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KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN CAUTION: FEDERAL LAW RESTRICTS THIS DRUG TO USE BY OR ON THE ORDER OF A LICENSED VETERINARIAN. ACTIVE SUBSTANCES PER ML: Zinc ............................................................................................................... 60 mg/mL Manganese .................................................................................................. 10 mg/mL Selenium ........................................................................................................ 5 mg/mL Copper ........................................................................................................... 15 mg/mL OTHER SUBSTANCES: Chlorocresol 0.1% w/v (as preservative).

DOSAGE RECOMMENDATIONS: CALVES: Up to 1 year ..................................................... 1 mL/per 100 lbs. bodyweight CATTLE: From 1-2 years ............................................. 1 mL/per 150 lbs. bodyweight CATTLE: Over 2 years .................................................... 1 mL/per 200 lbs. bodyweight PRECAUTION: Selenium and copper are toxic if administered in excess.

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MULTIMIN® 90, is on top of our list. . .

It has probably had the most dramatic effect on what we do in those protocols as anything we have done over the years.

Do not use concurrently with selenium or copper boluses.

Do not use in emaciated cattle with a BCS of 1 in dairy or 1-3 in beef.

Consult your veterinarian.

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Store Between 15°C and 30°C (59°F and 86°F).

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They are the spark plug that drive the immune system, reproduction and performance. The sooner we could get them into an animal, the better off we could be.

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I’m Dr. L.D. Barker, my sons and I have a veterinary clinic and practice in Newcastle, Oklahoma. Over the years using health program protocols, we still had high pulls and death loss. We were seeing pull rates drop from 70-80% pulls down to 30’s and 40’s and we still weren’t there. Our goal at some of the backgrounding yards was to get under 15% pull and under 3% dead.

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When MULTIMIN® 90 came out, we saw a real enhancement. In this last year we had the opportunity, for some time, to be in a single digit pull at one of the backgrounding yards that really follows the protocols diligently and worked really well with us and got under a 3% death loss with cattle out of the southeast. And this year on 3,000 head, we are running around 6.7% pull and a .82% death loss. Fantastic! I never thought we would get under a 10% pull. And a lot of that is as a result when you get the trace minerals in the immune system adequate.

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address that. We get all those sources of cattle on the same page in 8-10 hours with MULTIMIN® 90. In fact, it is the number one thing on our list of enhancing the health in our animals. It has probably had the most dramatic effect on what we do in those protocols as anything that we have done over the years. What I am addressing is enhancing performance and reducing their costs. And a lot of time these protocols do cost more on the front end, but the dollars returned on the back end is tremendous.

I would highly recommend it.

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In our three legged stool approach addressing nutrition, health and management, we offer MULTIMIN® 90. The high risk stocker calves coming out of the southeast are coming from variable farms of management, different trace mineral or no trace mineral program.

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46 BEEF It’s Whats For Dinner 50 Market Place 51 Seedstock Guide 55 Real Estate Guide 63 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 65 New Mexico Livestock Board Update 73 In Memoriam...

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Tom Sidwell NMCGA President

Friends and Neighbors,

Tom Sidwell President Quay Randell Major President-Elect Magdalena Loren Patterson, Vice President at Large Corona 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 Jose Varela Lopez Past President La Cieneguilla Caren Cowan Executive Director Albuquerque

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e had our Fall Board meeting in Santa Fe last month and had a good turnout although we were still shy of having a quorum. NMCGA has a large Board and that makes it difficult to have a quorum when everyone is busy, however, it is important to be able to approve actions that come before the Board. I appreciate everyone who took the time to attend and I encourage all Directors to attend future Board meetings in the interest of our membership and issues facing the livestock industry.

While in Santa Fe, we held a mock legislative committee hearing on legislation we are sure will be introduced in the next legislative session. We broke up into pro and con groups and gave testimony before the committee and the mock hearing turned out to be informative, humorous, with great ideas both pro and con. Thank you Representatives Gail Armstrong and Rebecca Dow for your leadership, advice, and humor in conducting the mock hearing.

The Beef Council state assessment is now in full swing and although the statute gives producers the ability to opt out of paying the assessment, we, as producers, need to consider the benefits we receive for $1 per head. We are competing with fake meat and can’t afford to lose market share. Hopefully this money will stay in New Mexico and help market and promote consumer demand for our beef, educate the public about the healthy benefits of eating beef, and conducting research.

American beef will play an important role in international trade agreements and we need the ability to market NM beef. The 1988 federal assessment dollar has lost value due to inflation and buys less advertising but the state assessment will increase the value received from marketing and promotion. The state assessment will double what producers pay to the Beef Council but we also need to recognize that calf prices have increased 138 percent since 1988. If we had to individually pay an advertiser for marketing our product it would cost more than a dollar per head, so before opting out of paying the assessment, it’s important to consider the promotion our product.

Caren and I attended a forum in Springerville, Arizona about livestock guardian tools.

Cat Urbigkit from Wyoming gave a presentation on guardian dogs she uses with her sheep and cattle herds to protect them from wolves. Her losses have decreased although she may periodically lose a dog, but a wolf will also be killed by the dogs. As wolves increase in New Mexico and Arizona and trapping restrictions result in an increase in the coyote population, ranchers may have to consider guardian dogs to decrease losses from predators. Maeve Garigan of REAP, LLC also gave a presentation on an ear tag she is in the process of developing consisting of GPS and sensors that will help determine losses from presence of wolves as well as aiding in livestock theft, monitoring stockers, heifers, etc.

The ear tag will help to minimize losses and aid in compensation from losses due to the Mexican wolf.

Rainfall is very spotty around the state and I think we need a hurricane to come up the river.

Until the next time, stay safe.

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TO THE POINT

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

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hen you are supposed to trade your straw hat for a felt and stop wearing white shoes… even if it is 100 degrees or more outside. It has also traditionally been the time when election campaigns begin in earnest.

This year is no different except that I made the arbitrary decision that the campaign season for the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) wouldn’t start until after Labor Day… for 2020 that is.

By the time you are reading this, it will be after Labor Day. There are about 480 days to the 2020 general election and months less than that until the 2020 New Mexico primary.

The 2020 presidential election campaign has been ongoing for months. So long, in fact, that some of the 20 plus candidates are already starting to drop out.

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It’s Past Labor Day… The NMCGA office started receiving New Mexico 2020 fund raising requests a few months ago as well. It is NMCGA policy that the Association neither endorses candidates nor makes campaign contributions.

However, the Association has always encouraged its members to become involved with elected representatives at every level.

This year may be a little different. The 2019 Legislature demonstrated just what happens when YOU don’t participate. Measures were introduced regarding abortion, gun control, animals, energy production and distribution, mining, climate change and countless other issues. Those that didn’t make it to the Governor’s desk will likely come up again in 2020 and/or 2021.

The 2020 Legislature is a 30-day budget session, so in theory bills must be tied to

finances. But the Governor has the option of adding any and every topic they choose to the Call (the agenda). My mind harkens back to Governor Richardson’s first 30-day Session… He put 129 issues on the Call.

We were sending out calls to action after people went to bed and updating the issue before they woke up the next morning. My credit card bill which generally ran about $1,200 during a Session was about $345 that year.

We won’t have any idea of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s pleasure until the first day of the 2020 Legislature, January 21, or after when the Call is made public. And, issues can be added to the Call throughout the Session.

Back to the 2020 Election We recently learned that in the 2018 election, only six out of ten rural voters showed up to vote. That compares with eight out of ten of urban voters who voted.

Not only are we beat out by population numbers, but we are beating ourselves by not utilizing our Constitution right to vote!

THIS HAS GOT TO CHANGE!!!

At the present time we don’t have any number of rural residents eligible to vote

are even registered to vote. Thus, Priority ONE is to make sure that everyone entitled to vote in rural New Mexico is registered to vote.

Voter registration in New Mexico is no longer as simple as handing someone a registration application, having them fill it out and you turning it in for them.

Here is what the Secretary of State has on her website regarding voter registration:

Voter Registration Eligibility Requirements In order to register and vote in New Mexico, an applicant must be: ЇЇ A resident of New Mexico ЇЇ A citizen of the United States ЇЇ Not legally declared mentally incapacitated ЇЇ Not a convicted felon, or a felon who has completed all of the terms and conditions of sentencing ЇЇ 18 years or older at the time of the next election

Register to Vote or Update Your Registration You can now register and update your registration online. If you have either a

current or expired New Mexico state I.D. (like a driver’s license) you can register for the first time or make changes to your registration—like name, address or party affiliation—easily using our online system.

To register online or to update your registration please go to: https://portal.sos. state.nm.us/OVR / WebPages/InstructionsStep1.aspx If you don’t have a state-issued I.D., or otherwise would prefer to register by mail, you can pick up a voter registration application form or print the national form online, fill it out, then mail it to the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office or your local County Clerk’s Office. If you are not sure where to send it, you can look it up on our website or call us at 1-800/477.3632.

If you change your name or move you must fill out a new voter registration form and submit to your local County Clerk’s Office or the Secretary of State’s Office. You must also fill out a new form if you want to change your party affiliation.

First-Time Registration by Mail If you are registering for the first time in New Mexico, and you submit the registration form by mail, then you must submit with the form a copy of (1) a current and

valid photo identification; or (2) a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, student identification card or other government document, including identification issued by an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo that shows your name and current address. If you do not submit one of these forms of identification with your mailed-in, first time registration, then you would be required to present one of the forms of identification when voting in person or absentee.

Change your Voter Registration If you change your name or move you must fill out a new voter registration form and submit to your local County Clerk’s Office or the Secretary of State’s Office. You must also fill out a new form if you want to change your party affiliation.

If you wish to register with a person, that person must have completed voter registrar training. The NMCGA staff (except me) are certified to offer voter registration.

If you update your driver’s license or register a vehicle you will be offered the opportunity to register at that time.

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incumbents seeking funding, 2020 candidates are already surfacing throughout New Mexico. NOW is the time to renew acquaintances with current elected representatives. Make sure they know who you are and what your values are.

It is also the time to get to know new candidates. Make sure they represent your values.

You have heard this advice every other year for the last two decades at least. Now is the time to do more.

NMCGA members are building networks in their communities, their counties and their political districts to vet candidates, determine who to support and how to support them. If you would like to participate in your area, please let us know.

It is most important that this is a non-partisan effort. We have a two (or more) party system and we have supporters in at least two parties. Party affiliation is much less important than finding who represents our values and will go to bat for them in every venue.

Two Elections It is also important to remember that we are facing TWO elections — a primary and a general. In the past many, many elections

are decided in the primary on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Make sure your party registration matches the candidates you are supporting in the primary. As you have read, it is simple to change registration.

One More Election on the Horizon We cannot forget that under new state law, conservation districts, school boards and others will hold an election on November 5, 2019. The deadline for filing for those races was August 27, 2019.

Early research indicates that only one county, Grant, Soil & Water Conservation District has a races for all five of its supervisors. There are other counties where there are contested races but none are for the entire commission.

It is worth remembering that NMCGA members and other agriculturists populate this Districts and they need support in the upcoming election.

Obscene & Herd Overheard at a T or C restaurant “if we can take out grazing in New Mexico, we can take grazing out throughout the West.”

Anyone want to guess who was sitting at that large table?

Fraud Will you be a victim of meat fraud? In a consumer alert published in at the BottomLineInc.com consumers were warned about “fish fraud.”

It seems that there is concern about where fish people are consuming have been raised and harvested. Oceana, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., tested 1,215 samples of fish sold in 21 states. One-third of the samples were mislabeled. For example, Tilefish, a fish with high levels of mercury was mislabeled and mispriced as Alaskan halibut.

In other research a four-year study of Shushi sold at 26 restaurants in Las Angles found that 47 percent was made from different fish from what the menu said.

The moral to this story, larger stores must follow the USDA’s Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements. Restaurants and smaller markets are exempt from COOL. The moral to the reason I write about this is what the potential for mislabeling beef could be in today’s fake meat era. How was that grilled soy, pea protein isolate, tapioca and/or maltodextrin?

Will they ever learn?

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August 27, 2019, “It was the fire desert ecologists have been warning about for years, and they say it won’t be the last. Dozens of saguaros burned late last week in a lightning-sparked blaze that scorched about 25 acres in the Santa Catalina Mountains.”

According to U.S. Forest Service officials, it was the first known fire in the Catalina’s primarily fueled by buffelgrass, an invasive plant that has taken hold across the range and throughout Southern Arizona.

Buffelgrass is native to Africa and Asia, where it populates savannas that burn frequently as part of the natural ecological process. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service introduced the grass to the Southwest starting the 1930s for cattle grazing and erosion control because of its high seed production and tolerance to drought.

The article goes on to quote a seemingly hysterical University of Arizona scientist about the catastrophic fire and its’ “signal of the devastation on the Sonoran Desert ecosystem.” Mind you the fire was only 25 acres and it was put out.

The article does not point out that after grazing was removed from the area, buffelgrass became a noxious weed. Grazing was removed for fear that they would impact

the Saguaro cactus in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson.

It is well known fact that cows constantly rub up against cactus plants of all kinds for their shear pleasurer… NOT! Like the ecosystem managers involved in agricultural production, federal agencies, and higher education intuitions are constantly learning better ways to support and manage the environment. Like the salt cedar that now invasive in the West, when human use of the environment changes, the environment changes. The environment has been responding to human change for tens of thousands of years.

This situation emphasizes that for every action there is a reaction that may not always be the best thing.

During the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Ag Ambassador Field Day at Bill King Ranch, it was interesting to watch an advocate for the need to teach agriculture about the land to awaken to the fact that ranchers and farmers are not sitting around waiting for the government and non-governmental groups to come and teach them a better job and bestow “champion” titles on them.

They are doing the work on the land and most of them have been for generations.

They are not stagnant waiting for enlightenment. They are college educated business people who are constantly looking for and employing the best and latest technology to continue to feed a hungry world.

If the government and others want to help the environment, they need to stop chocking ecosystem managers with a nearly century old cheap food policy. That policy allows people to spend time evaluating others because they don’t have to produce the foods, goods or services that an affluent society enjoys.

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JINGLE JANGLE

Greetings from our outfit to yours.

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ummer is winding down and fall is on the way. Some parts of the state have received some rain while others haven’t had much. Here in our little part of the world the rains have been very spotty.

Looks pretty good in some places and not even greened up a few miles away. Hopefully, everyone has enough feed to “make it one more year”.

My grandson has a couple part time jobs.

One of them is sacking groceries at a local home owned grocery store. He has to ask people if they want paper or plastic. He said most choose plastic. Those of us with a little gray hair will remember when the enviromental folks were telling us that if we didn’t stop cutting down trees to make paper the world was going to be out of trees in 20 years or something. So their answer was plastic.

Not sure they thought this one through.

They campaigned to quit using a renewable resource and wanted to use a product that

takes petroleum to produce and will last Luna. McKenzie related the life cycle of a hanging on a barb wire fence infinitely. So honeybee and how honeybees affect agrinow they are telling everyone we HAVE TO culture. McKenzie won first place in STOP USING PLASTIC. prepared speech at the state 4-H competiI guess the reason I am bringing this up tion and third place at the FFA state is because now the same people are telling competition with this presentation entitled the world that we can not sustain a meat- “We the Bees”. Nancy Phelps, State CowBelle based world. Their answer is to eliminate President, gave a review of her recent most types of animals that eat a grass or meeting in Denver with the American grain diet. Now we in agriculture are gonna National Cattlewomen’s organization. She be expected to start raising grains to feed also reported that beef raffle ticket sales are the world. Not sure how well this is going going well with the goal of 7000 tickets sold to work in a lot of the West. in order to meet scholarship obligations.

