan strategies to improve domestic consumer preference for beef; improve the image of beef; lobbying in Washington, DC; the world export of beef, and to insure an adequate supply of beef. The consumer

preference for beef planning initiative is to make sure the beef that hits the plate is quality, is economic, and healthy. Some methods are to integrate beef into different ethnic foods and explain the cuts of beef and how to turn them into a great meal. Beef demand is being impacted by price, nutrition, convenience and safety.

Beef can be promoted by passing recipes on Facebook and posting cooking demonstration videos using beef on YouTube.

The American Heart Association now recognizes three cuts of beef as being heart healthy. Nutrition teams will be focusing for the next twelve months on promoting the BOLD diet which alters the DASH diet by including cuts of beef with no adverse effect on the healthy nutritional outcome.

The second program was “Feeding to Please the Consumer” by Mike Hubbert, PhD, Superintendent, Clayton Livestock Research. He discussed what happens to cattle in the feedlots. The feedlot customer is the packing plant. Corporate feeders are able to do a better job because they can afford more experts in nutrition and management and better qualified workers.

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public and how. Financial support needs to be given to university research stations that do disseminate their findings to the consumer. A style show of the new fall fashions was presented by Espyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Three West, Wanda Bradley, Coordinator and Candra Acuna narrator. The third program was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food Safety & Security in a Global Marketâ&#x20AC;? by Owida Franz, Union County Extension, 4-H, and Home Economist Agent. She discussed safety issues at food processing plants, agri-terrorism, how diseases and poisons can be brought to the United States and spread and their effect on the food industry and the consumer. It was a great day of education, socializing and networking with others in the beef industry. Respectfully submitted by, Marianne Rose Reporter, Lariat CowBelles Grant County Copper CowBelles met September 13, 2011 with President Pat Hunt presiding. Scholarship Committee will meet Sept.19. Denim and Pearls is October 15. Discussion of items needed, ticket distribution, desserts, and decorations pursued. County Fair: The Copper Cowbelles booth will be set up and open to fair goers Sept. 29- Sat., Oct. 1. Discussion of setup, signup, children activities and prizes occurred. Fort Bayard Days: Pat Hunt will have a table at Fort Bayard Days Sept. 16. at 9:00am. Arley Howard volunteered to join her. Group also reminded of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catch the Kidâ&#x20AC;? festivities downtown on Sept.16. Kim Clark and Georgia Bearup will have a booth set up in the lobby of the Silco theatre. Past Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Luncheon: The date has been set for Nov. 5. Thank you to Joan Woodward and Bobbie NealLittle who have been busy planning the details. They will be sending invitations to past presidents, for whom the Copper Cowbelles will be picking up the tab for lunch. Pat Hunt has agreed to give a brief speech welcoming the past presidents.

Gale Moore has volunteered to take photos to document this special gathering. Wanda MacInnis, Arley Howard, and Gale Moore will be available to pick up and drive the ladies who may need transportation. New Business: Storage room key â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Farm Bureau (closed from 12:00-1:00 pm), Pat Hunt and Western Bank will all have a key.

Names were drawn for the door prizes.

Submitted by: Wanda MacInnis, Secretary New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jingle Jangleâ&#x20AC;?. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com by the 14th n or so each month.

R.W. Hampton & Vaughn Monroe Honored with 2011 Western Music Association Hall of Fame Induction he Western Music Association has announced its 2011 Hall of Fame inductees, R.W. Hampton and Vaughn Monroe. The 2011 WMA Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held on Saturday, November 19, during the WMA Awards Show at the Historic KiMo Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

R. W. Hampton is one of the leading Western Entertainers in America today.

Blessed with a rich baritone voice, Hampton has a quality of genuineness about him that resonates when he’s on stage, in person or just through the words of his songs.

For Hampton has lived what he sings about, and the world of early mornings, hard work, rough horses, maverick cattle and new ranges fits him.

Hampton has thirteen albums to his credit. His peers in the Western entertainment industry have honored Hampton’s performing and songwriting fourteen times, most recently with a 2011 Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy Museum and Western Heritage Center in the Outstanding Original Western Composition category for his song, Shortgrass, from his most recent CD, Austin To Boston. Hampton is also a talented actor, having made over a dozen film and television appearances, and an acclaimed playwright, winning a National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Wrangler Award for the soundtrack of his one man play, The Last Cowboy – His Journey.

“The West – its culture and especially its music – is known the world over as being distinctly and uniquely American.

When I think of the Western Music Association’s Hall of Fame and the long list of greats that have gone before me, I am filled with a deep sense of gratitude and humility to be included in their shadow,” said Hampton of his upcoming induction.

Hampton lives with his wife and their family on their Clearview Ranch at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains south of Cimarron, New Mexico. When he’s not headlining cowboy concerts and western music events across the nation, Hampton spends most of his time at the ranch doing the work he loves. His life is guided by his faith, his love for his family, and his desire to share cowboy life with his audiences.

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Bobbi Jeen “Giving Thanks” O LSO N t started close to 400 years ago in New England. The modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 harvest celebration at Plymouth.

There is also evidence of an earlier celebration by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565. As far back in recorded history as you can go – around the world, there have been celebrations of thanks at harvest time.

