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Dear NMCGA members and fellow cattle producers, and everyone who might be interested in what we do . . .

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Pat Boone NMCGA President

Pat Boone President Elida Tom Sidwell President-Elect Quay Jack Chatfield Vice President at Large Mosquero Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Blair Clavel NE Vice President Roy Jeff Bilberry SE Vice President Elida Randell Major SW Vice President Magdalena Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Jose J. Varela Lopéz Past President La Cieneguilla Rex Wilson Past President Ancho Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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s I sit at my desk writing this, it is rapidly turning fall outside my office window. Close to three inches of rain the last three days and a drop in daytime temperatures has made me dig out my vest and jacket and put the old black hat back on. As each year passes, the chill goes a little deeper into my bones. Just natural, I guess, but disconcerting to me. Fall has always been my favorite season, but sitting humped up shivering on my horse is not fun! I pray all have received sufficient rains and are headed into winter with sufficient feed on the ground. The market has revived a bit also, so I hope we all get our cattle sold good. And, finally, I pray 2018 is a great year for all.

Senator Pete Domenici was a champion for the state of New Mexico, a stalwart battling for us in the United States Senate for many years. He was a true friend to our kind, to agricultural producers all over our state. His retirement left shoes that could never be filled, and his passing from this life leaves us sad and grieving. But Almighty God has a plan, and we all pass from this life to the next. We should all aspire to seek and secure for ourselves the respect and admiration Senator Domenici received in his long career. May you Rest In Peace, Senator-we will see you on the other side.

Another passing left us in shock – Bob Martin, KRQE newsman extraordinaire, lost his life recently doing what he loved to do – take pictures of the rugged NM landscape as he flew over it in his helicopter. This guy was a good friend of ours, always ready to write and film a story about us cowboys or farmers. He understood the importance of agriculture to our state and our country, and our world. He earned money for his flying lessons while still in high school, as an FFA member in Socorro, raising sheep and cutting and baling hay. He always stood at the ready to fly during snow storms or range fires, to do what he could to help as disaster visited us. He recently came to our place and filmed a piece for Legendary New Mexico. I spent part of a day with him, as he followed me around as I fed, and interviewed me along the way. He even let me play a bit with his drone, and someday I will have one of my own! His last flight was oddly fitting – flying over ranch country, taking pictures of a landscape he love. Rest In Peace, Bob Martin, and we will see you on the other side also.

Our Joint Stockmen’s Convention will be here soon. November 30-December 3 we will invade the Crowne Plaza in Albuquerque. This I the largest gathering of Ag people in New Mexico. If you haven’t made plans to attend, do so quickly before the hotel fills up. We will have 2018 Legislative updates, talk about water issues, endangered species, forest and BLM matters, and of course, our Cattleman’s College. Look for the ads here or call the office for info.

Mark Oct.21, 2017 on your calendars. We will be having Valencia County Ranch Day at Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction in Belen. This will be a fun, informative day as we watch and hear about what happens on a sale day. Again, call the office for more info.

Congratulations to Texas Cattle Feeders Association on celebrating the 50th Anniversary of their great organization. They are a great bunch who work hard to make feeding cattle a better industry. Here’s to 100 !

One more thought before I go. It is certain that tax reform will be a prominent issue in Legislature 2018. Be sure to stay informed, and come to Santa Fe as often as you can, and stay in touch with us. The powers that be have some ideas up their sleeve, and I’m not sure – Isaiah 41:10 they will be in our best interest. Just saying . . .

Until next time, God bless you all – my prayers are for a good fall works with heavy cattle and good grass, and especially that we are all back next year! May your horses stay sound for work to be done.

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Loss of a true friend…

TO THE POINT

by Caren Cowan, Executive Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

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ete Domenici was a friend to New Mexico ranchers, farmers and countless others. Even more, he was a friend to me.

Most of you have never been to my office or will likely ever have a need to. But if you were here, you would find the room filled (maybe overfilled) with files and piles, boxes and books. The walls are pretty much covered with photos and other mementos.

There is a brand throw from the CowBelles over the chair that doesn’t have a box in it and Mattie Cowan’s Cowbelle dress that was made for parades and other events somewhere between 1939 when The Cowbelles was founded and 1941 when we have the first photos of her in it. And, yes the 18” emasculators still sit on the desk, sometimes covered by paper, but ready when needed for emphasis.

There are eight photos on the walls; six

of them have Pete Domenici in them. Five are from various trips to Washington, D.C. over the past 20 years. There was a Wool Growers trip; a in 2002 when several ranchers from northern New Mexico joined Mike Casabonne and me on trip back to demand that the Carson and Santa Fe National Forests be reopened to grazing after an arbitrary and capricious decision attempted to remove all grazing from those forests.

(They were.) There is one when we gathered up John and Frank Falen, from Nevada and Wyoming respectively, to navigate Capitol Hill with us. Senator Domenici always called a photographer into his office at the end of a meeting.

There is the last one where the Cattle Growers, the Wool Growers, and the Federal Lands Council gave the Senator a silver-belly hat for his ride into retirement and the future. That picture is especially special

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because it contains past Wool Growers President Ron Merritt Jr., our dear departed Mary Skeen, then Cattle Growers’ President Alisa Ogden and then Federal Lands Council President Mike Casabonne along with the Senator and his winning smile.

The sixth one is the biggest and has an even longer story behind it. In 1996, after the demise of the Wool Act meant there were no longer funds for the Wool Growers to keep me, I went home to Arizona and ran for the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. Bob Dole and I shared a crying towel the night of that election.

My only nephew, R. W. (Dub), was five years old at the time. He spent his summer helping me with signs, handing out fliers at gatherings and riding in parades to help Auntie get elected. For his troubles he was reprimanded in his kindergarten class on Election Day for jumping up and saying

“Vote for Auntie!” when the teacher brought place for all kinds of meetings. One wall is Chuck Stocks, then publisher of the up the subject up. covered entirely with pictures of past pres- Stockman, was kind enough to take the The day after the election in the winding idents back to 1914. I can sit with that wall photo. He then surprised me later with the down process, I was at my sister’s house for to my back feeling all the power of those one and only New Mexico Stockman Hero dinner. Dub and I Award complete with a were at odds over large, beautifully framed the television conphoto of the Senator and I I ask the Senator if he had just a moment for a picture trols. He had had that has held a prominent enough of news of just he and me so I could send it to Dub to prove that place in my office ever programs and adult since. stuff to last him a When we met the Pete Domenici was indeed my friend. He kindly obliged with lifetime. As he was Senator in Roswell maybe a surfing channels he decade later, I reminded that wonderful smile. While the photo was being taken, he f lipped by one him of that day. He replied, w h e r e S e n ato r “And you are still my friend.” whispered in my ear that he WAS my friend.

Domenici was Where’s the Fairness? being interviewed on the outcome of the election. I asked Dub men brought to bear in New Mexico for Every day I get tons of emails with to go back to that channel because Auntie’s then nearly a century behind me. I would people demanding their own way despite friend was on it. He grumbled “not your imagine that the sight might be just a little impacts on others. I can no longer go to a friend” as he grudgingly went back to the intimidating. It certainly gives me Ringling Brothers Circus because of groups channel. confidence. like the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) After I moved back to New Mexico and When the meeting finished, I ask the or the People for the Ethical Treatment of went to work for Cattle Growers in mid 1997, Senator if he had just a moment for a Animals and their ilk. Portland, Maine (near one of the first opportunities I had for an picture of just he and me so I could send it where Michelle lives) and many other cities important meeting was one with Senator to Dub to prove that Pete Domenici was are taking up ordinances to prohibit the Domenici. His staff wanted to meet at the indeed my friend. He kindly obliged with display of wild animals in any circus.

Cattle Growers just to get him out of his that wonderful smile. While the photo was Ordinances are in place or on the way to office. being taken, he whispered in my ear that outlaw the sale of pets from pet stores.

The NMCGA Board Room is a perfect he WAS my friend.

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“rescue” even if they are in a storefront or anyone else, right? shopping mall — and don’t be surprised if There are 32 professional football teams there are “fees” with you obtaining a rescue organized into two leagues under the NFL animal.

— I figured out in college that if you wanted HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle admits, “I don’t to find conversation with almost any guy, have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did including my father, all you had to do was not grow up bonded to any particular non- bring up football. I developed at least a human animal.” Pacelle claims, “If I had my working knowledge of the sport and key personal view, perhaps that might take players. hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog Back to the 32 teams, it is clear that one or cat born.” cannot be assigned to each of the 50 states So the rest of the world is supposed to under the current scheme of things. There give up pets? needs to be an expansion of 18 more teams.

In Washington state a “habitat conser- It doesn’t really matter that many states vation plan” for a supposedly endangered don’t have the population to support a pocket gopher has been proposed that team. Make folks travel to games would require anyone wanting to build a everywhere. house on an acre of land, to purchase an Expansion could take awhile. Additionacre of “mitigation.” Current price per acre ally at least one faith finds football to be a of mitigation is $17,803 and the county is tool of the devil because it is on television looking at a 30-year plan requiring them to on Sunday afternoon and Monday night purchase 120 acres per year (roughly 120 interfering with religious activities. I haven’t credits) to stay on track with projected checked the stance on the Thursday and growth. The 30-year cost would be $64 Friday night games since the television million. expansion.

With the absurdity all of this in mind, I In the short term however, one only have a demand of my own. I demand a needs to look at the distribution of current change in the National Football League NFL teams to see that there is an equity (NFL) — it is only fair that I get what I want problem. California has FOUR teams while or need no matter the cost or impact to Florida has three teams. Texas, Maryland,

Ohio and Pennsylvania each have two. On the face of it, New Jersey has two. But New Jersey is deceiving. Both of those teams are named New York … And there are the Buffalo Bills, so really New York has three teams and New Jersey has none.

Seven states have over half of the NFL teams in the country — a total of 18. Where is the fairness in that?

Like most things, it is the 11 Western states that get the shortest end of the stick.

Seven of the 11 states are NFL team-less.

These are some of the least populated states in the nation and among those who suffer the most from forest fires.

Keep in mind that each of these teams is a HUGE economic generator. Stadiums, domes and other venues with seating in the tens of thousands sell out weekly. If you only get a $100 ticket, and most tickets cost much more even into the thousands, the smallest stadium brings in well over $5 million in ticket sales alone. The largest brings in more than $9 million.

That’s before you buy any food, beverage or jerseys. The average cost of a small draft beer is $7.42, with highs going to nearly $10. Some have a small, small draft for $5.

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sion contracts. The single most popular team in the states without their own NFL team is the Denver Broncos hands down.

The highest earning team with an income of $700 million is the Dallas Cowboys.

But the money goes out the door pretty fast too. The effect salary for an NFL quarterback is between $9 and $12 million a year, with the highest paid guy getting $27,000,000. This is a contract that was signed in very recently, so it probably throws off the numbers mentioned above.

Highly skilled non quarterback players earn around $16 million a year. Rookies can expect around $365,000 for their first year.

The overall average salary per player is $1.9 million a year. All those salaries don’t count endorsement or commercial deals that could add millions to their income.

Can you imagine how much money a 53-member team roster would bring into New Mexico? Then you add in the coaches.

Head coach salaries range from $3.5 million to $8 million based on the information that is available.

There are countless employees to maintain a stadium regularly and to host home games. Even a minimum wage of $10 an hour would help New Mexico families more than most could fathom.

It is the cheerleaders who get the short end of the stick everywhere. NFL cheerleaders make from $9 to $15 an hour for the elite (head), while the amateurs make $9 per hour. Several teams have recently determined that they would pay their cheerleaders whatever the minimum wage is for the state they are in.

A boost in visitors to New Mexico and the dollars they spend on housing and food would also be a big benefit. We have heard for years that tourism is the future economy of New Mexico. The problem with the theory for me is how much trouble you would get in for eating a tourist when you get hungry.

So, how would we divide those NFL teams up to get one per state until the league can expand to 48 teams? I am not sure that we can mandate teams for Alaska or Hawaii at this point.

Here’s my plan: California moves three of their teams to the nearby states of Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. It is way too confusing to have three teams named “LA something” anyway. Texas should give New Mexico one.

The Cowboys makes the most sense because it would seem silly to have the New Mexico Texans.

Utah should get a team from Florida, probably the Dolphins, because the name

wouldn’t have to change from Jacksonville or Tampa. And, Utah has taken a pro basketball team from the Southeast with some success. Montana and Wyoming could setup a task force or working group to determine if they wanted a New York, Florida or Ohio team.

That would take care of the West.

Georgia should get a Florida team and Maine should get a New York/New Jersey team. Any states left over not getting a team should go into a lottery to determine which of the remaining teams they would

get. Sadly, there will still be 18 states without a team.

Honestly, after working this through, I think I could take just about any government organizer job and be a hit.

To the popular media…

Get a grip — are you going to cover DACA or the First Lady’s Shoes?

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Terri Barber Leads the Next Generation of Hereford

Terri Barber, American Hereford Association President

by Ellen H. Brisendine, The Cattleman Magazine

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eveloping young leaders to fill in the footsteps of past generations is key to the future of the livestock industry.

Terri Barber, Corrales, New Mexico, is a good example of a young rancher and ag professional stepping up to accept the leadership of a significant entity in the beef cattle community, the American Hereford Association (AHA).

Barber is finishing her term as president of the AHA. She’s a member of the Barber Hereford ranching family from Channing, Texas and is a professional with Elanco Animal Health. She is also a past staff member of a beef cattle breed association and served a stint with the Texas Department of Agriculture.

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Being a member of the 12-member AHA board is a four-year commitment, Barber explains. “I ran for the board in 2013. Three directors go off each year and three new ones come on. The directors represent four regions. I represent the Southwest region, which extends to California.”

Having worked for a beef breed association early in her career, Barber says “I have a little more empathy for the AHA staff members. I think we have hands-down one of the most talented staffs of any breed association, I would say worldwide.”

Fitting a significant volunteer obligation into a full-time job required her to increase the efficiency of how she uses her time.

“I’ve changed jobs within Elanco,” she explains. “I was on the food animal side of our animal health company and now I’m on the companion animal side. I pioneered a territory in New Mexico as a result of Elanco acquiring Novartis a few years ago. It gave me an opportunity to learn a completely different business side of our animal health world. The busier I’ve gotten, the more efficient I have become. Like anything else, you prioritize what you have to get done in your day-to-day goals and then you work around schedules.”

And you delegate, she says. “Other people fill in where you can’t,” she says, referring to the support the AHA staff provides its leaders. “It’s amazing how much you can get done when you’ve got a lot of balls in the air.”

The conversation about Barber running for the AHA board started in 2011 when the AHA president at the time approached her parents about serving on the board. Barber says her parents directed the attention to her, saying it was time for the next generation to lead.

“My advice to young cattle raisers is to not procrastinate and think too long about doing something. The earlier and the faster you jump in, the more you’re going to learn.

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“Ranchers absolutely need to get to know their customers and what drives those customers to make a decision. We need to educate ourselves on how best to help that customer. I don’t think you can make too many personal connections with your customers,” she says.

“If you want to keep a customer in this competitive environment, you have to be able to show him or her just what your cattle are going to do to help their bottom line.

“Create opportunities for your clients like cooperative buy-back programs for the calves of the bulls you sell them. Help them market those calves. Anything that helps create demand for what they’re producing will ultimately help them as a producer,” she says.

“If I could just do one thing all day, every day, it would be to reach out and provide customer service. Let your clients know that you’re thinking about them and that you really do care about their bottom line. That, ultimately, is going to drive your success in what you’re doing as a producer.”

One area in which seedstock producers can help their clients is in interpreting what can seem like an overwhelming amount of genetic data available on cattle. The array of expected progeny differences, values and measurements can be daunting to a client who buys a bull every few years.

“This is an area in which AHA, and we as purebred cattle providers, are trying to help educate our customers. We are working to educate folks on what information is important when making breeding decisions,” she explains.

This puts the Hereford association, and any seedstock rancher who goes to this effort, “in a favorable light as a good resource,” she says.

Barber can’t stress enough the importance of “keeping yourself educated. Go to the ranch gatherings, your board meetings, any type of event that can empower you as a producer and help you be a provider of knowledge. This is good for your customers.

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etal programming research – among both humans and animals – suggests that certain environmental factors that occur during embryonic and fetal development can reset physiological parameters of the fetus that influence physical attributes and health into adulthood, and possibly into the next generation of progeny.

For instance, scientists have long cautioned that smoking or alcohol consumption by pregnant females can adversely affect development of their unborn child. But, researchers are also learning that nutrition during pregnancy is also a critical environmental factor that can impact the future health and performance of a person or animal.

As fetal programming knowledge and research is advancing, new studies are looking at manipulating – usually restricting – specific nutrients such as energy, protein, or certain types of minerals. Additionally, scientists are evaluating the effects of timing of the dietary restriction during gestation.

A research question to consider: Does a nutritional restriction to a pregnant female create permanent changes to the unborn fetus that affect how that individual will perform throughout its entire life?

That was the focus of one recent collaborative study on cattle conducted with funding from the South Dakota Beef Industry Council, and involving SDSU Animal Science faculty members Amanda Blair, Ken Olson, Keith Underwood, and Michael Gonda, University of Nebraska researcher Rick Funston, and SDSU Animal Science graduate students Janna Kincheloe and Megan Webb.

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were divided into four groups, with a protein restriction implemented in mid-gestation, late gestation, or throughout both mid- and late gestation. There was also a control group that experienced no protein restriction throughout gestation.

The researchers explain that a protein restriction in mid- to late gestation was chosen because it can be representative of a real ranch setting. SDSU’s Ken Olson notes that with cows on dormant range or corn stalks prior to calving, protein may be limited in their diet during the second and third trimester.

The 108 females were bred in June 2013 and experienced their protein restriction during gestation and prior to calving in March 2014. That was the only time the females experienced any kind of dietary restriction. Heifers were weighed and body condition scores were evaluated at the beginning and end of each gestational period, with ultrasounds conducted to evaluate heifer body composition at the same time points.

When calves were born in March and April, data was collected on birth weights, calf vigor and calving difficulty. Additionally,

within 48 hours after birth muscle biopsies were collected from 12 calves – three within each treatment group. This was done to evaluate gene expression using next generation sequencing (RNA-Seq).

Following calving, pairs were managed as a common group in a typical rangebased production setting through weaning.

All calves were weaned and preconditioned for two weeks in October 2014 before being shipped to North Platte, Neb., where the University of Nebraska-Lincoln West Central Research and Extension Center has a GrowSafe feeding system that allowed for collection of individual feeding data for each animal.

