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TOM SIDWELL Cattleman of the Year

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FEATURES 18 New Mexico Ranch Earns Certified Angus Beef Sustainability Award

by Kylee Kohls Sellnow

24 Certified Angus Beef Accepting Applications for Its Three Summer Communications Internships

10 NMCGA President’s Message

by Loren Patterson

by Lauren Mosher, 2022 Communications Intern

32 Why Weigh?

by Brittley Bowers, Kansas State University Research & Education

38 Fake Meat Company ‘Beyond Meat’ Announces Mass Layoffs, Departure of 3 Executives

by Abby Liebing, The Western Journal

39 Impossible Foods to Cut Workforce

by Melissa Sue Sorrells, meatingplace.com

42 Healthy Soil Program Awards $1.1 Million in Funding for 51 Projects 44 Going Green Requires Using Fossil Fuels, Says New Study

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46 New Mexico Adopts Rule to Protect Cultural Sites

by Scott Wyland, Santa Fe New Mexican

47 Public Input Requested on New Mexico Conservation Definitions 51 2022 Joint Stockmen’s Convention Program 70 Brangus Research Proves Conventional Wisdom Isn’t Always Right

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by By Dr. Darrell L. Wilkes, Executive Vice President, International Brangus Breeders Association

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74 Genetics Valued Over Hide Color Source: Red Angus Association of America

76 Tom Sidwell, 2022 Cattleman of the Year

by Carol Wilson

122 Counties Try to Help with Cattle Loss

by Cathy Cook, El Defensor Chieftain editor

124 Authorities Investigate Killing of Mexican Wolf

by Jake Frederico, Arizona Republic

12 Just the Facts ... & Then Some

by Caren Cowan, Publisher, New Mexico Stockman

16 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 30 Beef — It’s What’s for Dinner Recipe 36 News Update– Final Rule to H-2A Visa Program, Cattle Growers’ & Purina Scholarships 40 View From the Backside

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49 Riding Herd

by Lee Pitts

88 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 90 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

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94 Food & Fodder

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Real Estate Guide Marketplace Seedstock Guide Home at the Ranch

by Connie Mitchell

110 In Memoriam 114 Collector’s Corner

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125 In the Arena

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126 New Mexico Federal Lands News

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128 Advertisers’ Index

127 Casper Baca Rodeo Company 2022 Renegade Tour Winners

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Tom Sidwell, 2022 Cattleman of the Year, Photo by Carol Wilson

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Loren Patterson NMCGA President

Loren Patterson President Corona Bronson Corn President-Elect Roswell Dave Kenneke NW Vice President Cimarron Cliff Copeland NE Vice President Nara Visa Jeff Decker SE Vice President Lovington Roy Farr SW Vice President Datil Joe Culbertson Vice President at Large Amistad Shacey Sullivan Secretary / Treasurer Peralta Randell Major Immediate Past President Magadalena Tom Sidwell Past President Quay

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I won’t see the back seat of my truck until June!

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f you are like me, the decision of what to wear for the day is easy. It depends where in the state I’m going and what the weather is, subject to change on a fifteen minute basis. I carry everything from a vest to a heavy wool mackinaw coat. I usually keep a pressed dress shirt and sports coat these days along with a handful of old shirts suitable to weld or paint in. I never know what kind of ranch emergency I might get myself into or if a meeting is going to pop up on the schedule. The back seat of my pickup catches it all and probably won’t get cleaned out until the truck has to go to the mechanic or the end of May, whichever comes first.

I think our weather is one of the greatest aspects of living in New Mexico, often swinging between extremes within hours or just a few miles. With that in mind, how anybody can discuss climate change or have any idea what ‘climate normal’ might be is beyond me. The one thing I do know is that I have never seen P-Values mentioned in any of the so-called climate change models ever quoted. In graduate school at Texas Tech, our research was never quoted as definitive without being 99.99 percent correct, if it was less than that we used words like “Tend” or “Trend” but never “Definitive”.

The reason I mention this is because everything can influence our climate on a year to year basis from solar flares, the elliptical nature of the Earth’s orbit, volcanic eruptions and wildfire smoke. To regulate human activity and industry in the name of ‘climate change’ is disingenuous and based on a narrative, not science. Still we see climate change being pushed in nearly every government program, bill or department mission on the national and state level.

As a rancher, I believe in stewardship. I acknowledge that natural resources are finite and have to be managed to become multigenerational renewable resources. What I don’t agree with is our tax money being spent on pseudo-science while the fundamental purpose of government is being ignored. I don’t agree with the Endangered Species Act or government agencies being weaponized to halt economic activity or take away personal rights. The results of our election will determine if the tempo of this incessant march towards absolute government power in the name of climate change is slowed or increased. If a vote is a great first step, then engaging our leaders or serving in positions that can influence government direction is a leap. I encourage each and every one to spend some time every month emailing your elected officials or attending commission and board meetings. Help change the narrative and help change the tempo!

I hope everyone has had a great fall and have plans to attend Joint Stockmen’s Convention.

Our theme for this year’s convention is appropriate, Transforming Challenges into Opportunity.

You will find we have a great lineup of speakers, discussions and topics with an agenda filled with information helping members meet that goal. Come and help celebrate our 2021 Cattleman of the Year, Tom Sidwell and fellowship with the all the great people in our industry.

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man who works for me saw lights south of his house spread out across several miles of open country and moving. Illegal aliens walking with flashlights going north.

by Caren Cowan, I doubt that it was seven individuals Publisher New Mexico instead seven bunches but it was extremely Stockman dark and therefore impossible to say. I’ve never seen this in 25 years.

The man called Douglas border patrol and they said they wouldn’t respond. Next he called the Lordsburg border patrol and they said they would not respond. Next he called the Cochise County Sheriff dispatch and was told that it was an immigration issue and instructed him to call the border patrol. s we sit here days away from the Finally a county deputy responded and my Midterm Elections, there is no way to employee was repeatedly told to not “shoot guess what comes next despite all the anybody”. He had never told anyone he was polls we hear about on Fox News. Like most going to start shooting. everything else, the “popular” news netAll the deputy could do is drive down a dirt works tell us nothing. road with flashing lights in an attempt to Regardless of the election outcomes, there scare the aliens who are not scared of anything. are numerous issues our country needs to The aliens will be in your neighborhood in a face. The one top of mind for me today is the few days. Activity on the border has escalated Mexican Border. in the last several months.

I can quote the statistics for FY 2022, This is not a rant to blame the border which are staggering. But I’d rather rely on patrol or the county sheriff. It’s not their fault. the experiences of my friends who live along They are out-gunned and overwhelmed and the border in Arizona. I am relying on them do not have Washington, DC support. This is because in New Mexico no one except Con- the President and congress’s fault and they are gresswoman Yvette Herrell and gubernatorial completely to blame. Or are they? candidate Mark Ronchetti are even talking Americans elected them! If you think more about a crisis that is happening in Texas and border patrol or more county deputy’s will fix Arizona, but seemingly are no problem in our state.

Below is a piece that one Arizonan wrote today. This incident took place nea r Apache, Arizona, a mere five miles as the crow flies from the New Mexico state line.

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this then you are a fool. If you think Trump’s wall would have fixed this you are wrong.

As long as we give aliens free stuff they will come and nothing will stop them. Joe Biden knows this. Arizona U.S. Senator Mark Kelly knows this. As long as we thirst for Mexican drugs they will come and the outlaws will have the funds to win the war.

Joe Biden is as crazy as Putin [but] only half as intelligent. Congress needs a complete sweep – a washout. Total turnover. We are being governed by fools and knaves and it is our own fault.

Ed has written more than a dozen books on border issues, cowboys and the cowboy life.

On October 27, 2022 Fox News aired an interview on border issues that included Arizona rancher John Ladd, who lives just two miles from the Mexico border near Bisbee. John minced no words as he ripped Biden over the border: ‘We don’t have enough manpower’ to mitigate the crisis.”

The interview can be seen at: https:// www.foxnews.com/video/6314431067112 The border crisis is not just a southwestern crisis. It is a major campaign issue for elections nationwide.

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he Chuckwagon CowBelles met in the home of Tommie Aber. The meeting JINGLE was called to order by Vice President Jean Stone at 10:30 a.m. with the introducJANGLE tion of the guest speaker Mr. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor brought a wonderful program on the Los Lunas Stone, which is located 17 miles west of Los Lunas. The group broke for an early lunch with the continuation of the meeting agenda. There was no unfinished business, no correspondents and no new business. The next meeting will be held at ecruiting and retaining members, it’s Year meeting in June. the Abo Monument October 10 with a a dilemma that many of our organizaCynthia Carpenter program by Norma Pineda. Lunch at the tions are facing around our state and Alison Ballard Shafer will follow. Submitted by Welda even at the national level. This was the topic Liza Yazzie Grider of conversation at our recent October state Jennifer Smyer Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the member zoom meeting. We discussed the Gail White First Baptist Church, Ft. Sumner, on the challenges we all face from hesitating to ask Renee Nix October 13, with Karen Cortese and Judy to making sure we make it easier for those Mary T. Christmas Byrd as hostesses. Ten members were present. willing to participate. We also discussed the Ann Sleep, President opened the meeting solutions to these issues and what our We want to invite our local chapters to with invocation, Pledge and creed cited by members are doing in their local chapters. celebrate their new members and/or active all. Minutes and treasurer’s report were As we brainstormed and bounced ideas off members by featuring them in their future given and “thinking of you” cards were sent each other, a big takeaway was making others Jingle Jangle articles. to several members. The finished cowboy feel welcome and not excluding anyone who Please join us for the monthly state quilt was displayed and is gorgeous. Tickets may have new ideas or does not fit the mold member zoom meetings mentioned above. for the quilt were either handed out or mailed of the stereotypical cattle owner.

They are welcome to all New Mexico Cow- to members to buy or sell. The drawing will Not only has the pandemic taken its toll Belle members as well as those considering be at the November 10 meeting. New busion our organizations, but generations that becoming a member. You can find meeting ness included the slate of officers retained have been our backbone for so long are now dates and more information on our Facebook for 2023, except for secretary. A wonderful retiring. We are looking to the next genera- page, New Mexico CowBelles. lunch of favorite dishes and the lasagna, tions to carry on their legacy. We must give which Judy provided and was enjoyed by all. them the space to make it their own. Now is Everyone brought 10 copies of their recipe to the time to celebrate those who are eager to share with others. Next meeting will be at join in and volunteer. On that note, we would Bosque Redondo Museum with Wayne like to recognize and thank our new Overton and Mary Gaye McClain as hostmembers who have joined since our Midesses. Touring the museum will be the program. Joan Key, Secretary Mesilla Valley CowBelles met during Southern New Mexico State Fair. This year’s fair was a success with loads of Beef recipes being handed out and asked for at the CowBelle booth. CowBelles participated in the annual Bake Sale donating baskets full of goodies for auction, the AgVentures program where elementary school aged students’ progress among a variety of stations learning about Agriculture. In addition, the ladies assisted with Stick Horse race, calf scramble and the Sale Dinner. The group sponsored the Beef Showmanship and Grand Champion Beef Heifer Buckles. Ag Literacy events approaching with anxious CowBelles ready to present on Beef! These include Hatch Pioneer Day and STEM and AG Career Fair.

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

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by Kylee Kohls Sellnow

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roducing beef in the desert Southwest takes a certain resolve, faith that the rain will come and grit to do the hard things and smile through the work when it doesn’t.

This is the grit engrained in Manny and Corina Encinias and their seven children operating Buffalo Creek Ranch.

Sustainability runs deep for these stewards of a legacy that dates back to 1777, when the first generations of their family began herding sheep near Galisteo, New Mexico Today they focus on cattle well-suited to the harsh desert range east of Albuquerque, fostering community strength and creating opportunities for others.

“My ranching philosophy is adapting to the ever-changing environment and marketing climates,” Encinias says.

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Manny and Corina purchased Buffalo Creek Ranch in 2016 with a vision to restore the land and help it flourish.

“The first part of sustainability is consideration for the natural resources,” he says.

“In the desert Southwest, those are fragile, yet resilient.”

Dormant grasses, the sound of a creek bed crunching beneath boots and a lone, green cottonwood point to the tenacity life requires in this part of the world. Named for the creek that typically runs through its heart, Buffalo Creek Ranch relies on water from a closed basin – and a monsoon season not seen in many years – to nourish its native grasses.

“Our gold in this country is water,” Encinias says. “And it’s what keeps me up at night.

Water will always be of concern, for myself and future generations, because it is so precious. I don’t believe people recognize it as a continued on page 20 >>

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fragile resource in everyday living here in the United States.”

Cattle are part of his plan to restore the land, taking care to only stock as many as the acreage can maintain.

In 2021, the family responded to persistent and extreme drought by downsizing to 90 of their best Angus-influenced cows.

They stock at only 30 percent today – one cow for every 40 to 100 acres depending on the pasture.

Their genetic goals are multifaceted. Key considerations include Angus cattle that can adapt to the unforgiving environment yet achieve carcass merit and qualify for the Certified Angus Beef ® brand. Cows that stay must be easy fleshing and structurally sound, with maternal instincts and adapted to handle the 6,300-foot elevation. Those still thriving prove Angus cows can meet consumer demand for high quality in ways that work for both caretaker and landscape on which crops could never thrive.

The 98 percent “The consumer drives a lot of what we do,” Encinias says. “We have embraced that as a responsibility. I think it’s important to have a seat at the table with the 98 percent not directly involved in agriculture, not only as beef consumers but as policy makers.”

Transparency across varied platforms helps define responsibility to the industry and welcomes visitors.

Foodservice salespeople and chefs stop in as part of CAB Ranch Days, learning what goes into a day’s work and a long-term plan.

For example, Encinias explains the effect of water-saving night irrigation to limit evaporation and the stewardship of rotational grazing.

His efforts go beyond simply opening the ranch gate. Further education and helping with beef industry programs fit in with the family’s own progress and readiness to share principles on or off the ranch.

“I think Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) as a program has evolved to really take in a lot more of the important consumer-based issues like animal welfare,” Encinias shares.

As a former BQA trainer and state extension beef cattle specialist, I can attest to the program being about evaluating systems through the BQA principles, he says.

“We can all lend ourselves to becoming better – better handlers of animals and our environments,” he says. continued on page 22 >>

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Encinias teaches animal and meat sciences and ag business at Mesalands Community College, drawing on years of consulting on ranches from Hawaii to North Dakota. In the between hours, he also translates for Mexican veterinarians at U.S. feedyards and ranches.

“Instead of just performance or profitability, we try to be the kind of ranch you’d want to live next to if you weren’t in production agriculture,” the rancher and educator says.

“This just expresses who we are, who we’ve always been, who we were when we first

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2 Bar Angus Bull Sale, Hereford, Texas

MAY 13, 2023

Cattle are part of Manny’s plan to restore the land, taking care to only stock as many as the acreage can maintain.

arrived here in this region. And it’s really being a good neighbor, caring for each other.”

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TAA Spring Spectacular, Salado, Texas

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Prime By Design Sale, Hereford, Texas Hosted with Goode Angus

OCTOBER 14, 2023

TAA Autumn Classic, Salado, Texas

Rancher to Rancher Bulls Ready to Work

COMING SOON TO A PASTURE NEAR YOU

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PRIVATE TREATY OFFERING Trailer load of fancy fall born registered heifers.

Open and ready to breed.

Large selection of coming 2 year old bulls.

Range raised in large pastures. Fully tested and ready for service.

Good selection of performance tested yearling bulls to sell in March 2023 Tucumcari Bull Test.

We invite you to the ranch to make your selections or we can deliver them to you.

Give us a call today!

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Roy & Trudy Hartzog — P.O. Box 102, Bovina, TX 79009 Roy – 806-225-7230 | Trudy – 806-470-2508, trudy.hartzog22@gmail.com | Ranch – 806-825-2711

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Certified Angus Beef Accepting Applications for Its Three Summer Communications Internships

by Lauren Mosher, 2022 Communications Intern

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ou’re handed a camera and told, “Just jump right in.” It’s a phrase heard on repeat as a Certified Angus Beef intern,

while gaining experience with photo, video, journalism, public relations and social media.

In a fast paced and dynamic communications space, Certified Angus Beef seeks three students aspiring for opportunities beyond the classroom and through the beef supply chain.

Essential for success before going to the workforce after college, the internship offers hands-on experience and effective communications skill building.

“Certified Angus Beef does a great job of helping you understand what a career is like and I’ve been able to gain real-life experience,” says Kindle Catching, 2022 digital

38th Annual Production Sale President’s Day Monday, February 20, 2023

SELLING 65 REGISTERED COMING 2-YEAR-OLD BULLS Registered Black Angus

PAP testing since 1991 at an elevation of 7500’ BVD, Fertility, PAP, Trich tested & Carcass Ultrasounded.

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marketing intern. “I am going home with lots of knowledge and feeling inspired. They prepared me for life after college.”

Three internship positions are available for college students majoring in agricultural communications, public relations, journalism, marketing or related areas.

The Producer Communications intern will engage farm and ranch audiences. This intern will write news releases, feature stories and create content for the brand’s rancher-facing social media accounts, website and email copy. Background knowledge and experience in agriculture is preferred.

The Communications intern will support business and consumer audiences. This intern will write news releases, feature stories and create visual content with photos and videos for the brand’s consumer-facing social media accounts, website, and seasonal campaign efforts.

The Public Relations intern will monitor brand mentions and emerging issues in trade and top-tier media, generate media pitches and pitching strategies, and support any events as they arise. The secondary focus will be to create content for the brand newsroom.

The positions will be customized to match an intern’s interest in practicing multi-media storytelling and additional skills. Some assignments may include photography and video editing, generating pitch stories to media or traveling to off-site events at restaurants, grocery stores or ranches.

“You’re given opportunities to grow the skills you learned in the classroom and practice ones you haven’t yet had the chance to with this internship,” says Daniela Medina, 2022 public relations intern. “I would recommend this internship to anyone. You will feel like a valued team member from day one.”

Junior or senior college students are encouraged to apply by November 15, 2022.

Summer interns will be expected to work for 10-12 weeks from the brand’s office in Wooster, Ohio, for 40 hours per week between mid-May and mid-August. Applications require a cover letter, resume, and online portfolio of work samples in communications. Attendance at the 2022 Youth Beef Leaders seminar, hosted by the brand December 14-16, is required as part of orientation.

Find more information about these internship opportunities and apply at CertifiedAngusBeef.com/recruiting.

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American Angus Association Announces the Ten New Mexico Breeders Who Registered the Most Angus

Flying W Diamond Ranch, Capitan; Reverse Rocking R Cattle Co, Maxwell; U Bar Ranch, Silver City; Diamond Seven Angus Ranch, Newkirk; Heartstone Angus, Silver City; J-C Angus, Moriarty; Robert or Mitzi Miller, Floyd; A Lazy 6 Ranch, Ribera; Shane or Karla Lee, Portales.

Angus breeders across the nation in 2022 registered 304,822 head of Angus cattle.

“Our Association members lead the industry in adopting new technology and breeding the most problem-free cattle for their customers,” McCully said. “Cattlemen across he 10 producers who registered the the country continue to find registered most Angus beef cattle in the state of Angus seedstock are the most profitable New Mexico recorded a total of 1641 option for their herd.”

Angus with the American Angus Association® during fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30, according to Mark McCully, Association chief executive officer.

The 10 top recorders in New Mexico are: Bill Gardner, Estancia; Greg Smith, Elida;

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Mark your calendar Saturday March 11 in Tucumcari for the Annual NMSU Feed Efficiency Bull Test Sale — featuring five choice Black Angus Bulls off the top of our program.

All our Bulls at the test are either the product of our AI or ET programs.

Sires featured this year include GAR Ashland & Tehama Tahoe as well as Sterling Pacific & SAV Cattlemaster

www.riversideangus.com • Call Alex (719) 980-5075

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Meat Groups Ask USTR Reject Request for Probe of Mexico Imports

by Chris Scott, meatingplace.com

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group of 24 U.S. organizations representing a variety of agricultural companies — including meat processors — want the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to reject a petition from members of Congress seeking an investigation into fresh produce from Mexico. Specifically, they have voiced concerns about potential retaliation that could hurt the U.S. meat industry.

In a letter to USTR Ambassador Katherine Tai, the group claims that the petition for a Section 301 investigation would “undermine our relationship with one of our largest agricultural trading partners and create a substantial risk of retaliatory actions.”

The petition filed last month by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (D-FL) and U.S. Representative Al Lawson (D-FL) seeks a Section 301 probe of fruit and vegetable imports from Mexico in order to “secure trade relief for Florida (produce) growers,” among others.

The letter to reject the petition’s request was signed by such organizations as the Meat Import Council of America, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).

The letter also asked USTR to work instead to open new markets for U.S. ag exports “in the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan and elsewhere.”

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Both Sides Confident After Supreme Court Prop 12 Oral Arguments

by Kate Gibson, meatingplace.com

Mead Angus FOR SALE FOR SALE Service Age Bulls

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oth sides struck an optimistic tone state issue production mandates to others.

Tuesday after presenting oral argu- Prop 12 bans the sale of pork in the state if ments to the U.S. Supreme Court in the pigs were raised in breeding pens that NPPC v. Ross, either in support of or chal- don’t let them turn around. lenging the constitutionality of California’s The NPPC said if Prop 12 were upheld, it Proposition 12 law. could lead to inspectors from California “We feel confident that we are on the right dictating the rules to producers in the other side of history and that Proposition 12’s stan- 49 states, not to mention Canada and Mexico, dards are consistent with broadly shared according to Michael Formica, the NPPC’s values that unite Americans of many persua- chief legal strategist. sions,” wrote Humane Society of the U.S. Close questioning by all the justices in CEO Kitty Block in a blog post on the orga- attendance sought clarity on how upholding, nization’s website, co-authored with Sara or striking down, California’s law would Amundson, president of the Humane Society have a ripple effect on other interstate comLegislative Fund. Jeffrey A. Lamken, an merce, such as sales of vehicles made in one attorney for HSUS, argued before the Court state that have to meet another state’s emisin support of the state law. sions standards. The justices also indicated On the other hand, “After today, we’ll win interest in the role of morals in the case; this deal,” Terry Wolters, president of the many Prop 12 supporters believe most existNational Pork Producers Council, said at a ing swine production systems are inhumane, media briefing Tuesday afternoon. “We feel a position the industry rejects. very hopeful after today’s arguments” chalLawyers for both sides acknowledged, in lenging the law, Travis Cushman, the response to questions, that however the American Farm Bureau Federation’s deputy Court decides, Congress could render the general counsel, litigation and public policy, decision moot by enacting federation legistold the gathering. AFBF is a plaintiff in the lation that, for example standardized animal case along with NPPC. handling regulations nationwide.

The arguments went on for just over two While the case does not directly impact cattle producers, hours in the morning, with NPPC and AFBF the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association reaffirmed arguing that the 2018 proposition approved its support for the NPPC’s position.

by California voters violates the Constitu- The Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case sometime in the first half of 2023. tion’s Commerce Clause from having one

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Bradley 3 Ranch Ltd. www.bradley3ranch.com Ranch-Raised ANGUS Bulls for Ranchers Since 1955

Annual Bull Sale February 11, 2023 at the Ranch NE of Estelline, TX M.L. Bradley, 806/888-1062 Cell: 940/585-6471

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

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ANNUAL SALE March 4, 2023

The Oldest Angus Herd in the Country R.D. LAFLIN 14075 Carnaham Creek Rd., Olsburg, KS 66520 Cell. 785/587-5852 • 785/468-3571

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ROSWELL LIVES TOCK AUCTION, ROSWELL, N.M. Sale time 12:30 p.m.

Bulls will be Graded & Tested For Fertility & Trich

* 60 REG. ANGUS BULLS * Cattle available for viewing, Friday, March 5, 2023 All Bulls & Registered Heifers will have 50k Genetic Testing

* PLUS* a nice selection of Registered and Commercial Heifers Registered heifers at the New Mexico Angus March sale in Roswell are eligible for the New Mexico Bred Angus Show at the New Mexico State Fair

FOR CATALOG PLEASE CALL A MEMBER OF THE SALE COMMITTEE

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Thank you for your past business & we look forward to seeing you at our 2023 Angus Bull & Heifer Sale

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Blackstrap Steaks with Caramelized Onions

McPHERSON HEIFER BULLS  ½ Corriente, ½ Angus bulls.

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40 Minutes 4 Servings 12 Ingredients INGREDIENTS 4 steaks Chuck Eye Steak (Delmonico) 1/4 cup molasses 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar salt fresh basil Carmelized Onion Relish: 1-1/2 cups sweet onions 3/4 cup red bell pepper 2 tablespoons fresh basil 2 tablespoons pine nuts 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 1/2 teaspoon pepper PREPARATION: Step 1 To prepare Caramelized Onions, spray medium nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray. Heat over medium to medium-high heat until hot. Add onion; cook 5

to 7 minutes, stirring frequently. If necessary, re-spray skillet with cooking spray. Add bell pepper; continue cooking 3 to 5 minutes or until onions are browned and bell pepper is crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Stir in sliced basil, pine nuts, 1 tablespoon vinegar and black pepper. Season with salt, as desired; keep warm.

