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66 Feds are Lowballing Cost of Protecting Endangered Species by Billions of Dollars

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16 New Mexico CowBelles Jingle Jangle 17 Riding Herd

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Tom Sidwell NMCGA President

Dear Friends,

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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A group of ranchers from the southern part of the state as well as an earlier group from the northern part are asking the New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) if mandatory testing of bulls for trich would be feasible to eradicate the disease from the state. The NMLB has held some meetings and will hold more meetings around the state to receive producer input to this question: Do we want mandatory testing of bulls for trich in the state or continue with the present program?

This question is producer driven and the livestock producers in the state will answer it. I encourage all livestock producers to attend a meeting or at least send in your thoughts and comments to the NMLB. If the answer is yes the NMLB, with producer input, will develop the how-to of mandatory testing and, of course, there will be further opportunity for public comment for any future rule making. I commend the NMLB for allowing this question to be producer driven and not top down from a state agency.

I attended the Water & Natural Resources Committee meeting held in Chama and there were some interesting issues discussed: Expanding the mission of the Game and Fish Department, reforming the State Game Commission, elk management depredation issues (Gerald Chacon gave an excellent presentation about this), Mexican wolf recovery and compensation program (I commented that compensation is inadequate and that we are working on getting some scientific data by using technology to determine actual and stress related losses due to presence of wolves), and issues with feral horses.

The feral horses have become a safety issue as well as a trespass issue on property rights. The Wild Horse Observers Association (WHOA) gave a presentation before the committee stressing, or stretching, the value of feral horses for tourism. Another topic was the definition of public land in New Mexico statute which says public land is not U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), or State Trust Land.

WHOA and their attorneys claim that the statutory definition doesn’t exclude private land and, therefore, private land is public land! They claim under common law that anything not excluded is included so my comment is let’s amend the definition to include private land as NOT being public land.

In their written testimony, WHOA lamented the fact that due to “NMLB pattern” there are no longer donkeys in Lincoln County. Well, that is true. Lincoln County is a strong Republican county but not due to anything the NMLB did.

Don’t forget the NMCGA Board meeting in Santa Rosa on September 17 and 18.

See you there.

Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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Animal Crackers fall prey to animal rightists.

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

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estroying the circus wasn’t enough for PETA. In an article entitled “Nabisco Forced to Uncage Animal Crackers” author Greg Henderson on www. porkbusiness.com , wrote “the beasts on boxes of animal crackers have been turned loose. Under pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Nabisco has redesigned packaging of Nabisco’s Barnum’s Animal crackers removing – after more than a century – the cages.

PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, also had their sights set on Nabisco’s cracker boxes. In 2016, PETA wrote to Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, with a mockup design without bars and an explanation that circuses often mistreat animals. Illinois, where Mondelez has its headquarters, became the first U.S. state to ban circuses with elephant shows

at the start of this year.”

“Given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals and the public’s swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment, we urge Nabisco to update its packaging in order to show animals who are free to roam in their natural habitats,” PETA said in its letter.

The redesign of the boxes, now on U.S. store shelves, retains the familiar red and yellow coloring and prominent “Barnum’s Animals” lettering. But instead of showing the animals in cages – implying that they’re traveling in boxcars for the circus – the new boxes feature a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe and gorilla wandering side-by-side in a grassland.

MGM Sues Las Vegas Massacre Survivors In another outrage, in mid-July dozens

of survivors of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas have started to receive some startling legal notices, according to a LA Times story by By Matt Pearce, Richard Winton and David Montero.

“A lawsuit has been filed against you,” the notices say.

The plaintiff? MGM Resorts International, the casino and hotel company, owner of both the fairgrounds where 58 people were shot to death at a country music festival and the Mandalay Bay Hotel, where the gunman perched himself on the 32nd floor to carry out the October 1, 2017 massacre.

In a bold legal maneuver, MGM has sued survivors to claim immunity under a federal law passed in the wake of September 11 that was designed to protect corporations from lawsuits after terrorist attacks. Experts said it was the first time such a lawsuit had ever been filed under the law.

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MGM is facing lawsuits from more than 2,500 people after the massacre, which also wounded hundreds.

Survivors, backed by high-profile attorneys, have said the company did not do enough to prevent the attack or limit the extent the harm.

To defend itself, the company is turning to the little-known federal statute called the Safety Act, passed by Congress in 2002 to limit the liability of companies that provide anti-terrorism services.

The idea was that companies might not introduce new security technologies designed to thwart terrorist attacks if the companies would then face expensive — and potentially business-ending — lawsuits when those technologies fail to stop killings.

So policymakers offered companies a deal: With approval for their services by the Department of Homeland Security, they are protected from terrorism-related lawsuits.

“They’re basically giving you a get-outjail-free card for something that hasn’t happened yet,” said Bob Karl, a managing partner for Safety Act Consultants, a Milwaukee firm that advises companies seeking Safety Act designations.

Safety Act designations can be an attractive legal protection for event and security

companies. In recent years, several National mass shootings where the motive is Football League and Major League Baseball unknown, such as the Vegas massacre. stadiums have obtained them.

MGM’s lawsuits referred to statements So did Contemporary Services Corp., made in November by Elaine Duke, who also known as CSC, the contractor that pro- was acting secretary of U.S. Department of vided security for MGM during the Homeland Security: She “noted the emphamusic festival. sis of ‘terrorists and other violent criminals The company prominently features its … on attacking soft targets,’ including Safety Act designation on its website. ‘recent tragedies in Nevada.’”

MGM is arguing in two federal lawsuits Karl, the Safety Act expert, said he against the survivors — filed in Nevada and believes the lawsuits are the first of their California — that the hotel company is, by kind and could lead to a highly public extension, shielded from the survivors’ law- throw-down between victims and MGM. suits, because of the terrorism law’s “That whole thing is going to be a mess,” protections. The statute also requires that Karl said. “The only people who will come related litigation be pursued in out of it well is high-priced attorneys.” federal courts.

MGM drew backlash as news spread of In a statement, MGM Resorts spokes- the company suing survivors. woman Debra DeShong suggested that its Craig Eiland, an attorney for several lawsuits would ultimately help the victims. victims, said the attempt by MGM to insu“The federal court is an appropriate late itself from a lawsuit using the Safety venue for these cases and provides those Act was “unprecedented.” affected with the opportunity for a timely “CSC had nothing to do with Mandalay resolution,” the statement said. “Years of Bay not having security stop Stephen drawn-out litigation and hearings are not Paddock from unloading luggage with 23 in the best interest of victims, the commu- assault rifles, carrying them up to his room nity and those still healing.” and not noticing anything for three to five Though the Safety Act is aimed at terror- days,” Eiland said. “They had nothing to do ist attacks, MGM argued that the federal with allowing him to deadbolt the stairwell statute is written broadly enough to include — all of these things. And Mandalay Bay is

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saying because this yellow T-shirt company got this safety designation, everybody is immune?”

Mark Robinson, an Orange County attorney who represents hundreds of potential plaintiffs against MGM, called the company’s behavior “outrageous.”

“They are re-victimizing the victims and their families,” Robinson said, adding that MGM had asked for a list of clients he represented and that after receiving it MGM “responded by suing them all.”

Oh What a Difference…

the people is “Free press is not the enemy of the people.” Newspapers across the country published editorials in mid-August making that statement. The effort, initiated by the Boston Globe, has brought both positive and negative attention.

For my two cents, the President didn’t say a free press is an enemy, he said the media. That may be distinction without a difference, but a press that is biased can be an enemy. If news outlets reported the news rather than making it, there wouldn’t be a need for this entire conversation.

A decade or two makes. In 1990, movie Drug Residue Story is star Kevin Costner had a huge hit directing ‘Pseudoscience’ & ‘Scare Tactics’ and starring in the moving Dances with In a strongly worded official statement Wolves. Dubbed a “American Epic” at a time released in late August, U.S. Department of when Westerns were out of fashion, the Agriculture’s (USDA )Food Safety Inspection movie was over three hours in length and Service (FSIS) Acting Deputy Under Secrecame in millions of dollars over budget. tary Carmen Rottenberg took issue with the However, in the end the movie made over conclusions of a newly published Consumer $400 million.

Reports (CR) article that suggests that Costner is currently involved in what banned or restricted drugs may appear in may be an epic television series that has the U.S. meat supply more often than was him as a multi-generation Montana rancher previously known according to a story on who isn’t dancing with wolves — he is in a meatingplace.com by Julie Larson Bricher. fight for the future with wolves, developers “You may have seen a Consumer Reports and water grabbers, oil operations, a story claiming that the poultry and meat near-by Indian reservation, recreations who you purchase in the grocery store and feed want land use only for themselves, and your families could contain harmful drug even his family. residues,” Rottenberg wrote in the FSIS Yellowstone just finished its first season statement. “That is not true. This story is on the Paramount Channel and is available sensational and fear-based infotainment on Netflix. It is worth the time to watch it. aimed at confusing shoppers with pseudoWhile there is more violence than necessary, science and scare tactics.”

Costner is a meaner patriarch than necesThe article, “Are Banned Drugs in Your sary, and the language isn’t fit for public Meat?”, asserts that data obtained from the consumption, once in awhile it is as close to agency via a Freedom of Information Act real as any film depiction I have seen.

(FOIA) request show that trace amounts of prohibited drugs — including ketamine, On the subject of profanity… phenylbutazone and chloramphenicol — There was a debate on Fox News the were found in meat and poultry samples other day about whether or not the f-word taken between October 2015 and Septemis profanity. It was mind boggling. The lack ber 2016. Based on analysis by CR’s food of civility in our speech is appalling and safety scientists, the report calls into queseven scary. If we don’t have the vocabulary tion FSIS drug residue testing methods and to find a word to express our sentiments, acceptable level cutoffs and accuses the we all better start carrying dictionar- agency of “failing to ensure that meat is free ies around. of potentially unsafe drug residue.”

In her response, Rottenberg stated that The unbelievable one-liners… the FOIA data on which the CR report is On another news network they were based are misleading. touting the next story – the headline was “On March 3, 2017, in our haste to be “On the investigation of the Russian investi- transparent and responsive, we mistakenly gation.” Does anyone but me think that no released in response to a FOIA request, matter what the story was, the whole thing unconfirmed, preliminary test results for is ridiculous? samples taken from poultry,” she wrote.

Another line that has been bandied “We corrected our mistake with the around a lot since President Trump made a requestor. However, the unconfirmed samstatement that the media is the enemy of pling results continue to be passed around

as accurate, truthful information – they are not.”

FSIS performed the complete screening and testing process on all the samples represented, wrote Rottenberg “The final, confirmed and validated test results show that there were no drug residues in the chicken. If violative drug residues are found in any meat or poultry product, FSIS does not allow that product to be sold for human food.

“Consumer Reports admits in their closing paragraph that the real agenda behind this piece is to convince Americans to eat less meat,” she added. “Shame on Consumer Reports for attempting to advance a rhetoric that lacks scientific support or data, at the expense of American producers and the 9,000 food safety professionals who ensure the safety of meat and poultry in this country every day.”

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The former president of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) who was forced to resign in February over sexual harassment allegations, is working for a friend’s PAC (political action committee) lobby for animal welfare issues on Capitol Hill. Despite efforts to keep a low-profile, Pacelle’s re-emergence with the PAC Animal Wellness Action has stirred friction with HSUS. According to Politico, legal action is under consideration by HSUS because Pacelle had a non-compete clause in his contract. A memo obtained by Politico says, “The board leadership is aware of the situation and will be considering our options.”

Animal Wellness Action was registered in May by David Harvilicz, a lawyer and entrepreneur. Politico reported the new PAC already had deep ties with HSUS as Marty Irby, a former HSUS executive who oversaw its rural equine protect ion and rural outreach departments, is now Animal Wellness Action’s executive director.

Pacelle’s resignation came after an investigation into claims of sexual misconduct by three HSUS employees. Days before stepping down, Pacelle told The Washington Post, “I absolutely deny any suggestion that I did anything untoward.”

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uly and August have flown by for me, your New Mexico CowBelles president.

I keep thinking things are going to slow down, but it doesn’t appear that it is going to happen.

July 30, Charity Saulsberry and I traveled to Denver, Colorado for the American National Cattlewomen’s Summer Meetings.

ANCW officers and membership welcomed us – we were very happy we attended their summer meeting. Both Charity and I learned many things about Leadership and Beef Advocacy within our organizations.

This is important to New Mexico CowBelles as Charity and I hope to share with all of you just a fraction of what we learned at this meeting to help NMCB move forward in our efforts of Beef Promotion and Advocacy for our Industry. It is an exciting time to be a NMCB member. And, I hope all NMCB members will consider joining ANCW. Their resources are many and they are here to help and support us.

Upon returning home from ANCW, I attended and took part in the Petersen Ranch Rodeo/Dutch Oven Cookoff. The New Mexico Beef Council and Chamiza CowBelles partnered to purchase the Beef for the cookoff. Caren Cowan was one of the judges. I think all had a good time and this is such a great event for Beef Promotion.

