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Hereford - Angus - Charolais

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88x makes great females and will do well to moderate your herd and add some maternal as well as terminal value to your offspring. 5280 has sired many denver champions and is directly related to several denver chanpions.

Our 2017 Reserve Pen of Heifers at the NWSS was sired by 5280. BR Belle Air crosses well with the daughters we have out of 5280 and 88X. We have private treaty bulls and heifers for sale year round. All of the bulls are Trich and Fertility tested an can be viewed at the ranch.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Tom Sidwell NMCGA President

Folks,

Tom Sidwell President Quay Randell Major President-Elect Magdalena 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 Ty Bays SW Vice President Silver City Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Pat Boone Past President Elida

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don’t know about you but I am thoroughly disgusted with the shenanigans going on in Washington, DC. Decency, civility, and morality is no longer the standard. Due process, where the accused is considered innocent before being proven guilty, is being severely tested and that should concern every citizen.

There used to be a check on this type of behavior but now-a-days the media is complicit and accommodating with such behavior. Our Constitutional Republic is slowly being torn down from within.

Several polls demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism.

This shows their lack of education and experience; I don’t blame them, I blame the system that fails to educate them about history and the failures of socialism or the success of our Constitutional Republic.

In today’s world truth has no meaning. If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Truth, as it is perceived, becomes a means to an end, that end being agenda driven.

With next month’s mid-term elections it is so important that everyone vote. We can’t afford to think, “my vote doesn’t count,” because it does count. Maybe my candidate or issue doesn’t win but I have the self-satisfaction of knowing that I participated; that I tried.

Speaking of voting, GO Bond D is on the ballot next month and pertains to NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) proposal for agricultural modernization and educational facilities. The proposed Feed Milling and Processing, Biomedical Research, and Food Science Learning and Safety facilities will improve critical research that can be used for higher education, allow researchers to create new methods of food safety and quality, and add value to agricultural products while researching ways to lower costs for producers. I urge everyone to talk to your neighbors and friends in town about how GO Bond D is needed for New Mexico agriculture and the best part of this is that there will be NO TAX INCREASE! We had our Fall Board meeting last month in Santa Rosa and it was well attended. The first day Tom Patterson of Spur Ranches made an excellent presentation about board responsibilities and liabilities. At the Board meeting the second day we heard from a number of candidates running for office, including Representative Steve Pearce who is running for Governor.

The main focus of discussion was centered around the upcoming legislative session in Santa Fe. We anticipate this to be a tough session where proposed legislation will impact property rights and our ability to feasibly operate farms and ranches economically. Our legislative team is going to need help, and when Caren sends out an ALERT we need to have hats and boots show up at the Roundhouse. I know how hard it is to drop everything and drive a long distance to Santa Fe but it is critically important. We may win some and we may lose some but if we don’t take part in the process we know we will lose.

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TO THE POINT

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

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lthough we have more than one Twitter account, I am not good at.

Like Facebook (who kicked me off the site several years ago because I wouldn’t provide them a copy of my driver’s license and one other form of identification), it apparently eats of a huge amount time.

That is verified from the messages I get on a daily basis that say something like “check out the 45 new message on Twitter that you might be interested in.”

With the frustration resulting from what’s going on around me, in the state and in the nation, I thought I had come up with a bright idea. I would come up with a new hash tag (a hash tag is what you are supposed to put at the end of a tweet that will cause others to read it) — #getoverit.

Thankfully before I wrote an entire column exposing my ignorance on the subject, a quick Goggle search enlightened me with the fact that there are probably millions of tweets with that hash tag.

However, that is good news. If I start using that hash tag — as soon as I find the time to spend on it— lots and lots of people will have my tweet pop up on their feed (not be confused with the stuff you serve to your cattle and horses).

Just like the overload of information that is available on virtually anything and everything, I still haven’t got to my point. It is not news that life is short. The more time we spending carrying grudges, trying to prove WE are right and just plain being no fun to be around, the less time we have to enjoy ourselves and each other. It is alright to disagree — but that doesn’t mean it is okay to tell someone they are ugly and their mother dresses them funny.

Outrageous indignation can even be okay on rare occasions. Venting your anger might be okay. I learned a long time ago in that situation to just gut up and take it — even if I wasn’t the cause of the perceived problem.

We are all humans with a wide variety of thoughts, emotions and experiences. If we want to live the happiest life possible, we can disagree, but that is no excuse to be disagreeable. #getoverit

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#getoverit

On Civility Every member of the New Mexico legislature receives a complimentary issue of the Stockman. I know that at least a few of them actually read it. It might be worth investing in sending a copy to every member of Congress — if you think they might have the time to actually look at.

That is predictable on the fact that the postal service doesn’t completely fry it to make sure there are no dangerous substances on or in it. The danger that members of Congress and their staffs must live with is another sad commentary on the state of our society.

It was clear that some members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee hadn’t heard of the concept of civility and man’s inhumanity to man that I wrote about recently. I don’t care what the views of each individual are on the recent US Supreme Court nominee. Again, we all have the rights to our opinions (and we have the right to be wrong or uninformed). We should not have the right for a hearing, that was televised, to get so far out of hand that children have to be removed from the room. #getoverit

De ja vu all over again When I was a child one of our treats was to spend time with our Nana (Irene Sproul).

She was a school teacher and lived in Douglas, Arizona. Growing up in the country made going to “town” a big deal.

We lived only six miles from Tombstone.

When we were growing up Tombstone was a functioning community with two grocery stores, a barber, sometimes two beauty shops (known as salons today) a drug store or two, a dry cleaner, a couple of banks and at least one bar per block on the main street.

We didn’t want for anything like Tombstone does today. Of all the services I just listed, most of the bars remain, but if you need much of anything else you have to drive to Sierra Vista or Benson and I am not sure what’s left of Benson. The Circle K carries a few groceries including fresh vegetables. The last time I was in Tombstone

there was another little store that had some grocery items along with a couple of gas pumps.

Douglas had many stores and a big Phelps Dodge Mercantile that had lots of groceries, clothing and I don’t remember what else, but getting to go shop at the PD was a big deal. Another feature that was fun was that Nana could have groceries delivered to her back door. That seems like a huge luxury at the time and was discontinued well before her death in the 1980s.

I think of Nana every time I see an ad in any format touting ordering your groceries online and having them delivered to your home. That delivery isn’t the new idea people seem to think it is. The only thing new is that you order online rather than making a phone call.

This phenomenon is happening in lots of sectors. When I was in high school there were mandatory home economics classes.

I am not sure, but I think taking one semester was required. Cooking was a big part of that class. Eventually those classes were eliminated because of the perception that home skills were no longer necessary.

Today you can look at a “how to cook” show on television at virtually any hour of the day. Some of them have worked their way into prime-time scheduling. There are shows featuring children and now there are commercials for some food stuffs that are advertising their own cooking instructions like “Cooking with Uncle Ben.” For a while it was unpopular to be a homemaker (not to be confused with the community clubs of yesteryear). To be a producing member of society you had to receive a pay check from an outside source.

Ship the kids off day care and school at the earliest age possible and become a “complete” person. That day care is now often more expensive than an outside paycheck pays. Parents are opting to home school their children rather than sending them off to schools that don’t seem to be able to educate many students to be functioning citizens who are candidates for jobs or higher education.

I am not knocking public schools or the wonderful people who teach in them. It is no secret that we, as Americans, value football, basketball and baseball players higher than just about any profession. They make millions while the teachers we trust our children to stretch to get by.

Hopefully valuing people for the unique skills, they offer will come back in style just like home delivered groceries.

tion has grown enough that we have the need for a larger facility. The 2018 Convention is scheduled for December 5 through 9 at the Sandia Resort on the north side of Albuquerque just off I-25.

Please note that the Convention will commence on Wednesday and finish on Saturday morning with Hopefully valuing people for the unique the Worship Service. The room block at Sandia is open now. skills, they offer will come back in style Please make your reservations early. Ask for the Joint StockHoping isn’t enough just like home delivered groceries men’s Convention or New With another election upon Mexico Cattle Growers’ Associaus, I cannot count the number of times I If 100 people made such posts or tweets tion rate of $149 plus tax. This is a higher have heard “I sure hope (Candidate X) wins, you might be surprised the influence that rate, but it will be worth it. but I don’t know how that is going you can have if you devote just a little effort.

There is room for a larger Trade Show, to happen.”

If you made that effort a couple of times a more meeting space, along with more I can tell you how that is going to happen. week for the next month the payoff restaurants and entertainment and other It will happen when you and everyone else could be big. amenities. takes responsibility for getting that Of course, getting out the vote in early person elected. voting or on Election Day in imperative.

What might that responsibility entail? It Senior citizen facilities often need help in can be donating money, making phone getting ballots turned in or driving folks to calls, knocking on doors, or putting up signs the polls. Use your imagination and get the on your fences. It can also be making sure job done. Hope is great… action is better. that EVERYONE you know understands who your candidate is, what they stand for and 2018 Joint Stockmen’s Convention why it is so necessary for them to be elected.

Hopefully you have read or heard by One idea that costs little time and NO now the that the Joint Stockmen’s Conven-

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money is to post the reasons that your candidate is needed on Facebook or tweeting that message on Twitter. There are several other social media platforms that can be used, but we have exhausted my knowledge in that arena.

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BARBER RANCH BULLS BACKED BY OVER A CENTURY OF GENETIC PROGRESS

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Service-age bulls ready to work as well as yearling bulls geared for you to develop and adjust to your environment. Also selling 10 bred heifers and 10 open heifers.

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AHA: 43929947 DOB: 5/19/17 Sire: UPS Sensation 2296 Dam: BR Gabrielle 9011ET One of several full brothers selling. Calving ease, low birth weight and marbling with exceptional look!

AHA: P43892293 DOB: 3/3/17 Sire: BR Hutton 4030ET Dam: BR Brianne 3035 Sire, 4030, was very popular in our May sale, as his daughters are phenomenal. Dam is a top About Time daughter from Sooner’s cow family.

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What they say about themselves

B&H Herefords, Piñon, New Mexico

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harles M. (C.M.) Harvey arrived in El Paso, Texas in 1911 from Oklahoma and began buying ranches in New Mexico soon after. His first New Mexico ranch was in Ancho and was followed by land purchases in Carrizozo, Cloudcroft, Hill, and Alamogordo. In 1924, he purchased his first large herd of Herefords along with the TR brand from Thomas Ryan of Three Rivers, NM, and soon followed with several other livestock purchases. By1938, C.M. along with Paul Harvey, and C. M. Harvey Jr. formed the Harvey Hereford Ranches and purchased a membership in the American Hereford Association. After the death of C.M. Harvey in 1952, his youngest son, Phil Harvey Sr. assumed management of the family farming and ranching operations.

Phil Sr., and his ranch manager Mozaun Calentine, focused on bull production for the commercial market. They worked hard to improve range and water management and ranch infrastructure.

In the early 1970s, Phil Harvey Jr. began building the registered cow herd and began an upgrade of the breeding program to more modern bloodlines. By the mid1980s, the Harvey operation had more than 200 cows and was selling more than 100 bulls annually. In 1996, the Harvey family had grown to include several generations and they made the decision to disperse the Harvey Hereford Ranches herd and sell all the ranches. The dispersion sale took place on May 11, 1996 at Roswell, New Mexico. At the time of the sale, Phil Jr. and Jim Bob Burnett, who had worked for Harvey Herefords as a herdsman for 13 years, formed a new partnership and purchased 24 cows and 20 bred heifers from the Harvey Hereford bloodlines. The men called their new operation B & H Herefords and they moved the herd to ranches owned by Burnett’s family in Lovington, NM. They later leased land in Hope and more recently, Piñon, New Mexico. B & H Herefords is also involved in a partnership with Dr. Mark Cox of the San Augustine Ranch at Organ, New Mexico.

The B & H Hereford cow operation is

operated on sound, conservative ranching practices. Bulls are developed for soundness and the ability to perform under harsh southwestern range conditions and are marketed at leading consignment sales in the Southwest. Harvey and Burnett have been able to continue the superior breeding program that began more than 70 years ago.

Phil Harvey Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when he began working with the family’s herd of registered Hereford cattle in 1973. In 1996, Harvey and Jim Bob Burnett purchased several cows and heifers from the Harvey Hereford Ranch dispersion sale and formed B & H Herefords. Throughout his career, he has served on the American Hereford Association’s Board of Directors from 1989 to 1995, and served as president in 1994. One of the major achievements of the Board during his tenure was the foundation of the Certified Hereford Beef Program.

Jim Bob Burnett grew up in Lovington, New Mexico. After graduating from NMSU he worked for Harvey Herefords as a herdsman. In 1996, Burnett and Phil Harvey Jr. purchased 44 cows and heifers from the Harvey Hereford Ranches’ dispersion sale and a new formed a new partnership they

called B & H Herefords. Burnett has served as president of the New Mexico Hereford Association, on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, and as the Chairman of the New Mexico Beef Council.

Barber Herefords / Channing, Texas Barber Ranch is an honoree of the Texas Family Land Heritage Program for 100+ years of continuous land ownership and agriculture production by the same family.

The ranch has been family owned for 114 years. Dale and Mary have devoted their entire lives to raising top notch Hereford genetics in the panhandle of Texas, and are two of the most respected and recognized people in the cattle industry. They have four children who are all involved in the ranch today: Justin Barber lives on the ranch and is involved with all facets of ranch activities.

Justin’s wife Jenna, is a veterinarian for Swann Animal Clinic in Amarillo and they have twin daughters: Henley and Beckett.

Brett Barber and wife Reagan, also live and work on the ranch and have five children: Rylee, Bryden, Tanner, Tyler and Aidyn. Terri Barber is a sales consultant for Elanco Animal Health and currently resides in New continued on page 18 >>

Thick, Wide Deep Set of Heifers

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Cow Herd located at Pinon, New Mexico

B&H Herefords Registered Herefords Herefords Registered Phil Harvey Jr. Phil Harvey Jr. P.O. Box 40 Mesilla,NM NM88046 88046 P.O. Box 40 ••Mesilla, 575-524-9316 • Cell 575-644-6925 575-524-9316 • Cell 575-644-6925 philharveyjr@comcast.net philharveyjr@comcast.net www.bhherefords.com www.bhherefords.com

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Jim Bob Burnett 205 E. Cottonwood Rd. Jim Bob Burnett Lake Arthur, NM 88253 205 E. Cottonwood Rd. Cell 575-365-8291 • burnettjimbob@gmail.com Lake Arthur, NM 88253 Cell 575-365-8291 • jbb@pvtnetworks.net

Cow Herd located in Piñon, New Mexico

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SW HEREFORD << cont. from page 15 Mexico. Jason, Jaci, Bode and Cole Barber live in Fort Worth where Jason manages the Purebred Division of Superior Livestock and is also a partner and co-founder of SmartAuctions.

Located 60 miles northeast of Amarillo, Barber Ranch has been family owned and operated since 1904, running purebred Hereford cattle. The cowherd currently consists of 300 Horned and Polled Hereford cows. Extensive artificial insemination as well as embryo transplant is utilized to produce genetics that are consistently at the forefront of the Hereford industry.

Barber Ranch bloodlines can be seen throughout pedigrees all over North America, and these genetics have been prominent in the winner’s circle at all national Hereford stock shows. Barber Ranch was a pioneer in integrating both Horned and Polled Hereford genetics together and producing pedigrees with popularity around the time the two breed associations merged in the 1990s. To this day we still blend the best of both horned and polled genetics together to produce the best product. Barber Ranch also seeks fresh genetics constantly and for that reason continuously offers new breeding

options at the forefront of the curve.