Most of the western states are made up Tickets can be purchased from any Chamiza of land that is either too dry, too rocky, too CowBelle member. This year there will be much timber, too cold or too hot. Most, if 19 steers shown at the county fair. With only not all, of the West is good for is raising eleven sale slots, this leaves eight steers livestock. They eat low quality, mostly available for sale to the public. Because useless grass and turn it into protein that a many people have asked where they can human can survive on. Pretty amazing purchase beef directly from a rancher or fair creatures. exhibitor, the Chamiza CowBelles will Now we have laboratory raised meat. I partner with the Sierra County Fair to assist am afraid this isn’t going away anytime these potential buyers in locating a beef. If soon. Hopefully everyone will see that it is anyone is interested in purchasing beef much like the push to save the world by directly from an exhibitor, you may leave using plastic. your contact information at the Chamiza We have to keep getting the word out CowBelle booth during the county fair. there about our product. New Mexico Cow- Chamiza CowBelles meet the first Thursday Belles are doing a fantastic job advocating of each month at 12 noon in Johnny B’s for our industry and trying to educate the Restaurant in TorC. We welcome anyone general population about Real Beef. interested in joining and promoting the Until next time let’s hope calf prices beef industry. The group was reminded of come up just a little and everyone has a the Ag Minute Update broadcast of local great fall. radio station on Mondays at noon, Wednesdays at 5 p.m., and Fridays at 8 a.m.

Submitted by Cathy Pierce uring their August meeting, the Powderhorn Cattlewomen met in the Chamiza CowBelles listened to a home of Mary McClain with Nancy Schade, speech on honeybees given by McK- co-hostess. Sandy McKenna opened enzie Luna, daughter of Frances and Donnie meeting with creed, invocation and pledge.

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2019 Fair book showcasing our 2018 quilt Chamiza give-away.

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2019 Quilt Winner Brian Ussery

Sandy read the treasurers report with a very strong balance after a wonderful annual BBQ and an auction in June. There was good discussion pertaining to future plans for the chapter. All shared several ideas and a committee was formed to look at the different opportunities available. The next meeting will be held at Sandy’s home in September on the 12th. See you there! Joan Key The 84th Lea County Fair and Rodeo wrapped up August 10th with the Lea County Cactus Cowbelles winning First Place again on their fair booth. Brian Ussery won the beautiful quilt. Also drawn for were one $50 beef certificate each of the five nights of the fair from a local meat market.

Branded cup towels and one ounce packages of three different flavors of beef jerky were sold as well. The group had available New Mexico beef license plates and napkins for purchase. This year the group made donations to both the senior and junior 4-H livestock judging teams that went to state and district. Cactus CowBelles made a contribution of $100 to the Pat Nowlin scholarship fund. Lea County Cactus Cowbelles offered a $1000 college scholarship this year but did not receive any applicants.

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

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07 Charolais is located in the sand hills “We are still located on my grandfather’s of southwestern Oklahoma near Rush original ranch headquarters. My grandparSprings. This region has a harsh ents on my father’s side of the family climate; it can be 30 below zero with wind migrated here from Texas, and my mother’s chill in winter and triple-digit temperatures folks were of German and Dutch ancestry. for weeks at a time in the summer. These Rush Springs used to be the watermelon cattle, and the bulls they produce, must be capital of the world; just about everyone able to withstand the extremes of this envi- here raised watermelons or peanuts. ronment. They must thrive on grass; these Farmers were shipping them out of here in

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trucks and trains in the 1940s. My family was still raising watermelons at that time but it became more difficult in recent years because feral hogs became really bad in this part of the country and they’d eat the watermelons,” Jones explains. His family always had cattle, however.

His nephew Cody has been around cattle all his life, working for his own grandfather, Jack Jones. “That’s how my grandfather would pay me and my cousin, giving us a cow or so, every now and then,” says Cody. “After my grandfather passed away my cousin and I each had about 40 cows. These were just commercial cows—a little bit of everything,” he says.

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a gradual way. He started using Charolais bulls on his commercial cows in 2000. “The Noble Foundation convinced us to use ChaBreeding Charolais since 1956 rolais bulls, and our crossbred calves at weaning were bigger and more uniform than any calves I’d ever raised before,” says Cody.

“The Noble Foundation was just starting to promote the Charolais cross, encouraging producers to take advantage of heterosis. They approached us, and I began 1460 Penn Road working with Livestock Production System Belleville, KS 66935when it was first getting started and it’s Consigned T&S CharolaisCell: Sale 785/527-1269 now known as Integrity Beef,” he says.

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these producers started using Charolais bulls it was common to see a 75 to 100pound increase in weaning weights. Plus, the smoky-gray calf is easily recognized by cattle buyers as an animal that will do very well in the feedlot, with added-value carcass.

Cody really liked the Charolais cross and decided to start raising his own Charolais bulls so he wouldn’t have to keep buying so many bulls. “I bought a few purebred heifers, and that project eventually turned into something a lot bigger. I got my start from the 777 Charolais Ranch in Marietta, Oklahoma. The owner was Jack Higgins and he told me to pick a catchy name for my own breeding program, and 007 come to mind, so that’s how we named our Charolais program,” says Cody.

There was a good demand for Charolais bulls so he began raising bulls to sell, offering bulls at private treaty starting in 2006.

“I started buying a few really good older cows that I could afford, and getting one or two more calves out of them. I kept the heifers and sold the bulls. I just kept keeping heifers, building the herd,” he says.

Cody now has about 300 registered Charolais cows and some really good genetics.

He took some bulls to a few sales, but mainly kept selling them by private treaty.

There were many repeat customers who came to him for bulls.

Jones and his wife Tamma help out where and when they can. “I spent most of my life in the purebred Holstein business and commercial cow/calf beef cattle and have accomplished my goals, so I just enjoy helping my nephew. I do all the trucking after the sales, and help with the marketing.

It’s a team effort. It’s a family deal,” he says.

“Cody has a tremendous bull battery. He started with a handful of heifers and grew the herd by keeping females. I came into the operation three years ago and added about another 80 registered Charolais cows,” Jones says.

“The genetics in this herd are as good as it gets and we always want to make sure our customers are happy. We are in the beef cattle business so we know what they need.

Southwest Oklahoma is brutal country so we want to make sure we can sell bulls that can do the job. For instance right now we haven’t had a drop of rain in over six weeks and it’s very hot weather. We’re just hoping we can get some wheat pasture for winter feed, and go on from there,” he says.

“Cody hired Buck White to help manage the cattle. Buck has done very well showing cattle, but the commercial cattleman is still

our bread and butter. With great genetics, program has utilized embryo transfer but however, there are always some show-qual- only on a limited basis because of the cost ity cattle so Buck and Cody go through involved. At this point 007 Charolais mainly them and pick some to show. We don’t relies on selective matings of great cows personally have time, but Buck has done with superior bulls. very well showing some of these cattle,” This program is a team effort. Cody’s says Jones. wife Ashlie helps where she can—taking For several years, the 007 ranch went photos, doing the paperwork for the cattle, together with another producer and had etc. They have several children; their oldest two bull sales per year, in the spring and fall, daughter Morgan is 18 and going to college, in Sulfur Springs, Texas. Last year Cody Kaylee is 15 and a sophomore in high school, decided to have his own sales. “We had our Jax is 5 years old, and another child on the first sale last year, and our second one will way (expected in early November). be March 21, 2020, here in Rush Springs at “Morgan showed cattle for a while but is the Double G Ranch Event Center. This is an now looking forward to college (Southern Angus ranch and we rent their barn for the Nazarene University). She is interested in sale. It’s a very nice facility, only four miles singing and they do a lot of singing at from our ranch headquarters,” Cody says. various churches. She is very musical.

Last year he sold 62 bulls at their first Kaylee likes showing pigs but also helps us sale and hopes to sell about 70 yearling a lot with the cattle. Jax just likes to go!” says bulls in the next sale. “We are moving our Cody. Time will tell whether this 5th genercalving season to December-January but ation will take a strong interest in the cattle right now the main herd is calving from late but the family feels blessed to be doing this February into April. The yearling bulls are together. young, but we’ll also have a few 18-monthold bulls from our small group of fall-calving cows. We have about 30 cows in that group,” he says. Eventually more of the yearlings will be more than 14 months old, with the main herd calving earlier. The breeding

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NEWS UPDATE

by John Green, The Conversation, www.routefifty.com

Why the 2020 Census Matters for Rural Americans

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s d i r e c t o r of the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, I regularly talk to people about how they can use data to help their communities thrive.

The decennial census is particularly important – and the next one is less than a year away.

People living in rural and small town America in particular have much at stake in the 2020 census. Unfortunately, census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.

Our research network – including the State Data Center of Mississippi, Mississippi Kids Count Program and the Southern Rural Development Center – has been working to better understand potential barriers to census participation.

Valuable Data Legally mandated by the U.S. Constitution, the census is an effort to count all people living on American soil for the primary purpose of apportioning political representation in the federal government. Census data are also used for drawing political boundaries for local, state and federal elections.

Government agencies must use decennial census data, often coupled with data from the American Community Survey, to help determine government funding for rural development, infrastructure and health initiatives.

Census counts are also used to determine what places are considered rural or urban and where counties fall along the rural-urban continuum.

Researchers focusing on rural America, like myself, are concerned with many issues that census data can help us to understand.

For instance, the rate of population loss in rural America has declined and even slightly reversed in recent years. However, there can be vast differences between regions. As noted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s John Cromartie and Dennis Vilorio, “People moving to rural areas tend to persistently favor more densely settled rural areas with attractive scenic qualities, or those near large cities. Fewer are moving to sparsely settled, less scenic, and more remote locations, which compounds economic development challenges in those areas.”

2020 census data will help to improve demographers’ calculations of similar statistics to show rates and patterns of net migration.

This information can be used to help leaders better understand and plan for population shifts.

Low Rural Turnout If many people don’t participate in the census, the data will be far less accurate. And rural people are less likely to take part.

In 2010, an average 73 percent of households returned the mailed version of the form. My analysis of mail response rates by the rural-urban continuum codes showed an average of 68 percent for non-metropolitan counties, compared with 75 percent for metropolitan counties.

Analysts have been trying to better understand why some populations are harder to count. There are numerous barriers to

participation in decennial censuses. Many people have limited knowledge about the census. Others distrust the government and are concerned about the confidentiality of their information.

Although rural America tends to do better on some indicators used to predict potential census participation, people who live in poverty and are isolated may be at a particular disadvantage.

In 2020, for the first time, the census will offer an avenue for online participation, with the hope this will make it easier for people to complete the questionnaire more efficiently. This is promising, but some rural places have limited access to broadband internet service.

Encouraging Participation The Census Bureau assigns each area a ‘low response score,’ a predicted rate of how many people will not respond to the census.

People can promote participation in the 2020 census by discussing it with family members, neighbors, church members and work colleagues. Materials available from the U.S. Census Bureau can help.

We also emphasize that people can form or join Complete Count Committees which

promote an accurate count of the popula- plan to mine the aquifer underneath the tion in their communities. For example, San Agustin Plains and pipe it to communiparticipants might coordinate census pro- ties outside of the region. The State motion campaigns within churches, or Engineer rejected the proposal last year, develop community celebrations that and the plan’s sponsor, Augustin Plains feature the civic duty of census Ranch, was appealing the State Engineer’s participation. decision.

The 2020 census will be important for all In his decision, Judge Reynolds wrote, Americans, but for those who live, work and “By August 15, 2019, Counsel for the Comcare about rural communities and small munity Protestants and Catron County shall towns, it will be critically important. I hope jointly submit to the Court a proposed that Americans can work together to make formal order granting summary judgment sure that rural areas are accurately counted and dismissing APR’s latest application with if they are to get their fair share. prejudice. The people of New Mexico should not have their water tied up any longer with possibilities.”

This article is republished from The Conversation “This judgment is a victory for the farmers, under a Creative Commons license. ranchers, and communities surrounding the San Agustin Plains,” said Armstrong.

“The proposal to mine the aquifer and sell it Armstrong Applauds Judge’s to communities outside of the basin was a Ruling Against Proposed San bad deal from the start. This ancient aquifer is part of a closed system, and once the Agustin Water Grab water is removed from the basin, it can’t be ep. Gail Armstrong (R-Magdalena) and replaced. Finally, the people living on the other New Mexico Cattle Growers’ San Agustin Plains can rest easy knowing Association members in the region that our water and western way of life will welcomed the ruling of 7th District Judge be protected.”

Matthew Reynolds to grant a summary The water mining plan has been at issue judgment motion to the opponents of a for several years.

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My truck had a nice metal flake paint job and it also had great looking wheels.

However, keeping it running was a problem, but I always looked good when I was broke down.

At that time it was mostly ranch horses, a few rope horses, and even a few race horses on my docket. As you can imagine during the winter that was a pretty good route, but summer time was brutal due to the over 100 degree temperatures every day. However, it never really bothered me much at that age, so I just kept going.

Somehow surviving outweighed the elements. Many of the older horseshoers didn’t want to work past noon in the summer, but I always put in a full day so I would fill in gaps for the older guys.

One day I got a phone call from a Mr. Smith that had eight head to get shod at his ranch. I told him that I could be there early so he gave me some instructions on how to get there. I knew the area very well, but had not been to this place before.

The instructions were to leave Wickenburg going west on Rt. 60 toward California.

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through the gate and follow the road 14 miles to the ranch.

I’ll never forget the road as it was a pretty rough two track. It took me about an hour and fifteen minutes to go the fourteen miles to the ranch. When I got there every tool in the back of my truck was upside down and I thought I was being careful.

The ranch was pretty typical as I approached it going over the last hill. There was a small white adobe house with a rock fireplace and chimney on one end. Adjacent to the house was a set of pipe corrals and a barn made from corrugated steel roofing panels. An old Catahoula type ranch dog came out to greet me as I pulled in.

I swung up to the corrals and I could see a lean-to coming off one end of the barn. I figured I would set up there, where at least I would have some shade. About that time two cowboys came out of the house. One of them came over to me and the other went to get the two horses they had already saddled.

I spoke with Mr. Smith and he told me that his horses were pretty well broke and I should be able to shoe them without much trouble. He and the other cowboy were going to ride after some cattle and

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would be back around noon. I had six head thankful to have horses to shoe that you to shoe, so they ought to be back around didn’t have to tie down on the ground or the time I was done as it was 6:00 a.m. now. scotch hobble a back leg.

Shoeing the horses was uneventful.

Along about noon those two cowboys They all behaved rather well, but they were came riding back in. I was just finishing up all big stout Hancock bred Quarter Horses, the rear hooves on the last horse, but my so they were very heavy on me and got very God, I felt like I had shod 20 between the insulted if you got after them a little. heat and those big stout horses. Mr. Smith They all had hammer heads and enough came by after he had unsaddled his horse bone to hold up a railroad bridge. I just and turned it out. He asked what he owed decided to take my time in the heat to get me and then went to the house to get around them. I also remember those tough, some money. dry, large hooves they had. This is back Just as I was finishing up the last foot the when Quarter Horses still had great feet. other cowboy wandered over and said, When you got done with one of those “How’d you get along son?” you were sure that you had just shod When I heard that voice I was shocked, another Clydesdale. They took number 3 then he kept on talking to me and I knew horseshoes in the front and number 2’s on that voice. Finally, I just blurted out, “Charlie the hinds. However, in those days, I was so The Lonesome Cougar” and he said, “Yes

son, that was one of my jobs.”

I forgot about the heat, the heavy horses, the long morning, and stood up and shook hands with Mr. Arizona himself, Rex Allen.

It turned out that he and Mr. Smith had grown up together in Willcox, Arizona and had remained friends.

We all headed to the house where we had fried baloney sandwiches, iced tea, and good conversation. I’ll never forget my shock and the graciousness of Mr. Allen and Mr. Smith. I continued to shoe horses for Mr. Smith about 20 years after that. I only got to see Mr. Allen one more time, but what a special day that was. Sometimes it is the small things that make the difference.