Today, August 12, I found myself at the Railyard Farmer’s Market in Albuquerque, NM. Charity Saulsberry and Lyn Greene came in and helped with this Beef Promotion event in which we partner with the New Mexico Beef Council. Over 4600 attended today’s event. We gave out lots of Beef Jerky samples and information about our product, safety of product, and best practices. I also convinced my grandson Patrick Phelps to join us today. He was a very big help in loading and unloading all of our materials which we all appreciated greatly. Thank you Patrick, Lyn and Charity.

You all helped make the day a great success.

Our next Beef Promotion activity is coming up at State Fair. Again, we will be partnering with the NM Beef Council in the Happy Hour Beef Promotion. Volunteers are really needed. The dates are September 7, 8, 14, and 15. Ladies please contact me if

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you are interested in helping us promote our industry and product one of those days.

The NMCB officer team is working hard on plans for the Annual Meeting in December in Albuquerque. Please remember that the dates, days and venue have changed.

This meeting will be at the Sandia Resort and Casino. The Board Meeting will take place on Thursday, December 6. The Annual meeting is Friday, December 7, starting with Breakfast. Registration cost will be $35 for NMCB meetings. More information will be forthcoming but I suggest you plan accordingly to attend.

Ladies we need and appreciate your participation!

Respectfully submitted by, Nancy Phelps

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he Chamiza August meeting was called to order at 12:03 p.m. by President Nancy Phelps in Johnny B’s Restaurant in TorC. Sherry read the Prayer and Creed. All recited the Pledge. The minutes were approved with one correction – a donation of $500 was made to the Pat Nowlin Scholarship fund rather than a $200 donation. The treasurer’s report was accepted as read. Nancy gave a recap of the ANCW meeting she attended in Denver.

Some of the changes that affect NM: 1) no longer have to name the person who makes a motion or seconds a motion; 2) the ANCW will install Nancy as the new State CowBelle President; and 3) any changes to bylaws or policies and procedures will be put on hold until ANCW has finalized theirs. Membership renewals are due by September 1 to locals as must forward the information and check to the state by October 1. A new member, Jeni Neely, joined group today.

Welcome, Jeni! Beef ticket sales are going well. Krystie received the letter from Clara requesting a delay in her scholarship. Cathy gave a rundown of participation in the ranch rodeo. The county fair will be held October 3 through 7 this year. An extra day has been added. Therefore, the booth will need to be constructed on Tuesday, October 2. Because there have been changes in the exhibit barn, booth will be moved to a different location. The booth fee this year has increased to $30. The CowBelles have been asked to sponsor a belt buckle at a cost of $125; both amounts were approved. Volunteers needed to work the State Fair. The Beef Council will prepare beef samples to be handed out in conjunction with a wine and beer tasting on a patio at the fair. This event will take place Sept. 7, 8, 14, and 15 from 4 to 8 p.m. If able to work

one of these dates, please contact Nancy.

Railyard Farmers’ Market is scheduled for August 12. Nancy and Charity plan to work the booth. One of local ranchers, Tay Sullivan, passed away. It was decided to purchase a brisket, which Nancy volunteered to cook and take to the meal following the funeral and burial. Thank you, Nancy. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 p.m.

Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Grant County Copper CowBelles met August 21. President Deborah van Tellingen led the Pledge of Allegiance and the Creed and Prayer were read. Guests Cyndi Donovan and FSA CED Mackey Irwin were introduced. Mackey gave a short presentation on upcoming FSA County Committee Elections and current programs. The minutes of the June meeting were approved. Deborah provided information about the Wild Apricot Software that the State has rolled out and explained that Copper will also be using it to send out emails and newsletters. Deborah will chair the County Fair booth in September and is looking for volunteers. She will do the decorating and Pat will get the items needed for the beef and candy drawings. The Nominating Committee presented the proposed slate of officers for 2019. This will be published in the next newsletter and voted on at the September meeting. The Scholarship Committee presented an application from Lindsey Ashinhurst who is majoring in Ag Business at Oklahoma State and an award was approved. It was also decided to continue buckle donation to the local 4-H for the Livestock Contest at the County Fair.

Bobbie Neal Little announced that the ranching exhibit at the Silver City Museum is back on the docket and scheduled to open early in 2019. She needs more local ranch family histories. Submitted by Pat Hunt The regular monthly meeting of the ChuckWagon CowBelles was called to order at 10:30 a.m. by President Lyn Greene.

The meeting was held at Mercedes Craven’s Ranch in Encino. CowBelle Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, & CowBelle Creed were led by Lyn Greene. Sixteen members attended. Guests Dena, George, and Caren Cowen our guest speaker were welcomed.

It was decided that the donation bucket money be split in six-month increments to State 4-H officers and FFA State officers for their travel expense. Vera will get with the state 4-H office and find information concerning travel plans and expenses. The minutes of the July 10, 2018 meeting were approved. The treasurer’s report was given, approved and filed for audit. Correspon-

dence: Be sure to check August Wrangler. If you are not getting it by email, let Debi Rupe know. Unfinished Business: Fund raising ideas – Cathy Pierce from the Chamiza CowBelles has graciously donated a show quilt of a barrel racer for us. An acrylic painting by Sue and a cross stitch of a cutting horse by Tommie. Next meeting will have pictures of items for raffle. It was decided to gratefully accept these three items to sell for promotion and education – to be drawn at the Mid-year meeting in June. Vera is tasked with finding out cost to have tickets printed. They will sell for $1 each or $10 per book of tickets. Torrance County Fair report – Lyn was there for four days. Group made $400 at the fair. Thank you Lyn! Railyard Farmers’ Market report with 4000+ visitors. Beef promotion with handouts from Beef Council. New Business: It was decided to donate to Pat Nowlin Scholarship Fund in the name of Margaret McKinley. 5-states Round-Up the signup sheet is in the Wrangler and held in Clayton. $30 registration needs to be in by September 12. Program: Caren Cowan, NMCGA & legislative update: The annual meeting dates and venues have changed. Registration news will be out in September. Dates are December 5 – December 8. Will be held at Sandia Resort & Casino, 30 Rainbow Rd in Albuquerque. Block of rooms is $148 per room. Fall Board meeting for NMCG will be held on Sept l7 & 18 in Santa Rosa. New brand ties are available. Currently can buy a spot for personal ranches’ brand and wear it proudly. It is key that the newly elected Governor understands the importance of agriculture. If you are on facebook, please post why you are supporting your candidate and what they have done for agriculture. Announcements: Next meeting: September 11, Valencia CES Office, Snack Hostesses – Cindy Robison & Phyllis Hawley.

Restaurant lunch. September 7-8 & 14-15 Beef Sampling at the State Fair (Contact President Nancy Phelps). r/s Welda Grider, Secretary.

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

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oday’s lesson is about poisonous Hay: Ranchers routinely throw their net plants, dangerous delectables and worth out of the back end of the feed truck fatal feedstuffs. I’m talking nightshade, and every flake they throw is one dollar not lupine, milkweed, and the poison used to saved for retirement, or spent on a romantic kill Socrates: hemlock. Water hemlock is vacation with the wife. Putting up hay is a said to look a lot like parsnips and a human leading cause of exhaustion, accidents and can die in half an hour just by licking the divorce. This is why when they hear of an blade of the knife used to cut a hemlock approaching fire most ranchers, instead of root. That’s why I avoid all feedstuffs that saving their herd, their family, or their barb look like vegetables! wire collection, will scream, “Save the Some plants are poisonous only in huge haystack.” doses. A 500-pound calf would have to eat Vegetables: Although there were nine one and a half pounds of cocklebur seed to wires on the fence between a rancher’s die. The preferred plant for cows consider- cows and his neighbor’s carrot and lettuce ing suicide is locoweed, but a bovine has to fields, the hungry herd broke through and become addicted to it and eat it for two to trampled and consumed 40 acres of lettuce three weeks to go nuts, or develop what and carrots on a $25 per carton lettuce cow coroners call “wet brain”. (Also known market. Like most vegetarians, the cows as Congressperson brain.) were clammy, pasty looking, aloof, smelly, An old cowboy once told me to just and sickly afterwards. They got the Trotsky remember that most poisonous plants are Two Step and their cow pies glowed an iriyellow and have three leaves; “Three leaves descent orange. The legal settlement was stay clear, five leaves no fear.” I’ve never had so huge the rancher couldn’t even look at a cow die from eating a poisonous plant but a salad bar without upchucking. that doesn’t mean there aren’t some really Corn: Cheap corn is one of the most dangerous feedstuffs a cow can consume. dangerous plants in the world. In order to Here’s my list of the worst: “capture extra profits” that economists Floral Arrangements: Although I’ve opine about, it causes farmer/ranchers to never engaged in the practice, I understand feed their corn to their cattle instead of just there are some men who buy their wives, taking their lumps and selling the corn and girlfriends, or both, arrangements of the calves. A farmer friend once told me he flowers at a place called a “florist”. If you’re would have lost less money if on the day he a cattleman you have a good excuse for not put his calves in his own makeshift feedlot buying such things. One time a neighbor ever y one of them would have threw an old flower arrangement over her dropped dead. back fence and one of my cows ate it and Green Grass: Easily the most dangerous got really sick. Although we could never plant known to man. It has ruined more prove it, the vet and I believe it was the ranchers than trich or the BLM. The sympdelphiniums. toms of grass fever are a constant smile on Alfalfa: I’ll never forget the time I saw the face of cattlemen, an outbreak of new two dozen bloated carcasses by the side of trucks and the sight of ranchers treating the road and a rancher sitting on top of one their wives to lunch at the sale yard coffee of them bawling his eyes out. He had drug shop. Green grass fever disrupts the cognithem there to make it easier for the tallow tive process and regular function of brain man to put them in his truck. The cows died cells and causes ranchers to pay crazy prices from instant gasification, you might say. I for old, barren, toothless cows. The progheard later that the rancher thought a nosis is bad and the sufferer should be change of pasture was just what the cows quarantined until the market crashes or the needed but the next day there was another brain synapses start firing again. batch of dead cows. Prussic acid has killed more cows than your vet and Mad Cow put together.

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genomic evaluation. The move is the result of years of research and development to equip Charolais breeders with the most sophisticated, accurate and reliable genetic selection tools available.

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The key difference between single step genomic evaluation and multistep evaluation is how genetic relationships between animals are determined. With the previous

by Kelli Retallick and Dan Moser, AGI multistep approach, the relationships Reprinted courtesy of Charolais Edge between animals are determined by pediince 2015, the American International gree alone. Pedigree data would dictate all Charolais Association (AICA) has pro- full sibs, for example, would have a genetic vided genomically enhanced relationship to one another of 50 percent, expected progeny differences (GE-EPD) for and the relationship between grandparent Charolais cattle. Using a multi-step and grand-progeny is 25 percent. These are approach, based on the correct calibration research values on from Iowa State Univeraverage.

The genomic information sity, genomic test H o w e ve r, results have been comwe k now identifies differences that bined with pedigree variation information and perxists in the pedigree alone cannot detect.� ethese formance data, relaresulting in greater tionships accuracy, especially for young animals. Now, among relatives. The genomic information AICA will soon transition to a single step identifies differences that the pedigree

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alone cannot detect. In single step evaluation of other breeds, genomic relationships among full sibs range from as low as 35 percent, to 65 percent or higher. Some pairs of flush mates share over two-thirds of their genetic material, while others share as little as one-third. Through single step, genomic relationships among animals are used to improve the accuracy of EPDs for both genotyped and non-genotyped animals.

The methodology works to more fully understand the ancestral source of the DNA of a particular animal. A greater proportion of DNA than expected, 30 percent or more, may be passed down from the maternal grandsire (MGS) to an individual grandson or granddaughter, rather than the expected 25 percent. If the MGS has outstanding growth genetics, then the DNA relationships will drive the associated WW and YW EPDs of the grand progeny higher.

However, if an animal is more genetically related to an individual with low growth genetics, in return, the WW and YW EPDs on that individual will decline. Single step also recognizes relationships among animals that would appear practically unrelated based on pedigree alone, compared continued on page 20 >>

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as additional data and genotypes are added to the database. Single step does just that, by updating the genomic information each time the evaluation is run. With single step, all sources of information—pedigree, performance, progeny data and genomic

data, that information is immediately used in the genomic evaluation.

to the average of the animals’ parents.

Proven Improvement in Other Breeds Within the breed, many animals share significant amounts of genetic material passed While single step will be new to AICA down from many generations prior. Single members, a number of other species and step recognizes these relationbeef breeds have successfully used this technology. Most dairy ships based on DNA markers, and cattle, swine and poultry genetic more effectively connects data Within the breed, many animals share among animals. Using these evaluations use this approach, in significant amounts of genetic material many cases using the same Unigenomic relationships, the single step methodology results in more versity of Georgia software used passed down from many generations prior” accurate genomic values than at AGI. Other U.S. beef breeds ever before. such as Beefmaster, Brangus and results—are updated in real time. This is a Santa Gertrudis have used single step since Genomics Updated in Real Time positive for breeders as the GE-EPDs are not the beginning of their genomic evaluations.