The Plymouth feast and Thanksgiving are what we now celebrate however. They were prompted not only by a good harvest, but also in appreciation of the Wampanoag Indians who helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds; also teaching the settlers the fine art of hunting in the area.

Some say if the Indians could have foreseen the future onslaught of European settlers coming, they may not have been so hospitable! But seriously, it would not have mattered; this continent was destined to be discovered by the rest of the world.

Sooner or later, somebody would have “found it,” that’s for sure. Progress and change were coming no matter what.

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I always say there is a silver lining to every situation. Thinking along those lines, looking at it from a positive point of view, folks should be glad the Pilgrims who came here first (after the Indians that is) were the Christian based Europeans.

Imagine if Red China or another country such as that had gotten here ahead of Columbus. There would be no “Native American” culture alive and thriving here . . . or any other type of free “American” culture for that matter.

“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr There are always positives in every situation, something to be thankful for; you just have to look for it. I am thankful that America is here today.

Being thankful is so much more than a once-a-year holiday tradition. Daily thanks are more important than some may realize. It has the power to set the tone of an entire day, project, week, year, or lifetime.

It is hard to be grouchy, negative or in a bad mood when you are focusing on being

thankful!

I start every day by giving thanks for my many blessings in life . . . even if at times they seem hard to count. But no matter what kind of spirit I wake up in, it doesn’t take long to change my outlook once I’ve thought about the positives in life.

“Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” – Gal. 6:7 Remember what we plant within ourselves in the way of thoughts, feelings and attitudes are the seeds of our outer life experiences. All things have their beginnings within us . . . in thought. For some that is hard to believe, others never really think about it, but upon further analysis, it can be no other way.

“The ancestor of every great action is a thought.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you approach life in a surly or negative mood that is exactly what life will give you back. Snapping at the person behind the counter or on the other end of the phone does not get you better customer service. As a matter of fact, it gets you worse service and you will not get favors, special treatment or opportunities that a positive person in a good mood will get.

Give attitude – get attitude, in one-way or another that is always the case. When you get right down to it – it is your thoughts, which control your attitude. How you think about things determine your being in a good or bad mood.

Besides not getting customer service and productive interactions with your fellow man, thoughts are also the basis of most everything material as well. Buildings, machinery, techno-devices, money and such do not just spring into reality on their own, by spontaneous combustion.

They originate as the product of someone’s thoughts and dreams first. Folks who invent and plan those products and successful ventures never do so out of negativity or with a “that won’t work” type of attitude.

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that you cant, either way you are right.”

– Henry Ford Many go as far to say that things on the invisible plane such as “luck,” “fate,” and “chance,” whether good or bad are created through your own thoughts. Think productive, happy, positive thoughts and things seem to go your way. Be negative, grouchy and surly and things never seem to work out for you.

The latter type of folk generally point a finger at the positive type and say things like, “He was just born lucky, everything he touches turns to gold while everything I touch turns to bull manure.” The socalled “Midas touch.” They honestly believe that – then wonder why life turns out bad for them. There is a direct correlation between what you think and feel and how things turn out for you.

Think about it: Everything starts with a thought (even this great big universe started out as a Divine thought somewhere). How you think then sets the tone for how you feel. Negative, grouchy thoughts turn into bad moods just as happy, positive thoughts turn into good moods.

How you feel, determines the mode of action you take in life. If you feel good, you interact with folks likewise. You come up with positive solutions to obstacles in business or work; the opposite is also true if you are surly or negative.

Last, but not least, your actions become chain-reactions, which set up the results you get from life. Nobody likes to be around a grouch. They will find ways to excuse themselves from a situation as soon as possible. People do not like to see you coming if they know the exchange may be an unpleasant one. Also, when an opportunity comes along, whom do you think gets first chance at it? Not the guy who is negative, that’s for sure.

So your actions have a direct correlation on the results you get out of life; that has not been disputed for ages: “Work harder,” “Try more,” “Dig deeper,” “Go the extra mile,” are all sayings which have been around forever it seems.

What folks don’t always realize, however, is the attitude they approach life with makes a big difference in how well those work ethics pan out for them. I guarantee the guy with a happy and positive attitude, and the same work ethic, will beat out the grumpy one . . . sooner or later.

“When I started counting my blessings,

my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson So what does all of this have to do with giving thanks, you may ask? Simple. By being thankful for what you have, by focusing on your blessings in life instead of the shortcomings, it naturally puts you in a better mood. It is hard to remain in a bad mood when you focus on being grateful.

Thinking about what you don’t have in life instead of being thankful for what you do have is counter-productive anyway.

“A man is just about as happy as he makes his mind up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln That is a profound statement. How do you make your mind up to be happy, one may ask? Start with being thankful and you are half way there.

“And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord, giving thanks to God the Father.” – Col. 3:17 Great people of achievement, and the Bible, tell us over and over again to be thankful. Why do they do this? Because they know by being thankful, you put your thoughts into a more positive mode.

Doing this changes your attitude. As you change your attitude, you change how you approach life. When you approach life feeling good and positive, your actions (efforts) change, then you get better results.

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.” – Helen Keller Try not to focus on things outside of your control; it does no good anyhow.