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Administration Improves the Implementing Regulations of the Endangered Species Act Species recovery the ultimate goal

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n its more than 45-year history, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has cataly zed countless conser vation partnerships that have helped recover some of America’s most treasured animals and plants from the bald eagle to the American alligator. Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt unveiled improvements to the implementing regulations of the ESA designed to increase transparency and effectiveness and bring the administration of the Act into the 21st century.

“The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective in achieving its ultimate goal—recovery of our rarest

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species. The Act’s effectiveness rests on clear, consistent and efficient implementation,” said Secretary Bernhardt. “An effectively administered Act ensures more resources can go where they will do the most good: on-the-ground conservation.”

“The revisions finalized with this rulemaking fit squarely within the President’s mandate of easing the regulatory burden on the American public, without sacrificing our species’ protection and recovery goals,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “These changes were subject to a robust, transparent public process, during which we received significant public input that helped us finalize these rules.”

The changes finalized today by Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Commerce’s National Marine Fisheries Service apply to ESA sections 4 and 7. Section 4, among other things, deals with adding species to or removing species from the Act’s protections and designating critical habitat; section 7 covers consultations with other federal agencies.

The ESA directs that determinations to add or remove a species from the lists of threatened or endangered species be based solely on the best available scientific and commercial information, and these will

remain the only criteria on which listing determinations will be based. The regulations retain language stating, “The Secretary shall make a [listing] determination solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial information regarding a species’ status.”

The revisions to the regulations clarify that the standards for delisting and reclassification of a species consider the same five statutory factors as the listing of a species in the first place. This requirement ensures that all species proposed for delisting or reclassification receive the same careful analysis to determine whether or not they meet the statutory definitions of a threatened or endangered species as is done for determining whether to add a species to the list.

While this administration recognizes the value of critical habitat as a conservation tool, in some cases, designation of critical habitat is not prudent. Revisions to the regulations identify a non-exhaustive list of such circumstances, but this will continue to be rare exceptions.

When designating critical habitat, the regulations reinstate the requirement that areas where threatened or endangered species are present at the time of listing be

evaluated first before unoccupied areas are considered. This reduces the potential for additional regulatory burden that results from a designation when species are not present in an area. In addition, the regulations impose a heightened standard for unoccupied areas to be designated as critical habitat. On top of the existing standard that the designated unoccupied habitat is essential to the conservation of the species, it must also, at the time of designation, contain one or more of the physical or biological features essential to the species’ conservation.

To ensure federal government actions are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of listed species or destroy or adversely modify their critical habitat, federal agencies must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service under section 7 of the Act. The revisions to the implementing regulations clarify the interagency consultation process and make it more efficient and consistent.

The revisions codify alternative consultation mechanisms that may provide greater efficiency for how ESA consultations are conducted. They also establish a deadline for informal consultations to

provide greater certainty for federal agencies and applicants of timely decisions, without compromising conservation of ESA-listed species.

Revisions to the definitions of “destruction or adverse modification,” “effects of the action” and “environmental baseline” further improve the consultation process by providing clarity and consistency.

In addition to the final joint regulations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a separate revision rescinding its “blanket rule” under section 4(d) of the ESA. The rule had automatically given threatened species the same protections as endangered species unless otherwise specified.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has never employed such a blanket rule, so the new regulations bring the two agencies into alignment. The change impacts only future threatened species’ listings or reclassifications from endangered to threatened status and does not apply to species already listed as threatened. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will craft species-specific 4(d) rules for each future threatened species determination as deemed necessary and advisable for the conservation of the species, as has been common practice for many species listed as threatened in

recent years.

From comments received during the public comment period in making these regulatory changes, concerns were raised regarding the lack of transparency in making listing decisions and the economic impact associated with determinations.

Public transparency is critical in all government decision making, and the preamble to the regulation clarifies that the ESA does not prohibit agencies from collecting data that determine this cost and making that information available, as long as doing so does not influence the listing determination.

The final regulations submitted to the Federal Register can be found here: https:// www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ ESA/regulation-revisions.html.

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King Ranch® Institute Benefits from Gift to TAMUK Foundation

by Elaine Barnes Coordinator, Alumni and Donor Communications

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he Texas A&M University-Kingsville Foundation announced, with gratitude, the largest singular gift from an individual in the university’s almost 100year history. The $19.5 million bequest is also the leading commitment to date for the university’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign, With You. Without Limits.

T h e C a m p a i g n f o r Te x a s A & M University-Kingsville.

Given by an anonymous donor, the transformational gift will include more than 7,800 acres of Texas ranchland, presently valued at $16 million, plus $3.5 million in cash – all dedicated to King Ranch® Institute for Ranch Management (KRIRM).

“Texas A&M University-Kingsville is honored to receive this tremendous gift that will have a significant impact on the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Manage-

ment. Through this donor’s immense April 2018. With this planned gift, donors generosity, our students, faculty and have generously given $94.6 million, researchers will be able to expand the work nearing the campaign goal of $100 million to which they are committed, managing in private support. The university has our nation’s range and wildlife and preserv- recorded more than 19,000 gifts from more ing our rich ranching tradition. A historic than 4,600 donors since the campaign’s gift of this nature reflects a tremendous inception, with each gift securing our univision and spirit of philanthropy and we are versity’s future while preserving and incredibly grateful,” stated President of honoring its unique heritage as an integral Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Dr. Mark part in the success of South Texas.

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“On behalf of the Board of Trustees of This partnership will allow students pur- Texas A&M-Kingsville Foundation, we are suing a master’s degree through KRIRM the ecstatic about this donor’s investment in opportunity to conduct real-world case the university, and specifically the King studies on land and animal management, Ranch Institute for Ranch Management,” including brush control, grazing manage- said Brad Walker, Vice President for Institument, livestock management, wildlife tional Advancement and Foundation CEO. management and marketing. The invest- “We know that Texas A&M-Kingsville is ment of cash will establish an operations without limits, but to achieve the universiand management endowment that enables ty’s mission, it really does take the support KRIRM to manage the ranch to support of individual donors and alumni. This teaching, applied research, and outreach to planned gift ensures a tremendous future ranching industry stakeholders according for both the institute and the to the KRIRM mission. A portion of the university.” planned gift will support the Veterinary Technology program at Texas A&M-Kingsville and provide scholarships for students attending veterinary school.

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Harold’s reason for razing the feedlot is, of course, urban encroachment. The land is too ‘valuable’ upon which to raise livestock.

In the next few years Harold’s feedlot will become part of the city. Crisscrossed with tile, cable, wire, iron and asphalt. It will be

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drilled, scraped, paved, disemboweled, pounded and polluted. Millions of tons of concrete, brick, timber, glass and iron will rest in or on old feed alleys and sick pens.

Oceans of sewage, mountains of refuse and purgatories of poison will work their way into the soil upon which the city is built. It will become the receptacle for the waste of human herds.

Ancient civilizations as mighty as ours have disappeared. All that remains of them are the ruins of the cities, the Aztec and Egyptian pyramids, the great walls, the foundations of majestic coliseums and castles. But it is hard to find the ugly footprints of olden agriculture, a hog wallow, a horse corral, the trail to water, the milking shed, an irrigation canal, an overgrazed pasture, the chopped down woods. They seem to have vanished.

I think that is because, though agricultural production changes wide expanses of land, the changes are not deep.

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would it take the earth to heal the scars left by man? How many years after abandonment would we still see pieces of the Golden Gate Bridge, Denver International Airport or the Empire State building? Hundreds? Thousands? Compare that to the time it would take a cleared pasture, a clearcut forest or a highly fertilized irrigated desert to return to its natural state?

It has always bothered me that a self-proclaimed environmental lobbyist can point from his high rise and accuse ag producers of destroying the environment. It’s truly the pot calling the kettle ‘non-green’.

Whether we live in town or in the country, we all play a part in the degradation of our environment. We eat the bounty of modern agriculture. We drive to and fro and we buy 2x4’s.

By dismantling his feedyard, Harold is doing more than most of us to allow the land to return to its natural state. However the next squatters on the property may leave a more long lasting legacy of destruction.

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by Don Bullis, murder on December 8 and sentenced to hauled to the edge of the city where there New Mexico Author hang. Catron, of course, filed notice of stood a cottonwood tree with a convenient DonBullis.biz appeal while Fowler remained in jail past limb. The vigilantes simply put the noose Christmas and on into the next year. around his neck and drove the wagon out Socorro County Sheriff Pete Simpson from underneath him. One witness feared for Fowler’s safety but along about reported that he thought Fowler was dead, this time, he felt called upon to leave town, of fright, before he was hanged. Another os Colgadores, which literally trans- to go in pursuit of train robbers (the success reported that after the hanging was comlates from Spanish to English as “The or failure of that effort is not known). plete, someone in the crowd shot the killer Hangers,” were Socorro, New Mexico’s In the early morning hours of January 23, a couple of times for good measure. vigilantes. The group was also variously 1884, Los Colgadores, about 200 strong A coroner’s jury ruled that Fowler had called the Committee of Safety, the Com- according to estimates, entered the Socorro died by strangulation “at the hands of mittee of Justice, or simply the vigilantes. County Jail. They met little resistance as persons unknown.” Of course, the coroner’s They may also have been called “The they removed Fowler from his cell. The killer jury was made up of the very people who Stranglers.” did not go quietly. According to one eyewit- had done the deed.

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It is most common to focus on the chemical and physical properties of soil, but the biological aspects are gaining more attention. Several tests have been developed to assess some of these properties. The USDA NRCS’s Soil Quality Assessment webpage (http://soils.usda.gov/SQI/assessment/ assessment.html) offers some insight into measuring certain biological properties.

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oil testing helps us understand the soil environment in which our plants must survive. A complete understanding of the soil would include its physical, chemical, and biological properties. Physical properties relevant to plant production include soil texture, permeability, compaction, and water-holding capacity. Chemical properties include soil pH, salinity, and plant nutrients. Soil biology determines how efficiently nutrients are released from organic matter, how well organic matter is decomposed, and a host of other properties conducive to plant grow th.

Management practices affect all three of these categories.

Soil testing provides a “snapshot” of what conditions were like at the time of sampling, and this allows ranchers, farmers and homeowners to plan their management practices for the coming growing season. Common questions like “How much manure should I add?” or “What fertilizer should I use this year?” or “Do I need to lower my soil pH?” can be answered with a soil test.

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takes 12 to 15 subsamples taken to the same depth and combined into one sample in order to be confident in the soil test results from any given lab (Figure 1). The recommended number of subsamples ensures that the sample is representative of a “management zone.” This is an area that may be treated the same with regard to watering, fertilizer application, and yield potential.

Obtaining a Sample The soil depth for sampling depends on A soil test is only as good as the sample tillage practices and the crop that is being from which it came. One core from the grown. Areas that are not tilled, such as corner of a field, a fairway, or one’s front direct-seeded fields, orchards, vineyards, yard does not represent the whole ranch, turfgrass, and perennial gardens, should be pasture, field, golf course, or yard. Samples sampled to a depth of 6 to 8 inches. Any should be taken from areas that can be area that has been tilled, such as annual treated as distinct units (management gardens, conventionally tilled production zones). The rough on a golf course differs fields, or similar areas, should be sampled from the green, and some areas cross soil to a depth of 12 inches. The second foot (12 type boundaries that vary greatly in their to 24 inches), and deeper depths (>24 physical and chemical properties. It usually inches), of soil is often sampled to improve salinity and nitrogen management. When sampling for soil analysis, it is important to brush aside or remove the surface layer of leaves and other plant residues so that analytical results are more representative of stable soil organic matter. The tool of choice is a probe that allows easy soil retrieval without leaving behind a greatly disturbed area. Some soils are too hard to easily push in a probe, and a hammer is Figure 1. Feeling the soil while sampling can give information about soil therefore necessary. moisture and texture across the area being sampled.

Some probes are sold with “sliding- hammer” attachments that make sampling much easier. Spades are also a good tool, but you should limit how much soil you collect in the sampling container. For more information on proper sampling techniques, please refer to Guide A-114, Test Your Soil (aces. nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/a-114.pdf). You can also view a video on soil sampling at www. youtube.com/watch?v=aQMZ-MsYBiQ.

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ammonium-N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), texture, and micronutrients such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), and copper (Cu).

These tests are not unique to New Mexico, but were used by the NMSU Soil, Water, and Agriculture Testing (SWAT) laboratory (closed in June 2012) on a routine basis. The lab was closed during the state budget cuts not only to NMSU but other agencies using the lab.

There are specific ways the soil must be processed in the lab to obtain accurate results. Soil pH, electrical conductivity, and sodium adsorption ratio are determined from a saturated paste extract. Organic matter is determined from a procedure known as the Walkley-Black method (as opposed to “combustion”). Inorganic nitrate-N can be determined by extracting the soil with a potassium chloride solution and testing for nitrate-N after cadmium reduction. Phosphorus is determined after extracting the soil with a solution of sodium bicarbonate (Olsen’s procedure) as long as the soil pH is above 7.2.

A solution of ammonium acetate is used to extract potassium. Micronutrients are required by plants in small quantities and can be evaluated for plant availability by extracting with a DTPA solution. Other nutrients to consider include sulfate and boron. Please consult Circular 650, Sulfur and New Mexico Agriculture (http://aces. nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/CR-650.pdf), for more information regarding the need for sulfate. Boron is often sold but seldom needed in New Mexico and should only be considered if plants exhibit deficiencies or tissue testing reveals low boron levels within the plant. Boron can be toxic to plants if applied at too great a concentration. The amount of soil lime present in the sample is also helpful when considering what plants to grow.

Saturated Paste Extract (Method S – 1.10 in Gavlak et al. [2005]) In this test method, soil samples are ground and passed through a 2-mm sieve, then just enough water is added to make a paste that glistens but does not flow from a cup. Soil texture greatly influences the amount of water that can be added to make it “saturated.” Soils with high amounts of clay often take 24 hours to fully absorb the added water. Once 24 hours have passed and the sample is saturated, the soil is

placed under suction and the liquid is removed for further testing. This sample is known as the saturated paste extract and most closely resembles conditions after an irrigation. Soil pH, EC, and SAR (relative amount of calcium, magnesium, and sodium) are determined from the saturated paste extract.

Soil pH Soil pH is a measure of the soil’s acidity or basicity (alkalinity). A substance is acidic if the pH is below 7.0 and alkaline if the pH is above 7.0. A neutral soil has a pH of 7.0.

Technically, soil pH is the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion activity (−log10 (H+)). Common household items that are acidic include vinegar, cola, and coffee, while antacids, detergents, and bleach are basic (alkaline). Ideally, soil pH should be near 6.5 in order to keep phosphorus in its most available form. Many micronutrients, such as iron and zinc, are also more available to the plant at a 6.5 soil pH. Other nutrients for plant growth are strongly affected by soil pH. Only nitrogen, potassium, and sulfur are unaffected by soil pH. Soil pH in New Mexico is normally between 6.5 and 8.4. Mountain soils, where more rain occurs, generally have a soil pH below 7.0.

Many garden soils that have received too much organic matter may also have a lower soil pH, but not always. Soil pH should be determined from a saturated paste extract (pHs).

It is also helpful to know the soil lime content in cases where gypsum is recommended as a reclamation tool. Elemental sulfur can be used in place of gypsum in situations where there is elevated sodium with lime (calcium carbonate) present in the soil.

Calcium Carbonate For much of New Mexico, soil pH is controlled by the presence of lime (calcium carbonate). Lime acts as a buffer against changes in soil pH and can tie up phosphorus and iron, making them unavailable for plants. The percentage of calcium carbonate in soil can be determined at a soil testing lab. You can do a quick home test for the presence of lime using household vinegar. Simply pour a little vinegar on the soil. Lime is present if the soil fizzes when exposed to vinegar.