It is well documented that genomic pre- based on outdated information, and when The American Angus Association successdictions need to be recalculated regularly young sires generate their first progeny

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It’s important to note DNA test results from previously tested animals will be incorporated into the single step evaluation, using the same DNA markers used in the multi-step evaluation. Proven sires would be expected to have minimal changes in EPDs after the transition to single step, as their EPDs are mostly the result of progeny data. Genomics contribute more heavily to young animals’ EPDs, so those animals would be expected to show more change in EPD values. More variation in EPDs of siblings should be expected, as the evaluation more accurately tracks differences in relatives due to inheritance. As additional data and genotypes are added to the Charolais database, increased accuracy of EPDs on genomically tested animals will result, providing Charolais breeders and their customers the most accurate genetic evaluation possible.

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NEWS UPDATE

by Sarah Halasz Graham, Santa Fe New Mexican

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State Engineer Denies Water Speculator Bid

n a move hailed by environmentalists and nearby landowners, New Mexico’s top water-rights official has dismissed as speculative a company’s application to tap billions of gallons of groundwater from a closed basin deep beneath the Plains of San Agustin in western New Mexico.

The denial is the latest twist in the 11-year quest by Augustin Plains Ranch LLC to siphon off 54,000 acre-feet, or 17.6 billion gallons, of water annually and pipe it to as-yet-undetermined communities in Central and Northern New Mexico.

Douglas Meiklejohn, executive director of the Santa Fe-based New Mexico Environmental Law Center and a pro-bono lead attorney for those opposing what they see as a speculative and potentially harmful project that includes international investors, says it is “by far the largest” groundwater-rights request in state history, though a spokeswoman for the Office of the State Engineer could not confirm that.

By comparison, Albuquerque-area residents use about 30 billion gallons a year.

In his denial of the application, a hearing examiner in State Engineer Tom Blaine’s office denounced the “striking absence of information” in the applicants’ description of the water’s end use, citing New Mexico law that prohibits water speculation and requires water rights be put to a beneficial use.

No municipalities in the seven counties listed as potential customers have signed contracts to purchase the water rights, and only one, the city of Rio Rancho, has indicated an interest in potentially striking a deal.

“All (the ranch) has established is that it wants to appropriate and convey water to uncommitted municipalities or entities in unknown quantities,” the decision reads.

“That’s backwards,” said Michael Jensen, a spokesman for the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. “You’re supposed to identify the buyer, then request the permit.”

In an email statement to reporters, Michel Jichlinski, a Washington, D.C.-based investor and the ranch’s project manager, bemoaned the decision as “short-sighted” and “a win for ignorance.”

“The short-sightedness is driven by political expediency,” he said.

“While it will get some politicians more comfortably reelected, it is a continuation of decades of mismanagement which put the state way behind the rest of the country in terms of poverty, growth and job opportunities.”

In a phone conversation several weeks ago, Jichlinski described the project as a public service and its corporate sponsors as a band of Robin Hood-esque advocates.

The public discourse was phrased “as if we were the ones stealing the water from the people of New Mexico, when in fact it’s the exact opposite,” he said.

Without the group’s intervention, the water is “just sitting there” without a use, he said. It could be used to fill cities’ water needs or replenish flows in drought-stressed streams.

Jichlinski is one of a handful of investors in the project. The company is majority owned by the land owners, the Modena family, originally from Milan, Italy. The family purchased the land, located in rural Catron County, in the 1970s. As the project has taken shape,

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investors have bought in, including a “We have to be vigilant,” she said. “Water private equity company based in the United is so important now, and profitizing water is a gold mine for (companies). … Who Kingdom, Jichlinski said.

This is the third time the ranch’s applica- knows what the next scheme will be?” tion has been denied. The group’s original application was filed in 2007.

The group has 30 days from the July 31 decision to either request the state engineer to reconsider, or to file an appeal. They An expansion to a Texas Panhandle packing plant will add 800 more head per day in also can file a new application. slaughter capacity, primarily for cull cow If an appeal is requested and granted, and bull processing. (Caviness Beef Packers) the case will be heard in state district court in Socorro. Jichlinski said owners are weigh- Wyatt Bechtel, www.drovers.com ing their options. aviness Beef Packers plans to expand For residents of the plains, many of its Hereford, Texas packing plant in a whom have invested money in fighting the move that will add an additional 800 ranch’s proposed 37 wells, it’s more than a head per day through the line. question of speculation.

The Amarillo-based beef packing Carol Pittman and her husband moved company released a statement about the to rural Datil, on the edge of the plains, in planned expansion that will see construc1996, their sights set on a rural spot from tion begin in October 2018. Caviness plans which to enjoy retirement. to add a second harvest and processing For Pittman, who has helped spearhead shift while hiring 600 additional employees. the nearly 1,000 opponents of the project, Currently the plant processes 1,800 not only was the ranch’s application specu- cattle per day. When the expansion is comlative, it also could have had a devastating plete in fall of 2019 the plant will have a per impact on local landowners’ water access. day capacity of 2,600 cattle.

This particular battle is over, she said, but “Caviness is excited to expand its processthe fight against corporate water specula- ing capacity at our Hereford plant. This tion still is raging. location has been good to us and we have

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Cattle will primarily come from ranches and dairies in the region, along with some feedyards. The packing plant is predominantly a cull cow and bull processor.

“The Texas panhandle is a vibrant cattle region with wonderful folks that have a great work ethic. The cattle numbers from the supply side are favorable and we are excited to create more packing capacity and demand for cattle in the greater southwest,” Terry Caviness adds.

“Companies are only as good as their people and we are fortunate to have many talented folks on our team. We look forward to bringing people up from within the organization as well as adding new talented team members. We will have many job opportunities coming on the horizon,” says Allen Hare, HR Director.

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eneral Henry Hopkins Sibley (18161886) was in titular command of the Texas Confederate force that invaded New Mexico in early 1862. The general had a great weakness for John Barleycorn (whiskey), a weakness upon which many observers have commented over the years.

New Mexico Civil War historian Don Alberts in Rebels on the Rio Grande noted the general’s reputation as a “walking whiskey keg.”

In commenting on the Battle of Valverde, Horace Greeley in American Conflict, took it easy on the general, noting “Sibley, who had risen from a sick bed that morning, was compelled to dismount and quit the field.”

A confederate soldier who was at Valverde, though, was a bit more succinct: “Mention was made by a number of men in command that he [Sibley] was so much under the influence of liquor that Colonel Tom Green was obliged to assume command.”

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become a footnote in many New Mexico history books. It is generally recognized that he was in actual command and responsible for the Confederate victory at Valverde.

Some commentators have even given him high marks for the quality of his tactics during the fight and his popularity with his men. So, who was Thomas Green?

While he was not a career military man like Sibley, he was certainly well grounded in military operations. Forty-eight years old at Valverde, his experience extended back to 1835 when he left his native Tennessee to join the Texas volunteers under Sam Houston fighting for independence from Mexico and the Mexican army under the command of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. Before it was over the following year, he held the rank of major, at 22 years of age. He left Texas briefly to complete his study of law in Tennessee and returned in 1837.

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Green served in the Republic of Texas House of Representatives and Senate, and as clerk of the Supreme Court. All the while, he served as a volunteer in military actions against Comanche Indians and in the defense of Texas in general. During the Mexican War, he recruited a force of Texas Rangers that became a part of the First Texas Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. He saw action with that group during the capture of Monterrey in the fall of 1846.

When the Civil War began, according to one Texas historian, Green was elected colonel of the Fifth Texas Volunteer Cavalry, and placed under the command of General Sibley. “After a difficult retreat into Texas,” following the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Glorieta (March 26-28, 1862), Colonel Green’s continued efforts on behalf of the Confederacy were stellar. While General Sibley fell into a slough of obscurity and subordinate positions—he was actually

court-martialed a couple of times, but from occupying Louisiana and having acquitted—Colonel Green retained access to Texas itself, he was successful at command of his troops and soldiered on. the Battles of Pleasant Hill and Mansfield.

He and his troops participated in the recap- According to one source, the Battle of Manture of Galveston in early 1863 and in the sfield was a humiliating defeat for the spring of the same year, he commanded the Union forces of about 12,000 men. They lost Confederate First Cavalry Brigade and par- 700 men killed or wounded, and more than ticipated in the war in Louisiana. By then, twice that number taken prisoner. The boys what had been called the Sibley Brigade in blue also lost 20 artillery pieces, 200 became the Green Brigade. wagons, and nearly 1,000 horses and mules.

Green was promoted to brigadier General Tom Green was killed on April general in May 1863 and was responsible 12, 1864 while leading an attack on Union for a string of successful actions against gunboats on the Red River near Blair’s Union forces near the Mississippi and Red Landing, Louisiana. His body was returned Rivers in which his men reportedly inflicted to Austin, Texas for burial. In 1874, the legabout 3,000 causalities while sustaining islature saw fit to name Tom Green County only 600. During the Red River Campaign in his memory. in the spring of 1864, an important effort General Sibley’s reputation deteriorated

by Confederates to stop the Union Army further after the war. By 1869 he had joined

the Egyptian army as an artillery officer.

After his return to the United States in 1874 he lectured on his travels in Egypt, but John Barleycorn continued to trouble him and he died in poverty, in Virginia, in 1886. No one in Texas thought to name a county for him.

Note: 1 It is interesting that one Texas history book fails to mention that Green was involved in the Battle of Valverde and gives the credit solely to Sibley. Of course, this same text gives the Texas invasion of New Mexico in 1841 but one paragraph.

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FDA to Crack Down on Labeling Nondairy Products as ‘Milk’

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n early August, the head of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) said that the Trump administration will move to crack down on the use of the term “milk” for nondairy products like soy and almond beverages.

The agency will soon issue a guidance document outlining changes to its so-called standards of identity policies for marketing milk, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at the POLITICO Pro Summit.

“An almond doesn’t lactate, I will confess,” Gottlieb said, referring to the fact that the agency’s current standards for milk reference products from lactating animals.

The move would be a major boon for dairy groups, which have been struggling amid dropping prices and global oversupply. The industry has petitioned FDA to enforce marketing standards for milk, but the agency has not previously addressed the issue.

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) introduced a bill in early 2017 that would ban the use of the term “milk” in nondairy products. But legislative action on that

front has gained little traction.

Gottlieb said FDA plans to soon start gathering public comment before taking next steps in redefining the rules for milk products.

“This is going to take time,” he said. “It’s not going to take two years, but it probably takes something close to a year to get to go through that process.”

Raising vs. Buying Replacement Heifers

by Jason Bradley, Ag. Econ. Cnslt., Noble Institute

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hen it comes to getting replacement females for your cattle herd, multiple options are available. One would be to use your own cow herd and keep the heifers you need. Or you could outsource and purchase virgin heifers from a different operation and breed them to the bull(s) of your choice. Another option is to buy heifers bred to a bull that would roll straight into your program.

Which one is the best? Like so many things in agriculture, the method that works for one operation may not be the best option for another. That’s why it’s so important to know what the costs are for a particular method while understanding

what benefits you’ll get in return.

Pros and Cons The pros and cons of any method should be considered before making a decision.

With home-raised replacements, you should know exactly what you’re getting.

You’ll also be able to sell any extra bred heifers at a higher price than feeder heifers that are not bred. The downside is it requires a much higher level of management in order to have a well-functioning breeding program, which means you need to take into account the costs and timelines for general management of your operation.

It also means you’re going to have an animal that’s utilizing the available forage while not producing a calf, and you’ll need a plan to prevent inbreeding.

On the other hand, if you purchase your replacements, there will not be any missed animal production because those heifers will be calving that year. This option also allows for new genetics to be brought into the herd. However, there’s not always a guarantee of what kind of calf you will get if you purchase bred heifers. Unfortunately, with this option you cannot guarantee the genetics of the calf that will come from the purchased bred heifer. In order to purchase replacements that increase your chances of getting what you want, you will face a higher purchase price.

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HOME SPUN

by Jim Olson

Have a Friend

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smart fellow once told me, “Want to have friends? Then be one first!”

I once knew a guy who had more friends than anyone I’d ever known. I considered him my best friend, but so did dozens of others. It was amazing. This guy had a genuine knack for making a person feel they were important—that he was genuinely interested in you. He would visit with folks and smile and laugh and make you feel like there were no hidden pretenses about why he was conversing with you. He did not talk about himself all the time, like so many do, he asked about how you were, or talked about things of mutual interest.

Unfortunately, this man died young—in his early thirties. I will never forget how many people were affected by his passing.

At the funeral there was standing room only and people who were not even family

openly sobbed. Hundreds of people were going to really miss him. I remember looking around the room and thinking of other funerals I had been to where there were only a few in attendance. At those funerals it seemed as if only immediate family members were deeply saddened and most everyone else was there because they thought it was the thing to do or they wanted to be seen. What a contrast.

I also had the privilege to know an old cowboy who likewise had been blessed in the friends department. He was a good friend and mentor of mine. When he passed away, the church was not big enough to hold all the people who attended his funeral service. They wound up running a speaker outside so all the folks sitting on the lawn could hear. Again, there were a multitude of people who were deeply saddened by this man’s passing.

On several occasions I witnessed this man meeting a stranger for the first time and within a few minutes he knew the person’s name (and remembered it), where they were from, what they liked to do, etc.