Step 2 Meanwhile combine molasses, Worcestershire sauce and 1 tablespoon vinegar in small bowl.

Step 3 Heat second large nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Season steaks with black pepper. Place steaks in pan; cook 9 to 11 minutes (ranch steaks, 8 to 11 minutes) for medium rare (145°F) to medium (160°F) doneness, turning occasionally and brushing with molasses mixture during last 3 to 4 minutes of cooking.

Step 4 Season steaks with salt, as desired; serve with caramelized onions. Garnish with basil sprigs, if desired.

Nutrition information per serving: 405 Calories; 162 Calories from fat; 18g Total Fat (6 g Saturated Fat; 7 g Monounsaturated Fat;) 119 mg Cholesterol; 186 mg Sodium; 24 g Total Carbohydrate; 1.7 g Dietary Fiber; 36 g Protein; 8.6 mg Iron; 3.7 mg NE Niacin; 0.6 mg Vitamin B6; 2.8 mcg Vitamin B12; 12.1 mg Zinc; 33.8 mcg Selenium.

NUTRITION TIP: This recipe is an excellent source of Protein, Iron, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Zinc, and Selenium.

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THE GARDNER FAMILY Bill Gardner 505-705-2856

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Why Weigh?

by Brittley Bowers, Kansas State University Research & Education

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f there was one piece of equipment that would improve animal health, pay dividends in marketing, and help stocking rates, would you invest in it? The simple action of adding scales and utilizing weight information can return big bucks according to industry experts. Weighing cattle can help save and make money, grow a better product, and gain efficiency throughout your herd.

Having the right system allows for accurate data to be collected while also bringing about productivity and efficiency of the cattle herd, according to Ray Williams from Gallagher Weigh Systems. Whether it be a squeeze chute or an alley way system, either can be efficient. There are four key elements of either weigh system. This includes: the squeeze chute/alleyway platform, load bars, EID reader, and scale head. It is important for each of these elements to be used correctly in order for the most accurate results.

The Stocker Scenario Now, the question that still lies is “Why Weigh?” While there are several benefits that come into play, the three main ones for

stocker operators include monitoring animal priate stock rates can be assisted by weighing performance, improving animal health, and the herd. There are several traits that can be forecasting optimum time to sell cattle. managed when cattle are weighed. Breed, Monitoring animal performance is crucial color, frame, average daily gain, muscling, when it comes to how much the cattle are preconditioning, sex, and vaccinations can gaining, and this can allow for changes to be be recorded in one sitting when cattle cross made if necessary. the scales, which improves data on the herd When one gets sick, accurate pharmaceu- as a whole. Another reason to weigh your tical dosage is a huge part of beef quality cows and calves is simply for feed. It is estiassurance. It is no surprise that medicine for mated that fertilizer and feed are the biggest your herd can be very costly, but it is crucial cost to the producer. With accurate weights in the management. Having an accurate on hand, over feeding the herd is decreased body weight will allow each dosage to be tremendously which helps save money in the precise for each individual calf. This not only long run. Williams indicated that weighing is best for the calf, but is also more cost effec- mature cows gives producers the opportutive for the producer. nity to fine tune management strategies Lastly, weighing allows for forecasting the among the herd. optimum time to sell cattle, especially when The improvement of stocking rate can be cattle are contracted to sell for a specific easily fine tuned with weighing cattle. When weight. The producer will be able to meet the “guessing” how much the cows weigh, being contracted weight, and not receive penalties over or under the actual weight can hurt you for cattle that come in overweight. Williams immensely. Whether it be overgrazing or states that regularly weighing cattle aids in understocking the land, the producer will be the timely selection of cattle for sale or cut one way or another. An accurate account slaughter and allows cattlemen to make sure of pounds per acre makes management decipenalties will not occur. sions easier when it comes to stocking rates.

Inaccurate weights makes it extremely diffiCow Calf Producers cult to know if the pasture is able to efficiently When it comes to cow/calf operators, continued on page 34 >> record keeping, accurate feeding and appro-

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Featuring: Heavy Equipment, Farm Equipment, Trucks, Trailers, ATVs, Agricultural Equipment, Attachments, and much more.

We are now accepting consignments for this auction. Contact one of our salesmen ...

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Check out our website for more info and upcoming auctions!

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Don’t skimp on the paper.

Not all “Angus” bulls are REGISTERED Angus bulls.

Having quality paper is vital... for you and your bulls. There are a lot of Angus bulls on the market, but not all are backed by the power of 80 million datapoints and a registration paper.

Invest wisely in a registered Angus bull.

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ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALES, INC. & ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION TRUCKING, INC.

900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041 Roswell, New Mexico 88201 575/622-5580 www.roswelllivestockauction.com CATTLE SALES: MONDAYS HORSE SALES

BENNY WOOTON CELL 575/626-4754 SMILEY WOOTON CELL 575/626-6253 Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Livestock New Mexico Receiving Stations need to call our toll-free number for a Transportation Permit number before leaving home.

The Hauling Permit number 1-800-748-1541 is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Trucks are available 7 days a week / 24 hours a day

Roswell livestock Auction Receiving stAtions LORDSBURG, NM 20 Bar Livestock Highway #90 at NM #3 – East side of highway. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. Truck leaves Lordsburg on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

(MST) Smiley Wooton, 575/622-5580 office, 575/6266253 cell.

PECOS, TX Jason Heritage is now receiving cattle every Sunday. For information to unload contact Jason Heritage 575/8409544 or Smiley Wooton 575/626-6253. NO PRIOR PERMITS REQUIRED. Trucks leave Sunday at 4:00 p.m.

(CST) VAN HORN, TX 800 West 2nd, 5 blocks west of Courthouse. Bob Kinford, 432/284-1553. Trucks leave 1st & 3rd Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (CST) MORIARTY, NM Two blocks east and one block south of Tillery Chevrolet.

Smiley Wooton 575/622-5580 office, 575/626-6253 mobile. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (MST) SAN ANTONIO, NM River Cattle Co. Nine miles east of San Antonio on U.S. 380.

Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month.

Michael Taylor 575/418-7398. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (MST)

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DOL Announces Final Rule to H-2A Visa Program

NEWS UPDATE

by Labradoodle Bennington, III

by Kate Gibson, meatingplace.com

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he U.S. Department of Labor announced in early October a final rule to the H-2A visa program, which allows employers to use foreign agricultural workers to address temporary labor needs.

Among other things, the new rule improves safety and health protections for workers housed in rental or pubic facilities, and modernizes the means for determining the prevailing wage, according to the DOL. “By improving H-2A program regulations, we are strengthening work protections, meeting our core mission,” Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said in a statement.

The new rule does not address calls to expand the number of workers allowed, with the DOL indicating that would have to be determined by Congress.

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has longed pushed for an expansion of the H-2A visa program to include year-round agricultural workers, including packing plant employees. The visa had only allowed for temporary, seasonal farm workers.

Amid labor shortages throughout the meat industry, the NPPC has also advocated for providing a pathway to legal status for foreign-born agricultural workers already in the U.S. “We do not plan on issuing a statement at this time,” an NPPC spokesperson told meatingplace in an email.

The rule will be published in the federal register becomes effective on November 14.

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Cattle Growers’ and Purina Mills Scholarship Announced

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urina Mills and the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee (YCLC) is proud to announce there will be two Purina Mills $1,000 scholarships and two YCLC $500 scholarships presented during the 2022 Joint Stockmen’s Convention.

“Enabling agricultural students to obtain education they may not otherwise have access to keeps our industry strong,” said Bronson Corn, President-Elect NMCGA. “We appreciate the coordinated effort between Purina Mills and our Allied Industries Committee in making these funds available to deserving students.

The two $1,000 Purina Mills scholarships will be awarded to a New Mexico student who is a member of the NMCGA, the New Mexico Junior Cattle Growers’ Association, or the child of an NMCGA member. Graduating high school seniors, and college freshmen, sophomores and juniors in good academic standing are eligible to apply for the award. In addition, the Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee and the Allied Industries Committee will also be presenting two $500 scholarships – one to a high school senior and one to a continuing college student.

The four scholarships will be presented to the top applicants during the Joint Stockmen’s Convention slated for December 14-17, 2022 at Hotel Albuquerque Old Town in Albuquerque. All applications must be submitted by November 22, 2022. For scholarship application please visit www. nmagriculture.org, call the NMCGA office at 505/247-0584 or email taylor@nmagriculture.org.

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Fake Meat Company ‘Beyond Meat’ Announces Mass Layoffs, Departure of 3 Executives

by Abby Liebing, The Western Journal

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lant-based meat-substitute manufacturer Beyond Meat has announced a new round of layoffs in the wake of declining sales, according to news reports.

Several top executives have also left the company, including Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey, who was suspended in September after reportedly biting a man’s nose and threatening that he would kill him.

The new cuts come only two months after the company laid off about 40 of its 1,100 workers in August, Bloomberg reported. The news outlet added it is “unclear” how many people will be let go in this new round of layoffs.

“The onetime Wall Street darling faces mounting challenges as rising inf lation drives consumers toward less-expensive animal proteins and competition intensifies,” Bloomberg reported.

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“Major fast-food partnerships have failed This comes after Philip Hardin’s step to gain traction, and the company has strug- down from the role, the regulatory filing gled to ramp up production.” revealed.

The most notable executive to leave the The company is also eliminating the posicompany was Ramsey, who was suspended tion held by Deanne Jurgens, the global chief in September after he was arrested for growth officer and president of North allegedly biting a man’s nose after a college America, the Journal reported. football game in Arkansas, CNBC News The layoffs and firings are part of Beyond reported.

Meat’s plan to cut costs by reducing its total Ramsey reportedly assaulted a driver in employment by about 20 percent, the Journal a parking garage in Fayetville, Arkansas, added. after the driver hit the front tire of Ramsey’s The company announced that it is hoping car. that planned cutbacks will save about $39 Ramsey then allegedly punched through million in operational costs. the back windshield of the other driver’s However, even with these measures taken, Subaru, punched and bit the driver, “ripping the company is still fighting falling stock the flesh on the tip of the nose,” and threat- prices. ened to kill him, according to what the The Wall Street Journal reported that victim and a witness told the police, CNBC Beyond Meat’s stock fell about 4.8 percent on reported. the morning of October 14.

Beyond Meat then announced Ramsey Overall, Bloomberg reported that meat was leaving the company as of October 14, alternative products have been struggling in according to a regulatory filing from the the market. company.

In the 12 months since October 2021, the Along with Ramsey, the company also sales of refrigerated meat alternatives plumannounced that the vice president of its meted about 11 percent, Bloomberg reported. financial planning and analysis of investor “Beyond Meat-branded sausage substirelations, Lubi Kutua, would be taking over tutes fell 19 percent in the period, while the as the chief financial officer, the Wall Street company’s plant-based patties dropped 27 Journal reported. percent,” Bloomberg added.

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Impossible Foods to Cut Workforce

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ollowing a recent change in founder Pat Brown’s role within the company, Impossible Foods is reorganizing its structure, dismissing about six percent of its 800-person workforce.

As reported by Bloomberg, CEO Peter McGuinness sent a memo to employees saying the reorganization has been in the works for two months, and that the new structure has “created clear supply-and-demand functions” and is focused on research and development.

“We’ve made the very difficult decision to eliminate certain roles that have become

redundant to others in the organization or that are no longer aligned with our core business priorities,” McGuinness said. Affected workers were to be notified.

Severed employees, according to the memo, will receive at least 12 weeks of salary plus an additional week for each year of tenure at Impossible. They’ll also receive a one-year extension for exercising stock options at the company.

While Impossible has said its experiencing sales growth, the plant-based meat sector as a whole has cooled recently due in large part to high inflation and the cost of plantbased foods compared to traditional meat.

As growth in the plant-based meat space has slowed, many companies have been re-configuring their business plans. Recently JBS shuttered Planterra, and Motif Food-

works and Maple Leaf Foods’ Greenleaf Foods have both recently cut employees.

Brown stepped down as CEO in March, after leading the company for 11 years.

McGuinness took over as CEO from yogurt maker Chobani Inc., where he had been chief operating officer.

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the island known as Martha’s Vineyard. It is United States illegally. located 7 mi les of f t he coast of I’m sure they would get the $77,370 per Massachusetts. year plus the 2,350 square foot house. It looks That’s about 60 head per farm which to me like the genius of Governor DeSantis probably requires a retired cowboy to main- was putting them in a place where they could tain each ranch of 60 head. He would prosper. probably get bored with that, but their After all that, I just got word that the citcowboys are also required to help give tours izens of Martha’s Vineyard threw them out. on these ranches.

Dukes County Massachusetts should be I am certain the job requires a cowboy ashamed of themselves. They shipped the with patience to answer questions from igno- illegals off the island to the Joint Base Camp rant tourists. Tell me if I’m wrong, but I have at Cape Cod. his article has been tough to write as it’s never seen one of those. The good thing Stop and think about it. There are 17,000 been difficult to nail down facts. In about this gig is that the average income year-round residents. There are 17,800 other words, private citizens, and gov- there is $77,370 per year. homes, 63 percent of homes are owned by ernment sources agree on nothing.

That’s a pretty good wage for a retired seasonal residents, meaning they are only According to the latest statistics private cowboy. The average price of a home there is there for the summer. citizens would prove to be right about 85 $2,800,000. Martha’s Vineyard is the third Get this, during the summer the island percent of the time because they are living it, largest island on the east coast at 97 square population explodes to 200,000. Are you so I will go with them. I will try and explain miles and a very expensive place to live. telling me that they could not accommodate to you what happened when DeSantis AirI am also aware there are lots of other 50 illegal immigrants? lines landed on Martha’s Vineyard with 50 farm animals on the island as well, such as Obviously, the residents of Martha’s illegal aliens from Venezuela and Peru. sheep, alpacas, chickens, and so on. You Vineyard are not very friendly to you unless My guess is that Florida Governor DeSan- know a retired cowboy would never take care you can spend some bucks with them. Now tis was trying hard to help those ranchers up of those other animals so don’t those illegal don’t quote me on this, but I heard that Presthere as he thought they were short on help, immigrants sound perfect for that? ident Obama has an extra empty house on and this would help the illegals get good Besides, cowboys are used to working Martha’s Vineyard. paying jobs at the same time. with illegals as they have for years, and most Heck that could have held at least 10 of The information that I got, is that there speak pretty good Spanish slang. This is a them right there. are now 2,280 head of cattle on 38 farms on great deal for those folks that entered the I remember him saying during his presidential campaign that he wanted to be President to all the people. I would have expected more from the former President.

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Healthy Soil Program Awards $1.1 million in Funding for 51 Projects

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Enacted by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2019, the Healthy Soil Act aims to promote and support farming and ranching systems and other forms of land management that increase soil organic matter, aggregate stability, microbiology and water retention to improve the state’s soil health, yield and profitability. In the program’s pilot year – fiscal year 2020 – NMDA awarded funding to 26 on-the-ground projects in the amount of $178,000. NMDA awarded funding to 19 on-the-ground projects in the amount of $237,000 in fiscal year 2021 and 17 on-the-

ground projects in the amount of $185,000 in fiscal year 2022.

“The projects funded by this program will greatly benefit New Mexico agriculture as a whole,” said New Mexico Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte. “We have doubled the number of projects funded in the past, and it’s exciting to learn about all of the awardees’ innovative approaches to improve soil health.”

Individual applicants include farmers, ranchers and other land managers, as well as businesses and nonprofits engaged in farming, ranching or other forms of land management. Eligible entities are defined in the 2019 Healthy Soil Act as “local governmental [entities] with proven land management capacity to support healthy soil” and include pueblos, tribes, and nations; land grants; acequias; soil and water conservation districts (SWCDs); and New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) Cooperative Extension Service.

One of the Individual Applicants, Regeneration Farm and Toots’ Shady Grove Orchard, will implement an intra-city project, planting cover crops and creating pollinator habitat borders on three acres of an overworked plot made up of a fallow field and an orchard.

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Dair Obenshain, farm manager of Regeneration Farm and Toots’ Shady Grove Orchard, hopes to regenerate healthy soil microbial and plant communities with funding from the Healthy Soil Program.

“When I heard about the Healthy Soil Program grant, I was amazed and thrilled,” said Obenshain. Here were people offering support for just what I was hoping to do for our family land! The lovely thing about the grant is that the program specifically supports the practices that are hard to find the wherewithal and the faith to do: the cover crops, pollinators and other practices that don’t immediately result in a cash return.

Even if farmers are committed to rebuilding their soil, it’s hard to commit cash and valuable field space to such a long-term investment.

“This year, everything that we plant with Healthy Soil Program support will be returned to the soil. Rebuilding the soil can be a slow process, but hopefully by jumpstarting things with compost and carefully tending the process – keeping it all covered and moist – we will be on our way to converting these fallow, barren fields into oases, with, well, something for everyone: a healthy community below the soil for the roots, microbes and earthworms, and a healthy community above the soil line of plants, pollinators, birds, lizards, toads, snakes, livestock and people! With time, I hope that Regeneration Farm will always have areas that are devoted to rebuilding the soil, rotating with areas that provide sustenance for all of us.”

Included in the Eligible Entities projects are the Pueblo of Santa Ana and Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. The Pueblo of Santa Ana plans to treat 9-and-a-half acres of degraded forest by composting onsite with woods chips and reseeding with native species. Nathan Schroeder, Pueblo of Santa Ana Restoration Division Manager, said the project is a proof of concept.

“We are evaluating composting mastication chips at the treatment site and using that created compost in the revegetation efforts of the Pueblo’s bosque,” said Schroeder. “My colleagues and I are interested in the final result. A treatment prescription of this type could change the way we treat dead and downed fuels in the future.”

The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District will work with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish to develop short and long-term soil health strategies that help farmers and irrigators manage salt-affected soils in the Middle Rio Grande.

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“Through this project, we also look forward to connecting how past indigenous and Hispanic communities lived on and around these salt-affected soil landscapes and what we might glean from their use and management of these lands,” said Coughlin.

“Salt played an important role in New Mexico’s history as it helped support several trade routes and missions during the early 17th and 18th centuries.

“During our landowner workshops, we will learn about the rich salt history of the area from regional archaeologists and historians. Managing for salts during our current drought conditions is a difficult job. By integrating a historical perspective on soil management, we hope to instill a more profound appreciation for what it takes to grow and sustain life in these sometimes hostile, arid environments.”

Secretary Witte said drought affects all agriculturalists in the state, and he encourages more people to apply for Healthy Soil Program funding when future grant application periods open.

“Healthy soil is more resilient to drought, and I hope more farmers, ranchers, dairy producers and other land managers are inspired to apply for this funding in the future,” he said.

Grant funding from the Healthy Soil Program may be used for on-the-ground projects in New Mexico that focus on one or more of five basic soil health principles: keeping the soil covered; minimizing soil disturbance on cropland; maximizing biodiversity; maintaining a living root; and integrating animals into land management.

For more information and to subscribe to program updates, visit the NMDA Healthy Soil Program web page at: https://nmdeptag. n msu.edu / hea lt hy-soi l-prog ra m. html.

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Going Green Requires Using Fossil Fuels, says New Study

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First, uniquely among energy sources, fossil fuel use emits CO2, which is the ultimate source of the elemental building block, carbon, found in all carbon-based life, i.e., almost all life on Earth.”

These two sentences, which run counter to everything you may have heard about the “climate crisis” said to be plaguing the planet, introduce a provocative new study by Indur Goklany, Ph. D. A widely published author and longtime researcher into a variety of scientific fields, Goklany strips carbon dioxide of its status as an environmental villain as decreed by modern-day climate orthodoxy. He also shows that rising atmospheric levels of CO2, including those produced by fossil fuels, are highly beneficial to biodiversity.

Goklany’s study, “Fossil Fuels are the Greenest Energy Sources,” was published by the CO2 Coalition, an Arlington, Va.-based organization dedicated to enlightening the public on the role carbon dioxide plays in biodiversity.

“The increased amplitude of the seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO2 and satellite-borne instrumentation to measure solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from plants provide direct evidence that global photosynthetic activity (or Gross Primary Production, GPP, a measure of the change in global biomass) increased over the past several decades,” Goklany writes. “Observed variations of atmospheric CO2 over the past two centuries are consistent with increased primary productivity. Other satellite studies also show that the earth has been greening continually in recent decades.”

Higher CO2 Levels, Higher Food Production “Second, fossil fuel-dependent technologies have increased agricultural yields directly or indirectly by at least 167 percent.

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points out. “This has enabled human beings to meet their demand for food using less cropland, which then spares land for the rest of nature. Thus, in the absence of fossil fuels, at least 167 percent of more land would have to be cultivated to maintain global food production at the current level. That would be the equivalent to increasing current cropland from 12.2 percent of global land area (GLA) to 32.7 percent. But diversion of habitat (land) to agriculture is already deemed to be the greatest threat to global biodiversity. Fossil fuels have, therefore, increased productivity of already converted habitat, they have forestalled conversion of at least an additional 20.4 percent of GLA “Consequently, the world sustains 10 times more people today (7.79 billion) than at the start of the Industrial Revolution (786 million in 1750), while supporting more biomass,” Goklany adds.

Restricting, much less lowering, atmospheric levels of CO2 through politically fashionable “decarbonization” could jeopardize the world’s food supply even more than Goklany forecasts. As noted many years ago

by Dennis Avery (1936-2020), longtime Director of Global Food Studies at the Hudson Institute, most of the world’s best cropland is already under cultivation. What is left is marginal, at best. By reducing fossil fuels’ contribution to atmospheric CO2 (plant food), agricultural productivity on the best cropland would decline, forcing farmers the world over to put less-fertile soil under cultivation, with the resulting crops also suffering from lack of CO2. And the additional land brought under cultivation would no longer be available to wildlife.

When comparing the impacts of various energy options on habitat, “we should consider the physical footprint needed to produce an equivalent amount of energy via each option (solar, wind, and various fossil fuels).” Goklany notes. “Second, for wind and solar to be viable substitutes for fossil fuels, they should be coupled with batteries to solve their intermittency problem which requires substantial amounts of metals and other materials that must be mined, smelted, and refined which necessarily would disturb the land.”

Greening of the Earth Goklany cites a 2016 study based on satellite data that found that from 1982 – 2009, 25 – 50 percent of global vegetated area had become greener while 4 percent had become browner. “They attributed 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization from emissions from fossil fuel combustion (which increases

photosynthesis and water use efficiency, (WEU) of most vegetation, 9 percent to nitrogen deposition) also from the use of fossil-fuel derived fertilizers, 8 percent to climate change, and 4 percent to land use change. The first three, responsible cumulatively for 87 percent of the greening, are related to the use of fossil fuels,” Goklany points out.

By contrast, intermittent and land-intensive wind and solar power contribute nothing to agricultural productivity while leaving behind an environmental footprint that dwarfs that of fossil fuels. Goklany cites a 2022 International Energy Agency report that notes “that a typical electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires nine time more mineral resources than a natural gas-fired power plant, while offshore wind plants requite fifteen times as much as natural gas.”

The war on atmospheric CO2 is, among other things, a war on global food production.

Bonner R. Cohen, Ph.D. (bcohen@nationalcenter.org) is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research.

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eyes. Four more horses were found with severe bullet wounds, including to the face and abdomen. Witnesses are reporting that at least 15 more members of the herd are missing and feared injured or killed. The horses were members of the Alpine herd, which has been targeted for nimal Wellness Action and the removal by the Forest Service, which has Center for A Humane Economy are already trapped and captured 20 of the offering a reward of up to $5,000 horses who, due to their unprotected for information leading to the identifica- status, are at risk of being sold to kill tion, arrest and conviction of the person buyers for slaughter in Mexican or Canaor persons responsible for shooting and dian meat plants. killing at least 35 wild horses and seriThe Investigation: The case is being ously injuring at least four others in the investigated by the State Veterinarian and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Arizona Department of Agriculture, Alpine, Arizona, on or about Monday, which are conducting necropsies on the October 3, 2022. The reward is in addition dead horses. Updates on the case can be to an offer of $10,000 from American found on the Facebook page for the Wild Horse Campaign and another Alpine Wild Horse Advocates. Organizers $10,000 from the Salt River Wild Horse have set a goal of a reward fund of at least Management Group. $40,000.

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New Mexico Adopts Rule to Protect Cultural Sites

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rule aimed at protecting resources with cultural and historical significance on state lands — following what Indigenous advocates have described as decades of harmful intrusion on their ancestral sites — will go into effect December 1.

The State Land Office’s new rule will require anyone planning a soil-disturbing project in the agency’s jurisdiction to conduct an archaeological survey to ensure the work won’t damage what could be deemed a cultural property.

Fossil fuel extraction, mining, agriculture and other industries that use state lands will be affected when it comes to activities such as drilling wells, laying pipelines, excavating ore and building roads.