A soil with 5 percent lime in the top 6 inches has approximately 2,296 pounds of lime per 1,000 square feet. Soils with more than 3 percent lime are most likely to have

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a pH above 7.5. All of this lime must be neutralized before the soil pH can be lowered.

Elemental sulfur is a common amendment used to lower soil pH. However, the presence of soil lime will prevent any change until the lime has been eliminated. It is often more economical to establish plants that are tolerant of alkaline soils and are not sensitive to soil lime. (Refer to the National Plants Database at http://plants.usda.gov for more information regarding plant tolerance to alkaline soils).

Electrical Conductivity (ECe) (Method S – 1.20 in Gavlak et al. [2005]) Total soil salts are determined from the saturated paste extract to classify the soil as saline or nonsaline. Units are in mmhos/ cm or dS/m. Electrical conductivity should be determined from a saturated paste extract (ECe) for best correlation to plant performance. A saline soil has a conductivity greater than 4 mmhos/cm. Special management practices are necessary when soils test as saline. Salinity is more fully described in Circular 656, An Introduction to Soil Salinity and Sodium Issues in New Mexico(http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/ CR656.pdf). Instead of EC, many growers prefer to use parts per million total dissolved solids (ppm TDS) to indicate salinity.

To calculate the ppm TDS, multiply EC by 640.

Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR) (Method S – 1.60 in Gavlak et al.

[2005]) The liquid from the saturation extract is also used to determine the calcium, magnesium, and sodium in the soil to assess

water infiltration hazards due to too much sodium. Gypsum recommendations are made using this parameter. For more discussion about SAR, see Circular 656, An Introduction to Soil Salinity and Sodium Issues in New Mexico (http://aces.nmsu. edu/pubs/_circulars/CR656.pdf)

Soil Organic Matter (SOM) (Method S – 9.10 in Gavlak et al. [2005]) The Walkley-Black procedure is suggested as a good measure of organic matter for New Mexico soils. Soil organic matter is more than the presence of compost and roots in the soil. Thirty pounds of plant-available nitrogen are credited to the soil for every 1 percent organic matter in the top foot of soil as determined by the Walkley-Black procedure. Knowledge of the soil organic matter content helps understand possible causes for salinity, improved water-holding capacity, and improved nutrient reserves. Organic matter benefits soil and crops by ЇЇ Helping strengthen soil aggregates, which improves soil tilth and structure. ЇЇ Improving aeration and water infiltration.

Increasing water-holding capacity ЇЇ (0.08 to 0.19 inches per 1 percent SOM). ЇЇ Providing a significant number of nutrient exchange sites.

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Nutrient Analyses Three primary nutrients should be evaluated on a routine basis: inorganic-N, phosphorus, and potassium. Four micronutrients analyses that are routinely requested are iron, zinc, copper, and manganese. The nutrients are interpreted according to the likelihood that plants would respond to additional fertilizer. A soil that is ranked low means there is not enough of that nutrient for the plant to grow correctly and that the plant would benefit from an application of that nutrient. If the nutrient is ranked high there is little chance the plant would respond to additions of that nutrient (i.e., it would be a waste of money to add more).

Inorganic Nitrogen (N) (Method S – 3.10 in Gavlak et al. [2005]) Inorganic-N is the sum of nitrate-N and ammonium-N in the soil. Nitrate-N is usually more prevalent and may be the only form tested by some labs. Several methods exist, but a common procedure uses potassium chloride (KCl) to extract the inorganic-N from the soil. The amount of fertilizer nitrogen needed is based on the amount of nitrogen in the soil and the amount of nitrogen required to adequately promote growth and performance of a given crop.

Fast-growing plants generally require more nitrogen than slow-growing plants. Nitrogen fertilizer applications may be eliminated (at first) if the soil test is rated high for inorganic-N. Fertilizer should be applied when temperature and moisture conditions favor active growth; they should not be applied during times of stress. Heavy rains or excessive irrigation will lower the nitrate-N content of the soil via leaching.

Samples taken before a leaching event will overestimate the soil inorganic-N and subsequently underestimate the amount of nitrate-N that would be needed for a potential crop.

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per year per 1 percent SOM per foot of soil).

Providing a food source and ecosystem for soil microorganisms as well as earthworms and other beneficial organisms.

Western soils are typically alkaline and should have plant-available phosphorus determined using a sodium bicarbonate solution (Olsen’s procedure). This extract has been shown to correlate very well with plant-available phosphorus in high-pH

(alkaline) soils. New Mexico soils that are low in organic matter usually are also low in plant-available phosphorus. Soil chemistry in New Mexico favors the creation of apatite (a calcium phosphate mineral) that is not available for plants to use. As a result, plant-available phosphorus is usually quite low in alkaline soils and should be supplemented for growing plants. Phosphorus fertilizers can be applied at 1/5th the nitrogen rate when making routine applications.

Potassium (K) (Method S – 5.10 in Gavlak et al. [2005]) The accepted method for determining plant-available potassium is extracting the soil with an ammonium acetate solution.

Before NMSU’s SWAT laboratory closed they used water-extractable potassium, which is a fraction of the extractable potassium for most soils. However, the value of one method over another is related to understanding of plant response to reported values. Low potassium, as well as other nutrient levels that are reported low, will generally mean a good chance for plant response to added fertilizer.

Micronutrients (Method S – 6.10 in Gavlak et al. [2005]) Iron (Fe): Iron is extracted with DTPA (a chelate) by most soil testing labs in the West. Iron deficiencies can occur with sensitive plants grown in alkaline or calcareous soil. If the soil pH is above 7.5, less iron is available to the plant because the chemistry of the soil favors the creation of a mineral form of iron that is not available for plant use. Even though a soil may test high in available iron, iron-sensitive crops may still exhibit deficiency symptoms. Chelates often are used to keep iron fertilizers in a more available form, but care should be taken to pick EDDHA or DTPA as the chelate of choice in New Mexico instead of EDTA. EDDHA is most stable across all soil pH ranges, while DTPA should not be used in soil with a pH above 7.6. These two classes of chelates will generally improve iron nutrition in plants.

Zinc (Zn): Zinc, like iron, is extracted with DTPA by most labs in the West. Zinc can be an economic problem for many crops like corn, sorghum, and pecans. Zinc is most unavailable in soils with pH greater than 7.5. Extremely high levels of phosphorus can cause zinc deficiencies by competing for adsorption sites on the soil.

Soil test results are classified as low, medium, or high.

Copper (Cu): Copper deficiencies have

not been verified in New Mexico soils. ers, and irrigation water often supplies Factors that contribute to copper deficiency enough for crop needs. For more informaare high organic matter, sandy textural class, tion on sulfur in New Mexico, see Circular and very high pH. Copper toxicities, on the 650, Sulfur and New Mexico Agriculture other hand, have been an issue in some (http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/ New Mexico fields that have been treated CR-650.pdf). with copper-containing amendments.

Manganese (Mn): Manganese deficien- Soil Texture (Method S – 14.10 in cies have begun to show up in pecans and Gavlak et al. [2005], or Thien [1979]) some other crops in New Mexico. DefiSoils are composed of mineral particles ciency symptoms can occur under the same with an infinite number of sizes and shapes. conditions that promote iron and zinc Individual mineral particles are divided into deficiencies. three major categories based on their size: Boron (B) (Method S – 7.10 in Gavlak sand, silt, or clay. Many of soil’s important et al. [2005]): Boron is another micronutri- physical and chemical properties are assoent that is needed by plants but is usually ciated with the surface of these particles. sufficient in soils in low rainfall areas. Plant Soil texture is most often estimated by the tissue testing can indicate whether or not “feel” method, but sieves or hydrometer there is sufficient boron available to the readings can be requested, usually at a plant. Some plants such as pistachios can much higher price. Soil texture gives a preexhibit boron deficiency. Soil levels are liminary indication about the soil’s assessed using a hot water extract of the water-holding capacity. soil. Treating plants or soil with boron should be approached with caution Laboratories because of the potential for boron toxicity Soils are complex biological, chemical, if over-applied. and physical systems. Diligence in interpretSulfate (SO4-S) (Method S – 11.10 in ing soil test results can save hundreds of Gavlak et al. [2005]): Sandy soils are prone dollars every year. The only way to know to sulfur deficiencies. However, addition of what a soil is truly like is to start with a soil organic matter, sulfate-containing fertiliz- sample. Several commercial labs are given

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below with a listing of test packages or names that would be useful for interpretation of New Mexico soils. Be aware that procedures should be similar to those suggested in this document. Individual labs vary in services offered, prices, and the time they require for analyses. The list of laboratories in Table 1 is not all-inclusive, and the list of services may change over time. To select a lab, consider convenience, services offered, and quality. Consider using laboratories that participate in the North American Proficiency Testing Program (Table 1). This program assists soil, plant, and water testing laboratories in their performance through inter-laboratory sample exchanges and a statistical evaluation of the analytical data.

Laboratories to Consider for Evaluating New Mexico Soils for Plant Production* USUAL, 9400 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, 435/797-2217, http://www.usual.usu. edu/forms/soilform.pdf Ward Laboratories, 4007 Cherry Ave., Kearney, NE 68848-0788, 800/887-7645, http://www.wardlab.com Western Laboratories, P.O. Box 1020, 211 HWY 95, Parma, ID 83660, 1-208/7226564, http://www.westernlaboratories.com Servi-Tech Laboratories-Amarillo, 6921 S. Bell Ave., Amarillo, TX 79109, 806/677-0093, http://www.servitechlabs. com/Services/Soil/tabid/63/Default.aspx Dellavalle Laboratory, Inc., 1910 W. McKinley Ave., Suite #110, Fresno, CA 93728, 8 0 0/ 2 28 - 9 8 9 6 , h t t p : // w w w. d e l l a vallelab.com Colorado State Univ., Soil, Water & Plant Testing Lab, Campus Delivery 1120, NESB Room A319, Fort Collins, CO 805231120, 970/491-50 61, ht t p: // w w w.

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soiltestinglab.colostate.edu Inter AG Services Laboratory, 2515 E. University Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85034, 602/2737248, http://www.iaslabs.com/ Tests/ Soil-Test.aspx Analytical Sciences Laboratory, University of Idaho, Holm Research Center, 2222 W. Sixth St., Moscow, ID 83844-2203, 208/885-7900, http://www.agls.uidaho.edu * Most of the laboratories listed also test for irrigation water quality and perform

plant tissue analysis.

Quality Assurance Soils are heterogeneous, and replicates of the same sample will never have the exact same analytical result from one laboratory to another. The North American Proficiency Testing Program guidelines have been developed for the agricultural laboratory industry by representatives from groups familiar with and involved in standardizing methods and developing nutrient recommendations for soil and plant analysis methods within the U.S. and Canada. It is operated as an activity of the Soil Science Society of America and overseen by an oversight committee comprising representatives of the aforementioned groups.

These include regional soil and plant analysis workgroups, scientific organizations, state/provincial departments of agriculture, and private and public plant analysis labs.

Finally, keep a record of your lab results.

If you need help interpreting the results, please consult with your New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service county office.

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overnment officials say over 5,000 invasive species have infiltrated our ecosystem and our economy causing an estimated $120 billion in damages annually. Here’s my top ten list of invasive species in America today.

10. Fake Food – Remember the days when the great American barbecue consisted of a salad made with fresh fruits and vegetables from the garden, garlic bread drenched in real butter and a steak that would melt in your mouth? In many homes that’s been replaced by fruits and vegetables imported from Mexico or South America, fake butter on gluten free bread and a hamburger made by chemists in a laboratory.

9. NIMBY’s – These urbanites messed in their own nest and then move to the country, build gaudy houses, put up tall fences armed with security cameras and set about changing their new home into something more closely resembling the hell hole they couldn’t wait to leave.

8. PETA People – These ugly people don’t look anything like the beautiful movie stars you see on billboards promoting PETA whose private parts are partly covered in lettuce leaves. They urge Americans not to eat meat and break down crying on TV talk shows because hens don’t have reproductive rights. They believe that owning another live being is an act of violence yet you can usually spot these PETA people in public parks picking up the poop of their non-human animals.

7. Millenials – This is a relatively new invasive species that we’ve never seen before. They vote for Crazy Bernie, pile up huge debt getting a worthless college degree in the humanities so they can live at home with their parents while working part-time at Olive Garden.

6. Vegans and Vegetarians – They are gatherers from a prehistoric era who ate mostly berries and bark because they had not yet learned how to hunt and were unaware of the glorious taste of meat. You can recognize them by their emaciated

bodies and gray pallor. They think soy is the version of the species that comes from answer to all the world’s ills.

Mexico and Central America. They travel in 5. Wolves – Although wolves are native gangs and have killed and kidnapped to this country not so the species we are Americans on southwestern ranches. They importing in bulk from Canada and Mexico. can easily be spotted in sanctuary cities that At their current rate of killing it won’t be are quickly acquiring third-world long before deer, elk and cattle are on the country status. endangered species list. Then their huge 2. Bureaucrats – This species can be packs will come for joggers, bike riders and seen driving around in green trucks in school kids. They are being introduced to federal forests where they make sure no rid the West of the despicable Ameri- one cuts any illegal firewood so it can burn can rancher. up later in out-of-control wildfires. They’ve 4. Climate Change Fanatics – A species been known to put ranchers in jail for five descended from Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford years for starting a firebreak to save their professor who got rich off a book called The ranch while their own actions have caused Population Bomb that predicted humans fires from Hell to burn down entire towns. would be long gone from earth by now. A subspecies dresses in SWAT gear, puts Since we’re still here they needed a new snipers on far hills and harasses private citBible of doom so they made Al Gore rich by izens until they commit suicide. purchasing his book, An Inconvenient Truth.

1. Politicians – Different from bureauIt similarly predicted our demise if we didn’t crats in that they don’t have to work for 25 stop cows from passing gas, all start buying years to get a pension and health benefits Smart Cars and buying stock in his green but can get a much better package for companies. “serving” a single term in D.C. The deadliest 3. Illegal Immigrants – We’ve always of invasive species, it feeds off your taxes welcomed people from foreign lands as and is devouring our nation’s soul. long as they came to this country legally.

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Overseeing a program provides a different perspective, you see its strengths and weaknesses. If there are problems you learn them quickly. Based upon my experience here is what you should know.

PRF is Growing PRF is USDA’s fastest growing insurance program, insuring 141 million acres nationwide. In New Mexico, PRF insured 14.7 million acres in 2019, up from 8.1 million in 2017. In 2018, New Mexico producers paid $13.2 million in premiums and PRF paid them $31.7 million. PRF premium discounts make it a good deal.

How PRF Works?

PRF allows you to insure between 70-90 percent of normal precipitation by using local precipitation data to estimate how much you have received historically and how much you received during the year you insure. When precipitation falls, PRF makes a payment to compensate for the lack of forage.

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stations and sometimes, those stations experience different levels of precipitation than your ranch. In the West this can happen easily with the distances and lack of close weather stations. If you are in PRF long enough, sooner or later, you will believe you are entitled to a PRF payment, yet the precipitation data shows you aren’t.

Remember this—sometimes the weather stations report more than you received and sometimes less so this shouldn’t be an issue over time.

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Consider historical payments, but insure the months when you need precipitation so that your coverage is correlated with forage production.

Be Conservative and Consistent: Want to get burned on PRF? Sign up one year and not the next. PRF works over time, so plan on giving it a chance for 5 straight years. That may mean you only insure a portion of your acres to reduce your premium.

Find Correct Coverage Level: USDA’s premium discount varies depending on the coverage level. Its higher at lower coverage levels. Request that your agent show you all your options.

Each has their advantages and disadvantages.

Find a Good Agent: Some agents are great, others aren’t. Avoid aggressive agents who show results that appear “too good to be true.” Instead find an agent who specializes in PRF and doesn’t pressure you into premiums than are too high.