Calves were fed a typical finishing diet, and feed intake, average daily gain, and feed efficiency were evaluated. Two weeks prior to harvest, muscle biopsies were again collected on the same 12 head that were sampled at birth. This allowed researchers to determine if changes in gene expression were maintained over time. All steer and heifer progeny were harvested in 2015 at the Tyson plant in Lexington, Neb., with carcass data collected including hot carcass weight, ribeye area, fat thickness and marbling scores. Yield Grade and Quality Grade were calculated for each carcass.

To evaluate meat quality, a strip loin was collected from each carcass to determine Warner-Bratzler Shear Force (measure of tenderness) as well as the fatty acid profile.

Rib sections were also collected from a subsample of carcasses to determine the impact of gestational treatments on carcass composition.

The impact Pregnant heifers that experienced a protein restriction at various periods throughout gestation lost weight and condition compared to heifers on the control diet. In addition, ultrasound measurements indicated that restricted heifers lost ribeye area, indicating that body stores were being mobilized in response to the protein restriction. However, despite impacts on heifer performance, the researchers found there were no differences in birth weight or weaning weight of progeny due to the dam’s nutritional treatment. In addition, there were few differences in feedlot performance, carcass composition, and meat quality characteristics among offspring.

However, the researchers did find differences in gene expression based on muscle biopsies collected at birth. SDSU’s Amanda Blair explains that in progeny that received a protein restriction during gestation,

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“Genes involved in muscle tissue development were down-regulated and genes involved in fat development were up-regulated or turned on.”

Thus, the researchers say they might have expected smaller carcasses with reduced ribeye areas and more fat from those progeny. However, the differences identified in the genome were not consistent with carcass characteristics and meat quality.

While the exact mechanisms responsible for the responses observed in this trial are yet to be determined, it is possible that these processes were further influenced by external factors such as environment or that observed genetic differences may have resulted in phenotypic changes later in the animal’s life, suggests Blair.

It also appears that metabolic and/or physiological mechanisms may have allowed the dam to absorb most of the impacts of the restriction herself through mobilizing body stores, thus protecting her unborn calf from the nutritional insult, suggests Olson. Additionally, when nutrition returned to normal following calving, cows

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In August, the national beef checkoff hosted a group from the New York City Hello Fresh corporate office for a full-day beef immersion experience at Thunder View Farms in Grahamsville, New York. The Richard Coombes and Philip Coombes families run Thunder View, which prides itself on raising high-quality Angus genetics. The company retains ownership of its calves through finishing, then direct markets their finished cattle.

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did recover and no differences were detected in breed back percentages.

Producer perspective For cattle producers, Olson and Blair underscore that the take away from this research is not that protein supplements are unnecessary. They point out that it is important to consider that this study was conducted over one production cycle using a group of cows from a common genetic background. And Blair explains, “Responses may not be consistent if a different type of cattle were fed under alternate environmental conditions and study parameters.”

The researchers say it is also noteworthy that diets for this study were formulated to meet energy requirements for all heifers, with protein being the only restricted nutrient. Energy deficiency may result in impacts on cow and calf performance that were not observed in this study, Olson says. Based on a large body of previous research, he also advises that producers should meet protein and other nutrient requirements of pregnant females in order to ensure optimal calf health and subsequent reproductive performance of cows.

With continued research, these scientists hope to gain a better understanding of how cattle respond to various conditions experienced during gestation and how this impacts lifetime performance and production of livestock.

As one example, Blair shares that a study conducted by another research group indicates that a restriction in mid-gestation may affect formation of reproductive organs of progeny and could have negative impacts on fertility. Although reproductive response of heifer offspring was not evaluated in this particular study because all heifer offspring were harvested to determine impacts on carcass characteristics, this is an issue of extreme importance to producers.

“Additional fetal programming research is needed to determine more about how nutrients flow from the dam to the fetus and how various developmental processes are affected based on maternal diet,” she says. “Increasing our understanding of nutrient requirements at various stages of gestation will be important in guiding nutritional management strategy recommendations for livestock producers in the future.”

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reenhouse gas theory is wrong contends a new scientific paper by Drs. Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller.

They conclude that “the entire greenhouse gas theory is incorrect.”

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Auburn University Emeritus Professor Dr. David South, who supports the findings of Nikolov and Zeller stated, “Using Ned and Karl’s simple equation, people can now accurately predict the average temperature of many planets by just knowing two things, the total surface atmospheric pressure and how much sunlight reaches the atmosphere.”

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NEWS UPDATE

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Although global warming alarmists have predictably made every effort to link Hurricanes Harvey and Irma with higher greenhouse gas levels, the real threat to American energy comes not from global warming, but from misguided global warming policies.

That much is made evident in a highly detailed report the U.S. Department of Energy has just released on “electricity markets and reliability” that should be instructive to federal and state policymakers. One key finding that stands out is the impact government regulations, mandates and subsidies have on current and future energy needs. As variable renewable energy has gained traction within the energy grid, it has become more difficult and challenging to meet growing energy needs, according to the report.

That’s because wind and solar energy sources cannot stand on their own two feet without government intervention. Unlike their fossil counterparts, renewable energy sources are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive. But they did gain political favor during the Obama administration as a way to mitigate the potential effects of man-made global warming. Since a growing number of scientists now identify natural influences, as opposed to human emissions, as the primary drivers of climate change, it’s time to let solar and wind energy rise and fall on their own merits. The government subsidies and mandates that prop up renewable energy have contributed to the “premature retirement of base load power plants,” the study says. The lesson here is that what is politically fashionable and trendy does not always make sense economically or scientifically.

So, is there room for renewable energy to operate effectively in the absence of government intervention?

The Institute for Energy Research has released its own report titled “The Solar Value Cliff” that addresses this very question and concludes that at “low penetration levels” solar power can alleviate stress on the electricity grid. However, IER also finds that solar energy “contributes no additional capacity to the grid at a penetration level of six percent or beyond. Indeed, additional solar above the threshold is actively harmful to the ability of operators to maintain the capacity of the grid because it undermines the economics of those energy sources that must continue to provide the capacity to meet peak demand.”

Put simply, solar could have a constructive, but limited role as part of a mixed approach to energy unfettered from government directives.

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that flow out of natural disasters like Harvey and Irma. Contrary to what has been reported by some media outlets, the extreme weather conditions that have occurred recently are not out of proportion what has happened historically. In fact, in the past 140 years, major landfall hurricanes have actually declined even as CO2 has risen.

The population centers that are most vulnerable to severe weather are the ones that stand to lose the most if unworkable, inefficient energy displaces fossil fuels that have raised living standards across the globe. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that the oil and gas industry has saved lives that would have otherwise perished in the recent hurricanes.

There will always be challenges to humanity in the form of extreme weather, but we’ll be better positioned to handle natural disasters in the future if policymakers embrace technological innovation and responsible industrial development rather than unfounded global warming hysteria.

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The August meeting of the Chamiza CowBelles was called to order by President, Nancy Phelps, with 11 members and one guest present. Secretary’s report was read and approved with the correction: Clara Rabenau, guest, is running for NM State Fair Queen. Robbie presented the treasurer’s report and it was approved. Beef raffle ticket sales are going well. Nancy mailed out tickets to members not yet received tickets using $16 of her own money for postage. Ticket stubs should be turned in to Nancy; the money given to Robbie.

Petersen Memorial Ranch Rodeo and Dutch Oven Cookoff occur this weekend. Cathy will take care of the CowBelle booth for the weekend. Nancy will mail out the new annual dues forms next week. Four members volunteered to attend the Happy Hour reception at the NM State Fair on September 14 hosted by the NM Beef Council: Nancy, Krystie, Susan and Cathy. If anyone uses business cards, Debi Rupe has beef

information which can be printed on the back of these cards. Cathy received the application for Sierra County Fair Booth.

The cost is $25. She will turn in the application and more discussion regarding the fair will take place at the next meeting. Nancy and Sherry plan to attend the 5 States Meeting being held on September 27.

Krystie introduced guest, Clara Rabenau.

Clara then presented the speech she plans to use at the NM State Fair Queen competition, followed by questions from the group.

Good luck, Clara! Following the recent death of Jack Cain, spouse of one of our founding members Grace Cain the group will donate $100 to the NM State Veterans’ Home and $100 to the First Baptist Church in Jack’s memory. Janet Franklin won the door prize. Meeting adjourned. Submitted

by Cathy Pierce The August meeting of the Powderhorn Cattlewomen was called to order by President Kelsey McCollum on August 8, 2017.

There were six members and no guests present. In the absence of Joan Key (due to over 2 inches of rain, YEA!), Sandy McKenna read the minutes of the May meeting, and they were approved as read. Kathy gave the treasurer’s report. It was decided to pay the DeBaca 4-H $200 for their work at the bar-

becue and to pay the Ft. Sumner Chamber of Commerce $100. Discussion of other fundraising options were had including a billboard on I-40. Available wraps will be researched (more discussion at the September meeting). Kathy will collect dues in September with a new enrollment form.

Casey Spradley is working hard to clean up NMCB membership and duplicate Stockmen. Dues due by October 15. The Cattlewomen decided to make a $50 donation to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship fund in the memory of Tom Speight, Frances husband. The current slate of NM CowBelle state officers have proposed by-law cleanup changes that are in the current Wrangler. To assist NMCBs please attend the state meeting in Albuquerque on December 9 at 7:00 a.m. More discussion as year progresses. As an incentive, the Fort Sumner Chamber of Commerce has moved Winterfest to December 16. There was discussion of a booth with questionnaire as previous and awarding beef gift certificates or other gifts such as cookbooks or knives. Logistics of having a tasting will be pursued and group will participate in Winterfest with the details to be discussed and decided later.

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Hole Convention Center with Carolyn, amount to be collected at next meeting Karen and Brenda as hostesses. Patti Waid which will likely be at the Southern New will be presenting a program on “What” Mexico State Fair. The group decided to and “How” for the Cattle Growers and Beef continue their Beef Buckle Sponsorship and Council. Meeting was adjourned. After a discussed sale items for the fair. Janet will delicious lunch of pot roast and trimmings, get the business license for napkins, cookKelsey presented the program on “What, books, limited NMCB inventory and Beef Why and How of Creating a New Perennial Plates. The SNMSF Ag Tours were discussed Flower Bed” showing ladies the plants and with the next meeting date. Ag in the Classtechniques used at Kathy’s home. Much was room will continue their partnership with learned by all. Respectfully submitted, Sandy MVC at the fair booth and has signs to put McKenna for Joan Key around with the bar codes for Seek and Find The Mesilla Valley CowBelles met for fair goers. The Elementary School CalAugust 21, 2017 with five members present. endar Contest winners will again be In President Gretchen’s absence Janet led displayed among the School Arts exhibits. the meeting. The minutes were approved Fair cleanup and booth set up times will be as emailed out and the treasurer’s report emailed out to membership. Submitted by was read and filed. Dues are due next Judy Glover meeting; Janet will email out the form and President Rachel called the May 2017

meeting to order with nine members present of the Silver Spurs CowBelles. It was decided to approve the minutes as mailed. No treasurer’s report was available this month. Money collected at meeting will go to Galloping Grace youth ranch.

President Rachel attended the ANCW Region VI meeting held in Nevada and gave a brief overview of that meeting. The Union County Leader published names of various community 2017 High School graduates.

The Lariat CowBelles are partnering with Silver Spurs for the Beef Supplement.

By-Laws update was discussed. It was decided to donate $100 to the Youth Ranch Management Camp held annually in the State. Reminder of the County Fair Theme: Blue Jeans and Country Dreams. Submitted

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The Grant County Copper CowBelles met on August 15. The Pledge of Alliance, CowBelles Creed and Prayer were recited.

Guest Carol Baumgartner was introduced and hostess was Kim Clark. President Pat Hunt presented two items that the Executive Board was requesting motions on: It was decided by a narrow margin to not have the annual Shindig during 2018 due to uncertainties on where and when to hold it. There was much discussion and it was noted that if a member wants to take charge of the event (relieving Executive Board of duties), it can be held. Secondly, it was decided to stop using the post office box; only mail being received is junk mail. The bank statements are sent electronically. Address will be changed to the President’s home address. Rosella was not available to give a report on the Fourth of July Beef giveaway but the pictures and write-up were given to Judy for the press release. One scholarship application was received and Joan will discuss it with the committee. Kathy will contact Runyans for advice on repairing the highway beef billboard. Linda agreed to be chair of the nominating committee for next year’s officers and Deborah agreed to chair the county fair booth in September. Bobbie announced that the long awaited ranching exhibit at the Silver City Museum has been postponed again to September 2018. Submitted by Pat Hunt 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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But Kathy Larson, research economist with the Western Beef Development Centre, encourages producers to consider the opportunity costs of raising animals as well.

“Opportunity costs are essentially non-cash costs. The biggest one being the money you gave up by choosing to keep [the heifer] when she was a weaned calf, rather than sell her,” says Larson. “That can be as much as 70 percent in those high price years of 2014 and 2015 when we had high calf prices. On average though it’s about 60 percent of the value of developing a replacement heifer.”

Larson adds that this is a factor that is often overlooked.

“When you see it up on a chart — for example the 2014-born heifers that you were keeping right off the bat — that it’s close to $1,500. That is her starting value, right off the bat. You’ve done nothing to develop her. And yes, that’s an alarming number.”

When calf prices are high, it can take as many as eight calves to recover the cost of developing a heifer through to calving.

Whereas, those heifers born in market lulls can be paid off in three or four years.

“If I just do a basic scenario with some assumptions on what your cost of production is and what calf prices could be in the future going forward, it’s probably between five and six calves,” says Larson. “But it really depends on your own cost of production, and what you can reasonably sell your calves for.”

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richomoniasis (Trich) is a disease that can be economically devastating in a short period of time. Trich is caused by the protozoa, Tritrichomonas foetus, and does not cause the animal to show clinical signs. Additionally, there is no treatment to cure infected animals making the disease difficult to control if proper preventative practices are not followed.

A susceptible cow that is bred by an infected bull will become infected with the organism, and will generally abort, resume cyclicity, and then may settle thereby infecting all bulls that breed her while she is infected. Infected bulls will then transmit the disease to the cows he breeds and the disease spreads rapidly through the herd.

Trich is known to reduce herd fertility, and the economic impacts from reproductive losses can be substantial for the livestock enterprise with extensive implications for both production and economic sustainability. However, the full extent of economic damages associated with a Trich outbreak in New Mexico livestock operations has not been evaluated.

Therefore, a series of factors that are impactful to the economic profile of the

livestock production unit were considered in a recent survey of known positive premises across New Mexico. Physiological factors that were found to be most economically impacted included: calf crop percentage, conception rate, cull rates, weaning weights and re-establishment of the herd. Impacts associated with Trich are not one-year recovery processes, but rather a long-term situation that requires intensive management by the livestock producer to return to profitability.

Cost & Return Estimate A representative livestock enterprise was employed in the modeling process using the New Mexico State University cost and return estimate generator. The representative ranch had 400 mother cows, 1:20 bull/ cow ratio, 15 percent replacement rate, and a weaned calf crop. The comparative analysis cost and return estimate for a Trich infected herd had the same number of mother cows, 1:20 bull/cow ratio, 35 percent replacement rate and a 64 percent weaned calf crop. These values were determined through survey responses.

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Second, due to the extreme environment in NM, most producers find it necessary to raise their own replacement heifers in order to match their animals to the environment. A reduction in weaned calves will constrain the producer decision making process as forward planning is evolving.

Not only were fewer calves weaned, but market calves were lighter with the presence of Trich thus further reducing gross returns. The result of lighter calves was representative of approximately $21 per cow. Overall, this research model indicated that economic impacts of Trich were in excess of $300.00 per cow on the representative livestock enterprise.

Conception rates were 90.55 percent for the disease free enterprise, and 64.5 percent for the enterprise exposed to Trich. The physiological and economic impact is stated in weaned calves. When the disease is present, effects on conception are significant.

Conception may be delayed by several cycles. It is estimated that every cycle that a cow does not breed reduces her calf’s weaning weight by as much as 50 pounds.

In addition, many cows will not rebreed, and will have to be sold as open cows. Cows that were pregnant, at pregnancy check may abort at any point up to 240 days of gestation. Perhaps the most devastating is the loss in calf crop which can be 10 to 50 percent the first year depending on the rate of transmission in the herd which is largely dependent on the number of infected bulls.

Replacement of the aggregate breeding herd holds economic challenges that are both financial and genetic. Trichomoniasis has been shown to alter the genetic composition of the breeding herd. New Mexico producers must select for cows that can produce in an environment where forage is often limiting, and it can take decades to build a herd adapted to the challenging environment. Thus, purchasing replacement heifers is not common for the majority of New Mexico producers.

Generations of family choices relative to the development of the mother cow herd have been devastated by this Trich. This impact is very challenging to determine a specific economic value through the implementation of the representative cost and return estimate, but reduced calving percentages associated with Trich makes it necessary to purchase replacement females.

This additional cost is only partially offset with increased cull sales. Costs associated with the replacement of bulls was esti-

mated to exceed $80,000 for the representative model.

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Summary The introduction of this disease in a livestock enterprise will have economic impacts. These impacts will change both liquidity and solvency. The overall impact of the study determined that all factors when combined will have a total economic impact to the livestock enterprise of greater than $400 per cow. Annualized return on investment would exceed 129 percent in this scenario. A return with a level of significance as presented allows the livestock enterprise owner/management team to make an easy decision- initiate and sustain Trich testing.

The only known way to eliminate the disease, and to prevent infection is to test bulls; thus, Trich testing is a positive investment for the livestock entity. The cost of a Trich test was estimated to be $46.21 per bull as determined by the survey average.

Relative to the potential economic loss associated with the disease should the enterprise become infected, this cost would appear to be a positive return on investment.

In addition, annual testing will also facilitate positive working relationships with 1 All with New Mexico State University, Department neighboring livestock enterprises. Collab- of Extension Animal Sciences & Natural Resources: Wenzel, J – Extension Veterinarian; Gifford, C. orative efforts to increase Trich testing in a – Extension Beef Specialist; Hawkes, J. – Ag Economist region is an encouraged concept and is the and Department Head most effective method to eliminate or minimize spread of the disease.

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NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS

by Frank Dubois

Navy Seals, National Monuments, and New Mexico Ranchers

Navy Seal Retreats

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ecretary Zinke’s report to President Trump on national monuments has leaked to the press, and has been met with great disappointment by many in the West.

Many of us who met with Zinke felt we had provided multiple reasons for the monuments to be downsized, and walked away from those meetings convinced the Secretary had understood and agreed with the reasons presented.