He talked to them about them. After meeting him, people would walk away feeling as though they had just made a new best friend. They felt good. They had a smile

on their face. They felt like they had just made a new friend. Like my buddy in the beginning, this ol’ boy just had a knack for making friends.

There is a difference between talking with someone and talking at someone.

Have you ever had a conversation with a person who just couldn’t wait to tell you about themselves? It seemed like the whole time you were talking, they were not listening, but were simply thinking about what they were going to tell you about themselves as soon as they could regain control of the chat.

What about the person who will not shut up? You find it difficult to get a word in edgewise because they just go on and on with meaningless chit-chat (mostly about themselves or what is going on in their world). Is this having a conversation with someone, or being bombarded with another person’s thoughts? Being a good listener is one thing, but is this the kind of person you look forward to conversing with?

Dale Carnegie wrote, “Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.” Dale’s book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, should be read by all. He continued on page 59 >>

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At Interior, We’re Ready to Bring the Endangered Species Act Up to Date

by Dep. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt The Washington Post

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modern vision of conservation is one that uses federalism, public-private partnerships and market-based solutions to achieve sound stewardship. These approaches, combined with sensible regulations and the best available science, will achieve the greatest good in the longest term.

Last month, the Trump administration took this approach to bringing our government’s implementation of the Endangered Species Act into the 21st century. We asked ourselves how we can enhance conservation of our most imperiled wildlife while delivering good government for our citizens. We found room for improvement in the administration of the act.

When Congress created the Endangered Species Act, it built a tiered classification for our most at-risk wildlife, designing different

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protections for “endangered” and “threat- with us — states, tribes and private landened” species. The act was designed to give owners — ultimately harming species that endangered species the most stringent can thrive with a more tailored approach. protections while affording federal agenThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric cies the authority to tailor special rules for Administration, a federal agency that also lower-risk, threatened species on a case-by- administers the act, understands this. NOAA case basis. has never employed a “blanket rule,” and It may surprise most Americans, however, we propose to follow this approach. that the highest level of protection is often The Endangered Species Act provides applied, regardless of the classification, intensive care for the species with the greatthrough application of a “blanket rule.” The est need in order to ensure they survive for use of this rule by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife future generations. Like with a hospital’s Service automatically elevates protections intensive care unit, the goal is not to keep for threatened species to the same level as patients there forever. The goal is recovery those given to endangered species.

— to send the healthier patients home But automatically treating the threat- where they can continue to receive the ened species as endangered places lower level of care they still need. unnecessary regulatory burden on our citThe criterion for admission to a hospital’s izens without additional benefit to the ICU is the same as it is for discharge: critical species. The blanket rule reflexively prohib- need. The same principle applies to the act, its known habitat management practices, but over the years, the standards for such as selective forest thinning and water down-listing (from endangered to threatmanagement, that might ultimately benefit ened) and altogether delisting a species a threatened species. have been pushed higher than the stanWe need creative, incentive-based con- dards for initially granting protection servation, but that becomes impossible under the act. with the current blurring of the lines We are proposing to clarify that the stanbetween the two distinctions. This muddle dards for listing and delisting are identical. discourages collaborative conservation With limited resources, we cannot and from the parties we most need to partner should not keep recovered species on the

list forever. We must return conservation management back to the capable hands of the states and focus our federal protections and resources on those species that need them most.

These changes are just some in a series of proposals that will improve the administration of the Endangered Species Act, encouraging collaborative conservation and leveraging flexibility to incorporate innovation.

We are also clarifying the meaning of certain terms that are in the act itself but not defined. For example, the law allows us to list species as threatened when they are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, but it does not explain what “foreseeable future” means. We aim to provide the public and our federal agencies

with a universal language that will increase regulatory certainty.

In addition, we want to keep everyday Americans apprised of the impact the government’s work will have on them. We will continue to consider only the best scientific and commercial data in our listing determinations, as required by the act. But collecting data about the economic impacts of a species listing and presenting it to the public increase transparency — a hallmark of good government.

This is the first step in a deliberative process. Rather than allowing special-interest groups to start and end the debate, we will give everyone — including the local voice and the rural voice — an opportunity to have their say. We have kicked off a 60-day public-comment period, after which

we will evaluate the feedback and move forward, making adjustments where appropriate.

Familiar faces have come out in opposition to the proposal, which is no surprise, though sadly, much of their response has been hyperbolic and unhelpful in promoting constructive discussion. But they, too, should submit their ideas, because the status quo is unacceptable for everyone — including the various species of flora and f a u n a t h a t m e r i t t h e a c t ’s protection.

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE

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abor Day was created by Unions to recognize the American Worker. It did not include ranching and farming; if they did it would destroy the ability of a farmer to get a loan. If a farmer included the cost of his daily labor on a financial statement, no banker could find a way to show a profit. But things have changed.

‘Haying’ used to be a full time job for teens in the summer. Tossing bales onto a flat-bed, stacking them on the truck, hauling them back to the hay yard or the barn, throwing bales off and restacking them. It was always hot, sticky, scratchy, sweaty and hard. But if you were on the football team in high school you’d finish the last cutting with money in the bank and muscles like Arnold Schwar zenegger! Oh, and the suntan was free.

Fast forward to today. Teenagers in farm communities now have to go to the gym all summer to get in shape. Because one farmer with a round baler, a self-propelled inline bale wrapper, and a tractor with a bale spear can do the work of full teenage hayin’ crew in half the time. One of the most labor-intensive chores on the ranch is building fence. I worked for a big outfit that had several large ranches with miles of fence.

We had a four-man crew. They would set the corners and the brace posts with posthole diggers and tamping bars. The roll of barbwire would be strung out, carried by two men often walking for miles when the country was too rough to drive along the fence line. Then the wire was stretched and the steel posts were driven in the ground with 15-pound post pounder every 20 or so feet. Stays and clips were spun on to finish.

Sometimes they could do a mile a day.

Today we have a tractor with a posthole digger on the three-point hitch and a post pounder (or pusher in places where it rains).

For those who still want to “rough it” there is the hand-held hydraulic post driver.

Some hand work always has to be done; stretchers, inline strainers, corner braces, and a good eye for a straight line but we have reduced the amount of sweat work and the need for a crew of four strong men.

How about the old days of chopping

weeds in the row crops? I remember the Bracero Program along the Mexican border where workers legally came into the U.S. to chop weeds, hand plant and harvest crops.

The U.S. government stopped the program because it was supposedly taking work from able-bodied Americans. The very next year every cotton farmer in the Rio Grande Valley had bought a McCormick cotton picking machine. Now we spray for weeds or use genetically modified crops that resist insects, weeds and disease. When I was a lad we milked one cow. It supplied butter and milk for our family. Most farmers kept 5-10 milk cows. It took an hour or two every morning. It was the longest part of ‘doing the chores.’ Farmers sold their milk and cream or traded it for goods. Even today in highly automated dairies milking thousands of cows, it is still an intensive, hands-on part of agriculture. The only thing they don’t have to do is milk them!

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Then he would walk back and feed the hogs, scatter grain to the chickens, turn the draft horses out, then up to the house for breakfast. If they painted that picture today, he would be on his four-wheeler and probably weighing another twenty pounds!

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This Stripe is Earned

by Stephen L. Wilmeth

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esterday’s scripture from the eastern plains was from First Peter.

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile and envy and all slander, like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, it you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

Yes, the past president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, Pat Boone, has created a ministry that touches a growing swath of Westerners who are united by a strong and powerful hand. I must admit that I have come to welcome the ding of the arrival of his text message each morning. In all the chaos that surrounds us, his selected biblical passages spread a simplistic reminder that our being does not exist in a vacuum.

We exist solely because of His plan.

In reminder of that, each of us is granted

sources of strength and hope. They may be many, or they may be few, but, from around us, friends, family and loved ones emerge to provide support and some degree of encouragement. As they appear, they become precious gifts of life.

Without a better word for it, they become our GraceNotes.

Caballeros My email distribution list is actually pretty small.

It is that mix of questionable characters and comrades that are on the receiving end of the news and smoke signals that affect our daily lives. I have described such missives and alerts as arriving by pack saddle from Mogollon Creek, pouch from the dead end of a Redrock Road, afterthought from the front porch of the house of some repute, and recorded messages from the mists of the outside world. Each is a person who has emerged as a trusted friend. Yes, we often attempt to out score each other in the outrageous or extreme, but, when issues of the heart emerge, there is resolve to be openly honest and to trust and to listen to the responses.

It is within our GraceNote exchange.

I knew the Mogollon Creek reference

before I knew the Mogollon Creek reference. As he sat nearby in a chair recently, his appearance was different than the day he came walking up the road, just he and his hound dog, with the hound dog decked out in leather gaiters on all four legs up to his knees.

“Why does he need those things?” was the greeting.

“Because he needs them,” was the emphatic and final point of discussion on the matter.

The Redrock road reference was a gift in later life that has heritage ties. One each of our parents had grown up in the Depression within two miles of each other. There was a childhood story of tragedy that would be repeated many times before the descendent of the victim was even known.

A lesson in unwavering beliefs and actions is the only outcome in this relationship. Steadfast is the byline.

The porch of the house of some repute chains from mixed CC’s. Horses or long friendships are the connectors, and the outcome, as in the case of each and every horse experience, is mixed with hope and despair.

“Why do we do this to ourselves?” must be the exclamation to nobody in particular

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as sounds from the near hind gut are sought.

“Respiration is pretty normal and there is no real visible stress, but something (as in life) is just not right!”

The mists from the outside are the various close loyalists, mere mortals, and comrades that connect this life. They range from Louden County on the edge of DC,

through Overland Park, Ft. Collins, and life, but there is that connection. down into Oklahoma, over to Albuquerque, If we have made what we have touched across Otero Mesa to Iraan on the Pecos, up better, it is only through Him and His plan. along the banks of the Rio Grande, on the Along the way, we have found inordinate sides of the Potrillos and Alamo Huecos, preferences for the sounds of clattering down the Mangus to the Gila, and on out rocks and rolling thunder, the sight of green to Kings and Fresno Counties, California. grass, the taste of corral dust, and the sweet They are all special and trusted folks. smell of leather and our livestock.

We are family, true Caballeros, and …

Father, forgive us if we have placed too GraceNotes. much attachment on these earthly partialities!

This Stripe is Earned But, that is who we are, and that is how There is light showing on the eastern our lives have been blessed. There are horizon, so I’ve got to hustle. several ways to close this. What I’ll say is that There is a problem pump awaiting. It is each of you has become special, and today not working, and a solution must be found. is set aside for that proclamation.

There will be speculation and there will be Now, I’m going to go get in the pickup suggestions and resistance, but there will and head to the ranch. I’ll leave the windows be a solution and, ultimately, resolution. down and welcome the morning air. I will That is just the way life is. likely think about many things, but if a ding I’d prefer to be horseback today, but that gains my attention, bets are it could be Pat won’t happen. So many things are made and his morning scripture. If it is, I will read better by being horseback. As I think about it, and, pray that each of you will feel its it, that is the common thread in this reflec- impact from afar. tion of GraceNotes. From Pat’s ongoing gift of scripture, through the daily experiences Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern we witness on this land, to those who might New Mexico. find weekly words of a western way of life interesting, there is a connection. There is nothing perfect in our lives or our way of

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he Texas Tech University System Board of Regents moved forward with Texas Tech University’s plans to establish a new School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo by approving the new school, its degree plan and funding for preliminary designs for the school.

The approval was given during the Board of Regents’ in mid-August. During its last legislative session in 2017, the state legislature approved $4.17 million for a feasibility study to establish the state’s second school of veterinary medicine on the campus of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo.

“We appreciate the Board’s continued commitment to the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo and support of our vision to address a critical need in the region, state and nation,” said Lawrence Schovanec, Texas Tech President. “I will continue to work closely with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center President Tedd Mitchell and our Board as we move forward with this important initiative.”

Construction of two new veterinary school buildings is expected to cost $89 million with an additional five-year operating budget cost of $89.82 million, which includes classroom equipment, supplies and the cost of faculty pay. The Board of Regents approved the concept for the veterinary school and a proposed first-stage design budget of $1.37 million.

“The Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine is one of the initiatives we are pursuing for the Texas Tech University System as we continue to build momentum heading into the upcoming legislative session,” Texas Tech University System Chairman of the Board of Regents L. Frederick “Rick” Francis said. “This impactful initiative will further demonstrate the ability our institutions have to serve our state. We greatly value our partnership with Mayor Ginger Nelson and the Amarillo com-

munity along with the agricultural community and the dedicated support we have received from our generous donors.”

The plan approved by the Board of Regents would enroll 60 students per year for a desired enrollment of 240 students for the four-year program. The school also would serve 150-200 graduate students who are not seeking a doctorate in veterinary medicine, as well as an academic staff of 90.

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n animal rights organization has filed another complaint against Washington State University for issues related to the deaths of three bats and the castration of two cows.

According to a news release from Stop Animal Exploitation Now, it uncovered information through the Freedom of Information Act that three juvenile bats that were part of an experiment died in the University’s care, and two calves were castrated without being given the sedative Xylazine. The Ohio-based group that describes itself as a national research watchdog group, and has filed several complaints against WSU in recent years, is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate the incidents and take appropriate enforcement actions pending the outcome.