Start with being the best you can be, work on self first, then your whole world changes. It is simple. The great people of the past and God have always taught us this – good starts from within. Of course, this eventually manifests into better realities without. The easiest way to begin is by being thankful for what you now have. I recommend you do it daily at a minimum.

It will have a profound and positive effect on your life.

This Thanksgiving, there is nothing wrong with sitting around, stuffing yourself on a nice home-cooked meal. But please remember that giving thanks (not just once-a-year or once-a-week – but daily) is a very important step in creating the reality you will live with tomorrow and every tomorrow thereafter. n Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Credit Where Credit Is Due The story appearing on page 16 of the September 2011 Stockman featuring NMSU Rodeo Team Coach Jim Dewey Brown failed to credit its’ source and author. We sincerely apologize for this oversight. estern All American (WAA) is an online magazine dedicated to the western lifestyle and world of rodeo. The site was established in 2011 with a goal of showcasing the talents and accomplishments of our nation’s great cowboys and cowgirls of all ages. The site will also provide information from professionals, coaches, trainers and other experts within the sport of rodeo to help others excel.

In addition to providing information related to the professional rodeo athlete, WAA features the “college corner” and “coach’s corner” which focuses on collegiate rodeo athlete and the coaches. The “college corner” includes up to date standings, live streams and video interviews with coaches and athletes. The “coach’s corner” provides interviews with college rodeo coaches around the nation to help give a better perspective of college rodeo.

WAA was live at the 2011 Collegiate Finals in Casper, Wyoming. Go to the “college corner” to view the many interesting life stories and interviews from collegiate contestants and champions. Family, friends, and fans can also track the results, read interviews, and get the latest news about the national junior high and high school rodeos. Rodeo athletes from gymkhana to the professional level display the same level of commitment and hard work as athletes in other sports, and WAA’s goal is to provide a site in which these young athletes’ accomplishments can be readily accessed and recognized.

The newest and what has become a very entertaining section of the WAA website is WAA TV. WAA TV is our video production potion of the website where rodeo fans can go and watch various rodeos and interviews from college, youth, amateur, and professional. We recently covered the International Indian Finals Rodeo were you can watch the entire championship rodeo round and interviews with all of the world champions. WAA TV will also include various teaching techniques from some of the best rodeo athletes to allow rodeo fans and contestants learn more about the skill of rodeo.

Go to westernallamerican.com to get a great perspective of the life of rodeo.

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f you have been following the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) website, the emails we generate or even some local news, you know that rural Post Offices and postal sorting facilities in New Mexico and across the nation are in jeopardy. Currently there are some 54 New Mexico Post Offices and six sorting facilities on the cut list. We are not alone in concern. There are numerous petitions and websites in cyberspace that are taking on the fight.

When this was called to our attention we wrote letters of protest to the congressional delegation and the Post Master General and encouraged everyone to do the same. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall were already on the issue and shed some additional light on the subject including the fact that some of New Mexico’s mail sorting is already being shifted to Arizona.

The flaws in the plan are many. For example, one might ask why not close offices in major metropolitan areas? Some urban dwellers might just have to drive a bit further, rather than mandating that rural residents who are already at a disadvantage in receiving most “public” services drive ten to 50 miles further to have communication with the outside world.

With an office in urbanville, I can tell you part of the problem with that. It turns out that the Post Office used by NMCGA, and the other businesses housed in this building, is on the cut list. Not really a problem, we can just drive a bit further, right? Wrong. It seems that the Post Office we are likely to be assigned to is about eight miles from the office. Albuquerque’s Main Post Office is just as close, if not closer. We often end up taking mail there because we have learned that we can cut at least a day off delivery times using that location to drop off. The catch is that if we want to keep the same P.O. Box numbers, we have to move where we are assigned, not what might be closest and most convenient.

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business cards, membership applications, and so on, are expensive. The confusion of an address change when you haven’t moved is also a challenge.

So much for my personal problems.

They will be slight compared to the injustice that may be served on about 100 NMCGA-member families who are about to lose a lifeline to the rest of the world.

Perhaps you have to have lived in the country to understand that it is the Post Office, the grocery store and the schools that make up a rural community. Take any one of them away and the decay starts.

Many rural communities have already started down that path with the loss of grocery stores.

On the other hand, how much sense does it make to demand that the government keep alive a system that is not supporting itself? It would take a book to cover the litany of complaints against the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from its’ customers — the stories a magazine publisher could tell you about just one week of less than adequate service.

But aside from a pretty much total loss of sense of customer service and pride in workmanship, it seems like the USPS is bent on driving itself out of business. Not only does their website promote using the internet for numerous services — seemingly without any consideration that once something is purchased, there must be a postal person to deliver the goods — but they are licensing others to do the same.

During a jaunt to Amarillo and back for the Texas Cattle Feeders Convention, I had plenty of radio time. On weekdays, that generally includes listening to some conservative talk show. One might think that those folks should understand how the world works. I was stunned on this trip to hear the commentator, a well-known attorney on both radio and television, take a break to promote one of her sponsors — Stamps.com.

Using that service, you will never have to leave the house to buy postage again.

