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In this Issue...

Nevada Cattlemen’s Assn......pgs. 3-4

Coloring Page............................ pg. 31

Eye on the Outside...................... pg. 5

Sorensen’s 7th Club Pig Sale.... pg. 32

Rambling of a Ranch Wife......... pg. 7

Rangeland Stewardship Award for

NRRC........................................ pgs. 8 Talking About NCBA............... pg. 10 NV CattleWomen...................... pg. 15 Nevada Farm Bureau..........pgs. 18-19 Fumes from the Farm................. pg 20 In the Mind of a Millennial...... pg. 23

Collaboration ............................ pg. 34 NV SRM............................. pgs. 35-37 NV Priority Weeds: Bull Thistle......................... pgs. 38-39 HWCWMA: Curly Dock.......... pg. 40 Look Up!.................................... pg. 42 Beef Checkoff.....................pgs. 44-45

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ebruary 2, 2015 marks the start of the 78th session of the Nevada working with those individuals as well.

Legislature which is scheduled to run for 120 days. This issue of At the time of this writing there were 936 Bill Draft Requests (BDR’s) set to be Riding for the NCA Brand is devoted to a discussion addressed during the78th Session of Nevada Legislature. about that legislative session and how NCA plans to The quantity of BDR’s will more than double this number address the many bills possibly affecting agriculture to near 1,800 as the session progresses. Not all of these This past year saw 99.9% of that may arise.

BDR’s affect agriculture and this is where NCA relies on Fortunately for the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association our lobbyist to keep NCA informed on those bills that do Nevada Cattlemen’s Association (NCA) we have once again hired Neena Laxalt as our paid deserve our attention. A sampling of a few BDR’s brought (NCA) resources and energy lobbyist. Neena has served as NCA’s lobbyist for the past to NCA’s attention to date include from the senate side, devoted to private and federal several legislative sessions so her working relationship Senate Bills (SB) 81 as BDR 48-367 and SB 65 as BDR with NCA is nothing new. Neena is very knowledge48-366, which revises provisions relating to the managelands grazing issues. … the able about the political process and legislative climate ment and appropriations of water and use of water. From next 120 days will be directed in Carson City. She is also very familiar with the many the assembly side, AB 79 as BDR 50-345 and AB 77 as at our 78th Session of Nevada issues facing the livestock industry. Neena will serve as BDR 49-346, revises provisions relating to agriculture our eyes and ears in Carson City for the ensuing 120+ and makes various changes to the regulation of agriculLegislature and working with our days of session. Many of NCA’s political savvy memture. As a reminder you can go to the legislative website elected officials to address the bership serving in leadership roles including Joe Guild, for complete viewing of these BDR’s.

Dave Stix Jr., JJ Goicoechea, Ron Cerri, NCA staff and There is a senate joint resolution (SJR1) being bills that may have an impact on officers, have all agreed to serve as resources to Neena. brought forward NCA is very supportive of. That resoluour industry.

The experience our Executive Director Stephanie Licht tion urges Congress to pass a bill transferring at least 7.2 has had in past legislative sessions as a paid lobbyist will million acres of federally managed land within the state’s also prove to be valuable. borders to the state of Nevada. The resolution points out The missing component of the 2015 legislative session will be our past ally that federal officials manage 80 percent of Nevada’s land, and it argues that the and former director of the Nevada Farm Bureau, Doug Busselman. Doug was such federal ownership prevents economic development activities that might occur if the a valuable resource to NCA during previous legislative sessions often serving as land was owned by private citizens or state government.

NCA’s unofficial lobbyist. During many legislative sessions NCA leaned heavily on This past year saw 99.9% of Nevada Cattlemen’s Association (NCA) resources Doug’s knowledge and political connections. Now that Doug has moved on we look and energy devoted to private and federal lands grazing issues. You know the launforward to establishing the same working relationship with the new Farm Bureau dry list: sage-grouse EIS potential listing, property rights infringements, drought Director, Clay McCarthy.

EA induced reductions in permit The Nevada Legislature has an numbers, checkerboard land issues, excellent web page at https://www. feral horse over-population, water leg.state.nv.us/ This site makes for battles; the list goes on and on. In easy access to the many Bill Draft addition to continually addressing Requests (BDR’s) as well as conthe above issues, the next 120 days tacts for our representatives in both will be directed at our 78th Session the assembly and the senate. NCA is of Nevada Legislature and working fortunate to have representation in with our elected officials to address several very talented and passionthe bills that may have an impact on ate politicians including senators our industry.

Pete Goicoechea and James SettelThrough this monthly column meyer as well as assembly-persons our hope is to update those involved John Ellison and Ira Hansen. Many in the Nevada Livestock industry of these individuals are chairman about the issues NCA is working or serve on committees that will on for our mission continues to be prove to be beneficial to agriculto promote, preserve and protect a ture as bills come forward which dynamic and profitable Nevada beef may affect the livestock industry. industry. Should you like to visit There are many other talented and with me or the NCA staff, please agriculture-friendly assemblymen Ron Torell, President Nevada Cattlemen’s Association and Neil McQueary, feel free to contact NCA at 775-738and senators serving in our state NCA Legislative Affairs Committee Chair along with NCA lobbyist Neena 9214 or my NCA e-mail address legislature and we look forward to Laxalt. ncapresident@nevadabeef.org www.progressiverancher.com

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By Stephanie Licht, Nevada Cattlemen’s Association Executive Director

49TH Fallon All Breeds Bull Sale, February 14, 2015 A Mid-Winter, Ranchers’ “Vacation” Getaway!

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’ve heard many a “Cowboy’s Sweetheart” claim the only way to get a “vacation” away from the ranch is to spend time together, “…at a Bull Sale!” If that sounds familiar we definitely encourage you guys AND gals to bring your “Sweetheart” to the 49th Fallon All Breeds Bull Sale coming up Saturday, February 14 – yes, on Valentines’ Day - beginning at 11:30 a.m. where you can give your best pal or gal a great (sale) ring at Monte Bruck’s famous Fallon Livestock Exchange on Trento Lane – one of the premier destinations in, “Fallon - The Oasis of Nevada!”

Over 100 high-quality range-ready bulls are consigned. Hereford bulls from Nevada, Utah and Idaho represent the Bell Ranch, Phil Allen & Son, Daniels Hereford Ranch, and Hawley Harrison & Sons. Angus bulls from California, Oregon, Utah, Nevada and Idaho are coming from Edd Price, the Hone Ranch, Flying R J Ranch, Wild West Angus, White Angus, Dana & Rena Weishaupt, Steve Smith Angus, Rose Ranch – Travis Smith, Robison Ranch LLC, Westwind Ranch Angus, Potter’s Emmett Valley Ranch, Amador Angus & Farms, Schafer Ranch, Ocampo Cattle Company, Cardey Ranches, and the El Rancho Espanol de Cuyama. 7 Lazy 11 Murray Greys are making the trek from Nevada.

California and Utah are sending Charolais from the Broken Box Ranch and H. B. Cattle Company, so there’s plenty of excellent breeding stock from which to choose.

Bull Sale Chairman Chris Gansberg, Vice Chair Tom Armstrong and Sale Vet Dr. Randy Wallstrum, DVM in company with other top notch cattlemen on pre-sale sifting and grading teams assure quality in one of the best Bull Sales in Nevada. The Fallon Bull Sale Committee and the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association sincerely appreciate the loyal consignors and buyers who have supported this sale for 49 years.

Other sincerely appreciated significant partners include, Bernard J. Petersen and Bruno Bowles of the Great Basin Ranch/Southern Nevada Water Authority, donors of the yearling 2015 Angus Replacement Heifer “Raffle Calf”; Louie Damonte and the Damonte

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Keeping the western romance alive is the ever popular Invitational Stock Dog Trials shepherded

by Billy Lewis and Gaylene Hybarger. A Handler’s meeting at the Bonanza-Super 8 at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 12 precedes the Stock Dog Trial at 7:30 a.m. Friday morning.

Three started Stock Dogs will be auctioned off Friday night after the Annual Dinner.

Speaking of dinner, another highlight of this exciting mid-winter vacation getaway is the Churchill County Cowbelles’ spectacular DinnerDance at the Fallon Convention Center on Friday evening. Tickets are $15.00 and dinner reservations can be made through Kathy Lofthouse at Lofthouse@aiinc. com or (775) 423-5065. “Social Hour” begins at 5:30 p.m., the Welcome and Bull Sale Breed Awards will be at 6:00 p.m., Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m..

Finally, the object of your Mid-Winter Affectation, the 49th Fallon All Breeds Valentines’ Day Bull Sale will begin Saturday, February 14 at 11:30 a.m. Seasoned Auctioneers Eric Duarte and Monte Bruck will keep things moving along with help from ringmen Mark Holt, Terry Cotton and Logan Ipsen.

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ou have no doubt heard this aphorism: Be careful what you wish for. Like so many other such sayings there are layers of wisdom to contemplate and questions raised that need answers. For instance, be careful because you might be unprepared for what comes after the wish (the unintended consequences); or, be careful because what you thought was going to happen doesn’t because the people you thought were allies turn out to be adversaries or outright enemies? Politics provides some of the most graphic examples of unintended consequences. Let’s look at the latest Nevada election and what might be expected from the leadership in the upcoming Nevada legislature.

The Nevada Assembly has been under the control of Democrats since 1986 except for one session when leadership of that body was shared by Republicans and Democrats. The Nevada Senate has been controlled by Democrats since 2009. The party in control of a legislative house sets the agenda, chairs the committees, manages the flow of bills and has an immense amount of power to pass or kill legislation. Thus, politicians wish they could be in control when they are not, and try to maintain control when they are in power. Obviously the voters who support these respective political sides also wish for the same things generally as the representatives they try and elect.