Carlos Salazar, President of the Northern New Mexico Stockmen, tells me he “felt very comfortable after leaving the meeting with Zinke that he was sincere in that the Rio Grande Del Norte Monument and Organ Mountains Monument would be

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downsized.” David Sanchez, Vice-President to protect specific objects.” Clearly, many of the group says they “identified and of these areas were not in compliance with expressed the negative and cumulative the Antiquities Act. But even with these impacts the monument would have on the findings by the Secretary, he has recomranch families of northern New Mexico” and mended, in effect, that Trump endorse told Zinke the boundaries and size of the these abuses of the Act. monument, “had not been justified by the Congressman Steve Pearce says Zinke’s BLM or any other body of government.” recommendation “fails to provide the soluThose hopes were crushed when the tions New Mexico needs” and leaves an contents of the report were made public. “overly burdensome and harmful footprint” Of the 27 monuments reviewed, Zinke only on the areas. recommended three of the land-based Former Dean and current holder of a monuments have boundary changes: Bears distinguished chair at the Linebery Policy Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah Center at NMSU, Jerry Schickedanz, is dis(where he had to follow the wishes of appointed “that the Secretary of the Interior Trump and the Utah congressional delega- did not follow the review criteria in his rection) and the Cascade Siskiyou in Oregon ommendation” resulting in the monuments (where Interior is being sued because it not being reduced in size In addition, contains O&C lands).

Schickedanz says by not reducing the size In his report to Trump, Zinke says they of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks found designations where the Antiquities National Monument, Zinke has left the comAct definition of “objects” and “smallest munity with the lack of “access for border area compatible” were either “arbitrary or security, flood control, and watershed likely politically motivated” and that management.” “boundaries could not be supported by Carlos Salazar said, “we were misled science or reasons of practical resource by phony intent by a government official, management.” Zinke also found that Zinke. Some of us drove 8-10 hours to make “certain monuments were designated to this meeting to be let down.” Salazar also prevent economic activity such as grazing, said,”Thanks to Congressman Steve Pearce mining and timber production rather than for setting up this visit with the Secretary.

We cannot depend on our two NM Senators for help on this government overreach.”

The environmental groups who said this whole review was a “sham”, were correct.

Zinke used the review process to take care of his political problem in Utah, and the rest is window dressing.

The political ineptness of this is amazing.

Even though Zinke has agreed with almost 90 percent of what Clinton and Obama wrought, Trump will still be subjected to the same amount of enviro and media criticism as if he had made significant corrections.

Zinke’s hero, Teddy Roosevelt, may have charged up San Juan Hill, but the Secretary has retreated behind the barricades of the establishment bureaucracy.

Trump has said he wants to “drain the swamp”, but Zinke has only offered the President a thimble to work with.

Grazing Language If nothing else, the Secretary has recommended some of the management language in the New Mexico monuments be revised. Changing the grazing language will help, but does not answer all the concerns of the ranching community. For instance, the language in the Proclamation that prevents off-road travel, even by nonmotorized means, is a great hindrance to the day-to-day operations of a ranching family. How do they get fencing supplies to a fence line? How do they get a trailer to a sick cow or horse? How do they transport equipment needed for an existing range improvement? In addition, the language in the Proclamation limiting new right-ofways will certainly put a stop to new range improvements like water pipelines, and in some instances prevent them from getting power to their property.

Both monuments have terrible anti-grazing language in them. What remains to be seen, however, is how Interior proposes to fix this issue. It would appear to me they have three options: ЇЇ Revise the proclamation to include language like that in the Basin and Range Proclamation, which makes it clear the monument designation has no impact on livestock grazing, ЇЇ Revise the proclamation to remove the consistency language but still leave it vague as to how the proclamation affects livestock grazing, or ЇЇ Not revise the proclamation and claim they can fix the issue through policy memos and internal guidance.

Where Does it Cost the Most and Least to Rent Pasture?

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Pasture Cash Rents, by County Christopher Walljasper, Farm Journal Media

10 States with Highest Pasture Rent Price

asture rent is an expense most cattle Pasture Cash State Rent ($/acre) producers negotiate on a yearly basis Iowa $54 and it can fluctuate based on competition from other grazers. This year cash Pennsylvania $44 rent pasture rates averaged $12.50/acre Maryland $40 nationally, down $0.50/acre from last year Wisconsin $40 and $1.50/acre lower than 2015. Rental Indiana $39 rates in 2013-14 stayed at $12/acre and in Illinois $38 2012 were down to $11.50/acre, according New Jersey $36 to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.

Missouri $31 Still, it begs the question where can a Minnesota $30 cattle producer or livestock grazer find the Georgia $29 best deal on grazing? And where is land in 10 States with the highest demand for grazing?

The most expensive county to rent Lowest Pasture Rent Price pasture in 2017 is Snohomish County, Pasture Cash State Rent ($/acre) Washington where reported cash rents were $128/acre. The cheapest county to Arizona $2.3 rent pasture in this year is Culberson New Mexico $3.2 County, Texas where reported cash rents Utah $4.8 were $0.60/acre.

Wyoming $4.8 The only other county with $100/acre Colorado $5.6 or higher rent was Chester County, PennMontana $6.3 sylvania at $113/acre. Of the 50 highest Texas $6.6 priced pasture rent counties in the country, Washington $8 Iowa has 39 percent of the counties in the Oregon $11 top 50.

California $12 (tie) Forty-nine of the 50 lowest pasture Hawaii $12 (tie) cash rent counties are located in western Idaho $12 (tie) states with rocky or desert terrain like Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Both cropland and pasture cash rents Wyoming and Utah, with prices being $3/ are surveyed by USDA’s National Agriculacre or lower. Lewis County, West Virginia tural Statistics Service. For more was the only county east of the Mississippi information on the program go to the River to rank in the top 50 lowest, tied with USDA’s website and to see how pasture Glasscock County, Texas and Weston rent compares to cropland rent read the County, Wyoming. following story from AgWeb.

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If they truly want to protect the ranching Will he only accept the Zinke recommendafamilies in these monuments, they will tions, or will he listen to the views of others, pursue the first option. especially those making their living off the The second option will give these fami- land? As Carlos Salazar says, “President lies a better chance of surviving the Trump, the common folk people from the designation, but still leave them vulnerable rural communities need your help.” His to lawsuits or other negative actions colleague, David Sanchez, puts it this way, The third option is a total cop out. The “We can only hope and pray that President consistency language will remain causing Trump makes the right decision.” great vulnerability to lawsuits and anti-grazUntil next time, be a nuisance to the ing policies of future administrations. devil and don’t forget to check that cinch.

We will be watching to see what Interior’s real intent is with respect to the future Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture of ranching in these monuments. from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The

Trump The issue is now in the President’s hands.

Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship and The DuBois Western Heritage Foundation

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Forest Service Wildland Fire Suppression Costs Exceed $2 Billion Source: USDA

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“Forest Service spending on fire suppres-

sion in recent years has gone from 15 percent of the budget to 55 percent – or maybe even more – which means we have to keep borrowing from funds that are intended for forest management,” Perdue said. “We end up having to hoard all of the money that is intended for fire prevention, because we’re afraid we’re going to need it to actually fight fires. It means we can’t do the prescribed burning, harvesting, or insect control to prevent leaving a fuel load in the forest for future fires to feed on.

That’s wrong, and that’s no way to manage the Forest Service.”

Currently, the fire suppression portion of the Forest Service budget is funded at a rolling ten-year average of appropriations, while the overall Forest Service budget has remained relatively flat. Because the fire seasons are longer and conditions are worse, the ten-year rolling fire suppression budget average keeps rising, chewing up a greater percentage of the total Forest Service budget each year. The agency has had to borrow from prevention programs to cover fire suppression costs. Perdue said he would prefer that Congress treat major fires the same as other disasters and be covered by emergency funds so that prevention programs are not raided.

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“We are breaking records in terms of dollars spent, acres of National Forest land burned, and the increased duration of fires.” said Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke. “Our firefighters are brave men and women, who risk their own lives to protect life and property. We must give them every opportunity to do their jobs effectively through better management of the forests in the first place.”

Both Perdue and Tooke have traveled recently to areas of the country besieged by wildfires. Secretary Perdue visited Montana with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke near the end of August, receiving an assessment from Forest Service personnel on the ground at the Lolo Peak Fire. Chief Tooke was in Oregon earlier in September, when he visited firefighters, communities, and local and state decision-makers. Perdue said he wants to embrace Good Neighbor Authority, which permits contracting with states to perform watershed restoration and forest management services in National Forests.

“We are committed to working together, with federal, state, and local officials, to be good stewards of our forests,” Perdue said.

“We want to make Good Neighbor Authority more than just a slogan. We want to make it work for our forests, so that they work for the taxpayers of America.”

The mission of the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. The agency manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and maintains world-renowned forestry research and wildland fire management organizations. National forests and grasslands contribute more than $30 billion to the American economy annually and support nearly 360,000 jobs.

These lands also provide 30 percent of the nation’s surface drinking water to cities and rural communities; approximately 60 million Americans rely on drinking water that originated from the National Forest System.

New Arizona Foundation Supports Youth / Promotes Cowboy Way of Life

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ocal ranchers Ian Tomlinson of the Vera Earl Ranch in Sonoita, AZ, and Dwight Babcock of Three Sisters Land & Cattle of Dragoon, AZ, are among the founding board members of Los Charros Foundation, Inc., a new charitable organization that held its first annual fundraiser on September 9, 2017.

After 60 years of riding and camping in the neighboring ranch lands for their annual ride, Los Charros del Desierto, a group of about 200 men, formed the Foundation to promote the Cowboy Way of Life, Conservation and Youth Development & Education, specifically in Santa Cruz, Pima and Cochise Counties in southern Arizona.

The event, hosted by the Vera Earl Ranch, was attended by 132 ranchers and foundation guests. An afternoon ride was followed by dinner, dancing under the stars and a very successful auction that raised over $55,000. The Foundation, which supported 4-H programs in Santa Cruz and Cochise counties in 2015 and 2016, is developing and funding an annual scholarship program to assist rural youth.

Saturday evening Tomlinson introduced a group of 4-H members who volunteered by serving dinners, selling raffle tickets, assisting in the live auction and speaking with guests. Tomlinson emphasized the importance of helping children who live in outlying areas to reach their full potential by providing 4-year college scholarships.

To date, Los Charros Foundation, Inc. has raised over $175,000 in donations and pledges, which includes over $55,000 raised at the recent event.

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James Lovelock on…’Wicked’ Renewables & Why He Changed His Mind on Climate Change

by James Delingpole, www.spectator.co.uk

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nvironmentalism has gone too far; renewable energy is a disaster; scares about pesticides and chemicals are horribly overdone; no, the planet is not going to end any time soon; and, by the way, the answer is nuclear…

This isn’t me speaking, but the views of an environmentalist so learned, distinguished and influential you could call him the Godfather of Green. His name is James Lovelock, the maverick independent scientist perhaps best known for positing the theory that our planet is an interconnected, self-regulating organism called Gaia.

Lovelock came up with his Gaia hypothesis more than half a century ago, in the course of a conversation with fellow scien-

tists including Carl Sagan at NASA’s Jet religion. But from the early 1970s onward it Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Califor- struck a chord with the green movement, nia, where he was employed to work out which used it to support its belief that the ways of testing whether there was life on planet’s delicate balance was on the verge Mars. of being destroyed forever by an unwelThis got him thinking about the mystery come interloper: man. of life on our own planet: our peculiar atmoIn 2006, Lovelock burnished his green sphere, largely comprising nitrogen and credentials with The Revenge of Gaia, in oxygen (unlike Mars and Venus, where it’s which he argued that, thanks to global mostly CO2), and the extraordinary way that warming, man was all but doomed. By the for the past 3.5 billion years, Earth has end of the 21st century “billions of us will remained within a narrow temperature die and the few breeding pairs of people band capable that survive will be of supporting in the Arctic where The cures being advanced on t h e c l i m a t e life, even though the remains tolerable,” green zealots are often worse he told an intersun has grown 3 0 p e r ce n t viewer. Climate than the disease itself, warns the h o t te r a n d change was so ought to have serious a threat, he pioneering environmentalist. fried us by now. told the Guardian Could it be, he in 2010, that wondered, that the entire planet is an democracy might have to be ‘put on hold’. incredibly complex, self-regulating system Within two years he’d had a remarkable designed for supporting life? change of heart. “All right, I made a mistake,” The name Gaia came later, provided by he told the cable channel MSNBC. He still his friend, the novelist William Golding, believed — and continues to believe — that after the ancient Greek name for Earth. This man-made carbon dioxide is a problem that didn’t help its reputation with scientists, needs addressing. But we’ve plenty of time many of whom dismissed it as a neo-pagan to do something about it before any dan-

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gerous effects are felt, and in any case, the kids,”Lovelock says. “When I came back one has a sense of vocation. It’s “just a cures being advanced by green zealots are from the summer holidays when I was 13 career, where scientists don’t even do much there was one boy called Piercy, who said: science. They’re just line managers”. often worse than the disease itself.

Lovelock was famously adventurous, One of his main bugbears is biomass, ‘I’ve been spending the hols swotting up on such as the wood chips from old oak forests quantum theory.’ This was 1933. It was insisting on testing burns on himself (“it in the US, which are shipped across the utterly new. It wasn’t taught in universities. hurt like hell”) rather than on lab animals, Atlantic to be burned for electricity at the ‘And if any of you are interested in discuss- working on a vaccine for scrub typhus (“if Drax power station: “This is one of the most ing it…’ And we did. Now this is the unique you’d caught it in the lab it would have monstrous examples of green absurdity education only a grammar school could been certain death”) and trying out one of that I know of. It’s wicked!” give because it had selected. No bullies. No the rocket–firing-tank landing ships like the Nor is he a fan of wind energy, which he nasties. Just kids who were intelligent one commanded on D-Day by his mate ‘Bill’ considers environmentally damaging, inef- enough to be interested in the world Golding. ficient, expensive and a scam. “There’s so around them… Egalitarianism is utterly evil.

The war really was Britain’s finest hour, much money in renewable energy. I’m sure It’s contra Darwin.” he believes: “It’s one of the things that there’s a giant corruption going on.”

Despite his lowly 2.2 (“really not much made me vote Brexit — it was such a tribal He’s modestly pro shale gas — only as a use”) in chemistry from Manchester — a thing. It was a society that you felt was right transition fuel to wean the world off coal result he blames on his dyslexia — his pro- and doing wonders and fighting a hell of — but his real enthusiasm is for nuclear, “so fessor, Nobel laureate Alexander Todd, an enemy. And you couldn’t not join in.” cheap, so safe” whose dangers, he believes, recommended him for a job at the National On Brexit, as on many other issues, his have been grotesquely oversold by greens Institute for Medical Research. “It was opinions are surprisingly reactionary for a for reasons which have more to do with wartime and it was wonderful — just (tarnished) green icon. He thinks Al Gore is quasi-religious ideology than with science. solving a series of problems in every damn a “nasty piece of work”; he’s a fan of Jacob “The way to look at radiation is that it’s field under the sun,” he says. “Someone Rees-Mogg and the British Empire; he’s about what they call the linear no-thresh- might come in and say: ‘Lovelock, could you mystified by the anti-scientific nonsense old. Namely, what the greens say is that make me a gadget to show whether radia- about “gender fluidity”; and he and Sandy there’s no amount of radiation that won’t tion from a source will cause a first-, love The Spectator (though they also take give you cancer, no matter how small it is. -second-, or third-degree burn.’ You’d have Prospect for balance).

Well, this is as stupid as saying, ‘Never go it with them by ten the next day.” The out of your home because if you do you’ve problem with modern science, he thinks, is a chance of being killed by something or that everyone is far too specialized, and no other.”’

He has a similar gripe about the greens’ attitude to chemicals and pesticides. Ironically, Lovelock himself helped to bolster this scare by inventing the machine — an electron capture detector — capable of measuring substances in quantities so tiny that they were previously undetectable.

The The good news was Lovelock was able to TheDepartment DepartmentofofAnimal Animal&&Range RangeSciences Sciencesisispart partofofthe the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental warn of the widespread presence of CFCs College of Agricultural, Consumer & EnvironmentalSciences Sciences in the atmosphere and thus avert a potenFour on-campus animal facilities house: tial environmental disaster. The bad news beeF CaTTle/horses/swine/sheep was that his device also gave the greens Students can major in Animal or Rangeland Resources and are provided with the very ammunition for more scaremongering, best of “hands on” academic instruction by our faculty. Fully equipped labs allow even though in fact the presence of most students access to cutting-edge research in: chemicals in tiny quantities is “of no conse• The Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland LIVESTOCK NUTRITION / GENETICS / PHYSIOLOGY / quence to anyone” in terms of health or Research Center (The College Ranch) – ENDOCRINOLOGY / MEAT SCIENCE / WOOL / 64,000 acre ranch just outside of safety.

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The Code of the West

eems everywhere you look, the “old” easy. But doing the right thing will always is “new” again. Folks are wearing old reward you in one way or another. You fashioned looking clothes (with a would be surprised how people will react modern twist); long, shaggy hair is being when you stand up for what is right. People sported by cowboys everywhere; auto com- in general know when something is not panies are making models that resemble right, they just don’t want to be the one to cars from days gone by and just about “rock the boat.” Sometimes it is a lonely everyone, in some way or another, is sport- feeling when you are the only one standing ing a latest fad straight out of the past. They up for what is right. But before long, others say, sooner or later everything comes back will join you. When it is all said and done, into style—it just seems to make a big ol’ you will feel better about yourself for standcycle.” ing up for what is right—and people will Let me tell you about one thing that respect you for it also. never goes out of style—old fashioned The “Code” does not tolerate liars or morals and values. Cowboys and Western- cheaters. The truth is always easier than a ers simply called theirs “The Code of the lie. It may not seem like it at the time, but West.” people respect the truth. Besides that, the The Code of the West is an unwritten truth is easier to remember. Nobody ever creed, or set of values. In the past, it was truly gets ahead by lying. They may have commonly used by people everywhere. some short term gain, they may even think Today?—not so much… The “Code” calls for that they have gotten away with something, you to do the right thing, whatever the sit- but in the end, it just does not work out. uation may be.

All of us have known people who lie.

Sometimes doing the right thing is not Some people tell “little white lies” for effect,

or to make their stories better—others are just blatant liars. But we know who these people are and we don’t believe them.