Just use your computer and printer and have your mail ready to hand to your

postal person. Apparently she has not heard of the proposed closures nor does she understand that the USPS must do a certain level of business just to keep a postal person to come and pick up your letters!

I got even more agitated when I got home and visited the Stamps.com website.

They are licensed by the USPS. Clearly the inmates are running the asylum when conservative thought leaders AND the government don’t have an understanding of the mechanics of commerce and what is necessary to keep the door open of a business.

There was another one of these mental giants on a conservative television talk show a few weeks ago spouting that nobody would expect Wal-Mart to keep the doors open if they weren’t at least breaking even, so why would one expect the Post Office to be any different. The problems associated with this logic are so convoluted I don’t even know where to start.

This guy fits right in with those folks who think that health care is a basic human right. Before someone gets mad, I am not against health care for those in need. However, that care is a moral and ethical responsibility, not a “right.”

So, what should you do? First write a letter to the Post Master General and the congressional delegation (you can find their addresses at www.nmagriculture.org). Ask them to save rural post offices and not cut off the middle portion of the nation from the rest of the world.

Then STOP using the internet to buy postal supplies and anything else you purchase reasonably close to you. We wonder why there are no jobs, but we keep buying the cheapest things we can find, often online, exporting local jobs to the other end of the electricity. What are we going to do when there is no one to deliver most of the largess? Who is keeping UPS and Federal Express at semi-reasonable prices for those things that are too large for the USPS continued on page 115

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or absolutely need overnight delivery?

NO Janet, we are NOT berating the Border Patrol

Fires, the drought, sensible placement of a Border Patrol Forward Operating Base (FOB) and wolves have taken the forefront on the border in recent months. That doesn’t mean that there are not still problems down there, but at least things are at a dull roar.

But the disappointment in the federal Administration is not abated. It is bad enough when the President tries to pass off the issue as a partisan problem. But when the Secretary of Homeland Security tries to shirk the responsibility of her office by telling the media that she is tired of those who belittle the efforts of the “hardworking men and women of the Border Patrol” when they complain about border security, it is almost more than one can stand. I won’t go so far as to say that someone may have at some time criticized the Border Patrol. I would expect that that group is not immune to slackers any more than any other career.

However, as a former Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano is way beyond disingenuous when she tries to make border security about individual people rather than the culture of an Administration that refuses to acknowledge that there is and has been an ongoing war along the Mexican border for years.

Ground Zero. The visit to Battery Park was marred by the sounds of the drums that the “protesters” pound on day and night.

The days when people put in a hard day of labor just to have a decent place to sleep and a full stomach are not that far gone. It is agriculture becoming efficient enough for just over one percent of Americans to be able to produce affordable and wholesome food for the rest of the country and some of the rest of the world.

This is an over-used and under-understood statement that may have to come home to roost before the country and the world right themselves. Few people under-

stand that wealth comes from production.

Our country was not founded on people giving each other haircuts and cleaning motel rooms. It is those industries like agriculture, mining, forestry, oil and gas and other natural resource uses that produce a tangible commodity that is necessary for the masses to survive and thrive.

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We ARE the 1 percent

Lest anyone think that this statement is some kind of admission that ranchers really are just rich guys loafing on the land, this admission is probably worse.

Ranching and agriculture are the 1 percent who has created a society where thousands of people across the country can show up to camp on public property, with and without a permit to protest, for at least weeks and apparently months at a time, to demand more for nothing.

I had an opportunity this month to see not only the Occupy (or is it Un-Occupy) Wall Street “movement” in Albuquerque, but I visited the NCBA office in Washington, D.C., right across the street from where the occupiers have set up a grungy camp with a four-month permit in a place that used to be a calm and serene plaza for the entire public to enjoy. I also had the pleasure of driving by the bunch in New York City where it appears the city has gone so far as to create gawker lane for drive bys within a stone’s throw from

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and a cooking crew is the way everyone should live — right up until some homeless people showed up wanting some of that free food. Then when the snow came early to the East Coast, the occupiers needed tips from the homeless on how to survive the wet and cold.

But perhaps the most revolting thing I heard about production came from a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. She claims that all wealth belongs to the “public.” Even privately manufactured products and tangible goods are public because “public” roads are used to transport those goods to market. A brief history lesson would tell her that roads were created to get agricultural products to town. In Texas you still

see FM roads — farm to market roads.

She further expounded that factories were public because police departments provide security for them and police departments are paid for with public tax dollars. She, and a whole bunch of other people, seem unaware that factories pay taxes too and generally a far greater share for the benefits they received that any single individual.

I take heart in the fact that if we study history and listen to the “old guys” that everything is cyclic. Those before dealt with many of these problems just as those after will. We can be proud that we have elections. And we can be happy that one of the major parties already has their president so we will only be tortured by half as many commercials in the months to come.

It is also a fact that Herman Cain does-

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Advice?

Contrary to what one might think after participating in or reading the results of the Latino Sustainability Institute’s Hispanic Conservation Values New Mexico Statewide Survey, hunting and fishing are prohibited on the following national monuments: Gila Cliff Dwellings, White Sands, El Morro or Bandelier.