As you all know, the Republicans and the supporters who elected them got what they wished for in this last election. Now, all of the leaders of Nevada’s Legislative and Executive branches of Government are Republicans. So, these folks should be thrilled with the prospect of successfully accomplishing long suppressed goals and perhaps getting back at those who they perceive have treated them so badly all these years. And, if things were black and white this is how it would all play out. Unfortunately, political leadership and winning elections is not as precise as all that. Let’s look at one election and one example of legislative leadership for illustration.

Arguably the biggest surprise in the last election occurred in the race for Attorney General. Two scions of political families in Nevada, Adam Laxalt, grandson of Senator Paul Laxalt and Ross Miller, son of Nevada’s longest serving Governor Bob Miller faced off. Most people thought there was little possibility of Laxalt defeating Miller. Miller had announced almost a year earlier, was the sitting Secretary of State, was better funded and had a better organization. Laxalt was raised in Washington D.C., had only lived in Nevada for a couple of years and was a political neophyte. But another truism in politics is there are always enough surprises in any election year to humble the so-called experts and reiterate that the conventional wisdom is not really wisdom at all but only educated speculation.

The Attorney General is potentially one of the most important offices in Nevada because there is so much land and livelihood controlled by federal government agencies due to the approximately 89 percent of the federal land in the state. States can sue the federal government when they believe regulation or enforcement becomes arbitrary, capricious or clearly violates state sovereignty over traditional areas like water law. It is the Attorney General who sues on behalf of the state. I won’t speculate who would have been a better Attorney General in this regard among the two candidates, because Mr. Laxalt is unproven as yet. However, there were indications during the campaign that as Attorney General Laxalt will not be intimidated by taking on the federal government. Thus, we in rural Nevada can hope there is a willingness to fight the federal government if, after proper analysis, he determines it is necessary to strike a more fair balance between the sovereigns.

However, lest those who are happy with the results in the Attorney General’s race and the other elections get too overconfident and claim a mandate came out of these results; they should realize Democrats did not turn out and vote for a whole host of reasons. Republicans should not go out of their way to congratulate themselves; state wide the voter turnout was 45.48 percent, a 60 year low. Such an assumption about a mandate for radical change, which I have heard from more than a few people is an overreach, in my opinion, and should not be relied upon as an arguing point for change. Overconfidence and mis-reading the tea leaves is also sometimes a problem for elected officials and those who vote for them. www.progressiverancher.com

My advice to anyone who wants change or action from someone like the new Attorney General is to put together a logical, well-reasoned, factual and, if necessary, scientifically backed argument, present it professionally and without histrionics at an appropriate time and follow up in the same way. An example would be asking our Governor and the Attorney General to defend and argue for Federal Government support of the work accomplished by Nevada’ Sagebrush Ecosystem Council in creating a plan to conserve habitat and sustain numbers of the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada. If, in spite of all the local input and work done to create this plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service decides to list the sage hen as endangered or threatened, the State should sue the Federal Government without hesitation to defend local control over a local issue.

I believe the new Attorney General will seek the maximum amount of input from all affected interests and make his decision on this and other issues just as any other excellent lawyer would do. From what I have heard him say thus far I think we can expect him to be a good listener first and foremost.

The other illustration of how politics continues to surprise and astound was the significant Republican victory giving outright leadership of the Nevada State Assembly to that party for the first time in decades and control of the State Senate to Republicans after Democratic control since 2009.

With leadership comes responsibility and an assumption that the leaders know how to lead. First, let me say I do not intend this next opinion to be taken as a criticism. As a young second lieutenant in the United States Army, I learned very quickly the truth of the statement leaders are made not born. How does one learn to be a leader? In my estimation, it comes from experience, observation of other leaders, teaching by those with more experience and finally, sometimes years in an apprenticeship before taking over as a senior leader.

I can also say I have observed the Nevada legislature now longer than most people involved in the process, whether they are lobbyists, governmental officials, and staff members of the legislature or legislators themselves.

The Nevada Legislature, or indeed any legislative body in my experience, is a complex, multi-layered, sometimes subtle place in which to operate. It takes time to learn the rules, understand the importance of personal relationships and how to process and create complex pieces of legislation to completed laws. Also, leaders must realize there are a myriad of valid points of view on any given issue which have to be accounted for and sometimes compromised with in order to create policy that meets the needs and concerns of the largest majority possible. This is the system of complexity and compromise our founding fathers created so that over time one faction or person could not dominate our politics for very long.

That brings us to the current chaotic situation in the legislature among Republicans as the new majority begins the task of organizing the Nevada Assembly for the 2015 Legislative session. These leaders and people attempting to become leaders have been criticized for turmoil, petty in-fighting, ego driven agendas and any other number of transgressions.

Unfavorable comparisons to past leadership transitions have been made. These comparisons and the other criticisms miss the point I made above. Since 1986 the Nevada Democrats have been in control of the Assembly and they were able to teach younger leaders how to operate in this complex system before they actually had to lead it.

Thus, the current cry for radical change or black and white positions on complicated and complex issues by any number of people from all parts of the political spectrum while the new leadership is still trying to figure out the details and logistics of commencing a legislative session is extremely unfair and unrealistic. Give these folks a chance to settle in and do some strategic thinking before criticizing and you will probably be surprised at the quality of leadership exhibited. Moreover, thinking this election was a mandate for radical change or tactics is a mistake for the same reason I said above. Republicans turned out and voted Democrats did not. This was an historic Nevada election but it did not create a mandate.

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he boys went back to school on Monday after a good winter break. TR was ready to go back, QT was reluctant, and I was definitely not ready for my boys to go back to school! TR is our social butterfly, he lives for recess and being with his friends. I worry about QT. As excited as he was for kindergarten, formal school hasn’t been his thing so far. Most days moving cows in a blizzard sounds like a better idea to him than going to school. As for me, I prefer having my boys’ home with me.

I spend most of my afternoon counting down the minutes until they come home. It is pretty quiet around our house without my wild little boys.

That first day back, QT and I were waiting outside the school for his teacher to come and collect him and his classmates. I felt like we had done a pretty good job keeping up with where his teacher left off for the break, and really wasn’t too worried about him forgetting anything he had learned in school up until now. I was listening to other parents talk with each other about what school work they did with their kids over the break. Those parents were busy! They were working on their letters, numbers, and coloring all break long.

Other than bedtime stories, we never cracked a book all vacation. While QT’s classmates were watching cartoons, he was sledding behind the feed wagon. While other kindergarteners were practicing writing their numbers to 30, QT was counting cows to 50 on the feed ground. While they were practicing their letters and sounds, QT was recognizing his cow’s name on her ear tag and reading animal tracks, or looking for “M” words like muskrat, mountain, and mud. We hunted coyotes, set traps, shot our bb guns, and explored a good part of our big backyard.

QT may write his 3’s backwards, or not always color inside the lines and we need to work on that, but he can find his way home from anywhere within a 5 mile radius of the house, can tell the difference between most of our cows and tell you their names (better than I can anyway!), and tell you the difference between a coyote’s and raccoon’s tracks. Listening to these parents made me think about my teaching choices over the break.

Should I have spent more time working on more traditional school type activities? Maybe, but at this point I feel that having a son who is aware of his surroundings and has the tools to navigate this world is just as important as being able to color inside the lines. Education is important, but I want him to experience life from the outside, not based on what he sees on a video game or reads about in a book about someone else’s experiences.

I want him to know how to work, get outside, get dirty, and play. Let’s face it. He’s only going to be little once, and he will have plenty of time later to write a book for someone else to read about growing up on a cattle ranch in northern Nevada.

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Nevada Rangeland Resources Commission

by Rachel Buzzetti, Executive Director

Nevada Rangeland Resources Commission Plans to Meet and Set Priorities for 2015

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Cowboys and sheepherders produce food and fiber for the nation. Growing food on Open range is a natural biological process.

Grazing actually benefits the land with hoof action and natural fertilization. Plants are healthier and regenerate faster after the herds move to a new range.

Antelope and other game animals and birds take advantage of the improvements made by ranchers.

Grazing cattle and sheep coexist peacefully with native wildlife and, in fact, make a friendlier habitat for many species.

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ach year the Nevada Rangeland Resource Commission (NRRC) meets and sets their budget priorities for the upcoming year. This year the Commission will meet March 2, 2015 in Winnemucca and listen to proposals relating to projects on marketing, advertising, and/or communication of public land ranching.

The application for funding includes a brief description, a proposed budget, timeline, and who the targeted audience will be. The applications for funding are available on the NRRC’s website and are due by February 17th.

The NRRC is governed by a commission of nine voting members. These members are nominated through each of the grazing boards, Nevada Cattlemen’s Association, Nevada Woolgrowers and the Farm Bureau; then appointed by the Governor. The NRRC has one part-time staff person.

For more information about the NRRC please visit our website at www.nevadarangelands.org

Correction The Progressive Rancher Magazine extends a sincere apology to the family of Grant Gerber for the incorrect birth year which appeared in the headline on page 11 of the January 2015 issue.

Grant Gerber was born in June of 1942. Gerber passed away in October 2014 from complications of a concussion he received from a fall during the Grass March Cowboy Express.

We apologize for this oversight.

— Leana Stitzel, editor — Julie Eardley, graphics & layout Photo courtesy Grass March Cowboy Express.

Sheep often graze on steep terrain and can control cheatgrass, a major fuel for wildfires.

Nevada Rangeland Resources Commission was created by the State of Nevada to promote responsible public land grazing.