Beyond raising industry leading genetics for other Hereford seedstock producers, a primary focus of Barber Ranch is to raise outstanding bulls for the commercial cattlemen. Bulls for both segments of the industry are available in their Annual Bull Sale, which is held in the heart of Hill Country at San Saba, Texas the second Wednesday of every November and will feature 100+ service age bulls. Through a lifetime spent in cattle production, we realize that our breeding decisions ultimately impact the beef industry. In an effort to positively influence our customer’s bottom line, we strive to raise cattle that will sire progeny that perform in the pasture, in the feedyard and on the plate. They would love for you to attend the sale in person, but for those of you that cannot make it they will be broadcasting the sale through Superior Livestock on television and online where bidding is available.

For customers seeking the top genetics offered, Barber Ranch hosts two annual female production sales: one in the spring and one in the fall. Typically the spring sale offers top fall-born open heifer calves (both ETs and naturals).Then sometime this fall will offer many of the top end of our spring

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Bill King Ranch / Moriarty, NM We specialize in providing quality cattle that are composed of some of the best genetics in the industry. Annually we sell over 400 bulls off of our ranch to producers all over the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

We also set aside a productive group of heifers and bred heifers to sell each fall. In Moriarty we are accustomed to dry summers and cold winters at 6,300+ feet, so our cattle are very hardy and durable in the production setting. We sell yearlings and two-year old bulls of each respective breed and all of our bulls are tested for trichomoniasis (trich) and fertility. All of our cattle are sold private treaty to provide the buyer with the opportunity to take time and pick out their bulls without the pressure of a live auction.

We have been listed in the Beef Magazine’s Seedstock 100 for the past four years for the amount of bulls we sell. Each year you can find our cattle exhibited at the New Mexico State Fair in the Open show barn, as an example of our current year’s calf crop and our herd’s genetics. continued on page 20 >>

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SW HEREFORD << cont. from page 18 Our herd of Hereford cattle has been compiled of many great sires and dams over the years. It was started in 1968 with just a moderate sized herd, but grew quickly in size and quality. Many dams trace back to the bulls Mischief 840, Solid Gold, Pure Gold, as well as the bulls featured on this page.

We have over 350 cows, 100 replacement heifers, and 150 bulls for sale annually. And we are anticipating many great calves to come out of our herd of increasingly functional Hereford Cows this winter.

We would like to congratulate Abby Spindle for recently being elected to the National Junior Hereford Association board of directors at the 2018 JNHE in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Clavel Ranch Hereford / Roy, NM Nestled among the pinon, juniper and

cedar tree mesas and the short grass plains of northeast New Mexico lies the Twin Creek Ranch, owned and operated by the Clavel family. Named for its location between the Carizzo and Alamocita creeks, the ranch was started in 1933 by Celestin Joseph Clavel II. Joseph, known better as “Frenchie,” immigrated to the country with his father Celestin Clavel from Busses, France in 1889.

They settled in Florence, KS and farmed for several years. Frenchie left KS at an early age and was employed by the railroad working on the bridge gang and train service as it went west through NM. It was on his travels through New Mexico that he met his future wife, Bernice Lane, who had migrated with her family to the White Oaks area from Louisiana after the Civil War. They eventually made their home in Tucumcari where Joseph (Frenchie) continued to work for the railroad.

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Frenchie acquired some land in the Norton area southeast of Tucumcari in the early twenties and then through his trips from Tucumcari to Dawson on the railroad ended up acquiring a small homestead NE of Roy in the Yates area. During this time, (1923) Celestin Joseph Clavel III (Jodie) was born. In 1933, at the age of ten, Jodie was sent from Tucumcari with several car loads of heifers to go find the ranch in Harding County. Thus, Clavel Ranch in Harding County began. Frenchie died of pneumonia in 1940, so 17-year-old Jodie, his nine-year-old brother Calvin, and their mother Bernice took over the ranch.

From 1933 Clavel ranch has expanded and has always been a family operation, now in its fifth generation. The Clavels run a commercial cow-calf operation and also have a registered Hereford herd that provides bulls for their own use and also gives them a chance to sell bulls to other commercial producers. Primarily, they raise Hereford cattle but are also using a few Angus bulls on Hereford cows. They start calving in March and get about 90 percent of the calves in 45 days. Calves stay on the cow until fall and then are weaned. They utilize a variety of marketing strategies that include source and age verification, retained ownership, video auction, internet auction, auction barn, and private sales.

They have a tremendous market for Hereford and black baldy heifers.

Clavel Ranch sits at 5900 feet and the country is a mix of high plains and cedar canyons. They rely on Mother Nature for grass and hope she cooperates. The country is true rangeland without access to irrigation water or crops. They have a very strict growing season that runs from the last of May until the latter part of August. They hope to grow grass in the summer so that the cattle will have something to eat in the winter. Cows are supplemented with protein in late winter when they start to calve and are expected to make a living unless the grass is covered with snow.

Clavel Ranch is watered by windmills, solar systems, and miles of pipeline. They have strived to develop good water sources for the cattle, the wildlife, and their family.

They are blessed with good water and give their all to be good stewards of water resources.

Patriarch Jodie, who we lost last year, was known as a pioneer of the New Mexico Beef Council and served on its first board.

He was honored by the NMBC with its Beef Backer Award for outstanding service to the industry six years ago. Son Joe Clavel served multiple terms on the New Mexico Beef

Council.

Outside of family, Clavel Ranch has no employees. Joe, (Celestin Joseph IV) has taken the management reins of the ranch with his wife Tootie. Son Blair and his family live and work on the ranch. Joe’s two daughters and their families provide seasonal help during branding and weaning.

Cattle work is done horseback, and little ones learn to ride and learn responsibility at a young age. Although challenging, the Clavels embrace the challenge.

They love what they do and cherish the opportunity to work side by side, and raise their children in a country setting.

Cornerstone Ranch / Ft. Sumner & Lincoln County Although Cornerstone Ranch was formally organized and named in 2000, that was not the beginning of the cattle herds.

LaMoyne Peters came from a long line of cattle ranchers. His great-grandmother and his grandmother both raised cattle in Lincoln County. When LaMoyne’s father was orphaned at 13, he lost control of these cattle but maintained the Bar E X brand assigned to his grandmother around 1887.

Seed stock for the present commercial Hereford herd was bought in 1924 by LaMoyne and Gilbert Peters. In 1934 the first registered Hereford bull was bought. It was the Grand Champion bull at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair Open Livestock Show shown by Shaddock’s of Carlsbad, NM. The price of this bull was equal to approximately the price of 12 calves. This was the beginning of selling bulls. Bull calves were sold from this bull locally for several years. Our standards for selecting herd sires have not changed. With the concept that you didn’t want your brand around locally, a second brand of L P Slash was acquired around 1940 so bulls could be sold locally.

In 1941 LaMoyne married Opal Jones whose father owned an adjoining ranch.

They received a few cows from Opal’s father as a wedding gift. By investing a large portion of the money made from the cattle more land has been acquired over the years.

In 1976 the first irrigated farm was purchased in DeBaca County. In 1979 another larger irrigated farm was purchased. Alfalfa hay could now be raised for the Lincoln County cattle.

In 1978 Lamoyne’s daughter Glenda and her husband became actively involved in the farming and ranching operation. At this time a third brand of L C Bar was acquired to use on the registered cattle. In 1978 a registered Hereford heifer was bought from ZR Herefords from Santa Rosa, NM. In 1979

more registered Hereford heifers were bought from Harvey Herefords of Cloudcroft, NM. The registered Hereford herd was slowly being established with constant vigilance for quality. By 1981 registered

Hereford bulls were being sold. More irrigated farms were added to the operation and alfalfa hay was also being marketed.

In 1999 the first ranch in DeBaca County continued on page 23 >>

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herd pigment around the eyes and on the was bought with money from land sales in scrotum are a must. A future goal is to Lincoln County. In 2000, Glenda’s oldest extend this pigment to the cow’s udders. daughter moved back to DeBaca County We feel our prefix for our cattle TRL portrays with her husband Kevin Grant and two chil- our goals –TOP RANGE LAND Cattle. dren, Kyra & Rhett. Renee’s dream was in direct line with her grandfather LaMoyne’s Copeland & Sons Herefords / – a prestigious herd of Hereford cattle. In Nara Visa, NM 2003, Tanya moved back to Fort Sumner.

The ranch was established in 1943 (then She has two girls, Kenzie & Kagan and cur- called Jack Copeland and Sons Herefords) rently teaches 3rd grade at Fort Sumner by Jack and Mary Alice Copeland and Jack’s Elementary. Lynden continues to contrib- parents Otis R. and Belinda Copeland. ute to the operation from Washington, D.C. The ranch was strictly a commercial HerRegistered Angus Cattle were added in eford operation in the beginning and then 2003. The same careful consideration to diversified into a combination registered genetics, actual do-ability, and disposition and commercial Hereford operation. as was used to build the commercial and Although from the beginning ranch cattle registered Hereford herds is being used for were exhibited at shows locally and nationthe Angus cattle. 175 registered Hereford ally, the cattle have always been bred for mother cows and 60 registered Angus cows survival under range conditions and to provide the base for the select 40 bulls that produce all of the performance our severe are being sold annually. southwest climate will allow.

In 2004 another ranch was added allowStrict performance records, feedlot ing a sizable herd of commercial Hereford, testing, and even ultrasound scans and Angus, and black baldie cows to be estab- DNA evaluations are a part of the Copeland lished. In 2007 Tim Unruh was added as the protocol. Today the ranch is even more ranch manager of the commercial herd. diverse, not only selling registered and In 2014, Kyra graduated from New commercial Herefords, but also F1 black Mexico State University with B.S. in Animal baldy replacement heifers and Maine Anjou Science and Agricultural Communications cattle. A premier club calf division has also and a M.A. in Agricultural and Extension been established.

Education in 2015. Kyra and her husband, Clifford and his wife Barbara took over Justin Monzingo, moved to the ranch after the management of the ranch in 1959. In finishing college and help with the ranch- 1983 Cliff and his wife Pat moved home and ing and farming. Rhett is currently attending joined the family operation. Finally, Matt NMSU for a degree in Agricultural Business. makes the fifth generation to continue the The average cow on the ranch weights quest of producing the best cattle possible about 1200 pounds and is about a 5.5 frame for our customers. Northeastern New score. The two registered herds provide the Mexico, with an elevation of about 4,500 bulls for the commercial herd. Careful feet, is the location of the ranch. This is record keeping is used to provide accurate known as “short grass” country. When adeEPDs on all registered cattle. Great blood- quate rain occurs, the grass is exceptionally lines such as: Grand Slam, JC MO LE, L1 strong and world-class gains can Pacesetter, SC Classic, L1 Image, HH Home be achieved.

Builder, LH Summit, CRS Del Rio, as well as This environment can be severe. Annual several Upstream Herefords and Churchill rainfall is 15 inches in the good years. TemCattle bulls have been used to build the peratures can range from 110 degrees in the Hereford cow genetics. We are excited to summer to minus 15 in the winter with chill see the contributions of a Full Throttle son factors down to minus 40 or more at times. from Churchill Cattle and a Sensation son Snow is a part of life here as well. The snow and Handshake son from Upstream Here- is almost always wind driven. It is normal fords to our herds. Conneally Freightliner, for the wind to blow year round and in the PAR Benchmark, TC Freedom, N Bar Emula- spring months the wind blows 20 to 40 mph tion, TC Stockman, G 13 Structure, and BR on a daily basis. The old timers say we are Midland are contributing to the develop- always only 30 minutes away from ment of the Angus cow herd. Currently we a drought. are using Lazy JB Watchout and O’Reilly We are very fortunate that the time-honsons, as well as a Harvester son from SAV ored tradition of neighboring up to get the Angus and a Ten X son from 44 Farms. spring branding and fall shipping and cow A deep body, thick, large boned, well work done is a part of our life. The best help, uddered cow is our goal. In our Hereford

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SW HEREFORD << cont. from page 23 the best neighbors and friends are found in our working crew. It is like a social event . Great food, great stories, and occasional pranks make hard work a lot of fun.

The cattle are still gathered and worked on horseback. The commercial calves are still heeled with a rope and drug to the branding fire. The registered calves are run through a calf table.

It takes a special cow to fit our extreme environment. The registered cattle are run under the exact same conditions as our commercial cows in order to prove that our registered cattle actually fit our environment and the commercial industry. The cows must calve out on the range, get their calf up, nursing and often times fight off predators at the same time. As a rule, the cows are not fed hay and must produce a good calf on grass and range cube supplementation. There are no irrigated pastures here. Weaned heifer calves get to spend some time on wheat pasture and that is the only pampering they receive during their entire life on the ranch.

Medium size cattle seem to fit our area and customers the best. Too much milk can be a problem with breed back, tends to shorten cow udder life, and adds a lot to cow maintenance costs. Fertility is our only maximum trait. All others traits must be in balance with the environment. Percent live calves is more important than any other trait when it comes to making a profit. All cows must produce a calf every year in a 60-day breeding season or they are culled.

Convenience traits are high priority. ЇЇ Good teats and udders are one of the

Hallmarks in our herd. We have no time to get cows in to get calves to nurse. ЇЇ Bad dispositions are rare but not tolerated. ЇЇ Good feet are a must because of the distance these cows are required to travel.

Our cattle are bred and selected from the ground up. If cattle are not structurally correct they self-eliminate in this rugged environment. We utilize every tool available to help us select and produce better cattle.

This includes performance records, EPDs, and feedlot testing. Also DNA technology specific to Herefords is evolving and we are most excited to start incorporating that into our selection process. We have not forgotten that the “Eye of the Master” is also essential to incorporate everything into a useable package.

Matt was selected as the 2011 Hereford Herdsman of the Year, a once-in-a-lifetime honor. We have always felt like performance cattle don’t have to be ugly! As a rule we show our breeding cattle and don’t select for show cattle. That being said we try to get to some of the major shows every year and see how our cattle stack up. We sell heifers and steers to junior exhibitors and it is rare when we don’t have animals at Hereford Junior Nationals. Our cattle seem to always be competitive, and have done quite well down through the years.

This is a “NO Nonsense, REAL World” cattle operation.

Perez Cattle Company /Nara Visa, NM The ranch is located in northeastern New Mexico. Connie’s parents, Don and Mary

White Mountain Herefords Bulls for Sale: Horned & Polled Not pampered, range-raised Developed on dry-range grass and lick tubs Good selection of coming Two’s and Yearlings Semen and Trich Tested, BVD-PI Negative Free Delivery

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Helen Kuper, put the ranch together and managed a successful and progressive commercial Hereford herd for a number of years.

In 1993 Michael and Connie bought the cowherd and started leasing the ranch. We currently run 380 commercial and 60 registered cows in some of the best sand hill country in the Southwest. The ranch goal is simple. We expect maximum production out of every cow with limited input. We currently are striving to raise superior baldies. We run 100 baldies and are impressed every year with their efficiency and production.

Michael and Connie have been working diligently on their registered herd for over 35 years. Over the years their philosophy has never changed; line up as many good cows as you can in one pedigree. We have been fortunate to land several outstanding sires that appear in about every pedigree: Bell L Diamond 12Z, C Pure Gold 0140, KJ BJ Bounty Hunter 741P, and GH Rambo. Our young herd sires consist of: GO 3196 Advance T9, H5 9126 Domino 752 and GKB W4 Downtown B858 ET. After graduating from Kansas State University Kyle returned to the ranch in 2005 and married Tonya Orr in June of 2008. She owns a Colorado based company, AgTown Technologies. Connie retired after 33 years as a teacher and helps out around the ranch and chases after grandkids.

Drew and Lauren reside in Canyon, Texas.

Drew, a Texas Tech Agricultural Economics graduate, works for AgTexas as a Portfolio Manager. His primary focus is on cow-calf, stocker, and feedyard customers. Lauren received her undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University and a Master of Agribusiness (MAB) degree from Texas A&M University.

Lauren works as a Business Analyst for Poole Chemical Company. Although they are not able to be there for the day-to-day operations, they assist with the business aspect of the ranch and return to the ranch as often as they can.