Charlie Powell, a spokesman for the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine, said the incident involving the cow castrations happened more than a year ago, was self-reported to the USDA by the University, and the person involved was disciplined.

Adrian Aumen, a spokeswoman for the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, said the bats that died were between four and six weeks old, flying on their own and not attached to their mothers, indicating they were weaned.

“Researchers had no reason to expect an adverse outcome,” she said.

The incident was also reported to the USDA by university officials and procedures were changed to avoid a repeat in the future.

“It’s regrettable anytime an animal dies.

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he New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) was selected to receive the 2018 West Regional Award of Merit by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) for its contributions to the improvement of dam safety in New Mexico.

The New Mexico Office of the State Engineer Dam Safety Bureau nominated NMDA for the ASDSO West Regional Award for the completion of the Soil and Water Conservation District-Owned Dams Inundation Mapping and Emergency Action Planning Project. The project is a product of NMDA’s Agricultural Programs and Resources Division.

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NMDA’s Agricultural Programs and Resources Division Director Julie Maitland said the award is the result of effective collaboration.

“This is a great honor that recognizes the partnerships that NMDA has with New Mexico’s Office of the State Engineer Dam Safety Bureau, local Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Flood Control and Emergency Management Officials, AECOM (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations and Management), the engineering contractor and the great work of our team,” said Maitland.

Maitland will accept the award on behalf of NMDA Sept. 10 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington during the 2018 Dam Safety ASDSO National Conference.

The Dam Inundation Mapping and Emergency Action Planning Project came into fruition in 2014 after the New Mexico Legislature provided $1 million to NMDA to provide much needed Inundation Maps and Emergency Action Plans to Soil and Water Conservation and Watershed Districts.

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New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte said that this achievement award recognizes the partnerships that NMDA has, as well as the great work of the department.

“This was an important and much needed project to begin the process of inundation mapping in order to encourage future dam rehabilitation and emergency action planning,” said Witte.

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Moving the swamp to the West and possible CEQ revisions

Zinke’s folly

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n July 21 in Denver, Secretary of Interior Zinke briefed a group of United States Geological Survey senior executives on his reorganization proposal. Zinke said he probably planned to move the headquarters of the BLM, the USFWS and the Bureau of Reclamation to Denver, based on notes taken by the senior executives and obtained by E&E news. The following is based on those notes.

There are some good thoughts here by Zinke.

It included discussion of the secretary’s desire to shift more department resources and personnel from Washington to field offices across the country and empower front-line employees with more decision-making authority.

I have no quarrel with shifting resources and personnel out of DC and I agree with giving front-line employees more decision-making authority. The latter was one of our many accomplishments during the Reagan administration. Both can be accomplished under current authorities and do not require a major reorganization including establishing different zones for ecosystem management.

“Zinke believes the DOI organization is an upside-down pyramid — there are too many high-graded employees,” the notes said.

“There needs to be more lower grades, and they need to be in the field. Example, when a GS-14 retires, we should hire a GS-6 or 9.”

What Zinke says here is true of many federal agencies, including the Dept. of Interior. Taking action to remedy this is an excellent goal, but again, can be accomplished within the current structure.

Zinke has told lawmakers that he wants to reduce the department workforce by 4,000 full-time jobs through a mix of attrition, separation incentives and reassignments to meet the recommendations of the Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget request.

A laudable goal for which I wish him great success. The problem here is the

Republicans in Congress who so far have refused to go along with budget cuts.

The Montanan, a former Navy SEAL, also outlined for career managers his plan to have field offices report to regional joint management areas (JMAs) based on watershed and wildlife corridors. The idea is based on the military’s joint command structure. Leadership at the JMAs “could change or rotate between bureaus in the JMAs,” the notes said.

“They are looking to select two to three cities in each of the 13 regions which will compete to be site of the regional/JMA office,” the meeting notes said. “Cities have to be no more than two hops from D.C. (by air), affordable and with good community infrastructure.”

This is where Zinke and I part. I have previously written these Joint Management Areas look suspiciously like the Climate Science Centers and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives established under President Obama. The House Committee on Natural Resources has been highly critical of these entities. “Despite a significant federal investment of at least $149 million, their effectiveness, management, and levels of oversight remain serious concerns to the Committee.” An Office of Inspector General report found “the LCCs failed to adequately keep track of their projects” in

an accessible database.

Despite the OIG reports and the concerns expressed by the Committee, Zinke appears to base his reorganization on the same concept – ecosystem management.

Some will say the Obama LCCs were the first step, and now Zinke proposes to implement the same management scheme in a fashion not even dared by the Obama administration. It has been observed the environmental community has not been critical of the overall concept. Some think this is what they have been after for years.

On a hike in Colorado and speaking of the need for reorganization, Zinke said: “There’s no reason a trail can’t begin on Forest Service property and go into a park and end up on (Bureau of Land Management) property.”

Zinke is right, there is no reason it can’t be accomplished, which means it does not provide a reason to reorganize.

The Forest Service is in the USDA, not the USDI, so of what relevance is his example to a reorganization of the USDI? “If you’re a military commander, it makes sense to put your headquarters next to the fight.”

It is a war zone out here. The cause of the skirmishes, however, are various federal

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laws. It matters little where you place the soldiers. The battle will continue and harm inflicted until the cause – federal law – is addressed.

Where are Zinke’s war-ending, peace proposals to amend the ESA, NEPA, CWA, CAA, FLPMA, etc.? So far, his highest legislative priority is to increase infrastructure funding and permanently fund federal land acquisition. From my perspective, that’s like improving the supply lines and increasing the ranks of the federal army. We in the West want to sue for peace, but all Zinke is proposing is to move the troops around. It may appear he is doing something, but in the long run it will accomplish little. He’s not draining the swamp, he’s just moving it West.

Writing recently in the Daily Caller, Tim Pearce referred to the proposed move of the BLM headquarters as a “good faith gesture” to farmers and ranchers who often

complain of an agency far away from them and the resources they use.

A “good faith gesture” is an accurate description of this proposal. It is just a gesture. Not a single law, regulation, field manual or policy memo is changed. The same landlord will exist, implementing the same statutory and regulatory regime.

Currently 94 percent of BLM employees are stationed in the field. I fail to see how moving the remaining 6 percent will result in any substantive change.

Think back to the Obama administration.

If the headquarters of the BLM and the USFWS had been located in Colo. or Utah, what real difference would this have made?

Would the administration of grazing permits, the implementation of NEPA, or the preferred alternatives in land use plans have been different? Would the number of endangered species listed have been different? Or the number and size of critical

habitat designations?

If these agencies had been headquartered in the West, would their Congressional testimony, on behalf of the Obama administration, in favor of additional wilderness areas and other restrictive designations have been different?

Would Obama have designated fewer National Monuments?

I think not.

My fear is that while we have Republicans controlling the Presidency and both Houses of Congress, we are squandering an opportunity to bring meaningful, longterm changes to the statutes under which we are governed, and instead are spending energy, time and political capital debating and determining where our oppressors will be located.

Zinke is working on “upside-down pyramids” while we should be removing chariots from the Pharaoh’s arsenal.

Somewhere in the West, a chamber of commerce would benefit from the relocation of these headquarters. An urban area will welcome the federal employees and the additional spending they will bring. In the rural areas, where these lands and their users actually exist, little will have changed.

NEPA changes The Council on Environmental Quality recently put out a call for suggestions on how to revise the CEQ regulations on NEPA. Nick Ashcroft, on behalf on the Linebery Policy Council at NMSU responded with eight pages of comments.

Ashcroft writes that many view commenting on the NEPA documents as a waste of time because “they are viewed as only justifying the predetermined agency actions” and that only the environment impacts are presented “while the social or economic impacts of the human environment” are minimized or considered inconsequential.

Ashcroft then offers dozens of specific suggestions on how to improve the process.

His comments are available on the Linebery Policy Center website to review or download.

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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Forest Service to Work More Closely With States to Battle Wildfires

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he federal government will work more closely with states to help curtail the spread of devastating wildfires, officials recently announced.

The U.S. Forest Service plan, touted at the Capitol in mid-August by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, focuses on working with state and tribal stakeholders to target localized preventive treatments, including prescribed burns, to areas most likely to benefit from them.

The latest federal spending bill gave the Forest Service flexibility to pursue some of those treatments—including road maintenance, increased logging and the removal of dead plants—to reduce the amount of burnable fuel in the path of wildfires, interim chief Vicki Christiansen said in a statement.

“The challenges before us require a new approach,” she said. “This year Congress has given us new opportunities to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with state leaders to identify land management priorities that include mitigating wildfire risks. We will use all the tools available to us to reduce hazardous fuels, including mechanical treatments, prescribed fire and unplanned fire in the right place at the right time.”

The Forest Service has treated a steadily growing area of land since the 1990s, but “catastrophic wildfires and the corresponding loss of lives, homes and natural resources have continued to grow, partly because our treatments have been uncoordinated and not at the right scale,” the

report says.

The changes are also necessary because forest land across the country continues to be subjected to myriad challenges, “among them catastrophic wildfires, invasive species, droughts, degraded watersheds, and epidemics of forest insects and disease,” the report says. The report suggested those challenges are driven primarily by climate change, citing “regional changes in temperature, precipitation patterns and other environmental conditions” as factors.

Perdue himself has so far declined to attribute the growing risk of wildfires to man-made climate change. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke did as well, noting at a cabinet meeting that the cause is unimportant because the Forest Service has to address the increased risk either way.

Shared responsibility is key to that prevention, according to the report.

“In an era of megafires that sweep across landscapes in multiple ownerships, no single entity can meet the challenge alone at the scale needed to reduce fire risk across broad landscapes,” it says. “The belief that individual landowners and land managers can and should shoulder all responsibility for disturbance-related risks within their own jurisdictions is outdated. The risk is at scales that are simply too great.”

The Forest Service will begin by meeting with state and local stakeholders across the country to discuss the framework of the plan, align goals and receive feedback.

“We commit to work more closely with the states to reduce the frequency and severity of wildfires,” Perdue said in a state-

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he largest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in three decades went into effect this year, impacting farmers, ranchers and other rural landowners in a variety of ways.

For the most part, financial experts anticipate benefits for these groups.

“The increase in the exemption in estate and generation-skipping taxes to $11.2 million in 2018 will allow more farmland to be passed to future generations with less or no estate tax.” –Burl D. Lowery, CPA “The 2018 tax law changes include several items that I feel will be beneficial to agricultural producers,” says Burl D. Lowery, a Brownwood, Texas, certified public accountant (CPA) and a director of Central Texas Farm Credit. “The increase in the exemption in estate and generation-skipping taxes to $11.2 million in 2018 will allow more farmland to be passed to future generations with less or no estate tax.

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The new federal tax law was expected to change some of the individual tax-rate brackets and adjust the bracket amounts.

While the total number of brackets remains at seven, the top rate will fall from 39.6 percent to 37 percent, and the amount of income covered by the lower brackets has been adjusted. This is significant as the vast majority of farmers pay taxes as individuals.

Standard Deduction The standard deduction for individuals increases to $12,000 for single filers and $24,000 for joint filers.

Section 179 Depreciation Deduction Beginning with the 2018 tax year, farmers will be allowed to immediately write off capital purchases, including breeding livestock, farm equipment and single-purpose structures, such as milking parlors, up to $1 million dollars. The phase-out of this expensing provision does not kick in until a farm reaches $2.5 million in purchases.

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The new law expands bonus depreciation to include both new and used property that is purchased or constructed. The 100 percent deduction also applies to fruit- and nut-bearing plants that are planted during the year.

It is important to note that many states do not conform exactly to the federal bonus and Section 179 depreciation provisions.

For example, a farmer expensing 100 percent of a $3 million capital purchase with bonus depreciation may not receive that $3 million deduction at the state level.

Farm Equipment Farm machinery and equipment (other than grain bins, fences or other land improvements) will be eligible for depreciation over five years, rather than the previous seven years, as long as the original use of the asset begins with the taxpayer.

within a 15 percent tax bracket may actually see a tax-rate increase. Those producers may want to visit with their accountants or attorneys about possible tax advantages to modifying their corporate structure.

$25 Million Interest Deduction Limitation Businesses, including farms, will now be limited on interest-expense deductions when their gross receipts exceed $25 million. If applicable, the interest deduction cannot be more than the business interest income plus 30 percent of adjusted taxable income. Taxable income is computed without regard to certain adjustments, such as business interest expense and net operating losses.

Farmer cooperatives and other farming businesses may elect to be exempt from the interest-expense limitation. In exchange, such businesses may use an alternative 10-year depreciation system.

There is an election that farmers may consider in order to avoid the limitation.

The catch, however, is that a slower alternative depreciation system will have to be used on farm property with a recovery period of 10 years or more, such as greenhouses and barns. Farmers will be permitted to carry interest forward indefinitely, subject to some pass-through limitations for partnerships.