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Jerry and Cheri Sestanovich Eureka Gene Heckman Winnemucca Denis and Sharon Brown Winnemucca Tom Madole Fallon Elko Land and Livestock Battle Mtn Dan Cassinelli Paradise Valley Susan and David Kern Paradise Valley Duane and Tammy Boggio Paradise Valley Wild Horse Cattle Fernley Bartell Ranch Orovada Aaron and Donnell Williams Fallon Robert James Wadsworth Michael Mcninch Winnemucca Michael and Claudia Casey Fallon John Getto Fallon Nuttall Livestock Fallon William Hamilton Fallon Travis Agee Alamo Sally Branch & Michael Mcninch Winnemucca Moura Ranch Lovelock Roger and Margot Mills Fallon Five Fingers Grazing Paradise Valley Michael Laca Fallon M.L Belli Reno Bob Corbari Jordan Valley Chance and Lynn Kretchmer Tonopah Robert and Terry Fretwell Jordan Valley Robert and Terry Fretwell Jordan Valley Jerry and Cheri Sestanovich Eureka Randall and Jayne Collins Jordan Valley Eldon Crawford Winnemucca Young Bros Austin Blake and Dawneen Lambert Winnemucca David Piquet Winnemucca Bell Ranch Paradise Valley Garley Amos Winnemucca Pete and Kathi Marvel Paradise Valley Bartell Ranch Orovada F and M Livestock Fernley Mathew Farms Panaca Kimble and Susan Wilkinson McDermitt Robert and Daniel Gordon Winnemucca Leroy Sestanovich Carlin David & Corine Buckingham Paradise Valley Michael and Claudia Casey Fallon Michael & Marian Gottschalk Lovelock Duane and Tammy Boggio Paradise Valley Deanna Porter Orovada Lester Debraga Fallon Star Bar Cattle Yerington Jersey Valley Cattle Co Winnemucca Jessie and Rebecca Nuttal Fallon Marge Shepard Fallon Leo and Donna Harrer Orovada

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Talking About NCBA Joe Guild, 6th Region Vice President

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wo recent happenings in What really drove the attempt to create a second program? Was it really Mr. Vilsack’s Washington D.C. prove two desire to help the industry he claims to love so much and is charged as the Secretary of points to me. First, occasionally politi- Agriculture to protect? Or, as I suspect, was it to satisfy the desires of a small agricultural cians listen to their constituents out in organization who supported Mr. Vilsack’s boss in the last election and who has always the country and second, occasionally they do not listen. Corollaries to these two points been jealous of the perceived advantage the NCBA has when it comes to being a check off are in politics there almost always is a hidden agenda and if you wait long enough in contractor. This jealousy is unwarranted because NCBA has a superior organization with the wrangling over a political issue the fog will somewhat clear and more members, and a better educated and experienced staff capable of bepeople’s true intentions will be less obscure. ing a viable check off contractor. Perhaps we will never know, but I think You may have read by now Secretary Vilsack of the Department of multiple agendas were at work here. In any case, when confronted with a Agriculture has decided to with draw his plan to institute a second beef position you disagree with it is always a good idea to let the politicians and “…if I am check off under the authority given the Secretary by the 1996 Generic bureaucrats know.

Check Off Act. I have written about this earlier expressing my view there The other case I’ll discuss I heard about the day this is being written. correct is this was no need for the Secretary to do this and he needed to let the Beef Check It is the decision by Gina McCarthy, the Administrator of the Environoff Enhancement Group he created three years ago do its work to improve mental Protection Agency, to finalize the rule redefining a Water of the the height of the program and increase the fee. This is a producer dominated group and United States about which so much has been written by me and others the arrogance or they had done a great deal of work with only one dissenter by last summer past couple of years. I won’t rehash old arguments against this expansion when that entity pulled out of the process. This act by one of eleven in the of federal power over land and water. However, I will reiterate my past what?” working group gave the Secretary the excuse to begin his own effort. comment if the EPA is successful in its efforts regarding this redefinition, There was understandable opposition to Mr. Vilsack’s unilateral apthe way you operate your ranch and what you think you own in your water proach to create an additional check off program controlled and operated rights is going to significantly change. Assuming the EPA will eventually from Washington D.C. and not operated by beef producers as the current have the resources to enforce its new regulation, what you do on your land program is. The opposition was expressed by all the remaining members of the enhance- and with your water will be subject to federal oversight and scrutiny in ways unimaginable ment group including very vocal and pointed concern from NCBA. compared to current practices.

There is almost 80% support for the 1986 beef check off among producers across the Long time readers will recall last year I wrote asking you to send your comments to the country. Also, there is a large consensus the check off amount needs to be increased by EPA expressing opposition to this proposed rule. Indeed, many others wrote and asked the at least another dollar. To prove this point several states in the past couple of years have same thing. Over 7,000 members of NCBA wrote and commented. This wasn’t the 10,000 increased their state check off by fifty cents or a dollar. A recent economic analysis noted comments we were asking for but it is still a significant number from one sector of the beef the dollar check off passed in 1986 has the industry. In total, the EPA received over 1 million comments on the proposed rule! That is buying power of about 28 cents in today’s a huge amount of interest in one government rule. I cannot imagine the bulk of these comdollars. These are a couple of reasons the ments supported the rule, but I’m just saying. So let us suppose I am correct and most of the Secretary convened the working group million comments opposed the rule. Again, I’m just saying. If I am right Ms. McCarthy is three years ago. And, as I have written in defying the wishes of a significant number of citizens. And, I’m just saying, if I am correct a prior column he was supportive of the is this the height of arrogance or what? working group’s efforts in trying to come The nanny state is alive and well at the EPA. They certainly know more than us silly up with a consensus until the one organi- stupid plebeians out here in the country who deal with water on a daily basis; and what zation pulled out at the last minute before about people such as Nevada’s State Engineer who has spent a career spanning decades a summer deadline was reached to create a dealing with the management and enforcement of Nevada water law having to cede aureport to the Secretary. thority to a bureaucrat in Washington D.C.? I cannot imagine he was one of the unknown Then, after there was so much opposi- numbers of people in support of the EPA proposal. It is an outrage to contemplate the blatant tion in the country to the proposal to create disregard of the citizenry when it comes to the arrogant behavior of people who think they ason and a second check off, in December of 2014, know so much more. There are members of Congress who are also outraged and who have 2213 N. 5th St. , Elko, NV 89801 the Secretary withdrew his plan. So, point vowed to do everything in their power to prevent the implementation of this rule. We can number one above was achieved; occasion- only hope they are successful. Write or call your member of Congress and express your 775-738-8811, 800-343-0077 ally, politicians listen to their constituents disappointment at the least. I intend to do just that. www.edwardjones.com and do as they ask. But, I am skeptical.

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February is American Heart Health Month!

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reetings from the Nevada CattleWomen, Inc.! We are the promotion and Ashley Buckingham was our 2014 Nevada Beef Ambassador and I had the pleasure education arm of the beef community and this month I’m going to focus on of accompanying her to Denver for the National Beef Ambassador competition in Septemboth promotion and education. First, let’s talk about promotion a little bit. This month ber. It was amazing watching all those young juniors (12-16 yrs) and seniors (17-20 yrs) of February we are celebrating American Heart Health Month! There are tons of compete at the national level! We have some fabulous representatives across the country in heart-healthy beef recipes out there that you can use in your weekly meal plans to help these young people. They are social media maniacs sharing beef facts they know and new lower cholesterol and even help reach those New Year’s resolufacts they learned across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, and tion weight loss goals. The BOLD (Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet) more! The instant bonds formed between all the contestants were diet is the beef alternative to the often recommended DASH (Dievident and it was fun to see them share their passion for raising and/ etary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet. Researchers came or talking about beef. We’ve been delighted with all the education, Challenge to all up with beef recipes that emulated the same protein, fat, and promotion, and social media presence Ashley has been involved with carbohydrate ratios as the DASH diet and tested 36 participants over this last year and I’m really excited to see who will fill her shoes CattleWomen with elevated LDL cholesterol levels both before and after the next year. diet. Participants saw the same levels of LDL cholesterol reducThe beef ambassador contest consists of three main components and Cattlemen: tion following the BOLD diet as those that followed the DASH at the state level. The first is a 250-word, typed issues response to diet. Check out http://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com for more an article related to the beef industry. This letter-to-the-editor style information about the BOLD diet including recipes and a sevenresponse is due with the application for the contest. Then, during Teach a young day sample meal plan. You could also purchase the Healthy Beef the competition in Mesquite, the juniors and the seniors will comperson in your Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Publisher) to share pete in the remaining two components, the media interview and the with your loved ones that may be struggling with elevated LDL consumer promotion. The media interview is a set of questions each life how to cook a cholesterol levels. They can still enjoy the great flavor of beef, contestant is asked by someone pretending to be a newspaper, radio, even while reducing cholesterol levels! The BOLD diet is one of or TV reporter. During the mock consumer promotion event, comnew beef recipe. the many great beef month messages that we CattleWomen like petitors are given brochures to select from about beef and mock beef to tell this time of year. samples to give to several “consumers” that come up and ask them Speaking of great beef messages, my big challenge this month questions about beef. During this section of the competition, it is that I’m going to issue to all CattleWomen and even to our Cattlemen, is to teach a young important to be able to explain to consumers how to cook beef, how to select different cuts person in your life how to cook a new beef recipe. It sometimes amazes me how many of at the grocery store, and be able to suggest heart-healthy or kid-friendly cuts and recipes. our millenials don’t know much about cooking. I’ll admit, my favorite way to eat beef is The Nevada Beef Council is partnering with Nevada CattleWomen to provide cash when my husband grills it for me on the BBQ, but I can hold my own in the kitchen as well. prizes to the winners and contestants. Each contestant that completes all three portions of In recent conversations with my students, many knew their favorite beef dish to get at a the contest wins $25. The junior winner receives $100 and the senior winner receives $200 restaurant, and they knew their favorite cut of beef, but when it came to discussing their and expenses paid trip to the National Beef Ambassador contest September 25-26, 2015. favorite way to cook beef at home, the crickets were louder than the students. Thankfully The senior winner is named the 2015 Nevada Beef Ambassador and will be responsible a few young men in the class have been taught how to smoke tri-tip in a 50-gal barrel, but for conducting three youth education events, two consumer promotion events, and at least other than that, there were few ideas shared one media interview during their year as for how to cook it at home. I’ll reach out to Beef Ambassador. A social media presthe young people in my life and I’ll cook ence is encouraged as well. Please help us with them this month. Will you? (Please, in getting the word out to our young people pretty please with au jus on the side?) I’ll about this upcoming event! It is a great way thank you, the beef community will thank to learn more about how cattle are raised you, and the young person will have a in the U.S., meet other like-minded young lifelong recipe they’ll be able to enjoy and people, and hone those communication share with others. 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A Period of Epic Collaboration: Addressing Important Western Agriculture Issues “We’re in a period of epic collaboration. We have incredible momentum so we can’t stop now; we need to get across the finish line,” United States Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell says.