The overview of the survey says that some 58 percent of Hispanics in New Mexico support designation of more monuments — after being told that you can hunt and fish on the four mentioned. We contacted each of these monuments and found that none of them allow hunting or fishing. Bandelier has allowed fishing, but fires have put an end to that.

The overview further states that 56 percent of Hispanics in New Mexico who are involved in farming or ranching “generally speaking” support greater regulation on federal lands. Would all those REALLY in favor please let me know? n More next month!

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USDA Decision Welcomed by NM Cattle Industry he U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) decision to lift the bovine tuberculosis (TB) zone restriction in Curry and Roosevelt Counties in early October was welcome news for New Mexico’s cattle industry.

With this decision, the USDA acknowledged the hard work put in by the New Mexico Livestock Board and beef and dairy producers to eliminate this disease in the state, and recognized that the testing and movement restrictions associated with the zone were effective.

“New Mexico has a long history with bovine tuberculosis (TB), and this is the first time n a long time that we haven’t had that axe hanging over our heads,” said Dave Fly, DVM, New Mexico State Veterinarian. “Producers have changed their habits, and are operating with an increased awareness of TB and other health issues.”

Bovine TB was identified in eastern New Mexico dairy herds in 2008, and the state’s status was downgraded by the USDA, triggering increased TB testing requirements and restrictions on cattle movement. In March of 2009, New Mexico was awarded split status, which kept restrictions in place in two counties – Curry and Roosevelt – but removed the majority of restrictions for cattle producers in the rest of the state.

Some changes associated with the lifting of the zone will be immediate, and others will take time as other states change their policies towards New Mexico according to Terry Beals, DVM, former USDA veterinarian and Executive Director of the Texas Animal Health Commission, who has worked with the NMLB on the TB issue for several years.

Operating under the zone was restrictive, but necessary, he noted. “For a zone to work, surrounding states must have faith that it is based on sound science, and not just political whim.”

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Over time, he explained, people have associated New Mexico and the zone with TB. Lifting the zone will eliminate that stigma, which has impacted sales of dairy and beef replacement heifers for breeding stock, as well as freeing up cattle movement into and out of the area.

Moving forward, producers will save the time and money involved in TB testing, Beals said, and the livestock markets in Clovis and Portales will no longer have to worry about separating cattle depending on whether they originated inside or outside the zone. In addition, the workload on state and federal veterinary personnel, who must conduct TB tests once a responder is found, will be greatly reduced.

“Now that New Mexico has finally managed to root TB out, the dairy industry will be able to operate with less concern about being the next statistic,” he noted.

Much of New Mexico’s dairy industry is located in eastern New Mexico, and was hit hard by the disease itself and the restrictions and requirements associated with the zone designation. “The TB zone was a lot of work, red tape, and expense for the affected dairy producers, and having that lifted will take a huge burden off of producers,” said Robert Hagevoort, Extension Dairy Specialist with New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service.

Hagevoort said that to minimize the risk of health issues including TB, many of the state’s dairy producers are moving towards closed herds. Those that can’t have a completely closed herd are operating very carefully, making sure they buy from reputable producers and quarantining and testing new cattle before letting them into the herd. “Going forward, dairy producers are much more aware of what they need to do to minimize their risk of the disease, and are focusing on biosecurity measures to protect their herds.”

A minimum amount of TB testing will continue on Mexican-origin roping cattle and to meet specific states’ requirements for importing New Mexican cattle, but overall, a big burden will be lifted from the state’s cattle industry. “We are fortunate here in New Mexico not to have a wildlife n component to the disease,” Fly said.

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area for his entire life. He received a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a Juris Doctorate from Notre Dame University in 1938 and 1939 respectively. Foy was honorably discharged from the Army on October 1946. He received the decorated Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the Asian Pacific Ribbon and the New Mexico Distinguished Service Medal. Foy also received an outstanding service award from the Disabled American Veterans. He was a life member of Veterans of Foreign War Post #3347. A member of the American ExPOWs and an avid supporter of all military and veterans causes. After returning from the Philippines, Foy opened his own law practice in Bayard in 1946. In 1948, he married Joan Carney and was elected District Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, an office he held for eight years, 1949 to 1956. He then returned to the private practice of law in 1957 and served as a board member and then vice-president of the New Mexico Board of Bar Commissioners. In 1970 he ran for the State Legislature, and represented District 39 from 1970 to 1998. Foy was responsible for the designation of millions of dollars in southern New Mexico counties for local public infrastructure. He was a member of the New Mexico Bar Association for 70 years, received numerous awards related to the practice of law. From 1997 to present Foy was appointed as a National Commissioner from New Mexico on the Uniform State Laws Commission. As a result of his lifetime of service and the achievements he made, Foy received a Doctor of Humane Letters also known as an Honorary Doctorate from Western New Mexico University in 2004. He was a communicant of the Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Bayard, and a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of the Holy Sepulercure. Foy founded of the Grant County State Bank and served on the bank's board of directors for decades and as its chairman for 14 years. He helped to subdivide parts of Bayard, and was integral in the development of Bayard and the Cobre Consolidated School District. In 1965, the Silver City-Grant County Chamber of Commerce named Foy “Citizen of the Year.” Foy was also very involved in the Bayard Lions Club and was selected as a Melvin Jones Fellow having been a member for more than 70 years. He served as a past district governor for Lions in southern New Mexico, and was previously the continued on page 119 NOVEMBER 2011

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Correct 2011 New Mexico State Fair Calf Scramble Show Winners The New Mexico Stockman deeply regrets the error made in this story in the October issue. The Calf Scramble is one competition that junior exhibitors can only participate in once during their entire junior show career. The competition is based on three categories: heifer placing in class, showmanship and the record book. The Scramble is generously sponsors by donors from across the state.