My Advice? You Should Sign Up You’re thinking, “of course he would say that—he sells it.” Actually, that is the advice I gave my dad five years ago when I worked at USDA and my only goal was to help my dad stay profitable. PRF isn’t perfect, but PRF can improve your bottom-line. If your agent understands PRF, you can avoid surprises. A good manager should at least sit down and learn how PRF would have historically performed for your operation. You need to act now. Sign up ends November 15th.

About the Author: Brandon Willis oversaw USDA’s insurance programs as the administrator of the Risk Management Agency from 2013 to 2017. Before that, he served as a senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. He owns Livestock and Dairy Insurance Solutions LLC, Laketown, Utah

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“We’re very proud to have served New Mexico for 75 years. In those 75 years, we have helped thousands of families to Rekindle Hope. We can’t ever really know how many lives have been impacted or how many generations have been helped, but we’re honored to have been able to help and humbled to have been supported by so many generous donors.” – Heath Kull President The multi-denominational Christian program offers kids a safe place to learn, grow, and develop; a personalized plan to address their needs and goals; and individualized education and counseling. The Ranches also provides assistance to the families of their residents through services such as crisis management, family counseling and parenting skills training.

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USGS maps produced since 2002 show that groundwater levels in and near Albuquerque, New Mexico, are rising compared to historical conditions despite recent below-normal annual precipitation. Relatively high groundwater levels in 2016 and reductions in the amount of groundwater-level decline, known as drawdown, are indicators of a rebounding groundwater level.

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“In many areas of the world, groundwater levels are dropping due to pumping, so what is happening in Albuquerque is notable,” said John Bumgarner, Director of the USGS New Mexico Water Science Center.

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Albuquerque September 6 – 15 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

9 am Wool Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 8 am Jr. Market Barrow Classification & Show – Swine Barn 9 am Classify Jr. Mkt Steers/Breeding Heifers – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Open Angus Cattle Show – Beef Barn Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 1 pm Open AOB Cattle Show – Beef Barn 4 pm Sullivan’s Supply Fitting Clinic – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 8 am Jr. Rabbit/Cavy Show – Rabbit/ Poultry Building 9 am Jr. Poultry Show – Rabbit/Poultry Building 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 12 pm Classify Jr. Market Goats – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 4 pm Wool Lead Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 8 am Jr. Market Lamb Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Open Hereford Cattle Show – Beef Barn Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 8 am Jr. Dairy Goat Show/ Showmanship – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn Calf Scramble Showmanship – Beef Barn 9 am Jr. Breeding Heifer Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 11 am Open Jr. Dairy Goat Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 1 pm Livestock Judging Contest – Beef Barn 7 pm Parade of Champions – Tingley Coliseum

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 8 am Youth Sr. Dairy Goat Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 11 am Open Sr. Dairy Goat Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 12 pm Jr. Livestock Sale – Box Car Stage

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 8 am Open Poultry Show – Rabbit/ Poultry Building Open/Jr. Dairy Cattle Show – Beef Barn 9 am 4-H Cooking Challenge – Youth Hall Table Top Serama Chicken Show – Poultry Building Pygmy Goat Club Show – Swine Barn 9:30 am Sheep to Shawl – Demos Daily 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 10 am Texas Longhorn Show – Beef Barn 4-H Dog Show – Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn

Milking Demos, Southwest Dairy Farmer’s Dairy Barn 12 pm Pygmy Goat Show – Swine Barn 5 pm Pygmy Goat Club Costume Contest – Swine Barn

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• ALL LIVESTOCK MUST BE BROUGHT TO FAIRGROUNDS. ALL LIVESTOCK MUST ENTER THROUGH RODEO GATE ON POE. 5:00 p.m. Classify steers in the show ring 5:30 p.m. Rabbit Meat Pens will be Judged 7:00 p.m. Measure and pregnancy test dairy heifers 9:00 p.m. Informal Livestock Meeting/ Show Ring. • All individual, educational, extension club, FFA, 4-H, FHA booths & FFA Ag mechanics must be in place

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2019 8:00 a.m. Breeding heifer show • Steer show to immediately follow heifer show. • NM Cattle Growers Association Showmanship Contest to immediately follow steer show (exhibitors must be NM Cattle Growers Youth Member) • All Jr. Livestock pulls due in Jr. livestock office one hour after steer show

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If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic.

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Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste.

“Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they wear out. Old equipment must be decommissioned, generating millions of tons of waste. The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that solar goals for 2050 consistent with the Paris Accords will result in old-panel disposal constituting more than double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste. Consider some other sobering numbers: A single electric-car battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. Fabricating one requires digging up, moving and processing more than 500,000 pounds of raw materials somewhere on the planet. The alternative? Use gasoline and extract onetenth as much total tonnage to deliver the same number of vehicle-miles over the battery’s seven-year life.

When electricity comes from wind or solar machines, every unit of energy produced, or mile traveled, requires far more materials and land than fossil fuels. That physical reality is literally visible: A wind or solar farm stretching to the horizon can be replaced by a handful of gas-fired turbines, each no bigger than a tractor-trailer.

Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of nonrecyclable plastic. Solar power requires even more cement, steel and glass—not to mention other metals. Global silver and indium mining will jump 250 percent and 1,200 percent respectively over

the next couple of decades to provide the materials necessary to build the number of solar panels, the International Energy Agency forecasts. World demand for rareearth elements—which aren’t rare but are rarely mined in America—will rise 300 percent to 1,000 percent by 2050 to meet the Paris green goals. If electric vehicles replace conventional cars, demand for cobalt and lithium, will rise more than 20-fold. That doesn’t count batteries to back up wind and solar grids.

Last year a Dutch government-sponsored study concluded that the Netherlands’ green ambitions alone would consume a major share of global minerals. “Exponential growth in [global] renewable energy production capacity is not possible with present-day technologies and annual metal production,” it concluded.

The demand for minerals likely won’t be met by mines in Europe or the U.S. Instead, much of the mining will take place in nations with oppressive labor practices. The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces 70 percent of the world’s raw cobalt, and China controls 90 percent of cobalt refining. The Sydney-based Institute for a Sustainable Future cautions that a global “gold” rush for minerals could take miners

into “some remote wilderness areas [that] have maintained high biodiversity because they haven’t yet been disturbed.”

What’s more, mining and fabrication require the consumption of hydrocarbons.

Building enough wind turbines to supply half the world’s electricity would require nearly two billion tons of coal to produce the concrete and steel, along with two billion barrels of oil to make the composite blades. More than 90 percent of the world’s solar panels are built in Asia on coal-heavy electric grids.

Engineers joke about discovering “unobtanium,” a magical energy-producing element that appears out of nowhere, requires no land, weighs nothing, and emits nothing. Absent the realization of that impossible dream, hydrocarbons remain a far better alternative than today’s green dreams.

Mr. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund, and author of the recent report, “The ‘New Energy Economy’: An Exercise in Magical Thinking.”

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actions of the Department suggest some- ponent parts.”Interior also pointed to other thing far more damaging: a deliberate entities, such as the Food and Drug Admineffort to dismantle and weaken the Bureau.” istration, which are located outside of D.C. Apparently supporting the multiple use The Public Lands Foundation, a group of

by Frank Dubois concept of managing federal lands is an retired BLM employees, is opposing the “attack” in the eyes of Udall. reorganization and have written to the Udall and his counterpart in the House Senate Committee on Energy and Natural of Representatives, Rep. Betty McCollum Resources requesting they hold a hearing (D-Minn), have demanded the Department on the matter. In their letter, they say the BLM’s westward trek and enviros “immediately suspend its efforts to relocate.” headquarters should stay in D.C. where losing water battle In response, Interior released a statement decisions are made that “affect all Amerisaying, “It’s troubling that Sen. Udall and cans.” The relocation, they say, would Rep. McCollum seem to have missed the benefit the “short-term” interests of local numerous detailed reports, Committee and stakeholders to the “detriment of all other he Department of Interior is moving staff briefings, and written responses to constituents and the long-term needs of forward with their plan to relocate the every single question asked by the Con- the public lands.” They also say the breakup headquarters of the Bureau of Land gress during the past few months. All of of the D.C. structure “will promote local, Management (BLM) to Grand Junction, Col- these briefings and communications have parochial interests over the national orado. The reorganization would have the explained the advantages, efficiencies, and interests.” top twenty-seven BLM positions make the other savings of such a relocation to the Did you ever wonder what BLM employmove to Grand Junction while three Department, our stakeholders, and the ees thought about the comments you make hundred or so will be assigned to various public. We have stressed from early on the local level concerning resource manin this process that it was consistent with agement plans, allotment management positions in the West. Sixty-one positions will remain in D.C. and responsive to the feedback received plans, draft EISs, etc.? Then just look up the The plan to move BLM headquarters is from a broad range of partners, including synonyms of “parochial”, and there you will vehemently opposed by the environmental members of Congress, Governors, local finds words like: narrow-minded, limited, lobby groups, which means, guess what, it officials and the public. In addition, we have close-minded, petty, blinkered and myopic. is opposed by the Democrats in Congress. provided office-level, state by state break- Now you know how they view your comLeading the pack is Senator Tom Udall downs of the benefits of this effort.” ments, thanks to this insight from an (D-NM). Udall, who is the top Democrat on Another issue being raised by the oppo- organization of six hundred retired BLM the Senate Subcommittee on Interior nents is a federal statute that says, “all employees.

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MANUEL SALAZAR 136 County Road 194 Cañones, NM 87516 usa.ranch@yahoo.com PHONE: 575-638-5434

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Historic Circle Cross Ranch located in the Sacramento Mountains on the Sacramento River. 2422 ± acres deeded, 10,019 ± acres State Lease permitted for 116 AU’s. 127 acres irrigated (water rights in process of being perfected).

The ranch has bear, deer, turkey and elk. In 2017 the ranch received 26 elk tags. New regulations put 640 acres in the Primary Zone and ± 1782 acres in the secondary. Ranch includes a 5,500 sq. ft. lodge with 9 bedrooms, 5 baths and 2 full kitchens. There is also a 2 bed/2 bath 1892 sq. ft. home.

There are pipe working pens, 2 shops, 1 barn and 5 wells. Included is a 40 unit RV DAN DELANEY REAL ESTATE, LLC Park with water, sewer and electric. Priced 318 W. Amador Avenue at $6,900,000 ±150 head of cattle, 5 pieces of Las Cruces, NM 88005 equipment and all furnishings negotiable.

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

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WILD HORSE SUBDIVISION, 142 Webb Ranch Road, North of Pie Town - Corner lot at 20.067 acres w/electricity & well. Horse corrals & small cabin $75,000

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Tye C. Terrell, Jr. P.O. Box 3188, Los Lunas, NM 87031

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Willard, NM: Located south of Willard near Progresso. ~1,130 deeded acres has submersible well, pipeline drinkers, perimeter fences, Mostly open grazing lands w/some cedar & pinon tree cover. Asking $660,000 740 Apache Mesa Road – Los Montoyas, NM: Total of 1,480 acres of grazing land on Apache Mesa. New 4 stall barn, w/living quarters, Stone bunk house & separate bath house all solar powered, plus huge metal equipment shed. Several dirt tanks & spring fed playas. List price is $1,598,900 26+ Acres in La Loma, NM: Irrigated farm has 25 ac ft of ditch rights & Pecos River frontage. Two permitted wells, & old stone house for storage. Organic hemp farm potential, quien sabes? Come see this... Price reduced to $159,900 Sena Mesa, El Pueblo, NM: Two parcels for sale, 180 acres for $121,000 & 257 acres for $141,900. Pena Canyon bottom & mesa top views, perimeter fenced adjacent to National Forest.

CR 4JK, Dilia, NM: 11 acre farm w/ditch rights. Live on one side, farm the other.

Has community water, overhead electric, nice views and owner ready to sell. $89,000 obo 95 Hwy 84, Las Vegas, NM: 157 acre parcel has fiber optic internet, telephone & power available. It’s a great building site with a mountain in your back yard. 100 mile views guaranteed. Price is $159,900 obo 437 Apache Mesa Road: This 120 acre pristine parcel has solar powered water well, perimeter fenced, 2 stock tanks & Hermit Peak views. Off the grid location with privacy & quiet country living! Price now $149,900 435 Apache Mesa Road: Gramma grass 80 acre parcel has a 13 gpm water well, fence on two sides, two dirt tanks & Hermits Peak & Sangre views. Moderate tree cover. Now Priced at $105,000 200 Acres on Apache Mesa: Off the grid flat mesa top meadow w/tall pines, juniper & cedars, mossy rock & partially fenced. La Cueva Canyon views. Price: $165,000 & OWC

Rancho del Rito, San Jose, NM: Rito de Sebadillo parcel is 144 acres with power & water well. Has creek frontage... Priced at $179,900 & owc.

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

CHICO CREEK RANCH, Colfax County, NM. NEW LISTING. 6,404.26 +/- Total Acres, Located approximately 10 miles east of Springer New Mexico.

3,692.60 +/- deeded acres with balance in state lease. Excellent grass and water. Two plus miles of the Chico Creek meandering through the center of the property. Additional wells and dirt tanks. Nice historic head quarters privately located with shade trees and excellent views of the property. Shipping pens in central portion of property. $2,837,318

CIMARRON ON THE RIVER, Colfax County, NM. 7.338 +/- deeded acres with 4.040 acre-feet per annum out of the Maxwell-Clutton Ditch. Custom country-chic 2,094 +/- sq ft home. Owns both sides of river in places. Horse/cow/chicken/vegetable garden/ greenhouse/orchard set up. Country living at it’s finest, in town, but in a world of your own. Very special on river. Appointment only. $599,000

RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres in 2 parcels with excelWAGON MOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, lent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar NM. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres, a substantial holding view at the end of a private road. $489,000. Also with good mix of grazing land and broken country off listed with the house and one parcel for $375,000 rim into Canadian River. Has modern water system MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM quality 2,715 located 17 miles east of Wagon Mound off pavement sqft adobe home, barn, grounds, fruit trees and then 3 miles on county road. Two bedroom historic mature trees. Extremely private setting. REDUCED house, once a stage stop. Wildlife include antelope, $355,000. This is a must see. Also listed with same mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000 house with 10 +/- deeded acres for $310,000 MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Very MAXWELL 19.50 ACRES, Colfax County, NM quality private approx. 4,800 sq ft double walled adobe extensive remodeled two bedroom, one bathroom 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many custom home with water rights, outbuildings for livestock in features, 77.50 +/- deeded acres with water rights NE NM. Great south facing porch for sipping iced tea and large 7 stall barn, insulated metal shop with own cooling off at 6,000 ft elevation. Would make great septic. Would suit indoor growing operation, large summer getaway and winter ski base. $260,000 hay barn/equipment shed. $1,375,000 MORA COUNTY 160 +/- ACRES, 12 miles south FRENCH TRACT FARM, 491.55 +/- deeded acres, east of Wagon Mound, remote, excellent solar well Colfax County, NM two pivots, some gated pipe, 371 good mix of sub irrigated and range. Small cabin. irrigation shares in AVID, House, barn, close to exit $154,000 419 off I25 on HWY 58. All in one contiguous parcel with access on all sides. $700,000

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Fifteen miles southeast of Corona, NM in Lincoln County. 11,889 Deeded Acres, 1,640 Federal BLM Lease Acres and 2,240 NM State Lease Acres. Grazing Capacity estimated at 300 AUYL. Water provided by five wells and pipelines. Improved with two residences, barns and corrals. The ranch had a good summer with abundant grass. Good mule deer habitat. Call for a brochure or view on my website. Price: $4,400,000 $4,100,000 COCHISE RANCH – Ranch property located just west of Roswell, NM along and adjacent to U.S. Highway 70/380 to Ruidoso, NM. Comprised of 6,607 deeded acres and 80 acres of NM State Lease acres. Water is provided by three solar wells and pipelines. Fenced into several pastures and small traps suitable for a registered cattle operation. Improvements include two sets of pens, shop, and hay barn. Price: $2,500,000

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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.