Most of the time they don’t even realize how ridiculous they look, standing there telling lies, when everyone else knows what they are doing. Then, the worst part of all is—even when they are telling the truth, people still tend not to believe them based on their previous track record!

Cheaters are worse. To fraud or cheat someone takes a person of very small moral character. In business dealings we must hold ourselves to the highest of moral character or we won’t be doing business very long. The customers or persons we deal with expect fair treatment. Liars and cheats may think they are pulling the wool over people’s eyes, but in the long run, it generally comes out. They wind up being worse off than had they just done the right thing to start with. There is no short cut or substitute for hard honest work. That holds true weather you make your living with your

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head, or your back. Treat people as you else’s standard. would like to be treated yourself. RememWhen you get into the habit of doing the ber, bad news spreads like wildfire, but right thing, it just comes natural after a good news spreads like molasses. while—before long it’s a no-brainer. Your The “Code” calls for us to help out where life will be so much better and simpler if you we can. We have all heard the old saying do not have to worry about going around about the guy who would give you the shirt cleaning up your own messes. right off of his back if you needed it worse Remember, setting a good example for than he did. This guy is somebody to look others is important—especially setting a up to! In the long run, this guy is better off good example for the young ones. Most all for his efforts. That is not why he does it of us have a youngster who looks up to us though. He does not help people in search in one way or another. It is important to of rewards—it just usually works out that remember we have an influence on their way. The reward can be financial in one way life—plus the lives of people around us or another, or maybe it is just the satisfac- each and every day. tion of seeing someone smile from within The Code of the West is still alive and and giving you a big ol’ “thanks.” This type strong. I see fine examples of it every day of reward lasts longer than money anyway in my travels. It does my heart good to see and generally you have made a friend for people treating each other with respect, life. standing up for what is right and being a The “Code” says that we should respect good example to others. I am convinced the one another. Try giving out a “yes sir” or a “Code” is not out of fashion. However, it may “yes ma’am” once in a while and see what become obsolete if good folks let it die. I kind of results you get. A simple “please” am calling on all of you out there to help and “thank you” are easy words to say, but spread it. will gain you a lot of mileage. And holding Set a good example, people are watchthe door for somebody is not out of style ing! Live by the “Code.” I will try my darndest or old fashioned. There are not many true too. Please join me—it’s the cowboy ladies, no matter how modern, indepen- way. dent or down right liberated, who do not enjoy having a door held open, or a gentleman saying “after you ma’am.”

Respect people by not gossiping about them or by spreading lies about them. If you don’t know something to be fact— don’t say it. And even if it is a fact, use some tact. The Mexican people have a saying that goes like this; “con la boca abierta, entre la mosca” translated it means that when the mouth is open, the flies will enter. Think about it!

The Code of the West basically boils down to doing the right thing. Two wrongs do not make a right—never have and never will! Just because someone else does something wrong, it does not give you the green light to do the same. Stand up for what is right! Don’t lower yourself to someone

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz

The Taos Mutiny of 1855

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hroughout New Mexico’s Territorial period (1850-1912) there was debate about where and how the frontier United States Army should be deployed, and the circumstances around Taos in the early territorial days were exemplary of that.

Following the suppression of the Taos Revolt of 1847, it seemed necessary that troops remain in that village. Logic held that other rebellions could be expected at the hands of Taos Pueblo people and others who until 1848 had been citizens of Mexico.

The possibility of attack at the hands of Jicarilla Apaches and Ute Indians who roamed the area also made the presence of troops desirable.

Soon after New Mexico’s first territorial government was seated in 1851, Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner (c. 1797-1863) was named commander of the Military Department of New Mexico. While he considered

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it important to keep troops in northern New Mexico, he did not believe that military personnel should be stationed in close proximity to towns. (He called Santa Fe a “sink of vice and extravagance.”) He therefore ordered the construction of Cantonment Burgwin, ten or so miles south of Taos in 1852.

Only two years later, troops from the new Cantonment were beaten badly by Jicarilla Apaches at the Battle of Cieneguilla.

A year after that, a drunken disorder that came to be called the Taos Mutiny took place.

A major problem faced by military commanders on the western frontier was the excessive use of alcohol by subordinate officers and enlisted men alike. History is replete with examples, and the Taos affair in March 1855 is one of them. The problem began with the two commanders at the Cantonment: George Alexander Hamilton Blake (1810-1884) and Philip Roots Thompson, both Brevet Majors, Blake being the senior of the two. Thompson had a long record of drunkenness and one soldier reported that his superior had been drunk on the long march from Kansas to New Mexico. Because of an earlier altercation at Fort Union, Thompson had been ordered

to join the Temperance Union, but that group wouldn’t have him because he continued his drinking ways. Blake, on the other hand, had a habit of absenting himself from the military post for personal reasons. It was also Major Blake who had arrested Major Thompson during the earlier altercation at Fort Union.

On March 18, 1855, Major Thompson and one company of Dragoons—50 or so non-commissioned officers and enlisted men—marched north toward Taos, with intentions of continuing on to Fort Massachusetts in southern Colorado. As they marched along, Major Blake overtook and passed them on his way into Taos to attend to business, though the nature of it is not known. Major Thompson found it impossible to avoid stopping at Ceran St. Vrain’s distillery near Talpa between the cantonment and Taos, and he called a halt to the march at the gate. He soon delivered a gallon or more of whiskey—probably Taos Lightning—to his first sergeant, with instructions that it be distributed to the men.

The march continued and when the troop reached Taos, with several men including Major Thompson, obviously drunk, the drinking continued. One soldier, extremely intoxicated according to witnesses, began harassing citizens with his saber and another was so drunk that he could not walk or sit a horse. Major Thompson ordered the soldier arrested and when the first sergeant tried to do so, the soldier slugged the sergeant and the sergeant slugged back.

Major Blake, present on the Taos Plaza, saw the fight and drew the wrong conclusion and ordered the sergeant arrested.

Major Thompson refused to do so, and Blake then arrested the sergeant. A blowby-blow retelling of the entire altercation would serve no purpose. The fight, however, involved enlisted men fighting enlisted men, enlisted men fighting sergeants, and enlisted men fighting officers, and several variations on those match ups. The drunken brawl might have continued for some time except for the intervention of three civilians—Christopher “Kit” Carson (1809-1868), Supreme Court Justice Perry Brocchus (fl.

1846-1874), and Ramón Baca—who were able to restore order. No one was killed, and injuries reported were generally minor.

In the first round of court-martials, held in May 1855, privates Joseph Fox, John Cooper, and John Steele along with bugler Aaron Stephens were brought to trial and charged with mutiny. All four men were

New Mexico Loses a Legend

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ormer U.S. Senator Pete V. Domenici, the longest serving Senator in New Mexico history, died of complications from abdominal surgery on September 13, 2017 at the age of 85.

Domenici, a fierce advocate for New Mexico, rose to prominence on the national political stage serving as the powerful Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee during the tumultuous budget battles of the 1980s and 1990s. He was known as an expert on fiscal issues and served as President Reagan’s point man on Senate budget matters. He later served as Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee where he championed nuclear energy and advanced scientific research.

Pete Vichi Domenici was born in Albuquerque on May 7, 1932, to Cherubino and Alda (Vichi) Domenici. He helped his father

convicted and might have been sentenced to death but their sentences were reduced because of mitigating circumstances and each was sentenced to serve three years of hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

They all then disappeared from history except for Stephens, the bugler, who escaped from Fort Leavenworth in 1856 and joined forces with John Brown and his abolitionist movement in Kansas. Stevens was hanged along with Brown in March 1860 at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.

The non-commissioned officers were reduced in rank to private and reassigned to other units. Major Thompson was court-martialed in July 1855. He managed to make additional trouble for himself when he appeared before the court-martial board, drunk. He was ordered cashiered from the Army. Major Blake was not court-martialed until December 1855 at which time he was convicted on several charges involving the so-called mutiny. He was originally sentenced to be suspended from rank for one year during which he would forfeit his pay.

That was reduced to a one-month suspension and loss of pay. He also received an official reprimand which was placed in his file. Blake remained in the Army and attained the brevet rank of Brigadier General during the Civil War. Only the civilians, Carson, Brocchus and Baca, came out of this affair with any dignity.

It was clearly a black mark on the frontier Army in New Mexico.

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run the family grocery business. He graduated in 1950 from St. Mary’s High School in Albuquerque and graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1954.

As an athlete, Domenici pitched for St. Joseph’s college and then for the University of New Mexico where he was all-conference pitcher for two years. He went on to pitch one season for the Albuquerque Dukes, a farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers but gave it up because, he said, “my curve ball didn’t have enough bite.” He then taught mathematics at Garfield Junior High in Albuquerque before attending the University of Denver law school where he received a law degree in 1958.

He entered Albuquerque politics and was elected to the city commission in 1966, eventually becoming mayor. In 1972, he ran successfully for the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Jack Daniels, 54-46. He would be reelected five more times before leaving the Senate in 2008 after being diagnosed with an incurable brain affliction.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

said he knew Domenici “as smart, hard-working and dedicated – and as a strong advocate for his home state of New Mexico.” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan called Domenici a “larger-than-life figure who clearly relished the chance to serve and get things done. I learned so much from him, not just on budget issues but also how to be truly committed to your craft. He remains a great inspiration to me.”

First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, Domenici served for six terms before retiring in 2008. Through the years, Domenici developed a reputation as a straightforward legislator willing to work with colleagues and constituents from both sides of the aisle to achieve his legislative priorities. His conviction to honest budgeting led one colleague to suggest he suffered from “a case of terminal responsibility.”

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one in the Senate, or in the House of Representatives, that can make the case like Pete Domenici can, and make it as convincingly and as powerfully as he does. And whenever he does, the U.S. Senate just responds overwhelmingly.”

Considered a master legislative tactician, Domenici devoted much of his energy in the 1990s in working toward a balanced budget. After several failed attempts, the Senate approved the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which led to the first balanced federal budget in 30 years in 1998, and it remained in balance through 2001.

Domenici, is credited with numerous legislative achievements over his 36 years of Senate service including helping to pass the Reagan tax cuts in 1982, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity Act of 2008 (during which he partnered with Senator Kennedy), and passage of the “Megatons to Megawatts” program to secure fissionable materials following the breakup of the Soviet Union.

A strong supporter of federal scientific research, Domenici was also one of the first members of Congress to recognize the potential significance of human genome research and worked to provide funding for

KRQE-TV Reporter Dies in Lincoln County Helicopter Crash

by Katy Barnitz, Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer

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he Sky News 13 helicopter crashed in rural central New Mexico on Saturday, Sept. 16, killing veteran KRQE pilot and reporter Bob Martin.

Martin, who worked for KRQE-TV for nearly 30 years, was pronounced dead at the site of the crash in Lincoln County, according to New Mexico State Police. The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.

“It’s about as tough as you can imagine,” KRQE vice president and general manager Bill Anderson said Sunday. “He’s a central character here.”

Anderson said Martin, 64, was not only Channel 13’s pilot, but one of its best “reporters, writers, editors, photographers.”

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the government’s Human Genome Projects toric acequia irrigation system. He as early as 1987. spearheaded efforts to establish the PetroPete Domenici was a ferocious advocate glyph National Monument and protect the for New Mexico, using his seat on the Valles Caldera. In addition to working to Senate Appropriations Committee to suc- protect the works of American Indian artists cessfully support needed projects and craftsmen from counterfeiters, the throughout the state. He was a stalwart Senator funding to establish the Hispanic defender of the DOE national laboratories, Cultural Center and Museum in Los Alamos and Sandia, among others, as Albuquerque. well as military installations in New Mexico, His fierce devotion to his state resulted working successfully to defeat efforts to in many New Mexicans referring to him as close Kirtland and Cannon Air Force Bases. “Saint Pete.” Upon his retirement in 2007, He is responsible for the location of the one journalist suggested his fingerprints Federal Law Enforcement Training Center “are on every corner of New Mexico.” in Artesia.

Senator Domenici is survived by his Throughout his career, Domenici advo- sisters, Thelma Domenici and Rose Ann cated policies to diversify the New Mexico Domenici; his wife of 59 years, Nancy Burk economy and create opportunities for Domenici and their eight children: Lisa, growth. He assisted communities with eco- Peter, Nella, Clare, David, Nanette, Paula nomic development projects, and and Helen. He also has a son, Adam Laxalt, spearheaded small business development who currently serves as the Attorney councils to promote job growth. He fought General of Nevada. Domenici has 15 grandfor years to establish a port-of-entry at children and three great-grandchildren.

Santa Teresa. He was a champion for the An active grandfather, he traveled Character Counts education initiative in all around the country to attend sports events, New Mexico schools. performances, graduations, and weddings.

Senator Domenici worked to protect He was a passionate Nationals and Lobos and promote New Mexico’s rich multicul- baseball fan. He loved dove and quail tural and natural heritage. He authored the hunting in Southern NM, as well as Sunday federal program for maintaining the his- dinners with family and friends.

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He was a mentor who taught new employees “how to be a good person on top of being a good reporter.”

Martin stayed the night in Roswell after covering Friday night football “getting sports highlights from the air,” Anderson said. On his way back to Albuquerque on Saturday, he was “gathering a few more shots,” before the helicopter crashed as it passed through Lincoln County.

Police said they were notified of a downed aircraft near Corona at 5:14 p.m.

Saturday.

His co-workers gathered in the newsroom Saturday night to grieve the loss and to share their favorite stories. Anderson said Martin is survived by his wife, Marilyn Painter, a national sales manager for The CW. News of Martin’s death circulated on social media late Saturday and into Sunday.

Current and former Albuquerque-area reporters lamented the loss of a man who many considered both a dear friend and colleague.

“Although many of us work as competitors, all journalists in New Mexico are part of our journalism family and we hope our

friends at KRQE will reach out if they need support,” the Society of Professional Journalists Rio Grande Chapter wrote on Facebook.

According to his biography on KRQE’s website, Martin graduated from Socorro High School before studying journalism at Eastern New Mexico University. He went on to work for KBIM in Roswell and joined KRQE in 1989, where he tackled stories here and overseas.

Martin, who had been flying helicopters for KRQE for at least 27 years, was also an airplane pilot and balloonist, Anderson said.

He was also a licensed drone pilot and had an expert sport skydiver’s license, according to KRQE’s website.

At KRQE he often covered wildfires, and took emails and texts from people whose homes were in danger. He would fly over the area, the website reported, and provide them with detailed information about the condition of their property.

“We’ll remember him by going back to work,” Anderson said. “We’ll remember him by doing our jobs well. We’ll remember him by loving the communities of New Mexico.”

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

What’s Left Of Us

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ust as America is doing, the cattle indus- advertised in the Thrifty Nickel for $1,200 try is separating itself into two classes: apiece. the HAVES and HAVE-NOTS. According HAVE has no calving trouble because to the USDA, 57 percent of American ranch- only low calving ease EPD bulls are used ers have less than 20 cows and the average and only heifers with wide pelvises are kept. herd is only 42 head. But it’s the ranches HAVE-NOT doesn’t have any calving trouble with over 500 cows that produce most of either, at least that he’s aware of. HAVE NOT our beef. Going all the way back to the fertilizes his pastures by leaving carcasses Johnson County Wars, the beef cattle busi- where they lay while HAVE actually buys ness always has been about the BIG against fertilizer. The last time HAVE-NOT’S pasthe small; the HAVES versus the tures were reseeded was when the Forest HAVE-NOTS. Service mixed seed with the borate they HAVE lives in a house that’s been in the dropped on a brush fire of suspicious origin. family for five generations; HAVE-NOT lives HAVE’S calves weigh 775 at eight months in a double wide. HAVE-NOT pulls an and are organic, natural, NHTC, non-antibiantique two-horse trailer behind a 1982 otic, grass fed, and qualify for all the two-door Chevy. HAVE loads his $10,000 programs. HAVE-NOT’S aren’t treated either.

Quarter Horse into 24-foot Goosenecks® At all. For anything. HAVE aims for Certified pulled by a 2014 Ford F350. HAVE-NOT’S Angus Beef but all the initials CAB mean to remuda consists of a 25-year-old kid’s horse HAVE-NOT is who to call when he’s had one or a young and crazy BLM adoptee. too many. HAVE collects carcass data and HAVE’S highly bred cattle are worked in uses artificial insemination. To HAVE-NOT a hydraulic squeeze chute in a building the initials AI are the nickname of Allan that’s bigger than HAVE-NOT’S house. Iverson. The only thing HAVE-NOT collects HAVE’S working facilities were designed by are the skulls that litter his pastures.

Temple Grandin, the barbed wire is still HAVE was Cattleman of the Year, is on shiny on his five wire fences that were built his or her alumni advisory committee, sits with the aid of a gas powered post driver. on the Fair Board, Farm Credit, and two HAVE-NOT’S fences were built with the aid bank boards. HAVE-NOT went to the fair but of an illegal. His squeeze chute is made from never to college, hasn’t paid back Farm two old dairy stanchions and the loose wire Credit and has been denied a credit card by hanging on their fences is Glidden Winner, several banks. The HAVES own private land patent 1874. and have wolves but no snakes of the zooHAVE cowboys live in a bunkhouse. logic or BLM variety. They are diversified HAVE-NOT has a doghouse. The great and may own oil wells, wind farms, solar debate in HAVE’S bunkhouse is whether a installations or any combination of the Bud Box or a sweep tub is best. The big three. HAVE NOT leases his ground, buys his argument over the HAVE-NOT’S kitchen oil by the quart, has a sunny disposition but table is which bills get paid this month. can be windy.