Corporate Tax Rate Although the new flat tax rate will benefit most farmers by decreasing their tax rate, some farming corporations that fall

Net Operating Losses

The law limits net operating losses (NOLs) to 80 percent of taxable income.

Cash Method Accounting Farmers are permitted a two-year NOL Farmers with average gross receipts carryback. (more than three years) under $25 million “It is imperative that producers begin the will be permitted to use the cash method planning process now with their tax advisors.” of accounting. Additionally, these taxpayers –John R. Adams, CPA will not be required to account for inventories under Section 471. However, cash-basis Domestic Production Activities taxpayers will not be able to deduct inven- Deduction tory until sold. The uniform capitalization The Section 199 domestic production activities deduction (DPAD) has been repealed. As a result, some cooperatives may accelerate that pass-through deduction to patrons before year end.

Like-Kind Exchanges Like-kind exchanges are limited to real property. For example, farmers can still swap land for other land tax-free, but equipment trade-ins will no longer be tax-free events.

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Estate Tax The federal estate tax exemption rate will double to approximately $11.2 million per individual and $22.4 million for married couples in 2018. These increased amounts will sunset on Jan. 1, 2026.

Deductions for Cooperatives The tax bill eliminated the Section 199 tax deduction for domestic production activities income used by farmer-owned co-ops and typically passed on to their member-owners. It was replaced by Section 199A, which provides a pass-through deduction for virtually all entities other than corporations.

As originally written, Section 199A included a 20 percent deduction on all payments from a farmer co-op to its members, a provision to which owners of private grain elevators objected. In March, the omnibus spending bill corrected the so-called grain glitch.

The “fixed” version of 199A essentially puts Section 199 back into the code, so that it operates as closely as possible to the “old” 199. Under the new version, co-op members calculate their own deduction, and can also receive a pass-through deduction from the co-op. One significant change in the new

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from the production period with regard to the uniform capitalization (UNICAP) rules, thereby allowing deductions over a quicker time frame. The credit against the wine excise tax also was expanded. Sparkling wine producers are included.

Like cooperatives, noncorporate taxpayers will get a 20 percent deduction that may The Affordable Care Act be used to offset ordinary income.

Of concern, much like the DPAD that is The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was not being repealed, are limitations associated repealed with the new tax provisions. While with the noncorporate taxpayers’ 20 the individual health insurance mandate percent deduction, such as the amount of technically remains, the penalty has been wages and unadjusted tax basis the busi- reduced to $0, effectively rendering it moot. nesses have. The cooperative members’ However, beginning in 2019, other aspects deduction has limitations as well. of the ACA, including the employer These limitations are somewhat compli- mandate, remain in place as before. cated, and certain provisions remain unclear as to their mechanics. Additionally, –Article courtesy of Farm Credit East the deduction only offsets income tax, not Adapted from an article titled “What the New Tax self-employment tax. One of the concerns Law Means for Northeast Agriculture,” published at with the deduction is that it may be of little FarmCreditEast.com in December 2017 and updated use to dairy farmers who cull cows, since in 2018. Contributors: Dario Arezzo, Joseph Baldwin, Paul VanDenburgh, Christopher Laughton, Kristine any capital gain sales, such as raised cows, Tidgren, Tiffany Dowell Lashmet and Marlis Carson limits the impact of the deduction.

Breweries, Distilleries and Wineries Alcohol manufacturers will enjoy a reduction in excise tax for the next two years. The new legislation also excludes the aging periods for beer, wine and spirits

Disclaimer: The information in this report has been compiled from sources believed to be reliable. This is provided for general information purposes only and is not market advice. Farm Credit Bank of Texas makes no representation or warranty regarding the content presented.

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Climate scientist Cliff Mass noted AP’s simple correlation is not “science” and misses other key drivers of fires.

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he Associated Press is out with an analysis claiming that “science says” the amount of western U.S. land scorched by wildfires every year increases as temperatures go up.

However, while those things are true, simply correlating two data trends is not “science,” as AP writer Seth Borenstein claims. And one expert says the simple correlation is meant to suggest a strong relationship between global warming and western wildfires that might not be there.

“This is not science,” University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The AP’s analysis found the “five years with the most acres burned since 1983 averaged 63.4 degrees from April to September,” which is “1.2 degrees warmer than average and 2.4 degrees hotter than the years with the least acres burned.”

Since 1999, “10 years have had more than 10,000 square miles burned, including 2017, 2015 and 2006 when more than 15,000 square miles burned,” the AP found.

“Nationally, more than 8,900 square miles have burned this year, about 28 percent more than the 10-year average as of mid-August.”

However, the simple correlation between temperature and wildfires is meant to play into a broader media narrative that global warming is the main driver of fires, but Mass noted that other factors, including land management, play an important role.

“Correlation is not causation,” Mass said.

“Temperatures are warming, that is true.

Wildfire area in increasing in parts of the west, also true. But one does not necessarily cause another.”

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management of our forests, and a huge ture with areas burned by wildfire is nearly influx of people into the west, lightning identical to a “fact check” published about fires and providing lots of fuel for them,” two weeks earlier by the website Mass said.

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Most fires are human-caused, including The site argued “there is a strong rela95 percent of fires in California, according tionship between temperature and fire to recent research. Sparks from vehicles, extent, with warmer years generally having chainsaws and generators can set off higher fire extent than relatively cooler massive blazes, as can power lines colliding ones since the early 1980s.” with dried-out vegetation. Arson is the Like The AP, Carbon Brief only looked at cause of many fires. data from 1983 onward. Author Zeke HausAs the population of the West spreads father said that’s because data before then into fire-prone landscapes, so does the risk is unreliable, noting the U.S. Forest Service of human-caused fires. Wildfire season is estimates of massive wildfires in the 1930s longer and more widespread in part and 1940s were “double counted two or because of an increased human presence three times.” in areas already prone to burning.

U.S. Forest Service estimates are often “I should note that there is a deep litera- cited to show wildfires were much worse in ture for California fires showing a very weak the past, suggesting land management is a correlation between summer temperatures major factor in keeping large fires in check. and wildfires,” Mass said. “If Borenstein had So does that mean all data prior to 1983 written up his ‘study’ and submitted it for should be ignored? publication, it would have been quickly Probably not. State-level data for lands rejected.” under their jurisdiction also suggests Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said that massive wildfires burned in the 1930s and while climate change is a factor in drying 1940s comparable, or even larger, than out vegetation, the fact that officials aren’t today’s fires. That trend is exemplified in clearing fuel from public lands is letting data presented by the Oregon Department fires grow to catastrophic proportions. of Forestry.

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New Mexico Wool Growers’, Inc. serving as President of the (NMWGI) 2016 Sheepman of the American Sheep Industry AssoYear at the association’s recent annual ciation (ASI), the national meeting in Ruidoso. organization that represents “Mike Corn is a great advocate for the sheep producers. He is also sheep industry, both here in New Mexico active in the Chaves County and on the national level,” said his son Farm & Livestock Bureau, the Bronson Corn, NMWGI President, Roswell. New Mexico Hereford Associa“He is an eternal optimist when it comes to tion and the Chaves County the sheep business, and works hard to Soil & Water Conservation Disprotect and promote our industry and way trict. He also sits on the New of life. He is a rancher, sheepman, and a Mexico Cattle Growers’ Associfamily man, and we are proud to have this ation Board of Directors. opportunity to say thank you.”

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CATRON COUNTY: a diversified ranch offering “Lots of Water” for irrigation and sub-irrigation meadowlands, a private 15 acre lake stocked with fish supported by “free flowing springs.” These meadows also support a good “drought proof cattle operation” for 250 - 275 AU’s. Hunting for elk, mule deer, antelope and all kinds of water fowl. 18,760 Total Acres with 9579 deeded acres, 8004 acres state and 1180 acres BLM. There is no public road access to the ranch except for one 800 acres pasture and the balance is kept locked and hunting is controlled on about 17,900 acres. Two modest set of improvements. A unique opportunity to own a nice Ranch providing grazing and diversified recreational uses while having a strong investment in the State’s limited resource “WATER!” HARDING COUNTY: this small 10 section ranch is one of those hunting properties that’s surrounded by large grazing operations with private access to the Ranch and no public roads; thus providing an ideal, extremely scenic, rough natural terrain supporting perfect wildlife habitat which includes elk, mule deer, bear, mountain lion, turkey and waterfowl. Several wells and numerous large dirt reservoirs. No living facilities. A perfect, private getaway!

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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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These resources are in addition to other currently available through Farmers. gov, including: ЇЇ A mobile-friendly Service center locator, connecting users with USDA assistance at the location nearest them, ЇЇ Information about the new 2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program, which provides disaster payments to producers to offset losses from hurricanes and wildfires during 2017,

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

Wagon Mound, NM: Gramma grass pasture land located on Colmor Road NW of Wagon Mound. We have ~959 acres of perimeter and cross fenced pasture on Ocate Creek watered w/stock tanks & new well. Views are nice too! Asking $859,000 Villanueva, NM: 547 acres of scenic wild west views, located 2 miles north of B29A. This parcel has mesa top, dramatic canyon & arroyos with cedar & pinon tree cover.

Off the grid and private access. Asking $324,000 Trujillo, NM: Located on CR-B21 2 miles east of SR 104. Parcel is 567 deeded acres w/rim rock views, spring fed stock tanks w/blue stem & native grass. OC too! Lots of 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 has irrigation rights, comfortable modern home, cobblestone guest house, huge heated studio/workshop/garage & has perimeter fencing. Near La Fragua on Hwy 3. List Price: $475,000 Bernal, NM: 126 + hilltop acres has 2116 frontage road access. Electric & telephone at property line & is partially fenced. Asking $117,000 Chapelle, NM: Just listed, 135 acres of scenic creek frontage land. Has an old adobe in good condition. Power on site. Easy county road access and incredible wild west views!

Upper Anton Chico: This 7.5 acre alfalfa farm is perimeter fenced & irrigated w/ under ground delivery, easy to work and water. Excellent production history. Has adjudicated ditch rights & Pecos River frontage. Asking $82,500 & owner may finance.

Apache Mesa Road: Two 80 acre parcels w/very good water wells. West parcel has 4 bedroom permitted septic system, solar array, 50 gpm well. Priced at $145,000.

East parcel has 2 dirt tanks, 2 sides fenced & mountain views w/13 gpm well. Price: $168,000 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 building sites ~26 fenced acres. 4 legal lots have overhead power, ponderosa pine & some pinon tree cover. Perimeter fenced w/lots of timber & ditch water too. Asking $330,000 for all 4 lots! Make an offer...

Call for details on 300 to 700+ cow/calf or yearling operations.

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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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MAJOR RANCH REALTY RANDELL MAJOR Qualifying Broker

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

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

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. Improvements include extensive set of working corrals and typical ranch headquarters with two houses and several outbuildings. Price $850,000. Call Traegen Knight.

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

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Southern New Mexico Properties For Sale FENCE LAKE: 295 Pine Hill Road, 2bd/3ba home on 60 acres, corrals, outbuildings, $350,000.

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Wanted: your farms, ranches & rural properties to list & sell. Broker has over 40 years of experience in production agriculture & is a farm owner.

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RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE WE NEED LISTINGS ON ALL TYPES OF AG PROPERTIES LARGE OR SMALL!

■ LEONCITO DRAW RANCH – 14 sections +/- deeded, 120

+/- BLM, 20 +/- uncontrolled, beautiful Santa Fe style completed remodeled rock/adobe home, employee housing, good set of working pens, located SW of Santa Rosa, NM, beautiful view from all directions.

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■ SAN MIGUEL CO., NM – 3,000 +/- ac., mostly deeded, virtually

new mobile home w/metal hay barn, metal shop bldg., good pens, open country to deep canyons.

■ ARROYO LARGO – 22,850 ac. +/- located in Lincoln, Chaves & DeBaca Counties, NM, well improved w/two homes, working pens & fences, well-watered by wells & pipelines, open rolling country w/ numerous draws & arroyos provide for year-round cow/calf operation or seasonal yearling operation.

■ GRASSLAND W/STRONG IRRIGATION POTENTIAL – Union Co., NM - approx. 927.45 ac. +/-, on pvmt., organic poss. TEXLINE SPECIAL – 472.4 ac. irr., on Dalhart/Clayton hwy. in New Mexico, adjoins the Grassland w/Strong Irrigation Potential.

■ TEXLINE SPECIAL – 472.4 ac. irr., on Dalhart/Clayton hwy. in New Mexico, adjoins the Grassland w/Strong Irrigation Potential.

■ MALPAIS OF NM – Lincoln/Socorro Counties, 37.65 sections

+/- (13,322 ac. +/- Deeded, 8,457 ac. +/- BLM Lease, 2,320 ac. +/State Lease) good, useable improvements & water, some irrigation w/2 pivot sprinklers, on pvmt., all-weather road.

Near Lincoln, NM - Beautiful river property, senior water rights, historic home, 33+- deeded acres.

• Clayton, NM, 4,134-acre ranch - SOLD! • Quay, NM, 1,030-acre ranch - SOLD! • Grady, NM, 160 acres - SOLD! Need more listings – call Tom at 575-403- 6903

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

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

■ WEST CLOVIS HWY. 60 – 1,536.92 ac. +/- of grassland w/two

mi. of hwy. frontage on Hwy. 60, ½ mi. of frontage on Hwy. 224, 3 mi. of frontage on south side of Curry Rd. 12, watered by one well at the pens piped to both pastures.