Pérez Cattle Company is truly a family operation. It takes contributions from everyone to make it a success. This ranch’s interest is always directed towards our customers needs. We back everything we sell, and are not satisfied until you are. The ranch also has trophy antelope hunts available.

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he days are getting shorter and the nights a little chilly so I guess fall is upon us. This a busy time of the year for those of us in the cow business. This is payday time. Many are probably already starting your fall works. A lot of yearlings have already left the country and the calves won’t be far behind. Whether you sold on an early contract or are going to an auction I hope you ring a bell. Prices remain fairly steady. It would be nice if they were a little higher but remember that they could always be lower. Whatever prices are, we in this business will do what we always do and find a way to make it work. Whenever you see a semi-load of cattle going down the road just remember that somebody somewhere put in a lot of hard work, sweat, and maybe a little blood and tears to start those calves or yearlings on the road to their next stop. Our industry is producing the most nutritious and safe product on the shelves of the meat counter. NMCB are doing a great job supporting and promoting our great products.

The state and local fairs are just about over. It takes a lot of work to put these on and a big Thank You to all who helped.

Thanks to all the Cowbelles who manned a booth and helped promote beef. If you got to a fair I hope you took time to walk through the livestock barns. All those young folks you seen cleaning stalls or packing a water bucket are hard working 4-H or FFA kids. One of the biggest concerns in our industry is the lack of young people coming back to work on our ranches. These youngsters you see are the future leaders of our industry. Whether they had the Grand Champion or finished down in the middle of the pack they all learned a valuable lesson in hard work and caring for their animals. When you see your local 4-H leader or the school Ag teacher give them a pat on the back, they are shaping the minds of those that will be running things in the not so distant future.

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election of our lifetime. Seems like they say 6-8, 2018. The NMCB Board Meeting is that every election, and they are right. Thursday, December 6, and the Annual There are a lot of issues pertaining to our Breakfast Meeting is Friday the 7th. Your industry that are going to be affected by NMCB officers are working hard on the this election. I urge everyone to please use agenda. I hope you will plan to attend. your right to vote! When our Founding – Respectfully submitted by Nancy Phelps Fathers put that little clause in saying “We

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me to contribute to the agriculture industry This year, the county fair booth will be set in New Mexico.” Copper CowBelles award up on Tuesday. Judging of the booths and a scholarship annually to local youths pur- exhibits will take place on Wednesday, and suing Agriculture Careers. These funds are the fair will be open to the public beginning a primary mission of the CowBelles who on Thursday. Workers are needed to “man” actively promote the beef industry and the fair booth Thursday through Sunday at educate consumers.

1 p.m. Sherry is willing to open each day and The September meeting of the Chamiza work the booth until 10 a.m. Please come CowBelles was called to order by President by any of those days and work for an hour Nancy Phelps in in TorC with 12 members or two. Many hands make light work! Molly present. Sherry read the prayer and creed Griffin, a past recipient of one of the $1000 and all recited the Pledge. The group scholarships, wrote a letter to ask if group approved the secretary and treasurer’s would consider extending her scholarship. reports as presented. Nancy will call those She included a copy of her first semester members who have not yet renewed. One grades, which were all A’s and B’s, along of the founding members, Grace Cain, is with her upcoming schedule. Local decided now in an assisted living facility and is to continue Molly’s scholarship in the unable to attend meetings. It was decided amount of $1000 payable at $500 per for local to continue her state membership semester. Congratulations, Molly! Sierra by paying her dues. Beef raffle ticket sales County Cancer Assistance sent Chamiza are going well with several people turning CowBelles a letter requesting a donation to in money and tickets at this meeting. Nancy, their cause. Because their organization is Susan and Cathy will attend the New not beef related, it was decided to not Mexico State Fair on Friday, September 7, to donate but individuals were encouraged to assist the NM Beef Council with serving donate to this worthwhile cause. Lisa Greer beef samples in conjunction with a wine won the door prize of free lunch. Meeting and beer tasting. Because the duties will adjourned. Submitted by Cathy Pierce last until 8 p.m., Nancy reserved a motel From the Virtual meeting of the Mesilla room in Albuquerque. It was decided for Valley CowBelles: Hard to believe SeptemChamiza CowBelles to pay for this room. ber is one week away, which brings the fair.

Where has the time gone? Below lists upcoming events: 1) Tentative cleanup is Saturday, September 15. As get closer to this day, will send out information regarding time. Please be thinking of when able to man the booth this year. Dates for the fair are September 26-30, 2018. As always, kids events come first. Unclear as to needs of bake sale committee. 2) 5 States Roundup is September 25, in Clayton, NM. Lariat CowBelles is the local host. 3) NMSU Ag Day is Saturday, October 20. More information to follow. 4) Is anyone interested in ordering shirts? Been a while since group has ordered any.

The Grant County Copper CowBelles met on September 18, 2018. President Deborah van Tellingen opened the meeting with the Pledge, prayer and creed. New member Cherry Fe was introduced and guest speakers Joe Bryce and Bart Roselli of the Silver City Museum gave a presentation about next year’s ranching exhibit. They are requesting individual family histories of Grant County ranchers and any other information we can give them for the planned exhibit. A letter from former Bar Wilson was passed around. It was noted that several members have new addresses and it was requested that lists be updated. Deborah encouraged everyone to come out and help with the fair booth and the marketing committee displayed the new banners developed for display at the fair. It was decided to approve a donation to the Grant County Cattlegrowers to help with the processing costs for the steer they will buy at the fair. It was also decided elect the 2019 slate of officers: Deborah van Tellingen, President; Linda Pecotte, Vice President; Annette George, Secretary and Mary Hudson, Treasurer were approved. They will be installed at the December meeting.

Deborah announced that the Grant County Commissioners signed a proclamation this week making October 1-5 “New Mexico Grown Week” in honor of the partnership between New Mexico Farmers, Ranchers and Public Schools. This proclamation for Grant County is “to honor New Mexico’s vibrant food, farming and ranching culture that is significant to the rural economy and provides employment opportunities on farms”. The Copper CowBelles were invited to be at the Commission meeting for the presentation. Submitted by Pat Hunt New Mexico CowBelles Send minutes &/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or janetwitte@ msn.com by 15th of month.

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NEWS UPDATE

Texas Beef Checkoff Facing Legal Challenge

by Tiffany Dowell

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n addition to an ongoing legal challenge in Montana, state beef checkoff programs in 13 more states are now facing legal challenge. Ranchers-Cattleman Action Legal Fund (“R-CALF”) seeks to expand the injunction it obtained in Montana to also include checkoff programs in Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

The current beef checkoff litigation began in Montana where R-Calf filed suit against the United States Department of Agriculture in 2016. In summary, the plaintiffs argued that because the USDA required them to pay money to the Montana Beef Council to support speech contrary to their beliefs, this violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment. In particular, plaintiffs are upset that the Montana Beef Council promotions and advertisements do not distinguish between US and foreign beef.

During this litigation, the plaintiffs obtained an injunction from a Montana federal judge, requiring that all of the $1 per head collected when cattle are sold be sent to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Board, rather than the prior practice of $.50 going to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the other $.50 going to the Montana Beef Council. Pursuant to the injunction, which is in place throughout the pendency of the litigation, if producers wish to have $.50 of their assessment send to the Montana Beef Council, they must complete a form requesting for that to be done. The injunction was upheld on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In August, plaintiffs filed a motion to expand this injunction far beyond the state of Montana, seeking similar injunctions be imposed on beef checkoff programs in thirteen additional states.

R-CALF claims that the checkoff program “has weakened the US cattle industry” and that this litigation seeks to prevent producers in the additional thirteen states from funding private speech with which they disagree and they believe harms their financial interests.

A critical issue in this case will be whether the promotions funded by the qualified state beef councils, like the Montana Beef Council, constitute private speech. This is an issue that the United States Supreme Court has addressed several times, reaching differing conclusions based on the precise facts of the various cases.

For example, promotions that were part of a broader regulatory scheme included in a marketing order were found not to violate the First Amendment, but assessments for generic promotion of mushrooms were unconstitutional when certain producers did not support the messages.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Board stated that this “attack by R-CALF and its activist partners on 13 additional state beef councils

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is nothing more than an attempt to broaden the damage they have caused in Montana.”

The NCBB went on to say that this litigation “has already weakened producer-directed programs that support beef demand and divided neighbors in a manner that undermines the best interests of the entire beef community.” The Montana Beef Council claims that the injunction has caused a significant reduction on its funding this year.

Executive Director Chaley Harney reports that the Montana Beef Council anticipated collecting about $850,000 this year, but since the injunction was issued in January, they have collected less than $200,000.

This litigation is being closely watched not only by the beef industry, but by numerous other agricultural commodities that also utilize checkoff programs.

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AG New Mexico Puts Lockmiller on Staff

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g New Mexico Farm Credit recently hired Jordan Lockmiller as an accounting clerk in its Clovis branch office.

Prior to joining the rural lending cooperative, Lockmiller worked with her husband, Brendon, on his family’s farm in Ranchvale and also worked at an equipment store. While in college, she interned at a dairy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in animal and dairy science from Eastern New Mexico University and was on the South Plains College livestock judging team.

The daughter of Tom and Becky

Spindle of Stanley, Lockmiller grew up on the family’s Hereford, Charolais and Angus seedstock operation, where they also raised feeder calves and operated a commercial cow herd. As a 4-H and FFA member, she showed cattle, lambs, goats, pigs and dairy heifers, and had many leadership roles.

“I have always had a passion for serving the people in the agricultural community,” said Lockmiller. “I am proud to be a part of Ag New Mexico and to be able to provide the financial support that farmers and ranchers need to continue growing their businesses.”

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jetting around the world in his private plane. We chortle about politicians advocating gun control while surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards. In truth, such hypocrisy is common, because the desire to control other people’s behavior is human nature. Yet our attempts frequently come back to haunt us.

In Hamlet’s most famous speech, he predicted that a would-be assassin might

by Greg Walcher — A version of this column first end up being “hoist with his own petard.” A appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel 9/7/18 “petard” is a bomb, so it simply means that ave we become a society of people the bomb maker might be blown up who want to regulate others, but not (“hoisted” off the ground) by his own bomb. ourselves? We laugh at those who Today that Shakespearean phrase is a object to some policy that seemed per- common proverb describing poetic justice, fectly OK, when they thought it only another way of saying “caught in his own applied to others. We make fun of Al Gore trap,” or “what goes around comes around.” proposing the end of fossil fuels, while San Francisco officials are once again

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Several times, endangered species issues have come back to haunt some of the nation’s most unyielding environmental campaigners (San Francisco is the birthplace and headquarters of the Sierra Club) and their elected officials. Yet the City has never moderated its in-your-face, holierthan-thou environmentalism. When President Trump announced the U.S. exit from the Paris climate deal, for example, San Francisco announced that it would comply with the intent anyway, limiting the local use of fossil fuels. The City has banned plastic straws, grocery bags, and Styrofoam, and even required solar panels on private buildings. If it is on the environmental industry wish list, San Francisco is

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National Park. The losing battle against Even so, when activists there insist on building that dam and reservoir was a leaving more water in the rivers, to protect defining battle cry of Sierra Club founder salmon, they mean water from Central John Muir. It was built anyway, and since the Valley farmers – not their own water. State 1920s has delivered Tuolumne River water regulators have obliged, and water restric- to San Francisco, and to farms near Modesto. tions have been imposed on farms to the But San Francisco’s water rights are junior south for 25 years. Hundreds of billions of to the agricultural rights, so the City could gallons of water previously used for irriga- actually face the largest reductions. tion have been flushed to the ocean every Leaders of the Golden Gate City are outyear, rather than sent through the California raged. They never intended for the water Aqueduct to the Central Valley. Neverthe- reductions they support to have any effect less, salmon remain endangered. So now, on themselves. A local group called “Restore the California Water Resources Control Hetch Hetchy” advocates tearing down the Board proposes further restrictions, this dam, and got an initiative on the local ballot time including water that is part of the in 2012 for that purpose. But San Francisco municipal supply of San Francisco. voters voted it down – they support tearing Public hearings are generating lots of down other people’s reservoirs, not theirs. angry responses. The plan would double The opponents then went to court, and the flow of water in the Tuolumne, Stanis- have been there ever since. Ironically, laus and Merced Rivers, leaving more water they’re fighting the City itself, which argues for salmon, but less for the City – a lot less. that the legality of Hetch Hetchy is “settled,” It could mean a reduction of 300,000 to and that its water supply is now indispens675,000 acre feet of water for the Bay Area. able. The reservoir generates significant San Francisco’s water supply has been hydroelectric power, and supplies water to mired in controversy for a century, but 2.7 million residents and businesses in more today it has some of the purest water in the a dozen Bay Area communities. The salmon nation. That’s because its water comes from seem somehow less important to the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite City leaders.

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Their alternative is for the State to spend vastly more on river restoration, including killing competing fish. But even if that helps the salmon, it won’t satisfy the environmental industry, which still wants more water restrictions.

Perhaps water leaders across the West can be forgiven for thinking, “welcome to our world,” if San Francisco is being hoist with its own petard. It is a world that City helped create.

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

The Dedricks of Lincoln County

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here were three Dedrick brothers, Dan, Sam and Mose. They were descendants of the Pennsylvania German community and the name may have been originally spelled Dietrich. None of the Dedrick boys amounted to much during the few years they called New Mexico home, but they did a couple of things that made them important to Lincoln County War history.

Dan, it appears, showed up in eastern New Mexico about 1877 after he escaped from jail in Arkansas where he was being held on unknown charges. Sam and Mose arrived later. Soon after his arrival, Dan was caught up in the Lincoln County War, on the side of Alexander McSween and Billy the Kid, and sustained a serious wound in Lincoln town’s Five-Day Battle of July 1878.

He suffered a crippled arm for the remainder of his life. Soon after that, he took up

residence at a ranch on the Rio Pecos, at Bosque Grande, where noted cattleman John Chisum had earlier maintained his headquarters. Under Dan’s management, the place became a way station for rustled cattle herds being driven from the Canadian River area of West Texas to stolen beef brokers in and around White Oaks and Tularosa, in south-central New Mexico.

Among those who traveled that particular rustler’s route was Billy the Kid. While Dan was busy operating the ranch, brother Sam, with help from brother Mose, operated a livery barn in White Oaks. Mose was also engaged in cattle rustling with Billy the Kid. A frequent buyer of their stolen cattle was one Tom Cooper, about whom very little is known. Cooper was an associate of Pat Coghlan of Tularosa who held beef contracts with the Mescalero Apaches; contracts previously enjoyed by the Mur-

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phy-Dolan-Riley faction in the town of Lincoln. Both usually filled their contracts with stolen cattle. Cooper also had access to a considerable amount of counterfeit money, and he had no trouble in finding criminals to move the fake cash (called “shoving the queer” at the time), one of whom was Billie Wilson, a member of Billy the Kid’s bunch. Others were Dan and Sam Dedrick, and probably Mose, too. Wilson passed one of the bills to J. J. Dolan and it wasn’t long before the United States Federal Government took a serious interest in what was going on in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory.

A U. S. Secret Service agent named Azariah F. Wild soon appeared on the scene and quickly identified several suspects in the counterfeiting operation, including those previously mentioned. Wild’s problem was that he had no one to assist him in making arrests. When he asked United States Marshal John Sherman for help, Sherman said, “I prefer not to do so.”

In the alternative, Wild asked Sherman to deputize some officers to assist him, and the marshal agreed to do that much. One who received such a commission was Lincoln County Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett.

This was an important turning point in

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the Lincoln County War. While Garrett had been elected Sheriff in November 1880, he would not be officially installed in that office until January 1, 1881. While some of his influential supporters had convinced Sheriff George Kimbrell to deputize Garrett for the intervening two months, a commission as a deputy United States Marshal offered a wider jurisdiction; one which gave Garrett authority anywhere in New Mexico Territory; authority he used to arrest the Kid in December 1880. Had it not been for the Dedricks participation in “shoving the queer”, and attracting the federal government, subsequent events might well have taken a different turn.