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

RANCHO SAN JUAN: Apache County, Arizona im-

mediately adjacent to the east side of St. Johns with 4,081 deeded acres including 56 acres irrigated farmland and over a mile of the Little Colorado River running through the property. Carrying capacity of 53 AU on the rangeland with additional potential on the farm. This is a nice ranch with great investment potential being so close to the county seat. Price: $1,300,000

EASTERN ARIZONA RANCH: West of St. Johns in

Apache County, Arizona, includes 1,330 deeded acres with 1,300 acres state lease and 360 acres private lease for a total of 42 animal units yearlong. There are several live springs on the deeded land providing nearly 40 acres of naturally irrigated and sub-irrigated meadow. The main block of the ranch is behind locked gate providing the owner with great privacy and seclusion while being only a five minute drive from town. Price: $735,000 CONTACT: ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT www.headquarterswest.com email: info@headquarterswest.com

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Beef packing plant recently built within the last 5 years and good size for 25-50 head a day slaughter/ fab. Can be expanded and sits on 6 acres with the old sale barn. Call Tom Horton, Ag Brokers, Ltd., 806.206.6431 or tom@agbrokersltd.com Feedmill Serving 5 states and profitable. Well run with long-time employees and long-time clients.

Centrally located on 4 acres. Call Tom Horton, Ag Brokers, Ltd, 806.206.6431 or tom@agbrokersltd.com Ag Brokers represents buyers and sellers, selling anything agricultural. Located in Amarillo, TX we are licensed Real Estate Brokers in Texas and New Mexico.

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■ PLEASE CALL – for details on this choice ranch for hunting/cattle production, located between Clayton & Raton, NM, information being prepared, great Elk hunting & 40 ac. w/nice home!

■ POST, TX – 6,376.92 acre ranch in Kent Co., TX on pvmt. & on all weather roads w/a virtually brand new custom built home, really nice guest/hunting lodge, state-of-the-art barns & pens, a complete line of farm & ranch equipment, a registered Red Angus herd of cows, mineral income w/potential for commercial water sales & secluded, beautiful areas w/bluffs & meadows around every turn in the road, an excellent supply of stock water from subs & windmills, deep year round dirt tanks & The North Fork of the Brazos River through the ranch.

■ TOP OF THE WORLD II – Colfax Co., NM – 7402.09 ac. +/- (4,789.69 Deeded – 2,612.4 State Lease) w/historic “POINT OF ROCKS” monument on the Santa Fe Trail, attractive improvements, all weather access!

■ EAST EDGE OF FT. SUMNER, NM – immaculate 7.32 ac. +/- w/a beautiful home, a 900 hd. grow yard & other improvements w/a long line of equipment included, on pvmt.

■ MIAMI SPECIAL – Colfax Co., NM – 40 ac. +/- w/ irrigated pastures, great cattle working & handling facilities & a beautiful home, on pvmt., irrigated from Miami Lake.

■ TOP OF THE WORLD – Union Co., NM – 5,025.76 +/- ac. of choice grassland w/state-of-the-art working pens, recently remodeled bunk house, barbed wire fences in very good to new condition, well watered, on pvmt.

■ UNION CO., NM – 955 ac. +/- w/excellent improvements for a stocker or cow/calf operation, modern ¼ mi. sprinkler, all-weather roads on three sides, 374 ac. +/- CRP. ■ WE CAN NOW DIVIDE THE PAJARITO RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM as follows: 3501.12 ac. +/- of grassland w/a commercial water well located adjacent to I40 w/ capability of producing large incomes together w/a great set of pens, a 17,000 gal. water storage tank, overhead cake bin, hay barn & other stock wells. 700.89 ac. +/- of grassland can be purchased in addition to the 3501.12 ac. The beautiful, virtually new custom built home w/all amenities and a large virtually new metal barn w/an apartment inside on 40 ac. can be purchased separately or w/the ranch. Adjoins the Boylan Ranch if more acreage is desired.

■ THE BOYLAN RANCH – Newkirk, NM - 2,360 ac. +/- w/ useable house & pens, a large domestic well for lvstk./wildlife watering w/potential for commercial water sales, all weather road. Adjoins the Pajarito Creek Ranch if more acreage is desired.

■ PECOS RIVER RANCH – Guadalupe Co., NM – Scenic, 968 +/- ac. deeded & 519 +/- state lease acres, live water ranch on both sides of the Pecos River (strong flow daily) between Santa Rosa & Ft. Sumner; wildlife, paired w/water & cattle for the buyer looking for top tier assets in a rugged New Mexico ranch!

■ LOGAN/NARA VISA, NM – 980 ac. +/- w/940.6 ac.

CRP, irrigated in the past, land lays good & is located on the north side ofHwy. 54.

■ SANTA ROSA, NM – 78 ac. +/- heavily improved for horses, cattle & other livestock w/virtually new barns, pens.

We are conveniently located just north of Menaul at: 2819 2ND ST. NW • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. OPEN MONDAY-FRIDAY • 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

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RANCHES/FARMS *SOLD* 320 Head Mountain Ranch, Reserve, NM – 350+/- ac deeded, +/54,088 ac USFS permit. Stunning Setting in the ponderosa pines with fish ponds, streams, elk, and turkey. Includes four log homes, lg. bunkhouse, barn, tack room, round pens, arena & shipping pens. This is a horseback ranch with rugged country.

Turnkey with cattle, equipment & furnishings. Great opportunity for income from cabin rentals. $2,800,000

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*PENDING* 223 Head Spanish Stirrup Ranch West, Deming, NM. – A portion of the historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch; a solid working cattle ranch in the Florida Mtn. range, with excellent water, good grasses and access close to town. +/- 299 deeded acres, 8,443+/- acres BLM permit, 2,981+/- acre State lease, and approx. three sections open range. Five wells, 5 drinkers, storage tanks, dirt tanks, springs.

One large pasture with two sets of corrals. $950,000. Also: 204 Head Florida Mountain Ranch, Deming, NM – Eastern portion of the historic Spanish Stirrup Ranch. Rolling to mountainous terrain, excellent grasses, browse and water. +/- 15 deeded acres, 7,880+/- acre BLM permit, 800+/- acre State lease, and approx. two sections open range. Six pastures/ traps and three sets of working corrals. 7 wells, pipeline to storage tank and drinker, and springs in upper country. $950,000.

The entire ranch with headquarters 3 BR home, shipping corrals, barns and additional deeded, BLM, State and adverse acreage offered for $2,250,000. *REDUCED* 250+/- Head Turkey Creek Ranch, Greenlee, AZ – In Apache National Forest, 108+/- deeded ac, and 32,000+/- ac Pigeon Allotment. 499 head Allotment currently permitted for 250 head in 2019. Headquarters is situated along scenic Turkey Creek, has a 3 BR Ranch house, a 1 BR Cabin, 2 BR Bunk house, barn, tack room, Shop and corrals.

There is also a fenced garden area, mature fruit trees, hen house & animal pens.

Solar powered with back-up generator.

Two wells on the deeded, and 16+/- dirt tanks and several springs water the ranch.

Horseback country with good access to the headquarters. Good grasses and browse with cedar, pine, mesquite and oak. There are six pastures. **200 Head included in the offering. $2,000,000 $1,700,000

*REDUCED* 117 Head Tule Springs Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Located in beautiful Apache National Forest with 56.6+/- acre deeded inholding, and 23+/- section USFS grazing permit. A well improved and maintained horseback ranch, with $70k thinning project for increased fire protection recently completed on deeded land. The headquarters is located in a scenic valley setting with solar power; two homes; barn with tack room, hay storage, horse stalls; shop; corrals with crowding pen and squeeze chute; root cellar/cold meat storage; hen house, irrigated gardens and orchard. The permit and HQ’s are watered by springs, creeks and dirt tanks. On the allotment are a line cabin, two sets of corrals, one with a loading chute at the highway. $1,100,000 $995,000 *PENDING* 30 +/- Acre Farm & Ranch, Sheldon, AZ – Pasture for 10 hd, gated pipe irrigation; alfalfa, pecan trees. Two wells, roping arena; Comfortable Palm Harbor triple-wide manufactured home, 2X6 construction, stucco exterior, set on cement slab; 1-car garage. Property is fenced for cattle. Good location with views, near the Gila River and quick access to Highway 75. $350,000 *SOLD* 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

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*REDUCED* 30+/- Head Orduno Draw Ranch,Tombstone, AZ – Small desert ranch in the San Pedro Valley of Cochise County, Arizona. 320+/- ac. deeded, 2,780+/- ac. State lease, and 560+/- ac. BLM Allotment. Easy terrain, gentle hills with mesquite, acacia, and creosote, and several major draws with good browse and grassy bottoms. Has one well that needs equipping, a dirt tank, and is fenced. Borders the San Pedro River National Conservation Area and has easy access from Highway 80. This would make a great starter or hobby ranch or complement to a larger holding. $350,000 $335,000

*SOLD* 60 Head Desert Ranch, Deming, NM – Nice starter or retirement ranch with easy access and gentle country.

65+/- deeded ac, 18,766+/- ac. BLM, State, & City Leases, with uncontrolled adverse lands. 5 wells, 4 sets of corrals, 2 large pastures and one smaller good for weanlings; all fenced. Easy browse and grass country. Several good sites for a home on deeded. $287,000

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*REDUCED* 40+/- Acre Last Stand B&B Guest Ranch, Sonoita, AZ – An exceptional property in the grasslands of Sonoita, presently operating as a successful wedding & equestrian event venue.

The Territorial, two-story 4 BR, 4.5 BA main home has 4,110 s.f., & custom features throughout. A true destination property w/a pool & two cabana guest rooms, 3 casitas, event barn, horse facilities, roping arena, recreation room w/ racquetball court, and fishing pond. Neighbors public conservation land with trails.

Powered by 80 solar panels connected to the grid, one well w/pressure tank & storage, also fenced for livestock. Mature landscape & fruit trees. Property could also be converted to a vineyard/winery. $1,975,000 $1,799,000 *SOLD* +/-103 Acre Horse Property, St. David, AZ – Lovely custom 2,298+/s.f. 3BR, 2BA home near the San Pedro River on a hill with valley views. Has one domestic well. Space for horse facilities. Property is fenced for livestock. Includes a large 2-bay garage/shop and artist’s studio building. $470,000

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*PENDING* 71+/- Acres of Land - With 50+/- ac. cleared for horse facilities, farming or development. Has one well that has potential for irrigation, and another well that feeds into a pond. $190,000 *REDUCED* Acreage in San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the beautiful San Rafael Valley, where open spaces, wildlife, ranching history & private dreams live. Pristine scenic San Rafael Valley acreage with lush grasslands, beautiful views, unspoiled night skies and ready for your personal footprint. 152 Acres for $304,000 and 77 Acres with a well and shed for $177,000

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NEW LISTING! West Clem Ranch, La Paz County, AZ *575,000.* The West Clem is primarily a seasonal desert ranch with a 5,600 Acres BLM Allotment; 8,500 Acres State Grazing Lease and; 11,000 Acres of Adverse Deeded. The house, range improvements and shipping facilities are in very good condition. The ranch is well watered with 8 permanent waters. The shipping corrals and traps are new along with all water lots.

Perimeter fencing has been recently rebuilt. Shipping corrals are easily accessed by cattle truck and include 5 ton livestock scales.

The ranch is perimeter fenced with holding traps at the shipping pens. Most of the livestock waters are within a large trap and have triggers. The adverse grazing and ephemeral increases have allowed up to 250 AUM’s.

NEW LISTING! Bar S Ranch – Wikeup, AZ * $5,950,000.* The Bar S Ranch is located in west–central Arizona. With over 3,300 deeded acres and 152,655 total BLM and State Grazing this ranch runs 445 CYL plus large ephemeral increases. With three homes, barn, corrals and equipment this ranch is a large outfit that is well watered and maintained.

Deep Creek Ranch, Glenwood, NM *$1,189,000.* The Deep Creek Ranch is nestled in the beautiful Gila Forest with a live year–round creek running through the headquarters of the ranch. With 106 deeded acres and the 6,288 acre Whiterock Allotment, this is the perfect gentleman’s ranch with a carrying capacity of 45 CYL. Adorable 3 bedroom–2 bath cabin, corrals, barn and three shallow wells on the deeded property. With wildlife in abundance – this ranch would be perfect for an outfitter operation.

Judd Ranch, Alpine, AZ *$3,850,000.* The historic Judd Ranch located in the beautiful mountain community of Alpine, Arizona consists of 208 +/– gorgeous acres bordering the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest Alpine, Arizona is full of clean mountain air and abundant wildlife. There are six cabins

nestled into the pines along the historic Coronado Trail. The property includes the unique feature of Judd Lake on the San Francisco River. With 150 acre feet irrigation rights and open meadows surrounded by tall Ponderosa Pines, this property has abundant investment possibilities or just a beautiful mountain home. The ranch has been used by the Judd family since the 1800’s and has historically run 100 head seasonally from May to October.

REDUCED! White Mountain Ranch, Show Low, AZ *$775,000.* The White Mountain Ranch is a working cattle ranch located in beautiful north–eastern Arizona along the Mogollon Rim near Show Low, Arizona. The ranch consists of 42.65 acres of deeded land with BLM and State grazing leases and adverse deeded grazing. The carrying capacity is rated at 200 head in a cow/calf operation. There is a three bedroom, two bath 1,680’ cozy main house. This ranch is outlined with over 75 miles of fencing and includes three sets of working corrals.

PENDING! End Of The Road Ranch, Snowflake, AZ *$429,000.* End of the Road Ranch includes a 2,844 sq ft single story home on 259 acres of deeded land well watered with three deep wells including one large irrigation well rated at 1,500 gpm. No pumping restriction and no metering to irrigate approximately 200 acres of tillable pasture. With three matched metal–sided barns and a spacious garage/workshop this ranch is a turnkey property ideally suited for a small farm, livestock breeding outfit, personal roping facility or self– sufficient hide–a–way.

PENDING! The Wild Bunch Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ *$1,299,000.* The Wild Bunch Ranch is located in Eastern Arizona and runs 311 CYL plus 48 head of hold–over yearlings and 8 horses. Offered turn–key: ranch improvements, permit, cattle and horses.

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NEW LISTING! Gold Trap Ranch – Ashfork, AZ *2,999,000.* The Gold Trap Ranch is located in the Coconino National Forest just north of Ashfork, Arizona. The headquarters is 12 miles north of I–40 on a well maintained forest road and surrounded

by National Forest. 2,122 SF home, livestock barn, equipment barn, working corrals, 15 ton scale, outbuildings and a 500 gallon water storage tank. This working cattle ranch carries 267 head CYL and is a combination of 7,947 deeded acres with state and forest leases on over 40,000 continuous acres. Livestock water is provided by numerous dirt tanks filled by Partridge Creek and surrounding drainage.

PENDING! La Cienega Ranch, Yucca, AZ *$1,690,000.* The La Cienega Ranch is located in west–central Arizona in the community of Yucca and has a carrying capacity of 490 CYL. 3M Ranch – Central AZ Moore Farm – McNeal, AZ Bar U Ranch – Deming, NM 3C’S Ranch – Ashfork, AZ Tom Lockett Ranch – Ashfork, AZ Indian Springs Ranch – Ashfork, AZ TT Ranch – New River, AZ

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Ute Creek Cattle Company Receives Regional Environmental Stewardship Award

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te Creek Cattle Company, in Bueyeros, N.M., has been selected as one of seven regional finalists of the Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP). The award, announced during the 2019 Cattle Industry Summer Business Meeting July 30 in Denver, recognizes the operation’s outstanding stewardship and conservation efforts. This year’s regional winners will compete for the national award, which will be announced during the 2020 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in San Antonio, Texas, in February.