When State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard first proposed the rule last year, she said it was important to require the surveys, rather than simply recommend-

ing them, as her predecessor had done. ture, such as a pipeline, would require an “The previous approach to cultural prop- archaeological survey, but the final version erties on trust lands was, ‘If you break it, you makes clear the rule would not apply to buy it,’ and that simply isn’t good enough,” upgrades or repairs of existing infrastrucGarcia Richard said in a statement. “Cultural ture, said Loren Patterson, president of the properties found on state trust lands are very New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. much a part of New Mexico’s story, and it is “Our question always was can we maintain my duty to protect these resources as much what already exists,” Patterson said, “so we as the land itself.” can maintain our business and still protect The rule will give her staff the tools and those cultural areas that are unknown yet.” authority to ensure parcels are thoroughly It wouldn’t have been reasonable to penalvetted for cultural properties to avoid poten- ize ranchers for repairing infrastructure they tial harm, which could be irreparable, she inherited, Patterson said. He commended said. the Land Office for working with the assoThe input her agency received from tribes ciation to address their concerns. and pueblos was essential in crafting the rule, As for ranchers having to do a survey if she added. they extend a fence or water pipe, Patterson Cultural properties can be structures, said: “It’s something we have to live with, but sites, objects or resources having historic, it’s something we can swallow.” archaeological, scientific, architectural or In a statement, the New Mexico Oil & Gas some other significance, according to the Association said the rule may not be a major agency’s webpage. change from what the industry has been They include properties eligible for a state doing, adding it looks forward to working register or the National Register of Historic with the State Land Office.

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“The oil and gas industry in New Mexico Groups representing the state’s fossil fuel has been conducting archaeological investiand agricultural industries had expressed gations prior to surface disturbances for some misgivings about the rule. many years in order to protect significant The proposed rule initially was murky on historical resources. This new rule by the whether replacing or repairing infrastruc- State Land Office seems to be in line with

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protocols that have been in place on other least 30 percent of all lands in New Mexico lands where oil and gas development opporby 2030, with an additional 20 percent of lands designated as climate stabilization tunities exist,” association spokesman Joe areas. Benefits include supporting our Vigil said.

Officials with the Independent Petroleum economy, sustaining traditional ways of life, Association of New Mexico did not respond providing drinking water, ensuring food to a request for comment. security, preserving biodiversity, and providing recreational opportunities for all New Indigenous representatives, including Mexicans. with the All Pueblo Council of Governors, who had expressed strong support for the New Mexico 30 by 30 Advisory Committee “We welcome public input that will help rule, also couldn’t be reached. us identify conserved lands and climate staannounces second public engagement survey Indigenous leaders complained that carebilization areas,” said Committee Chair and he New Mexico 30 x 30 Advisory Com- Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources less activity had degraded cultural sites, and mittee has announced a public Request Department Secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst. that tribes often were powerless to do anyfor Information (RFI) to gather broad “This year, one of the most important tasks thing because the damage occurred on input on the conservation activities most before the 30 by 30 Committee is to develop public lands outside their jurisdiction.

The state has identified 11,900 archaeo- important to New Mexicans. The RFI solicits statewide definitions that will be used to logical sites on its lands, including ancient ideas for a “uniquely New Mexico” vision for measure progress and help identify conserIndigenous hunting grounds that date back conservation. vation opportunities that make the most In August 2021 Governor Michelle Lujan sense for New Mexico.”

13,000 years. Among those sites, it has found Grisham signed Executive Order 2021-052 18 that have been damaged.

Following the RFI, the Committee will Anyone who engages in soil-disturbing (E.O.), Protecting New Mexico’s Lands, release draft definitions and hold a separate activity without doing a proper survey must Watersheds, Wildlife, and Natural Heritage. public comment period before proposing pay for assessing and fixing the damage, The E.O. established the 30 by 30 Advisory final definitions in its Annual Report, to be according to the rule. The land commis- Committee, comprised of seven state agen- released in December. sioner can seek twice the cost of restoring cies and the State Land Office.

All are welcome to respond to the RFI by Agencies are directed to individually filling out a survey using the following link: and stabilizing the site, as allowed under review and utilize existing programs, https://arcg.is/1TqynW0. Responses will be state laws protecting cultural properties.

The State Land Office doesn’t have the funding, and authorities to reach the ambi- most helpful if submitted by November 15, power to issue fines and instead will seek tious conservation targets of conserving at 2022. judgments in court.

If a business willfully damages a cultural site, this action can be deemed criminal and the land commissioner can refer the matter to the state attorney general or a prosecutor.

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Meat Performance at Retail Strengthens in September

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percent of households who are earning less than $25,000 annually ate at restaurants at least once in September.

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The September Marketplace Life remained home-centric in late summer, with an estimated 78 percent of all meal occasions being prepared at home, according to the September IRI primary shopper survey. While this is down 10 points from the very start of the pandemic, the high inf lationary levels are keeping the food dollar largely at retail. Consumers are still ordering restaurant meals but not as often as before, plus they are making changes to what they order with an eye on the check total.

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Takeout continues to be big, with 54 percent having ordered meals to go in September. Half of American households have eaten restaurant food on premise. Additionally, 18 percent have ordered from a restaurant for home delivery (down 2 points from August). Home delivery is much more popular among high-income households as well as the youngest shoppers. For October, 54 percent of consumers expect they will eat out as often, while 24 percent believe they will cut back on restaurant spending further.

When purchasing groceries, 83 percent of consumers shopped in person, down from 85 percent in August. Online shopping was near equally divided between click-and-collect (10 percent) and home delivery (8 percent).

Shoppers are not expecting a major

change in their in-person versus online shopping: 4 percent expect they will buy all groceries online in the next few weeks and months, while 68 percent believe they will buy all groceries in person. The estimates among the remaining 28 percent range from expecting to buy most groceries (8 percent) to only some (7 percent) online. ЇЇ

Spending continues to be affected by out-of-stocks, with 38 percent of shoppers mentioning examples of items they meant to buy but were unavailable, ranging from carbonated drinks to milk, canned goods, eggs and chicken. This leads to shoppers substituting, switching stores or abandoning the intended purchases altogether — all affecting sales. At the same time, when items are available for purchase, 40 percent of shoppers stock up on staples out of concern for rising prices or the item being unavailable next time they shop.

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In line with reality, price perceptions remain high with 94 percent believing grocery prices are somewhat or a lot more than before. Equally as many are concerned about food inflation. Eight in 10 shoppers (78 percent) are making changes to their shopping choices due to increased prices. The most popular money-saving measures are looking for sales/deals more often (49 percent), cutting back on non-essentials (43 percent), looking for coupons (30 percent) and buying store-brand items more often (28 percent). Despite the high gasoline prices, 15 percent switched some of their shopping to a lower-cost retailer and/or visit multiple stores to get the best deals. This cherry-picking behavior may be driven by 55 percent of consumers reporting that fewer of the items they are looking for are on sale and 44 percent feel that items are not discounted as much as they used to be.

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

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Epidermal Cowboys

he most influential person in my life should look and Larry didn’t look like that. was my grandpa and I found it very He wore his hair a little longer, looked like comforting recently when I was told I he just stepped off a Hollywood film set and turned out to be just like him. After my wore his pants so tight you could count the grandmother rodeo was my grandpa’s favor- change in his pockets. In other words, he was ite thing, so much so that he started an RCA no Gene Rambo. And guys like Gene never (forerunner to the PRCA) rodeo in our town spent their days off in western wear stores. I and with the proceeds bought land for a big don’t know if Gene Rambo was ever in a sports park that now bears his name. “changing room” in his life. Let’s just say that My grandpa’s favorite rodeo cowboy was he was a man of few fashion surprises.

Gene Rambo and he told me countless times But then Gene Rambo never appeared in that when Gene came to town for the rodeo movies, released a record with Warner he stayed in grandpa’s “bunkhouse”, which Brothers or signed big dollar deals with boot was just a big building behind grandpa’s and hat labels that carried his name like house for cowboys to stay.

Larry did. And there was some resistance The one thing I did in my life that most amongst old-timers because Larry didn’t pleased my grandpa was I became friends exactly come from rodeo country. I mean, with Gene. I wrote a story one time about for gosh sakes he was born in Salem, Oregon!

Gene’s setup where he could gather a single That’s one of the reasons I liked Larry, he was animal from the big country he ran in, take more living, breathing proof that the far west it to the corrals and lock the animal in the could produce championship cowboys too. squeeze all by himself without getting off his horse through the use cowboy engineering that included several ropes and pulleys. I wrote that Gene’s commercial cattle were so good other cattlemen bought his crossbred calves to use as herd bulls.

My grandpa let me know he thought that s t or y w a s my g re at e s t l it e r a r y accomplishment.

Another thing my grandpa always told me about Gene was that he always wore a cowboy tuxedo: clean Levis and a white shirt. And he competed across the board, entering every event and I still have the entry sheets to prove it.

Gene competed at a time when other contestants looked like they shopped at Goodwill, picked out the cleanest shirt in the dirty clothes hamper and threw their clothes on with a pitchfork. So my grandpa didn’t know how to take my next rodeo hero, Larry Mahan.

For you youngsters, Larry Mahan was one of the greatest rodeo cowboys to ever straddle a horse. He won six All Around Cowboy awards and two bull riding championships riding in all three rough stock events. “Larry literally could ride anything that wore hair.” But old-timers like grandpa didn’t know how to take Larry because they had preconceived notions of how a cowboy

And did Larry have charisma! I got to see this from a front row seat one time when he and Les Vogt invited my wife and I to a horse camp near my house to sit around a campfire singing old cowboy songs along with an original member of the Sons of the Pioneers.

Now I’m old and I can understand how my grandpa felt about guys like Larry Mahan.

I was devastated the first time I saw one of my basketball heroes, Michael Jordan, wearing a diamond earring. And I was just getting used to guys wearing women’s jewelry when along came tattoos. Watching a rodeo recently I saw a “tat” wink at me from the neck of a bull rider and I have a feeling there’s a lot more of those than I’d like to think.

But I’ve learned my lesson. People with style like Larry are “trendsetters” and it’s because of them we now have blunt toed cowboy boots, “formal wear” that includes shirts with advertising embroidered all over them, and cowboys with tattoos of ex-girlfriend’s names they’ve tried desperately to have erased.

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Transforming Challenges Into Opportunity

Welcome to the

2022

Joint Stockmen’s Convention Dear Members, Supporters & Friends!

This year has been challenging to say the least, from our record setting wildfires followed shortly by devastating flooding, to direct attacks on our industry with updates to the wolf recovery program and the government slaughter of estray cattle in the Gila Wilderness. Not to mention the 30x30 Land Grab push from the current administration or the threat of our own representatives in D.C. bringing about ‘Recovering Americans Wildlife Act’. If it feels like our industry is under attack, it’s because it is. Appropriately, this year’s convention theme is Transforming Challenges into Opportunity. It seems we are constantly facing challenges of some measure, yet together we stand firm to not only overcome but make our agricultural community better.

We have been working to put together programs and general sessions packed with educational and innovative topics highlighting some of the latest industry enhancements. You are guaranteed to hear and see new ideas that will have a profound and profitable impact on your ranching operation and New Mexico. It is important we continue to protect our traditions and practices in agriculture through the management of legislation, regulatory and policy issues. Putting our best foot forward for the next generation, equipping them with the tools and knowledge to protect their way of life. Together, we can succeed working collectively as natural resource stewards to advance the viability of production agriculture.

Convention presenters will include: Jay Hill – Hill Farms as the key note speaker during Friday Awards Luncheon, the Property Rights General Session features Margaret Byfield with American Stewards of Liberty and Bureau of Land Management State Director Melanie Barnes on Thursday afternoon. Dr. Kate Ziegler will be discussing “Implications of Long-Term Drought on Water Resources” at Cattleman’s College, and Dr. Casey Spackman with Greg Alpers will address the “Implications of Long- Term Drought on Forage Resources.” You can also expect status updates on 2023 Top Legislative Priorities: property taxes, private property rights and wildlife issues. The convention will round out with our 2022 Legacy Awards Dinner and Dance with music by the Coby Carter Band, a young talent that is sure to wear down the soles in your boots!

We look forward to seeing you all in December,

Loren Patterson

Loren Patterson, President, NMCGA

Jacinda Price Jacinda Price, President, N.M. CowBelles

Sybrand Vander Dussen,

Sybrand Vander Dussen, President, DPNM

Bebo Lee

Bebo Lee, President, NMFLC

James Duffy

James Duffy, President, NMWGI

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Tentative Event Schedule

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

SCHEDULE CONTINUED...

6:00a - 8:00a

Executive Committee Breakfast

5:00p - 6:30p NM Hereford Assn Meeting

9:00a - 2:00p

Trade Show Set-up

5:15p – 6:00p NMCGA Membership Committee 6:00p – 7:00p Ag Leadership Alumni Reception

8:00a – 5:00p

Registration

8:00a - 4:00p

Range Improvement Task Force

9:00a - 4:30p

Cattlemen’s College

Sponsors - Zoetis & Corteva Agriscience

Sponsors - NMCGA, NMWGI, NMFLC, DPNM, NMFLB

6:30p – 10:00p Melody Christmas Sponsor - Multimin USA, Inc.

9:00a – 5:00p

New Mexico Beef Council

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2022

10:30a – 5:00p

Dairy Producers of NM Board

6:30a - 8:00a

NMCGA Nominating Committee

7:00a - 5:00p

Children’s Lounge

........................ Meeting 1:00p - 5:00p

New Mexico Livestock Board

4:00p – 6:00p

Coalition of Counties Meeting

7:00a - 11:30a

5:00p - 5:30p

NMCGA Past President's Meeting

....................... Membership Meeting, Awards

5:30p - 7:00p

Trade Show Reception

....................... & Officer Installation

Sponsors - NM Beef Council & Trade Show Exhibitors

7:00p - 9:00p

Hospitality Hour

Sponsor - Allied Industries Committee

Sponsor - New Mexico Stockman Magazine

NM CowBelles General

8:00a - 5:00p

Registration

8:00a- 12:00p

Trade Show

8:00a - 10:00a NATURAL RESOURCES GENERAL

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022

....................... SESSION

6:30a - 7:45a

NMCGA Board Breakfast

9:00a – 11:00a

Silent Auction

Sponsor - Clovis Livestock Auction

9:00a – 11:00a

Cattlegrowers’ Foundation

7:45a - 8:15a

NMCGA Finance Committee

....................... Meeting

8:15a- 5:00p

Children’s Lounge

9:45a – 11:00a

Sponsor - New Mexico Stockman Magazine

NMCGA Young Cattlemen’s

....................... Committee

8:00a - 5:00p

Registration

10:10a - 11:40a POLICY & RESOLUTION

8:00a - 5:00p

Trade Show

....................... SESSION

8:00a - 10:00a

AG POLICY GENERAL SESSION

9:00a – 5:00p

Silent Auction

10:00a – 11:00a

Scrapie Task Force Meeting

10:10a - 11:40a

POLICY & RESOLUTION SESSION

NMCGA Promotion & Marketing Committee NMCGA Theft & Health Committee NMCGA Research & Improvement Committee

11:45a- 1:15p

Family Luncheon

Sponsor - Farm Credit of New Mexico

Joint Wildlife Committee NMCGA Oil & Gas Committee NMCGA Water Committee

10:30a – 11:15a

Feeder Committee

11:00a – 11:45a

NMCGA Legislative Committee

11:45a - 12:00p NMCGA Resolutions Committee 11:45a - 1:00p

Stockmen’s Award Luncheon

Sponsors - Hi Pro Feeds & Animal Health International

2:15p - 3:00p

NMCGA Board Meeting

1:00p – 5:00p

Tucumcari Bull Test Meeting

3:15p - 5:00p

NMCGA General Membership

1:30p - 3:30p

PROPERTY RIGHTS GENERAL

........................ Meeting

....................... SESSION 3:40p– 5:00p

POLICY & RESOLUTION SESSION

NMCGA Private Property Committee Joint Federal & Trust Lands

3:45p - 4:40p

Allied Industries Committee

4:00p – 5:00p

Cross Cultural Committee

4:00p – 5:30p

NM CowBelles Past President's

5:00p - 5:15p

NMCGA 2023 Board Meeting

6:00p - 7:00p

Attitude Adjustment

7:00p - 12:00a

Legacy Awards Dinner & Dance

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Registration Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________ Spouse or Guest: _______________________________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________ City: _______________________________ State: ____________

Zip: ___________________________________

Phone: ___________________________________ Email: _______________________________________________ Convention Package Options: Registration: Includes Welcome Reception, Thursday Lunch, Melody Christmas, Friday Lunch and Dinner/Dance Second Registration including a Spouse or Guest

Registration w/ Cattleman’s College: Includes Welcome Reception, Thursday Lunch, Melody Christmas, Friday Lunch and Dinner/Dance

$230 $460

$270 $540

Second Registration w/ Cattleman’s College including a Spouse or Guest

SINGLE EVENT Options: Cattlemen’s College

Tickets needed _________

x $65

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Wednesday Welcome Reception

Tickets needed _________

x $50

_________ total

Thursday Family Luncheon

Tickets needed _________

x $65

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Melody Christmas

Tickets needed _________

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Friday Awards Luncheon

Tickets needed _________

x $65

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Legacy Awards Dinner & Dance

Tickets needed _________

x $85

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TOTAL DUE $ _______

The Details

Checks payable to: NMCGA, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194

Early Bird Registration ends December 1, 2022. No refunds. A block of rooms have been reserved at Hotel Albuquerque Old Town for a limited time at $134 plus tax per night. To make room reservations call (505) 843-6300 and mention NMCGA for rate. ** ATTENTION COWBELLES ** CowBelles Breakfast – Pre-Registration: $20 Deadline: December 1, 2022 / Send checks payable to NMCB Stephanie Avent, PO Box 4, Mineral Wells, TX 76068

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NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Who’s Who New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Officers EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Loren Patterson - Corona Bronson Corn – Roswell Joe Culbertson - Amistad Jeff Decker - Lovington Cliff Copeland – Nara Visa Roy Farr – Datil Dave Kenneke – Cimarron Shacey Sullivan – Albuquerque Tom Sidwell – Quay Randell Major - Magdalena

President President-Elect Vice President at Large Southeast Vice President Northeast Vice President Southwest Vice President Northwest Vice President Secretary/Treasurer Past President Past President

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Jeff Bilberry Trent Bilberry Linn Blancett Irvin Boyd Jim Bob Burnett Ron Burnett Michael P. Carrica Mike Casabonne Jim Ross Caviness Jack Chatfield Kim Chesser Blair Clavel Mike Corn Caren Cowan Amanda Culbertson Bruce Davis Linda Davis Joe Delk Matthew Denetclaw Crystal Runyan Diamond Denton Dowell Tracy Drummond Wesley Eaton Alden Elkins Dan Estrada Sage Faulkner Kevin Floyd Wayne Franklin

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High Rolls Grady Carrizozo Datil Rio Rancho Salmon, ID Broadview Cuervo Tucumcari Crownpoint Alamogordo Springer Encino Fort Davis, TX Safford, AZ La Plata Deming Deming Houston Nara Visa Winston Capitan Ute Park Winston Clovis

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John Romero Carlos Salazar Troy Sauble Becky Spindle Casey Spradley Gary Stone Kimberly Stone Jim Thorpe Bernarr Treat Lance Vicente Judy Wallin Dee Wear Kendal Wilson Marshal Wilson Pat Woods

CONTINUED

Albuquerque Medanales Maxwell Moriarty Cuba Weed Capitan Newkirk Roswell Vaughn T or C Hillsboro Carrizozo Mesilla Park Broadview

NON-VOTING MEMBERS

Ryan Perry, Roswell Allied Industries Committee Susan Navarro-Cordova, Albuquerque Allied Industries Committee Dr. Rolando Flores Dean, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at NMSU Jacinda Price, Santa Fe N.M. CowBelles Bob Homer NMCGA Insurance Admin Jim Lyssy Insurance Services of N.M.

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Who ew Mexico Cattle Growers’ N Past Presidents * Deceased *1914-1916 *1916-1918 *1918-1920 *1920-1922 *1922-1924 *1924-1926 *1926-1928 *1928-1930 *1930-1932 *1932-1934 *1934-1936 *1936-1938 *1938-1939 *1939-1941 *1941-1943 *1943-1946 *1946-1948 *1948-1950 *1950-1952 *1952-1954 *1954-1956 *1956-1958

Calvin Glenn Wm. Ray Morely Victor Culberson T.E. Mitchell Hugh L. Hodge C.M. O’Donel Tom P. Talle T.A. Spencer Robert H. Royall Albert K. Mitchell Lee S. Evans A.D. Brownfield Oliver M. Lee Con W. Jackson Tom Clayton E.G. Hayward George A. Godfrey G.W. Evans Roy Forehand Ed Heringa Sherwood Culberson Dick Snyder

Piños Altos Datil Silver City Albert Silver City Bell Ranch Las Vegas Carrizozo Tyrone Albert Marquez Deming Alamogordo Las Vegas Separ Cimarron Animas Magdalena Carlsbad Clayton Lordsburg Clayton

*1958-1960 *1960-1962 *1962-1964 *1964-1966 *1966-1968 *1968-1970 *1970-1972 *1972 -1974 *1974-1976 *1976-1978 *1978-1980 *1980-1982 *1982-1984 1984-1985 *1985-1987 *1987-1989 *1989-1991 1991-1993 1993-1995 1995-1997 1997-1999 *1999-2001 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2007

W.I. Driggers John Stark Will Orndorff J.L. (Les) Davis Noel Rankin W.O. Culbertson, Jr. Reuben E. Pankey Alvin Stockton Charlie T. Lee Albert J. Mitchell Phil Harvey, Sr. Phillip Bidegain Bob Jones Don Hofman Peter T. Mocho W.F. (Dub) Martin H.W. (Bud) Eppers Bill King Wesley Grau Bill Humphries Bob Frost Jimmy R. Bason Phil H. Bidegain Don “Bebo” Lee Bill Sauble

CONTINUED

Santa Rosa Deming Roswell Cimarron Silver City Las Vegas Santa Fe Raton Alamogordo Albert Cave Creek, AZ Tucumcari Crow Flat Tucumcari Belen Santa Fe Roswell Moriarty Grady Tucumcari San Jon Hillsboro Tucumcari Alamogordo Maxwell

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Who 2007-2009 2009-2011 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017 2017-2019 2019-2021

Alisa Ogden Bert Ancell Rex Wilson José Varela Lopez Pat Boone Tom Sidwell Randell Major

1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993

1994 1995 1996

Loving Tucumcari Ancho La Cieneguilla Elida Quay Magdalena

Cattleman of the Year 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972

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

Bell Ranch Lordsburg University Park Grenville Mosquero Las Cruces Deming Animas Clovis Magdalena Laguna Albert Albuquerque San Mateo Newkirk TorC Raton Lordsburg Silver City Las Vegas Animas

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 Frank Dubois Huling “Jupe” Means

CONTINUED

TorC Clovis Cimarron Cimarron Corrales Wagon Mound Lovington Bard Alamogordo Mountainair Clayton Jal Kermit, TX TorC Crow Flat Tucumcari Roswell Tucumcari Cimarron Belen Buena Vista

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Activities Talent showcase, Beef buffet dinner, PLUS live country music featuring “Double Shot”, dancing & lots of Christmas surprises!!

An open invitation to all talented New Mexicans, young or seasoned, to join us and share your special talent whether it is for story telling & poetry, or showing your skill for a musical instrument or vocals, this is your time to SHINE! Surprise us! There is NO COST to participate! Contact Patty ASAP to sign up! Space is limited. Be a part of our Holiday Hoedown and join in on the fun!