Historian John P. Wilson in reported that in 1879, Captain Juan Patron “arrested an accused murderer named Dan Dedrick.”

Wilson made no mention as to who Dedrick’s victim might have been, or what ever became of the murder charge although another source reported that Dedrick received a pardon from New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace.

Whatever the case, Dan Dedrick left New Mexico no later than 1880 and made his way to far-northern California by 1882; to Trinity County near Junction City where he filed copper and silver mining claims in

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April of that year. He became a prospector and miner, with considerable success.

Several mines opened in the area, and a town grew up there, called Dedrick. (It had a Post Office from 1891 to 1941, but by 1933, according to a newspaper report, only four men lived there, and by the 1950s, all that remained was a saloon and one house. By the early 1990s, nothing remained but foundations and basements.) Dedrick married Antonia Silva, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and they adopted several children during their long married life in California. Dan Dedrick died in Trinity County at Big Bar (which should not be confused with Big Bear), California, in 1938, a respected member of the community.

His younger brothers did not fare so well in life. Sam is known to have been in Socorro County, New Mexico as late as 1889 when three “Mexican outlaws” stole several of his horses. By 1893, he was mining and ranching in northern Mexico, near Temosachic, Chihuahua. In 1909, he was shot and killed on the near-by Rio Verde by a Mexican employee in a dispute about wages. In the same year, Mose was shot and killed near Phoenix, Arizona. No details regarding that incident have been found.

As a footnote, according to historian

Fred Nolan, Dan Dedrick was important to the history of the Lincoln County War because he owned the only photograph—a ferrotype—of Billy the Kid with proven provenance, taken at Fort Sumner in 1879 or 1880. This is the famed picture that shows Billy wearing what was probably all the clothing he owned, posed with his 1873 Winchester lever-action rifle, and also which shows him as left-handed. It sold at auction in 2011 for $2.3 million.

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FARM BUREAU MINUTE

by Craig Ogden, President NMF & LB

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ith the County and State Fair over, and summer fading in the distance, we’re approaching the cooler days of Autumn. One more cutting of hay and maybe a clipping if we are lucky and our season will be done, except for the cotton.

With the end of the year closing in on us, now is also the time when we begin the process of reviewing our insurance policy.

The competition between insurance companies is fierce. Farm Bureau Financial Services has expanded their services to include Auto Insurance, Life Insurance, Annuities, Brokerage Assistance, Wealth Management and other services. The best advice I can give is to be sure that you are comparing apples to apples. Another company may give you a better rate, but your coverage may not be comparable.

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choose wisely.

I would like to welcome Jim Dipoma, the new Regional Vice President of New Mexico Farm Bureau Financial Services, and his family to the neighborhood. As you may know, there is a relationship between the Federation which is New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau and Farm Bureau Financial Services. As with any relationship there can be ups and downs, but we always work things out and attempt to do the right thing for our members and/or clients. We look forward to working with Jim and his team.

Let me briefly explain how this relationship started: Years after NMF&LB was created there was a need for property insurance which we began offering as a benefit to our members. Later the insurance segment was separated from the NMF&LB to join with the Arizona Farm Bureau to assist in spreading out the risk. The two state Farm Bureau insurance companies joined with the Iowa group, which involves many states to further spread the risk over a larger geographic area. This is why the NMF&LB still considers the insurance that you might carry from Farm Bureau Financial Services as a member benefit.

When we consider long-term decisions it makes me think of the upcoming elec-

tions as well, which is a little more than 30 days away. Previous issues of our newsletter contain pertinent questions of the candidates and their responses. You can access these articles electronically through our website. I encourage you to look at those once again before heading to the polls. It is wise to contemplate how the candidate’s views may affect you and your business. If you have the opportunity to visit with them personally, by all means do so. You may discover that a candidate you knew nothing about may work out after all. I still need to review all the bond issues, so I hope you do the same.

As summer is moving past us don’t let too much slip by, before you know it the year is gone. Be prepared. It is much easier said than done, I personally guarantee it.

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Beef Stroganoff Recipe Courtesy of www.jenreviews.com

Course Main Course Cuisine Russian Prep Time 15 minutes Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes Servings 5 Ingredients 2 lbs top sirloin strip steak 1 diced onion 1 ½ cups sliced mushrooms 1 16 oz package egg noodles ½ cup of white wine ½ cup sour cream 2 cups beef broth 3 Tbsp butter 2 Tbsp all purpose flour 1 minced clove of garlic Salt & pepper to taste Chopped parsley

Instructions 1. Cut the top sirloin strip steak into thin strips, making sure to trim any unwanted fat.

2. Coat the meat with enough flour to cover each piece evenly (about 1-2 Tbsp).

3. Heat a large skillet to medium-high and add the meat. Continue to flip the steak strips until the meat is evenly browned.

4. Remove the meat from the pan and add 3 Tbsp butter. Once melted, add the onions and mushrooms and saute for 3 minutes. Add the minced garlic clove and continue cooking for 1 additional minute.

5. Mix 1 Tbsp of flour into the vegetables and add white wine to the pan to deglaze it. Scrape all of the burnt bits off of the bottom, and allow the wine to reduce by half (around 2 mins).

6. Return the meat to the pan and add the beef broth. Reduce the heat to low and let simmer for up to an hour.

7. Boil water in a large pot and cook the egg noodles until fully cooked. Strain and set aside.

8. Add a small amount of the beef mixture into a small bowl and mix in

½ cup of sour cream. Once the cream is brought up to temperature stir it into the skillet.

9. Serve the beef mushrooms and onions over a plate of noodles, garnish with chopped parsley and enjoy!

Instruction details

Step 1 – Cut the Steaks into BiteSized Strips

Whenever dealing with beef steaks it is almost always a good idea to remove the meat from the fridge around 30 minutes before you plan to cook with it. This helps to keep the overall temperature a lot more even. Once this is done take a sharp knife and cut the steaks into bite sized strips or cubes.

Step 2 – Coat the Meat with Flour

It is important to flavor the meat prior to browning it, so add a liberal amount salt and black pepper. Next, we will be coating the meat with flour that will help to thicken the sauce in later steps. Make sure to not use too much flour, around 2 Tbsp should be plenty.

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Step 3 – Brown the Meat

Place the meat into a large skillet over medium-high heat. Allow the meat to brown on one side before flipping it over. It can be difficult to ensure that each strip gets cooked equally, so occasionally stirring the meat is a good way to get it all going.

You do not have to fully cook the meat here, as they will be cooked plenty enough later on.

Step 4 – Remove the Meat and Saute the Mushrooms and Onions

Once the meat has been sufficiently

browned remove it from the pan and add 3 Tbsp of butter. Reduce the heat to medium at this point and once the butter is fully melted add a diced onion and around 1 ½ cups of chopped mushrooms.

You can really use any mushrooms for this, but a few that work well are portabella, cremini, or even regular old white button mushrooms. Allow the vegetables to cook until the onions begin to turn a nice caramelized brown, then add one minced clove of garlic. Continue cooking for an additional minute to ensure that the garlic is slightly roasted.

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Step 5 – Deglaze the Pan and Stir in Meat and Broth

Now that the vegetables are finished sauteing, add ½ cup of white wine to deglaze the pan. What this does is essentially loosen up all of the burnt on bits of meat that are stuck to the bottom of the pan. This adds a ton of savory flavor to the sauce, and you can use cooking wine or even a nice bourbon as a substitute.

Simply add the wine and scrape the bottom with a metal or rubber spatula until the bottom of the skillet is clean. Allow the wine to reduce by half, which should take around 2 minutes of cooking time. Next, return the meat to the pan and stir in 2 cups of beef broth.

Step 6 - Simmer the Mixture Over Low Heat

Reduce the heat to low and let the meat and vegetable mixture simmer for up to an hour. Make sure to stir occasionally, and add more broth if the sauce levels get too low.

This step is incredibly important, since the meat will continue to get increasingly tender as time goes on. So try your hardest to resist!

Step 7 - Mix in Tempered Sour Cream

Once the meat is finished cooking the next step is to add sour cream. There is a lot of wiggle room here, but anywhere from ½ cup to 1 cup is fine. However, the most important part of this step is to temper the sour cream before adding it to the sauce.

Simply put the sour cream into a bowl and spoon an equal amount of the hot sauce to it. Mix it well and then add the tempered cream to the skillet, making sure to mix well.

We do this to keep the cream from curdling, resulting in an unpleasant consistency.

Step 8 - Serve the Beef Mixture over Cooked Noodles

At this point the dish is essentially complete, all there is left to do is put it all together and enhance its presentation.

Plate the noodles in an even layer and spoon over a good amount of the meat and sauce mixture. Top it all with chopped parsley to impress any dinner guests.

While the meat and sauce is simmering we can take this time to cook our noodles.

Boil lightly salted water in a large pot and add a 16 oz package of egg noodles. The cook time for these noodles will vary depending on size and shape, but should be no more than 10 minutes. What you are looking for is a soft noodle that has just the slightest bite to it. Once they are finished cooking drain and set them aside.

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Why 13 is such an unlucky number for us plus the problem of oppressive ice cream

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hy is the number 13 considered so unlucky?

Some believe it refers to the Last Supper, where there were thirteen at the table and Judas of Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ, was the 13th person to arrive.

Others says it was because of the traditional thirteen steps leading up to the gallows. One historian said there were thirteen steps to the gallows, “12 up and 1 down.”

Thursday September 13 was a Bad Day at Black Rock for those who believe in such quaint things as private property and limited government, as we have been led to the gallows and are almost sure to hang.

That’s the day the House Committee on Natural Resources approved two bills, Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act and legislation to Permanently Fund the Land & Water Conservation Fund.

The first bill would take the remaining fifty percent of the revenues from oil and gas leasing and devote it to funding the $16 billion in deferred maintenance on Department of Interior lands. The feds can’t manage the 640 million acres it owns, so they will raid the federal treasury to spend more on mismanagement. Instead of addressing the amount of lands under their control and setting priorities, they will just pour money into the existing mess. If you had a business with many items in disrepair, wouldn’t you take an inventory and determine which assets should be repaired and which should just be done away with? That is why I have previously suggested the feds take a page from the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) and form a Park Realignment and Closure Commission (PRAC) to perform the same mission for our parks. Then decide how and where money should be spent on maintenance.

Sorry, but nothing like that will be entertained by Congress. And make no mistake; these are monies that were going directly to our Department of Treasury. By diverting

these funds they are increasing our national debt as these funds will no longer be on the plus side of the ledger, and instead will appear as expenditures. The same week the Committee passed this bill I found the following newspaper headlines: “National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months” “US National Debt at $21 Trillion” “Government borrowing – and the deficit – soars despite robust economy” “National debt is spending problem much more than a revenue problem” The DC Deep Thinkers know, though, that repairing the toilets at our National Parks should have the highest priority.

What could be worse? That same day the Committee passed a bill to permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Congress established the LWCF in 1964 to to “assist in preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to… outdoor recreation resources.” The feds use the LWCF to purchase private land and turn it into public parks and other recreation areas. The LWCF is the primary vehicle for land purchases by the four major federal land management agencies. Congress authorized the LWCF for two 25-year periods; the program expired for the first time in September 2015. In 2016 Congress extended the LWCF for three years in an appropriations bill, and it will expire again on September 30, 2018 Rob Bishop, Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee had originally been pushing a replacement bill that would have greatly limited the amounts to be spent for land acquisition and instead would use the funds for other purposes. It would have also limited the amount of lands the feds could acquire in the West. Instead, Bishop reached a compromise with the Ranking Democrat, Raul Grijalva, to throw all that out and permanently fund the program with the proviso that states get 40 percent, the feds get 40 percent, and the other 20 percent will be spent based on the needs at that time. Apparently, the disappearance of private property is now okay with Republicans, as long as the states get their fair share.

Some Republicans on the Committee remained concerned about the continuing federal acquisition of land at a time when the maintenance backlog is in the billions of dollars. If the government cannot maintain the land it has now, they reasoned, it shouldn’t be buying more.

“When we hit the $1 billion and $10 billion in deferred maintenance, it seemed clear that we should not be buying land

University of Wisconsin are crafting an “Ice Cream for All” resolution that would force the University-owned Babcock Dairy to produce ice cream with more “inclusive” ingredients that do not discriminate against or “marginalize” Muslim, vegetarian and vegan students.

Clearly, this is a battle against Neapolitan Nazis! Butter Pecan Bullies! Rocky Road Right wingers! Chocolate Caesars! French Vanilla Fuhrers! Tutti Frutti Tyrants! One commenter on my blog suggested I hold an Ice Cream Social for Socialists. But I don’t think Sweet Sharon would let them on the place.

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

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

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Zinke exposes settlements Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has issued an executive order to increase transparency when the Interior Department enters into consent decrees and settlement agreements. Ethan Lane, executive director of the Public Lands Council said, “Ranchers operating on public land are subjected to relentless, coordinated litigation designed to force settlements with the Department of the Interior.” Interior alone paid out more than $4.4 billion in monetary awards under terms of 460 settlement agreements and consent decrees between Jan. 1, 2012, and Jan. 19, 2017. In other words, Interior paid out an average of more than $800 million a year while keeping key aspects of litigation secret. It’s easy to see why so many outside observers fear an unaccountable bureaucracy cutting deals with activists. “The Department of Interior is shining light on a corner of government most people don’t even know exists,” American Farm Bureau Federation General Counsel Ellen Steen said. “When activists sue, they can tie up the government with dozens of frivolous claims but still recover attorneys’ fees if a judge upholds even one, solitary claim.”

I guess if we can’t stop it, we can at least expose it.

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until we get this backlog down,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas. Gohmert offered an amendment that would have required spending down the backlog before acquiring any more land. The Republicancontrolled Committee rejected his amendment.

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, concerned about the burgeoning size of the federal estate, offered an amendment that would have required the federal government to sell an acre of land for every acre it bought.

The Republican-controlled Committee voted down his amendment.

Notice I said this bill would permanently fund the program. There is no cutoff date as in the past. That means the feds are authorized to continue acquiring private property in perpetuity. It will never stop. 640 million acres is just not enough. They have poorly managed that 640 million acres, they have allowed much of it to fall into disrepair, but they just must have more.

Sept. 13 was a very bad day and I’m betting this bill will pass before the September 30 deadline.

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Hoping to Stave Off Federal Action, Texas Rewrites Lizard Plan

by Asher Price and Eric Dexheimer, American-Statesman Staff

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he Texas Conservation Plan to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard was created to avoid federal regulation.

Environmentalists said the plan favored oil and gas companies over species protection.

After trying to fix it with patches, state officials decided to rewrite the entire plan.

Aiming to reform a troubled state program designed to stave off federal habitat protections for a rare lizard species in the petroleum-rich Permian Basin, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is asking the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) to approve a new version, meant to address what Hegar’s office called the plan’s “systemic problems.”

The proposal, the latest turn over how to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard amid a threat of federal action, eliminates scientifically unsupported conservation options and defines ways for companies to avoid lizard habitat, enacts fees from some companies operating in the lizard habitat to support conservation efforts to offset habitat disturbances and includes incentives to focus industrial activities in degraded or nonhabitat areas.

“It’s fair to say we’re very pleased that it strikes balance of protecting species while also allowing growth and development in the Permian Basin,” said Robert Gulley, who oversees endangered species conservation for the Texas comptroller’s office.

The Texas Conservation Plan, shepherded by then-Comptroller Susan Combs, enlisted oil and gas companies to voluntarily help preserve the lizard’s habitat.

Although the plan has thus far succeeded in fending off the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s efforts to designate the animal as endangered — and the strict land-use regulations that would have accompanied it — conservationists criticized it as favoring petroleum interests over the species.