Jewell is referring to the events and collaborative by-partisan panels held at Western Governors Association meetings. The association gathers policy makers, secretaries of government agencies, federal agency representatives and governors of 19 western states and 3 U.S.-flag islands to discuss important issues and build strong policy. The Western Governors Association holds many events around the year and across the western region of the U.S. The most recent was held in Las Vegas on Dec. 6 and 7, 2014. This year President Hank Combs, Vice President Bevan Lister and Executive Vice President Clay McCauley attended the event for the first time.

“There were a number of topics discussed, ranging from energy to public lands management to wildlife,” Lister says.

Lister attended multiple panels, discussions and resolution meetings with President Combs and McCauley during the two days. Governors and federal agency leadership discussed many important topics, including drought, the management of wild horses and burros, methane emissions regulation, public lands grazing and federal disaster recovery assistance for communities in the west.

Land management for endangered species was a big topic covered at the conference. Although the discussions of endangered species were not in direct reference to the greater sage grouse, the importance of government officials working with ranchers to prevent a listing was clear.

“The notable quote that Sally Jewell said is ‘what is good for the bird is good for the herd,’” Lister says, adding that he would prefer the quote reversed, but that the sentiment of government working with agriculturists on this issue was clear.

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NVFB Executive Vice President Clay McCauley (L) with Governor Sandoval and President Combs at the Western Governor’s Association Winter Meeting.

Despite much progress being made on most issues during the event, Lister did not find the discussion about wild horse and burro management to be as productive. The lack of progressive discussion reflected the insufficient funding and planning on the part of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regarding management of wild horses and burros.

“There wasn’t a satisfactory answer regarding horse or burrow management,” Lister says. “They focused on contraception, not even on sterilization of wild horses.”

Later that weekend, the Western Governors Association developed a resolution, which stated “Western governor’s support thoughtful, appropriate and science-based management decisions for wild horse and burro management.”

However, according to Lister, little work will be done without the funding and support of the BLM. This year’s winter meeting was especially notable because Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval chaired the event.

“Governor Sandoval made his opening remarks and

spoke highly about the economic value of agriculture in the state. In questions and discussions, Governor Sandoval seemed to be very cognizant of Nevada’s agriculture and of the land management issues,” Lister says.

According to Lister, Sandoval represented the interests of Nevada’s agricultural industry well and even shared Nevada Farm Bureau literature to help educate attendees.

During a discussion on public lands, Governor Sandoval referenced an article in the Nevada Farm Bureau Agriculture & Livestock Journal, regarding federal to state land transfer in Nevada.

Although the setting of this conference did not allow for participation in policy making or discussion, the opportunities it gave were beneficial to Nevada Farm Bureau’s future.

The policy development meetings and sessions that the Western Governors Association held harbor an immensely important avenue towards faster and smarter policy development. ‘ “The Western Governors Association has made significant strides in the last years in their policy making as a group.

Any time you have voices like that and you also have an opportunity to get heard, it’s always a benefit,” Lister says.

The conference also gave Farm Bureau leadership the chance to converse with officials outside of the panels and meetings. Lister, McCauley and Combs were able to meet with other groups that had like-minded opinions and ideals on agricultural issues. According to Lister, being able to talk to the people behind policy development was an essential way for Nevada Farm Bureau to build important relationships and partnerships.

“The events were a valuable opportunity for us to make connections on a less formal level, and we are impressed by the attendees and the great group of people to build relationships with,” Lister says.

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Nevada Farm Bureau Members Appointed to Issues Advisory Committee

Nevada Farm Bureau Vice President Bevan Lister and Lyon Couny President Darrell Pursel were appointed this month to the 2015 American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Issue Advisory Committee. Committee members were nominated by state Farm Bureaus and approved by the AFBF Board of Directors.

The Issue Advisory Committee consists of 14 committees, which each focus on a different hot topic in agriculture. Lister will sit on the Federal Lands Committee and Pursel will sit on the Irrigation Committee.

Other IAC topics include Agricultural Labor, Animal Care, Budget & Economy, Energy, Environmental Regulations, Farm Policy, Food Safety, Market Structures, Pests & Invasive Structures, Public Infrastructure, Technology and Trade. Each year the list of committees is evaluated to ensure the most important issues are addressed.

The committees are made up of Farm Bureau members with knowledge and direct involvement in issues of importance to U.S. farmers and ranchers. Committee members will discuss cross-commodity concerns for agriculture, serve as Farm Bureau’s “brain-trust” on breaking policy issues, provide advice and recommendations to state Farm Bureaus and

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the AFBF Resolutions committee and participate in advocacy efforts on the issues covered by their committees.

“I am pleased that Bevan and Darrell will be representing Nevada Farm Bureau on the Issue Advisory Committee,” NVFB President Hank Combs said. “Their expertise on irrigation and federal land will greatly benefit the committee and U.S. agriculturists.”

The total membership of all committees is 164, and the average number of members per committee is 12, consisting of members with expertise in the above listed topics. Committee members serve one to two year terms and can be renominated when their terms are finished.

The committees will meet Feb. 23, 2015, at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C. Members of the IAC will attend the AFBF Advocacy Conference after their meetings.

At the AFBF Advocacy Conference, Farm Bureau presidents, administrators, key staff and grassroots leaders will meet to receive updates on AFBF priority issues and participate in advocacy activities on Capitol Hill.

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Nevada Farm Bureau for the Western Governor’s Association, was of particular importance to Lister, Combs and McCauley.

“In our interview with Carly Brown, she really encouraged us to make a connection with Governor Sandoval’s office,” Lister explains, adding that he, Combs and McCauley met with Governor Sandoval at the meeting. “The Nevada Farm Bureau will have an open door to the Governor’s office when we have issues to discuss.”

“In my point of view, it was valuable to have Nevada Farm Bureau’s name on the board. It let people see that there is an agriculture community in the state of Nevada,” Lister says.

Lister’s largest take away from the meeting was that the high-level government officials in attendance were very willing to collaborate on the issues at hand. Yet, he believes that work still needs to be done to ensure this collaboration happens in the lower levels of government.

“If we’re having this epic era of collaboration and cooperation, how can we get it to trickle down to the ground level, because that’s certainly not the way things are on the ground level,” Lister says.

Overall, attending the Western Governor’s Association Winter Meeting was insightful and beneficial to Farm Bureau leadership.

“It was a valuable forum and an opportunity to make some of those connections on a less formal level,” Lister says.

Southern Nevada students win 2014 Nevada Farm Bureau Video Contest

SPARKS, Nev. – Clark County high school students Logan O’Toole, Kaelynn Hunter-Prock and Shayla Park received first place in December 2014 for their video entry in the 2014 Nevada Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Video Contest. O’Toole, Hunter-Prock and Shayla Park attend Moapa Valley High School (MVHS) in Overton, Nev. Their video “Agriculture Affects Our Community” gave a tour of their high school farm and its impact on the local community in Moapa Valley.

“The video contest is great way for students to share an agricultural story,” said Cindy Hardy, Nevada Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee Chair. “Promoting agriculture through video provides an opportunity to share our industry’s message with a large group of Cindy Hardy (L), Women’s Leadership Committee chair, presents people, including those not directly involved in farming a check to first place winners Logan O’Toole, Kaelynn HunterProck and Shayla Park. and ranching.”

The committee received 13 entries from students around the state. MVHS students Bailey Kesl and Riley Fulmer took second place, and third place went to MVHS students Maddison Bush, Nathan Witter, Baxter Baker and JaLea Blasingame.

Each video answered one of two questions, how Nevada agriculture affects the world and how agriculture affects the community. Prizes for the winning videos were $100, $75 and $50. The contest was open to Nevada high school students.

The winning videos can be viewed here: http://goo.gl/isLDI7 Visit http://nvfb.org to learn more about the video contest and the Women’s Leadership Committee.

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Fumes FROM THE Farm

by Hank Vogler

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o extort something by definition is a gross over charge in the form of money hitters in baseball, and four foot eleven centers in basketball, all in the name of fairness. or property. Sound familiar? Well it should. We have made this method of As crazy as that sounds, look at what we have done with private property. When the naso called compromise into an art form. The politically correct crowd has figured out tion was young, getting the property in private hands went along with “Manifest Destiny.”

Private property was all the rage and unlike old world cultures, the laws a chink in the armor of mankind. This extortion flavor has become would protect you from tyranny and you could develop resources and soup de jour for decades. Like a small child, they only want a taste, have a chance with the protection of the law to reap the rewards of hard not the whole enchilada, but give them a taste and the appetite In the last fifty years becomes insatiable. If you get that, then we just want this. We will work and the ownership of land. All levels of government would benefit help you get elected or send you nice gifts and just for safe measure by the commerce private ownership would bring. This is not a perfect the erosion of the concept, yet it allowed people from all over the world to unite under a we will send them to your third cousin, twice removed, so someone common banner and with the incentives of laws for protection, we have doesn’t get the wrong idea. become the greatest nation man kind has ever produced.

All of mankind, or “person kind”, is hard wired in our mitochonincentives for our In the last fifty years the erosion of the incentives for our nation dria with the desire to get what we want as a group or individual. For thousands of years it was the strongest best hunter that would prevail. to continue to excel is faltering by spreading guilt of being successful. nation to continue The face off between early men was really no different than it is today.

The fairness crowd extorts development with incrementalism. If Lyon Imagine if you will, Og facing off against Arg, for the affection of Iggy.