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Legacy Awards Dinner & Dance

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Leigh Ann Marez Analyzing Forage Profiles with NMSU Extension Forage Specimens

Brush Control and Forage Management

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Who 1997 Rob Cox 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Organ Bill Humphries Rusty Tinnin Oliver “Sato” Lee Bob and Jane Frost Don Cullum R.C. (Dick) Manning Joe & Vivian Culbertson Jimmy R. Bason Phil H. Bidegan Gretchen Sammis Don “Bebo” Lee Wesley Grau Bill King Bob Ricklefs Bill Sauble Sterling Spencer Alisa Ogden Bert Ancell Rex Wilson Joe Bill Nunn José Varela Lopez Pat Boone Caren Cowan Tom Sidwell

Lindrith Bell Ranch Mountainair San Jon Bakersfield, CA Deming Amistad Hillsboro Tucumcari Cimarron Alamogordo Grady Moriarty Cimarron Springer Carrizozo Loving Wagon Mound Carrizozo Deming La Cieneguilla Elida Albuquerque Quay

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Governor Bruce & Mrs. Alice King Huling “Jupe” Means G.B. Oliver, III George Clark G.X. McSherry Howard Hutchinson Rachel Thomas Dr. Steve England Joan Park Karen Budd-Falen Chuck Stocks Joe Delk Joe Stell Laurie Schneberger Tim Cox Jeff Witte Larry Dominguez Andrea Buzzard Clint Harden Dennise Bridgers New Mexico CowBelles Farm Credit of New Mexico Gordon Meeks Ray Keller Romney Todd

Stanley Buckhorn Alamogordo Albuquerque Deming Glenwood Huachuca City, AZ Edgewood Capitan Cheyenne, Wyoming Albuquerque Mesilla Carlsbad Winston Bloomfield Las Cruces Las Cruces Santa Fe Clovis Rio Rancho

2019 2020 2021

Nick Layman Joe Culbertson Tom Paterson

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Albuquerque Amistad Houston

T he Bud Eppers Memorial “Bud’s Contract” Award Winners

This award is presented by the New Mexico Federal Lands Council 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Frank DuBois John Fowler, Ph.D. Howard Hutchinson Ron White Caren Cowan Karen Budd-Falen Chris Allison Mike Casabonne Lewis Derrick Alice Eppers Nick Ashcroft Dr. Jerry Schickedanz Dr. Sam Smallidge Laura Schneberger Les Owens Jeff Witte Don L. (Bebo) Lee Yvette Herrell

Las Cruces Las Cruces Glenwood Monticello Albuquerque Cheyenne, Wyo. Mesilla Park Hope Artesia Roswell Las Cruces Las Cruces Las Cruces Winston Las Cruces Las Cruces Alamogordo Alamogordo

Bruce and Alice King Service Memorial Award 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012 2013 2014

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Chuck Stocks Albuquerque Frank DuBois Las Cruces Linda Davis Cimarron Timothy Jennings Roswell Andy Nunez Hatch David Abbey Santa Fe New Mexico Department of Agriculture Woods Houghton Carlsbad Donna Irwin Deming Brian Moore Clayton Janet Witte Las Cruces Bill Sauble Maxwell Dina Chacon Reitzel Albuquerque John Wenzel Las Cruces

Green from the Ground Up Award Santa Fe Carlsbad Alto

2019 2020 2021

Sid Goodloe Linda Davis Ron Burnett

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

— Ag Policy Committee THEFT & HEALTH SUB COMMITTEE

Dustin Johnson, Farmington Dan Estrada, Trementina

Chairman Vice Chairman

PROMOTION & MARKETING SUB COMMITTEE

Amanda Culbertson, Amistad

Chairman

RESEARCH & IMPROVEMENT SUB COMMITTEE

Jim Thorpe, Newkirk Leigh Ann Marez, Santa Rosa Sarah McKenzie, Fort Davis, TX

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— Allied Industries Committee Ryan Perry, Roswell Co-Chairman Susan Navarro, Los Lunas Co-Chairman (All Allied Industries members are welcomed and encouraged to vote on this committee.)

— Feeder Committee Lance Vincente, Vaughn Bill King, Moriarty

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— Litigation Committee Alisa Ogden, Chairman Jim Jackson, Vice Chairman Howard Hutchinson Tom Paterson Gayla Thal Bill Sauble Phil H. Bidegain Mike Casabonne

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LEGISLATIVE SUB COMMITTEE

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Chairman Vice Chairman Vice Chairman

— Natural Resources Committee WATER SUB COMMITTEE

Anita Hand, Datil Carlos Salazar, Medanales Casey Spradley, Cuba

Chairman Vice Chairman Vice Chairman

WILDLIFE SUB COMMITTEE

Tom Paterson, Luna Dave Kenneke, Cimarron Wes Eaton, Vado

Chairman Vice Chairman Vice Chairman

ENERGY SUB COMMITTEE

Irvin Boyd, Eunice Jim Bob Burnett, Lake Authur Bill King, Moriarty

Chairman Co-Vice Chairman Co-Vice Chairman

— Nominating Committee Tom Sidwell, Quay Bronson Corn, Roswell All Past Presidents

Chairman Vice Chairman

— Property Committee PRIVATE LANDS SUB COMMITTEE

Loving Salmon, Idaho Glenwood Luna Buena Vista Maxwell Tucumcari Hope

— Membership Relations Committee Marjorie Lantana, Crownpoint Boe Lopez, Springer

Trent Bilberry, Roswell Barbara Corn, Roswell

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Kimberly Stone, Capitan Jeff Bilberry, Roswell

Chairman Vice Chairman

— Federal & Trust Lands Sub Committee John Richardson, Winston Colton Lee, Alamogordo Elena Farr, Datil

Chairman Vice Chairman Vice Chairman

— Taxation & Special Issues Sub Committee Tamara Hurt, Deming Kenneth McKenzie, Encino

Chairman Vice Chairman

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Who Roy Lilly Jim Brown Bill Warbois Denny Gentry Vic Culbertson Al Schneberger Caren Cowan Jonas Moya Shelleen Smith

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ew Mexico Wool N Growers’ Inc. Officers

James Duffey, Roswell Antonio Manzaneres, Tierra Amarilla Shad Cox, Corona Denton Dowell, Clovis Bronson Corn, Roswell

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ew Mexico Wool Growers’ Inc. N Board of Directors Mike Casabonne Jim Cooper Martin Corn Mike Corn Pete Gnatkowski Debbie Jones

Hope Tinnie Roswell Roswell Carrizozo Tatum

New Mexico Wool Growers’ Inc. Honorary Board of Directors John Cooper Alice Eppers Ronnie Merritt

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Brangus Research Proves Conventional Wisdom Isn’t Always Right

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Brangus breeders recognize that the modern beef industry is more quality driven than ever. The dramatic improvement in beef quality over the past decade is testament to the power of genetics. For a breed of cattle to remain relevant, it must show that it can produce highly productive cows and produce very high quality beef. Doing just one of these things is not good enough anymore.

Brangus breeders have been selecting for maternal productivity, beef quality and carcass yield for decades.

“The genetic trends in our own database are all moving in the right direction, so we were not really surprised by these positive results from our research project,” Dr. Schmidt added. “This is ongoing research.

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“These results portray the sentiment of the cattle feeding sector and many others involved in the beef industry,” said Tom Brink, RAAA CEO and administrator of the survey. “The logic of moving in the direction they desire certainly makes sense. A market that rewards objective value characteristics above superficial traits sends a strong signal for real improvement in feeder cattle quality and value.”

There is recognition by those surveyed that market emphasis on a black hide did help the beef industry improve historically, leading to higher-quality feeder cattle. However, survey data indicates 92 percent want changes for the future. Price discovery using specific genetic and genomic information on individual groups of feeder cattle can lead the industry in the direction of consistently better feeder cattle quality in the years ahead,

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and is preferred over hide color for that purpose.

“Going in the direction of genetics would be beneficial for producers and cattle feeders. It would open doors for both,” said survey participant Stacy McCasland, Palo Duro Feeders, Gruver, Texas.

The survey, conducted from October 2021 through February 2022, was the first of its kind in assessing opinions on how the feeder cattle market functions in the areas of animal appearance and genetics.

Results indicate that cattle feeders want change in the way value is assigned. They seek a more objective market that establishes prices with little or no influence from hide color. Cattle feeders want pricing decisions based on value-oriented, objectively determined attributes, such as the genetic potential for growth, efficiency and carcass performance.

Rod Weeden of Cow Creek Feeders, Keyes, Oklahoma, referenced the consumer’s point of view saying, “No one cares about the color of the hide when they’re eating a steak.”

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He had to be taught to flush a toilet his first day of school because their house had no indoor plumbing, but he can and does calculate the cost of ranch improvements down to the thousandth of a cent.

When called to lead, he does so with authority and assurance. When home on the ranch, he finds no greater joy than caring for the land and helping it achieve its potential.

Tom Sidwell is both are archetypical cowboy and an exceptional cowboy, and as such he was awarded the lifetime achievement award, the highest recognition cattlemen give their peers, as the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Cattleman of the Year in December of 2021.

A cattleman’s dream Tom and his wife, Mimi, live a cattleman’s dream, nestled into the Caprock outside of Tucumcari, on a well-watered, well-appointed ranch with all kinds of grasses and desirable forbs. His life goal was always to take care of cattle and the land. Hers was to be a cowgirl in the wide open spaces. Both dreams have been realized on the JX Ranch, a ranch they rescued from neglect and have turned into a landscape so well known for stewardship that Tom and the JX have twice been nominated for the Leopold Award for Excellence in Grazing.

Tom and Mimi have both worked hard to achieve this dream. Tom stays busy with range improvements, service to community, landowners and civic organizations, and his ranch real estate business.

Mimi direct markets and delivers most of the cattle produced on the ranch through her website to customers throughout New Mexico as well as out-of-state.

Mimi, who grew up in Sweden watching western movies and falling for the strong, silent protagonist, sometimes likens their life together to a popular cartoon series. Flo, the wife, says, “We don’t ever talk anymore.” Her husband, Jake, replies, “The cattle market is up and we’ve had rain. What is there to talk about?”

But the truth is, when it comes to property rights and land stewardship, Tom Sidwell has a lot to say. His words are sourced in a long history of agriculture and a lot of research, and his actions speak louder than words. So when Tom says or does something, the rest of the agriculture community sits up to listen.

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A homesteader’s grandson Tom’s grandfather, Wiley Sidwell, and his great-grandfather, George Sidwell, homesteaded in Lincoln County in the 1890s.

Wiley worked for the Block Ranch in the early 1900s. He raised his family in a half dugout near Meeks on the north side of the Capitan Mountains.

Wiley’s son Jiggs, Tom’s father, was working on the Block Ranch when he wooed and won Ella, a New York raised dietitian who had come West to find work at Fort Stanton.

By the 1950s, Jiggs was working for the Bar W outside of Carrizozo. Tom spent his first several years on the old Lantz place on the Bar W before Jiggs quit cowboying and leased the old Phillips 66 station. He built a meat processing plant east of town and the family moved into the first all-electric house in Lincoln County.

Jiggs was leasing a number of small ranches and drilled wells to establish permanent pasture. “Jiggs always established water rights and had pretty places,” remembers Stirling Spencer of the Bar W. “I think his father taught him to value water, and probably my father as well. And he taught Tom.”

Good Job

Tom!

Pat & Cindy Boone

We’re grateful for your commitment to the industry and your good work on behalf of all cattle industry families.

From the Torrez Clan

DENETCLAW BEEFMASTERS

Since 1985

To Our Good Friend...

Tom Sidwell

We appreciate your dedication to the livestock industry. We are truly grateful for your friendship.

Milford & Mamie Denetclaw Denetclaw Beefmasters

Houston & Laura McKenzie, Fort Stockton, TX, 432/553-6670 Kenneth & Robbie McKenzie, Palma, NM, 575/760-3260

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Our appreciation to

And the whole McKenzie Crew!

sidwell Cattleman of the Year

You bring a quiet, competent voice for our industry! You’ve been a valuable resource, a positive force and a great friend to us all.

McKenzie Land & Livestock — Kenneth McKenzie & Family, Encino, NM Houston, Laura & Sarah McKenzie, Fort Stockton, TX

CONGRATULATIONS, TOM Callie & Tom Paterson Luna, NM

WE’RE SO PROUD OF YOU. Well deserved!

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Tom with his parents Ella & G.B. Sidwell, 1950.

Congratulations Cattleman of the Year!

Tom Sidwell You’ve been a tireless defender for the cattle industry and we appreciate all your efforts on our behalf.

Slash Triangle Ranch

Congratulations to our friend

Tom learned as a young boy to adapt to did erosion control, built fences, and learned dramatic change. He was nine years old to use dynamite. when he, his mother and two younger sisters When he worked in the Gila Wilderness, rode the passenger train for three days and the crew would ride 15 miles horseback to a two nights from Carrizozo to New York City jobsite, work eight or 10 hours, clearing to spend the summer with his maternal brush with a crosscut saw and drilling holes grandparents. by hand in boulders for dynamite. At the end “I grew up in an old adobe house with a of the day, they had a 15 mile ride to their wood cook stove, no indoor plumbing, no camp in the wilderness.

TV, and an outhouse. All of a sudden I am When he was drafted into the army, Tom in NYC with skyscrapers, subways, traffic was eventually promoted to Sargent, stalike you wouldn’t believe, indoor plumbing, tioned in Germany with Military Intelligence and TV with 40 channels,” he remembers.

(MI) and earned top secret clearance and an “It was quite a culture shock. My grandfa- OFCO (Offensive Counterintelligence Operther was a civil engineer with the city and he ations) clearance. He spent some time in showed us buildings and bridges that he Vietnam, working with MI attached to an helped design and work on since 1916. I even engineering company, then was sent back to learned to swim in the Atlantic Ocean.”

Germany, living a life that would read like a “The experience taught me not to sweat James Bond novel, sending and receiving the small stuff,” he reflected. “I learned to be encrypted messages and traveling to deliver overly optimistic.” top secret documents. To his knowledge, As a high school student, Tom would load some of his work has not yet been his horse into the back of the pickup and de-classified. drive between the ranches, checking cattle.

After his army discharge, Tom returned After graduation in 1967, Tom funded his to New Mexico State University and graducollege career by working summers for local ated with a degree in Range Management. rancher, Raymond Walker, who bid on jobs for the Forest Service. He constructed trails, Crosswise with the BLM

Our Best To Cattleman of the Year

Tom Sidwell

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TOM SIDWELL You’ve been a stellar leader and a relentless energy in your community and for the cattle industry. Thank you for your comittment!

Thank you for your leadership!

The Casabonne Family Congratulations Cattleman of the Year

Tom Tom Sidwell Sidwell

You’re a wonderful example of hard work, dedication and unselfish commitment to our industry and your community. We salute you Tom!

Thank You Cattleman of the Year

We appreciate your hard work and dedication on behalf of the cattle industry and our rural communities.

Jerry & Michelle Maynard Glenburn, Maine

www.singletonranches.com

Congratulations

Tom

Pat & Cindy Boone José Varela LópezPuerta del Cañón, LLC

Tom quickly learned that the Bureau of and moved to the Land Management’s idea of getting along Big Bend area of Texas to manage a with ranchers was “Us versus them.”

“I never understood that attitude,” he 500 head ranch. explained. “Most BLM employees were good “What we learned guys, many from ag backgrounds, but when about range manthey got in the office background, they agement in college changed. And they didn’t understand private went so far, but we were missing the property rights.”

As supervising range con in charge of the benefits of a cattle range program on 1.2 million acres in Catron herd,” Tom stated. and western Socorro County, Tom instructed “When we concenhis employees to try and get to know the trated the herd and ranchers in their district. bega n to g ra z e “I told them they could learn more over a intensely for a day or Tom looking for pipeline in Roswell, 1997. cup of coffee at a kitchen table than they two, then moved on, could in 20 years of BLM work,” he we improved the health of the soil and the installed. “We were hot and tired,” Stacie recalls, “and when we got to a spigot, we were remembers. plants.”

Tom’s three children, Catherine, Stacie glad to get a drink. But the water was hot. I, Bending the regulations and Benjamin, helped build fence and install of course, complained about the hot water, Tom remembers his time at the Bureau of water at the new ranch. “He taught us from but Dad just said, ‘Drinking hot water never Land Management as a pain in the nether a young age how to invest work on a ranch hurt anyone.’” region, but he did bend the regulations as far to get it to the point where it needed to be,” Stacie remembers that comment as just part of her father’s perspective. “He would as he dared for the rancher’s sake. remembers Stacie.

Occasionally, he had a chance to right “Every ranch we ever lived on, Dad imple- go all day without having to drink much some wrongs, like the time in the late 1970s mented the Holistic Resource Management water,” she remembers. “So when he did get when the BLM lost a lawsuit and was system, and every ranch really flourished.” to water, he saw nothing wrong with drinkinstructed to write hundreds of EnvironOne hot summer day found Tom and ing the warm water.”

Catherine remembers that her Dad mental Impact Statements.

Stacie out in the heat, gathering up plastic They used the Ocular Reconnaissance stays from the black pipeline they had just always had a book to read, constantly learnMethod for their vegetative survey, and when the data started coming in, some of the allotments showed an increase in grazing numbers, according to the data. The BLM didn’t like the outcome so they changed the factors on the formulas, resulting in a slight decrease in the AUMs. Tom couldn’t stomach the deception and told Sato Lee, Frank DuBois and other ranchers that the methodology was faulty, and the BLM had changed factors in the formulas.

Further, the young BLM employee stated, for a long-term determination on health of rangeland and stocking rates, they needed to use actual use data from several years, including trend, rainfall, and three other salient data points.

Frank DuBois followed up with Sidwell’s five monitoring points and worked with Senator Pete Domenici to get those five monitoring criteria into the Public Rangelands Improvement Act which was passed by Congress.

TOM SIDWELL Cattleman of the Year

To our friend...

Congratulations Tom, on this well deserved honor. The livestock industry is fortunate to have your participation, support and energy!

Holistic Resource Management While working for the BLM, Tom attended Allan Savory’s Holistic Resource Management School and was in complete agreement with the precepts on rangeland management. His opportunity to implement those precepts came when he quit the BLM

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ing and improving his knowledge on how to help the land.

When she was little, Catherine and her siblings crawled along cattle trails which were made into tunnels by the long arching grass shading them.

“When we were moving cattle, Dad would point up a draw and say that there were grasses up there that hadn’t been seen in years,” she remembers.

“I didn’t know at the time that what he was doing was so different, but the more I see Dad, stooping over a species of grass and saying, ‘this has just come back to this land,’ I realize he is a teacher as well as a land manager.”

Raising kids and cattle Tom was raising two daughters and a son while he was improving rangeland and making a living. The lessons he taught by example are legion, but one that is remembered over and over is tenacity and the value of hard work.

“He did the job to get it done,” stated Benjamin Sidwell. “Dad taught us that if you started a job, you finished it.”

Stacie agreed. “Our last job before I left

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You have lead by example and your leadership has inspired all of us to take a more active role in supporting and defending our industry. We appreciate your unselfish work on our behalf.

Nikki Hooser & Kathy Longinaker

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for col lege was pouring the floor for a storage tank,” she related. “The four of us and two cousins were going to spend the morning mixing cement by hand.

Dad told us that we wou ld go i nto Capitan after we were finished for lunch, so we didn’t Catherine, Trevor, Mimi & Tom. need to pack a lunch.

We shoveled and hand-mixed 301 bags of generation to generation, and that has been concrete and had the stuff all over us. We important.” didn’t finish until 4:00 in the afternoon. True A work ethic and integrity were also to his word, Dad took us out for pizza after- passed from generation to generation, and wards, and that was the best pizza I’ve ever Tom’s children and grandchildren all cherish eaten in my life.” their memories of working and playing Benjamin, now an engineer with Space X, together on the ranch. continued, “Dad takes pride in maintaining “I don’t know how many times his grandthe range, but he also takes pride in owner- children have been tossed in water troughs ship of the entire industry. He is able to build because they wanted to box with Poppy,” and give back to the cattle industry and stated Catherine. “Thinking they had finally passes along his hard-earned knowledge to beat him, he would lure them close to a water others who may need a little information or trough and when they would lunge toward help. He enjoys passing knowledge from him he would just help them right in for a quick cool down.”

Our Best to You and Yours...

TOM SIDWELL

You’ve been a stalwart defender of the livestock industry and an effective leader at all levels. We appreciate your selfless work on our behalf!

Bob & Jane Frost San Jon, New Mexico

Congratulations

TOM ... from the Davis family to our Cattleman of the Year — Tom Sidwell 1873

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CS Cattle Company, Cimarron, NM

Congratulations

TOM JOB WELL DONE! Rush Farms Inc. Ray and Diana

The Beef Industry Salutes You

TOM SIDWELL on this well-deserved honor.

YOUR COMPADRES AT THE NEW MEXICO BEEF COUNCIL

Tom & Henry McKinley on the Roswell Ranch.

Back to Lincoln County When Tom was given the opportunity to move back to Lincoln County to manage the G Bar F Ranch, a 65,000 acre ranch near Capitan comprised of mostly Forest Service land, he jumped at the chance.

Once again, he implemented Holistic Resource Management (HRM), against the conventional wisdom which said that HRM didn’t work on the mountains.

Within the first three years, weaning weights of calves went up by 60 to 80 pounds and conception rates went from 65 percent to 95 percent. Tom orchestrated all this improvement w it hout doing more cross-fencing.

“The ranch had been managed under a traditional Forest Service rotation for years and years, but I showed them that in a fouryear time period I could show more rest on those pastures and increase both weaning weights and conception rates,” he noted.

Additionally, “to implement this grazing it just took 4/1000 of a penny per acre. I reduced the per year cost per cow from $500 to $249 per cow, and at the same time increased the numbers to the permit level.”

Tom also started preconditioning calves coming off the G Bar F, which was a relatively new concept in the late 1980s. He calculated it cost 1.5 cents per pound to precondition calves, which would give him top of the market price plus a three percent premium.

“The buyer of the calves had been seeing high death losses when he bought the calves, but his death loss went to zero after buying our preconditioned calves, and we were add i ng va lue to t he c a lves,” he summarized.

he retorted with a laugh. “I got tired of paying her, so I just married her.”

Mimi dreamed of wide open spaces since she was a child in Sweden. She traveled the world while working for the airline industry in Switzerland, then moved to Boston and got her green card.

When Mimi, who had been on several trail rides in Arizona, asked who could teach her the ranching industry, she was directed to Henry McKinley. Henry and Peg “adopted” her and took her under their wings, teaching her all things pertaining to cattle work. “I became the appointed castrator at brandings,” she related.

While living on the Thorton Ranch south of Lamy she learned how to fix water-gaps and change oil in windmills. “I loved every minute of it,” she recalls. Later she moved to the Nogal/Capitan area to look for a ranch to buy and started day-working on area ranches.

The international scene Mimi wasn’t the only one busy on the international scene. Tom was a part of a group of ranchers working with New Mexico Department of Agriculture’s Raul Tellez, who sold seed stock all over Mexico and Central and South America. Tom spoke Spanish well enough to do business and sold a lot of cattle south of the border.

Once, when traveling with the group back from Mexico, the New Mexican’s came upon an accident. Tom, as was his habit, jumped out to provide assistance. “It was 11:00 at night and we were at the side of an interstate, waving our cell phone lights to keep trucks from crashing into a pickup that had just bounced off of a dividing line berm,” recalls New Mexico State Veterinarian Ralph Zimmerman. “We finally got official lights to the wreck and ended up taking the guy who had crashed his pickup on to Las Cruces to meet his Mom. “

A property rights advocate

Tommy

... you’ve come a long way since Range Communities 1974.

A friend always, Jon Swapp

Congratulations Cattleman of the Year

TOM SIDWELL From Producer – Lantana Ranch

CONGRATULATIONS! It’s wonderful to see recognition for your knowledge and hard work.

We are proud of your leadership and accomplishments!

JEANNE & WIDGE

Our Best to You ...

TCoattmlemaSn ofidthewYeaelrl You’ve done great things for the cattle industry and we want you to know how very much you are appreciated. Thank you for your unselfish work on our behalf.

Farr Cattle Co.

Back in Lincoln County, Tom worked

He can weld too! Congrats Tom.

She just wants to rope and ride Tom was single by this time, and Mimi had moved to Nogal looking for a ranch to buy while day-working on ranches around the area. Tom hired her on, even though as a general practice he never hired daywork.

And he paid less than anyone else around.

“He didn’t pay worth a damm,” Mimi clarified. “But Mimi just kept hanging around,”

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Congratulations Tom — from your friends at Northwest Nebraska High Country.

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came to our meetings and relations improved.”

Rex Wilson worked with Tom to start PLUAC. “Tom was as smart as any lawyer, and because of his experience in the BLM, he is good with comments and responses which are valuable and appropriate,” Rex noted.

“Tom’s insights were always unique and very valuable, and still are. “

Tom in Marathon, Texas, 1987.

with other local ranchers to put together an ordinance to start the Public Land Use Advisory Council, which in essence followed what Nye County, Nevada was doing, which resulted in landowners, county commissioners and governmental agencies working together.

There was so much interest in the ordinance that the hearing was moved from the commission chambers to the High School gymnasium. “We got it done, and the BLM and Forest Service started working with Lincoln County,” Tom remembers. “They

“HANG IN THERE!”

CONGRATULATIONS

TOM

From your friends at The Hat Ranch

The Lee’s • Hat Ranch, Alamogordo

We Salute You...

Tom Sidwell

Cattleman of the Year Your efforts on behalf of animal agriculture and our rural communities are deeply appreciated.

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The Thunderhead Tom and Mimi found the ranch they wanted near Roswell. The owner, Glaze Sacra, had a herd of registered Brangus cattle, and he said if they wanted the ranch, the cattle would come with it. They shook on the deal.

“Glaze was the most upright, honest man,” Tom related. “You can’t buy a 356-head ranch

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on a handshake and a one-page contract from just anyone.”

Mimi remembers, “We had to borrow money to buy those 356 cows. I was terrified.”

Mimi moved to the Thunderhead and Tom continued at the G Bar F, which was owned by an internationally known banker.

It was sink or swim for Mimi, who was basically by herself for the first year. “I moved cattle seven miles by myself, worked on prolapsed cows, and dug for pipelines,” she related, “And I loved every minute.”

Agri-tourism in Nebraska The Thunderhead had a high percentage of BLM land which was accompanied by the frustrations of dealing with the bureaucracy every time they wanted to make a range improvement.

This eventually led the Sidwells to the decision to move on. They canvassed New Mexico and surrounding states and eventually moved to the Pine Ridge area of Nebraska, where they supplemented ranch income with a working ranch vacation and hunting enterprise.