And in early June, a pair of environmental groups again asked the Fish and Wildlife Service to consider the species endangered — this time citing the destruction of habitat by the newly booming sand-mining industry, which supports hydraulic fracturing.

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With the sand miners not contemplated in the original conservation plan, the new petition further prompted Hegar’s office to act.

But even leaving aside the latest effort by environmentalists, the comptroller’s office had discovered a series of discomfiting facts about the effort to protect the lizard.

“Investigation revealed problems that were systemic and not amenable to piecemeal fixes,” the staff at the comptroller’s office wrote in a letter this month to U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials.

Sand mining The oil and gas industry has protected less land than Combs had forecast. And the original Texas Conservation Plan appears to have vastly underestimated the size of dunes sagebrush lizard habitat.

A credit swap program meant to save habitat also turned out to be largely useless.

Under the system, oil and gas companies paid a contractor to remove large clumps of mesquite on private ranchland in exchange for permission to excavate on comparably sized lizard habitat on their own drill sites.

Oil and gas companies liked the program.

But there often was little consideration as to whether the mesquite removal was being done on land genuinely favorable to the species.

And while the conservation plan called for lizard habitat hit by surface disturbances to be mitigated or repaired — removing abandoned concrete well pads and roads, for example — between 2013 and 2014 the comptroller’s office determined that a foundation monitoring the plan had failed to do the work on several sites.

Perhaps the most significant failure of the old Texas Conservation Plan, however, was its inability to address the sudden arrival of sand-mining companies. Sand is a crucial tool for fracking, the process by which petroleum companies blast a sandand-water mix into the ground, opening fissures to extract more oil and gas.

Sand mining has become a booming business in the Permian Basin, disrupting thousands of acres of lizard habitat. Yet the Texas Conservation Plan applies only to oil and gas companies, so the comptroller’s office has had no good way to enlist the new companies in the effort to protect the lizard.

High marks Gary Mowad, who oversaw the Texas

office of the FWS from 2010 to 2013, said he gives the rewrite proposal high marks.

“This is how it should have been done the first time,” said Mowad, who now works as a consultant on environmental rules. “They fixed the problems that were in there, that literally made the plan ineffective and unlawful.”

The rewrite forces industry to make a calculation: On the one hand, the plan demands more of participants; on the other hand, a firmer plan could make an endangered listing — and onerous federal habitat protection — less likely.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has argued that an endangered species listing for the lizard threatens “the jobs of nearly 27,000 Texans who work in the Permian Basin.”

Neither the Permian Basin Petroleum Association nor Combs, now a senior adviser to the U.S. secretary of the interior, responded to requests for comment.

“Our member companies are committed to preserving the species and doing so in a manner that allows for continued oil and gas activity in the region,” said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association. “We appreciate Comptroller Hegar’s dialogue with the industry and look forward to the process continuing with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”

‘Defensible in court’ About half of the 17 sand-mining companies operating in the basin have decided to participate in the current conservation plan.

The new plan is meant to be “defensible in court, and durable so that it doesn’t have to be amended over a 30-year period,” Gulley said. “The oil and gas industry wanted a plan that would provide that kind of certainty.”

In a letter to the New Mexico-based regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in early August, Deputy Comptroller Mike Reissig said the agreement, when approved, “will include new participants, and that the acreage enrolled will likely increase.”

The comptroller’s office, citing confidentiality clauses in the agreement, declined to release the names of companies currently participating in the program.

The companies, and anyone else, will have a chance to offer comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in coming months.

Gulley said the federal government could make a decision on whether to give the revamped plan the green light by spring.

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by Brendan McGivern , Opinion Contributor

The views expressed by contributors are their own & not the view of The Hill

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he world appears to be hell-bent on a protracted trade war, making this a turbulent but delicate moment for the global economy.

And the EU is about to open the door to yet more escalating conflict over exports and imports — one that also puts animal welfare and food security on the line.

The European Parliament is widely expected to pass a bill in October that will require all foreign livestock producers to follow the same rules as EU farmers when it comes to animal medicines or be barred from exporting to the bloc.

This means, for example, that meat, milk and egg exporters in countries including the U.S., Brazil or Australia must use veterinary medicines and treatments in the same manner as European farmers, despite facing different disease threats and environmental circumstances.

Not only does this create a dilemma for veterinarians and producers wanting to treat animals in line with their own country’s legislation, it is incompatible with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

This new provision, made under the guise of protecting antibiotics from overuse or misuse, is not supported by scientific evidence, as required by the WTO. Like other WTO member governments, the EU has both the right and the responsibility to protect the health of its citizens.

However, it must do so within the agreed framework of WTO rules.

The EU cannot apply a blanket presumption prohibiting the importation of animals or animal products from countries where antibiotics are permitted under conditions different from those of the EU. Under the WTO treaty, food safety rules must be b as e d o n s ci e n ce r ath e r th a n

presumptions.

The bill is also problematic for at least three other reasons.

First, this kind of “reciprocity” requirement could work both ways — and pave the way for new tariffs or other trade rows.

Other countries could equally apply restrictions on products from EU countries to meet their own national criteria. This could wreak havoc with international agribusiness and, potentially, food security.

Second, it sets a legal and trade precedent. Similar restrictions could be introduced for other sectors or by other countries, which could impact regulated industries that also support human health, such as pharmaceuticals.

Finally, this bill opens up the EU to the possibility of legal challenge in the WTO, which is the last thing anyone would want, least of all the EU. Every case brought to the WTO to challenge food safety regulations has established a violation, including with respect to the EU’s ban on imports of beef treated with growth-promoting hormones.

In other words, where food safety regulations do not have a valid scientific basis, they fail to withstand scrutiny by the WTO.

It’s clear that other countries are concerned about what the EU is about to do, not least because it is inconsistent with what was agreed when the WTO was established over 20 years ago.

To date, the European Commission has not offered a satisfactory response to these concerns, creating anxiety among big exporters like the U.S., Brazil and Australia.

In the name of free and fair international commerce the EU should consider carefully before joining the global trade war.

Brendan McGivern is an international trade lawyer and Partner of Counsel at White and Case LLP, a firm that advises clients from a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, in trade matters. He is the former head of dispute settlement at the Canadian Mission to the World Trade Organization.

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Southern New Mexico Couple Recognized Nationally for Their Life’s Work

by Deborah Stevens, Bureau of Land Management

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aking the Red Mountain lease into a viable and productive ranch has been a life-long endeavor for Larry and Pennie Hooper from Deming, New Mexico. Their “labor of love” began in 1991 when they purchased 7,320 acres of deeded private property, and acquired the grazing rights to a 2,363-acre Section 15 allotment managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and an additional 1,800 acres of State Trust land. Altogether, the ranch needed some tender loving care that only the Hooper’s could give, along with some g e n u i n e “c o w b o y strength” and “sweat equity”.

In late September, the BLM recognized the Hooper’s dedication with the 2018 Rangel a n d Ste w a r d s h i p/ S a g e b r u s h Ste p p e Award. In front of the BLM leadership and industry peers, Pennie and Larry received the award at the Public Lands Council Conference 50th Anniversary in Park City, Utah.

Their nomination for this national award told the love-story of a hard working couple, who have taken a western rangeland that had for years been a dumping ground for household debris from Deming residents and an area infested with a tenacious noxious and invasive weed called “African Rue”, and turned into a model ranching operation and haven for birds and wildlife.

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Force training ground located near Deming.

Aircraft returning to U.S. soil from the Mediterranean, African and Middle East Theaters were the culprits and soon “Rue” was an issue facing western ranchers throughout the southwest.

Larry Hooper describes himself as “the King of African Rue” for all of the time he’s “clocked” in to eliminating the invasive weed on his ranch and federal and state land. He and his family have been incorporating weed control methods into their operations for over 21 years. These methods include cultural (avoiding overgrazing), mechanical (using equipment) and chemical (spraying herbicides) to remove and stop the spread of the plant.

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Beyond their aggressive noxious weed control program, the Hooper’s have implemented a holistic approach to improve the range condition and trend. Looking at their entire operation, the Hooper’s began investing countless hours to improve the ranch’s watering sources and interior and exterior boundary fences. Blurring the private, BLM and state ownership lines for the health and productivity of the rangeland, the Hooper’s were successful in improving the range infrastructure, including three new wells, three storage tanks, seven troughs, and seventeen miles of interior fencing and pipeline.

This approach, in concert with conservative livestock stocking of the allotment, adjusting stocking rates based on forage quantity and quality, implementing a rest rotation program and controlling mesquite and creosote, has improved the rangeland dramatically.

In addition, Larry and Pennie have been dedicated stewards of rangeland for the native birds and wildlife that inhabit the ranch. In their efforts, they have designed eight wildlife exclosures. Within these exclosures, they have removed overgrown brush and strategically improved the cover, shelter and water guzzlers for Gambel’s quail and other migratory birds. In addition, other wildlife improvements have increased the resident wildlife, including mule deer and javalina.

Their work on the Red Mountain lease has not gone unnoticed. It’s been a challenge that has enriched their entire family’s life. They have equally enriched their community with their involvement in the Deming Soil and Water Conservation District Board, the Corrientes Cattle Association, the New Mexico Cattle Growers and Deming Future Farmers of America Chapter. Being part of these organizations has allowed the Hooper’s to provide their insights and recommendations for the care of private, federal and state rangeland.

Overall, their “labor of love” has been to leave the rangeland better than they found it. By reducing the infestation of African Rue, improving the wildlife habitat and enhancing the rangeland health and productivity, the Hooper’s have enhanced the legacy of this special working landscape. For them, it was clear what they needed to do and they “rolled up their sleeves” and got-her done!

Because of Larry and Pennie’s efforts, the Hooper Ranch is living up to its potential in southern New Mexico’s iconic western rangelands.

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by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson

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NMLB Soliciting Producer Input on Bovine Trich

he New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) is holding a series of listening sessions around the state this fall to get input from cattle producers on bovine trichomoniasis, or trich.

“Several months ago, I was approached by a group of producers who felt like we had little control over the disease in some areas and that the program needed to be strengthened,” said Dr. John Wenzel, Extension Veterinarian with New Mexico State University. “I passed the request on to New Mexico’s State Veterinarian, Dr. Ralph Zimmerman, and he decided to hold a series of listening sessions around the state to solicit producer input.”

The first listening session was held in Belen in August, another was held in Capitan in September, and several more are planned. Producers with an interest in or opinion on this issue are encouraged to attend one or more meetings and make their voices heard. “I want to make it clear this is not a NMLB initiative, it’s a producer driven movement,” Wenzel noted. “I commend Dr. Zimmerman for making this effort, and for trying to be responsive to producer requests.”

At the first meetings, attendees discussed a number of issues regarding the disease and testing requirements, including the need for producer participation and education, the cost of testing, the difficulty of enforcing a mandatory testing requirement, current research and potential vaccines, and more.

Ultimately, any action the NMLB takes on this issue will depend on what comes out of these producer meetings. Information from the meetings will be turned over to the NMLB’s existing Trich committee, and if it becomes evident that changes to the current regulations need to be made, the committee will develop a proposal for the Livestock Board’s consideration. “If summary opinion is that the program needs to be strengthened, we will work on a pro-

posal, and an increase in the mandated testing requirements may be included. Currently, testing mandates include bulls imported into the state and with change of ownership. An increase in mandatory testing may be a component,” Wenzel explained. “If the summary opinion is that things are fine as they are, not much will change.”

While routine testing for Trichomoniasis is not mandatory in New Mexico, bulls that are sold in-state for breeding, all bulls over twelve months of age that are imported into New Mexico, and premises that are under a quarantine for the disease must meet mandatory testing requirements. (see Title 21 Ch. 30 Part 6 of New Mexico’s Livestock Code). In many other states, mandatory routine testing is required along with stringent implementation of control procedures. This has greatly reduced cases of the disease, and in some states, almost led to eradication.

The cost to producers of the disease is estimated at approximately $400 per head in an infected herd, Wenzel said. “People are concerned about the cost of testing, but the biggest cost that comes with trich is production loss. This disease has a tremendous economic impact on cattle producers.”

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Wenzel said that producers came to the NMLB with their request because they feel that the current program is helpful, but holes still exist, he continued. “It’s frustrating and expensive for ranchers to invest in testing, get their herds cleaned up, then be re-infected from an unknown source. We have had good success controlling the disease where it is found but we have large areas of New Mexico where little to no testing has occurred, so the disease status of those areas is unknown.”

Keep an eye on the New Mexico Livestock Board’s website, www.nmlbonline. com, for additional meeting dates and locations.

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Bribery Case Part of Cancerous Trend in Political Prosecutions by: Guest Opinion, Arizona Capitol Times

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here is a rot spreading through the nation’s criminal justice system, and federal investigators and prosecutors in Arizona are showing symptoms of the disease. Prosecutors nationwide are bringing extraordinarily aggressive cases against Americans engaged in the political process, and federal prosecutors in Phoenix have recently concluded — and lost, due to a hung jury followed by a dismissal — a trial in which they accused four American citizens of a conspiracy to bribe a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission.

When judges and neutral jurors review the criminal charges presented by prosecutors in political cases across this country, they very often give prosecutors a failing grade. Consider the following examples: After former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was prosecuted on corruption charges, an independent investigation by the U.S.

Department of Justice found the case was “permeated by the [government’s] systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence.”

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously vacated the conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on public corruption charges because “merely arranging a meeting or hosting an event to discuss a matter” is not a crime.

The U.S. Department of Justice dismissed corruption charges against New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in shame, after failing to persuade a jury of the senator’s guilt.

The court dismissed an indictment against former Texas Governor Rick Perry.

The indictment alleged that, by demanding revisions to pending legislation, Governor Perry committed a crime.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff was convicted on charges of lying to federal investigators about his conversations with reporters — but those charges have since been discredited and the reporter in question has recanted her testimony after reviewing her notes.

A jury last year acquitted the former Utah attorney general of public corruption allegations grounded in routine fundraising

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activities before he took office.

Compare these outcomes to non-political cases. When charges are not based on political activities, the government has an almost insurmountable advantage and conviction rates exceed 90 percent. Political prosecutions are the outlier, suggesting that something is amiss.

But Arizona’s recent case may set a new low. Federal prosecutors skipped the investigation before flinging accusations; a stream of critical witnesses took the stand and denied being interviewed before the charges were filed. Prosecutors, who based their entire case on the testimony of a jilted lover, insisted that a modest monthly salary of $3,500 paid to a politician’s wife constituted a bribe — but the recipient of the funds had significant experience in her field of work, performed substantial services for the money, and similar jobs in the industry were compensated at similar levels. The funds weren’t paid as cash in a brown paper bag; they were paid by check and reported to the IRS. That’s not a bribe — that’s a job.

The embarrassing end to the government’s case in Arizona was not particularly surprising — immediately after reading the indictment, we publicly warned against assuming the government could prove the allegations — but even with the dismissal, the message from federal law enforcement to politically active Arizonans is clear —with or without sufficient evidence, we’re coming for you.

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What Happened in Tulare, Can Happen Anywhere Source: Protect the Harvest

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ow familiar are you with your political representatives? Do they share your same views about the agricultural industry, or do they attack your livelihood?

The stance your local and state politicians make can be detrimental to your business and hobbies. Knowing who represents your community is crucial in the battle between you and the extremist groups looking to put an end to farming, ranching, land use, and animal ownership. A California Ag town recently learned this lesson.