County Nevada needs land to expand industry there, why do we need to to excel is faltering pay an extortion price by tying up and restricting use of other property In front of the cave they square off. Snarling and the flexing of muscle, within the state that has nothing to do with development in Lyon Councircling, and ultimately, if need be combat, which may end in death or injury of one or both combatants. One thing was for certain there would ty? Elko County needs a few odd federal parcels of land around town by spreading guilt of for development, What group better than the citizens of Elko County be no compromise. A winner and a loser would always be defined, end of story. Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest comes into play. Much to solve that issue, cut it loose Congress!!!!!!!, no federal foot dragbeing successful. ging and pandering needed. We tie up land with congressional action of the strategy would be the stare down, looking for your opponent to blink or give some indication that weakness of heart and self-doubt was In Northern Washoe or Humboldt County that alters forever the local “Custom and Culture” and allows some paid off member of congress to apparent. Iggy, if the truth were known, prefers Og’s brother Tog who brought her flowers for her cave and wrote a poem about her on her cave wall. Nonetheless, dictate policy in Nevada with no consequences to his or her constituency, but forever will there were winners and losers. By todays standards this is not unlike capitalism and should alter the landscape of Nevada. Rather than a County making that decision congress in far not be tolerated, as it is not fair to all. If the politically correct people ever get in charge of off never never land makes the decision that is insurmountable to alter or revise. And of everything, sports would be eliminated, as teams would not be chosen by athletic prowess, course at a price of having cottage industries of lobbying and vagaries of written laws to but by fairness. This would include wheel chair bound linemen in football; blind pinch make the best people to guide us through the mire, have nick names like Loop hole Jones, or Fairly honest Johnson. Mark Twain was credited with saying; “It can be proven by fact and figure, that there is no distinct criminal class in America, save Congress”. Makes you wonder if it is an admission of guilt or concurrence, as a huge portrait of Mr. Twain hangs behind “Uncle Harry’s desk??????????

The evidence of our representatives blinking is everywhere. We had a state park at Leman Caves. The cave is still there only federal control brought federal restrictions. Local uses of hunting, wood gathering, and grazing is gone forever. As the trees get thicker runoff to farming is going away as local aquifers dry up. The fire hazard threatens to one day over whelm the area. Grazing was allowed but before the ink was dry the harassment began and the permitees just threw up their hands and sold out to the eco-terrorists. The pipeline proposed to Las Vegas in my back yard was preceded by a bunch of wilderness being stuffed down White Pine Counties throat to compromise with the eco-terrorists and Jerome, Idaho Fairgrounds buy silence for the pipeline. Nothing to see here folks, until ranchers began to call attention to what it would do to this area and potentially cause an eco-holocaust.

March 6, 2015 Now, out in the middle of the desert, an individual has built some sort of a sculpture of something, with private money, on private land, and originally was not to be viewed by anyone but the contributors or friends of the sculptor, which is all fine and good as it is on his land. WRONG!!!!!!! Now we are proposing to tie up 800,000 acres around this monument and for what. It will hurt the operation of some stockmen in the area. If the eco-terrorists Orders taken now for 2016 have their way roads, mining, recreation, hunting and anything else they want will be on Angus & SimAngus Bulls the wish list for the proposal. “Local Custom and Culture”, will have its voice squelched.

Then back in Washington D.C. our pals will whack up the swag and after everybody gets a taste, “compromise” will be stuffed down the throats of the local folks that have the most at stake but the smallest voice.

If you are starting to see a pattern here, I have a few names of folks that have been to this rodeo and have sold the T-shirt. They are as follows: Hage family, Cliven Bundy, Ben Colvin, Baker Ranches, West family, Uhalde family, and many more including the Need Sires used: More Sheep Company. The list is longer than a polygamists clothesline. These folks or Connealy Final Solution, Consensus 7229, their predecessors were promised as a split estate that a seat at the table would always be SAV Iron Mountain 8066, WK Power Up 9412, available when issues came up that effected the viability of their private property and their Duff Encore 702, SAV Thunderbird 9061 ability to make a living and feed and cloth their families, which has now been thrown out the window as “compromise” AKA “Extortion”. Just remember, the deed to your private land once belonged to the federal government. On a whim if the eco-terrorists have their way, that can be forever lost. Think it can’t happen? Welcome to Gulag Comrades. Hang and Rattle! Hank Vogler HC 64 Box 78, Deeth, NV 89823 775-934-6443

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In the Mind of a Millennial

By Jill Scofield, Nevada Beef Council

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ith several articles covering the Millennial generation and its behaviors and attitudes related to beef previously printed in The Progressive Rancher, you probably think you’ve read all there is to know on the subject.

But alas, there remain a vast number of data points and facts regarding this generation that are of particulary relevance to the beef industry.

Much of this information is culled from years of consumer research that the Beef Checkoff program has invested in to guide targeted programs that effectively drive beef demand.

At this point, dear reader, I hope you haven’t reached the point of “Millennial overkill” and are currently skipping ahead to the next story. To try and avoid that, this month I’m not going to just cover the Millennials, but I’ll also include some comparisons against the Boomer generation. With both generations comprising a huge segment of our population, and with Boomers having more spending power (at the moment), state beef councils often get asked why there is so much focus on the Millennials when the Boomers also have some heft in the grocery and foodservice purchasing realm.

But first, it may be helpful to share just how we define these generations. As a reminder, for the NBC, we define Millennials as those born between 1980 and 2000, with a strong focus on “older Millennials” who are establishing their careers and families, and whose incomes are growing. Looking at other generations, Baby Boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964, and Generation X is comprised of people born between 1965 and 1979, roughly.

As I’ve shared in the past, there are many reasons behind the rationale for the NBC and beef industry as a whole to focus on the Millennial generation in its consumer communications and marketing. In addition to outpacing the Boomers in size, Millennials eat as much beef as the older generations, are establishing families and developing long-term food choices, and are climbing the income ladder.

Income and Spending In terms of annual income, this generation is still climbing the income ladder, with older Millennials’ average income approaching the national median. The overall median income in the U.S. is just over $49,000, with older Millennials’ median income at around $48,000, and younger Millennials’ at around $25,000.

This generation’s spending is also climbing. The Millennials already spend nearly 90 percent of what Boomers do per year on grocery shopping, and 75 percent of what Boomers do on warehouse clubs. What’s more, they make fewer trips, but have a higher total - $54 per trip versus $46 per trip.

That doesn’t necessarily indicate Millennials are buying more during their grocery shopping, but potentially spending more on the specific products they’re purchasing. According to a January 2014 report by Nielsen on the Millennial consumer, this generation wants to feel good about what they buy, and won’t compromise on quality.

According to the report, “Millennials are more likely than their older counterparts to indicate that they’re willing to spend more for goods and services from companies that have implemented programs to give back to society, and this willingness to spend more has risen over the past two years. Over 60 percent are also willing to pay more for a product if it’s good for the environment.”

Beef Choices and Preferences When it comes to beef, Millennials represent more beef-eating occasions than any other generation. Consider, for example, this table showing the percentage of overall eating occasions by generation (Millennials compared with Generation x and Baby Boomers) for beef overall, and then broken down by food service and retail, and cuts of beef.

Each column indicates which percentage of overall eating occasions are made up by each generation – with Millennials clearly coming out on top in each category. (Source: Beef Checkoff-funded Consumer Beef Index.)

However, the eating occasion data isn’t indicative of each generation’s ability to cook with beef. As I’ve shared in this column before, the Millennial generation lacks confidence when it comes to preparing beef. Three-quarters of Millennials would like more information about steaks and how to prepare them, 55 percent would like more information on www.progressiverancher.com

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preparing and serving beef to children, and 54 percent say it’s hard to know what cuts to choose in the meat case.

Further underscoring that fact, take a look at the graphic showing the many suggestions Millennials have for improving beef. This graphic – called a “word cloud” – provides a visual demonstration of the frequency of responses for a given question. In this case, the question was regarding how to make beef better. The more a response was given, the bigger that particular response or word is in the word cloud.

As you can see, the words “easier”, “healthier” and “cheaper” show up more prominently, indicating these specific words were used most often in response to the question. The other words – many of which correlate in some way with the three main themes – provide insight about additional responses to this question, giving at least a broad sense of how the Millennial generation feels our product could be improved.

Media Consumption Lastly, when it comes to media consumption, it’s no surprise that Millennials spend far more time on the mobile devices and watch less TV than the older generations. I’ve talked before about how much time Millennials spend online and how many food-related searched they generation on a given day. That’s a driving force behind why the NBC and others in the beef industry spend so much time and energy focusing communications efforts on the online and digital platforms where Millennials will most likely find us.

When you also consider how little time Millennials spend watching TV, it also helps underscore why more isn’t invested in TV programming or advertising.

As stated in the previously mentioned Nielsen report, “Boomers watch almost twice as many hours of TV every month, as Millennials. Boomers watch 174 hours per month versus 107 hours per month for Millennials. They’re more likely to watch event-related programming like Sunday Night Football or cable programming on BET, Comedy Central or FX Network, while Boomers tend to watch the Primetime offerings from the broadcast networks.”

Learning more about Millennials: There is no shortage of research on generational behavior and habits. While I’ve shared a myriad of data regarding Millennial tendencies that are specifically relevant to the beef industry and ranching community, there are many other sources of information that provide insight regarding overall consumer behaviors.

If you’re interested in learning more about some of the data I included here, be sure to visit www.nielsen.com for access to the report “Millennials – Breaking the Myths”. For more on the Consumer Beef Index, which is conducted semi-annually by the Beef Checkoff to track consumer perceptions of beef and identify beef consumption trends, visit www. beefretail.org.

Jill Scofield is Director of Producer Relations for the California and Nevada Beef Councils. E-mail her at jill@calbeef.org with any questions or comments.

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By Rusty D. Jardine, Esq, District Manager, Truckee-Carson Irrigation District

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ears ago, I called Elko, Nevada my home. Many of my life’s great events occurred for me there. They include schooling; employment, marriage, and the birth of children. I confess that while in Elko I had no appreciation for that most essential resource; that resource that defines and shapes our communities; that resource which causes any one of us, as a “life traveler”, to settle and remain in a given place: Water! Our state’s water supply is the driving feature in the development and perpetuation of our communities. Amidst so much competition for a resource in such short supply, meeting existing and future water supply demands is the challenge of the future.