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

■ OTERO CO., NM – 120 scenic ac. +/- on the Rio Penasco is

surrounded by Lincoln National Forest lands covered in Pines & opening up to a grass covered meadow along 3,300 feet +/- of the Rio Penasco. This property is an ideal location to build a legacy mountain getaway home.

■ GREAT STARTER RANCH – Quay Co., NM – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. +/-deeded, 80 ac. +/- State Lease, excellent access from I-40.

■ OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A PIECE OF AN OLD WEST RANCH

– Guadalupe Co., NM - There are multiple owners of the Frontier Ranch consisting of their individual, undivided ownership of 6,423.45 ac. +/- w/undivided ownership ranging from 38 ac. +/- & greater.

You may buy undivided interest in this ranch at your discretion, this country suitable for a year-round cow/calf or summer yearling grazing.

■ DEER, QUAIL & OTHER WILDLIFE – 779 ac. +/- – Borden Co.,

TX. – adjoins the Quail Haven ranch on the north for addtl. acres or can be bought separately, well fenced & watered w/a good set of pens, on large, all-weather, caliche road.

■ QUAIL HAVEN along w/deer, turkey, antelope & other wildlife – Borden Co., TX., 1,672.8 +/- ac., well located near Gail/Snyder, Texas on pvmt. & all-weather road, well improved.

■ STRONG WATER AREA – 1,280 ac. +/-, Texas Co., OK, 3 ¼

mile sprinkler in place, 1 irrigation well, remaining 5 quarters to be developed w/new wells & new sprinklers, test holes drilled, drilling of new wells set to take place. Please call for further details!

■ SE OF HEREFORD, TX – 658.3 ac. +/- w/498 ac. +/- of CRP, balance in native grass, virtually new 5 strand barbed wire fence around perimeter, nice set of steel pens. NM Associate Broker owned.

■ UTE LAKE SUBDIVISION – beautiful, new custom built home,

over 5,000 sq. ft. on 3.230 ac. +/-, 4 bdrm., 3 ½ bath, 3 fireplaces immaculate w/view from every room.

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DRIPPING SPRINGS RANCH, MULE CREEK, NM - 232 deeded acres with 13,000 Gila National Forest allotment for the grazing of 150 head of mother cows a 4 horses yearlong. Nice improvements, beautiful country. Priced @$2,500,000 SMITH DRAW, SEPAR, NM - 7760 deeded, 11,275 State, 2560 BLM runs 300 head yearlong. Good strong country nice improvements. Priced @$3,100,000 RAINBOWS END RANCH, SUNIZONA, AZ – 315 head yearlong, 5588 deeded acres 15000 state and BLM lease. Good easy grass country. This is a nice ranch in a very productive area of Arizona.

Priced @$3,500,000 CANELO SPRINGS RANCH – Canelo AZ 4972 acre total with 160 deeded, 85 head year round, live water, beautiful improvements and country. Priced @$3,500,000 THE FOURR RANCH DRAGOON AZ – 1280 deeded acres, 11610 AZ state, and 3689 NF Acres. Runs 300 head, Wellwatered, lots of grass. Priced @$4,250,000

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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

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*NEW* 440 Head Desert Ranch - near Deming, NM – The Spanish Stirrup Ranch, situated in stunning Florida Mountain Range, has 663.39 +/- deeded Acres, 16,963+/ac BLM permits; 5,184.5 +/- ac State leases; and 12+/- Sections of adverse grazing.

Carries 440 AU’s plus 8 Horses on 12+/pastures/traps. This historic ranch dates back to the 1870’s, rich in native artifacts and lore. A traditional working cattle ranch with rolling to somewhat mountainous terrain. Good browse and grass, with excellent water, storage tanks, drinkers, and 13 wells all with new pumps & equipment in the past three years. Includes 3 BR, 1 BA remodeled historic brick/rock home, carport, garage, tack house, large set of shipping corrals and barns. $2,250,000 *REDUCED* Hunting and 125 Head

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* 45 Head White Rocks Ranch in beautiful Glenwood, NM – The deeded land is located in Deep Creek Canyon bordering National Forest on two sides with a year-round creek running thru the property.

Abundant wildlife including elk, deer and bear. A year round +/-6,288 acre USFS

Allotment with grassy, gently rolling country, new pipe corrals, 2 dirt tanks, spring and pipeline. Included with the sale are 42 cows, 3 bulls and brand. Pricing: +/-60 Deeded acres with permit and cattle $695,500 or +/-106 deeded acres, with cozy 2BR, 2BA log cabin, permit and cattle. $1.25M

*NEW* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – In Apache Sitgreaves Forest, with 56.6+/- deeded ac, and 23+/- sec USFS Tule allotment. Carry capacity of 50-117 hd. A well improved and maintained horseback ranch. Headquarters are in a scenic valley setting with a well, solar power, 2 homes, 2 barns, corrals, shop, root cellar, hen house, irrigated garden and orchard. Springs, creeks, dirt tanks, and drinkers water the livestock. Also on the allotment are a line cabin, corrals and loading chute. $1,100,000 *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* 160+/- Acre Farm, Fort

Sumner, NM – Great farm with nice 3 BR, 2 BA home, large workshop/barn and 117+/- acres under a 5 year old Zimmatic pivot in eastern New Mexico. Water rights on 122 acres with a total of 269.94 acre-feet per year. Well records indicate a 350’ deep well with a 16” casing and it currently pumps about 350 gpm with a 50 hp submersible pump installed in 2017. Includes equipment. $400,000

*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,organic 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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also mentions, “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important … always make the other person feel important.” By making the other person feel important, they will always remember you fondly.

Being a true friend is more than just listening to others however. Have you ever broke down on the side of the road and knew who you could call on to come help, no matter what they were doing? One time I broke down in Tucson, AZ pulling a load of horses. I called a man I thought was a pretty good friend and told him of my predicament. I needed help. He basically told me that he was busy and to call a tow truck.

As anyone who owns livestock knows, that is no big deal if you are in a car, but another thing all together when pulling a loaded trailer!

Another time, I had a flat, once again near Tucson, only to discover I did not have the proper tool to get my spare tire from the rack underneath. This time, I called another friend nearby and he dropped what he was doing and brought a spare that fit my truck. He told me just to keep it till I got to where I could get my own tire fixed and to drop his back off the next time I was through that area. Now that is a friend.

I was talking with a person the other day who complained of not having many friends. My first thought was, have you been a true friend to others or do you expect to magically get friends by just being? Remember, you do not get heat from a wood burning stove before gathering wood. You do not get toned muscles before hard work. You do not get a paycheck before working at something. And when was the last time you satisfied your hunger before doing something to acquire the meal and then eating it? So why would anyone expect to have true friends before being one first?

Always remember, anything worthwhile requires effort first. Your own effort.

*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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chance to gain more knowledge of the juniors and seniors, along with graduate beef industry, which helps encourage students, under the age of 25 majoring in young beef enthusiasts to join the beef an agricultural related field of study will be industry in the future. One Angus breeder eligible to serve in this internship. Cooper and his or her farm/ranch will get the set up the Angus/Talon Youth Educational opportunity to host an intern over the Learning Program Endowment Fund in summer as he or she learns the ropes of 2009 to be a holistic educational experitheir host’s beef cattle operation, as well ence for students. as serve as a mentor to the young person Host breeders will get the opportunity considering a potential career in the to teach a young enthusiast different roles beef industry. in the Angus industry. Internship duties, “The Talon Internship program is a phe- depending on the host breeder’s program, nomenal opportunity for Angus youth to for example, may include tasks that range learn firsthand about managing and oper- from helping prepare show cattle, AI’ing, ating day-to-day life on a ranch, and, in preg checking, veterinary tasks, as well as turn, participating host ranches get the fence maintenance, irrigation and more. opportunity to have a hand in mentoring Interns will also have the opportunity to the next generation,” said Milford Jenkins, participate in other Angus and beef cattle Angus Foundation president. “This one-of- educational events and activities off the a-kind program allows participating farm such as conferences, field days, etc. ranches to take part in educating future The Talon Intern is compensated by the beef leaders.”

Angus Foundation through the Angus/ The legacy of the late Camron “Cam” Talon Youth Educational Learning Program Cooper of the Talon Ranch, Twin Bridges, Endowment Fund.

Montana, continues through this internApplications from Angus breeders ship program. College sophomores, interested in hosting the Talon Intern are

due Sept. 15. and can be accessed here: https://www.farmforum.net/ag_news/ apply-for-the-angus-foundation-talon-youth-education-learning-program/ a r t i c l e _ 5 e 3 f 0 c 2 5 - 9 b 0 e - 5f a7- a f 39 feda95387a22.html For more information on the Talon Internship program, contact Jaclyn Upperman, American Angus Association® director of events and education, at 816/383-5100.

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Her family has held Red Raider football season tickets for more than 80 years. Beth started and endowed the Jeannine McHaney Administrative Intern Endowment at Texas Tech. She was a wonderful cook and homemaker in addition to being an astute businesswoman. She was predeceased by her husband Joe Atkins and her parents Beulah and Lee C. O’Neil. She is survived by her daughter Lenora Neil Atkins of Roy, New Mexico and Albuquerque, her son Hugh Atkins of Wittmann, Arizona. Also, surviving are her cousins Dr. and Mrs. John Jones and family of Lubbock, and many continued on page 69 >>

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The government’s estimated and actual costs of the Endangered Species Act are often erroneous and never comprehensive, a report shows.

Bureaucratic costs, court fees and species recovery plans on the part of state and federal governments are difficult to predict and often lead to large, unforeseen costs on American taxpayers.

The “lion’s share” of costs, and the hardest to calculate, come from heavy restrictions in endangered species’s areas that shut down development at “whatever the cost,” the report said.

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ederal estimates for the cost of protecting endangered species are likely much lower than the actual expense in real dollars, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) report published recently.

And most estimates don’t include the revenue lost from closing land endangered species occupy, which could otherwise be used for pipeline construction or farming, the report said.

Bureaucratic processes, court fees and the cost of species recovery plans under the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The largest toll the ESA exacts on Americans, though, is the hidden costs of losing the productive projects that would otherwise take place on land near or deemed necessary for ESA-listed species, CEI adjunct fellow and ESA expert Robert Gordon wrote in the study.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that Congress passed the ESA to prevent and reverse the decline of threatened or endangered species at “whatever the cost,” giving federal agencies broad power to block projects such as dams, logging and pipelines. “‘Whatever’ is hardly a standard that encourages fiscal responsibility, and as any bureaucrat knows, unquantified costs cannot be used as a yardstick to judge the effectiveness of a program,” Gordon wrote.

“Four decades later, ‘whatever the cost’ is, it is far greater than generally recognized, and the ultimate price of the program easily reaches up into the tens and more likely hundreds of billions of dollars.”

A single listing under the ESA costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars between conducting early studies of the species’s health to publishing a final rule in the Federal Register. The federal government spends about $800,000 if the process plays out smoothly without the need for repeated studies, especially as a result of litigation.

In 2016 — the most recent year for which annual costs are available — federal agencies and state governments spent roughly $1.5 billion on ESA goals, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

Some of the costs marked down in the FWS report raise questions over the report’s accuracy, Gordon points out. For example, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) spent a total of $1.1 billion on one species in 2016.

The year before, the USFS spent $140 million on 150 species, a broad swing for which the FWS report provides no explanation. Also missing from the 2016 report, 21 states, including western states such as Texas and California that contain many ESAlisted species, did not report any expenses from ESA-related activities in 2016.

“Cost of recovery” estimates, or the amount of money the government is expected to spend to mark an ESA-listed species as recovered, are vague and incomplete if they are reported at all, according to Gordon. Many estimates may be hundreds of billions of dollars short.

The FWS estimated that recovery for about 500 listed species would cost more than $9 billion, according to the agency’s latest fiscal report to Congress.

A single recovery plan for five species — two animals and three plants — estimated that the total cost of recovery would hit over $1.2 billion by 2063 without including funds to “acquire/protect currently unprotected habitat,” according to Gordon.

The recovery plan for the Iowa Pleistocene Snail estimated that the snail’s recovery would cost $84,000 from fiscal years 1984-1987. Later reports on the snail’s condition suggest the estimate was too low by a factor of ten, despite that new colonies of hundreds of thousands of snails were found. (RELATED: Report: Feds Are Wasting Billions Protecting ‘Endangered’ Animals That Are Just Fine. See at: daily caller.com/ 2018/04/18/report-feds-endangered-animalsbillions-taxpayer-dollars)

While accurate government reporting on the costs of the ESA is spotty at best, the “lion’s share” of ESA costs are imposed on landowners and state governments via the law’s prohibition against ‘take’ and designations of “critical habitat,” the primary regulatory tools of the ESA, according to Gordon.

“There is no reliable tracking of these costs,” Gordon wrote.