Mayor’s Anti-Agriculture Opinions Earlier this year, now ousted Tulare

Mayor, Carlton Jones, slandered the farmers panies and individuals to remove their and ranchers he represented with anti-ag- business from the city. When asked to step riculture statements he made in an down he declined, stating, “I’m not quitargument on Facebook. The comments ting.” He made other statements such as, were “cut and paste,” anti-agriculture rhet- “There’s no quit in me. If your happiness is oric that seemed as though they came based on my quitting, you’re going to be straight from one of the many new activist waiting a while.” He also showed no willingbacked anti-agriculness to change ture documentaries. his viewpoint His comments were during his arguYou can’t educate me. then posted to the ment on “My Job Depends On Facebook with You’re trained. You can Ag” Facebook group, comments like, where his negative share with me what you’ve been “ Y o u c a n ’ t outlook on the agrieducate me. cultural industry You’re trained. trained to think.” caught backlash You can share from the Ag community across the Nation. with me what you’ve been trained to think.

He went as far as saying, “Jobs don’t always We can debate the difference between depend on Ag. My job as Mayor depends what you think and what I think.” on taxpayers. My job as a firefighter On June 19, a second council meeting depends on accidents.” He said this while was held where he was voted out and representing a community where 1 in 5 jobs replaced by David Macedo. Despite his ultiare directly involved in agriculture. mate willingness to step down, Jones left without showing much change in his opinCommunity Rallies ions stating, “None of them, not one person, The community rallied to remove Jones said we disagree with anything you said, we from office. Due to his comments, there disagree with the way you delivered it. And were multiple city council meetings that I apologized for that. I apologize for allowincluded the promises from various com- ing myself…to engage in an argument

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With ties to the ranching community Mary Jo understands first hand, the needs and challenges facing the farmers and ranchers in New Mexico.

“We need to develop sound water resource management plans to maximize the use of our water resources and develop and implement grazing and drought plans.

We must preserve our agricultural lands from encroaching urban zoning. I will work to reduce burdensome taxes imposed on farmers and ranchers in an industry where the revenue can be unpredictable from year to year due to unforeseen financial restrictions, drought conditions, or other environment events. I want to establish incentives for clean soil growing practices as well as supporting the implementation of grazing and drought plans”.

Please help me make a difference for our Community.

For more information please visit www.maryjo4nm.org I respectfully ask for your vote!

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online. I’m not going to apologize for the things that I said.”

Community Caught Off Guard The fact that the 3rd top agricultural community in America didn’t know their own Mayor’s perspective drives home the need to be aware of who represents your community. In Tulare, this particular position is appointed by the City Council, rather than voted in by the community. Many Tulare residents weren’t aware of this either; nor did many know who Jones was previous to his comments on Facebook. The sad fact is that he had been in office since 2016.

Luckily, with the power of social media, the good people of the Facebook group, “My Job Depends on Ag,” as well as the strength of the Ag community in Tulare and surrounding areas, his disparaging viewpoints about agriculture received National attention. A fire was sparked in the community, ultimately leading to his removal from office.

It Can Happen Anywhere Please do not have a false sense of security as a result of the relatively swift and positive resolution of the Mayoral situation in Tulare. Despite his disparaging viewpoint of agriculture, the ousted Mayor still had plenty of support from outside the AG community, and this incident isn’t isolated. We will continue to see many positions in office held by those who don’t approve of agriculture or understand livestock or other types of animal endeavors. They hold these views in spite of the fact that they have no actual agricultural or animal experience

and are totally uneducated about it. They push for further regulations due to misinformation from extremist influences.

Sounding the Alarm Protect The Harvest has been sounding the alarm about these types of trends that allow anti-agriculture and anti-animal ownership ideologies to get a foothold in unsuspecting communities. Tulare is not the only community in which this type of thing has happened. There are countless situations where officials are elected that do not have their constituents’ best interests at heart. For example, in North Dakota, the animal rights group, the Humane Society of the United States, backed Measure 5. This legislation allows for an actionable claim, to be made by any out of state caller. It also allows for animals to be seized and sold without notice or hearing.

Even though it was voted down, similar legislation was later pushed through. This was done despite the will of the people of North Dakota. Many residents were unaware that this legislation was made into law until a rancher experienced its impact.

Fortunately, with the support of Protect The Harvest and others, he had the resources

and know-how to fight back.

Stay Informed, Get Involved You can no longer take for granted that a community is represented by people who understand your challenges or needs. You can’t take for granted that the people who seek public office will be the right voice for their constituents. To protect your animals, your livelihood and way of life, we urge you to be proactive in your decisions when voting for representatives. Know who you are voting for and what organizations and individuals are contributing to their political campaigns. Not only do we encourage you to be knowledgeable about who is representing you, but to thoroughly investigate proposed legislation, administrative rule or ordinances as well. As we continue to stand up for agriculture and fight for our way of life, we all need to pull together and make sure people are well informed. We can no longer afford to be complacent. “Not having enough time”, is going to bite us all.

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The sheep and goat symposium will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, October 18, and continue the morning of Friday, October 19.

The Ag Day Degree program will begin at 1 p.m. Friday, October 19, and conclude Saturday, October 20.

“The sheep and goat symposium is new this year,” said Marcy Ward, NMSU Extension livestock specialist. “We will be covering topics such as nutrition, animal health, reproduction, marketing and predation management.”

There will be a panel discussion with speakers during dinner Thursday evening.

A certification program in sheep and goat health will be offered Friday morning along with a wool lab.

At 10 a.m. Friday, participants will have an opportunity to become Beef Quality Assurance certified prior to the Ag Day Degree program beginning.

“If people who attend the sheep and goat symposium are interested, they can stay on for this year’s Ag Day Degree program that begins Friday afternoon,” Ward said. “As in years past, we will be getting back into the classroom to learn about animal science and natural resource management.”

Saturday, participants will get hands-on experience during labs focusing on grass and weed identification, calving problems and how to fix them, and reproductive techniques.

“After the Saturday labs, people are invited to stay and enjoy the festivities at the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Ag Day, prior to the NMSU Aggie football game against Georgia Southern University at 4 p.m.,” Ward said.

Both programs will be held in Knox Hall on the NMSU Las Cruces Campus.

Registration for the sheep and goat symposium is $20 and the Ag Day Degree program is $40. If a participant attends both programs the total cost is $50. Online registration is available at nmbeef.nmsu. edu website.

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orty years ago on October 10, 1978, New Mexico State University’s Clayton Livestock Research Center began operations.

Since then, as one of the few university feedlot research facilities in the nation, pertinent science-based research has been conducted to improve the health and performance of newly received beef cattle, including nutrition, and management to slaughter. In addition, the facility has a 120-acre center pivot for conducting research with winter wheat.

The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences will celebrate the work that has been conducted at the facility with an open house beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.

Lunch will be served, followed by a program.

“It’s important to showcase what we have been doing at this facility and then talk about the future,” said Glenn Duff, NMSU professor and superintendent of the research center. “We know it is a busy

time of the year for cattlemen, so the event will only be about two-and-ahalf hours.”

Consuelo Sowers, farm ranch supervisor for the facility, is compiling research data from the past 40 years on health and performance of newly-received cattle. An analysis of the trends will be presented during the celebration.

“We are proud that several management decisions in the feedlot industry and recommendations in the Nutrient Requirement of Beef Cattle are the result of research here at the Clayton Livestock Research Center,” Duff said.

While looking back at the research, the past superintendents will be recognized for their leadership through the years.

“We’ve invited several of the past superintendents” Duff said. “Hopefully they will attend and share their memories of their time here.”

During the 1970s, cattlemen from across the state helped promote the need for this type of research facility.

In 1972, the New Mexico State Legislature first appropriated funds for the construction and operation of the center.

A special use permit was approved by the Cibola National Forest in 1973 and 1975 for the construction on 320 acres of the Kiowa National Grassland within its jurisdiction. Construction began in 1975.

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Through the years, upgrades have been made including a “Bud Box” design cattle handling system for truly low stress handling conditions. Recently, the feedlot water troughs were replaced with a heated water system.

Construction of the feed mill was completed in December 1978. It provides storage of feed ingredients, contains a steam flaker and dry roller for grains and mixing of experimental diets. The roughage boxes were recently upgraded with funds from the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Forty years later, the feed mill is in operation as is the center-pivot irrigation system on 120 acres, which is currently being used for research.

“We have recently planted winter wheat on this field,” Duff said. “We will be evaluating preconditioning or value added programs on health and performance of the newly-received calves in this field.”

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he 2018 New Mexico State Fair saw another Layman take the Mutton Busting. Nicholas Layman Jr. followed closely his sister Audry’s strategy holding on for dear life to ride the longest on a charging sheep. Audry won the 2017 Mutton Busting on her second attempt at the title.It only took one shoot for Nicholas.

Nicholas, the youngest of the three children of Nick and Jenny Layman, who live in Albuquerque.

He is homeschooled and sporting a new pair of boots.

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James “Jim” Rigoni, 63, passed away on to making things better than he found August 24, 2018, in Albuquerque. Jim was them and was known as someone who born May 15, 1955, to Tony and Susanna could be depended on to get the job done (Monnet) Rigoni in Springer. Jim married right. Jim was a man who cherished his Danette Porterfield in 1984 at the Magis- family, a man who took the time to teach trate Court in Roy where they made their his children everything that he could. Jim home. Jim was a rancher all his life. In addi- did not do things the easy way, he did them tion to being a rancher, Jim was a master of ‘the right way’; his children grew up knowing most everything he put his mind to, prefer- that while the task they were doing was not ring to do things himself; Jim also drove the the easiest, there was a lesson to be learned. school bus for the Roy School District for 25 Jim was a devoted grandfather who would years, retiring in 2010. Jim was a man who do anything for his three grandsons. He is was proud of his community; always willing survived by his wife Danette Rigoni, daughto help in any way that he could. He spent ters Danae Rigoni, Stefanie Fischbacher 27 years helping the youth in his commu- (spouse, Corey), Andrea Rigoni, and son nity as a member and president of the Anthony Rigoni (Christopher Wiberg); three Harding County Fair board, a coach and grandsons; sisters Mae Shaw and Henrietta member of the Roy Pee Wee Basketball Rigoni. Of all things in life, Jim cherished his program, coaching many of the teams that family, his children, and grandchildren his children were on. During his 30 year above all. tenure as a member and Chief of the Harding County Volunteer Fire Department, Jackson Independence House Swift, he was instrumental in building the Depart- 16, Portales, passed away in September. He ment to it’s highest level. He was dedicated was born July 10, 2002, in Clovis. He was a

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Marion Genevieve Pope née Appelin, 94, longtime resident of Douglas Arizona, passed away on September 14 in Las Cruces, where she was living at the Desert Peaks Assisted Living Care Center. Marion was born in Douglas to Charles and Ida Appelin on April 1, 1924. Marion grew up on the family homestead near McNeal, Arizona.

She attended grammar school in McNeal Arizona and then went to Douglas High School to complete her formal education.

While in high school she met Louis E. Pope who she married shortly after graduating from high school. Following WWII, when Louis return from his military duties, they were able to settle down and raise a family.

Marion dedicated her adult life to raising her three boys and being a homemaker.

Marion cared for and fed every kid that walked through her front door. Marion is survived by her son Louis E Pope Jr., his wife Susan, their daughter; son and grandson; son Ralph D. Pope his wife Jackie and their daughter.

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

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

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

LITTLE COLORADO RIVER RANCH: Located in central Apache County, Arizona, a

short 10 minutes from Springerville, this ranch has lots of water! 200 AU ranch, 1,650 deeded acres, 13 sections Arizona state lease, fully improved with a nice headquarters. The ranch includes 400 acres of irrigated or sub-irrigated meadow and farm land, improved with permanent pasture for grazing. Irrigation is provided by decreed surface water rights from the Little Colorado River and supplemented by two irrigation wells. Live, year-round livestock water is supplied by 3 miles of river running through the ranch, 6 spring-fed ponds, 3 wells and 4 miles of pipeline. This ranch is being sold turn-key; 190 head of adult cows/bulls and ranch equipment, including a 2012 966k CAT loader, 2012 329E CAT excavator and several ranch trucks, trailers, tractors and farm equipment. The ranch includes a gravel pit which could provide additional income. This is an extremely rare property due to the abundance of live water and being located in a mild southwestern climate, within minutes’ drive of the White Mountains, home to prime hunting, trout fishing and winter snow skiing.

Price $4,500,000

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Sophomore at Portales High School where he was an honor student. Jackson was an avid baseball player and was running on the school cross country team. Other things he enjoyed included skateboarding and hunting and fishing. He and his younger brother were the best of friends, and Jackson loved playing all kinds of games with him. There were great times of hideand-seek, as well as basketball and video games. Jackson was an active member of the Brazos Street Church of Christ. He is survived by his parents, Suzanne and Stephen Swift; his younger brother, Noah Swift; his sister, Delaney Swift, New London, Connecticut; his maternal grandmother, Joy Stevenson, Portales; his paternal grandparents, Carolyn and Don Swift of Tyler, Texas, and Alda House, Las Cruces; his aunts and uncles, Jim and Shawna Stevenson of Boerne, Texas; Joel and Kari Stevenson, Albuquerque; Paula Bartley. Tyler, Texas, Billy House, Washington, D.C.; and Natalie and Brian Faulkner; three cousins, as well as other family members and countless friends.

GOODWATER RANCH: 15 miles east of Holbrook, AZ on the south side of I-40 and west of the Petrified Forest Park. 342 deeded acres with two irrigation wells and a fallow farm. The ranch has 200 head grazing capacity on state, blm and open range lands north of the Puerco River. Improvements include extensive set of working corrals and typical ranch headquarters with two houses and several outbuildings. Price $850,000.

DUTCH MOUNTAIN RANCH: 14 miles east of Show Low, AZ between US Highway 60 and State Highway 61. The ranch includes approximately six sections of grazing on state and open range with 52 deeded acres and two wells. Carrying capacity is 55 animal units yearlong, nice set of catch pens near the center of the ranch with good proximity to the highway. Price $380,000 CONTACT: ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT www.headquarterswest.com email: info@headquarterswest.com OCTOBER 2018

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Vaquero Ranch - Marana, AZ, 95-head state lease, no deeded, great corrals. This would be an excellent cattle trader location, located short paved miles from Marana Auction. Asking $445,000 Moore Ranch - Cochise, AZ - 1110+/- Deeded acres, fenced, cross fenced, multiple wells, housing, shop, and corrals. Asking $550,000 Three Sisters Ranch - Sunsites, AZ - 862+/- deeded acres, 20 head year long, nice rustic home. Asking $646,000 New Listing! - Florence, AZ - Nice Historic Ranch House and HQ, 640+/- deeded Acres, 4800+/- State Lease, 56 head. Includes 50 head. Asking $695,000 Redrock Basin Ranch - Benson, AZ - 50 head, 1106+/- deeded acres, 2320 +/- AZ state land, higher elevation grass country. Asking $750,000 Knight Creek Ranch - Kingman, AZ. 137 Head Year Long - 45 deeded Acres, 8777+/- state land, 9000+/- Adverse. Purchase Includes 137 head of cattle. Asking $795,000 New Listing! - Beloat Ranch - Goodyear AZ, 390+/- head, 102,000+/- acres of State and BLM, zero deeded. Asking $950,000 New Listing! - Garcia Ranch - Wickenburg AZ, 425+/- head, zero deeded, 127+/sections of State and BLM. Asking $1,100,000 Cochise County Ranch - Willcox, AZ. This 105 head ranch, 2800 deeded acres, 3944 acres state. Asking $2,800,000 Hunt Ranch - McNeal, AZ - 200+/- head of grazing. 4356+/- deeded acres, –3734+/- AZ state land, 1,544 +/- adverse. Other – 800 acres adverse. Beautiful housing and strong grass ranch. Asking $4,320,000 We have sold $8,000,000 in working cattle ranches over the last 6 months! Ranches are selling and it is difficult to find ranches for sale. If you’re interested in selling, please contact Scott Thacker for a confidential discussion. e d we ar yers an e ified bu them. Pleas e qual L r We hav g ranches fo & SEL st li seekin tronghold to .