The HAVES buy their bulls for $8,000 at Mr. HAVE is married to a wonderful leading purebred sales and know how well woman who keeps all the records, pays the their calves perform because they retain bills, anchors their team roping team, cooks ownership. The only thing retained at for the main house and the bunkhouse, and HAVE-NOT’S place are the placentas in come branding time can be seen holding a trader cows bought cheap at the Junker baby or grandbaby in one hand with a Jamboree. HAVE-NOT’S cows are impreg- syringe in the other. Mr. HAVE-NOT also has nated by one of the uncastrated calves a wonderful wife who does all of the above, following them around like ducks in a row, in addition to teaching school. If the wife or they fail to conceive. Again. HAVE-NOT’s left either HAVE or HAVE-NOT the operation herd improvement program consisted of would fall apart within 24 hours. buying three-year-old unregistered bulls

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Jack Bechdol, 83, Rio Rancho, passed soon as they could walk. He was the most blessed with a true friend and loving away on August 19, 2017. He lived his life to sought-after dance partner in Lindrith, and individual. the fullest and on his own terms. Jack was Jessie shared him with grace. Being a Luciano Amadeo “Lucky” Varela, 82, born in Logansport, Indiana on June 12, rancher was Jack’s dream and he worked Santa Fe, passed away amongst family at 1934. The Bechdol family moved to Albu- successfully throughout his life. Jack also his home on September 2, 2017. He was querque when Jack was 11. The summer worked in the oil and gas industry in a born in Pecos in 1935. He is survived by his Jack turned 12 he answered an ad for a variety of jobs, from roughneck to pipeline sister Guadalupe (Jose Archuleta), daughter cowboy job in Lindrith. This action foretold maintenance to management of a field. Bernadette Fernandez (Alfred) and sons Jeff the direction of his life. Jack made Lindrith Jack was an active member of the Lindrith (Annette) and James (Susan), eight grandhis home, building his ranch and raising his Community. He served on the Lindrith Rec- children; f ive great- grandchildren, family there for 70 years. Jack is survived by reation Association, as a leader in the Road sisters-in-laws Viola Varela and Toni Varela; three daughters, Laura  Riley, Mary Lynn Runner 4-H club, a barn superintendent at and several nieces and nephews. Varela a  Bransford, Leona and Don Bennet. He was the Rio Arriba County Fair, he worked on veteran of the U.S. Army, served in the NM  blessed with six grandchildren and their the establishment of the Lindrith Charter House of Representatives for 30 years rep  spouses, and one great-grandchild.

Addischool, represented the community in resenting House District 48. After a and will beworking with New Mexico Department of tionally, Jack was beloved successful career in NM State Government missed by many nieces,  nephews, great Game & Fish, and the oil and gas industry; at the Department of Finance & Administranieces and nephews. Jack was a friend to these are just a few of Jack’s many accom- tion, Varela was elected to the NM House in all and will be missed by many. Jack loved plishments in life. Jack treasured his 1986 and was a strong advocate. He served .5” in1” 2.5” riding, hunting, dancing and life general. community and family more than other as Chairman of the Legislative Finance Com1.5” He taught his daughters how to danceACTUAL as SIZE aspect of life. Any who knew him were mittee and Deputy Chairman of the House 2.5” 1 3/4” Appropriations & Finance Committee in 1 7/8” addition to many other interim and legisla1 7/8” 1 3/4” tive committees. Varela was a graduate of 1.5” the College of Santa Fe and possessed a Law Diploma from LaSalle University. He 1” was considered by many as the “budget .5” steward” of state finances and sponsored legislation that secured the Public Employ ee’s Retirement Association (PERA) and    Retiree Health Care Association (RHCA); and    sponsored salary increase legislation for    th public employees and educators year after  year. Deepest appreciation is extended to Annual the staff at Christus St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe Care, Heritage Hospice, Olivas Sisters Home Care, and Dr. Joshua Brown for their care of our father during his illness.

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Saturday, February 24, 2018 Roswell Livestock Action Roswell, New Mexico

Accepting FemAle BrAngus & FemAle BrAngusinFluenced consignments For information contact:

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

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2017 New Mexico State Fair Ranch Family of the Year

Manzano Angus Ranches – The Gardner Family

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anzano Angus Ranches is a family operation, owned and operated by Bill and Lisa Gardner with their sons Cole and his wife Megan, Clayton and his wife Michelle and Judd. Bill and Lisa live on the original ranch in the Estancia Valley located in Central New Mexico. Cole and Megan operate the Yeso Ranch in East Central New Mexico, with their children Cade, Laney and Macey. Clayton and Michelle run the Double Arrow Ranch east of Estancia, New Mexico for Manzano Cattle LLC. Judd works in Washington, DC as an Agriculture Legislative Assistant.

The Manzano Mountains to the West and the Manzano Draw that runs through the Estancia Valley Ranch were the inspiration for the name “Manzano” and our apple logo. The name “Manzano” is Spanish for “apple tree”; the mountains were named for apple orchards planted at the nearby town of Manzano.

The original ranch in the Estancia Valley was purchased in 1989 from Lee and Ruth Elliott. The ranch was not purchased with raising registered cattle in mind. However, after our first purchases of registered Black Angus in 1993 we soon realized that the

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The Gardner Family: (l to r) Cole, Megan (Cole’s wife), Bill, Lisa, Michelle (Clayton’s wife), Clayton.

The three children are Cole and Megan’s: Standing Laney and Cade, Bill is holding Macey

ranch was ideally suited to raise registered cattle.

There are several small pastures adjacent to the headquarters with the Manzano Draw running through some of them. Productive pastures with cattle coming to water at the headquarters made artificial insemination possible, allowing us to make rapid genetic progress by using the best bulls in the Angus breed.

In 2007 we purchased the Yeso Ranch.

Cole started running the ranch after he

received his master’s degree from New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the summer of 2008. In August of that year, he married Megan Townsend and they moved to Fort Sumner and commuted to Yeso to run the ranch.

After fighting traffic for a couple of years they were able to move to the ranch where they currently reside with their three children. Cole will also operate the Pecos River Ranch near Fort Sumner, a ranch we recently purchased to develop Angus bulls for our customers.

In 2013 we had the opportunity to lease the Double Arrow Ranch from Roe Greene and Terri Greene League. Clayton began operating the ranch in 2015 after receiving his master’s degree from NMSU. In July 2016 Clayton married Michelle Shivers and they live on the ranch.

Judd helps all of agriculture out serving as Agriculture and Trade Legislative Assistant for U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, Kansas, in Washington, D.C. March 2018 marks our 22nd annual Manzano Angus Bull Sale at the Estancia Ranch. Our goal at Manzano Angus has always been to produce the best registered Black Angus cattle that we can for our customers. Our definition of best doesn’t mean the biggest frame or highest EPD’s, but instead, it means raising cattle that will make our customers more profitable. We feel blessed to be a part of the ranching community and to get to associate with many wonderful people.

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2017 Jerry Hawkins Memorial Judging Contest

(ABOVE) Juniors Winners 1. Kaydens Koenig 2. Macy Pope (Not Pictured)

3. Micah Lightfoot 4. Avery Pipkin 5. Jayde Perea (Not Pictured)

6. Karly Neish 7. Addie Owensby 8. Avery Cavett 9. Gavin Morrow 10. Hadley Miller

(TOP LEFT) Novices Winners 1. Mason Franklin 2. Charli Spindle 3. Nealeigh Burrow 4. Cole Kircher 5. Mason Pipkin 6. Preston Koenig 7. Kaya New 8. Bailey Waldrop (Not Pictured)

9. Mayce Cooler 10. Keelin Faulkner

(FAR LEFT) Seniors Winners 1. Daniel Lujan 2. Kindal K. Smith 3. Austin Polk 4. Annalisa Miller 5. Kyle Hamilton 6. J. C. Miller 7. Andrew Lujan (Not Pictured)

8. Arliss Corliss 9. Kaitlyn Neal 10. Place overall & High Reasons, Shawn Agar

NOVEMBER STOCKMAN Celebrates the

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CATTLEMAN OF THE YEAR Reserve space to Congratulate-Honor-Applaud

REX WILSON For Jobs Well Done

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Audrey.

The Mutton Buster.

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udrey didn’t grow up in the country.

She is a petite city girl that has a country dream.

In 2016 she set her sights on a single first step to her dream. She was going to become a mutton buster.

Her first go in August 2016 was a tough one on a Bernalillo County sheep. The arena was deep in mud — and wet sheep are hard to get hold of. But the mud ball experience didn’t set her back a bit.

She was on to the bright lights and tall building of Tingley Coliseum at the 2016 New Mexico State Fair. To say that she

Clark anvil ranCh CLINTON CLARK 32190 Co. Rd. S., Karval, CO 80823 719-446-5223 • 719-892-0160 Cell cclark@esrta.com www.ClarkAnvilRanch.com

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1) Audrey gets a lucky $1 from Rick Iannucci, Horses for Heroes. 2) Audrey bearing down on her sheep. 3) Audrey’s triumphant exit from the arena carried by a volunteer.

coveted the boots awarded to the Champion Mutton Buster is a bit of an understatement.

Sadly it wasn’t to be. She was beaten by the sheep she drew and another youngster who could hold on further down the arena.

The boots were not hers… although folks who sat next to her at the rodeo offered to buy them for her.

It was a long year between early September 2016 and the 2017 New Mexico State Fair with few opportunities for practice. But the night of September 13, Patriot Night, finally rolled around. Audrey pulled up her jeans, pulled on her worn boots and pulled her hair back in a pony tail and headed east.

Registered Herefords & Salers BULL SALE Private Treaty La Junta Livestock – La Junta, CO

The crowd was in a roar. She was the last one to ride. No fancy chaps adorned her legs like some of the competitors who went before her. She didn’t need them. She did have a lucky dollar handed to her by Rick Iannucci, Horses for Heroes.

When they called her name she bared down will all her might. The boots were in sight. There had been a few good rides — there were two scores of 81 and another of 82.

The chute opened and she and her sheep shot out like a bullet headed for the bucking chutes. Audrey was hanging on for dear life. She far surpassed all the other contestants with an 89 score. The boots were hers.

The State Fair Queen held her up as the rodeo announcer riding a horse interviewed her on the feat. She beamed up at him with those missing front teeth. The crowd roared even louder as a volunteer carried her back to the chutes. She received high fives, hugs, and fist bumps of strangers as she walked to pick up her prize.

It took a way to get there through her adoring fans, but she made it to her Horses for Heroes seat. She was hugged by warrior soldiers and was greeted by the cast of the new television show The Brave.

She headed for home with her mom and dad, Nick and Jenny Layman, her two big sisters and little brother. Not even counting sheep helped her to sleep.

Seven-year-old Audrey lives Albuquerque and is home schooled. Her next goal?

To be an attack helicopter pilot in the military.

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2017 State Fair Winners

2017 NMSF Angus Grand Champion Bull Shown by Cornerstone Ranch Ft Sumner, New Mexico

2017 NMSF Angus Reserve Grand Champion Bull Shown by Aztec Angus Farm Gilbert, Arizona

2017 NMSF Grand Champion AOB Shown by Camden Smith Estancia, New Mexico

2017 NMSF Reserve Grand Champion AOB Shown by Cash Spindle Moriarty, New Mexico

2017 NM Breeder’s Classic Grand Champion Heifer & Champion Cross Heifer, Shown by Skyler Davis Heifer Bred by Cone Cattle

2017 NM Breeder’s Classic Reserve Champion Heifer & Reserve Champion Cross Heifer. Shown by Kaleb Johnston. Heifer Bred by Copeland Show Cattle

2017 NM Breeder’s Classic Third Overall Heifer & Champion Hereford Heifer. Owned by Cash Spindle, who suffered a football injury, so sister Abby did the showing. Heifer Bred by Bill King Ranch

2017 NMSF Angus Grand Champion Heifer Shown by Aztec Angus Farm Gilbert, Arizona

2017 NMSF Angus Reserve Grand Champion Heifer Shown by Cooper Crum, La Plata, New Mexico

NM ShowmGaCnAs Contest Wi hip nners (l to r) Junior: Kaydens Koenig, Senior: Cabree Mullins, Novice: Bailey Waldrop Judge: Kody Lucherk, Lubbock Texas

The New Mexico Stockman magazine and its staff are deeply disappointed with the lack of ability to provide full photo coverage of the New Mexico State Fair Junior Livestock as we have done for decades. If you have concerns about this coverage, please contact the New Mexico State Fair.

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Cattlegrowers Foundation Working to Bring the Next Generation of Ranchers Home to the Land

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ne of the biggest rewards of production agriculture for most farmers and ranchers is seeing the land they have spent a lifetime caring for handed down to their children or grandchildren and knowing that what they have built will carry on. When that younger generation isn’t there – because they are making a living away from the ranch, aren’t quite ready to move home, don’t think they can make it work financially or for any other reason – making that transition can be tough.

At the same time, there are people out there who have the desire to become involved in agriculture, but are priced off the land. These people of all ages, but primarily young, just need a chance and a place to embark on their agricultural careers.

The Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc. would like to become the conduit to connect those who want to keep their land in agriculture and those who need a place to start. “Our vision is to be able to help ranchers, keep ranchland in production whenever possible, and ensure a strong future for the industry and way of life we know and love,” said foundation President

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Phil H. Bidegain. “We welcome input and ideas on how to make this a successful VIEW FROM program, as well as financial support.”

THE BACKSIDE Every situation is unique, and the Cattleby Barry Denton growers Foundation will work with each individual rancher to meet the needs and concerns of all involved, Bidegain explained.

“Agreements must be put in place to cover the legal, liability, insurance, and many other issues that must be considered.” riginally I wanted to write an article Agriculture has always meant hard work, about a “rancher’s paradise”, I looked but in today’s world, keeping land in agrihard, but I could not find one. They cultural production is especially challenging. have been disappearing way to fast.

No, I am not claiming that ranchers perLand values are high, the cost of doing business is high, and there are many more sonally have parasites. If you are wondering lucrative careers, he noted. For someone what type of parasites those might be, they wanting to get into the agriculture business, would probably fall into the species of “know it all city slickers” or folks that have it’s almost cost prohibitive.

The rewards of being in production agri- no clue how a ranch works. It has been my culture aren’t always monetary, but they are experience that ranchers are very willing to just as valuable. “The heritage and connec- explain their profession to people who are tion to the land, the sense of a job well done, genuinely interested and would not conwatching the sun come up just like your sider explaining it to those who are not.

The first sub species of parasite I would parents or grandparents did – that’s something you can’t put a price on,” Bidegain like to recognize is the recreational ATV’er. explained. “We want to do all we can to help ATV of course stands for “all terrain vehicle.” people keep their land in agriculture, or get While these vehicles are very useful and fun their start in agriculture, so that their kids to ride, they have become the scourge of and grandkids will have those same the West. The United States Forest Service opportunities.”

(USFS) even encourages ATV use on their Make a difference and leave your legacy. trails. The ATV allows people to access If you, or someone you know, would like to remote areas that were once only accessible ensure their land remains in farm and ranch to hikers and horse backers.

Since ranchers lease vast amounts of production, contact the Cattlegrowers Foundation at 505-247-0584, or visit www. ground to run cattle on or many private raisingranchers.com. ranches are surrounded by government land, ATV access has turned the rancher’s life into a nightmare. We know the USFS has rules in place for the ATV’ers, but they have no way of policing and enforcing the rules.

Sound familiar? It’s the same thing the government does with our national parks on the southern Arizona border. Now, they just erect signs and tell American’s that their national park is not safe to enter. This just does not make any sense that non tax-paying people from south of the border can make our national parks unsafe for taxpayers.

The same thing is happening to tax-paying ranchers. The ATV’er does not pay for any leases on government land and yet they can ride there. Why are they allowed to ride on leased land? Why not keep the ATV’ers riding on government land that does not have a lease or give them access to specific areas where there is no livestock?

This goes back to a statement from one of our former democrat Arizona governors, “logic has no place in government” according to her. It does not say anywhere in a

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government lease that you have to share it with ATV’ers. The least the government could do to rectify the situation is to charge a lease fee to ATV riders directly paid to rancher’s who hold the lease.

This would help fund the damage caused by the ATV’er. Many ATV riders are on a destructive mission and have no regard for the land they are riding on. The rancher has been safe guarding and managing these lands for many years to keep a good yield on his cattle.

The ATV’ers tear up grass pastures, shoot holes in water tanks and personal property, they also have a tendency to loot whatever they come across of value. I am writing this from personal experience in case you were wondering.

Now, my guess is that maybe 30 percent of ATV riders, actually follow the rules, stay on the trails, and do not wreck what does not belong to them. Uninvited parasites are not any fun to deal with. Funny thing, but many times the ATV’ers when confronted say that they have a right to access public land, but then they think nothing of wreaking havoc on your private land as well.

The second most invasive parasite is the “alleged hunter.” In other words a hunter that is not serious about hunting, but just likes to act like a wild banshee around your livestock. I have hunters that have been coming to our area for 50 years just like clockwork.

They normally stop in and check where our livestock are, where the deer are, and where a good place to camp would be.

Many times we help them out with water, gasoline, the phone, etc. They help us out by keeping their buddies in the right areas, respecting our fence lines, and putting out their camp fires when they leave.

These have become good friends and now their grandson’s families are hunting this area. It works just great when people respect each other.

The “alleged hunter” you will never see hunting, but will be driving back and forth in front of your house trying to shoot a deer out of their pickup. Funny thing, but no deer can be seen from the road during hunting season.

I do not understand why they do not just stay in town and drive up and down the road. They would have just as good of luck trying to kill a deer. I have even had hunters complain because the deer were in one of my private pastures with the cattle. They ask if they can hunt in the cow pasture populated with cattle.

Then they ask if they can pay me to hunt

on my land. When I say sure, here is my tax bill they get offended. Why should “alleged hunters” be allowed to hunt on land they do not pay for? I do not go on their land.

The third and last parasite I will describe is a slightly new phenomenon within the last few years. These are the bicycle riders dressed in their rainbow leotards, Jiminy Cricket glasses, and kid helmets. We live in the mountains so pulling a load of cattle in a stock trailer on the way to the sale barn can be a challenging feat, especially on the many miles of dirt road we have.

Just about the time you are pulling 3 mile hill with a good head of speed, you go around a blind curve and in the middle of the road is some gaily colored bicycle rider.

Your rig slide sideways trying not to hit them and of course you have to come to a stop and restart again.

The guy on the bicycle has his little headset with the music going and is oblivious to you entirely. You start out once again and when you catch back up with him, you blow your horn for him to get out of the way. Of course, he is scared to get too close to the side of the road because of the bar ditch. You finally creep by him and you have lost all momentum to get up the mountain.

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I always thought dressing in female circus clothes and riding a bike down a highway was pretty stupid, but doing that on a back road with a bunch of ranchers around is even worse. Quite frequently you hear of these bicycle riders getting hit by cars and killed.

How do reasonably sane people get addicted to riding bicycles in unsafe environments? It must be like the tobacco industry and they have something in the bicycle seats that make folks do stupid things. Who knows, maybe the riders will eventually sue Schwinn?

I am afraid this article about rancher’s parasites could continue for several more paragraphs, but I thought I would just get a few of the most unpopular ones out of the way. Ranchers have had to endure many negative changes in the last 20 years with the North American Free Trade Agreement being the most egregious.

Let’s hope President Trump gets that straightened out and I know he is working hard on it. The liberal city slicker elites are trying hard to get ranchers out of business.

I guess they figure they can buy their food from a foreign country, but we ranchers are not gone yet!

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Climate Scientists Are Not Noble, Stop Paying Them Source: Ncolumbia-phd.org

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What nonsense. Not even close.