2011 Calf Scramble Heifer Show Winners pictured (l to r) Judge John Rayfield PhD, 1st place Christian Hopkins, Sierra County; 2nd place Koby Cone, Roosevelt County; 3rd place Ky Drummond, Catron County; Ron Lamb, Scramble Superintendent.

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state commander for the VFW. He was a member of Silver City Moose Lodge #1718 and a life member of the Silver City Elks Lodge. Foy is survived by two daughters Celia Foy Castillo (husband, Alvino) and Muffet Foy Cuddy, Santa Fe; his sons Carney (wife, Creta) and Jim (wife, Valvina) Silver City; daughter in-law Suzanne Jollensten, Albuquerque; nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren; one sister, Winfred Momsen, Bayard, and one brother J. Franey Foy, Boulder City, Nevada.

Herbert Lee “Hub” Traylor, 58, Capitan, passed away peacefully at his home in Roswell on October 19, 2011. Hub was born in Alamogordo on April 14, 1953. He grew up in the Capitan area and graduated from Capitan High School in 1971 and Frances Harcrow on January 26, 1974. For 36 years Hub specialized in feed consulting, feed analysis, and building feed programs for the people and ranches of southern New Mexico. Hub’s work ethic and efficiency were appreciated by all. Hub wasn’t just a contact person for all his clients, he was a true friend. He is survived by his wife, Frances, Capitan; his son Kyle (wife, Kelly) Traylor, Capitan; his daughter Ty (husband, Tycie) Jackson, Cimarron; seven grandchildren; sister, Idy (husband, Dave) Schweitzer, Alto, his sister Kathy (husband, Rick) Vinyard, Las Cruces; and many nieces and nephews.

E. Earl Hickam, 83, Bloomfield, passed away on October 14, 2011, in Bloomfield.

He was born October 2, 1928, in Iowa Park, Texas, to Ralph and Lucy Hickam. He was a loyal and dedicated member of the Upper Colorado Region Bureau of Reclamation, West Hammond Water Association, San Juan Soil and Water Conservation District, Hammond Conservancy District, San Juan County Planning and Zoning Commission, New Mexico Rural Water Users’ Association and the San Juan Natural Resource Conservation District.

He was president of the San Juan County Farm & Livestock Bureau for 21 years; served on the State Board for New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau 2007; and was Honorary Chapter Farmer of Bloomfield FFA. He also was a member of the New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association and was a founding and lifetime member of Ruidoso Elks Lodge No. 2086. Earl was an employee of Bell Telephone Company, and worked as a lineman and insulator for 17 years for a privately owned company in Ruidoso. During this time he obtained a franchise to build a cable TV system in

Capitan. He left the telephone company and obtained franchises to build cable TV systems in Chama, Dulce and Las Vegas, where he also had a studio. He also helped build a cable system in Wichita, Kansas.

While in Dulce, he was employed as a TV Technology instructor for the Dulce Independent School District. In 1971, Earl and his wife, Opal, bought land on the West Hammond and began farming and gardening. Earl was instrumental in getting domestic water for the West Hammond.

He is survived by his daughters, Cynthia (husband, Charlie) Tallman, Gloria (husband, Dave) DeTemple and Thelma (husband, Chris) Dugas and six grandchildren; brother, Marshall (Marilyn) Hickam; sisters, Pearl Parker and Arleen (Bill) Smith; and many cherished nieces and nephews.

Georgia Klumker, 92, Glenwood and formerly of Toponas, Colorado passed away on October 20, 2011. She was born in Yampa, Colorado on November 25, 1918 to Ora Scott and Mary Jane Bird Perry, the oldest of four children. She graduated from Yampa Union High School then met and married Kelly Klumker on December 23, 1936 in Arvada, Colorado before returning to the ranch at Toponas. They spent 36 years ranching on two Colorado ranches before selling and relocating to Glenwood in 1974. They purchased two ranches in the Alma area, finally retiring in 1987. They were married over 70 years before Kelly passed away. Georgia and Kelly were very active in promoting the agriculture industry. They were longtime members of the Farm & Livestock Bureau and the Klumker family was awarded the prestigious Farm Bureau Family of the Year in 2001. They also belonged to the Cattle Growers’ Association and other organizations. She was a communicant of the Santo Nino Parish. She was a 4-H leader for over 30 years, was named Colorado Rancher & Farmer “Homemaker of the Year” and belonged to the Homemakers Club. She was a director on the Catron County Fair Board and was a charter member of the ‘Frisco Cowbelles and the Glenwood Woman’s Club. She loved showing her horses at local fair and competitions. Georgia is survived by six children, Kathleen Schuster, Richard (wife, Peggy), Klumker, Tom (wife, Jane) Klumker, Eileen (husband, Jay) McKeen, Janeen Jump (husband, Brian Richard), and Tim (wife, Phyllis) Klumker; 16 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, four great-greatgrandchildren, and her sister. Ina Muntzert.