Mimi and Tom played host to scores of

Congratulations

TOM

You’re an intelligent leader who is respected for his thoughtful approach to problem solving.

Thanks for serving our industry.

Thank you for your many years of Dedication to our industry.

This award was well deserved!

~ Senator Pat Woods ~

Bronson Corn & Family

Our very best to Cattleman of the Year

TOM SIDWELL

Thank you for your dedication to the livestock industry, Tom! Mike and Jennifer Corn

Tom Congratulations

Job Well Done!

Bert & Debbie Ancell

tourists, mostly from Europe, who helped grazed, neglected ranch outside of them move cows and work on the ranch and Tucumcari. they paid for the privilege of doing so.

“All the floats on the ranch drinkers were In Nebraska, Tom again implemented old one-gallon oil bottles,” Tom recalled.

HRM. Nebraska neighbor Nancy Fisher “There was no infrastructure at all, but I stated, “The ranch had been badly abused, could see a lot of potential.” and Tom took it on as a challenge. He Others had their doubts. An employee of installed pipelines and started rotational the NRCS drove by right after the Sidwells grazing and good stewardship practices. closed on the place. Pastures were choked by They both worked hard at restoring the land mesquite and fences sagged. “I hope this guy to a healthy range.” knows what he is doing,” thought the conThe Sidwells pastured first calf heifers for servation man. a big ranch in Nebraska which was known Nineteen years later, a casual glance at the for wild cattle. “By the end of the summer, forage, re-introduced grass species, and we always had the heifers gentled down,” he increased carrying capacity make it obvious related. that Tom did indeed know what he was doing “The rancher had 1,000 cows, and he said when he took over management of the ranch. when he weaned the calves they always hit Tom and Mimi named the ranch, which the back fence of the corral. But he noticed is nestled into the Caprock between Tucumthat the calves that spent time at our ranch cari and the high plains of eastern New would come to him to see what he had in his Mexico, the JX Ranch. The JX brand was hands to feed them.” gifted to Mimi by Peg McKinley and was once owned by Peg’s step-father, Dr. Frank He recognized opportunity Hibbins of the Ghost Ranch.

Though Tom and Mimi loved their Tom went to work, spending hours each Nebraska ranch, the pull of the Land of day grubbing mesquite. He also installed Enchantment was strong and they answered miles of pipeline and tied all his wells the call in 2003, when they bought an over- together so he could support a single herd of cattle anywhere on the ranch. Each well has

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We are so grateful to you for your leadership and tireless work on behalf of your fellow cattlemen.

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Tom with Jody McCrea, 1994.

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Our Best to You

Thank you for your service to the cattle industry and your community.

Our best to you and your family.

You are most deserving of this honor that has been bestowed on you by your fellow cattlemen and women. Thank you for the many sacrifices you’ve made on our behalf.

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water storage with solar pumping systems so Tom can move water around the ranch as needed.

The upgrades to the water system allow

CONGRATULATIONS TOM We appreciate your hard work, time and commitment to the cattle industry and our association!

Randell & Lynn Major MAJOR RANCH REALTY

Cattleman of the Year

TOM SIDWELL Thank you for your energetic efforts on behalf of the livestock industry.

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CONGRATULATIONS

TOM

We’re grateful for your leadership and your unselfish sharing of your time, your energy and your abilities.

We salute you!

Pat & Cindy Boone

Congratulations

TOM Job Well Done

The Copeland and Sons Family

Tom to move the herd through the 30 pastures. Satellite imaging proves that bare ground on the ranch has decreased by 19 percent. Water level in wells has come up from one to three feet in each well.

Collecting this sort of data is important to Tom because he knows if he doesn’t have the data to show how the ranch has improved, he won’t be able to stand against government overreach into his business.

“We all know there is a big push for government overreach in the name of climate change,” he explained. “And we can see what is happening in the Netherlands, where they are threatening to shut down 11,000 farms and tell people to take their cattle off of the farms. When will the government invent a catastrophe and come and tell us the same thing?”

He continued, “The government doesn’t have the data, but I do. I know my ranch sequesters four tons more carbon per acre than a ranch that does continuous yearlong grazing. Because I’ve been measuring wells, I know that our static water levels have come up one to three feet. One well has come up 45 feet.”

All water storage tanks on the JX are covered. All water in drink troughs is sheltered from sun and wind with black shade balls. Tom calculates that the shade balls and covered storage tanks will save 100,000 gallons of water a year, and it only costs him 1.6 cents per gallon amortized over 10 years to save that much water.

Because Tom continuously measures and monitors, he has data which proves that his ranching operation puts water back into the soil. “Here in New Mexico, water is extremely important,” he explained. “If this mega drought continues, what will happen to the landowner’s ability to use their water? Is Albuquerque going to come out to the ranches and try to take our water? We have to have data which shows how we are stewarding the land and adding water back.”

A fence-line comparison of the JX and neighboring ranches tells the story. Bare ground and mesquite abound. But an abundance of different grasses cover the ground on the JX, undulating gently. He points to the different grasses: Sand Dropseed, Vine Mesquite, Arizona Cotton Top, Cane Bluestem, Blue and Black and Side Oats Gramma.

Plains Bristle Grass. The extremely rare Green Sprangletop.

Rex Wilson noted, “The happiest I’ve ever seen Tom is when he is talking about how responsive his land has been to his efforts to improve it.”

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Bill Humphries lives down the road from Tom and Mimi and noted that Tom uses his success as a range manager to develop a meaningful dialogue with those outside of agriculture that tells others that ranchers do complex management that benefits the land and the wildlife.

“He has been extraordinarily patient with the agri-tourism folks,” Bill stated. “And he speaks at schools and to civic groups, giving a lot of time to the outward communication of the industry,” Bill noted.

Additionally, “They do ranch tours where people come to the JX to see what good management is. “ “Through good grazing management, Tom has made his ranch really productive, so that even in the tough times it looks good,” Bill summarized.

Catherine and her siblings have often invited others to brandings through the years. “Most of them live in town and have never been to a ranch,” she explained.

“Dad takes the time to answer all of their questions, letting them help with every aspect of branding. It is a great experience for them, and when they come back the next year, they are more confident in the tasks that Dad asks them to do.”

New Mexico State Veterinarian Ralph Zimmerman has traveled with Tom many times and adds, “He takes the gentle approach, not the bull-in-a-china shop approach, yet he is eloquent enough to get his message across in English or Spanish. He represented the Cattle Growers well, and is always easy to talk to and easy to access. He is just a great man.”

A commitment to Cattle Growers No matter where Tom was living, he always championed private land rights and worked to prevent government overreach. He and Bill worked with counties and soil and water districts to oppose the government’s attempt to take over land and water with the Lesser Prairie Chicken.

But when the Interstate Stream Commission made an application with the state engineer to appropriate several thousand acre feet of surface water for an endangered fish in the Canadian River, Tom acted quickly.

He contacted Cattle Growers and did extensive research, concluding that the ISC is supposed to acquire senior water rights to appropriate water for endangered species. In this case, however, the ISC was trying to appropriate surface water that flowed from 500,000 acres of watershed from the top of the Caprock all the way to the Canadian.

Tom, Cattle Growers, and several coun-

ties protested this taking and finally forced studies issues, pays attention, the ISC to reduce their application for water. knows his way around the Cattle Growers appreciated Tom’s insight Federal Register, and has and depth of knowledge and put him on a been a astute, steady leader.” fast track to become president.

“When you spend time with Tom, you He serves realize he has a huge depth of knowledge,” Though his druthers commented Caren Cowan, who served as might have been to stay on Cattle Growers executive officer during the JX, Tom has taken the Tom’s presidency. “He is one of the most deep time to serve his community thinking individuals I’ve worked with.” and the industry. He helped Tom also gave a lot of time as Cattle form a Coalition for RenewGrowers’ president traveling to other states able Energy Landowners and attending lot of meetings on the indus- Association in New Mexico.

Tom at the Capitan Ranch Rodeo, 1993. try’s behalf. Caren remembers that Tom was He conv inced Quay president the year she experienced a County to form a Natural Resources Com- stand against the government’s dictates.” life-threatening illness, “So he spent a lot of mittee and served as chairman of the Tom is also a member of the Board of time on the road and in meetings, and he Southwest Quay Soil and Water Conserva- Trustees for Mesalands Community College never, ever complained about it.” tion District. While in this capacity he and just stepped down from the local hospi“Relationships are important to Tom,” proposed that ranchers get their wells mea- tal board. He serves on the Linebery Policy Caren added. “He covered a lot of country sured annually to protect their right to use Center at New Mexico State University, on behalf of the New Mexico Cattle Growers, the water. helping ranchers influence public policy attending TSCRA and Arizona Cattle “In my mind, the government will create concerning natural resources.

“He is passionate and dedicated when he Growers’ meetings, making trips to Mexico. a crisis like they did with COVID and scare He thought nothing about driving all the way the heck out of a population, then propose takes on a job,” stated Mimi. “He commits to Arizona for a convention and then driving that agriculture mitigate that crisis,” he himself and spends an inordinate amount of back.” explained. “I think it is just a matter of time time researching and doing more than is Pat Boone, another past president, noted,” before this happens, so I want every rancher expected.”

But she added, “Grazing management Tom puts thought into what he does. He to have the data so they have something to and drought management are the overriding

TOM

Congratulations on a job well done.

Stay blessed and trust in Him.

TOM Congratulations

We appreciate your comittment and leadership!

Bob Homer Robert L. Homer & Associates LLC

Congratulations

Tom Sidwell!

We appreciate your many accomplishments over the years. You are most deserving to be counted among the many Cattleman of the Year greats!

Joan, David, Marc, Tammy, Cole & Clay Kincaid

Many thanks to

Cattleman of the Year

TOM SIDWELL Job well done!

— The Delk Band, Joe Delk

Congratulations

TOM

...and Thanks for your Support, Mentorship, & Friendship.

Tom Dominguez — CEA

Congratulations

TOM From the Richardson Family Slash Ranch

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College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences

ANIMAL & RANGE SCIENCE Our Congratulations to Cattleman of the Year

TOM SIDWELL

Your work on behalf of the cattle industry and range management have been exemplary and an inspiration to all of us.

passions of his life, and he likes to help people with range and drought management.”

At home on the range A family joke is that if Tom ever accompanies Mimi to a large town, she is the one that goes shopping and he stays out in the pickup, like the cow dog in the back of the pickup, growling at the individuals walking by.

But the joke is only funny if the hearer knows Tom’s kind and giving personality, and how much of himself he gives to help others.

His life’s work and his passion has been building on what he learned from his father, his time at NMSU, and the lessons life has taught, as well as incorporating professional information to manage the range and raise healthy cattle in New Mexico’s often inhospitable and difficult terrain.

To this foundation, Tom adds use of solar power and satellite imagery to build a data base which proves that the more natural way is also more scientific. Combining a lifetime of knowledge with new technology makes Tom the cutting edge cowboy celebrated and lauded by peers as their 2022 Cattleman of the Year.

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JOB WELL DONE.

Congratulations

Tom We greatly appreciate your unselfish comittment to the cattle industry.

The Decker Family Lovington, New Mexico

Thank You

TOM SIDWELL Cattleman of the Year We appreciate your ongoing and energetic efforts on behalf of the livestock industry.

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TOM SIDWELL THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATED LEADERSHIP! ANITA HAND

Congratulations

TOM Dave & Cindy Kenneke

Congratulations Cattleman of the Year

TOM SIDWELL

of the Your efforts on behalf atly gre are ry ust ind ttle ca . ted cia appre Bill, Debbie & Troy Sauble Sauble Ranch Company

Congratulations to our Quay County neighbor Thank you for promoting our ranching way of life.

Stan & Kelly Jones Family

Congratulations

TOM SIDWELL Cattleman of the Year!

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Congratulations & Our Best to Our Good Friends

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We’re proud of you two!

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CEN TRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE ST UDEN TS LEARN ABOU T BEEF The New Mexico Beef Council provided an

and health benefits as NMBC Dietitian

all-inclusive Beef class to the CNM Culinary

Kate Schulz reviewed recent research and

1112-level students. Executive Chef Scott Clapp,

information. Students learned that beef is a

Program Chair Culinary Arts, Beverage and

naturally nourishing food and is consumed in a

Hospitality Management, School Business,

variety of dietary patterns. Presenters provided

Hospitality & Technology and Executive Chef

tips on choosing lean beef cuts, portion sizes,

Erkut Karatas, Culinary Instructor welcomed

and the importance of pairing fruits and

us into their culinary classroom labs. The

vegetables with beef. NMBC Director Dina

NMBC Beef Team included Dina Reitzel,

Reitzel dispelled common myths about beef

NMBC Director; Patty Waid, NMBC Education

and presented factual research and statistics

Specialist; Kate Schulz, RD, NMBC Dietitian;

supporting beef’s nutritional benefits.

and Beef Specialists, Tom Bertelle and Daniel Chavez. Cole Gardner, NMBC Chairman and Beef producer from Yeso, NM, provided insight to the students on the beef industry from a rancher’s perspective.

A big thank you to the NMBC Team and CNM staff for this opportunity: (L-R, Back Row) CNM Chef Jerome Aragon CNM, Daniel Chavez, NMBC Beef Specialist, Cole Gardner, NMBC Chairman, Tom Bertelle, NMBC Beef Specialist, CNM Chef Erkut Karatus, CNM Chef Ray (L-R-Front Row) Patty Waid, NMBC Education Specialist, Dina Reitzel, NMBC Director, Kate Schulz, RD, NMBC Dietitian.

The in-depth, five-hour class covered the Beef industry from “Gate to Plate”. Subjects ranged from Beef production and sustainability to Beef’s place in the foodservice & retail industries, Beef grades and differences

Instruction included hands-on fabrication of a

between natural, grass-fed and organic

beef rib primal, beef grilling demonstrations,

Beef. NMBC Education Specialist, Patty

videos and classroom instruction. Students

Waid was pleased with the Council’s first

were treated to beef samples to illustrate moist

engagement at CNM and says, “Our goal is

heat cooking and dry heat cooking techniques,

always to ensure the students walk away with

as well as tips on grilling a great steak! Each

a solid understanding of Beef from ‘A to Z’

culinary student received a collection of

and knowledge of the hardworking families

Beef resources including Beef in the Culinary

who raise the Beef.” As one student stated

Classroom- a binder full of information

on her evaluation form, “I had a great time

supporting all the presentations.

and learned a lot. I loved this class”! Mission

Students were introduced to beef’s nutritional

accomplished! 

Cole Gardner, NMBC Chairman and beef producer from Yeso, N.M. enjoys a ‘Tomahawk Steak”

NMBC Beef Specialist, Daniel Chavez, prepares ribeye steaks for the grilling demonstration

Students learn how a rib primal is fabricated

GET TO KNOW YOUR NEW MEXICO BEEF COUNCIL

John Heckendorn

John Heckendorn, along with his wife, Cathy, raises

grandchild on the way. John grew up on a farm and ranch

registered Angus cattle on the J-C Angus Ranch in

in Tucumcari that was homesteaded by his Great Uncle.

Moriarty. The couple lease pasture in Tucumcari and

He attended high school in Tucumcari then college at

have a satellite herd in Estancia as well. John and

NMSU. “We love being able to live our dream of ranching

Cathy have been performance testing bulls since 1981.

and pursuing excellence with improvements to our herd

They joined other progressive breeders in a GrowSafe

over the years,” says John of his family. When he’s not

system which has led to the J-C Ranch breeding 13 of

ranching, John enjoys being active with his church, reading

the top 25 performing Angus bulls on test last year. The

all types of books and watching the Dallas Cowboys. 

couple has four children, one granddaughter and another

To learn more visit www.NMBeef.com 1209 Mountain Road Place NE, Suite C  Albuquerque, NM 87110  505-841-9407  www.NMBeef.com

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MY THS & EASY TRU THS ABOU T THE BEEF CHECKOFF

THE BEEF CHECKOFF SHARES BEEF ’S SUSTAINABILITY STORY WITH CONSUMERS

Myth: The Cattlemen’s Beef Board hides how Beef Checkoff money is spent.

Fact: In addition to constant USDA

Today, more than ever before, consumers care about where their food comes from.

They want to know about its environmental impact. They worry about whether livestock animals are treated humanely. They want to know if their food is nutritious and safe to eat. And they will change their eating – and purchasing – habits based on all those factors. The topic of sustainability is changing how all industries do business and communicate with their customers, and the beef industry is no exception. It can be difficult for producers to wrap their heads around the fact that most consumers never visit a beef ranch in person. They don’t always see the care ranchers put into raising beef. Telling the beef sustainability story to consumers has never been more important.

The Beef Checkoff conducted extensive market research to fully understand consumer perceptions of how beef producers care for the land and what key topics would resonate most with that audience. Survey results indicate that: • About 50% of consumers say they care about beef’s impact on the land and environment. However, they still cite taste, safety, appearance and price as more important considerations when making meal choices.

• Almost half of consumers have a positive perception of beef production.

Unfortunately, they still perceive the beef industry to be less sustainable than other food industries.

• Animal welfare, by far, was the most important topic to address with consumers when it comes to beef and how cattle are raised.

Acting upon the survey results, “Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner” launched a beef checkofffunded campaign in 2021 called “Rethink the Ranch.” This campaign introduced the public to beef producers who make sciencedriven decisions that will keep their herds, environment and businesses healthy enough to pass on to the next generation. The campaign’s goal was to increase consumer confidence in beef and beef production by inviting consumers to learn more about how beef producers care for the land, their animals and their local communities.

These efforts actively engaged consumers by providing in-depth content and rancher stories. Nearly 97 million people saw Rethink the Ranch content, and its videos were viewed almost 60 million times. On social media platforms, content generated approximately 67,000 comments, reactions and shares. The Rethink the Ranch page on Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner website was viewed more than 80,000 times, and the campaign’s audio ads were heard nearly 16 million times. Obviously, this campaign reached a lot of people with the truth about how responsibly beef is raised. 

DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NEW MEXICO BEEF COUNCIL 2022-2023 DIRECTORS

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Dina Chacon-Reitzel 505-841-9407

VICECHAIRPERSON

Dan Bell (Producer) 575-799-0763

CHAIRPERSON

SECRETARY

575-910-8952

(Producer) 505-860-5859

Cole Gardner (Producer)

Marjorie Lantana

oversight, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board is required by law to provide annual financials to the public ensuring it meets the requirements of the Beef Promotion and Research Act and Order.

The December issue of the Bullhorn will include the audited financials for the CBB, State Checkoff and State Assessment. Financial transparency is important to CBB… and that’s the truth of the matter.

Myth: The Cattlemen’s Beef Board simply writes a check to contractors, and we never see if these programs were successful

Fact: Contractors never receive any Checkoff funds upfront. All funds are on a cost recovery basis. First, they must complete programs as approved by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board with their own money and then they may submit their invoices to receive reimbursement. CBB staff then ensures these expenses match what was approved by the Board in addition to meeting the requirements of the Act and Order. Only when approved

by CBB staff do the contractors get reimbursed. Additionally, program evaluation reporting each quarter ensures that programs are on-track and successful… and that’s the truth of the matter. 

NMBC DIRECTORS: (Feeder) 830-739-3450

(Producer) 575-740-0957

Nancy Phelps,

BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR Boe Lopez (Feeder) 505-469-9055

Sarah Fitzgerald John Heckendorn

Kimberly Stone

(Purebred Producer) 505-379-8212

(Producer) 202-812-0219

FEDERATION DIRECTOR Cole Gardner (Producer) 575-910-8952

Jim Hill (Feeder)

Joel Van Dam

USMEF DIRECTOR Kenneth McKenzie (Producer) 575-760-3260

575-993-9950

(Dairy Representative) 575-714-3244

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

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

Lawman vs. Lawman

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unfights on the frontier of the American West rarely, if ever, took place as they are often depicted in movie and television westerns. One that occurred in Tucumcari, New Mexico, in 1906, only a few years after the railroad town was established, demonstrates the point. This appeared in the Tucumcari News for Saturday, December 29, 1907.

“MARSHAL LAWSON KILLED BY CONSTABLE HARDWICK City in Mourning Over Horrible Incident— All Business Suspended For Funeral “What terminated in one of the most deplorable tragedies in the history of our city occurred at the Legal Tender corner Wednesday at about 11:00 o’clock when Constable Sam W. Hardwick shot and mortally wounded City Marshal John M. Lawson.

“The officers had some difficulty regarding arrests they made on Christmas night and from the most reliable information we can get, Hardwick, while drinking heavily, followed Larson up on Wednesday morning and demanded further explanations and became abusive as the argument was extended. Lawson declared that he could not take further abuse from Hardwick and drew his pistol, at the same time saying he was ready to settle the matter.

“They were prevented from fighting by friends, who immediately interfered, and Justice of the Peace Jas. Lawson, the marshal’s brother, who held him and Sheriff J. A. Street took Hardwick outside, and was promised by Hardwick that he would not shoot if he would turn him loose, the Sheriff thinking Hardwick would drop the fight left him and turned to ask Lawson to say no more.

Hardwick followed up and like a flash drew his pistol and reached around Street’s body and fired, his aim catching the marshal in his left side three inches below his heart. The bullet passed through his body and fell from his clothing on to the floor as he staggered and fell. He was unconscious until death which occurred in about an hour later. After Hardwick fired, Street turned to him and continued on page 92 >>

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November 17 — 10:00 a.m.

Southwest Center for Rangeland Sustainability Corona Range and Livestock Research Center 739 University Road, Corona, NM

Join us for a discussion of reproductive technologies available for small ruminants to aid in genetic advancement and propagation of superior livestock. NMSU is currently partnering with Reprologix as a satellite center to provide reproductive services for small ruminants and will continue with opportunities this coming year. This workshop will be informative for anyone who would like to incorporate these technologies into their management plan regardless of the service provider you choose. Lunch is provided. Topics will include: 

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gun took him to jail while Lawson turned his attention to his dying brother. wrenched the smoking weapon from his “We have, since the killing, been told that hand but not before he had again cocked it there has been bad blood between these offiand pulled the trigger, the hammer falling cers since the city elections at which time on Street’s first finger and tearing out its hold they were both candidates for marshal.” as the struggle for the weapon continued.

The political race in question, the one for While this encounter was going on Jas. town marshal of Tucumcari, took place on Lawson had secured his brother’s pistol and August 11, fewer than five months before this was dispossessed of it only by wrenching it fight occurred. Lawson received 47 votes and from his hand by friends who were assisting Hardwick 10. to stop the fight: as his hold was loosened the As for the players in this drama, Sam rubber handle was broken to pieces and left Hardwick had been a resident of the town in his grip. Street in the meantime overpow- site since it was established in 1902, and he ering Hardwick and dispossessing him of his had served as constable and deputy sheriff

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since 1905, when Quay County was created.

He served under the first sheriff, Alex Street.

He was probably a farmer by trade as he settled on a homestead in 1902, and presented his final proof in support of his claim in early 1907 (after the shooting affray). He resigned as constable in January 1907.

John W. Lawson’s name first appeared in the local newspaper in May of 1906 when he announced the opening of his pool parlor in Tucumcari. Nor is there much known about his brother, James, who served at Justice of the Peace at the time of John’s death, but resigned the following month.

The other participant was James Alexander “Alex” Street, who was at the beginning of long career in New Mexico law enforcement. He served as Quay County sheriff off and on from 1903 until 1918, with stints as mayor of Tucumcari, mounted policeman and brand inspector before he was appointed to a position with the U. S. Department of Justice, which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He died in 1937.

So far as the gunfight is concerned, and the murder charge against Sam Hardwick, the matter dragged on in the courts for more than a year and a half, until the 13th of October, 1908. The trial transcripts have been lost to history, but the closing paragraphs of the jury instructions from Judge Edward A. Mann are offered here: “You are … instructed that the defendant, Sam W. Hardwick had a right to re-enter the saloon for the purpose of delivering the papers [exactly what papers is unknown] over to the deceased or for any other lawful purpose, provided he did so in a peaceable manner, and committed no overt act in so doing.

“Although you may find from the evidence that the defendant, Sam Hardwick, acted imprudent in re-entering the saloon at the time he did, this would not deprive him of the right to act in his own proper self-defense, provided he committed no overt act after re-entering.

“Should you find from the evidence that the defendant shot and killed the deceased, Lawson, and at the time he did so the defendant, Hardwick, believed that the deceased was in the act of, or doing him some great bodily injury, you will find the defendant not guilty, although you may believe that the defendant was in no actual danger, and that the deceased had placed his gun back in the scabbard, at the time he was killed.”

The jury took less than an hour to acquit Hardwick.

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RANCH FOOD & FODDER

by Deanna Dickinson McCall

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he holidays are here. Shipping off whatever product we produce is usually done or near done. It’s a time of thanksgiving for most of us. Rain finally fell over most of the state, and although it came late in many areas, it finally came. We’re blessed to live in a beautiful place with wonderful

people, doing what we love.

Sometimes, we have to search for reasons to feel thankful. We recently had to put down my old mare of thirty plus years. I knew it was time, but it was still very hard. And I was worried about her constant companion, our late son’s old gelding. The old horses had spent their lives together and I was afraid of the gelding’s reaction. The mare had lost an eye, and the old gelding would lead or push her to where she needed to be. She would panic if he got further than three feet away.