Established in 1991 by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association to recognize outstanding land stewards in the cattle industry, ESAP is generously sponsored by Corteva Agriscience, McDonald’s, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and

the National Cattlemen’s Foundation.

“America’s cattle producers are the original stewards of the land. They rely on a healthy ecosystem, including land, air and water resources, for their livelihood and they understand better than anyone the benefits of caring for those resources,” said NCBA President Jennifer Houston. “The lands we manage as farmers and ranchers are only entrusted to us for a short time and farmers and ranchers Jack & Tuda Cruz across the nation are committed to passing those resources to the next gener- Cattle Company. The 14,000-acre ranch had ation in a manner which ensures their four large pastures, four water sources, and future success. This year’s ESAP nominees suffered from over-grazing and neglect.

Award Program exemplify the greatness of Ten miles of Ute Creek was infested with our industry and they share a common the mature, heavy-water-using salt cedar trees. common goal of bettering our industry Partnering with the NRCS and Ute Creek through outstanding stewardship Soil & Water Conservation District, Ute practices.”

Creek was fenced-off to aerially treat salt Tuda Libby Crews’ Caveza de Baca family cedar. Tuda said, “in the last 18 years the has ranched in northeast New Mexico since riparian restoration on Ute Creek is the corthe early 1800s, managing to keep the land nerstone of conservation achievement.” in the family through hardships from Her husband, Jack, concludes nature has drought, a failed economy, the dust bowl, effectively responded as the stream sub-irWorld War II, inheritance taxes, grasshopper rigates the riparian area to grow rushes, infestations and various other challenges.

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New Third-Party, Independent Study Measures the Impact of Beef Checkoff Activities On Beef Demand What is the ROI on the Beef Checkoff?

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he combined benefit of all Beef Checkoff programs is 11.91 times more valuable than their costs.

That is one major finding from a recent third-party, return-on-investment (ROI) study commissioned by the national Beef Checkoff program and conducted by Dr. Harry M. Kaiser of Cornell University.

Completed in June 2019, the study is based upon an econometric model which quantifies the relationship between the Checkoff’s various marketing activities and domestic and international demand for U.S. beef. It also compared the costs and benefits of those activities relative to producer and importer investments in the national portion of the Beef Checkoff program. Under existing agricultural legislation, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board is required to have an independent analysis of the program’s economic effectiveness conducted at least once every five years.

“We’re extremely pleased with the results of this latest ROI study,” said Bill King, NM CBB Director and producer from Stanley, NM who currently serves on the CBB Executive Committee. “Our primary goal is to increase beef demand worldwide. The statistics uncovered by this study tell us that we’re achieving that goal and providing producers with an excellent return on their national checkoff investments.”

The study’s other key findings include: ЇЇ Checkoff activities have a substantial impact on beef demand in the U.S. and in foreign markets. ЇЇ Checkoff activities increased beeftdemand by 2.6 billion pounds per year between 2014-2018. ЇЇ Without a national checkoff, U.S.

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beef demand would have been 14.3 percent lower than it actually was by the end of 2018 ЇЇ Checkoff investment in export marketing programs increased U.S. beef exports by 5.5 percent ЇЇ Checkoff-funded activities generated $11.91 in additional net revenue for beef producers and importers. ЇЇ All nine demand-enhancing Checkoff activities – beef advertising, public relations, beef safety research, channels marketing, nutritional research, industry information, new-product development, productenhancement research and foreignmarket development – had a positive and statistically significant impact on increasing beef demand.

The study estimated three econometric questions: (1) retail domestic beef demand, (2) retail domestic beef supply and (3) U.S. beef import demand. The study’s domestic model also factored in consumer income, while the foreign-demand model factored in exchange rates and gross domestic product (GDP). It also evaluated the CBB’s expenditures in each of its demand-enhancing activities.

The previous ROI study, which Dr. Kaiser conducted in 2014, found that CBB programs were 11.20 times more valuable than their costs. The 2019 study’s ROI calculation of 11.91 shows that Checkoff programs have continued to provide significant value over the past five years by steadily building beef demand.

“While we are happy that Checkoff programs are successfully promoting beef, we know that there’s always room for improvement,” King said. “Our board members are dedicated to making the best possible decisions on behalf of American beef producers and importers.

As we head into our next fiscal year, we hope to take what we’ve learned in 2019 and continue moving the needle forward.”

To view the complete ROI study, a summary of the study or get more information about the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, as well as the Beef Checkoff and its programs – promotion, research, foreign marketing, industry information, consumer information and producer communications – visit beefboard.org.

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t the recent International Association of Food Protection (IAFP), Beef Checkoff funded research provided critical content to industry thought leaders. Conducted between a collaboration of universities and USDA Meat Animal Research Center, a recent study evaluating antimicrobial resistance in retail ground beef with and without “raised without antibiotics” claims. The results indicate certain antibiotic use in beef cattle production is NOT likely the contributing factor to exposure of antimicrobial resistance via ground beef to the human population.

This research and others outcomes in this area are critical proof points as we and others work to protect your ability to use antibiotics to treat, prevent and control animal diseases. For more about this or other beef safety research, visit www. beefresearch.org.

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Cowboy Ninja Engagement

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ance Pekus, The Cowboy Ninja’s, final episode on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior aired in early August, ending his appearances for the rest of Season 11. Although he didn’t make it past the Lightning Bolts Obstacle (many Ninjas struggled to get past this challenge), he’s been a fan favorite for both American Ninja Warrior fans and those of Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner..

During Lance’s visit to the NCBA Office in Denver, he was featured in three episodes of Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.’s Facebook Lives and Instagram TV which have been viewed over 11.8K times. Prior to the final episode, Lance Pekus and the Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. Instagram pages collaborated to host a “Beef. It’s What’s For Ninjas.” T-Shirt giveaway for 20 lucky fans. The giveaway had a total reach of over 23.8K and over 700 entries.

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share across their social accounts to show their excitement for Lance’s ranching story and the “Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.” brand.

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Strong Finish to First Half for U.S., Beef Exports Korea, Taiwan lead beef export growth; variety meat exports rebound

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ast year South Korea surpassed Mexico as the second-largest destination for U.S. beef exports, and in 2019 it continues to close the gap on leading market Japan. Exports to Korea remained on a record pace in June, increasing 2 percent from a year ago to 25,118 mt (a post-BSE high), while value climbed 15 percent to a record $178.3 million. These results pushed first-half exports to Korea 12 percent above last year in volume (126,879 mt) and 15 percent higher in value ($921.8 million).

U.S. beef now accounts for 61 percent of Korea’s chilled beef imports, up from 57 percent in the first half of last year, with chilled volume increasing 7 percent to 26,537 mt.

Beef exports to Taiwan finished a very strong second quarter with June shipments reaching a new monthly high of 6,654 mt, up 40 percent from a year ago, valued at $58 million (up 46 percent and the second-highest on record). Firsthalf exports to Taiwan were 16 percent above last year’s record pace in volume (31,132 mt) and 11 percent higher in value ($276.2 million).

As noted above, U.S. beef faces a significant tariff rate disadvantage in leading market Japan, where June exports totaled 29,794 mt, down 4 percent yearover-year, while value was down 7 per-

cent to $179 million. For the first half of the year, exports to Japan were 1 percent below last year’s pace in both volume (157,839 mt) and value (just over $1 billion). Japan’s imports of Australian beef have also slowed this year, but first-half imports from Canada, New Zealand and Mexico were up 83 percent, 37 percent and 28 percent, respectively, offering a glimpse of the upside opportunities in the market when tariff rates are lowered.

“It is very gratifying to see U.S. beef posting such remarkable gains in Korea and Taiwan, and the $2 billion milestone could even be in play this year for Korea,” Halstrom said. “Exports to Japan can definitely achieve a similar trajectory if the U.S. can get back on a level playing field with our competitors, so we are encouraged by the progress in the U.S.-Japan trade negotiations.”

Other first-half highlights for U.S. beef include: ЇЇ June exports of beef variety meat were the largest in two years at 28,195 mt, up 13 percent from a year ago, while value also climbed 13 percent to $79.7 million. This pushed first-half export volume even with last year at 158,466 mt while value increased 8 percent to $472.9 million. The large June increase was primarily driven by growth in Japan and Indonesia, while exports to Egypt rebounded from last year’s low levels. ЇЇ Though first-half export volume to

Beef Checkoff Goals ЇЇ To drive global demand for beef. ЇЇ To grow consumer trust in beef and beef products. ЇЇ To communicate the values beef offers the marketplace, especially as compared to other animal protein options. ЇЇ To invest in product-enhancement

Mexico was down 3 percent yearover-year to 114,541 mt, export value increased 6 percent to $539.1 million.

Beef muscle cut exports to Mexico slowed in June but still finished the first half up 4 percent from a year ago in volume (70,333 mt) and 8 percent in value ($422 million). ЇЇ U.S. beef muscle cuts also have a rapidly growing presence in Colombia, where first-half muscle cut exports increased 29 percent from a year ago in volume (1,919 mt) and 36 percent in value ($11.2 million).

Combined beef and beef variety meat exports to Colombia were up 1 percent from a year ago to 2,991 mt while value climbed 27 percent to $12.4 million. First-half exports to Chile, the top South American market for U.S. beef, increased 5 percent to 6,144 mt, with value up 7 percent to $34.3 million. ЇЇ The Dominican Republic has emerged as a strong growth market for U.S. beef, with first-half exports soaring 57 percent above last year’s record pace in volume (4,524 mt) and gaining 47 percent in value to $36.2 million. ЇЇ Fueled by strong growth in the Philippines and Indonesia, firsthalf exports to the ASEAN region increased 23 percent from a year ago in volume (26,711 mt) and 8 percent in value ($132.4 million).

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and beef safety research to maintain a safe high-quality product. ЇЇ To increase exports by promoting U.S. beef in more than 80 countries. ЇЇ To improve producer profitability.

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For more information about your beef checkoff investment visit MyBeefCheckoff.com 2018-2019 DIRECTORS – CHAIRMAN, Matt Ferguson (Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Zita Lopez (Feeder); SECRETARY, Susie Jones (Dairy Producer).

NMBC DIRECTORS: John Heckendorn (Purebred Producer); Jim Hill (Feeder); Kenneth McKenzie (Producer); Tamara Hurt (Producer); Marjorie Lantana (Producer); Dan Bell (Producer)

BEEF BOARD DIRECTOR, Bill King (Producer) FEDERATION DIRECTOR,

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U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, Kenneth McKenzie

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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sedges and grass.

EQIP created a water distribution system with two 10,000-gallon water storage tanks installed on the highest point of the ranch.

More than 25 miles of two-inch poly pipe distributes water over the ranch through gravity flow. Twenty-seven miles of permanent fence created 25 pastures for the adaptive grazing system. Even in drought years the time-managed grazing system responds to using cattle as a tool to maximize forage production and enhance healthy soil.

Tuda worked with the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program and found polyurethane “shade balls,” a product that now covers nine stock tanks. On each 20-foot drinker covered with shade balls, evaporation is reduced by 91 percent and annually saves 16,000 gallons of underground water on each tank. Other water conserving measures include xeriscape landscaping and roof water-catchment on buildings. As innovative “early-adopters,” the Crews family is open-minded to new practices.

Jack is proud of the cow herd genetic program which has evolved into a high-quality herd of Angus cows that produce Angus Age & Source Verified, All-natural, IMI Global Certified calves.

In 2004 Tuda cost-shared with the U.S. F&W Service “New Mexico Partners Program” to establish a 23-acre wild bird sanctuary dedicated to short grass prairie bird habitat. The bird sanctuary provides berry bushes, a small grape vineyard, water, breeding/nesting areas, bird houses and a few shade trees. Over the ranch the bird list has increased from 16 species to over 100, including golden and bald eagles, great blue herons, hawks, songbirds and many others.

Their adult children, Libby and Ted, and grandchildren, Bella, Bennet and Seth, are not on the ranch; however, it is apparent the entire Crews family loves the ranch and feel a deep responsibility to keep the land in the family in honor of the generations who worked so hard to create the legacy.

“There is an Indian proverb that says we do not inherit the land…we borrow it from our children,” said Tuda. “We’ve done the best we could to leave it better than we found it, and I feel confident future generations shall carry on the heritage ranch operation.”

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NEW MEXICO LIVESTOCK BOARD

by Shawn Davis Executive Director

Newly Formed Livestock Board Holds 1st Meeting

Tony Casados, Jr., John N. Conniff, Tobin Allen Dolan, Kathy Charise Longinaker, Rita Marie Padilla-Gutierrez, Morgan Switzer-McGinley, Edward Paul Torres and Tara M. Vander Dussen.

The eight new members join Molly Manzanares on the board. Tara Vander Dussen nominated Molly Manzanares as chair, Tobin Dolan as vice chair and John he New Mexico Livestock Board Conniff as secretary. Members elected (NMLB) held its first meeting with all three to those respective positions. newly appointed members Thurs- New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff day, August 8, in Albuquerque.

Witte attended the meeting as NMLB Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham Interim Executive Director. Witte said appointed the following new members the positions of executive director and to the board in late July: chief legal counsel are in the hiring process.

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NMDA Accepting Healthy Soil Program Pilot Project Grant Proposals

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he New Mexico Department of Agriculture is accepting grant proposals for its Healthy Soil Program, which was created in the Healthy Soil Act signed into law April 2, 2019.

The act’s purpose is to promote and support farming and ranching systems and other forms of land management that increase soil organic matter, aggregate stability, microbiology and water retention to improve the state’s soil health, yield and profitability.

New Mexico farmers and ranchers interested in applying must do so through local governmental entities (soil conservation districts, Indian Nation, tribe or pueblo, a Land Grant or an Acequia, or the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service. Grant funding may be used for agricultural pilot projects in New Mexico that focus on one or more of five basic soil health principles: keeping the soil covered; minimizing soil disturbance on cropland; maximizing biodiversity; maintaining a living root; and integrating animals into land management.

NMDA strongly recommends that farmers and ranchers who intend to apply check with the eligible entity to learn what its deadline is. Eligible entities will review and sign on to the proposals they receive before forwarding them to NMDA by its deadline of October 3 at 5 p.m.

For more information or to download a proposal, visit www.nmda.nmsu.edu or call 575/646-2642.

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Global Warming?

earth to the brink of climate catastrophe. deemed Pluto the ninth planet – until they In a modest office on the campus of changed their minds. Geologists once Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, an Israeli regarded tectonic plate theory, the moveastrophysicist patiently explains why he is ment of continents, as nonsense. Medicine convinced that the near-unanimous judg- were 100 percent certain that stomach ments of climatologists are misguided. Nir resulted from stress and spicy food, until an Shaviv, chairman of the university’s physics Australian researcher proved bacteria the department, says that his research and that culprit and won a Nobel Prize for his efforts. of colleagues, suggests that rising CO 2 Lest anyone dismiss Shaviv on the basis levels, while hardly insignificant, play only of his scientific credentials or supposed a minor role compared to the influence of political agenda, consider the following: He the sun and cosmic radiation on the enrolled at Israel’s Technion University – the Source: nzenews.com earth’s climate. country’s equivalent of MIT – at the age of he U.S. auto industry and regulators in “Global warming clearly is a problem, 13 and earned an MA while serving in the California and Washington appear though not in the catastrophic terms of Al Israel Defense Force’s celebrated 8200 Inteldeadlocked over stiff Obama-era Gore’s movies or environmental alarmists,” ligence unit. He returned to Technion, fuel-efficiency standards that automakers said Shaviv. “Climate change has existed where he earned his doctorate, afterward oppose and the Trump administration have forever and is unlikely to go away. But CO2 completing post-doctoral work at California vowed to roll back – an initiative that has emissions don’t play the major role. Periodic Institute of Technology and the Canadian environmental activists up in arms. solar activity does.”

Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He California and four automakers favor Shaviv, 47, fully comprehends that his also has been an Einstein Fellow at The compromise, while the Environmental Pro- scientific conclusions constitute a glaring Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. tection Agency (EPA) supports the rebuttal to the widely-quoted surveys In other words, he knows tons more president’s position that the federal stan- showing that 97 percent of climate scien- about science than Donald Trump or Al Gore. dards are too strict. The EPA argues that tists agree that human activity – the As for politics “in American terms, I forcing automakers to build more fuel effi- combustion of fossil fuels – constitutes the would describe myself as liberal on most cient cars will make them less affordable, principle reason for climate change. domestic issues, somewhat hawkish on causing consumers to delay trading older, “Only people who don’t understand security,” he said. Nonetheless, the Trump less efficient vehicles. Complicating matters science take the 97 percent statistic seri- administration’s position on global climate is California’s authority to create its own air ously,” he said. “Survey results depend on change, he said, is correct insofar as it quality standards, which the White House who you ask, who answers and how the rejects the orthodoxy of the United Nations vows to end. questions are worded. In any case, science Intergovernmental Panel on Climate However the impasse is resolved, the is not a democracy. Even if 100 percent of Change (IPCC). The IPCC’s findings and conmoment looks ripe to revisit the root of this scientists believe something, one person clusions are updated every six years; the multifactorial dustup: namely, the scientific with good evidence can still be right.” latest report, released this week, noted that “consensus” that CO2 emissions from vehiHistory is replete with lone voices top- deforestation and agribusiness are contribcles and other sources are pushing the pling scientific orthodoxies. Astronomers uting to CO2 emissions and aggravating climate change.

In 2003, Shaviv and research partner Prof.

Jan Veizer published a paper on the subject of climate sensitivity, namely how much the earth’s average temperature would be expected to change if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is doubled. Comparing geological records and temperature, the team came up with a projected change of 1.0 to 1.5 degrees Celsius – much less than the 1.5 to 4.5 degree change the IPCC has used since it began issuing its reports. The reason for the much wider variation used by the IPCC, he said, was that they relied almost entirely on simulations and no one knew how to quantify the effect of clouds – which affects how much radiant energy reaches the earth – and other factors.

“Since then, literally billions have been spent on climate research,” he said. Yet “the conventional wisdom hasn’t changed. The proponents of man-made climate change

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still ignore the effect of the sun on the earth’s climate, which overturns our understanding of t wentieth- centur y climate change.”

He explained: “Solar activity varies over time. A major variation is roughly eleven years or more, which clearly affects climate.

This principle has been generally known – but in 2008 I was able to quantify it by using sea level data. When the sun is more active, there is a rise in sea level here on earth.

Higher temperature makes water expand.

When the sun is less active, temperature goes down and the sea level falls – the correlation is as clear as day.

“Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change,” he said. “That, in turn, implies that climate sensitivity to CO 2 should be about 1.0 degree when the amount of CO2 doubles.”

The link between solar activity and the heating and cooling of the earth is indirect, he explained. Cosmic rays entering the earth’s atmosphere from the explosive death of massive stars across the universe play a significant role in the formation of so-called cloud condensation nuclei needed for the formation of clouds. When the sun is more active, solar wind reduces the rate of cosmic rays entering the atmosphere. A more active solar wind leads to fewer cloud formation nuclei, producing clouds that are less white and less reflective, thus warming the earth.

“Today we can demonstrate and prove the sun’s effect on climate based on a wide range of evidence, from fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old to buoy readings to satellite altimetry data from the past few decades,” he said. “We also can

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reproduce and mimic atmospheric conditions in the laboratory to confirm the evidence.

“All of it shows the same thing, the bulk of climate change is caused by the sun via its impact on atmospheric charge,” he said.

“Which means that most of the warming comes from nature, whereas a doubling of the amount of CO2 raises temperature by only 1.0 to 1.5 degrees. A freshman physics student can see this.”

Nevertheless, the world of climate science has “mostly ignored” his research findings. “Of course, I’m frustrated,” he said.

“Our findings are very inconvenient for conventional wisdom” as summarized by the IPCC. “We know that there have been very large variations of climate in the past that have little to do with the burning of fossil fuels. A thousand years ago the earth was as warm as it is today. During the Little Ice Age three hundred years ago the River Thames froze more often. In the first and second IPCC reports these events were mentioned. In 2001 they disappeared. Suddenly no mention of natural warming, no Little Ice Age. The climate of the last millennium was presented as basically fixed until the twentieth century. This is a kind of Orwellian cherry-picking to fit a pre-determined narrative.”

Shaviv says that he has accepted no financial support for his research by the fossil fuel industry. Experiments in Denmark with Prof. Henrik Svensmark and others to demonstrate the effect of cosmic rays on cloud formation were supported by the Carlsberg Foundation. In the U.S. the conservative Heartland Institute and the European Institute for Climate and Energy have invited him to speak, covering travel expenses.

“The real problem is funding from funding agencies like the National Science

Foundation because these proposals have to undergo review by people in a community that ostracizes us,” he said, because of his non-conventional viewpoint.

“Global warming is not a purely scientific issue any more,” he said. “It has repercussions for society. It has also taken on a moralistic, almost religious quality. If you believe what everyone believes, you are a good person. If you don’t, you are a bad person. Who wants to be a sinner?”

Any scientist who rejects the UN’s IPCC report, as he does, will have trouble finding work, receiving research grants or publishing, he said.

In Shaviv’s view, the worldwide crusade to limit and eventually ban the use of fossil fuels isn’t just misguided “it comes with real world social and economic consequences.”

Switching to more costly energy sources, for example, will drive industry from more industrialized countries to poorer countries that can less afford wind turbines and solar panels.

“It may be a financial sacrifice the rich are willing to make, he said. “Even in developed countries the pressure to forego fossil fuel puts poor people in danger of freezing during the winter for lack of affordable home heating. The economic growth of third world countries will be inhibited if they cannot borrow from the World Bank to develop cheap fossil-based power plants.

These are serious human problems in the here and now, not in a theoretical future.”

For Shaviv, the rejec tion and closed-mindedness his minority view provoke may contain a silver lining. Just think of the acclaim that awaits if his research — and scientific reconsideration of the current orthodoxy — one day proves persuasive.

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Harry Hastings Hopson, 91, Triangle Ranch in Harding County, died peacefully with family by his side August 4, 2019. Harry was born in Dalhart, Texas on November 4, 1927 to Henry James (Jim) and Thelma Hastings Hopson, raised on a ranch and farming operation near Sedan, New Mexico in Union County. A Celebration of Life Service will be held on September 28 at 10:00 a.m. in the Indoor Rodeo Arena (Mosquero Schools Indoor Equestrian Center) with Lunch and Fellowship to follow the Service at the Mosquero School Multi-purpose room, where we will remember his wonderful stories, gentlemanly ways and cowboy life. All who knew him and loved him are welcome.

Harry Hopson will be remembered as a kind gentleman and a great cowboy. Known as “Hoppy or Daddy Hop” to his family and friends, as an amazing storyteller with memories he would choose carefully to bless the heart of each listener. Harry’s love for his family, all people, animals and the land is unending. In high school in Clayton, he helped to create the NM High School Rodeo State Competition. After graduation, Harry attended New Mexico Agricultural & Mechanics College (now NMSU), from 1946 through graduation in 1951. He was a proud member of the NMSU ROTC and majored in Animal Husbandry. A proud member and president of the re-established the Aggie Rodeo Team, he helped Charter the NIRA at Fort Worth, in 1948 to found the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, eventually winning Reserve Champion All-Around Cowboy at the World Rodeo Finals in the San Francisco Cow Palace in both 1949 and 1950, riding 5 toughest events; riding all bucking events, plus Steer Wrestling and Calf Roping. At the Fourth of July Rodeo in Clayton in 1947, Harry met Lindit’ Lambert.

In 1948 he convinced Lindit’ to transfer from Arizona State University to New Mexico A & M. Harry and Lindit’ were married in the summer of 1950 in a romantic outdoor wedding at her childhood home on the Triangle Ranch, near Rosebud. She and Harry had four children, known as “the four J’s”: Jeff, Jill, Jay and Joy. Harry cherished teaching his family to work with all of God’s creatures and they attended many wonderful churches over the years, with the Mosquero Community Church being his church home. He and Lindit’ were happily married for 65 years. Harry has always been very proud of his entire family and his won-

derful wife, and their love continues. Harry was honored and enjoyed his time serving in the US Army in Georgia in 1952-54 until he was given a medical discharge for a shoulder injury, just before the Korean Conflict. Harry and family returned to New Mexico, managing land and livestock all over the Southwest, helping to establish county fairs and fairgrounds in Harding and Sandoval County, and contributing to the pursuit of agricultural life in many more areas and capacities. Harry worked closely with Ranchers in Colfax, Union, and Harding and Quay Counties while with the NM State

Land Office, served for many years on the Ute Creek Soil and Water Conservation District, member of the NM Cattle Growers, NE NM Livestock Association, NM Hereford Association, and NM Farm & Livestock Bureau and on the Southwestern Electric Cooperative Rural Board of Directors. Harry earned many awards and honors for his stewardship of the land, outstanding conservation practices and his dedication to preserving Western Cowboy heritage over most of his 91 years. Harry Hopson has lived and helped define the ranching way of life in northeastern New Mexico. As a neighbor

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and a Cowboy Leader he helped to estabPayee: Mosquero Municipal Schools lish countless clubs, traditions, and Activity Fund - Indoor Equestrian Center organizations that brought opportunities Memo: Harry Hopson Memorial Fund and camaraderie to our small communities, Address P. O. Box 258, Mosbut many will remember him best as a sto- quero, NM 87733 ryteller. He never met a stranger and loved Jenna Rose DuBois, 18, Las Cruces, nothing more than catching up with an old departed this earth on August 15, 2019. As friend. While he will be missed, the connec- a youngster, Jenna loved animals and tions made, stories told, and legacy left cooking. She won buckles for showing behind will linger long in our hearts. Harry animals at the Southern New Mexico State Hopson loved bringing out the best in Fair and prizes for her baking at both the people! Our “Daddy Hop” was a most SNSF and the New Mexico State Fair. Jenna amazing brother, friend, husband, father, was fearless in her approach to anything, grandfather, great grandfather, and Man! and made her grandmother keep a Until his last days he was living as he wished, “wounded animals hospital” for whatever doing what he loved, working on a special she brought home, including lizards and project out in the pastures with his dog hawks. Jenna was a free spirit. She lived life beside him, caring for God’s Land on the to its fullest and made up her own rules.

Triangle Ranch. Survivors include sons Rev. This eventually brought her into conflict Jeff Hopson, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Jay with authorities. Maturing over time Jenna Hopson (Frances), San Diego, California; was in the process of straightening things daughters Jill Chatfield (Jack), Mosquero, out. She graduated from the New Mexico and Joy Harris (Doak), Clayton; 15 grandchil- National Guard Youth Challenge Academy dren; 25 great-grandchildren; sister Jimmie where she was selected as the outstanding Letha Dawson, San Jose, California; brother female cadet. Two days prior to her untimely Hal Hopson, Scottsdale, Arizona; and death, Jenna bought her dad lunch and told numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. him “I’m going to make you proud of me.”

Memorial Fund Contribution Details: Her free spirit, creative mind and outgoing Attn. Superintendent of Mosquero personality will be missed by all who knew Municipal Schools - Johnna Bruhn

and loved her. She is survived by her parents, Janet Harmon Sanchez and Frank Austin DuBois, two sisters, Jayce Ellison DuBois and Cora Elizabeth DuBois, maternal grandmother Joyce Holland Harmon, paternal grandparents Frank and Sharon DuBois, aunts Katy Duggan (Jed) and Sevon DuBois Villarreal (Israel), uncle Frank Harmon, uncle Tony Harmon (all in Las Cruces) and many cousins and friends. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the DuBois Western Heritage Foundation, P.O. Box 1998, Mesilla Park, N.M., 88047, where a scholarship for NMSU students is being established in Jenna’s name. Or you may donate online here: h t t p s : // w w w. p a y p a l . c o m /c g i - b i n / webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_ id=XDC2MYDSNVFLY&source=url Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com.

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

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abián García, a Mexican immigrant whose research at New Mexico State University (NMSU) helped influence agriculture nationwide, will be inducted this fall into the National Agricultural Center’s Hall of Fame in Kansas, joining the ranks of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Eli Whitney, among other notable contributors to agriculture. García is the first Hispanic member of the Hall of Fame and the first New Mexican to be inducted.

“Fabián García is a name more New Mexicans should know,” Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said. “The impact he made on agriculture in this state and beyond is a legacy that endures. He is every bit worthy of this honor, and my hope is New Mexicans both present and future will recognize his indelible contributions to our state.”

García, who died in 1948, left behind no living relatives, but his legacy is still felt today. He was born in 1871 in Chihuahua, Mexico, and became an orphan early in his life. His grandmother moved with him to the Mimbres Valley when García was only two years old. Once there, García’s grandmother became a domestic worker, and she later found work with the Casad family in what is now known as Old Mesilla. The family provided García with a private tutor and later sent him to what was then known as Las Cruces College.

In 1894, García became a member of the first graduating class of New Mexico College of Agriculture& Mechanical Arts, now known as NMSU. He studied for another year at Cornell University but returned to Las Cruces to receive his additional degrees. In 1907, García married Julieta Amador, a member of a prominent Mesilla Valley family. The couple had no surviving children, and Amador died in 1920. García never remarried, preferring the environment of his beloved university. In 1914, García was named the first director of the state Agricultural Experiment Station as well as horticulturalist.

His accomplishments include producing the first reliable chile pod, which was the beginnings of what is now the Sandia pepper popular among chile lovers. He also introduced the Grano onion breed, and was

instrumental in planting some of the first pecan trees in the Mesilla Valley. Some of the 35 pecan tree varieties he helped plant still stand today. García is also credited with developing modern irrigated agriculture in the state, and his horticulture publications included tests on pear, peach, grape and plum varieties, as well as trials of onion, spinach, melon and cauliflower varieties.

García’s reputation was that of someone who embraced tradition but did not resist change. He mixed humor with firmness, often joking to make a point and cajoling his researchers and others into agreement or compromise. He was financially astute, and had an impressive administrative reputation. Although at times he faced prejudice because of his Mexican heritage, he was also respected throughout the state because of his work.

“Fabián García was a dedicated NMSU educator, an innovator and a pioneer in the science and technology of agriculture,” said NMSU President John Floros. “His ideas in breeding and growing better plants that people would use for a more reliable, sustainable and tastier food supply, transformed agriculture in New Mexico, the country and the world. His passion for education changed numerous student lives, which in turn contributed hugely in making life better for everyone. His induction into the National Agricultural Hall of Fame is a testament to his legacy, and NMSU’s impact.”

Because of his background, García went out of his way to help poor Mexican-American students, often providing them rooms

at the farm while they attended school. In his later years, he was known to say, “Don’t be ashamed to say you’re Mexican. I came from Mexico and I’m proud of it.” After his death in 1948, García left behind more than $85,000 to fund a campus dormitory and scholarships for poor youths with Spanish names, because, “I want to help poor boys, for I know their hardships.”

“The exemplary work of Fabián García in the farm fields of New Mexico and in NMSU’s life will live with NMSU and it is a wonderful role model to thousands of NMSU students of all ethnicities,” said NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences (ACES) Dean Rolando Flores. “Fabián García, a unique hero of the College of ACES, is a testimony of the large number of Hispanic contributions to this great country.”

His agricultural work made such an impact, the university has named a 45-acre research station after him, as well as NMSU’s faculty-senate hall, its largest dormitory, and the building that houses the NMSU Center for Academic Advising and Student Support. He also received honorary doctorates from NMSU and the University of New Mexico.

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