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John D iamo nd, Qu ali fying Bro ker john@beaverheadoutdoors.com Cell: (575) 740-1528 Office: (575) 772-5538 Fax: (575) 772-5517 HC 30 Box 445, Winston, NM 87943

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*NEW* 440 Head Desert Ranch - near Deming, NM – The historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch dates back to the 1870’s and is rich in native artifacts and lore. Situated in the stunning Florida Mountain Range it contains 663+/- deeded acres, 16,963+/- acres BLM grazing permits; 5,184+/- acres of State grazing lease; and 12+/- sections of adverse grazing. The ranch has a carrying capacity of 440 AU’s plus eight horses yearlong. This is a traditional working cattle ranch with rolling to somewhat mountainous terrain, good browse and grass, excellent water with storage tanks and drinkers.

There are thirteen wells all with new pumps and equipment within the past three years.

The headquarters includes a 3 BR, 1 BA remodeled historic brick/rock home; carport; garage; tack house; large set of newly constructed shipping corrals; and barns. There are five additional sets of working corrals on the ranch. $2,250,000 *REDUCED* Hunting and 125 Head

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Cattle Ranch, Lindrith, NM – Laguna Seca Ranch is set against scenic bluffs with expansive views of open meadows and rolling hills covered in pines, juniper and oaks in the Santa Fe National Forest. Abundant elk and deer. Includes deer and elk permits, two homes, steel shop with equipment shed partially insulated and heated, hay barn, tack room, storage, second hay barn, steel corrals with sorting pens, steel lead-up and crowding tub, squeeze chute, scales, calf table and loading chute. Well watered with 7 wells, 8 dirt tanks, 2 storage tanks, and 10 drinkers. $1,900,000

*NEW* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Located in the beautiful Apache Sitgreaves Forest with a

*SOLD* 204+/- Acre Lazy JG Farm,

Duncan, AZ – Currently grazing 80 head of Angus-cross cattle but could run 100 plus head comfortably on 102+/- acres of irrigated pasture with 6 acre feet of water rights.

At an elevation of 3655 feet, the climate is also suitable for hay, pecans, pistachios, wine grapes, or field crops. Two homes, 2 hay barns, shop, corrals, fenced and cross-fenced. $755,000

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*NEW* Gila River Farms, Safford & Willcox, AZ – Several offerings in the Willcox and Safford areas; grazing, produce farming, greenhouse/warehouse. Visit our website for details and information. $122,000 $680,000 *NEW* 29 +/- Acre Farm & Ranch, Duncan, AZ – Pasture for 10 hd, gated pipe irrigation; alfalfa, pecan trees. Two wells, roping arena; Comfortable Palm Harbor triple-wide manufactured home, 2X6 construction, stucco exterior, set on cement slab; 1-car frame & stucco garage. Property is fenced for cattle. $350,000

*REDUCED* 98+/- Acre Farm,

Pomerene, AZ – 70 plus irrigated acres with an 800 gpm well that has a 16” casing, records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and fenced. Suitable for crops, pasture, or nut trees. Located close to I-10, town, schools and services.

Great value at $350,000 HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND

*REDUCED* 736+/- Acres, Willcox, AZ–

3 parcels of undeveloped high desert, ready to put into production with grapes,trees,or-

ganic crops, or conventional farming. Also development potential in good location only one mile from Willcox and 3 miles to I-10.

Several shallow wells on the property. Paved and dirt road frontage. Property is fenced.

475+/- ac for $643,000, or 736+/- ac for $996,000. All 3 parcels can be purchased separately at higher per acre price.

*REDUCED* +/-14 Ac Horse Property,

Sonoita, AZ – Custom 2,861 s.f. home in the Oaks with matching outbuildings including a 2-car garage w/upstairs apartment & a charming vintage carriage house/stable.

Modern 4-stall horse barn with a front portico, tack room, and wash area. Two arenas, access to USFS. $749,000.

*NEW* +/- 222 Acre Estate, St. David, AZ – Lovely custom 2,298+/- s.f. 3BR, 2BA home near the San Pedro River on a hill with valley views. Also a large 2-bay workshop, artist studio and wooden barn.

There are 50 +/- acres cleared for farming or development with two wells that could potentially be used for irrigation, one domestic well services the home and another well feeds a pond. The property is fenced for livestock, and may be split. $675,000

*REDUCED* +/- 20 Acres, Home &

Cabin, Cochise Stronghold, AZ – Private retreat in the foothills of the Dragoon Mtns.

Views and private access to National Forest, abundant wildlife, hiking and horseback riding trails. 3 BR, 2¾ BA Mobile Home and 1 BR, 1 BA site built Cabin. Well, fruit trees, horse corrals w/shade and hay barn.

Potential vineyard, horse property, or private retreat. $529,500

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*SOLD* 320 Head Beautiful Mountain Ranch, Near Reserve, NM – 350 +/-ac deeded, +/-54,088 ac USFS permit. Stunning setting in the ponderosa pines with fish ponds, live streams, elk, and turkey. Includes four log homes, and large bunk house, barn, tack room, round pens, arena, & shipping pens near roadway. This is a horseback ranch, with rugged mountainous country. Turnkey with cattle, equipment, & furnishings. Great opportunity for additional income from cabin rentals to hunters. $2,800,000

56.6 +/- acre deeded forest inholding, and a 23+/- section USFS grazing permit. A well improved and maintained horseback ranch with a carrying capacity of 50-117 head year long. The headquarters is located in a scenic valley setting with solar power; two homes; barn with tack room, hay storage and horse stalls; shop; corrals with crowding pen and squeeze chute; root cellar/cold meat storage; hen house, irrigated gardens and orchard. The permit and headquarters are watered with springs, creeks, dirt tanks.

Situated on the allotment are a line cabin, two sets of corrals one with a loading chute at the highway. Priced at $1,100,000

*NEW* 160+/- Acres, Bowie, AZ – Great potential farm ground in an area with good water. Adjoins an existing pistachio orchard. Includes one domestic/livestock well. Other crops grown in the area include alfalfa, grass hay, grapes, and row crops.

Not fenced. $336,160

*REDUCED* San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the beautiful San Rafael Valley, where open spaces, wildlife, ranching history and private dreams live.

152 Acres for $304,000 & 77 Acres with a well for $177,100

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920 East 2nd Roswell, NM 88201 Office: 575/623-8440 Cell: 575/626-1913

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

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

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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

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 $485,000

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COLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/- deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with amazing 360 degree views.

MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Reduced $398,000 $349,000 Very private approx. 4,800 sq ft double walled adobe 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 20 +/custom features, 77.50 +/- deeded acres with deeded acres, 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq water rights and large 7 stall barn, insulated ft adobe home, barn, grounds and trees. Private metal shop with own septic. Would suit indoor setting. This is a must see. Reduced to $265,000 growing operation, large hay barn/equipment FRENCH TRACT 80, Irrigated farm with gated shed. $1,375,000. pipe, house, stone shop, many out buildings MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, privacy. Reduced to $292,000 $282,000 NM. 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares, 2 center pivots, nice sale barn, MAXWELL SMALL HOLDING, home with horse 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available. improvements, fenced, water rights and 19+/Owner financing available to qualified buyer. deeded acres. Handy to I25 on quiet country Significantly reduced to $550,000 road. $232,000.

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Villanueva, NM: 547 acres of scenic wild west terrain, located 2 miles north off B29A. Parcel has mesa tops, dramatic canyon arroyos with cedar pinon tree cover.

Off the grid and private access. Asking $324,000 Trujillo, NM: CR-B21 access 2 miles east of Trujillo. Parcel has 567 deeded acres w/ rim rock views, spring fed stock tanks w/blue stem native grasses. OC! Turkeys deer live here... List Price: $345,000 Pecos River: Hwy 3 – Premium Alfalfa Farm on the Pecos River has senior ditch rights, w/immaculate 3 bedroom adobe home, hay barn sheds. 30+ acres has proven alfalfa production. Priced Reduced: $699,000 Pecos River Frontage: Five+ acres w/irrigation rights, comfortable modern home, cobblestone guest house, huge heated studio/workshop/garage has perimeter fencing. Near La Fragua south of San Miguel on Hwy 3. List Price: $475,000.

Bernal, NM: 126 + hilltop acres has old Las Vegas hwy 2116 frontage road access.

Electric telephone at property line is partially fenced. Asking $117,000 Chapelle, NM: Just listed, 135 acres w/Tres Hermanos Creek frontage. Old adobe home in very good condition. Power on site. CR B27-A road access. Asking $225,000 Upper Anton Chico: This 7.5 acre alfalfa farm is perimeter fenced irrigated w/under ground pipes. Excellent production history. Has verified ditch rights Pecos River frontage. Asking $82,500 owner may finance.

Apache Mesa Road: One 80 acre parcel w/50 gpm water well, permitted septic system, solar array Priced at $145,000. Nearby 180 acre parcel is partially fenced, has Hermit’s Peak views, mesa top meadow La Cueva Canyon bottom land. Price: $165,000 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 the old Simmons Road. 640 acre tract also available in the basin has subdivision lot potential.

Gascon/Rociado, NM: Hwy 105 access w/26 fenced deeded acres. 4 legal lots have overhead power, ponderosa pine some pinon tree cover. Perimeter fenced w/lots of timber ditch water too. Price reduced to $285,000 for all 4 lots! Make an offer...

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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 Reduced: $1,150,000 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 SOUTH BROWN LAKE RANCH – Nicely improved cattle ranch located northwest of Roswell, NM. 5,735 total acres to include 960 acres deeded.

164 A.U. yearlong grazing capacity. Modern residence, bunkhouse, shop and

feed barn. Three wells and buried pipeline. Excellent grass country. Price: $1,300,000 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

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Wagon Mound, NM: Gramma grass pasture land located on Colmor Road NW of Wagon Mound. ~959 acres of perimeter cross fenced pasture on Ocate Creek watered w/stock tanks new well. Views are nice too! Asking $859,000

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2018 New Mexico State Fair Ranch Family of the Year

Jim Bob Burnett Family, Artesia, New Mexico

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he Burnett family association with the State Fair started in the early 70s when Melissa and Jim Bob both exhibited.

Jim Bob mainly showed steers while Melissa exhibited hogs, lambs and steers. Over the years both had some success with some class winners and Breed Champions, with Melissa having the Grand Champion Steer in 1979.

Jim Bob and Melissa were married in 1982 and at that time he became Herdsman for Harvey Herefords and could be found in the same stall at the State Fair for the next 15 years with Hereford cattle. Melissa’s parents, Denny and Geraldine Calhoun also had a home in the Beef Barn with Calhoun Livestock Supply which they operated for

many years. school and Daniel works for a Data ManageIn 1996 the Burnett’s oldest, Denny, ment company. Wesley is a Senior at New showed his first steer at the State Fair, a Mexico State.

Hereford steer from Ernest Copeland. All Melissa’s mom and dad, Denny and Gerfour of the Burnett kids, Denny, Tory, Shelby, aldine Calhoun live in Las Cruces, and Jim and Wesley, exhibited at the State Fair for Bob’s folks, Bobby and LaJean Burnett live the next 18 years, always stayed in the in Lovington. dorms. The next generation is a couple years from hopefully enjoying the experience as well.

The Burnett family now has the 6th generation of New Mexico farmers and ranchers on the ground and that is coming from all sides of the family tree. The Burnett ranching operation consists of both commercial and registered Angus, and Hereford cattle in partnership with Phil Harvey Jr. in B & H Herefords.

The family includes Jim Bob and Melissa, Denny and Sherida with grandkids Kendi, Koy, and Katon who live and ranch at Duncan. Tory is a pharmacist at a rehab hospital in Las Cruces. Shelby and Daniel, her husband, live in (l to r - back row) Jim Bob and Melissa, Tory, Denny and Sherida Austin where Shelby is in PT Burnett. (front row) Koy, Kendi, LaJean and Katon Burnett.

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hat do cable TV and “Where your f o o d co m e s f r o m ” h ave in common?

ANSWER: Television ag programming is beneficial, educational to the curious public people who eat food, and the Food Producers that provide the food they eat.

Interesting surveys: population of U.S. 327 million people that eat, 3.2 million is the number of food producers that feed them.

How do the 327 billion who eat communicate with the 3.2 million?

Television/internet is the biggest communicator in the country…on Earth.

79 percent have a television, 77 percent communicate over internet.

National television is owned by a handful of merging moguls like Time Warner, Verizon FiOS, ComCast and other voracious traders who are deliberately together trying to eliminate the miniscule Ag/Rural networks that are left in the U.S., which includes RFDtv. Even the big independent ag programs like U.S. Farm Report, Orion Samulson and Superior Livestock use RFDtv to increase their coverage.

What can the 3.2 million Food Producers and those other mammals that want to know Where Food Comes From…do?

ANSWER: THE RURAL COMMUNICATION ACT 2018 “It requires each multichannel video programming distributor with 5,000 or more subscribers shall reserve 1 percent of its total bandwidth to distribute to all its subscribers video programming that predominately serves the needs and interests of rural America.”

WRITE OR CALL your national politicians to support the act. If your representative gives you the shuffle then call the next day and the next. Surveys show 55 percent of consumers are interested in where their food comes from. If that’s you, call.

Inform your politicians of the FCC Diversity Committee that requires 2.5 percent of cable and broadcast operators be dedi-

cated to minorities including: Latino 17 percent of population, Black 12 percent, Asian 4.7 percent and American Indian .7 percent. Ranchers and Farmers of all colors, races and ages make up a mere 2 percent of our entire population. Talk about minority groups!

Why would officers of these mega telecoms that control thousands of ‘broadcast bands’ deliberately exclude ag/rural networks? ANSWER: They deem that the 2 percent minority of Food Producers are insignificant. Their ignorance of the essentials of life…FOOD WATER AND SHELTER is sad.

Direction from Congress is the only way to recognize that the agriculture networks educate, communicate, entertain and keep this valuable minority informed.

Ring…“Hello? Is this the office of my senator/congressmen? I’m part of the 3.2 million Food Producers that feeds you lunch. Are you familiar with THE RURAL COMMUNICATIONS ACT 2018?”

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VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE

by Barry Denton

Rifting in Arizona The views in this column are strictly those of the author and not this publication

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oy, I hate to see it, but it seems the cow stuff has been hitting the fan in our happy little ranching community here in Arizona. You seem to have a number of factions disagreeing with each other and trying to make power plays.

The trouble is, there are good folks on all sides of this issue. I don’t know if I should call it “growing pains” or “lack of growing pains.” On one hand you have a new leader that wants to lead and on the other hand you have an executive committee that is appalled that the new leader is not following their direction.

It looks to me like both sides are each a little bit right and maybe they ought to meet in the middle for the good of its members. I’m not taking sides in this altercation because I see good and bad on both sides.

Our ranch has been an off and on member of the Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association for many years. It pretty much boils down to a few things for us.

It seems to me that associations are great for shooting themselves in the foot. About the time an association starts doing good things for its members; it will come up with some hair brained scheme that just does not fit. I think one of the worst things an continued on page 74 >>

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association can do is to let an executive committee run the entire show. Why not have a balance between executive committees and membership?

The US government is created with a system of checks and balances. Why can’t your local association be run the same way, instead of one group making all the decisions? The members get only what is handed down to them. It looks to me like a political party where elitism rules and no one wants to hear from the regular folks.

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United States Congress in 1985. Producers then made the “Beef Checkoff Program” mandatory in 1988.

Research Act passed in the United States Congress in 1985. Producers then made the “Beef Checkoff Program” mandatory in 1988.

It consisted of taking $1 away from each animal sold in the US to go to the Cattleman’s Beef Board, and then fifty cents of each dollar would be invested through each state’s Beef Council. For those of you that like big government and feel safe with big brother watching over you this probably makes sense.