I wrapped my arms around his graying neck as the mare was led away from him for the last time. As I cried, I realized I was grateful.

Thankful she wouldn’t get worse, thankful

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we shared so much time together, thankful we could do the right thing. A few days later I am grateful the gelding is accepting that she is gone.

An easier thing to be thankful for is a holiday spent with friends and family. Gathering to celebrate, share stories and food, warm our hearts. Usually, Dave and I spend a holiday with family, or sometimes with friends or a combination of friends and family. I do hope if you know of someone who may be alone that you will invite them over to share your table and friendship.

We’ve had lonely sheepherders who really didn’t speak English, cowboys from a remote cow camp and various others join us on holidays. For me, part of being thankful for the bounty we receive is sharing those blessings.

If your home is like ours, there seems to be a whole array of pies for holiday dinners.

Just about everyone has their favorite, from chocolate to pecan to blackberry. The recipe below will make an easy and great dessert, as it is almost like combining pumpkin and pecan pie yet isn’t a pie. I hope you enjoy it with friends and family.

Pumpkin Pecan Dessert

This old west phrase says so much in just six words! The phrase is all about choices we make. A friend that sticks with you through good times and bad.

A horse that is more than just transportation, but instead, is a partner that anticipates your direction and gets you where you want to go with safety and confidence in every step.

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Ingredients: 1 can pumpkin (15 oz) 1 can evaporated milk 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 1/2 c packed light brown sugar 3 tsp cinnamon, & 1 tsp cinnamon for later 1 tsp dry ginger, and 1 tsp for later 1 TBS vanilla extract 1 package of yellow cake mix, regular size 1 cup chopped pecans 1 cup of melted butter (not margarine) Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Place in a large bowl the canned pumpkin, milk, eggs, both sugars and 3 tsp of cinnamon, 1 tsp of ginger, vanilla, along with a pinch of salt. Mix well, I use a wire whip. Pour into a 13 by 9 inch pan that has been sprayed with non-stick spray.

In a medium size bowl (or just rinse out the bowl you just used) place the dry cake mix and the remaining 1 tsp of cinnamon and 1 tsp of ginger. Mix well with a dry whisk or fork. Sprinkle this dry mixture over the pumpkin filling in the pan. Sprinkle on the pecans and drizzle the melted butter over the top.

Bake for about 50 minutes or until golden brown. This is good served warm or cold and I usually cut it into squares and serve it with a dollop of whipped cream.

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NEW LISTING! Triangle C Ranch - Reserve, New Mexico – **Great Opportunity** - Working cattle ranch located east of Reserve, New Mexico in prime grazing lands. This 625 CYL ranch is located in gentle, rolling grasslands consisting of 2,320 +/- deeded acres, a private lease and a 25,055 acre BLM grazing allotment. Many improvements including two homes, bunk house, hangar, air strip, large shops and working facilities. $5,750,000 NEW LISTING! Cottonwood Springs – RanchRed Rock, New Mexico – The Cottonwood Springs is a beautiful, high desert working cattle ranch located approximately 28 miles north of Lordsburg, New Mexico in Grant County.

With a carrying capacity of +/-350 CYL, the ranch consists of a total of 13,605 acres which includes a combination of 1,629+/- deeded acres, 5,839+/- state lease acres, 3,400+/- acres of BLM allotments and a 2,737+/- acre U.S. Forest Service allotment. The ranch is well improved with two homes, shop, corrals, interior and exterior fences, working cattle facilities and exceptional water improvements. $3,100,000 NEW LISTING! Sliding Diamond, Kingman, AZ. – The Sliding Diamond Ranch is a working cattle ranch with good feed, excellent water and well-maintained improvements. +/- 15,680 acre state lease located in a checkerboard configuration providing an equal number of acres available for adverse grazing at no cost to the ranch. The state leased parcels are permitted for 231 CYL. With the adverse and an adjoining available private lease this ranch currently runs 460 CYL. The ranch is well watered with 11 wells and 28 natural springs. A must see! $2,400,000 CASH. UNDER CONTRACT! Kingman Farms - Kingman, AZ. – The Kingman Farm is 1,920 acres (83,635,200 SF) of prime agricultural land located on a paved road north of Kingman, Arizona. With ±560 acres previously under drip irrigation and two sections fully fenced, this farm offers a perfect opportunity to grow a variety of cash crops.

Historically planted with pistachio trees, the agricultural zoned property is located in Mohave County and offers unrestricted water production via its two irrigation wells.

The property offers an excellent opportunity for pistachio growers, other deciduous trees, hay or a variety of cash crops. In addition, the site presents as an ideal location for a solar utility, land or water bank. Offered at $2,950,000

REDUCED! Sierra Azul Ranch – Hatch, NM. – The Sierra Azul Ranch is located in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. This nice little ranch has been in the same family for over 50 years. The ranch runs 50 CYL and 2 horses on two sections of state land with over four sections of BLM and 520 deeded acres. The deeded land includes a beautiful 160 acre inholding with water and solitude.

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This unique property lends itself to multiple uses with a unique setting for farming, an equine facility, and solar energy production. Close to the comforts of town, but secluded from town life. Offered at $1,999,500 UNDER CONTRACT! F Bar Farm - Taylor, AZ. – The F Bar Farm is a 330+/- acre parcel located on the outskirts of Taylor, Arizona in Navajo County. The parcel contains 2 irrigation wells and 3 stock water wells which have serviced 150 acres of irrigated land. Three phase electric power is at the well heads. With shallow water and good soil, this farm sitting at 5,700 feet in elevation provides a cost-effective opportunity for growing hemp, pasture grass, alfalfa, corn or other cash crops.Alternatively, its excellent building sites and proximity to town also make this the perfect opportunity for a beautiful gentleman’s ranch with irrigated pastures and great views. Offered at $1,296,000

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NEW – MOELLER CROSS M RANCH:

27 acres of irrigated RANDELL MAJOR pasture including Qualifying Broker the registered Texas Longhorn cattle. This farm has a nice 2,000 sf NEW – RINCONADA FARM: 8.62 acres of 4 bedroom, 2 bath home irrigated permanent pasture, refurbished home, and and a 3,000 sf shop with horse stalls in Pre-1907 Water Rights in Lemitar. $680,000 San Acacia, NM. $750,000 NEW- MAGDALENA MOUNTAIN TOP: 65 acres original patented land located on top of the Magdalena Mountains.

Has not been offered for sale in over 100 years. $877,500 COPPER CANYON: 39 acres of beautiful, patented land in the Magdalena mountains. Live creek water, spring, well, electricity, and 15-acre ft water rights. $1,170,000 UNDER CONTRACT: Pitchfork Cattle Company LLC: 34,590 acres located in premier cattle country situated in De Baca, Guadalupe, and Lincoln Counties. $14,326,100

UNDER CONTRACT: Cerro Verde Ranch: 32,721 acres located 50 miles west of Albuquerque. This scenic and diverse ranch offers a great combination of hunting and cattle country. $2,750,000.

SOLD – Tres Lagunas Ranch: 8,797 acres located in Catron County.

This ranch produces many different incomes with the hunting, cow/calf operation, and water sales from the commercial well. $9,000,000

SOLD – Elk Crossing Ranch: 5,585 acre all private prime elk, deer hunting and cattle ranch. Located in Catron County. $5,400,000 SOLD – Buck Horn Ranch: 27,905 acres located in Torrance County. $1,700,000 SOLD – Dinner Hill Ranch: 14,269 acres located in Otero County. $1,200,000 SOLD – 47 Hop Canyon: 88 acres and a historical home built in 1910. $680,000 SOLD – Maese Farm: 10 acres of irrigated pasture, Pre 1907 water rights and home. Socorro County. $420,000

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

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

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

RANCHES/FARMS 260 Head Cattle Ranch with 4,612 Deeded Acres, Virden, NM – Solid working cattle ranch with excellent water distribution, good mix of grass and browse ranging in elevation from 4,000’ to 5,800’. 14,980+/- ac BLM, 2,860 ac State Leases and 640 ac of adverse grazing. Takes in scenic Vanderbilt Peak, Mount Royal, and stops just short of Steeple Rock. $2.8M *SOLD* 200-300 Head Cattle Ranch, Marana, AZ – 112.8 +/- Deeded ac; 150+/- ac of pasture, 3,700+/- ac of sub-lease, 14 +/- ac of farm fields, HQ on State Land. 2nd mfg home on deeded. 2 sets of good steel pipe corrals $1.9M

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*SOLD* 2,373+/- Acre Farm, Animas, NM – Custom 2560 +/- s.f. home built in 2008. 20Acre pivot, 40’ x 60’ shop, 40’ x 50’ hay barn, fruit trees, chicken coop, garden area. Pivot produced 9.5 tons/ac of alfalfa in 2020.

300 gpm well. 5 pastures with water piped to 2 storage tanks and drinkers in all pastures. Historically has run 40 head of cattle yearlong. $1.3M

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*NEW* 12.7+/- Irrigated Acres, Marana, AZ – Irrigated farmland in the heart of Marana, perfectly suited for development. Currently, planted in Alfalfa and at one time was planted to corn. Fields are fenced, flood irrigated from concrete ditches and gates from the Cortaro Irrigation District. Great location near Marana Stockyards for those interested in performance

horse activities that involve livestock. $825,000 *NEW* 98+/- Deeded Acre Farm, Bonita, AZ – Great little farm in a picture-perfect setting!

Two small pivots with 35 acres of water rights. Nicely improved with a newer 3 BR, 2 BA Shultz doublewide mfg home; 3-sided hay/ machine shed, 1,560+/- s.f. shop with concrete floor and insulated ceiling, hay shed, Connex box, nice set of guardrail and steel corrals with crowding tub, squeeze and scale. 250 gpm irrigation well with 20 HP motor and 13,500+/- gallons of storage. Raise horses, finish out calves, small cow/calf operation or homestead. Runs about 40 head of cattle. $750,000

ley views. Includes 2-car detached garage, 1,092+/- s.f. metal shop building, railroad car, small barn, fenced and cross fenced. Online Auction to start 12/1 and will end with a soft close on 12/10.

Contact Paul Ramirez for details or check out our webpage coming soon. *SOLD* 40+/- Acre Last Stand B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ – An exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue. The Territorial, twostory 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. $1,675,000

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*SOLD* 1,578 Acres of Land, McNeal, AZ – Currently used as grazing land for an adjacent ranch. Fenced with 2 wells. Seller will split. $500 per acre for all or $650 to $700 per acre for smaller parcels. located near the McNeal Farm we have listed above, and could be used as an additional pasture; purchase for investment or build your own ranchette.

*SOLD* 90+/- Acre HP Bar Ranch, Benson, AZ – Perfect gentlemen’s ranch or private get-away. Backs up to USFS for endless riding possibilities. Fully fenced for cattle. 2 BR, 1 BA home; garage; steel barn w/two horse stalls, tack room & large hay storage; corrals; workshop.

Expansive views. $595,000

120 +/- Acres of Farm Ground, Willcox, AZ – Located NW of Willcox in a good groundwater area. 2 wells. Center pivot. $468,000 Call Harry Owens

*SOLD* 20+/- Acre Equestrian Property, Sonoita, AZ – Established horse training and boarding facility on +/-20-acres adjoining BLM land, panoramic mountain v iews. Two mfg homes, 36’ x 160’ horse barn, barn/ shop, equipment shed, hay shed, 10 shades/loafing sheds with corrals, +/-70’ x 90’ dressage and 160’ x 170’ fenced arena. There are also RV spaces with septic, a fire pit and a well. $650,000

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HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *AUCTION* 5+/- Acre Country Estate, Dewey Humbolt, AZ – Charming 2 BR, 3 BA 2-story home. Beautiful, vaulted wood ceilings, loft, floor to ceiling windows in the great room with expansive val-

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■ PRICE REDUCED! CEDARVALE, NM – 7,113-acre ranch (5,152 ac. +/- Deeded, 1,961 ac. +/- State Lease) well fenced & watered w/good pens, new barn.

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

■ PRICE REDUCED! UNION CO., NM – 2,091.72 ac. (1,771.72 Deeded, 320 ac.

-/+ State Lease), well watered w/three wells, two sets of steel pens.

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

■ PALO DURO CREEK TREASURE – 941 acres +/- in Randall Co. NW of Canyon, Tx. STUNNING VIEWS OVER LOOKING PALO DURO CREEK. Turn-key cow/calf operation w development potential. Property includes: 3/3/3 ranch style home, 4 wells, large shop plus shed, enclosed livestock working facility w/hydraulic chute, livestock pens & shed, miles of 5 & 6 barbed wire fence & over 7000' of pipe fence. YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS! Canyon School District.

■ DEAF SMITH CO., TX – 651 ac. +/-, 7 miles N of Dawn, Tx., 1 mile E of FM 809.

349 acres native grass with well-maintained fencing and 302 acres of cultivated dry land.

■ PRICE REDUCED! DALLAM CO, TX – 1,216.63 ac. +/- of CRP/ranchland w/ irrigation, re-development potential, wells & pipelines already in place.

■ PRICE REDUCED! LET’S LOOK at these two choices 80-acre tracts of dryland located in close proximity one to the other in Willbarger County near Vernon, Texas.

■ PRICE REDUCTION! TURN-KEY RESTAURANT: READY FOR BUSINESS! – One of the best steak houses in the nation just out of Amarillo & Canyon at Umbarger, TX., state-of-the-art bldg., w/complete facilities.

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EIGHT MILE DRAW LAND 740 ± Acres of unimproved native grassland

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

COWBOY DRAW RANCH

Excellent small cattle ranch located in southeastern New Mexico approximately 50 miles northwest of Roswell on the Chaves/ Lincoln county line. 7,455 total acres with 2,600 deeded with the balance federal BLM lease acres. Permitted for 151 animal units yearlong with an additional 30 animal units on a temporary nonrenewable basis. Watered with two wells and several miles of water pipeline. Two larger open draws run through the ranch that provide overflow areas to enhance grazing. The terrain is open and rolling with good turf. The ranch has had good summer rains with no cattle since last spring. The ranch is in excellent condition. Call for a brochure and come take a look. Price: $1,350,000

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

Frances Mesa Ranch Rio Arriba County, NM

The Frances Mesa Ranch is superbly located in NM Big Game Unite 2B. Lying between the Rosa Mesa and Ensenada Mesa Wildlife areas, it offers premiere Mule Deer and Elk habitat and hunting opportunities. The property is multidimensional, with income streams from grazing, hunting, and in conjunction with the associated use of the surface by mineral development.

6094 +/- deeded acres 3908 +/- acres State Lease 16,061 +/- acres BLM

$5,100,000 Laura Riley (505) 330-3984

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DOUBLE BAR R RANCH, NOGALES, AZ — 110 deeded, w/12,224 NF Grazing land, runs 380 yearlong, Great improvements, high rain area. Priced at $3,500,000 RS RANCH GLENWOOD NM — 44,233 total acres consisting of 119.6 deeded acres and 44,113 acres Gila National Forest Grazing Allotment. Ranch will run 650 head mother cows yearlong and 18 horses. San Francisco River Runs through the Ranch, great improvements. Priced at $4,900,000 TYLER RANCH/FARM — York Az, 544 deeded with 173 irrigated, along with 14,000 state and Blm lease land. 300 head mother cows yearlong. Priced @$2,300,000

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If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call ...

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APACHE MESA, LAS VEGAS, NM: 227 acre parcel off Hwy 84 has two stock tanks, rim rock views, 2 stock tanks, power & fiber optics available.

List price: $354,400 & OWC DEMING, NM: 2050 Clabbertop Road off I-10 - 268 deeded acres w/airstrip & metal hanger, cold water well, overhead power & 3 RV pads! Located 10 miles west of Deming off I-10 frontage road. Price: $329,900 DEMING, NM: At the end of Baker Road, selling 1,120 deeded acres w/ power, good access off north I-10 frontage road. Parcel can be used for ag crops, subdivision, power projects. Price: $600,000 VILLANUEVA, NM: 305 CR B29A 87 deeded acres has 3 legal lots of record w/100 gpm shared well. Power on site & fenced on 3 sides, motivated seller! Price: $142,500 VILLANUEVA, NM: 279 deeded acres has overhead electric, perimeter fenced, good stock tank. Juniper & pinon tree cover w/some ponderosa!

Great gramma grass cover right now! Asking $223,200 OBO SOUTHERN SANTA FE COUNTY: Calle Victoriano parcel is 640 acres w/ power & good water well onsite! Price is $548,900 Located in Kings Draw in the Estancia Basin off Simmons Rd. Can be subdivided. No restrictions & mfg. homes ok.

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TIERRA DE DIOS:20 acre parcels south of Rowe, NM are now on the market. We are selling 3 lots with airstrip for those wanting fly-in homes.

From $149,900 to $154,900. All parcels have underground power, fiber optics, community water and are ready to build!

KEN AHLER REAL ESTATE CO., INC. 300 Paseo Peralta, Suite 211, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Office: 505/989–7573 • Toll Free: 888/989–7573 • Mobile: 505/490–0220 Email: kahler@newmexico.com • Website: www.SantaFeLand.com

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

CAPULIN -SIERRA GRAND VIEW, Union County. NM. 520 +/- deeded acres with HQ 1.5 miles off highway, 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home with landscaped yard and volcanic rock walls, nice outbuildings, 3 registered wells including 1 registered as an irrigation well and an excellent solar well. Close proximity to Des Moines, NM. $898,000 DES MOINES, 336.58 +/- Deeded Acres Union County NM – 3 bedroom 2 bath home, 32ft X 30ft metal building on slab.

62 ft X 12 ft metal barn, one big pasture off highway. Mixture of open grass range and trees. Less than two miles to town. $575,000 MAXWELL 45, Excellent irrigated pasture with utilities in back of property, including installed septic system, with private views of mountains. 40 irrigable acres and a domestic water meter installed. Great to put down home and bring horses. $249,000 BAR LAZY 7 RANCH, Colfax County, Moreno Valley 594.38 +/- deeded acres, accessed off blacktop between Eagle Nest and Angel Fire. Historic headquarters.

Currently used as summer grazing, pond and trees accessed off county road on rear of property as well. Presented “ASIS” New Survey, $4,000,000 $3,800,000 UTE PARK RIVER PLACE 6.83 +/ACRES, 450 +/- feet of the Cimarron River and more than that of Ute Creek are the south and east boundaries of this unique one of a kind water property. 2 bedroom 1 bathroom cabin, year round access off Hwy 64. $589,000 $570,000 CIMARRON BUSINESS, Frontage opportunity, house, big shop and office buildings, easy view off Hwy 64. Formerly known as “The Porch.” $295,000 MIAMI 40 ACRES, Colfax County NM, private 2 bedroom getaway with elevated fantastic view, nice porch, little casita, irrigation and pole barn. Extremely private setting. Right below mesa. $450,000 COLFAX TAVERN & DINER, Colfax County, NM. Aka “COLD BEER”, turn key legendry regional icon and destination, with anchor staff/team willing to stay on. Prime business on front range. $1,500,000

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PAUL McGILLIARD Murney Associate Realtors Cell: 417/839-5096 • 800/743-0336 Springfield, MO 65804

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Terrell land & livesTock company 575/447-6041 Tye C. Terrell, Jr.

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James Sammons III Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma & Missouri Broker

214.701.1970 jamessammons.com jsammons@briggsfreeman.com 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd. | 4th Floor Dallas, Texas 75219 Ranch and Land Division

We Know New Mexico Selling NM ranches for close to 50 Years

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

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

PIE TOWN, Goat Ranch Road Access, South of Wild Horse Ranch Subdivision. 20 acres $12,000, 40 acres $24,000. Beautiful views.

DATIL, Herrington Canyon Road Access, Two tracts, 40 acres $24,000, 44 acres $27,000 FENCE LAKE, 295 Pine Hill Road, 60 acres with over 2300 sq. ft. log home, corral, outbuildings. $240,000 SAN MARCIAL, Willow Springs Ranch, Winchester Road. 432 acres at the foothills of Chupadera Mountains $325,000 MILAGRO, 0000 Pecos Spur, Portrillo Creek Ranch Subdivision.

164 acres wide open space. Distant mountain views. Close to I-40. $94,000 Paul Stout, Broker

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

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— Petroleum Building — 14 e. Beauregard Ave., Suite 201 San Angelo, texas 76903-5831 ofc.: 325/655-3555

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

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SCOTT MCNALLY

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Cell: 575-838-3016 Office: 575-854-2150 Fax: 575-854-2150

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

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

■ HAWKEYE CANYON RANCH: Organ, NM 4,527 +/- acres &/or 7 +/- sections 35 AYL, 4,316 +/- acres of BLM, 191 +/- acres of NM state land, 20 +/- acres of deeded land, 1,600 sq ft house with granite counter tops, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, metal roof, plus 1 bed, 1 bath casita w/carport, barn, corrals, excellent views, minutes away from Las Cruces, NM Priced at $635,000 ■ WHIRLWIND ROAD: The farm is located south of Deming, N.M. Irrigation well, priority date 06/02/1952 The farm is improved with a filter station, irrigation well and perimeter fencing 236 acres +/- in total, with 142.82 acres of irrigated farmland and 93.16 acres pastureland. Priced at $200,000

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■ CEDAR GROVE RANCH: 37 section cattle ranch, Deming, NM. 23,714± total acres, 1280± acres deeded land, 2632± acres of state land, 19,802± acres BLM, excellent water system, seven solar wells, 180,000 gallons of water storage, 333 AYL, 6± horses.

■ RAINBOW WASH NORTH RANCH: 17 section cattle ranch located between Lordsburg and Animas, NM in the Pyramid Mountains.

11,383± total acres, 640± deeded land, 3477± of state land 7266± acres of BLM, four wells, 112 AYL

NEW LISTING! Skully Creek Ranch: 94 AU with 1,440 deeded acres, state and federal leases in Greenlee County approximately 40 miles northeast of Safford, Arizona. The ranch is located just over four miles off the paved highway along and lies along Skully Creek. The headquarters includes an adobe, two-story rustic ranch house overlooking the cottonwood lined Skully Creek Canyon with amazing views of Hells Peak in the distance. This is a real nice “off-gride” property with private, solar powered well. The deeded land location and physical features provide privacy and mountain views. Price: $1,600,000 NEW LISTING! Indian Springs Ranch: 52 AU with 1,480 deeded acres, BLM grazing lease in Cochise County approximately 14 miles northeast of San Simon, Arizona. The ranch is located just over 12 miles off the paved highway at the end of Indian Springs Road in the Peloncillo Mountains. Headquarters improvements include two ranch houses and horse corrals with shades. The ranch is very private and secluded with lots of water. Livestock water is provided by numerous springs and three private wells. The water wells are pumped via solar with water levels all less than 100’. Private land controls access to thousands of acres in the Peloncillo Wilderness. Price: $1,400,000

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■ CATTLE RANCH SE of Deming: NM 2,900 +/- acres total, 2,500 +/- acres of deeded land, including 71 +/- acres of water rights with a priority date 03/03/1945. 240 +/- acres of NM State Land, 160 acres of adverse land. Priced at $1,200,000

NEW LISTING! Hunt Valley Farm: West of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 891 deeded acres in total with 210 acres currently irrigated via center-pivot sprinkler and gated pipe flood irrigation. Shallow wells on land-line electricity with room to expand the irrigated acreage. Currently used as a grow yard/ heifer development facility with corral/bunk space for approx. 950 head. Buildings include a remodeled mobile home in good condition, farm office and large metal shop with commodity storage under roof. This is a nice production farm located directly off the paved highway situated at 5,400’ elevation. Price: $1,500,000 ESCROW! CONTACT: ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT www.headquarterswest.com email: info@headquarterswest.com NOVEMBER 2022

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eing a rancher’s wife has been a rewarding experience, that I would not trade for anything. I was not raised on a ranch; ranch life was a new concept for me.

Newly married, living in a new place, meeting new people, and figuring out a new life. Ranching is love of the land and animals you are caring for. The agriculture community is very small, it may stretch over several states, but if you work in agriculture, you know a majority of the other farmers/ ranchers.

Ranching is a yearlong job, it varies how the year folds out by where you live, because of the weather. In every division of agriculture, you live by what the weather does. If you have moisture, rain or snow, you have grass or crops to feed animals with. If you don’t have moisture then you figure out something else to feed your animals, like hay or different forms of feed. In Central New Mexico, early winter months are usually pretty cold. So, there are very few babies, calves or foals, born in these months.

I have had my share of baby calves in my laundry room that were born in a snowstorm and need a little tender loving care. Next thing you know we are heavy into Spring; this means calves and foals being born everywhere!

What a great time of year, those babies are so cute! Branding season sneaks up on you before you know it. This is where we brand, vaccinate, castrate, and ear tag our calves.

Please do not think we are being mean to them. The calves are roped, dragged to the fire, and up in less than 30 seconds!