Robert E. “Bob” Melanson, 88, Rio Rancho, passed away on October 13 while

surrounded by many of his family members. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1922, and spent most of his adult life on Long Island, New York, where he was in the grocery business. Bob served in the United States Army from 1941 to 1947, during World War II. He met wife, Dorothy, in England while in the service of his country. They were married for 65 years. Bob and Dorothy moved to New Mexico in 1975 to be near their daughters. He was a charter member of the Knights of Columbus, Eugene Teatum Council 6696 in Rio Rancho, and as a Fourth- Degree Knight, he held several offices over the years. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; daughters, Gloria Bullis (husband, Don), Rio Rancho, Maureen Orgass (husband, Howard), Logan; five grandchildren; six greatgrandchildren; sister, Barbara Bodami (husband, Dominick), Commack, New York; numerous nieces and nephews.

Salomon Ramirez, 56, Santa Fe, passed away suddenly as a result of a heart attack on October 22, 2011 at his family ranch in Rociada. Salomon was born on September 27, 1955 in Las Vegas. He attended high school at Robertson and graduated from New Mexico State University (NMSU) with a degree in Agriculture. He was appointed

by President Barack Obama as the State Executive Director of the Farm Service Agency of the US Department of Agriculture. He loved spending weekends in Rociada at his family’s ranch and was passionate about helping farmers and ranchers in New Mexico. He was a generous friend who never asked what he could do to help; he simply did what needed to be done. He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Rosalie; his daughter, Amanda Chavez (husband, Cedric); granddaughter, Elena; his son, Ryan; his mother, Angie Ramirez; sisters, Mary Ann Ortiz (husband, Juan), Elizabeth Betty Armijo (husband, Paul); brothers, Gilbert Ramirez (wife, Katie), Sammy Ramirez (wife, Brenda); his father and mother-in-law, Henry M. Valdez and Margaret; brother-in-laws, James Valdez (wife, Lynette), Henry Valdez, Kenny Valdez (wife, Veronica); sister-in-law, Patt Valdez; and 14 nieces and nephews; along with several grand-nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Editor’s Note: Please send In Memoriam announcements to: Caren Cowan, N.M. Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, NM 87194, fax: 505/998-6236 or 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.

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A A Lazy 6 Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 AC Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126 Ag New Mexico FCS ACA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Ken Ahler Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North . . . . . . . .66 American Angus Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 American Galloway Breeders Assn . . . . . . . . . .99 American Hereford Association . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Bert Ancell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Anchor Chuck Wagon Catering . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Andrews, Smith, Lowery & Co LLC . . . . . . . . .69 Animal Health Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Artesia Trailer Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 B B&H Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84 Ken Babcock Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Bar J Bar Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103, 104 Tommy Barnes Auctioneer . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Jimmy Bason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Best in the West Brangus Sale . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Jim Berlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Bieber Red Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 BJM Sales & Service, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 101 Black Angus “Ready for Work” Sale . . . . . . . .17 Pat Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Border Tank Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Bowman Livestock Equipment Co . . . . . . . . . .66 Bradley 3 Ranch LTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30, 72 Brennand Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Brighton Feed & Saddlery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Bull Run Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 C C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30, 97 Carrizo Valley Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

ADVERTISERS’ INDEX Carter Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 97 Carter’s Livestock Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Mike Casabonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Casey Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Cates Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Cattle Guards/Priddy Constructi . . . . . . . . . . .53 Cattleman’s Livestock Commission . . . . . . . . .76 Cattlemens Livestock Auction Co . . . . . . . .86, 89 Caviness Packing Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Chase Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Clavel Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Clayton Cattle Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 Clift Land Brokers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Clovis Livestock Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Coba Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Colyer Herefords & Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Conniff Cattle Co LLC . . . . . . . . . . . .37, 89, 97 Copeland & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92, 93 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 CowTrails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65, 99 R.L. Cox Fur & Hide Co . . . . . . . . . . . . .76, 100 CPI Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 CS Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 D D Squared Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 David Dean / Campo Bonito . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Dan Delaney Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Desert Scales & Weighing Equip. . . . . . .72, 101 Diamond Arrow Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Domenici Law Firm PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Double Z Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Dry Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 E Elgin Breeding Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Express UU Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 90