The ESA’s prohibition on “take” is broadly defined and liberally enforced, according to Gordon’s report. The FWS defines “take” as “to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” any species listed under the ESA. The vast majority of actions fall into one of more of these categories, especially to “harass” or “harm.”

Congress originally intended the “take” provision to apply only to those species in dire circumstances. Shortly after the ESA was passed, the FWS extended the prohibition to every species listed on the ESA. The Trump administration has proposed rolling back the regulation to fit in more closely with Congress’ original intent of the law.

Unlike when listing a species under the ESA, the law allows regulators to consider the economic impact of “critical habitat” designations, or areas determined by the federal government to be necessary to a species’s survival. Regulators may decide against designating an area critical habitat if other potential benefits of using the land “outweigh” the benefit to the species.

Despite the law’s flexibility in critical habitat designations, the FWS and other federal agencies often evade economic arguments and claim that land should be recognized as critical habitat because existing regulations — usually from other ESA-listed species in the area — have already made the land worthless, Gordon wrote.

“There is a particularly specious argument that FWS has made on several occasions that requires special attention,” Gordon writes. “The agency has asserted that it is the prohibition against ‘take’ of an endangered or threatened animal — primarily the prohibition against ‘harm’ — not the subsequent designation of its critical habitat, that causes the economic impact.

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Trade, particularly through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), is vital for New Mexico agriculture producers.

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total agricultural exports in 2016 were delivered to our NAFTA partners. With NM exporting $712.2 million worth of agriculture exports, ranging from beef and dairy products, to our world famous chile and pecans, trade plays a vital role in New Mexico’s agriculture economy.

However, like many of you, I have seen both the positive and negative effects of trade on New Mexico. Being a border state, trade deals often required us to compete directly with Mexico. Although Mexico does not enjoy the freedoms we are privileged to have as Americans, a farmer cannot deny the advantage that Mexican producers have specifically when it comes to labor and environmental regulations. Being true innovators, we found ways to compete and market our products, but when countries began retaliating against U.S. tariffs, our profit margin became even more thin.

With each tariff levied by the United States, the U.S. agriculture industry, which currently boasts a trade surplus, is repeatedly the target of retaliatory measures. The tariffs on U.S. pecan imports to China have risen to 47 percent. Cheese products exported to Mexico are facing tariffs ranging from 20 to 25 percent. As lists of

tariffs are released, the number of U.S. agriculture products affected only expands.

History has shown that agriculture bears the brunt of trade disputes. Patience prevailed in the past, but with net farm income down 52 percent in the past five years, many simply cannot afford to wait it out.

We need free, fair and reciprocal trade deals and we need them now. We are ready for the “better deal” we were promised.

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IN MEMORIAM << cont. from page 62 other relatives and friends. At Beth’s request, no services will be held. At a later date, her ashes will be scattered over Ute Creek Canyon on the family ranch near Roy, New Mexico. The family suggests memorials to the Beth Atkins Endowment, Ranching Heritage Center, P.O. Box 43200, Lubbock, Texas 79409.

Charles L. Crowder, 86, passed away August 7, 2018, in El Paso, Texas. “Charlie” Crowder was born in Omaha Nebraska on April 25, 1932. He grew up in the Ozark Mountains around Branson, Missouri, leaving as a young teenager to go west. He built trails and fought fires for the Forest Service in Colorado, where he learned his skill operating heavy dirt-moving equipment. He was a veteran and served for a time in the Army’s 3rd US Infantry, known as the “Old Guard,” and was a member of President Eisenhower’s Honor Guard.

Charlie and his brother Stanley were in the business of clearing cedars and building dirt structures in New Mexico when he helped solve a land exchange issue between the federal government and a private rancher. This began a legendary career of massive land exchanges, consolidating deeded ranches for private owners and blocking up federal holdings. He became well known for accomplishing many seemingly impossible large complex transactions for ranchers throughout the western states. He was always highly regarded for his rare talent and for keeping his word. At various times he owned several ranches in New Mexico, including the U Bar in the NM Bootheel, the “Belen Ranch” between Belen and Mountainair, and the Shoenail Ranch at Logan. Ultimately, Charlie consolidated ownership of some 50,000 acres spanning the US/Mexico border at Santa Teresa, New Mexico, launching a project that included the establishment of a major international port of entry and the basis for a major bi-national industrial complex. In addition, he worked with the Union Ganadera Regional de Chihuahua to establish the largest livestock crossing on the US/Mexico border, which presently handles close to half a million head of livestock annually. Whether in the United States or Mexico, Charlie Crowder was as comfortable with presidents as he was with cowboys and cat-skinners. He was “one-ofa-kind”, called by some a legend and an unheralded giant, but most importantly he was, to his last day, a man always larger than any success or adversity he ever faced.

Fritz Anthony Moeller, DPM, 80, Socorro, passed away April 30, 2018. He was born in El Paso, Texas on February 14, 1938, but raised in New Mexico in Artesia and Las Vegas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Fritz Arthur Moeller and Marie A. Grahn; and sister, Janice. He is survived by wife of 34 years, Rebecca; daughters, Vicki Moeller (Dr. Michael Reid) and Shelly Moeller (Paul Olafson); his sons, Timothy Bryan Moeller (Janise) and Kevin Anthony Moeller (Valerie); seven grandchildren; sister, Patricia Moeller; and his beloved

dachshund, Bruno. Doc Moeller knew he was loved and respected by his family and friends, neighbors, co-workers and colleagues, but was always humble and appreciative. He treated everyone as an equal. He unwittingly helped write his obituary by having previously written bios for various entities and affiliations. For his 55th high school reunion (East Las Vegas High, Class of 1956), he wrote that he participated in rodeos all over the country as a bull rider before showing up at the University of NM continued on page 70 >>

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IN MEMORIAM << cont. from page 69 with a football scholarship (which he later switched to wrestling). He credits a guidance counselor with directing him to a relatively new field of medicine, podiatric surgery, and he was accepted to the Illinois College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago after his junior year. During this time he married fellow UNM student, Bobbie Louise Werner, to whom Vicki, Shelly and Bryan were born. Fritz graduated Magna Cum Laude with a residency in foot and ankle surgery in Detroit to follow. He returned to NM as the state’s first residency trained podiatrist and established a private practice in Albuquerque, where he fought for the hospital staff privileges that all podiatrists enjoy today. As advised while at UNM, he was on the cutting edge of podiatry, authored and co-authored books on the subject and lectured all over the world. He was a fellow with the American College of Foot Surgeons, A Diplomate with the American Board of Podiatric Surgery, President of the NM Podiatric Medical Association and appointed to the NM Board of Podiatric Examiners by Governors Carruthers and King. With second wife, Joann Lopez, Kevin was born, and a move to Cedar Crest

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resulted in Doc Moeller raising, training and showing quarter horses in the cutting horse arena. While marriage to Joann did not last, their friendship did. By then Vicki, Shelly and Bryan were living with their dad, sharing in the love of horses and horse show competition. Fritz served as President of the NM Cutting Horse Association for several terms. Third wife, Rebecca, joined them in Cedar Crest. An interest in cattle developed so Doc retired to San Acacia, NM north of Socorro with Rebecca to raise registered Texas Longhorn cattle. Still possessing the competition bug, he began showing their cattle around the country.

This lead to many trips to Fort Worth, TX, involvement in the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America (TLBAA) and to his election as its National Chairman of the Board for two terms. During this time, Presbyterian recruited Doc Moeller for a part-time podiatry position at Socorro General Hospital from which he retired in 2013, having achieved Chief of Staff status, quite and accomplishment for a podiatrist.

Upon retirement from SGH, the NM Podiatric Medical Society presented Dr. Moeller with its Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Podiatric Medical Society recognized him for his 50 years of continu-

ous membership. The Moeller Family would like to thank Sarah Jackson, RN, Dr. Kayvan Ellini with the Pres. Heart Group, Dr. Tim Barrett and the Socorro General Hospital’s ER and Home Health Care staff.

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

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Social Media + Digital Advertising = Promotion Success

Meet Lance Pekus, The Cowboy Ninja

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he New Mexico Beef Council completed FY 2017/18 with another successful year of promotion through social media and digital advertising.

Our regular social media posts feature everything from delicious beef recipes, to NMBC events to general information on agriculture and ranching. We have a Facebook page, a Pinterest page and an Instagram page. Our most engaging post from July was “Top Sirloin with Parmesan Cheese” which reached 724 New Mexicans with 54 “engagements” – engagements are when someone comments on a post or shares it on their page.

Digital ads – those pesky ads that you see when you’re on your favorite website – have been very successful in reaching our target consumers across the State. We feature a recipe with a tantalizing food shot which is then linked to the NMBC website, so when a consumer clicks on the image they are directed to our recipe page on our website. The digital campaign delivered more than 4.2 million impressions during the last fiscal year – that’s a lot of eyes on our beef!

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Top Sirloin with Parmesan Cheese is a social media favorite Digital ads, like this one for Steak Stuffed Portabellas, are seen by consumers statewide through the NMBC’s ongoing digital campaign

Lance Pekus, NBC’s Ninja Cowboy, trains for obstacles on the ranch

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e’s a hardworking, athletic guy that has found his passion in obstacle racing.

He is Lance Pekus, The Cowboy Ninja, who you have been seeing on NBC’s show American Ninja Warrior. Lance competed in seasons 4 through 9 and was also featured on Spartan’s Ultimate Team Challenge seasons 1 and 2.

Lance and his family live in an isolated town in Salmon, Idaho.

He is currently working seasonally for the US Forest Service and full time on his father-in-law’s ranch. “I love living and working on a ranch.

It always seems like there is something fun or exciting to do or learn.

It’s hard work, but it’s rewarding.

And it doesn’t take that much of an imagination to find places or objects to train on,” Lance says of his passion.

“Family is very important to me.

I love being a dad and being able to share experiences with my kids while teaching them about life and working the ranch.”

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The Beef Checkoff Recommends Beef Jerky as Healthy Snack

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eef jerky sales grew by nearly seven percent last year, according to Nielsen. Meat snacks are second only to potato chips in the salty snack category, but potato chips posted only 1.7 percent dollar growth over the same time period.

“Beef jerky provides all of the convenience of a traditional savory snack with no cooking or refrigeration needed, but packs a punch of protein and essential nutrients that make it stand out on the snack aisle,” said Alisa Harrison, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing & Research for National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the beef checkoff.

Research shows that nearly 75 percent of consumers crave healthier salty snack options, with beef jerky outselling seeds, party mixes and pita chips – combined. As consumers eat fewer sit-down meals and snack more on the go, the demand for portable protein has never been higher with more than half of Americans wanting to add more protein to their diet.

“Beef jerky is always a go-to snack I eat and recommend to clients,” said Chris Mohr, Ph.D., RD, nutrition consultant. “I love it in particular when traveling since it’s non-perishable and a great source of high-quality protein.”

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If you’re a biker, then you know THE place to be in August is Sturgis, SD. The South Dakota Beef Industry Council (SDBIC) was a major sponsor of the 78th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last month.

An insider told us that Sturgis had to “beef” up its beef supply to handle all the bikers’ beef requests.

Beef Jerky is a healthy snack

For more information about your beef checkoff investment visit MyBeefCheckoff.com 2017-2018 DIRECTORS – CHAIRMAN, Tamara Hurt (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Milford Denetclaw (Producer); SECRETARY, Zita Lopez (Feeder).

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

FEDERATION DIRECTOR,

Tamara Hurt, NMBC Chairman U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, Kenneth McKenzie BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Bill King (Producer)

For more information contact: New Mexico Beef Council, Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Executive Director 1209 Mountain Rd. Pl. NE, Suite C, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505/841-9407 • 505/841-9409 fax • www.nmbeef.com

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Over 100 head of Registered Brinks Brangus® bulls available for sale.

• Proven genetics.

• Hard-working, tough animals built to work in any country.

• Ready to turn out and go to work in your herd today.

Westall Ranches, LLC

1818 Arabela Road, Arabela, NM Ray & Karen Westall • 575-361-2070 • owners Tate Pruett • 575-365-6356 • manager

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RANGELAND DROUGHT INSURANCE USDA/FCIC sponsored product Rainfall Indexing program available in all 48 contiguous states including NM & AZ Call us for details or questions T. Cy Griffin 325-226-0432 cy@cauthornandgriffin.com

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Craig Leonard 325-226-3347 craig@cauthornandgriffin.com

www.cauthornandgriffin.com This agency is an equal opportunity agency

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30 Fancy Angus Replacement Heifers. This is a good set of fall bred heifers to add to your herd. OCV, Bred to start calving Oct 5 2018. Bred to low BW Angus bull - Reg#18577514 - CED 12, BW -1.6, WW 63, YW 110 30 Fancy Registered Bred Heifers. Top bloodlines, great EPDs. Broke to cake, handle on foot or horseback. OCV, AI bred for Spring calving to SydGen Enhance followed by low BW natural service sire. Don’t miss this gentle set of replacement heifers.

Registered Angus Bulls – large group of 2-year-olds. Cake broke and range ready.

Call today for one or a truckload Roy Hartzog – 806-225-7230 cell | Trudy Hartzog – 806-470-2508 cell | Ranch – 806-825-2711 | email arlo22@wtrt.net

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