Our state is the driest in the nation. Average annual precipitation hovers at about nine and one half inches, with some parts of the state receiving less than three. With an eye upon our state’s water resources, observers elsewhere may readily conclude that our rivers are more like the streams or brooks with which they are familiar. The combined volume of the rivers of western Nevada, the Carson, Truckee, and Walker, is less than 2,000 cubic feet per second. Mark Twain, upon review of conditions within the Carson River watershed, is said to have quipped that that the Carson River is but a “patch of moist soil.” By contrast, the average flow of the Columbia River at one gage in Oregon is 190,000 cubic feet per second.

In less than one day’s time, the Columbia could fill Lahontan Reservoir -having a capacity, with placement of flashboards, of 316,500 acre-feet. Less than a day!

Today, unlike former times in Elko, my world view regarding water is decidedly different. I think of it incessantly! I am ruled by its abundance; or, alternatively, by its scarcity. I find great personal satisfaction in my affiliation with an entity, the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID), which serves the surface water right holders within our district with irrigation water.

Watering Nevada – Within The Newlands Federal Reclamation Project

TCID is a local government serving primarily the communities of Fallon and Fernley.

Organized under state law in 1918, TCID has been responsible since 1926, under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, to operate and maintain the Newlands Federal Reclamation Project –without expense to the United States. The Project consists of approximately 60,000 irrigated acres in Churchill, Lyon, and Storey counties. Upon such acreage, the District serves some 2,500 water users, including farmers, state and local governments, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Water delivery is achieved almost exclusively by gravity flow or flood

irrigation. Depending upon a user’s location within the Project, each acre of water righted land has an associated duty, after an allowance made for transportation losses. For example, 3.5 acre feet per acre is the duty associated with bottom lands; and, 4.5 acre feet per acre applies to bench lands. Water rights within the Project are deemed appurtenant to the land; and, as such they constitute valuable property interests held by property owners as determined by two federal decrees, the Alpine Decree (Carson River) and the Orr Ditch Decree (Truckee River). Water right holders enjoy a July 2, 1902 priority –coinciding with the effective date of the Reclamation Act of 1902. The Newlands Project was the first reclamation project in the nation.

Project facilities are everywhere-found in western Nevada and recognizable to many.

They include Derby Dam, Lake Tahoe and Dam, and Lahontan Dam and Reservoir. Newlands facilities also include approximately 700 miles of open canals, laterals, and drains.

Most of the structures date back to Reclamation’s roots –the Reclamation Act of 1902.

While the dams remain in good condition, other facilities such as check structures and takeouts have exceeded their useful lives. This fact, when cast upon a small user base (2,500), creates an enormous challenge relating to infrastructure rehabilitation or replacement. Replacement and other Improvements are presently needed throughout the Project and include a permanent repair to be made to the Truckee Canal that breached at Fernley in 2008. The cost associated with Truckee Canal repair alone could be as much as $100,000,000. Aging infrastructure is an ever-present challenge within the Project –where many facilities date back to the Project’s inception. Where does the answer lie potentially? With Reclamation —through the appropriations process by Congress? In a time of massive spending cuts for governmental purposes nation-wide, a Congressional response seems unlikely. But in the time it has taken to prepare this article, Newlands Project features have only gotten older!

An additional challenge is the effect of water use changes on the existing user base. As lands are taken out of agricultural production, the water user base within the Project is diminished; thus, the base of users from which to generate assessments declines.

The Newlands Project consists of two divisions; The Carson Division; and, the Truckee Division. The Carson Division comprehends the area downstream of Lahontan Dam. The Truckee Division consists of the Fernley, Hazen, and Swingle Bench areas.

Waters of the Carson and Truckee Rivers are impounded at Lahontan Reservoir for delivery to water users during the irrigation season. Water users in the Carson Division receive water diverted to them at Lahontan Dam through facilities downstream. Truckee Division users are supplied through takeouts along the Truckee Canal -mostly near Fernley.

The water supply consists of a balance between the two rivers. Most of the time, the Carson River provides the bulk of supply. Under certain hydrologic conditions, the Truckee River may supply the greater portion of Project demand. As an example, due to existing drought conditions, most of the supply to the Project during the 2014 season (March to November of each year) came from the Truckee River. The computation of supply for the Project and the start of the irrigation are set by the Board of Directors for the District at the commencement of each season. The determination of annual water supply is made based upon the amount of water retained in storage (at Lahontan) combined with the anticipated run-off

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Lahontan Dam — July 1987 from the upstream watersheds which is then compared to total demand anticipated by all water users. Total annual Project demand hovers just above the 200,000 acre feet mark. In a normal, or 100 percent year, generally characterized by the existence of a full or mostly full reservoir, all water rights within the Project may be satisfied. Last season, 2014, a 45% water supply year was had. The percentage for 2013 was 75%. What will 2015 bring?

Nature has not cooperated thus far. Less than 20,000 acre feet will be stored in Lahontan by mid-January. The present Sierra snow-pack reveals no promise; and, the water level in Lake Tahoe is below the natural rim.

Water delivery in the Newlands Project is a symphony of agency and District actions, agreements, court orders, federal decrees, and federal regulation. Project operations may be the most regulated of any in the nation. Water delivery is scheduled and provided by TCID under direction of Reclamation. A court order, issued following the breach of the Truckee Canal, restricts flow in the Truckee Canal to no more than 350 cfs. The Federal Water Master serves to oversee river flows in both river systems. Through near-daily contact with the Water Master, TCID adjusts flows at Derby Dam, at which point waters of the Truckee River are diverted into the Truckee Canal. Truckee River user demands are sustained through what are known as “Floriston Rates” –the rate of river flow as measured at the river near Farad -formerly Floriston, California. Floriston rates are intended to meet demands for power generation, municipal and industrial, domestic, and irrigation on the river. Generally, these rates are 500 cubic feet per second from March 1 to September 30 of each year. They are 400 cubic feet per second from October 1 to the last day of February of each year. Floriston rates are commonly met through natural flow, releases from Lake Tahoe storage, Boca storage releases, and exchanges through what is known as the Prosser/Tahoe releases. Where the natural flow of the Truckee River is not sufficient to meet Floriston rates, water is released from Lake Tahoe or Boca Reservoir at a sufficient rate to satisfy downstream demand. Likewise, if Floriston Rates are being met by natural flow, and capacity allows, the releases from Lake Tahoe and Boca are reduced to the extent possible to capture the inflow. Reliance upon Floriston rates as the basis for river operations rises from the Truckee River Agreement (TRA) of 1935 to which TCID was a party. The TRA was adopted and made binding upon the parties thereto by the Orr Ditch Court upon its entry of the Orr Ditch Decree in 1944.

Applicable, also to Project operations, is the federal regulation known as the “Operating Criteria and Procedures for the Newlands Reclamation Project, Nevada” or “OCAP” Found at 43 C.F.R. Part 418, this regulation is exclusive to the Project. Among other things, OCAP creates a mechanism by which Carson River water is to be first used in meeting Project water demand. Based upon existing storage and in-flow predictions, storage targets at Lahontan Reservoir are established throughout the year which serve as the guide by which waters of the Truckee River may be relied upon. As an example, when storage and inflow from the Carson River are sufficient to meet Project demands then diversions from the Truckee River are limited. Another salient feature of OCAP is the annual determination of eligible acreage. Only lands deemed eligible may receive Project waters. Eligible lands include those that have had water placed to a beneficial use at the time of evaluation. Lands not in use are not eligible.

Lying in wait for future implementation is another body of federal regulation known as the Truckee River Operating Agreement or TROA. TROA, as a regulation, will serve to displace the elements of the TRA as guiding river operations. The Orr Ditch Court, the Federal District Court for the District of Nevada, by an order dated September 30, 2014

modified the Decree by adoption of TROA. Among other things, TROA is intended to provide for flexible management of water in up-stream Truckee River reservoirs and provide for the creation of credit water among users. While TROA is presently the object of judicial review in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, when implemented it too will also serve to guide operations within the Newlands Project –including up-stream storage.

Conclusion We often ascribe to Mark Twain the statement: “Whiskey if for drinking and water for fighting.” TCID’s mission has become a “fight” to provide water to farmers within the Project for that most beneficial of water uses: Agriculture. In a time where so many consumers have become disconnected from an understanding of food chain, the contribution of our water users cannot be understated. The Newlands Project is aging and needs rehabilitation. And, if that challenge were not great enough, the provision of water to lands within the Project is accomplished through a maze of agency actions, agreements, court orders, federal decrees, and federal regulation. TCID may be the most regulated irrigation district in the nation. But the purposes it serves of are inestimable value to our state and nation.

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BEEF BULLETIN February 2015

15th annual Bulls for the 21st Century Sale

Our Annual Bull Test Sale on Sun., March 8, will feature 150 bulls from the West’s top seedstock producers put to the test. We test our bulls on feed efficiency and much more!

If you are aiming for top dollar when your calves cross the scale, select top-notch genetics offered the second Sunday in March in yerington, Nev.

2015 bull test consignors

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• Amador Angus, Modesto, CA • Bar LR Angus, Benson, AZ • Bell Ranch, Paradise Valley, NV • Broken Arrow Angus Ranch, Fallon, NV • Cardey Ranches, Turlock, CA • Diablo Valley Angus, Byron, CA • Easterly Romanov Ranch, Sheridan, CA • Fox Angus Venture, Dixon, CA • Adolfo Gomez, Jackson, CA • Gudel Cattle Co., Wilton, CA • Hone Ranch, Minden, NV • Jorgensen Ranch, Orland, CA • Moore Creek Red Angus, Visalia, CA • Phillips Red Angus, Ione, CA • Shamrock Herefords, Ione, CA • Steve Smith Angus & Gelbvieh, Lehi, UT • Thorenfeldt Land & Cattle, Hillsborough, CA • Trotter Red Angus, Porterville, CA • Westwind Ranch Angus, Oroville, CA • Wild West Angus, Dairy, OR

Bulls for the 21st Century annual social & seminar Snyder Livestock’s Annual Bull Buyer’s Social and Seminar will be held Sat., March 7, at 4 p.m., at the Pioneer Crossing Convention Center in yerington, Nev. The event will feature speaker Gary Taubes, an author and researcher who has gathered scientific and historical evidence pointing to carbohydrates as the cause of western diseases, not red meat consumption.