F Farm Credit of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Farmers & Stockmens Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 FBFS / Monte Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 FBFS / Larry Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 FBFS/Rutalee Todd-Jernigan . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Fernandez Co LTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Five States Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Troy Floyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16, 98 Flying W Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Fort Worth Stock Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 Four States Ag Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Freeman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Bob Frost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Fury Farms, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 G Genex/Candy Trujillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Giant Rubber Water Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Goemmer Land & Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Grau Charolais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63, 97 Wesley Grau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Tom Growney Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . .4, 100 H Hales Angus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 98 R.W. Hampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 97 Hat Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Headquarters West Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Henard Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Hi-Pro Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Don & Abby Hofman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Bob Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 30 Hudson Livestock Supplements . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Huguley Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 I Inn of the Mountain Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Insurance Services of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . .59 J J & J Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 J C Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 90 JaCin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Steve Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Joe’s Boot Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Bobby Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 K Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Eq . . . . . . . .100 Kail Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30, 99 Kern Land Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 King Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 David King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Gary King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 L L & H Mfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Lack-Morrison Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 98 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Lazy Way Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Lee, Lee & Puckitt / Kevin Reed . . . . . . . . . .104 Jim Lyssy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 M Randell Major . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31, 97 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Mason & Morse, (York Ranch) . . . . . . . . . . .110 Mathers Realty Inc/ Keith Brown . . . . . . . . .107 McGinley Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42, 97 McKenzie Land & Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Merrick’s Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Mesa Feed Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57, 101 Michelet Homestead Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . .104, 106 Miller Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Monfette Construction Co . . . . . . . . . . . .72, 101 Montana del Oso Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 98 Mountain Lion Depredation Hunter . . . . . . . . .61 Mountainair Heritage Meat Processing . . . . .118

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NM Cowbelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78, 91 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . .17, 62, 69 No-Bull Enterprises LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 O Alisa Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Old Mill Farm & Ranch Supply . . . . . . . . . . . .80 Jim Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 Onate Feed Mill LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Will Orndorff Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 P Paco Feed Yard, LTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Parker Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 98 Phase-A-Matic Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Phillips Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 PolyDome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Porter Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Joe Priest Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Principal Financial Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 Purina-Land O Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128 R Ramro LLC / R J Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Ranch Land Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 Candy Ray’s Black Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58, 100 Riley & Knight Appraisal, LLC . . . . . . . .92, 102 Robbs Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Robertson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Rod Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale . . . . . . .21 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 S Sachse Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Santa Gertrudis Breeders Intern . . . . . . . . . . .99 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44, 99 Bill Sauble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Scott Land Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Sierra Alta Ranch LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Singleton Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90, 99 Skaarer Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Sky City Casino Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Southern Star Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 99 Southwest Ag Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 111 Southwest Brangus Breeders Assn . . . . . . . . .22 Southwest Brangus Breeders Co-op . . . . . . .127 Tom & Becky Spindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 State Fair Junior Livestock Auc . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Stockmens’ Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Joe Stubblefield & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Swihart Sales Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

T 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 T&S Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 T4 Cattle Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85 Terrell Land & Livestock Co . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Texas Cattle Feeders Association . . . . . . . . . . .90 Texas Range Minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Three Mile Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Tire Water Troughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Townsend Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16, 98 The Turquoise Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

U U Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 United Country Vista Nueva, Inc . . . . . . . . . .105 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

V José J. Varela Lopez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Virden Perma Bilt Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63, 64

W Phil Wallin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Wedel Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Wehrmann Angus – Donnell Catt . . . . . . . . .35 Westall Ranches LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Western Heritage Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Westlake Cattle Growers LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Williams Windmill Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .63, 79, 100 Blake Williamson/Hi-Pro Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . .84 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

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New Mexico Ag Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125 New Mexico Beef Council . . . . . . . . . .24-27, 90 New Mexico Cattle Growers Insurance . . . . . . .51 New Mexico CowBelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 New Mexico Livestock Board . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 NM 4-H Centennial Challenge . . . . . . . . . . .124

Y Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Yavapai Bottle Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60, 100 R. L. York Custom Leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

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Colorado Dairy Service 970-593-9704 Loveland, CO Buckeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feed 530-865-4427 Orland, CA

Western Polydome 800-822-5837 Monroe, WA Greenfield Park Dairy 505-276-8659 Portales, NM

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All feeders will feed in piles or steady trail feed, whichever you choose. You set the feeder to put out the number of pounds of feed per pile you want.

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20th Annual

All Events Held In the NEW EVENTS CENTER

Feb. 21-22, 2012

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P.O. BOX 278 MILBURN, OK 73450

GAYLAND & PATTI TOWNSEND HOME: 580/443-5777 CELL: 580/380-1606

STEVE & JACKIE TOWNSEND HOME: 580/443-5749 CELL: 580/380-1968

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Roswell Brangus Sale

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WE ONLY CONSIGN OUR VERY BEST! RAISED IN OKLAHOMA – THE SAME WAY WE RAISED THEM IN NEW MEXICO! CONTACT THESE SOUTHWEST BRANGUS BREEDERS FOR BRANGUS BULLS AND FEMALES.

Floyd Brangus TROY FLOYD P.O. Box 133 Roswell, NM 88201 Phone: 575/734-7005

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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 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

Townsend Brangus GAYLAND and PATTI TOWNSEND P.O. Box 278 Milburn, Oklahoma 73450 Home: 580/443-5777 Cell: 580/380-1606

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Accuration, Sup-R-Lix, Sup-R-Block, and Impact are trademarks or registered trademarks of Purina Mills, LLC. ©2010.

Nothing says more about your operation than uniform, well-conditioned cattle. Get the look™ as well as increased breed-back rates with Purina® Accuration® feed featuring Intake Modifying Technology.® It supplements your cattle’s diet, maximizes forage utilization and controls what they eat based on forage quality and cattle needs. So your cattle and your total net return can reach their highest potential.

To learn more about increasing breed-back rates and getting more from your herd, see your Purina dealer, call 1-800-227-8941, or visit cattlenutrition.com.

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