Me included. I (Dr. Duane Thresher) am a climate scientist too. As I have said I went into climate science so I could study what I wanted, get paid, and be left alone, and that is one of the better reasons to go into climate science.

Even the ones (see ahead for the others) who, like myself, honestly put in the years of courses and research necessary to be a real climate scientist are often twisted by it, made much less than noble. They put in a lot and give up a lot. And then nobody takes them seriously, not even other scientists.

Men climate scientists for instance. I’m tempted to name names and tell tales out of school here. But for now let’s just say a lot of men climate scientists missed out on dating as graduate students and are determined to make up for it when they become senior scientists. And a lot of young women grad students are recruited by them into climate science these days. And as we learned from Hurricane Harvey, correlation is causation. Nah, I’m sure it’s just because those men climate scientists think women are smarter than 1 men so will be better Bank CD scientists.(5 YEAR CYCLE) Climate scientists are academics. Academics living in ivory towers ­— elites living

a privileged life away from the harsh practicalities of the real world — is a common expression because it is so true. They often have never had any other jobs except at universities, which take very good care of them (best health insurance I ever had).

Academics live in their heads (and it’s often not pretty in there!) not in the real world.

Climate scientists are so thrilled with having any power, they don’t even think about the billions of poor who will suffer based merely on their opinion that carbon emissions should be drastically cut. Duh, who do they think is going to suffer the most if carbon emissions are cut? The poor.

Yeah right, they are going to carbon tax the rich and give it to the poor to make up for their losses. Grow up. Robin Hood is a myth.

That money will end up back in the pockets of the rich and the poor’s quality of life will get worse. Real heroes those climate scientists.

And then there are the not qualified who become climate scientists. When the science bureaucrats (if you can’t do real science be a science bureaucrat) decided global warming was the next big thing, there was a huge influx of money, which meant a huge influx of unqualified into climate science since there just weren’t enough qualified and the money HAD to be used. Enter opportunists, carpetbaggers, the corrupt, the ignoble. Physicists and mathematicians who couldn’t make it in their own fields, like James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt (who actually told me one reason he became a climate scientist was because he couldn’t make it in his degree field of mathematics). People who just wanted instant success as fake heroes or

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showmen rather than doing years of hard slow obscure real science.

Given the save-the-planet nature of the field, the unqualified included herds of do-gooders, particularly women. (Note: Dr. Claudia Kubatzki agrees with this assessment.) They love committees. Protection by the herd. Power without sticking your neck out.

Science by committee. The IPCC for example. Yeah, that’s going to work. Particularly when you have unqualified people on the committee to begin with. Scientific committees spend their time compromising to get — God save us — scientific consensus. 32 (ft/sec/sec) for gravitational acceleration is hard to remember, 100 would be better but all, except for the deplorable deniers, agree to compromise on 50. Now demand that be implemented in NASA’s programs since it is by scientific consensus (and the committee was diverse).

What did happen to the Mars Climate Orbiter? (Yes, I know, it was a mix-up of English and metric units but that could have been caused by the committee to force Americans to adopt the metric system. I like rocket units with pounds in it; so much more descriptive than newtons. And remember, I worked for NASA so I am a rocket scientist.)

This influx into climate science of unqualified also meant they threw out good scientific practices, like not pretending climate models can actually predict climate when they were just invented to study it by experimentation. That inconvenient truth was such a hassle for the fake heroes and showmen of climate science. Things really didn’t start taking off until they got rid of that. And then when failing celebrities started to help, oh my!

What to do?

Stop paying climate scientists. The good ones are so into their science they will work for food, maybe less, maybe even pay to do it. French President Macron has invited the rest to move to France so they will be fine.

He’ll probably even provide free burqas for the women climate scientists. Oh, wait, the women won’t be allowed to work.

(Anybody ever notice how the leaders destroying Europe don’t have any of their biologically-own kids so no real reason to care about the future but they are always accusing Holocaust deniers, I mean climate change deniers, that if they don’t believe in global warming they don’t care about their kids?)

Then let climate scientists make some clear predictions for 5 years into the future,

not 50 when they won’t be around any more to take responsibility. When they are wrong they have to give back their taxpayer-provided salaries, with interest, and quit climate science.

Or go to prison, like the seismologists in Italy. There — actually like seismologists everywhere — they wrote their funding proposals stressing the (impossible) prediction aspect way too much. Then an unpredicted earthquake, as they all are (forever), hit with a major loss of life. It had to be somebody’s fault. A cautionary tale for California seismologists. When San Francisco is leveled it’s going to be your fault.

Join the “Admit You Can’t Predict” movement before you go to prison!

Start with defunding NASA GISS where this whole global warming nonsense started. It was started by James Hansen, formerly head of NASA GISS and considered the father of global warming. It was continued by Gavin Schmidt, current head of NASA GISS, anointed by Hansen, and leading climate change warrior scientist/ spokesperson.

I know from working there for 7 years that NASA GISS has almost been defunded several times in its life anyway. It’s a small group over a restaurant (Tom’s Restaurant from the TV comedy Seinfeld!) in New York City, nowhere near any other major NASA facility. Just the dedicated data link to the nearest NASA facility, GSFC in Maryland, is a big expense. GISS is the Goddard Institute for SPACE Studies. If you don’t need a rocket to get to it, it’s not space.

Besides, NASA GISS is a monument to bad science that truly should be torn down.

Take the money and buy a rocket.

P.S. NASA GISS is paid for with your money. If you have not been cowed into silence, email NASA and demand they defund NASA GISS: robert.m.lightfoot@ nasa.gov, lesa.b.roe@nasa.gov, cscolese@ nasa.gov, thelylesgroup@earthlink.net, diane.rausch@nasa.gov, paul.k.martin@ nasa.gov, sumara.m.thompson-king@nasa. gov, rebecca.l.lee@nasa.gov, tom. cremins-1@nasa.gov

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The theme for this year is How Will Agriculture Feed the World?

This essay contest is divided into two categories of competition: written essay and video essay, both nat’l competitions.

The contest is open to students currently enrolled in grades 9 through 12. Contestants must be a U.S. citizen and attending school in the U.S. Contestants must meet all requirements to compete.

The National Video Essay Winner will receive $1,000. The National Written Essay Winner will receive $1,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to be recognized at the Press Club Event on March 20, 2018. The deadline for submitting entries in the essay contest is January 31, 2018.

The complete list of rules and regulations for this contest may be found online: www.agday.org/essay-contest National Ag Day is organized by the Agriculture Council of America. ACA is a nonprofit organization composed of leaders in the agricultural, food and fiber community, dedicating its efforts to increasing the public’s awareness of agriculture’s role in modern society.

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More Fuel for the Food/Feed Debate

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umans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to sustainably feed an exploding population. As populations become wealthier and more urbanized, the demand for animal products continues to climb. Although supply chain efficiencies improve, livestock are considered a resource drain, requiring a large amount of feed, which could also be used by humans, to produce a relatively small amount of meat.

A new study in Global Food Security found that livestock place less burden on the human food supply than previously reported.

Even stronger, certain production systems contribute directly to global food security because they produce more highly valuable nutrients for humans, such as proteins, than they consume.

“As a Livestock Policy Officer working for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, I have been asked many times by the press to report on the negative environmental impacts of livestock,” explained lead investigator Anne

Mottet, PhD. “Doing so, I came to realize that people are continually exposed to incorrect information that is repeated without being challenged, in particular about livestock feed. There is currently no official and complete international database on what livestock eat. This study contributes to filling this gap and to provide peer-reviewed evidence to better inform policy makers and the public.”

While there have been vast improvements in food systems, people still go hungry. In 2015 alone, approximately 800 million people around the world were

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tial micro-nutrients, such as vitamin B12, iron, and calcium. Livestock use large areas of pastures where nothing else could be produced. Animals also add to agricultural production through manure production and drought power. Further, tending livestock provides a secure source of income for people in many in rural areas.

Despite these benefits, raising livestock is often pointed to as an inefficient system because animals consume food that could potentially be eaten by people. Some previous studies, often cited, put the consumption of grain needed to raise 1 kg of beef between 6 kg and 20 kg. Contrary to these high estimates, the current investigation found that an average of only 3 kg of cereals are needed to produce 1 kg of meat. It also shows important differences between production systems and species. For example, because they rely on grazing and forages, cattle need only 0.6 kg of protein from human food to produce 1 kg of protein in milk and meat, which is of higher nutritional quality. In addition, this study determined that 86 percent of livestock feed, which includes residues and by-products, is not suitable for human consumption.

If not consumed by livestock, the study points out, these “leftovers” could quickly become an environmental burden as the human population grows and consumes more and more processed food. Researchers also analyzed land use and herd management.

Global Livestock Feed Intake “The media often reports how consumers’ choices can contribute to sustainable development, like through a vegetarian diet; however, erroneous information is provided regarding livestock feed requirements,” noted Dr. Mottet. “We hear statements, for example, that to produce 1 kg of beef, we need large amounts of cereals. While we need to ensure that our diets are sustainable from a health and environmental point of view, the public and decision makers need accurate information to guide their choices.”

Livestock production is growing fast because demand for animal products is rising, particularly in developing countries.

FAO estimates that we need 70 percent more animal products by 2050 to feed the world. Therefore, the area of land needed to raise animals will also increase if feed conversion ratios (FCR) are not further

improved. Steps have already been taken through feed formulation, genetic selection, and better veterinary services to improve FCRs over the last 30 years, but continued progress is needed to make the system more sustainable. In addition, it is essential to improve the recycling of food wastes and by-products into livestock feed as well as to increase feed crops yields.

“Animal production, in its many forms, plays an integral role in the food system, making use of marginal lands, turning co-products into edible goods, contributing to crop productivity and turning edible crops into highly nutritious, protein-rich food. Quantifying the land and biomass resources engaged in livestock production and the food output they generate, but also improving our modeling capacity by including trends in consumer preferences, shifts in animal species, climate change impacts, and industrial processes to improve the human edibility of certain feed materials is arguably basic information needed as part of further research into the challenge of sustainably feeding 9.6 billion people by 2050,” concluded Dr. Mottet.

The article is “Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate,”

by Anne Mottet, Cees de Haan, Alessandra Falcucci, Giuseppe Tempio, Carolyn Opio, and Pierre Gerber, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.01.001).

It appears in Global Food Security Volume 14C (September 2017) published by Elsevier and is freely available.

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NMDA Offers Two Reimbursement Programs for Local Businesses

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The Cooperative Advertising Assistance & Tradeshow Assistance programs can reimburse for partial advertising or tradeshow expenses.

Cooperative Advertising Assistance is available to help offset some advertising costs for New Mexican food and agricultural businesses. Assistance can help cover some of the expenses associated with advertising or marketing activities.

Within the advertising assistance program there is limited funding available for company projects that exhibit collaboration or exclusively involve placing paid online advertisements. The time spent creating the graphic design will not be reimbursed.

Members of the NMDA Logo Program can also receive discounts on print advertisements in several in-state publications.

The Tradeshow Assistance program provides reimbursements of up to 50 percent to companies that plan to exhibit in a trade show.

For exhibiting companies, NMDA provides cost-share assistance on a reimbursement basis for up to 50 percent of the floor space. A company may receive assistance for the same trade show up to three years in a row, after that time companies may still apply, but must be a different tradeshow to continue to receive assistance.

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Beef Lessons from Dairy Conceptions

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ou’ve heard that the key to beef quality could lie in making sure a calf never has a bad day. A paper in the Journal of Dairy Science adds validity—and before you quit reading because the work didn’t come from the beef side, think for a minute about the dairy cow. She’s a model of uniform genetics and focused selection with little nutritional limit to gene expression. She can serve as a great model to evaluate environment for all cows, independent of genetics and nutritional resources.

Contrast that to the beef cow with variable genetics selected for multiple traits and often limited by her nutritional environment. These diverse conditions are why the debate rages on about ideal cow size and milk production level.

The dairy researchers in Florida and Colorado set out to see how the season of a heifer’s conception influences her later productive life. As you look at a pen of replacement beef heifers and judge their genetics, individual performance and disposition, this dairy study adds another variable. We often evaluate the expression of traits without considering the cause of the expression, but this work highlights the environment’s role.

This fall, many of you will look at that heifer pen and try to decide whether to keep or cull some late-born female. We know the early-born heifer is more productive over a lifetime, but now we see that could be partly because she was conceived during a time of less environmental stress.

Dairy Herd Improvement Association records across 12 years on more than 667,000 lactations were used to evaluate the influence of season of conception on subsequent productivity. This could make you think about “fetal programming” or gestational nutrition and the importance of maternal diet on quality—but laying that aside, this research demonstrates that the season and environmental conditions at conception will influence milk production, reproductive ef f icienc y and herd longevity.

These dairy scientists concluded that cows conceived during the summer heat (July to September) were less productive than those conceived in the winter (Decem-

ber to February).

Heifers conceived during the winters were younger at first calving by nine days.

In a beef production system, shortening days to first calving may not be possible due to group management, but this data suggests the dairy heifers conceived during cooler temperatures were either earlier to puberty or more reproductively efficient.

The “cool heifers” not only calved sooner but also returned to estrus after their first calf earlier than those conceived during summer. Interval to first re-breeding were six and four days shorter after the first and second calf, respectively, but season of conception didn’t affect reproductive performance of older cows.

Quicker returns to estrus following calving translated into a comparable reduction in days to conception for first- and second-calf heifers. These reproductive benefits were realized despite a 3.5 percent increase in first-lactation milk production by heifers conceived in winter. That increase moderated as heifers aged, but the secondand third-parity cows conceived in the winter produced about 1 percent more milk throughout lactation.

Heifers conceived in winter were 1.15 times more likely to make it to the second

calving and not be culled for reproductive failure. Remember, that’s in addition to greater milk production.

How can we incorporate this into a beef production system where local environment and the goal of a set calving season drive decisions? Gone now is the chance to modify the 2017 breeding plan to avoid the worst summer heat, but the decision on whether to retain a heifer conceived during last summer’s heat is imminent.

To review, beef cattle research showed many years ago that heifers born early in the calving season are more productive.

Years later and thanks to our colleagues in dairy science, we discover productivity may be related to the timing of weather not only at birth but at conception.

We continue to learn more each day about how the environment influences the genetic framework we develop. While we may not understand how it can influence each gene, we do know that overcoming a genetic deficit is a challenge. Now that you have something else to think about when building your herd, keep in mind that simple approach to beating average quality: do all you can to ensure each calf never has a bad day.

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Zinke Orders More Access to Hunting, Fishing on Public Land Rob Hotakainen, E&E News reporter

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iting a decrease in the number of hunters nationwide, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recently signed a secretarial order that will require federal agencies under his jurisdiction to develop plans to expand access for hunting and fishing on public land.

The National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service will have 120 days to produce the plans, under Zinke’s new order, Secretarial Order 3356.

And within a year, the agencies will be expected to “cooperate, coordinate, create, make available, and continuously update online” a single “one-stop” department database showing “available opportunities” for hunting, fishing and recreational shooting on their lands.

Zinke’s order also directs Interior bureaus to amend national monument management plans to ensure the public’s right to hunt, fish and target shoot, as well as expand educational outreach programs for

“underrepresented communities such as veterans, minorities, and youth.”

It comes after Fish and Wildlife unveiled a survey that found there are 2.2 million fewer hunters in the United States than in 2011.

“Hunting and fishing is a cornerstone of the American tradition and hunters and fishers of America are the backbone of land and wildlife conservation,” Zinke said in a statement. “The more people we can get outdoors, the better things will be for our public lands.”

He added a personal touch.

“As someone who grew up hunting and fishing on our public lands — packing bologna sandwiches and heading out at 4 a.m. with my dad — I know how important it is to expand access to public lands for future generations. Some of my best memories are hunting deer or reeling in rainbow trout back home in Montana, and I think every American should be able to have that experience.”

Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association, endorsed the new order, saying Zinke is “continuing to follow Teddy Roosevelt’s sportsman legacy by opening more land and water to hunting and target shooting.”

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he International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) has announced the release of September 2017 Genomic-Enhanced Expected Progeny Differences (GE-EPDs).

In this round of genetic evaluation, over 1.07 million animals were considered. Of those, GE-EPDs were produced for approximately 12,100 Brangus®, Red Brangus, Ultrared, and Ultrablack® animals that have either high- or low-density genomic profiles in the database.

Members are encouraged to look at their individual profiles on IBBA’s member portal, at int-brangus.org, to see if any animals in their herd have qualified for GE-EPDs. Animals with a GE-EPD are identified on the website with the double helix DNA logo beside the EPD. Additionally, percentile ranks are posted to provide standings for individual traits of animals. These ranks are available on IBBA’s website, at www.gobrangus.com/breed-averages -and-percentile-ranks/.

Members can find confidence in their efforts knowing these evaluations improve the predictions of offspring performance when making selection and mating decisions for the future. Increases in the number of genotyped animals continues to improve the predictive power of the genetic evaluation.

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Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum Features Breeds of Sheep Developed in New Mexico

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ew Mexico True is the state’s tourism theme. When it comes to agriculture, there aren’t many things in our state more New Mexico True than Debouillet sheep.

The breed originated in southeastern New Mexico, and the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces has a new display that chronicles the development of this type of sheep. The Museum also has two Debouillet ewes among its livestock collection.

Debouillet sheep were developed by the late Amos Dee (A.D.) Jones of Roswell and Tatum. In 1920, Jones began crossing Ohio Delaine rams on his herd of 5,500 Rambouillet ewes. These ewes were an exceptional herd of commercial sheep. By selective breeding, Jones produced a long-stapled,

fine-wooled sheep with a large, smooth body. As a firm believer in this method of sheep improvement, he produced an ideal sheep by combining the length of the staple and character of the Delaine fleece with the large body of the Rambouillet.

After many years of highly selective breeding, Jones’ new breed of sheep became a reality known as the Debouillet.

The name is derived from the names of the two component Merino breeds, “De” taken from the Delaine and “bouillet” from Rambouillet. The name was given to the breed

by Jones’ wife, Portia, in 1947.

Today the Jones’ Ranch, in Tatum is operated by A.D. Jones’ son Ralls (Punch) and Ralls daughter, Deb, and son, Dirk. The Museum’s ewes came from their ranch.

Debouillet sheep are known for their bright, white wool. The fleece of the breed weighs between 10-18 pounds and measures from 3 to 5 inches in length. The wool is described as being deep and close crimped. “Crimp” refers to the bends in the individual wool fibers that give wool its “kinky” appearance. The finer the wool, the more crimps per inch.