All the things we do to them is for their health and the health of the herd. We brand to show ownership. We vaccinate for the health of the calf, stimulating their immune system to be prepared for the diseases they come into contact with. Castrating bull calves keeps the herd healthy by choosing breeding animals. Ear tags can serve different purposes, but mostly fly control and identification for calves.

Branding is a big day for ranchers. We need a fairly large crew to complete the tasks of the day. An average branding on our outfit is around 200 head, but we may have to gather several thousand acres to get them together. This will take about 12 to 15 people

to make this happen. Most ranchers do not have this many employees that they can draw from.

So, they enroll the whole family; wives and children and even the neighbors. Wives of ranchers wear many hats; they fill in to help their husbands out wherever they need help. This could be mugging the biggest cow that her husband can rope, bouncing on the end of a rope because the cow has mastitis and her calf is hungry. Or making breakfast and lunch for a crew of 15, and flanking calves between running to the house to stir the pot. Children when they come of age are given the job of vaccinating or ear tagging.

As they get bigger children are taught to rope and drag calves, and in their adolescent years taught to flank. But a ranchers’ truly most invaluable asset is his neighbors.

Neighboring ranchers have the same problem of not having enough help. So, neighbors trade help with each other to get the job done. When you are trading help, the whole family goes. This is not only work but a fun fellowship between friends and family.

Neighbors are needed all year long. When a rancher has to be gone overnight or over the weekend the neighbor checks water and fences while the rancher is gone. And the rancher will in turn do the same thing for his neighbor. Helping each other help themselves. Neighbors are family, not by blood, but they are there any time you need something. They are even at Christmas dinner, there when a baby is born, or a family member goes to heaven neighbors are always there.

In the hot summer months, we are checking water every day and making sure there is enough water and grass for the cows and growing calves to fill their bellies. If not, we are moving the cows to a place where there is grass or water which they need. In years of drought, we can move our herd a lot.

By the time fall rolls around the weather is getting colder, but the calves are ready to be weaned off of their mamas. Again, we are going to need the help of our neighbors.

Gathering the same pastures as branding time. Bringing the herd together to strip the calves off and pregnancy check the cows. By Christmas time the work is finished and we can take some time off before gearing back up to start all over again. Producing beef for the whole country. We are proud of the product we produce.

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ur beloved Mother and Grandmother, GERALDA MIRANDA CHACÓN, passed away peacefully, fittingly surrounded by her devoted family on September 26, 2022. Geralda (Mom, Mama, Grams and Geri) was 96 years young in mind and spirit, and worn-tired from a life well lived. She was an exceptional woman who devoted her entire life to God, her faith, her family and was meticulous about her work both in her home and her professional career.

She was born to Emilio and Francisca Madrid Miranda in the village of Lincoln, New Mexico. She felt deeply blessed and was ever grateful for the gift of loving-devoted parents, a happy home and being eighth of twelve siblings, eight girls and four boys. She remembered each of her sisters and brothers with a birthday card that she sent well into her 90’s and until her last day, always included her parents and each sibling in her morning and evening prayers. Her large family provided a lifetime of love, happiness, and security. Fulfilling a promise to their Mother to keep the siblings close, the Miranda Family Reunions became a tri-annual event lasting two days with upwards of two hundred children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in attendance. For over four decades the reunion tradition continues to be a much anticipated family event.

Mama was a good student and a voracious reader her entire life. She attended elementary through 8th Grade in Lincoln, graduating as Class Valedictorian. Upon her parent’s retirement to Las Cruces, she returned to Lincoln and lived with her Sister Ofelia’s family, helping with her much beloved nephew, Arturo. She graduated from Capitan High School. Mama was a product of the Great Depression and World War II. She often said that while her family didn’t have a lot, they had the essentials and she never felt poor. She worked hard all her life beginning with chores at home, helping her father in the post office and helping her Grandmother Lorenzita, plant, hoe and weed her garden which provided essential produce for their large family. As a teenager, she babysat her younger siblings, nieces and nephews, and neighbor children. After graduating, much to her regret, she did not attend college. She said, “I wanted to go to college, but I knew Dad would do everything possible to help me financially, and I didn’t want my younger sisters and brothers to do without”. She moved to California to work

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with Western Union during the war and farm in Espanola, and the cattle. Mama and lived under the protective eye of her oldest Daddy held down two full time jobs and Sister Neli and brother in law, Cipriano. She worked tirelessly to support us children and forged a close bond with her young niece, maintain and grow our operation, driving Marcia, taking care of her, sharing her from Los Alamos or Espanola to Cebolla on rationed coupons to keep Marcia in shoes Friday evenings, to work cattle, tend to and cringing at Marcia’s tattle tale antics horses, build fences, irrigate, maintain the with Mama’s dates. Their special relation- houses and back again late on Sunday eveship grew and carried through Mama’s nings to be ready for work on Monday. passing.

Mama was extremely organized and made Mama enjoyed a long and successful the endless number of trips with kids, dogs career. She began her career in 1949 as Assis- and plenty of groceries. She paid the bills, tant Post Master in Cebolla, New Mexico. In kept the books, prepared the taxes, and 1953, she began working at the Atomic meticulously maintained her filing system Energy Commission (AEC) in Los Alamos, until a few years ago. Daddy told us the story NM, an important post war federal agency of a young man who asked him how he had in charge of the nation’s security during the managed to purchase the ranch and the farm, Cold War. She started as a File Clerk and and Daddy proudly said, “My wife worked!”

Clerk Typist and quickly rose in rank in the It was a true partnership.

Visitor Control & Badge Unit. Visitor The greatest gift our Mama and “Grams” Control was responsible for researching cre- gave us was her unconditional love. Each dentials and processing all domestic and time we called her or walked through her foreign visitors (scientists and personnel) to door, she was always cheerful and happy to and from the Los Alamos National Labora- see us. We knew without a doubt that we tory (LANL) and all national laboratories were the most important people to her. She across the country. Her job required the encouraged us to be independent, but we highest level of U.S. government security knew she was there for us, and we always had clearance. Eventually, she became a Security a home to come back to. She fiercely defended Specialist and was trained to interview and us. Our Mama loved us equally and taught investigate personnel that were possible us not to be critical of one another, but to security risks and those applying for clear- love and take care of each other. In the last ances. Her greatest honor was being selected days of her life, she thanked each of us chilone of three women in the nation for an dren and told us we were the joy of her life. additional security detail, that required She asked Dina to take care of her brothers, training and qualifying with firearms and and her sons to take care of their sister. assisting in detainment. She was required to She was loving, kind, cheerful, optimistic be in uniform and assist with all presidential and generous with a touch of orneriness that visits. She retired as a GS-9, on February 29, made her FUN and REAL! She loved sweets 1980 with 26 years of faithful service to her (all sweets), a shot of Canadian Mist now and country. Mama enjoyed her career and met then, she tolerated the production of mud many lifetime friends in the workplace and pies on her porch and maintained bottomacross the United States. less cookie and pick le jars for her Mama’s most treasured accomplishment grandchildren. An avid obituary reader, was her family. She was married to Charlie Mama made us promise not to embellish the Chacón for 75 years, until his death in 2020. truth by saying she enjoyed cooking and Mama fondly remembered arriving in making tortillas for her grandchildren. The Cebolla on the mail/passenger bus to meet truth is, she preferred to roll down a hill of her new family, to find the entire town of grass with them, go out for hamburgers and Cebolla all dressed up in their Sunday best ice cream, teach them how to whistle by waiting to meet and welcome her! She fell in blowing through their hands, how to stick love with the community and the people of out their tongues and blow raspberries, or Cebolla. watch Alaskan Bush People and Naked and They were blessed with three sons, Carlos, Afraid “Los Empelotos” on TV together.

Claudio, and Gerald and their daughter, In her 60s Mama had a dream she was Dina. Together, they raised our family and lying sick in a bed and her parents were through hard work and much sacrifice they visibly sad holding her hand on each side of followed their passion for ranching and pur- the bed. Her Grandmother Lorenzita walked chased our ranches one place at a time, into the room and said, “Levantate, Geralda, buying the first piece, The Piñavetal, from todo via no acabas tu tarea” meaning, “Get our grandparents, Maximiana and Patricio up Geralda, you have not finished hoeing Chacón, and over time buying additional your row (your task).” She woke up immediproperties, including The Esperanza, the ately, and thought it was her grandmother

telling her she had not finished her work on earth. “Mama, ya acabaste su tarea.” Rest in Peace. We will miss you until we see you again.

Geralda is survived by her children, Carlos Chacón and wife Mary Tony of Rio Rancho, Claudio Chacón and Mary Lou Goodman of Espanola, Gerald and Frances Chacón of Espanola, Dina Reitzel and husband Jim of Albuquerque, and Carmen Chacón, Las Vegas, NV. Her surviving grandchildren are Carlos Chacón, Angela Bernal, Reyna Guevara-Corral, Alejandro Chacón, Crista Chacón, Marisa Guaderrama, Felicia Frost, and Elizabeth Reitzel-Choy.

Her great-grandchildren are Kristina, Claudia, Amanda, Laycie, and Adrian Romero Chacón, Gabriella and Dominique Guevara, Nicolas Chacón, Raquel Chacón, Andres, Miguel and Joaquin Guaderrama, Emma and Kohen Frost, and Mateo Choy-Reitzel, and one great-great-grandson, Chrysanthos Romero.

Surviving siblings are Beatrice Melendrez, Dolores Faglier, Frances Gallegos, Gustavo Miranda and many special nieces and nephews.

She is predeceased by her husband, Charlie Chacón, and two grandsons, Matthew Reitzel and Damian Chacón, her parents, Emilio and Francisca Miranda, and siblings, Neli Trujillo, Ofelia Salas, Max Miranda, Gilbert Miranda, Mabel Ramsey, Lucila Arguello, and Henry Miranda.

In lieu of flowers, please make gifts in Mama’s memory to the Matthew David Reitzel Scholarship, payable to the NMSU Foundation, PO Box 3590, Las Cruces, NM 88003-3590.

ALICE MARY MOORE, 85, passed away September 29, 2022. She was born January 23, 1937 in Raton, New Mexico and spent her entire life on the family ranch on and near Eagle Tail Mountain. She graduated from Raton High School in 1954. Alice is survived by one brother, Paul H. Moore, of Santa Fe and his children and numerous cousins.

Moore Ranch began in 1872, after Alice’s great-grandparents, Thomas Sims and Nancy Gillespie, traveled by oxcart from Tennessee to northern New Mexico and homesteaded 160 acres about 12 miles south of Raton. Their daughter, Cora married Landon D. Moore and their son, Landon Kelly inherited the property and purchased his brother’s rights to the land. Together, Landon and Mary grew the ranch into what it is today.

After Alice graduated from high school, she planned to attend veterinary college but unfortunately her father passed away. Having spent her life helping her dad, she agreed to

stay home and run the ranch. Alice learned was involved with the ladies Hereford Auxabout running the ranch “on the job” as well iliary for many years. as from their long-term ranch help and Freda was a devoted mother to Steve and neighboring ranchers. She spent her life Mark, encouraging them in all the sports, managing the land to improve soil health school activities, and cattle events in which and making improvements to the ranch’s they participated. As a grandmother, she cattle and horse operations. babysat frequently and was much loved by Alice was an inspiration in the New five granddaughters and one grandson.

Mexico ranching community for decades.

Freda was a wonderful cook. She enjoyed Alice bred and raised wonderful Quarter preparing meals for her family, guests, and Horses for use on the ranch and sold highly- for events. She made traditional southern sought-out horses across the country. In fare as well as many new recipes gleaned 1999, Moore Ranch was awarded the AQHA from cookbooks, magazines and from Legacy Breeder designation for 50 consecu- friends all over the country. tive years of Quarter Horse breeding. Moore Freda spent many hours sewing western Ranch received the Best Remuda award from shirts for her husband and sons, making sure the New Mexico Quarter Horse Association they had pockets large enough to accommoand the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Asso- date herd notebooks and pens. Among other ciation in 2005. An active progressive things she made aprons, which she wore rancher, Alice also received the Society of every day, saying those were part of her Range Management’s Excellence in Grazing ‘uniform’ as a ranch wife.

Award, served as secretary for 47 years on She embroidered some special projects the Colfax Soil and Water Conservation Dis- over the years, making gifts for friends and trict Board, conducted range workshops and family, which are especially treasured by field tours on her ranch and served on the those who received them. Her home was Colfax County Fair Board. always clean, cozy, and welcoming. She had Sincere appreciation goes to Alice’s many a gift for providing hospitality to whoever friends for their lifelong friendship and help. might come to the ranch.

Alice will be greatly missed by her entire Freda had an infectious laugh, a good community of friends and admirers sense of humor, and a beautiful smile. WhenDonations may be made in her memory ever people remember her, they say that she to Colfax Soil and Water Conservation Dis- was outgoing, sweet and encouraging. She trict, 245 Park Ave, Suite 206, Raton, NM. was glad to be a wife and mother, she took FREDA SHERWOOD LARGENT, 93, both roles very seriously and was a good Glenrio, peacefully went home to be with the example of being totally involved in those Lord in Logan, New Mexico on October 5, endeavors, being joyful and loving her 2022. Freda was born July 19, 1929, in Cros- occupation. byton, Texas to Harry and Freda Sherwood.

Freda is survived by her son, Steve and She attended Crosbyton schools her entire his wife Ann. Glenrio; and her son, Mark and life until she graduated from Crosbyton his wife, Cathy, Kaycee, Wyoming. In addiHigh School in 1946, where she was the Salu- tion, she is survived by her six grandchildren tatorian of her class. and their spouses as well as by numerous She was married December 1st that same great grandchildren, and several great-great year to David S. Largent, Merkel, Texas. She grandchildren. and David resided on his family ranch at The family wishes to thank the staff of Merkel for a time before moving to a ranch Autumn Blessings in Logan for taking not far from Clayton, New Mexico. The amazing care of Freda during the last four Largents moved several times during their years of her life. life together including several moves in New (C.B.) DOC LANE passed away peaceMexico, back to Texas, then to Arizona, back fully on October 2, 2022 after a long illness. to Texas, to Montana, then Wyoming and Born in Chaves County, New Mexico, he finally to Glenrio, New Mexico. grew up on cattle ranches in New Mexico They were blessed with two sons, Steve and Southeast Arizona. A graduate of Tucson born in 1950 and Mark born in 1952. No High & the University of Arizona, he matter where they lived, Freda and David ranched at the families O Bar O, a feedlot raised Hereford cattle, which was their near Sasabe, and the Lane Ranch north of primary focus as a vocation.

Limon, Colorado. After managing a ranch Freda was an enthusiastic support in that in Cheyenne, Wyoming, he came back to endeavor, caring for cattle, attending and Arizona to work for the Arizona Cattle working with the cattle at various Cattle Growers Association where he stayed over Shows across the United States. As part of 20 years, until his retirement. her support for the Hereford industry she Never one to sit idle, he started making NOVEMBER 2022

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saddle racks, boot jacks, coat stands and chairs in his enormous metal barn in Cave Creek. He made it to most of our sporting events as kids, and helped coach many of our baseball and football little league teams.

He was even-tempered, quick to smile, and you really had to work to make him mad (which his children often managed to do).

More importantly, he lived by example, a man of his word who imparted the importance of personal responsibility and integrity, and that all work has value.

Doc is survived by his wife, Patti Lane; Susan, only daughter of Marion and sons Todd (Stacey); Tim (Diane); and Sam; Truman Spencer, was born in 1942 in Oregon, daughter Justine (Ryan); five grandkids and where her father was squadron commander two great-grandsons. There was a celebra- in the Army Air Corps. She grew up with her tion remembering his life in Cave Creek at two brothers, Stirling and Steven, on the Bar Frontier Town, 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, W Ranch outside of Carrizozo, New Mexico.

October 27 and in Tucson at Hilton East, 4 Susan was riding with men by the time she to 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 29. was eight years old, in a time when cowboys It is with deep sorrow that we share that rode to the herd, did a day’s work, and rode SUSAN SPENCER FROST, 79, passed away home late that evening. in Alamogordo, New Mexico on September Susan attended school in Carrizozo until 26, 2022 following a debilitating illness. the 10th grade and completed her high school education at Loretto Academy in El Paso. She became an airline stewardess and later got her undergraduate and Masters Storage Tank degree from University of Texas in El Paso.

Susan married the love of her life, Jack Frost, in 1974. They worked together for 15 years and he taught her the long haul refrigHay Saver erated trucking business, as well as how to Hay drive a big rig.

Wagon In 1983, Susan and Jack bought a little casita and fish camp on the Sea of Cortez.

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Susan founded the Ladies International 1209 US Rt 66, Suite C, Moriarty, NM 87035-3422 Fishing Tournament (L.I.F.T.) which is today Office: 505-832-5092 • Cell: 505-379-8212 one of the biggest attractions in San Carlos. www.cbcnm.bank She is remembered as being a tremendous bookkeeper, afraid only of lightning and tenacious in whatever she set her mind to do.

Her friends knew that if work had to be done and Susan showed up to do it, all they had to do was get out of the way.

But Susan was a rancher’s daughter, and when they left Mexico, they always returned to the Bar W. “She and Jack would be deep in Mexico, and they always knew what I was doing on the ranch,” Stirling recalled.

Susan was close to all her nieces and nephews.

The last couple of years of Susan’s life, she and Jack spent a lot of time on the Bar W. From the headquarter’s home office, Susan JERYL PRIDDY 325/754-4300 had a good view of the bull pasture and could Cell: 325/977-0769 watch the ranch bulls as they came in for water. “She gave me a detailed report on the

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animals each day,” Stirling noted. “She paid program in Animal Science at the University attention to all of them.” of Chihuahua. He also worked in Belize, Throughout her life, Susan staunchly Algeria, and The Gambia, and regularly supported New Mexico Cattle Growers. She advised international Ph.D. students. left a large bequest to the Cattlegrowers In addition to his work that he loved, Bob Foundation Inc. at her passing. loved his community. For over 40 years, he DR. BOBBY JOE RANKIN died on was active in the First Presbyterian Church October 13, 2022, at 90 years old. He was a of Las Cruces, serving as deacon, teacher, resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico for and elder at various times. Bob was a member almost 60 years. Most recently, he lived with and officer of Rotary Club of Las Cruces for family at his ranch at Abbott, NM and at the many years, as well as New Mexico Cattle Beehive assisted living home in Raton.

Growers, Farm Bureau, and NMSU Bobby was born July 5, 1932, in Wills Foundation.

Point, Texas to Joe Maxie (JK) and Mattie Bob was blessed with strong faith in his Lou (Harris) Rankin. He grew up in Wills Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ from whom he Point, Texas, during the difficult 1930s, received wisdom, strength, and guidance helping on the family farm and working at throughout his life. He was a man of great the service station that his father managed. integrity. He especially loved and served us Friends in those days knew him for his red - his family and his friends, and we couldn’t hair and fun-loving spirit. After graduating have dreamed anyone could do it better. from Wills Point High School, he attended Bob is survived by: daughters, Trina Texas A&M University, where he was a Davis (husband, Bruce), Springer, and Amy member of the rodeo and livestock judging Rankin (husband, Doug Pickett), Taos; two teams. He graduated in 1954 with a degree grandsons, Benjamin Rankin (wife, Rachel) in Animal Science and a commission in the Davis, and John Damon Davis, and dear U.S. Army Reserve. After training at Infan- friends and family who shared this life try Basic Officer school, and the Airborne journey with him. and Ranger schools, he was stationed in He was preceded in death by his wife, his Germany. He continued his military career parents, and his two sisters, Lue Jean Beck as commander of a reserve U.S. Special and Elizabeth Charlyne Sledge.

Forces unit in Stillwater, Oklahoma and in Should anyone like to make a memorial Las Cruces until 1965. donation, Bobby requested they be made to: In 1957, Bobby enrolled in graduate NMSU Foundation – Bobby Rankin Judging school at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Team Endowed Fund (PO Box 3590, Las where he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cruces NM 88005), First Presbyterian Animal Science. At OSU, Bobby also met his Church of Las Cruces (200 E. Boutz Rd, Las wife of 58 years. He married Margie Ann Bond, daughter of Damon Upton and Marie Elizabeth Bond on September 5, 1959.

Dr. Rankin joined New Mexico State University (NMSU) in 1961 and traveled the state as an Extension Livestock Specialist, focusing on the genetic improvement of beef cattle. He helped improve productivity and marketability in the ranching industry with his central bull-testing and ranch-to-rail programs. He then enjoyed a 20-year teaching career, mentoring students in NMSU’s Animal and Range Sciences department, before serving as the Department Head until his retirement in 2000. During his time at NMSU, he was active sponsoring the livestock judging and rodeo teams. He helped establish New Mexico’s 4-H horse program and initiated a campus horse program that led to Quarter Horse breeding, hands-on horse training, and intercollegiate competitions. He was instrumental in establishing the Corona Research Ranch in central New Mexico. Fluent in Spanish, he served as college adviser to a USAID project in Paraguay and founding teacher for the graduate

Cruces 88005), The Ranches (NM Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation – theranches.org), or Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc. (cattlegrowersfoundation.org).

WILLIAM J. “BILL” GRAY, 81, Lubbock, Texas passed away October 14, surrounded by his immediate family and sisters. He was born on December 19, 1940, in Artesia, to Orval C. and Mary Jane Terry Gray. Bill grew up on the family farm in the Cottonwood community, north of Artesia, starting his education at Cottonwood School, which was built on land donated by his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Terry.

He graduated from Artesia High School in 1958 as a proud member of Artesia’s first state football championship team. He continued his education at New Mexico Military Institute where he played on the Broncos baseball team, later finishing his college studies and achieving a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University.

On April 2, 1961, Bill married the former Vicki LaNette Wickersham, Artesia. His early career took his young family to Ottumwa, Iowa with John Deere, and later, opportunities with Continental and other oil companies in Casper, Wyoming; Ponca City, Oklahoma; and Tulsa, Oklahoma before returning to Artesia in 1969 as Chief Engineer of Navajo Refining Company.

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ost collectors keep a close eye on the market so they have a good idea of values—and 2022 has been a wild ride with regards to the market thus far!

There have been many record breaking sales and at the same time, high inflation has made other item less desirable and harder to sell—so some values have actually gone down. It seems the better quality stuff is doing better than ever, while low-end items are having a harder time finding a good buyer base. A few highlights from the year thus far are listed below.

January kicked it off with two record sales! On the 22nd in Mesa, AZ at the Old West Show and Auction, Edward Bohlin’s personal parade spurs were sold. Described in part as: “These spurs are extremely detailed with their leather work, stainless steel, silver and gold. The spurs earned recognition from the moment of their creation, gaining exhibition at the 1967 World’s Fair.”

These amazing spurs sold for a whopping $236,000!* Also in January, at Western Trading Post’s Auction, a Lander Blue Turquoise squash blossom set sold for the princely sum of $112,000!* The set was advertised as consisting of four pieces, including a bracelet, ring, earrings and the squash blossom necklace. The items were made using what has now become, the rarest and most highly sought after turquoise in the world—Lander Blue. Both of these sales turned out to be unofficial auction world records in their respective categories!

At an auction on February 26th and 27th, a jersey worn by Mickey Mantle when he played his final game as a New York Yankee on Sept. 28, 1968, sold for a whopping $2,190,000!* That’s the highest price ever paid at auction for a Mickey Mantle jersey, shattering the previous record of $1,320,000!* Also in February, at a horse sale in Wickenburg, AZ, a horse sold at auction for whopping $500,000! The market for good horses seems to just keep going up as does

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t he ma rket for h ig h- end spor t s At Christie’s auction of the Herman Melmemorabilia. ville Collection of William S. Reese, on In April, at the New York International Sept.14th, illustrations for Moby-Dick by Antiquarian Book Fair, A Book of Rhymes American artist Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) which was created by a young Charlotte sold for $201,600!* It seems that Americana, Brontë and her siblings in 1829 (when she Art and Collectibles achieved record prices was only 13 years old), sold for $1.25 million. throughout the year at numerous auctions!