Taubes says carbohydrates make you fat, not calories.

According to Taubes, you must eat fat – good fat – to lose fat, so protein and fat are essential to your health; carbs are not.

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the benefits of beef At Snyder Livestock Company, we are dedicated not only to the handling and care of your seedstock and commercial cattle, but also the education of the next generation.

Over the years, thousands of youngsters have been through our Beef Boot Camp, so they are up-to-speed on where their food comes from and the importance of beef in their diet.

As we gear up for our annual bull test sale, we would like to thank our customers for their loyalty and let them know we are watching our for their future!

Join us for another informative social and seminar the evening prior to the sale with the same great hospitality we are known for.

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Monitoring is Key to Having a Voice,

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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Range School – Winnemucca, NV. Photo by Tina Mudd

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he convention season is in full swing for resource managers across the west. I recently returned from the Nevada Cattlemen’s Convention in Elko, the Nevada Association of Conservation Districts annual meeting in Fallon and the Governor’s Conference on Agriculture feeling energized. While there is no secret that the issues facing the cattle industry in the west are mounting, the overwhelming participation and thoughtful discussion throughout the conventions and conferences sent a clear message. Cattlemen and women in the Great Basin are prepared to maintain their livelihood and culture no matter the obstacles ahead.

The obstacles that face the industry are many, the needed response required by farmers and ranchers starts at home. Producers can no longer remain on the defensive, we must transition to the offensive to demonstrate the positive, necessary and productive impact the cattle industry has on the environment and local economy. As a result, there are a number of key tasks that need to become part of your operation’s plans this year, and in the years to come. If not already doing so, monitoring and documenting what is happening on your allotments or private pastures is key. For example, the National Weather Service may indicate a severe

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drought throughout Nevada. However, were you one of the lucky ones that received above average precipitation? If so, was it documented, how will anyone else ever know? Did you rest a pasture or improve a riparian area? Do you have extra feed in an area your grazing permit is prohibiting you from utilizing because on the BLM database states this area was over utilized and in a drought? How have you documented and tracked these key characteristics that could benefit the decision making process and overall bottom line of your operation?

The above questions are ones we often find ourselves discussing with our federal partners when it comes time to renew our permits or negotiate numbers based on drought. Without documentation and tracking, these items that could be very beneficial to our cause, become heresy because it is not documented.

(Think about a similar conversation with the IRS where you have tax deductions but no receipts!). Without including monitoring and project documentation to you record keeping, our industry cannot validate our story. Keeping range monitoring data should become as critical to your operation as keeping your books and accounting. In order to demonstrate sound management and good stewardship, we must keep record. The increased pressures of endangered species listings,

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diminishing federal budgets, outside influence from interest groups and the threat of reduced aums and access leads us to a place where we as land managers need to become active participants.

It is understood that it is difficult to make time to conduct monitoring and record keeping among all of your other pressing tasks. However, monitoring and data collection may be the very thing that keeps you in business in the near future and protects our industry as a whole in the great basin. Data collection, as simple as consistent photo points can be the difference between an allotment closure or not.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) is working to assist the industry in understanding what is needed for monitoring and how to participate in cooperative monitoring across the state. The Public Lands Council has in place (and is in the process of renewing) a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with both the BLM and US Forest Service for cooperative monitoring. NDA is assisting permittees in establishing their monitoring program and is working to make available field staff to assist in the summer of 2015.

NDA is working with our many partners such as the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Nevada Association of Conservation Districts and the Natural Resource Conservation Service with the ultimate goal of providing the landowner the tools to maintain their own monitoring programs over time.

What do you need to get started? First and foremost, in order to comply with the Cooperative Monitoring Agreement MOU, you must have an agreed upon monitoring plan. If an Allotment Management Plan exists, it is recommended that the monitoring plan become part of it. If you do not have a monitoring plan, please contact your BLM or USFS contact to establish one. If a monitoring plan does not exists, but existing monitoring sites, do; at a minimum start by going back to those points.

If a monitoring plan exists, obtain a copy of the plan and the locations (with associated data collected for each location) of each monitoring plot or trend line. Include any photo documentation that may be available. If no monitoring has been complete to date, contact your regional Conservation District Representative, NDA or Extension to begin working to identify appropriate locations. Your federal agency representative should be part of this discussion because it will likely lead to an approved monitoring plan. It is essential that your monitoring program has mutually agreed upon objectives (between your operation and your agency, if private ground, set goals for yourself to make improivements). For example; Increase the length of the creek covered by willow canopies or other riparian shrubs and grasses from 20% 2015 to 60% by 2025 or increase riparian species from 80 % Pose, Juncus to 50% Carex, salix by 2020.

Regardless of a monitoring plan in place, begin documenting important influences on your operation, rain and snow fall, fires, horses on a riparian area that is closed to cattle etc, turnout dates and pasture usage is key. Dates and times are essential, photos and written notes add an additional level of validation to your record keeping. Purchase a home weather station that you can track precipitation and wind weather patterns (some connect right to your computer for instant down load and cost anywhere from $39.00 to $180.00).

These weather stations are great for those of us who do not have time to document the weather each day.

Once you have an agreed upon monitoring plan from your local federal management office, NDA is scheduling monitoring workshops on a first come first serve basis. If you are interested in getting assistance with self-monitoring and establishing monitoring plots on private lands, NDA is developing a program to assist. What we require is: if you are requesting our services, we are requesting that you bring your neighbors or other interested ranchers so we can train as many of our producers as possible in each trip. Also, you must have contacted your federal agency for existing monitoring data and have it available when we arrive.

NDA also encourages you to participate in the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Range Management Schools. It is vital that we continue to educate ourselves on what we are being required when utilizing public lands and be proactive in the decisions being made on our operations. The Range Management School and associated workshops give producers the tools to take an active role in working with the federal agency representatives to make positive impacts on the range. If you do the work, it makes it much easier for the representative to return to the office and support your approach.

Establishing a monitoring program is much more than tedious data collection. It is s tool which can be utilized as key input to decision making, assists in making management adjustments and provides the ability to prove that there is not better steward of the land than the Great Basin ranching community.

This article is a 50,000 foot view of what needs to happen when establishing a monitoring program. However, it is our goal to get each and every one of our producers to establish a monitoring objective and plan. Reach out to your BLM representative on federal ground, or a partner such as the Conservation District, Extension Office or NDA for private pastures to assist with getting started! Don’t wait, start today!

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Sorensen’s 7th Annual Club Pig Sale

by Doren & Tyson Sorensen, Fallon, Nevada

If you pulled up to the Dry Gulch Saloon in Fallon, NV on Jan. 3, 2015, you were probably not looking for a watering hole, even though there was a concession stand inside!! That’s right, the father and son team held their 7th Annual Club Pig Sale on that day! Forty Five feeder pigs were penned in the Saloon, up for auction to the highest 4-H or FFA bidder! These hogs were bred to finish in time for the various County Jr. Livestock Shows and also the Nevada Jr. Livestock show!!

Viewing started at 11:30 which gave kids and their parents time to look over the hogs before the sale started!! The sale started at 1:00 p.m. but before the sale started, the Sorensen team was surprised by an award entitled; “Friend of 4-H Service Award.” It was presented to Doren and Tyson by Scott Betz, who is a 4-H Leader for the Hog Club in Washoe County! The award was in appreciation for the service we provide in offering a source for kids to obtain their Show animals! It’s nice when people recognize the long hours that go into producing a sale like this!

32 Buyers signed up to bid on 45 hogs. All pigs sold as the gavel dropped for the 45th pig!!

The sale averaged $230 per pig. Top selling pig was $390 and the bottom pig sold for $140.

The hogs ranged in weight from 34 lbs. to 75lbs. All hogs were sold by the head! Minimum bid was $100.

We start planning for the sale in June of each year! We have to determine how many sows to breed and what boars we want to use! Most of our pigs are bred artificially with cold-ship semen from the top boars in the country! Our semen came from “Lean Value Sires” and “Swine Genetics International!” You can find these breeders online. Getting the sows bred is usually difficult because of the heat at the end of June and 1st part of July! Those are our breeding dates. The next difficulty is farrowing the sows as the weather starts to turn cold! Overlay and sickness is the biggest reason for loss of the baby pigs. We try to have enough baby pigs born to select 45 good pigs for our sale each year! This year’s prices were good, and it makes it so we can stay in the business and provide a new set of hogs for the kids next year!!

Our most famous buyer was Wendy Damonte, news anchor for KTVN Chanel Two News.

She was there with her husband Darrin helping their two children bid on their pigs! We want to thank everyone who came, and look forward to seeing you all next year!!

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BLM Gives Rangeland Stewardship Award for Collaboration to Burley Landscape Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Project

BLM recognizes partners of the Burley Landscape Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Project with the Rangeland Stewardship Award for Collaboration. Partners include Natural Resources Conservation Service, Pheasants Forever, Idaho Department of Fish and Game and 37 permittee allotment holders Twin Falls, ID. – This week the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hosted an award ceremony in Burley to recognize the partners involved with the Burley Landscape Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Project (Project). Just last fall, BLM recognized the Project by granting it the Rangeland Stewardship Award for collaboration during the Public Lands Foundation’s annual meeting in Colorado.

This award ceremony offered the opportunity to recognize all of those involved in the project that weren’t able to travel to Colorado to accept the award. The project partners include the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Pheasants Forever, Idaho Department of Fish and Game and

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BLM Idaho State Director Tim Murphy presents the Bureau of Land Management’s Rangeland Stewardship Award for Collaboration to l to r: Elliot Traher, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Scott Scroggie, Pheasants Forever, Mike Courtney, Twin Falls District BLM

37 livestock grazing permittees.