The Debouillet breed is large and welladapted to desert and semi-arid rangelands.

Debouillet, along with the Rambouillet breed, account for the majority of sheep in New Mexico and Texas.

The Debouillet Sheep Breeders Association was organized in September of 1954 and was officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1955.

About the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum: The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is located at 4100 Dripping Springs Road in Las Cruces. It covers 47 acres and visitors from all over the world have experienced New Mexico’s unique agricultural story, shared through demonstrations, special events, educational programs, and exhibits, including livestock. The Museum also has a greenhouse, gift shop, theater, galleries, and more. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens, $3 for children ages 4 to 17, and $2 for active U.S. military members and veterans. Children 3 and under, and members of the Museum Friends receive free admission. The Museum is a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Special Thanks to Ronald Kil for the donation of this print.

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Values That Keep Farm Kids Safe

by Rodney Pierce, Inventory & Equipment Supervisor, Noble Research Institute

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rom the time I was 6 or 8, I was helping my dad out on our family’s farm. We raised cattle and grew peanuts and wheat. My earliest jobs were helping my dad feed small square bales, hoeing peanuts and many other basic tasks related to operating a farm. Over time, I became more involved in every aspect of the operation. Now, I raise a few cows on a small place in Leon, Oklahoma, in addition to supervising equipment maintenance and repair at the Noble Research Institute.

Safety was something my dad hammered into me from an early age. I remember him pointing out different things on the farm, like a rotating PTO shaft on the tractor, and saying “That’ll kill you, son.” It’s a blunt statement, but there’s a lot on the farm – from equipment to animals – that could hurt an adult or child. Safety was part of our everyday life conversations; it was a mindset my dad learned from his dad.

Now that I have children who help me on the farm, I am constantly thinking about keeping them safe and passing that safety mindset on to them.

In recognition of National Farm Safety and Health Week, I want to share with you some of the farm safety values passed down in my family.

1. Respect livestock Animals’ size and weight can make them dangerous. It’s important to give animals their space and to be extra cautious with males and mothers with offspring. Dad also taught me the importance of “always having a way out,” in case an animal gets aggressive. That’s something I’ll teach my children as they get older and start working more closely with the cattle.

2. Respect equipment Know what equipment is designed to do, and don’t push it beyond those boundaries.

This goes for both adults and children. As a grownup, it’s neat to put your child in the tractor with you. But if you don’t have a buddy seat, you shouldn’t have a passenger.

Another piece of equipment commonly misused is a side-by-side utility ATV. I teach my children that these vehicles are pieces of equipment designed to help us work.

They aren’t toys.

3. There’s a lot of equipment you don’t need to be close to if you’re not using it I tell my kids they should stay at least 60 feet away from me if I’m using the lawnmower or weed-eater. They know not to come up to me from behind. If they need to get my attention, they can get my attention from a distance.

4. If you don’t know what something is, don’t mess with it This knocks out a lot of hazards. My dad always told me, “If I haven’t told you about it, it’s not your business.” I keep power tools and chemicals out of reach, when possible, but I also teach my children they shouldn’t touch things if they don’t know what they are or if they were told not to touch them.

My dad’s refrigerator to this day has a shelf in it for cattle vaccines. He made sure we knew from a young age what that shelf was for and not to touch it.

5. If you can’t see my eyes, I can’t see you I watch for my kids constantly, but kids can come out from nowhere. If you’re in a tractor, it would be very easy to not see or hear them come to the field. That’s why I tell my kids to be sure I know if they’re in the field and that I see them. If they can’t see my eyes, then I can’t see them either.

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Applications Open for Large Global University Level Agriscience Competition The Alltech Young Scientist program offers a fully funded Ph.D. position for the undergraduate winner and a postdoctoral position for the graduate winner.

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ntering its 13th year, the Alltech Young Scientist (AYS) program is considered one of the world’s most prestigious agriscience competitions for university students. AYS has discovered some of the best and brightest upcoming researchers from universities around the world, and applications are now open for rising agri-scientists who wish to take part in the 2018 competition.

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PRCA Clear Bag Policy for the NFR

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ollowing the lead of the National Football League, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PCA) has announced that they will have a “clear bag” policy at the 2017 National Finals Rodeo (NFR) slated for December 7 through 16 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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*NEW* 220 Head Black Mountain Ranch, Deming, NM, – +/- 784.3 deeded ac, +/-640 ac BLM Permit, +/13,822 acres State of NM Lease & +/2,560 ac adverse grazing, 2 irrigation wells and 13 ac of water rights, 3 livestock wells, 4 dirt tanks, 2 steel storage tanks and large in ground concrete tank, 2 sets of working corrals. Desert ranch, flat to rolling with Black Mtn located on the ranch. Well improved HQ w/site built 2 BR, 2 BA home, single wide mfg home, shop, tack room, seed house and large barn, good steel shipping corrals. $995,000

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DRIPPING SPRINGS RANCH , MULE CREEK, NM - 232 deeded acres with 13,000 Gila National Forest allotment for the grazing of 150 head of mother cows a 4 horses yearlong. Nice improvements, beautiful country.

Priced @ $2,500,000

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THE FOURR RANCH DRAGOON AZ – 1280 deeded acres, 11610 AZ state, and 3689 NF Acres. Runs 300 head, Well-watered, lots of grass. Priced @$4,250,000 RAINBOWS END RANCH, SUNIZONA, AZ – 315 head yearlong, 5588 deeded acres 15000 state and BLM lease. Good easy grass country. This is a nice ranch in a very productive area of Arizona. Priced @$3,500,000

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BAR B RANCH, TUBAC, AZ – 75 head yearlong, 526 acres with 75 acres irrigated, owned by the same family since 1914, large grandfathered water right. Last large tract of land in the area. Improvements need attention. Priced @$1,950,000 – reduced from $2,350,000

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Trujillo, NM Ranchito: 567 deeded acres is located 32 miles east of Las Vegas, NM. Has 3 stock tanks, perimeter fenced, rim rock views, spring fed tank and good grazing. Very scenic parcel with easy county road access. Elk permits possible? Asking $345,000.

El Valle – Hwy 3: Alfalfa Farm has 32+ acres on Pecos River w/adjudicated senior ditch rights. Averages 3,200+ bales “premium” alfalfa annually. Includes immaculate 3 bedroom adobe home, hay barn and outbuildings. Priced at $769,000.

Call Catherine 505 231-8648 or alexander.catherine@gmail.com Dilia Loop Road: Fenced 20+ acre parcel raises alfalfa & sweet grass, 4 irrigated sections w/20 ac/ft ditch rights & Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens, alfalfa or sweet grass. Priced at $225,000 obo.

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Apache Mesa Road: Two 80 acre parcels, both have water wells on site. West parcel has septic system, solar array, storage containers and a travel trailer, priced at $185,000. East parcel has two dirt tanks, two sides fenced, mountain views, priced at $165,000.

White Lakes Road: 1,100 deeded acres grass land, nice mountain views, over head electric on site, county road access. Basin fringe water! Has Solar array farm lease income potential. Make an offer...

Stanley, NM: Two 40 acre tracts w/power & water $65,000 each, Two 80 acre Tracts w/power - $89,900 each. Located on Calle Victoriano off Simmons Road.

640 acre tract also available in the basin & can be subdivided.

We have other lands available for large cow/calf or yearling operations.

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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

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

WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease. Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road.

Nice headquarters and good access to above rim.

Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000

2 center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available. Owner financing available to qualified buyer. Significantly reduced to $550,000 MAXWELL FARM W/HOUSE, Colfax County 400 +/deeded acres with 101.2 water shares. Seller would consider split. $495,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres, 2 parcels, excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at end of private road. $489,000. House & 1 parcel $375,000

MIAMI 80 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 80 +/- deeded acres, 80 water shares, expansive views, house, shop, roping arena, barns and outbuildings. Reduced MIAMI HORSE TRAINING FACILITY, Colfax County, $485,000 NM. Ideal horse training facility, 4 bedroom 3 bathCOLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/room approx. 3,593 sq-ft home, 332.32 +/- deeded deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, acres, 208 shares of irrigation, all the facilities you 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with need to summer your cutting horse operation out of amazing 360 degree views. Reduced $425,000 the heat and far enough south to have somewhat mild winters. Approximately 6,200 ft elevation. $1,790,000 MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 20 +/- deeded acres, 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq ft adobe MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Very home, barn, grounds and trees. Private setting. This is private approx. 4,800 sq-ft double walled adobe a must see. Reduced to $375,000 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many custom features. 77.50 +/- deeded acres with 77.25 water FRENCH TRACT 80, Colfax County, NM irrigated farm shares, large 7-stall horse barn, large insulated metal with home and good outbuildings, $350,000 shop with own septic, large hay barn/equipment COLMOR PLACE, Mora County, NM 354 +/- deeded shed. $1,500,000 acres, I25 frontage, house, pens, expansive views.

MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. Ocate Creek runs through property. $275,000 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares,

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X-T RANCH – Southeastern NM cattle ranch 40 miles northwest of Roswell, NM on the Chaves/Lincoln County line. Good grass ranch with gently rolling grass covered hills. 8,000 total acres, 200 AUYL grazing capacity. Partitioned into four pastures watered by 2 wells with pipelines. Call for brochure. Price: $1,750,000 DOUBLE L RANCH – Central NM, 10 miles west of Carrizozo, NM. 12,000 total acres; 175 AUYL, BLM Section 3 grazing permit; Water provided by 3 wells and buried pipeline. Improvements include house and pens. Price: $1,500,000 LITTLE COWBOY RANCH – Small cattle ranch located in southeastern NM approximately 50 miles northwest of Roswell on the Chaves/Lincoln County line.

7,455 total acres with 2,600 deeded. 150 AU capacity and it will run them all.

Two wells; one electric submersible, one solar well with some pipeline. Fenced as one large pasture and one smaller trap. Excellent grass cover. Price: $1,200,000 RHODES FARM – Southeastern NM on the Pecos River east of Hagerman.

Comprised of 480 total acres with 144 irrigated acres. Unique private drain water rights. Call for a Brochure. Price Reduced: $1,000,000 L-X RANCH – Southeastern NM just ten minutes from Roswell, NM with paved gated and locked access. 3,761 total acres divided into several pastures and traps. Nice improvements to include a site built adobe residence. One well with extensive pipeline system. Well suited for a registered cattle operation.

Price: $900,000

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ponderosa tree cover, rim rocks, mesas & grassy meadows. HQ w/bunk house & Foreman’s home & plenty of scenery. Price at $1,998,900 obo & owc.

Upper Anton Chico: Alfalfa gets cut 4 to 5 times per season off this 7.5 acres.

Fenced & Irrigated w/under ground delivery, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Pecos River frontage too... Asking $82,500.

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Romero Ranch: 920 mesa top acres plus a 40 acre BLM parcel. Parcel has 6 stock tanks, new fence on south side, close to power. North & east sides include La Cueva Canyon bottom & Owner will carry! List Price is $400,000.

Apache Mesa Ranch: 5,280± acre rim rock ranch on Hwy 84 SW of Las Vegas, NM. 3,520± deeded acres & 1,760 acres of State & BLM land, has cedar, pinon &

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

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Lincoln, New Mexico: Historic Vorwerk home with 33+/- acres . Rio Bonito river with 16.5 acre feet of historic water rights dating to 1853.

Elk, mule deer, turkey, barbary sheep.

Brochure at: www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

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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

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

MOUNTAINAIR RANCH Located 5 miles east of Mountainair lies a 295 acre parcel that is developed perfectly.

Property has a custom built Ranch style home with artistic features, NM landscaping and a one car garage. At the headquarters is a Fabulous horse barn with indoor stalls and outdoor runs as well as turn out pens and a large tack room. Also at the horse barn is a garage area. Property also features a shop, storage building, separately fenced pastures, shipping pens and an arena. At the arena and shipping pens is a Rustic style cabin. This property is immaculate and the setting is beautiful. Shown by appointment to qualified buyers. Call Becky to schedule a showing, 575-748-4722.

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OFF CAMUNEZ ROAD IN SAN MIGUEL, NM – 27.5 acre farm for $14,500/acre. Full EBID & ground water rights with irrigation well.

Community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views.

Priced at $399,000 PERRIN ROAD – Deming, New Mexico - Approx. 200 acres with 121.2 acres of irrigation rights. Irrigation well and pond. Cattle pens, shipping chute, barn, bunkhouse, equipment sheds and large insulated shop.

Recently remodeled home with multiple living areas. Great view of Cooke’s Peak.

DAN DELANEY Beautiful stonework and tile. Refrigerated REAL ESTATE, LLC air, pellet stove & 2 wall furnaces, seamless 318 W. Amador Avenue metal roof. Also includes single-wide Las Cruces, NM 88005 mobile. $1,150,000 (O) 575/647-5041 “If you are interested in farm land or ranches in New Mexico, give me a call.”

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Ben G. Scott Scott Land Company, LLC / Krystal M. Nelson – CO/NM QB #15892 1301 Front Street, Dimmitt, TX 79027 / 800-933-9698 / 5a.m. -10p.m. www.scottlandcompany.com

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WE NEED LISTINGS ON ALL TYPES OF AG PROPERTIES LARGE OR SMALL! ■ WE CURRENTLY have in contract the 34,490 ac. ranch & the 22,639.44 ac. ranch.

■ BUY THE IMPROVEMENTS – LEASE THE LAND! Union Co. – 640 ac. +/-, nice home w/landscaped yard w/matured trees, nice shop, cattle pens & modern pivot sprinklers.

EXCELLENT OWNER FINANCING! ABERCROMBIE RANCH – Huerfano Co., CO – 7,491 ac. +/- of choice grassland watered by wells & the Cucharas River, on pvmt.

■ FRONTIER RANCH – 6,423.45 ac. +/- in two tracts of 3,735 ac. & 2,688.45 ac., all deeded, approx. 7 mi. apart offered as one ranch, broker will assist w/contracts on either or both of the tracts, good country for year-round cow/ calf operation or summer yearling grazing, located in close proximity to the Grey Fox Ranch for addtl. acreage.

■ GREY FOX RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM – 2,919.85 ac. +/- of deeded land, all native grass, located in close proximity to the Mesa Del Gato Ranch for addtl. grazing.

■ ALFALFA & LIVESTOCK – Tucumcari, NM - 255.474 ac. +/-, state-of-the-art huge hay barn & shop (immaculate), steel pens, Arch Hurley Water Rights, two nearly new sprinklers, alfalfa established.

■ AIRPORT DRIVE – Tucumcari, NM – Choice 160 ac. +/-, on pvmt. w/beautiful home, roping arena, steel pens & 139.5 ac. +/- of water rights.

■ TUCUMCARI VALLEY – 480 ac. +/-, w/292 ac. classified as cropland fully allotted to wheat & milo, 365.9 ac. of Arch Hurley Water Rights, nice, combination farming/cattle operation, presently in grass for grazing.

■ CANYON VIEW RANCH – 1,533 deeded ac. +/- just out of Clayton, NM, beautiful, good country, well watered, volcanic rock mining operation offers addtl. income, on pvmt.

■ 24 MI. FROM TEXAS/NM STATE LINE – Box Canyon Ranch – Quay Co., NM – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. +/-deeded, 80 ac. +/- State Lease, excellent access from I-40.

■ LAKE VIEW RANCH – San Miguel Co., NM - 9,135 ac. +/- (6,670 +/- deeded, 320 +/- BLM, 40 +/- State Lease, 2,106 +/- “FREE USE”) well improved, just off pvmt. on co. road., two neighboring ranches may be added for additional acreage!

■ LITTLE BLACK PEAK – 37.65 sections +/- Central NM ranch w/good, useable improvements & water, some irrigation w/2 pivot sprinklers, on pvmt. w/all-weather road, 13,322 ac.+/- Deeded, 8,457 ac. +/- BLM Lease, 2,320 ac. +/- State Lease.

■ CASTRO CO., TX – 482.5 ac. +/-, irrigated/dryland farm, 2 circles, 1 mi. of frontage, 5 mi. south of Dimmitt, Texas on US 385.

■ RANDALL CO. – 729 ac. +/-, w/280 ac. +/- of native grass & 479 ac. +/- of tillable dryland. Please call for details!

■ PECOS CO., TX. – 640 ac. +/-, tremendous irrigation potential, excellent soil, not farmed in many years Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice TX, NM, CO ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX, NM, OK & CO.

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

RIVER RANCH: Located in central Apache County, Arizona, northwest of St. Johns the property includes 1,280 deeded acres with 320 acres BLM grazing lease for 20 animal units yearlong. The Little Colorado River (locally ephemeral) is located along one mile of the deeded land. There is one livestock well on the property with a small set of corrals. This is a nice, private and secluded gentlemen’s ranch with good winter browse and spring season grasses. Price $675,000 OLD GREER PLACE: St. Johns, Arizona. The ranch is located directly west of the town of St. Johns. US Highway 180 runs through the center of the ranch. Deeded land includes numerous live water springs and sub-irrigated meadow lands adjacent to the Big Hollow Wash. There is a total of 1,330 deeded acres with an additional 1,300 acres Arizona State Lease and the ranch will run approximately 35 animal units yearlong. Price $735,000

HUNT VALLEY RANCH: 12 miles Northwest of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 1,173 deeded acres with 320 additional acres of private lease for 23 animal units yearlong. The property includes an older cowboy house and paved frontage along US Highway 180. There is an irrigation well which provides water to a small orchard and a two acre improved pasture. This ranch is a nice rural home site with close proximity to the county seat in St. Johns. Price: $595,000

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esalands Community College recently received an oil test set, worth $9,000 from Megger, a manufacturer of portable electrical testing equipment. This new equipment donation will give students in the Wind Energy Technology Program at Mesalands another opportunity to utilize industry equipment and gain real-world training experience.

“Megger is happy to help. Megger has had a strong relationship with Mesalands for years and I am positive they will put the Megger equipment to good use,” said David S. Danner, Director of USA Distribution Sales for Megger.

Megger’s range of automatic oil test sets assesses mineral, ester, and silicon insulating liquids for breakdown up to 60 kV. This equipment is essential to ensuring the reliable operation of oil filled electrical equipment by monitoring and maintaining the quality of the oil.

Andy Swapp, Wind Energy Technology Faculty at Mesalands, says he is truly appreciative to Megger and David Danner for their continued support. He said the new equipment would enhance the student’s hands-on experience in the operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of wind turbines, including the use of the College’s 1.5 megawatt wind turbine.