To people who are independent enough to think for themselves, it is offensive and is another intrusion of government into your lives. It looks like a very communistic program to me. In order to sell your bovine through a sale barn you have to give the government your dollar. Who are these nuts that think government control is better than the freedom to decide on your own, continued on page 84 >>

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RIDING HERD

by Lee Pitts

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have lived for most of my life within 10 miles of San Luis Obispo, CA, or SLO as it’s known. Normally I hate cities, long lines and traffic jams so I tend to stay away from places with stoplights, but as towns go, SLO isn’t so bad. In 2010 National Geographic proclaimed SLO “the happiest town in America” while at the same time it was also named the third best place to live in the country. I wouldn’t argue with that but the town is also known for some pretty kooky stuff.

SLO was the first city in America to ban smoking in bars and paper and plastic bags in grocery stores. In March it was one of the first cities in America to ban drinking straws in restaurants. If your average over-worked restaurant server who is working two jobs and depending on good tips from persnickety customers to make ends meet, gives you a straw without you first asking for one, he or she could face a penalty of $1,000 and six months in jail. There are actually straw cops staking out restaurants trying to nab the vile straw givers who are terrorizing America. Restaurants can’t even substitute plastic straws with paper ones because that might entail cutting down a few extra trees every year, not to mention an outbreak of the muchdreaded soggy straw syndrome (SSS).

The bloated left-coast politicians say

Save The Ice Cube the plastic from straws pollutes the environment but if they’re so worried about that why isn’t California’s own Nancy Pelosi put in jail for all the work plastic surgeons have wasted on her?

Personally, I don’t think the straw ordinance goes far enough. Why stop with just the straws? How about all the parsley that gets wasted on restaurant plates every year? Is there a single soul in America who eats the stuff and yet why isn’t there a garnish gestapo? And how about paper napkins? How many more innocent trees have to die just so you can wipe the mustard off your ugly mug?

That’s what shirt sleeves are for. If we’d just outlaw all the greasy chicken being served we could save entire forests.

The list of items wasted in restaurants is longer than the menu at Jack In The Box. We could turn the Mojave Desert green with all the water that’s served but never drunk and do you really need that after-dinner mint at Olive Garden or the Waverly Wafers in the cracker basket at your favorite steak house? And don’t get me started on wasted pickles.

I haven’t even mentioned the thing that needs saving the most: ice cubes.

How many more must die a slow, agonizing death in the bottom of a drink glass?

Are you so deaf that you can’t hear their screams? Every year there’s enough ice

melted in all the Big Gulps to provide the ice for every hockey rink in North America.

Ice crunchers like myself should be locked up for ten years before they destroy any more cubes. And talk about climate change! Researchers at the Institute for Junk Science in Hollywood, California, say there’s enough ice wasted every year in the bottom of drink cups to create ten icebergs bigger than the one that doomed the Titanic. Their melting is causing the temperature of the planet to plummet by two degrees every year!

That’s why not a single polar bear was spotted in Hollywood last year, according to Professor Alec Baldwin.

So I say, “Save The Ice Cube!” We can start by demanding that dying ice cubes be rehabilitated by refreezing them. And women’s groups should be knitting little tiny sweaters for the disappearing cubes so they don’t freeze to death. It’s the least we can do.

I beg every small town, municipality and giant city in America, to follow SLO’s example and save the straws, save the garnish, save the napkins and for goodness sakes, save the cubes. Why must they suffer a single second more? You can help by sending your tax deductible contributions to Save The Ice Cube (STIC) in care of my bank where I’ll stick it somewhere the IRS will never find it. Don’t let the little disappearing buggers suffer a single second more or they could soon end up on the Endangered Species List.

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Questionable Funding for Environmental Groups and What They Do With It

by Jack Dini, canadafreepress.com

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any corporations provide funding to environmental groups and the level of funding has been growing.

As Steve Goreham says, “We’re talking big dollars here. Corporate funding of environmental groups amounts to hundreds of million of dollars per year. In 2007, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Coca-Cola announced a multi-year partnership worth over $20 million to WWF. Home improvement retailer Lowe’s contributes more than $1 million each year to The Nature Conservancy for conservation projects in North America. In 2013, Wells Fargo bank provided $21.8 million in grants to nearly 500 environmental nonprofits. The Nature Conservancy received millions in contributions from oil giant BP. Boeing, Chevron, Clorox, ExxonMobil, Monsanto, Shell, Starbucks, and Walmart are just a few of the global corporations partnering with environmental groups. Saving the world has become big business for environmental NGOs, courtesy of contributions from corporate partners.”1 In addition to the money NRDC wields to influence elections and energy policy Greenpeace, the largest environmental organization in the world, will take in more than $10 million this year to support its US operations. The group has an organizational membership of more than 3 million and offices in more than 40 countries. This is the organization lobbying against every form of energy except wind and solar. They oppose GMOs. In fact, they are perhaps the world’s leading opponent to of ‘golden rice,’ the genetically engineered miracle food that can prevent debilitating deficiencies in millions of children worldwide. The have led the global campaign against the pesticide DDT. Hundreds of thousands now contract the malaria DDT could prevent.2 The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is one of the largest and most wellfunded environmental groups in the United States. In 2013, NRDC had $268.1 million in financial assets and $116 million in income.

The NRDC Action Fund brought in $1.7 million in revenue to support its lobbying

efforts in 2013. Between 1998 and 2013, NRDC and its affiliates spent $9.5 million on lobbying and $1.6 million supporting political candidates.3 In addition to the money NRDC wields to influence elections and energy policy, NRDC has developed cozy relationships with federal agencies. NRDC staff members have held 50 positions on 40 federal advisory committees. NRDC representatives submitted regulatory recommendations to 256 federal dockets, and the organization funded numerous congressional junkets, including 40 to Alaska for five members of Congress. Demonstrating the revolving door between NRDC and Capitol Hill, as of 2013, 10 NRDC lobbyists worked in congressional offices before they joined the group.3 NRDC throws lavish parties for EPA and have even gotten their own employees hired, using specially created job descriptions that have nothing to do with science in order to make them qualified to work there. The government’s own GAO criticized the administration for engaging in ‘propaganda’ related to environmental goals. 4 The Environmental Working Group (EWG) will raise more than $12 million this year. These are the “your sunscreen is giving you cancer people.” You can find them behind almost any chemical scare spreading across the web. Examples: fresh fruits and vegetables are covered in toxins, lipstick gives you lead poisoning, baby bottles are toxic. And so on. This group has mastered the art of turning bogus scare campaigns into donation dollars. They are responsible for some of the worst pseudoscience fear mongering around, including the reprehensible claim that vaccines can lead to autism.2 Each year since 1991, the USDA has been publishing the results from a large-scale pesticide residue monitoring program call the PDP. Each year, a different set of crops is chosen and samples purchased from regular stores and tested. Year after year, the results of these studies confirm the safety of the food supply. Year after year, the EWG misrepresents the data to say otherwise. EWG generates an incorrect ‘grade’ for the crops and posts it as part of their ‘Shopper’s Guide,’ and on their notorious ‘Dirty Dozen List.’5 The Dirty Dozen may attract attention from concerned consumers, but it doesn’t use the same rigorous methods for measuring risk that food scientists typically do. A report by the World Health Organization OCTOBER 2018

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and United Nations found that the Dirty Dozen list results in consumer perceptions about fruits and vegetables that go against dietary advice to eat more of them. The EWG performs their own analysis which research experts have rejected as utterly anti-scientific. 6 Research using USDA data found levels of pesticides in 90 percent of cases from the 2010 Dirty Dozen List that were at least 1,000 times lower than the chronic reference dose which is the concentration of a chemical a person could be exposed to on

a daily basis throughout life before risking harm.7 The Sierra Club is one of the best funded environmental activist groups with over $82 million in assets on its last tax return.

One of the Sierra Club’s primary goals is to shrink our energy portfolio to only include renewable resources such as wind and solar.

The Club runs campaigns aimed at eliminating the use of fossil fuels, including “Beyond Coal,” “Beyond Natural Gas,” and Beyond Oil.” Ending the use of fossil fuels isn’t enough for the Club, however, they also

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oppose the use of nuclear power and large scale hydropower. Currently, Sierra Club approved energy sources contribute less than 5 percent of the power in the United States and their unrealistic energy policy would mean disaster for family budgets and the economy. 8 As part of their Beyond Coal campaign, in 2011 the group very publicly took $50 million form New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to further its campaign. But before that, they also took secret contributions of more than $25 million from Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation’s biggest owners of natural gas holdings. This was back when the Sierra Club saw natural gas as a preferred replacement for the nation’s coal-fired power.9 But then something happened. Natural gas reserves boomed and electric utilities began converting some coal-fired plants to natural gas, prompting the Sierra Club to launch a sister campaign called “Beyond Natural Gas.” Just two years removed from accepting millions from a natural gas company, the group was opposed to natural gas as an energy source in principle.

It wasn’t a change of heart, but a re-evaluation of strategy.

One observer has commented: “For an organization largely responsible for increasing coal production a generation ago, mainly because such promotion satisfied its ideology du jour, the Sierra Club’s current stance on electricity production is not just Beyond Coal, it’s Beyond Reason.”9 The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a yearly annual income of more than $14 million. This group are experts at the scary press release. They have become America’s food police using shaky science to go after dozens of popular foods and

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demanding ridiculous levels of food labeling. Their founder is so obsessed with caffeine that he urges Americans to replace coffee ships with ‘carrot juice house.’ And, of course, they are violently anti-GMO.2 The NRDC, The Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters accepted donations of $13.5, $15 and $18.1 million from the Sea Change Foundation. This group got $23 million from the shell corporation Klein Ltd, which only exists on paper.

Klein Ltd has deep ties to Russian energy investment groups and is incorporated in the Bahamas so it doesn’t have to disclose its donors. This is an example of high-level Russian oil and political interests funding and supporting American environmental groups which then launch attacks on the US natural gas and oil industry.10 In another case, Organic Consumers Association (OCA), and the group it funds, like US Right To Know and the lawyer-run partisan attack site Sourcewatch, may be in a lot of trouble. Shortly after being revealed as the financial source for promoting anti-vaccine sentiment, they have now been shown to be working in collusion with the propaganda arm of the Kremlin.11

References Steve Goreham, Outside the Green Box, (New Lenox, IL, New Lenox Books, 2017)

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Hank Campbell, private communication, August 2, 2018 2

Ron Arnold, Natural Resources Defense Council: the scaremongering chemophobe-in-chief,” Environmental & Climate News, March 2017

Toxicology, May 15, 2011 7 Kelly April, “Dirty dozen debate,” Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2011 8

“Sierra Club,” Activist Facts, accessed August 7, 2018

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Hank Campbell, “Who watches the watchers?”, Priorities, July 2016

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5 Steve Savage, “How wrong is the latest dirty dozen?”, appliedmythologyblogspot.com, May 16, 2013 6 Carl K. Winter and Josh M. Katz, “Dietary exposure to pesticide residues from commodities alleged to contain the highest contamination levels,” J.

Lance Brown, “Sierra Club energy: beyond affordable,” masterresource.org, September 12, 2012 9

10 Andrew Follett, “Here’s how Russian oligarchs gave $23 million to US environmentalists,” The Daily Caller, December 8, 2015 11 Hank Campbell, “How the Kremlin manipulates environmentalists,”, and more ACSH links,”, acsh.org, May 22, 2017

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he New Mexico Beef Council (NMBC) was proud to host a beef luncheon and presentation on the Beef Checkoff, for the current and incoming classes of the NM Agriculture Leadership (NMAL) program. The classes toured the NMBC office, learned about the history of the Beef Council and the checkoff, and discussed current issues facing the beef industry. The New Mexico Agricultural Leadership Program (NMAL) is a practical, seminar-based leadership experience for growing professionals.

The mission is to develop knowledgeable, multicultural leaders for New Mexico’s agricultural, food, and natural resource industries. This is accomplished through six in-state seminars, a trip to Washington, D.C., and an international experience. During this 18-month program, participants gain understanding of leadership skills, industry issues, diversity, political processes, and community service and building personal and professional networks. “The future of the New Mexico agriculture industry is in capable hands.

The young leaders that come through the NMAL are well informed about all aspects of the diverse industry in the state. They represent the next generation of producers, leaders and members on our various agriculture councils and boards, and hopefully, leaders in state government” said, Dina Chacon-Reitzel, NMBC executive director.

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The NMBC distributed delicious Beef Appetizers and recipes, teaching fair attendees how to pair beef with various local wine and beers. The “Happy Hours” ran Friday and Saturday of each weekend of the fair.

Free samples of beef along with a glass of wine or beer were distributed, as live music played for entertainment. This delicious event made for a cool solution to a “HOT” fair. For free beef pairing recipes, see www. nmbeef.com.

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Alternative Proteins: Better Than Real Beef?

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Top: Kim Calvo, and Caitlin, Seasonal Palate provide beef appetizers Above: CowBelles’ Anita Hand and Chris Chavez-Say .... “BEEF!” Left: NM Beef Ambassadors, Emma and Alexis Montgomery assist consumers at the New Mexico State Fair

t seems like every time you open a health or fitness magazine, a celebrity is promoting the newest power protein food. And for good reason — a healthy, balanced diet includes a variety of protein sources. As such, alternative proteins are gaining attention, space in the fridge and on the plate for their health benefits.

However, the perceived benefits may not outweigh the unintentional nutritional consequences of not including lean meats in your diet.

Plant-based food advocates like to offer other foods to bolster protein content in plant-based diets such as black beans, quinoa and edamame.

However, you may be surprised that choosing beef is actually a calorie-saver when calories and protein are compared. Beef supplies significantly fewer calories and more nutrients than many plant proteins.

A cooked three-ounce lean beef burger patty averages around 154 calories while providing approximately 25 grams of protein, which is nearly half of the recommended daily value.

To get the same exact amount of protein (25 grams), you’d need to eat six tablespoons of peanut butter or a whopping three cups of quinoa, for instance, which both also deliver a sizable amount of calories (564 calories for peanut butter; 666 calories for quinoa

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NMBC DIRECTORS: John Heckendorn (Purebred Producer); Jim Hill (Feeder); Kenneth McKenzie (Producer); Susie Jones (Dairy Producer); Matt Ferguson (Producer); Dan Bell (Producer)

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where that dollar should go?

Another thing that I have experienced is the only time that you ever hear from an association’s executive committee is when they think they have a crisis big enough to where they need money from you. Then they call you up and say old buddy, we need some money to fight this or that, because it will help you if we do. Now, we do not need your opinion or possible solutions to said crisis, just send a check.

Our local cattle growers association consists of about 300 members and one of the best things they do each year is hold their annual calf sale and barbeque. Now, my family has been attending this sale and barbeque since the 1940s. Normally we donate a calf to the sale for the benefit of the association. A few years back we did not have a calf to bring to the sale, so we had decided to donate the amount of money a calf would bring.

Just as I was about to hand a check to the head honcho of the association, he speaks up and says, “How come you did not bring a calf to the sale this year?” I answered, “I don’t think it is any of your business.” He continued, “Well Fred, Bill, and Sam, did not have a calf to bring either. They each ponied up “x” dollars in the form of a check, so you can just give us one of those.”

Funny thing, but about the time you tell me I have to do something, that’s about the time I leave and our friendship ends. I have met others who feel the same way, believe it or not. I was tempted to send him a copy of Dale Carnegie’s book, but figured he would never be able to comprehend it.

Yes, there has been a rift over here between factions in our cattle associations.

No association I ever belonged to was perfect, but many are too prideful to compromise.

One of the biggest mistakes I see with associations is that executive committees seem to remain the same and they do not rotate members on a regular basis. When a new guy comes in as association president, everyone needs to get behind him whether you agree or not.

Give him a chance, you just might be surprised. Past presidents should be kept for advice and not votes. Make certain that all offices, whether paid or volunteer never have the same people year after year.

Remember to show respect to your regular dues paying members. Rifts can always be settled by each side swallowing a little pride.

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