Charlotte Brontë (1816 –1855) is best known Trade shows that were either canceled or for writing Jane Eyre and this book sale reported low attendance the last couple years topped all other books sold throughout the (largely due to the pandemic) have reported year. fairly good activity from across the country An auction hosted by Miller & Miller on as people are once again “out and about” and May 14th featured an array of folk art and looking for things to do. Whether that transdecorative art from the late 19th century. lates into higher sales or not is debatable as The auction included a lineup of Canadian a big part of the activity reported seems to art by Maud Lewis and others. An oil paint- be dealer to dealer sales. However, online ing by Lewis reached well above the high sellers seem to still be doing well after enjoyestimate of CAD 25,000 (USD 19,165) and ing a record last couple of years, and brick sold for CAD 75,000 (USD 57,500). The and mortar was reporting a comeback painting depicted a snowy scene with a man during the first part of the year. driving two oxen while hauling logs and the Heading into the last part of the year, it sale proved there is still a market for good is a mixed bag of news with some large comfolk art. panies reporting massive layoffs, some June was also a good month. At a Western retailers reporting lower 3rd quarter earnTrading Post auction, a relic Springfield ings and inflation is running hot (which carbine with documentation and ties to the affects everybody in different ways). Tradibattle of the Little Bighorn sold for $47,600!* tionally this type of news means that good And we all know, the saddle market has been stuff will remain strong and lower-end items particularly tough for several years now, will continue to take a hit. Simple logic tells especially on used and antique saddles. us that higher prices for utilities, fuel and However, there were two vintage Ted Flowers food affect the lower wage earners more than parade saddles sold at that same auction others and when they have less discretionary which brought $6,720* and $7,840* and a income to spend on extras, the lower midfancy, Wade Tree saddle, made by the late dle-end and lower-end collectibles lose their Don Butler brought in $10,640!* Although a buying audience. On the other hand, the long ways from record setting prices, it was upper middle-end and high-end items nice to see used saddles bringing decent usually hold their value or even go up as money. people with money scramble looking for a On Aug. 27th, Heritage Auctions sold the place to park cash that is diminishing in most valuable baseball card in history for value daily. For collectors this can mean $12.6 million!* It was a 1952 Mickey Mantle good news however as buying opportunities rookie card in exceptional condition. This will likely arise during turbulent times topped the $7.25 million Honus Wagner card which seem to be on the horizon. sold earlier in the year (which previously (*pr ic e l i s te d i nc lude s buyer s held the record). And several works by Fritz premium) Scholder (1937-2005) achieved great results at Bonhams’ Modern Native American Art sale in Los Angeles on Aug. 31st. The standout work was Dartmouth Portrait #8, 1973, a painting from the series produced during Scholder’s tenure as artist-in-residence at the university, which sold for $378,375!* Also in August, an aluminum license plate from 1904, believed to be the first-ever plate issued by the City of Chicago, sold for $34,000 at Donley Auctions. And at an auction hosted

by New Frontier Show and Auction on Aug. 27th in Cheyenne WY, the top selling item was a “Rare 1912 New Mexico 47-Star American Flag” which hammered at a staggering price of $20,500!

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roots and the Artesia Bulldogs’ legacy and Luz, passed away on October 19, 2022, in La of Navajo Refining Co. and Holly Corpora- joked that his blood ran orange. He followed Luz, New Mexico. She was born October 22, tion, later serving on the boards of Holly the Bulldogs closely, especially during foot- 1936, in Rowell. Her parents were Bessie Corporation and Holly Energy Partners in ball season, and when traveling during a George and Albert Walker. From the time Dallas. A lifelong public servant, he sat on game, he would call KSVP from the road to that she was very young, she lived in Sixteen the Artesia City Council and numerous ask for the score long before the games were Springs Canyon. The Walker family had other boards including Western Bank and later streamed. settled in Sixteen Springs in 1887, and her College of the Southwest (now the University He is survived by his wife of 61 years, mother’s family had settled in the Sacraof the Southwest).

LaNette, and sisters Glenelle Butler and Exa mento Mountains in the late 1800’s.

Bill retired from Navajo in 1999 and was Cunningham (Kenneth), and sister- and Yvonne rode the school bus from Sixteen celebrated with a retirement party featuring brother-in-law Jana and Lynn Troublefield; Springs to Cloudcroft through the 10th the Gatlin Brothers Band, a true highlight to and three children, three sons-in-law, three grade. Around that time her family moved cap his career. After retirement, Bill was grandchildren & two great-grandchildren. to La Luz Canyon and Yvonne finished high elected to serve in the New Mexico House of Gifts to honor Bill may be made to MD school in Alamogordo. She began working Representatives (District 54) from 2007 to Anderson, Attention Dr Rodabe Amaria, and as a nurse’s aide at Gerald Champion Hospi2014. As a legislator, he and LaNette enjoyed Dr Merrick Ross. First United Methodist tal at 16 years old and dreamed of going to traveling the state and making many lifetime Church of Artesia, Christian Center Church nursing school after graduation. But as fate friendships. Bill and LaNette were blessed in Hobbs, or the Texas Tech Alumni would have it, she met the man of her dreams, with three children: William Brett, Suzette, Association.

GB Oliver Jr., from the White Sands Ranch and CaraBeth. He was proud of his Artesia YVONNE WALKER OLIVER, 85, La continued on page 116 >>

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to wanderers. Yvonne was Otero County Oliver, Emmie and Jinsen Boyd, Jack and Probate judge for 8½ years. She was a Dean Nichols, Hunter, Liam, and Trace in Alamogordo. After a short courtship, they member of Otero CowBelles, PEO chapter Tilton; as well as many nieces and nephews. were married on August 20, 1954. They were AO, Desert Hills Church of Christ, SacraAt Yvonne’s request, in lieu of flowers, married for 49 years when GB passed away mento Mountain Historical society, Tularosa donations may be made to the Tularosa Basin in 2003.

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They lived on the White Sands Ranch and Republican party. Yvonne truly enjoyed The memorial service for Yvonne Oliver raised their family, until 1990 when they people. She enjoyed dancing, and until will be held at 1:00 pm, Wednesday, Novemmoved to La Luz Canyon. Yvonne had won- recently, rarely missed going to the dances ber 16, 2022, at the Flickinger Center. derful memories of living on the ranch, of with friends. driving 600 head of cattle to pasture over 6 Yvonne is survived by her brother, Larry Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com. days and nights, raising quarter horses, Walker of La Luz; her children, GB Oliver III Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ branding, working their meat business, and (wife Theone), Audra Nichols ( Matt Lasiter), Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and the quietude and beautiful sunsets there. and John Oliver, all of La Luz; her grandchil- educating citizens on governmental actions, policies Yvonne enjoyed being a mother, cooking, dren: GB Oliver IV (wife Jamie), Summer and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., sewing, gardening, and canning. Her family Oliver Boyd (husband Seth), Trenton Oliver, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. was central to her existence. She was the Caleb Nichols, John Nichols (wife Patty), Verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be quintessential hostess, and entertained Sam Nichols, Joe Nichols (wife Allyson), printed at 10¢ per word. people from all walks of life that found their Kyan Tilton (husband Reese); great-grandway to their ranch, from military Generals children: GB Oliver V, Nora and Charlotte

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Sierra County will be the fiscal agent for the entity. Socorro County commissioners discussed the agreement to create the Livestock Loss Authority in their Sept. 27 meeting.

According to the three-county agreement, the Loss Authority will try to access available federal, state and private funding to help ranchers who have had an economic impact from the Mexican Grey Wolf Recovery Program.

The Mexican wolf was listed as endangered in 1976, and the recovery program released the first captive wolves into Arizona and New Mexico in 1998. There are existing ways that livestock producers are compensated for depredation of livestock. The new entity would help ranchers navigate receiving those funds.

Commissioner Glen Duggins said cattle do not breed as well with a wolf hanging around, during a discussion of the proposal.

Some producers have almost been wiped out, said County Attorney Adren Nance.

“It looks like we’ll have a fair amount of funding, which is great, and I think we’ll get even more next year, which is sorely needed,” said Nance. “When you go from a 90 percent calf crop to a 10 percent calf crop, you just really can’t stay in business.”

In other business, the Commissioners heard from Hop Canyon Road residents who are frustrated with ongoing flooding issues in their area. The county has been trying to acquire funding from NMDOT to get an engineering study done to properly alleviate the flooding issues. That application for funding was recently rejected.

Two Hop Canyon residents discussed the economic and psychological impact that the ongoing flooding has had on them.

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Forage Bassia: Alfalfa of the Desert for Wintertime Grazing ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ haven’t we all grown up hearing this English idiom? Yet, it’s human nature to do just that, especially in the agriculture industry, ‘we have to trust our gut.’ Plant when we feel there might be rain coming, prolong harvest to just the right sweet spot, move the cows at just the right time, and so on. We must; our livelihood generally depends on these decisions. Sometimes though, we connect feelings, words, or experiences to a negative belief just by circumstance, which can sometimes lead to a missed opportunity. Forage bassia, (Bassia prostrata (L.)), is commonly known as summer cypress, alfalfa of the desert, or forage kochia. Ah, right there, as your read ‘kochia’ did you feel it? That negative association with that dreaded, fast-spreading, annual kochia weed (Kochia scoparia). We spend so much time, money, and labor fighting weeds that even entertaining the thought of growing a plant that shares a name with one feels wrong. Forage bassia, however is anything but a weed.

Forage Bassia is a semi-evergreen, shrub-like, longlived, perennial introduced from the deserts and semiarid provinces of the Mediterranean and Eurasia. It is part of the Chenopod family, which contains other highly nutritional arid rangeland species like four-wing saltbush and winterfat and is one of the most important heavily grazed forages in regions with less than 12.5 cm (5 inches) of rain a year. It was initially introduced into the U.S. in 1966 as a plant that could provide forage while competing with Halogeton on droughty, saline soils. Since then, the plant has proven itself as a very highly valued winter forage; it helps control erosion; serves as a shelter and provides tasty seeds for song and game birds; acts as a greenstrip/ firebreak, and generally thrives on poor-quality sites. Additionally, forage bassia has stabilized disturbed sites (overgrazed, burned, droughted, etc.) by competing against annual species such as cheatgrass, halogeton, and medusahead, yet, is non-invasive to native perennial plant communities. In late fall, while the dormant grasses are high in fiber (energy) but low in protein, forage bassia has high crude protein (between 9 – 18%) and great digestibility but does not cause nitrate or oxalate toxicity making it an excellent choice to optimize forage protein and energy levels during the dietarily stressful winter months. In fact, most ranchers who’ve had to supplement with pellets and/or hay during winter have almost eliminated that cost in few years after overseeding their rangeland with forage bassia.

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There seem to be more fires, less water, and more damaged rangeland each year. Utilizing greenstrips to reduce or stop range fires is a must. Fires can damage greenstrips, but research has shown that forage bassia has an excellent post-burn survival rate. Scan this code to see just how burn-resistant this plant is! This video was taken in late October when the plants were dry and hadn’t received water in months.

Gas was poured on the plant to aid fire ignition.

Overall, forage bassia excels in a wide variety of soils but handles alkaline, bare soils very well while providing many other benefits. It is a unique plant, and Westfork has aided ranchers in sowing and establishing hundreds of thousands of acres across the western U.S. since 1988. Research has shown that it should be seeded (broadcasted aerially or drilled into prepped or native sites) in late fall or early winter for the best germination and establishment, so contact us today! Westfork would like to work with you to overseed forage bassia on your current range stand or reclaim land using our favorite rangeland mix, Range Changer, to help you increase your carrying capacity by, on average, six-fold. Scan the QR code below to learn more about this amazing plant, our company, or both. Or email us at shane@rangechanger.com

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Mexican gray wolf that conservation advocates say was genetically significant to the species’ recovery in the wild has been found dead in New Mexico.

The U.S Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) confirmed the death of the captive-bred and released Mexican gray wolf known as

No.1693. The wolf was discovered on October 8. FWS officials have not released details on his killing because it is still under investigation by law enforcement.

The death came just days after FWS announced a revision to the Mexican gray wolf recovery plan with proposed actions to reduce human-caused wolf mortality.

Mexican wolf No. 1693 was released into the wild in 2018 when he was just 15 days old.

He was cross-fostered into a wild wolf den in an effort to increase the genetic diversity of the wild population of wolves, a step biologists say is critical to the survival of the species.

FWS biologists use genetic criteria to make fostering decisions.

He and his mate, wolf No. 1728, were captured and moved from the Rainy Mesa area near Reserve, New Mexico, in the spring of 2021. The pair had two sets of litters since then.

Wolf, pack survived huge wildfire The family, named Seco Pack, successfully survived the Black Fire this summer, which became New Mexico’s second-largest wildfire on record. It ripped through the range where the Seco Pack had been observed.

His killing is a violation of the Endangered Species Act, and is subject to civil and criminal penalties, up to a year in prison and a $50,000 fine, with additional New Mexico state penalties for violating the Wildlife Conservation Act. In addition to GPS collars, wolves are counted using on-the-ground methods, such as monitoring wildlife cameras and wolf howling, as well as observing tracks and scat.

During the first week of January, FWS officials confirmed a Mexican gray wolf was shot and killed near Flagstaff. On June 18, the body of an adult male was found with a gunshot wound in eastern Arizona.

On October 14, 2021, a federal court in Arizona sent the 2017 recovery plan back to the wildlife agency to address the threat of human-caused mortality. The revised plan included new site-specific management actions to address threats, including education and outreach, an increase of law enforcement presence in areas designated as mortality hot spots and the use of livestock conflict-avoidance measures.

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Forest Service employee has been arrested by a local sheriff in response to a prescribed burn.

Can this be true? Apparently so.

On October 19 the Forest initiated a burn in the Malheur National Forest, saying, “After carefully monitoring conditions across the Forest, fire officials have determined that conditions are within specific parameters, including temperature, relative humidity, and fuel moisture to begin prescribed fire operations in specifically planned units.”

But they lost control of the burn and it crossed over to private property on a ranch owned by the Holliday sisters. The sisters lived nearby, knew the conditions were dry, were scared and called 911.

The sheriff of Grant County, Todd McKinley then arrested the “burn boss” of the Forest Service project and charged him with “reckless burning.” At that time the sheriff issued a statement saying, “The Grant County Sheriffs Office arrested a 39-year-old Forest Service Employee for Reckless Burning and transported him to the Grant County jail.

The press release stated “the incident is under investigation.”

In a press interview Sheriff McKinley said “everybody knew it was a bad burn, should not be happening” and “it was a bad time to burn.”

It should also be noted that Grant County District Attorney Jim Carpenter said, “This case will be evaluated once the investigation is complete, and if appropriate, Snodgrass (the “burn boss”) will formally be charged… if it is determined that he acted recklessly.

That the USFS was engaging in a prescribed burn may actually raise, rather than lower the standard to which Snodgrass will be held.”

The District Attorney also said, “To be clear, the employer and/or position of Snodgrass will not protect him if it is determined that he acted recklessly.”

The DA added, “Many will attempt to hype this into something that it is not,” Carpenter added. “The question is whether one neighbor, given the prevailing conditions, was reckless when starting fires adjacent to

another neighbor.”

Some are concerned by this event. Steve Ellis, with the National Association of Forest Service Retirees, said he had never heard of a Forest Service employee being arrested for doing prescribed fire.

“To go out and start arresting people is not appropriate. And it sends a terrible signal to our wildland fire people out there now.”

However, others disagree. “It’s an isolated example, and I would not anticipate that it would have a big impact on work that’s going on across the West,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, the director of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council.

On my blog, THE WESTERNER, I reminded everyone that two members of the Hammond family went to prison for starting their own prescribed fire that crossed over to federal property.

This brought two types of response.

Floyd Rathbun wrote: “Some of us have not forgotten the treatment of the Hammond family by the US Department of Interior.

Maybe this FS character will be allowed to upgrade to the Hammond cell” But Anonymous wrote: “Interesting case here but silly to bring the Hammonds into it, the situations are not

remotely similar.” personally, financially liable will also help And I responded: instill responsibility and accountability in “the situations are not remotely similar.” their decisions.

Its the principle of the thing Burning folks’ pastures is the antithesis A rancher starts a burn on private prop- of “working with the local community. erty which ends up on federal property, and We should have more ways to hold govgoes to prison. Even tried as a terrorist to get ernment accountable and responsible. Our the mandatory minimum. elected officials and judges too often fail the The feds start a burn on federal property task.” which escapes to private property. And then?

We will keep watching this one for you.

I don’t believe it is “silly” to compare the two If I was forced to bet on this, I would have events in the sense that I have described it. to bet the county will back down because a) Perhaps this comment expressed it best: their case or jurisdiction is flimsy b) the cost “This arrest may be among the best things of litigating the issue will be high or c) they that happened to the Forest Service in will succumb to the threat of all federal decades. Public accountability. We’re all for funding being withdrawn from the county. prescribed burns. What part of the prescripUntil next time, be a nuisance to the devil tion burns 20 acres of private land? This is and don’t forget to check that cinch. about good government – not party this or Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture that whining or nonsense. The arrest and from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The charges should also go the district ranger Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship and The who approved the burn in those conditions. DuBois Western Heritage Foundation Holding the burn boss and district ranger

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A Lazy 6 Angus Ranch . . 18, 103 Ag Lands Southwest . . . .95 Ag New Mexico FCS, ACA . 8 Alisa Ogden . . . . . . . . . 80 American Angus Association . . . . . . . . .33 American Heritage Bank / Colten Grau . . . . . . . . 43 Anita Hand . . . . . . . . . .86 B&R Construction . . . . 103 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . .37 Bar M Real Estate . . 98, 101 Bayer Environmental Science . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Bert Ancell . . . . . . . . . .82 Betson . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Big Mesa Realty . . . . . . 100 Bill King . . . . . . . . . 19, 84 Bill Sauble . . . . . . . . . . 86 BJM Sales & Service Inc. 102 Black Angus “Ready for Work” Bull Sale . . . . . . 26 Bob & Jane Frost . . . . . .80 Bob Homer . . . . . . . . . .85 Bobby Jones . . . . . . . . .78 Border Tank Resources . 102 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. 28, 105 Brazos . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Brennand Ranch . . . 28, 106 Brinks Brangus / Westall Ranch, . . . 67, 106 Bronson Corn . . . . . . . .82 Brownfield Ranch & Farm Properties . . . . . . . . 101

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C Bar Ranch . . . . . . 28, 105 Candy Ray Trujillo’s Black Angus . . . . . . . .28 Carson Real Estate Inc. . . 37 Carter Brangus . . . . 72, 104 Carter’s Custom Cuts . . . 16 Casey Beefmasters . . . . 105 Casper Baca Rodeo 126, 127 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction . . . . . . . 112 Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . .44 Cauthorn & Griffin Insurance . . . . . . . . . .14 Caviness Packing Co. . . . 38 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Chip Cole Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . 100

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Citizens Bank of Clovis Moriarty . . . . . . . . . . 112 CKP Insurance . . . . . . . .11 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . 106 Clovis Livestock Auction . 39 Coba Select Sires . . . . . 105 Conniff Cattle Co. . . 20, 105 Copeland & Sons Herefords . . . . . . . . . .84 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . 21 Cox Ranch Herefords . . 106 CS Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . .80 Culbertson - Whatley Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . .83

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Dairy Farmers of America 58 Dave & Cindy Kenneke . .86 David & Joan Kincaid . . . 85 Denetclaw . . . . . . . . . . 77 Denton Photography . . 108 Depot Farm & Ranch . . . . 3 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . . . . . . . 103 Dexter Livestock Commission . . . . . . . .17 Diamond Arrow Ranch . .86 Diamond Seven Angus . 104 Domenici Law Firm, PC . . 41 Express Scales Services . .92 505 Trucks, LLC . . . . . . 102 Fallon-Cortese Land . . . .99 Farm Credit of New Mexico . . . . . . . . .9 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . .41 Farr Cattle Co . . . . . . . . 81 FBFS / Larry Marshall . . 113 FBFS / Monte Anderson 109 Ferguson Ranch . . . . . . 74 Figure 4 Cattle Co. . . . . 106 First American Bank . . . .57 Five States Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . .49 4G Angus . . . . . . . . . . .22

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Genex / Candy Trujillo . . 103 Golden Hz Farms . . . . . 120 Grant County Copper CowBelles . . . . . . . . . 17 Grau Charolais . . . . 93, 103 Grau Ranch . . . . . . . 6, 106 Great Basin Seed . . . . . 124 Hargrove Ranch Insurance .

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Harrison Quarter Horses 102 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . 23, 104 Headquarters West / Traegen Knight . . . . . 101 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell . . . . . . . .98 Heartstone Angus, LLC . .22 Henard Ranch . . . . . . . 105 Hi-Pro Feeds / Sendero . . .2 Hooper Cattle Company 115 Hubbell Ranch . . . . 25, 103 Hudson LS Supplements . 56 Hutchison Western . . . . . .8 Industrious America . . . 102 Innovative Solar Systems . 13 InoSol Castrator . . . . . . .72 Insurance Services of New Mexico . . . . . . . .50 Int’l Brangus Breeders . . 68 Isa Beefmasters . . . . . . 104 J & J Auctioneers . . . . . .32 J-C Angus Ranch . . . . . .30 James Sammons III . . . . 100 Jeannne & Widge . . . . . .81 Jeff Decker . . . . . . . . . .86 Jim Lyssy . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Joe Clavel . . . . . . . . . . .83 Joe Delk . . . . . . . . . . . .85 Joe Stubblefield & Assoc100 John Conniff . . . . . . . . .86 John Richardson . . . . . . 85 Jon Swapp . . . . . . . . . .81 Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 José J. Varela Lopez . . . . 78

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K2 Red Angus . . . . . . . .75 Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment . . . . 103 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc . . . .99 L & H Manufacturing . . 107 Lack-Morrison Brangus . .73 Laflin Ranch . . . . . . . . .28 Lane Grau . . . . . . . . . . 83 Lavender Brangus . . . . . 70 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . . 74, 103 Lazy S Ranch Willcox . . . 30 Livestock Nutrition Center . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Lonestar Stockyards, LLC . 48 Loren Patterson . . . . . . .83 Lust Angus . . . . . . . . . .34 Lyssy & Eckel Feeds . . . 116

Major Ranch Realty 96, 101 Manford Cattle . . . . . . 104 Manzano Angus . . . 30, 104 Marjorie Lantana . . . . . .81 Manchester Mfg. . . . . . .73 Matlock & Associates . . . 94 McKenzie Land & LS . 15, 77 McPherson Heifer Bulls . . . . . . . . . . 30, 104 Mead Angus . . . . . . 28, 41 Melody Christmas . . . . . 58 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . 65, 103 Michelle & Jerry Maynard 78 Mike Casabonne Family . 78 Mike Corn . . . . . . . . . . 82 Miller Angus . . . . . 27, 104 Monfette Construction Co. 58, 102 Motley Mill & Cube . . . . 122

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Nelson’s Meats . . . . . . 107 Neogen . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Nikki Hooser . . . . . . . . .80 NM Angus Bull & Heifer Sale 29 NM Beef Council . . . . . . 80 NM Premier Ranch Properties . . . . . . . . . 98 NM Wool Growers . . . . . 82 NM Federal Lands Council . . . . . . . . . . . 34 NM Purina Dealers . . . . 132 NMSU . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . . . . 40, 45, 91 Northwest Nebraska High Country . . . . . . . 81

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O’Neill Land . . . . . . . . . 99 Old Mill Farm & Ranch Supply . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Olson Land and Cattle . . 20, 104 Parker Brangus . . . . . 69, 73 Pat Boone . . . . . . . . . . 84 Pat Woods . . . . . . . . . . 82 Paul McGillard / Murney Assoc . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Perez Cattle Company . 103 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . 105 Punchy Cattle Co. . . . . . 112

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Singleton Ranches . . . . .78 Skaarer Brangus . . . 72, 103 Sowers . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Specialized Crop Insurance7 Stallard Real Estate Services . . . . . . . . . . .37 Steve Jensen . . . . . . . . 120 Stockmen’s Realty . . . . . 97 Suther Feeds . . . . . . . . . .5

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2 Bar Angus . . . . . . 22, 104 T & S Manufacturing . . 119 T4 Cattle Company . . . . 79 TechniTrack, LLC . . . . . 102 Ted & Judy Rush . . . . . . 86 Terrell Land & Livestock Co. . . . . . . . 100 The Hat Ranch . . . . . . . .82 The Ranches . . . . . . . . .45 Thompson Ranch . . 31, 106 Tire Water Troughs . . . . .63 Tom Dominguez . . . . . .85 Tom Paterson . . . . . . . . 77 Tom Robb & Sons . . . . 105 Torrez . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Townsend Brangus . . . . 72 Troy Floyd . . . . . . . . . . 72 Ty Jones Cattle Co. . . . . .46 U Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . 32 United Fiberglass, Inc. . . . 42 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . 106 Verde Real Estate . . . . . .98 Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . 103 Vitalix, Inc. . . . . . . . . . 120 W&W Fiberglass Tank Co. . 47 Waypath . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Weaver Ranch . . . . . . . .24 Wesley Grau . . . . . . . . .78 West Star Herefords . . . 107 Western Tank & Trailer . . 124 Western Trading Post . . 122 Williams Ranch Supply . 121 Williams Windmill, Inc. . 103, 108 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . .46 Zia Real Estate . . . . . . . .99

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R. L. Cox Company . 63, 102 Ramro LLC / RJ Cattle Co . 71 Randell Major . . . . . . . .84 Range Changer . . . . . . 123 Republic Ranches, LLC . 100 Reverse Rocking R Ranch . .

117 Rex & Carol Wilson . . . . .83 Rio Grande Scales & Equipment . . . . 102, 118 Rio Hondo Land & LS Co. . 72 Riverside Angus . . . . . . .26 Robbs Brangus . . . . . . . 73 Robertson Livestock . . . 102 ROD Ranch . . . . . . . . . .70 Roswell Brangus Breeders Co-op . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Roswell Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . .36 Running Creek Ranch . . 105 Rush Farms Inc. . . . . . . .80 Salazar Ranches . . . . . . .41 Santa Rita Ranch . . 74, 104 Sato Lee . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Sci-Agra Inc . . . . . . . . 103 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . .97 Sidwell Family . . . . . . . 77 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty . . . . . . . . . . . 101

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