“This is truly an honor to have such a respected name in the industry, partner with Mesalands Community College, to further the knowledge and experiences of our students in the Wind Energy Technology Program,” said Swapp. “Sometimes, I just can’t believe that our students get to use such equipment! I often wonder how many wind techs, just coming out of a training program, even know what this equipment is, let alone know how to use it.”

Megger has been providing wind energy students at Mesalands with high-quality, electrical testing equipment, since 2008.

Megger recently donated the DLRO200, a Digital Low Resistance Ohmmeter, to Mesalands.

“The College is very pleased with the high-level of support from business and industry that we receive for our academic programs,” said Dr. Thomas W. Newsom, President of Mesalands Community College.

“This gift will allow us to continue to train wind professionals for the future.”

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ALPINE 85 PROPERTY: One of the finest properties in Alpine because of its beauty, and location near town while offering complete privacy. The property lies at 8,000 feet elevation and includes 85 deeded acres. With tremendous views overlooking the Bush Valley, San Francisco River and surrounding mountain tops the property backs up to national forest and includes paved access from US Highway 180/191. Public water and sewer access is available to the property boundary.

Alpine is an authentic small western mountain town, a quiet getaway with spectacular scenery with easy driving distance to many fishing lakes and streams. The area is also located on the boundary between the famous hunting Units 1 & 27 known for large herds of elk and world-class 400+ point bulls. With the large ponderosa pine and beautiful oak trees scattering the property there is great potential for a private, secluded home-site in the pines or possibly development into smaller tracts. Price: $1,200,000 offers for a partial purchase will be considered.

CONTACT ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT www.headquarterswest.com email: info@headquarterswest.com OCTOBER 2017

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Protein Preferences in North America: Nielsen

by Rita Jane Gabbett, meatingplace.com

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s consumers across North America pay more attention to the label claims on the food and beverage products they purchase, one claim has gained momentum among consumers: protein. As consumers continue to focus on their overall health and wellness, food and beverage products that are rich in protein have a unique opportunity to resonate with today’s shoppers and the retailers that stock them on their shelves, according to a new survey by The Nielsen Company.

In the United States, 35 percent of households say they follow a specific protein-focused diet such, as high protein, Paleo, low carb, etc. Meanwhile, half of North Americans say they eat a form of protein with every meal, and around onethird agree that the source of protein matters.

Protein claims are also winning at the cash register. In the United States, products labeled an “excellent source of protein” grew 12 percent in the recent year, while those listed as a “good source of protein” grew four percent, according to Nielsen.

Among both Americans and Canadians, meat, eggs and dairy are the top three protein sources, with seafood and legumes/ nuts/seeds falling to fourth and fifth place, respectively.

Findings from a recent Nielsen survey among consumers in Canada and the United States found that consumers on both sides of the border intend to eat more fish, seafood and legumes. However, 20 percent of Canadians plan to eat more legumes, nuts and seeds (compared with 15 percent of Americans), while 78 percent of Canadians plan to eat the same amount of meat (compared with 53 percent of Americans). On the other hand, 22 percent of Americans plan to eat less meat, compared with only 15 percent of Canadians.

“Manufacturers whose products contain protein should continue to invest in marketing that puts protein claims front-and-center of packaging labels,” the survey report concluded. “There are clear growth opportunities to satisfy consumers’ protein preferences, and that goes for protein-hungry consumers on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.”

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New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Protecting Our Ranching Way of Life

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attle Ranching represents America’s most enduring and ionic way of life. Yet, everyday, ranches throughout New Mexico and the United States are threatened by forces as far ranging as economic uncertainly, government regulations, crippling drought and more.

That’s why New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) works tirelessly to protect and promote all ranching families.

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NMCGA continues to advocate for livestock producers and landowners on local, state, and federal legislative and regulatory issues.

■ NMCGA has worked hard to earn high respect at the State Capital and has a highly regarded reputation with top policy makers. Through our leaders and staff you have influence in the Governor appointed Boards and Commissions.

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NMCGA strongly supports and defends a free enterprise system, the protection of private property rights, and the

protection and enhancement of our natural resources.

■ NMCGA members develop and vote on policies that direct the NMCGA leadership and staff in their advocacy efforts.

■ NMCGA leaders also take on key policy and decision-making roles with other national and state industry organizations, providing relevant input and testimony, influencing state and national policy development.

■ NMCGA makes sure the voices of ranchers are heard and that ranchers continue to influence policy and politics.

■ NMCGA hosts two major meetings a year with regulatory, policy and educational components for producers, as well as regional meetings twice a year. Most importantly, your membership in NMCGA will help ensure that ranching will not only endure, but prosper, for generations to come.

Join the NMCGA Today

Mark the category under which you will be remitting. Return this notice with your payment to assure proper credit. The information contained herein is for the Association’s use only, and is considered confidential. Your dues may be taxdeductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense.

OWN CATTLE

COW/CALF OPERATOR: $110 Minimum Cattle owned $0.60 per head, per month in state or $110 minimum

CATTLEMEN’S CORRAL CLUB Membership includes a plaque with yearly attachments.

Trail Boss / $1,000 Top Hand / $500 Cowboy / $250 Wrangler / $110 $ ______

FUNDS/CONTRIBUTIONS

DAIRY PRODUCER: $110 Minimum Cattle owned $0.40 per head, per month in state or $110 minimum

Theft Reward Fund / Legal Defense Fund / Cattlegrowers Foundation

SEASONAL OPERATOR Cattle owned $0.025 per head, per month in state or $110 minimum

WORKING COWHAND $65 Recommended by: _______________________________

Name __________________________________ Ranch/Business Name _________________________ Address _________________________________ City __________ County _______ State __ Zip ____ Email _______________________ PLEASE CHARGE MY _______MasterCard _______Visa Account No. _______________________________ Exp. Date ______ Security Code ______

(Working cowhand must be recommended by a NMCGA member) $ ______

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FEEDLOT OPERATOR: $110 Minimum One time capacity $0.02 per head or $110 Minimum ❒ 1-170 Head - $110 ❒ 171-400 Head - $250 ❒ 401- 800- $500 ❒ 800 & up - $750 $ ______

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE

by Baxter Black, BaxterBlack.com

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t’s coming! Political Correctness in the Animal Kingdom! I have conferred with those fervent homogenizers of the once colorful and descriptive English language to formulate the following list: STRAY DOG. Both words are unacceptable. They imply that a four legged mongrel is subsisting as a vagrant. We have chosen the term Misdirected Wagamorph.

MUSTANG. Definitely out! Associated too much with a greedy automotive corporation. We are going to protect them

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into extinction. They shall henceforth be called Adoptable Equine Derivatives.

KILLER WHALES. Need I say more! The name suggests that these beautiful creatures would rather kill and eat living things than down a Kelp Burger in the shape of a baby seal. We’re calling them the Masked Cetacea.

FAT STEERS. Entirely out. No slur shall be made about the weight or their sexual predicament. Each cattle buyer will now deal in Ready Edibles. No, that won’t work either, can’t mention bulls. How ‘bout Ripened Ruminants.

GOMER BULLS. Of course, any allusion to sex must be eliminated. The term Gomer really has no meaning but leaves one with the impression that he’s one brick short shy of a load. And though he’s certainly one something shy of a load, the association with Mayberry RFD must be downplayed. He shall hereinafter be christened the Frustrated Titillator, no, that won’t work either. I’ve got it, A misguided Chromosome Depositor.

QUARTER HORSE. No chance. The hypersensitive could interpret that to mean he’s 3/4 something else. I’ve coined the term Dollar Horse.

POLLED HEREFORD. Come on, now!

Wouldn’t it be less discriminatory to rename them the Unhorned Himherford.

Too many of our creatures were named by that original chauvinist, Adam, with unconscious patronizing to sex, gender, race, religion, size, handicap, mental state, congenital deformity or odd behavior.

Consider how insensitive we are to call something a nanny goat, a laying hen, preying mantis, peafowl, woodpecker, short-nosed sucker or a turkey.

I admit I’ve been called a turkey but I thought it was a step up from the dodo.

But if we truly worried about the Political Correctness fad, what are we gonna call a cowboy? A two-Legged Ungulate Overperson? Why not.

“Git along little Disenfranchised Mobile Nurture Seeker.”

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NMSU Professor Leads Wildlife Research Effort in Jemez Mountains

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mong the ponderosa pines in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, large herds of elk may be seen foraging on the grasses along the forest floor.

Many areas in these northern New Mexico Jemez Mountains have been through prescribed burns or forest thins to allow for a less dense canopy, so new grasses and shrubs may grow on the forest floor and so wildfires will be less destructive.

These forest restoration treatments are part of the larger Southwest Jemez Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project that includes the Santa Fe National Forest and Valles Caldera National Preserve.

James Cain, a wildlife and affiliate associate professor at New Mexico State University, is leading a research team to monitor how certain mammals are responding to the forest thins and prescribed burns.

“My role in this project is to assess the responses of large mammals to these landscape scale forest restoration treatments,” Cain said. “We’re specifically looking at how the vegetation responds to the thinning and prescribed burns, and then how the herbivores respond to that vegetation.

We’re looking at the responses of mule deer, elk, black bears and mountain lions.”

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“We usually have 10 to 20 bears, about 50 elk and about 10 or 15 mule deer with GPS collars at any given time,” he said. “This allows us to see where they’re moving throughout the landscape, which areas they’re using and whether they’re using the treated areas. If they are using the treated areas, one of the main things we are interested in is how long it takes from when an area is thinned to when it actually becomes an area that’s utilized by deer, elk and black bears.”

NMSU received a $100,000 research grant from the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service to help with the larger animal study.

So far, three NMSU wildlife sciences graduate students have worked with Cain on the project. Tanya Roerick, who received a master’s degree in the summer, studied mule deer. Sarah Kindschuh and Susan Bard have both researched black bears. Kindschuh received her master’s degree in 2015, and Bard is currently pursing her master’s degree. Caleb Robers, who received a master’s degree in wildlife from Texas Tech University, helped with the project as well, focusing on elk.

Cain, who is the assistant leader of the U.S. Geological Survey’s New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, said the large mammal monitoring part of the project began in 2012. The larger project – the Southwest Jemez Project – was one of 10 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Projects in nine states approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2010.

Congress established the CFLRP in 2009 to encourage collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes.

The primary reason the Southwest Jemez was a priority was because of the Cerro Grande fire that burned down parts of Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 2000. The fire began in Bandelier National Monument and burned 48,000 acres.

“Because of decades of fire suppression in the Southwestern U.S., many of our ponderosa pine forests and other types of forests have become overgrown, so the canopy is really dense,” Cain explained.

“And this prevents sunlight from reaching the floor, which results in essentially no forage or vegetation growing underneath the canopy. The forest becomes dominated by many really small-diameter trees. Not only does this have an impact for wildlife that utilize forage on the forest floor, it also results in increased fire danger.

“So when there’s a fire, it gets up into that dense canopy and just burns right across the tops of the forest and basically kills all of the trees. Whereas historically, the forest was a little more open. And if there was a lightning strike, the fire would stay on the ground for the most part. And that would be a beneficial fire for wildlife. But now we have less frequent but more severe wildfires.”

Hence, the goal of the prescribed burns and thinning of the forest is to open up the canopy to allow the grass to grow for wildlife, and so fires will hopefully be less destructive.

Since the project began, there have also been wildfires that have affected the landscape. The Las Conchas wildfire occurred in 2011, followed by the Thompson Ridge wildfire in 2013. Both fires were incorporated into Cain’s research as unplanned treatments.

Research thus far has shown that wildlife responses have varied depending on the type of mammal and whether they are responding to prescribed burns or wildfires.

“So far what we’ve found is that the elk are really responding to the wildfire burned areas,” Cain said. “And those wildfire burned areas have four-to-five times the amount of forage biomass for elk than the untreated areas.

“The mule deer aren’t really using the wildfire areas so much, but they are using the prescribed-burn areas, particularly oneto-two years after the prescribed burn.”

Cain said the animals’ responses to the forest thinned areas have varied as well, depending on what they eat. Mule deer’s diet is composed primarily of browse, which includes leaves, shrubs and twigs, and they are not using the thinned areas extensively until at least five years after the thin, when the shrub component returns. Elk’s diet is composed primarily of grasses, so they are not using the thinned areas as much.

Other organizations taking part in the collaborative project include the National Park Service, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, New Mexico Highlands University, Texas Tech University, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey – New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

Although Cain and his team are focused on larger mammals, other researchers are responsible for monitoring the responses of fisheries, birds, invertebrates and vegetation in general.

The project is scheduled to run through 2019.

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Ag Prospects Looking Up

Slow but sure improvement in rural economy

by Miranda Reiman, Certified Angus Beef

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t might not feel like a quick ascent, but agriculture will climb out of the slump affecting nearly all sectors in recent years.

That ray of hope comes from AgResource Company. President Dan Basse spoke as part of the Feeding Quality Forum in Omaha, Nebraska, while colleague Ben Buckner addressed the crowd in Garden City, Kansas.

“Dairy is the only industry this year that will make more gross than the year before,” Basse said, noting it’s up $40 billion, compared to the beef sector, which will drop $7 or $8 billion.

“Our revenues have fallen in half—name me another industry where net revenues have declined by 50 percent in a period of five years. That’s our story,” he said.

Cyclical trends and export prospects provide a glimmer.

“The world economies are improving at a pace faster than the U.S., but it is improving,” Buckner said. A surprising boon? “The best that’s happened in the last six months or so is the political chaos in Washington, D.C.” Government instability has caused a decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar, a positive to agriculture since it relies heavily on exports, he said.

“That is putting pressure on producers overseas,” Basse said.

All commodities have a bit of good news in store.

“The United States will be a net exporter of crude oil by 2019,” Basse said. “This is a really big deal, the first time we’ve had a net export of energy going back to the 1940s.”

The ethanol industry is starting to ramp up production, adding about a billion gallons of capacity to meet export demand.

“It’s part of the reason I think you all in the cattle business need to be looking in the next few weeks of taking some feedneed coverage over the next nine months,” he said.

Both analysts said it’s unlikely corn markets will go more bearish coming into harvest. They suggested USDA’s corn yield estimate of 169.5 bushels per acre (bu./acre) is high, because the equation overestimates corn ear weight, given the dry conditions in much of the upper Midwest.

“We don’t think there’ll be a disaster; we just don’t think ear weight’s going to be this high,” Buckner said, noting a change from 169.5 bu/acre to 167 or 165 can cut many millions of bushels off the total harvest.

“It doesn’t get you exceedingly bullish on corn, but it does tell me that if corn makes it down to $3.45 to $3.35, I would definitely want to be a buyer down in that area,” Basse said.

Longer-term, they expect a price increase. World stocks will decline over the next few years, but the U.S. will face increasing global competition as other countries make bigger improvements in yields.

“The U.S. farmer is the very best. It’s hard to really add yield nationwide when you’re yielding 168, 175 [bu/acre],” Buckner said.

Countries like Ukraine could increase 30% and Brazil by 50 percent, while the U.S. might reach a four percent improvement.

Competition is still a factor in the beef sector, but it relies less heavily on global markets, they said.

“Quarterly domestic use is really good, and this is the demand pull that I see in the beef market,” Basse said. “The quarterly per-capita disappearance is now the largest it’s been since 2008.”

If trade with China really ramps up, Basse said, “I could get really bullish on the demand side of cattle sometime during the first quarter of next year.”

He doesn’t expect China to lift any requirements on U.S. beef.

“They like to have a lever on trade,” he said, but it probably also represents an over-arching trend in food production. “I think that’s the way agriculture is going, in terms of producing what the market is demanding. I don’t think that’s all bad because it gives consumers choice.”

But before that trade can bolster the market, the larger beef harvest numbers in recent months and earlier-than-usual placements due to drought will continue to pressure prices in the fourth quarter.

AgResource predicts a bottom of $100 to $104 per hundredweight (cwt.) for fed cattle prices.

“I do believe we’ll see good exports again going forward,” Basse said. “The price structure of cattle has done its job in terms of building the demand down the road.”

Other hurdles remain. Ag lending is down, and competing proteins continue to expand. Pork production will increase by 2 percent to 3 percent in 2018, Basse said: “Look over your shoulder, because there’s going to be plenty of pork on the doorstep of the United States.”

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Kevin Folta Files Libel Suit Against NYT

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he New York Times has spent years releasing one-sided coverage of modern agriculture, raising red flags among farmers and helping to stifle honest discussion about the realities of our food chain. The poisonous fruit from the Big Apple’s newspaper of record, it seems, may finally be catching up to it.

The science-driven Facebook page AgBioWorld has brought to public attention a lawsuit that plant scientist and biotech advocate Dr. Kevin Folta has filed against The New York Times and reporter Eric Lipton, which states that the defendants“intentionally misrepresented the actions of a pure academic scientist to push their own agenda.”

At issue is a September 2015 story titled “Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show,” which Folta says misrepresented his work on genetically modified crops and his relationship with Monsanto.

Folta, who works for the land-grant University of Florida in the Horticultural Sciences Department, has long been open about any money he receives as part of his writing or speaking engagements, down to noting the dollar amount for cab fare he was given to get to the airport. The lawsuit argues that steps taken by the newspaper damaged his reputation and opened him and his family up to abuse. Key points of the suit state: ЇЇ These defendants — to further their own “anti GMO” agenda and in disregard of the truth — manipulated an interview with Dr. Folta and then misrepresented him as a covertly paid operative of one of the largest and controversial companies in America, Monsanto, a company that produces GMO products. ЇЇ In order to ensure maximum effect and to best propagate their subjective agenda, these defendants placed this lengthy article above the fold on Sunday, 6 September 2015, the day after posting this scandalous article on the New York Times’ website, with false and misleading headlines and bylines, to draw readers into the manifestly false and misleading content. ЇЇ These defendants furthered their mischief by using a large photo of Dr. Folta, juxtaposed with more misleading and inflammatory text.

As a result of the defendants’ knowingly ЇЇ false and misleading article. Dr. Folta, his laboratory, and his family have been

the subject of verbal attacks and death clear to Lipton certain distinctions, such as threats; his credibility and reputation the difference between an “unrestricted gift” have been damaged. to a university and the fictional “unrestricted The suit was filed on September 1, 2017, grant” cited in the article. and Folta is seeking unspecified damages. It In a statement to Politico Pro, which is states that the scientist, who works across behind a paywall, a spokesperson for The the nation as an agvocate, has no financial New York Times said that the paper will ties to Monsanto — personal or professional, “defend the lawsuit vigorously,” though and that the “reporting” therein was driven whether the accusations themselves have by an activist agenda, even after Folta made been denied is not yet clear.

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