Born out of a local sage-grouse working group meeting, Burley BLM Wildlife Biologist Jeremy Bisson and NRCS District Conservationist Elliot Traher put their heads together for ways they could cross land ownership boundaries and budgets to develop a truly landscape level approach for habitat restoration.

The Project manages encroaching Utah juniper which improves or maintains habitat at a landscape level for sagegrouse and other wildlife. The expansion of juniper is a natural process normally controlled by fire. However, fire suppression efforts over the years may have allowed expan-

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sion in areas not historically occupied by juniper.

To date, approximately 14,700 acres have been treated in the Jim Sage Mountain area south of Albion, and another 14,000 acres are scheduled for treatment in the next 3-5 years. According to Dustin Smith, Burley Field Office Fire Ecologist, “This project has enjoyed significant success in large part due to the innovative partnerships and sources of funding including the Healthy Lands Initiative. Our lean budgets and scarce resources have encouraged the formation of some great partnerships, allowing us to accomplish far more than we ever could have had we attempted this on our own.”

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SOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT Assessment of the Horse Creek Conservation Seeding Charlie D. Clements, Dan Harmon, Mark Weltz, Robert Blank and Don Henderson

Rangeland Scientist, Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 920 Valley Road Reno, NV 89512 charlie.clements@ars.usda.gov Agricultural Research Science Technician, Rangeland Management Specialist, Soil Scientist | US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Senior Range Specialist, Resource Concepts Inc.

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and the associated fuels and wildfire dangers. In cooperation with USDA-ARS Range and Forage Pasture Unit in Logan, Utah and the University Nevada we researched potential techniques to rehabilitate these degraded big sagebrush habitats. Our hope was to decrease cheatgrass densities, reduce wildfire risks, and improve wildlife and livestock forage. The Horse Creek Ranch provided 80 acres of land to conduct a number of treatments and trials. The site was dominated by sparse decadent big sagebrush with an understory of cheatgrass that was at high risk of fire (Figure 1).

The site was divided to accommodate different research trials. Ten acres was fenced off as an un-grazed control while 30 acres was disked in the fall of 2010 and received 3 separate seeding trials; 1) plant material testing of 18 species (Table 1) and seed mix trials (native, introduced and native/ introduced mix) using a no-till drill, 2) larger conservation seeding using a rangeland drill and seeding of Siberian wheatgrass (Agropyron fragila ssp. sibiricum) (4 lbs/acre rate), ‘Hycrest’ crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) (4 lbs/acre rate) and and ‘High Plains’ bluegrass (Poa secunda) (1 lb/acre rate), and 3) testing the broadcast and no-till drill seeding of fresh-current year-vs- 1-yearcold storage ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia (Bassia prostrata ssp. virescens) seeded at 2 lbs/acre rate. The remaining 40 acres was set aside for future trials following lessons learned from the 2010 trials.

Plant Material Testing and Seed Mix Trials were applied in early October 2010 using 10 native species and 8 introduced species (Table 1) with a no-till drill.

Fall precipitation was very favorable, 0.90” in Table 1. Species seeded in Plant Material Testing plots.

October and another 0.60” in November, which Species Seeding Rate; lbs/ac. led to late fall/early winter germination and par‘Hycrest’ Crested Wheatgrass 7 tial emergence of most seeded species. Seedling

n-going management of western rangelands is critically important in providing future habitats and grazing resources for the multiple resource demands on these rangelands. Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)/bunchgrass communities that have been invaded by the exotic and invasive annual, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) require pro-active management to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. The introduction of cheatgrass has increased the chance, rate, spread and season of wildfires and with each passing wildfire season more and more big sagebrush/bunchgrass habitats are converted to annual grass dominance. Cheatgrass is not considered forage on public lands managed by Federal Agencies, therefore, the invasion of cheatgrass along with the decrease of perennial grasses and restrotation grazing systems has resulted in the build-up of herbaceous fuels that are often dominated by the fine-textured early maturing cheatgrass. These fuel build-ups are one lightning strike away from the start of a catastrophic wildfire that can completely burn entire mountain ranges.

In the summer of 2010, the Great Basin Rangeland Research Unit, USDA, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS-GBRRU) was approached by the Wildfire Conservation Group and Poncho McErguiaga of the Horse Creek Ranch located in the King’s River Valley of northern Nevada to address the rehabilitation of degraded big sagebrush habitats in an effort to decrease cheatgrass densities

Siberian Wheatgrass

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emergence peaked in May 2011 with the introduced grass species Siberian wheatgrass and ‘Ephraim’ crested wheatgrass having the highest seedling counts, 9.2/ft² and 8.8/ ft², respectfully. The native species that performed the best were ‘Whitmar’ beardless wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis) at 1.3/ft² and Thickspike wheatgrass (Elymus lanceolatus) at 1.2/ft². No native shrubs (e.g. fourwing saltbush, shadscale) were recorded to have emerged.

Native forbs also did very poorly as Lewis flax (Linum lewisii) peaked at 0.3/ft² in April 2011 but was absent from the seeding plots by June 2011. Introduced forbs, ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia and ‘Snowstorm’ forage kochia (Bassia prostrata ssp. grisea) having an initial emergence of 0.5/ft² and 1.8/ft², respectfully, showed promise. Drought has a significant impact on seedling mortality and the precipitation received at the site in July (0.18”) and August 2011 (0.06”) caused major mortality as seedling counts decreased dramatically. By September 2011, Siberian wheatgrass had been reduced to 1/ft², ‘Ephraim’ crested wheatgrass was 0.8/ft² while Thickspike wheatgrass was not recorded and ‘Whitmar’ beardless wheatgrass was reduced to 0.2/ft². By September 2012 we recorded the established plants from the plant material testing plots with Siberian wheatgrass, 1/ft², leading the way and ‘Ephraim’ crested wheatgrass reduced to 0.5/ft². ‘Snowstorm’ forage kochia established at 0.5/ft² while ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia established at 0.2/ ft². Loss of forage kochia is mitigated by its’ the ability to propagate successfully within its’ community. This allows this species to increase in density within the seeded area over-time. ‘Snowstorm’ is a fairly new release that is of the gray-form of forage kochia and grows at a taller stature than ‘Immigrant’, which is the green-form of forage kochia.

Snowstorm was evaluated and developed as a synthetic cul-

Figure 1. Horse Creek Conservation Seeding site prior to weed control and seeding applications. Notice the cheatgrass fuel.

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Figure 2. The establishment of long-lived perennial grasses and forage kochia following weed control practices and proper seeding methodology. Notice the decrease in cheatgrass fuel.

tivar using two cycles of recurrent selection for stature, forage production, and adaptation to semiarid environments. ‘Snowstorm’ was compared with the “Immigrant’ forage kochia and other ARS experimental forage kochia populations.

Research has shown that ‘Immigrant’ can increase rangeland productivity three- to six-fold and provides critical protein during the fall and winter for livestock and wildlife; however, ‘Immigrant’ is easily covered by snow because of its short stature. In field comparisons ‘Snowstorm’ was similar to ‘Immigrant’ in establishment and adaptation on semiarid rangelands but was 64% taller, produced 68% more forage, and had a 22% higher protein content and 4% higher digestibility. The “native” seed mix, which included ‘Secar’ bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), Sherman big bluegrass (Poa ampla), Four-wing saltbush (Atriplex confortifolia), Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis) and western yarrow (Achillea mellefolium var. occidentalis), was largely a complete failure as no native shrubs or forbs were

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Figure 3. Cheatgrass was mowed in June 2011 on plots to aid in monitoring. Notice the perennial grass density.

recorded and the native grasses peaked at 0.7/ft² and established at 0.1/ft². The introduced mix of ‘Hycrest’ crested wheatgrass, ‘Bozoisky’ Russian wildrye (Psathrostachys juncea) and ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia peaked at 1.7 perennial grasses/ft², 0.8 forage kochia/ft² and established at 0.4 perennial grasses/ft² and 0.3 kochia/ft². The seed mix of native and introduced species consisted of ‘Hycrest’ crested wheatgrass, Thickspike wheatgrass, ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia, four-wing saltbush, Wyoming big sagebrush, western yarrow and small burnet (Sanguisorba minor) resulted in a perennial grass peak of 2.4/ft² and established at 0.5/ft², which was largely made up of ‘Hycrest’ crested wheatgrass. Small burnet and ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia emerged and peaked at 0.6/ft² but only established at 0.3/ ft². None of the seeded shrubs were recorded in these plots.

The Larger Conservation Seeding yielded various results depending on site locations.

The lower end of the 80 acre conservation field had a very hard time establishing plants (0.2/ft²) as a result of past disturbances from farming practices and active ground squirrel

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disturbances. The rest of the conservation field did, however, experience good results.

As mentioned before, fall germination of a portion of the seed from the seeded species did occur as well as fall germination of cheatgrass. Seeded species emergence peaked in May 2011 with 8.8 perennial grasses/ft² and 1.3 forage kochia/ft². By September 2012 the conservation seeding had established 2.6 perennial grasses/ft² (‘Hycrest’ crested wheatgrass, Siberian wheatgrass and ‘High Plains’ bluegrass) and 0.6 ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia/ft² (Figure 2). In May 2011, the conservation seeding averaged 18.4 cheatgrass/ ft², by May 2014 this average was reduced to 2.4 cheatgrass/ft². This represents an 870% reduction in cheatgrass densities, which can partially be attributed to the establishment of long-lived perennial grasses and ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia on the site. In June 2011 the conservation seeding site yielded 2,069 lbs./acre of dry cheatgrass fuel (10.49” of annual precipitation), by June 2014 the site yielded 148 lbs./acre of cheatgrass fuel (6.7” of annual precipitation), a 930% decrease in cheatgrass fuel. The control plots yielded 1,591 lbs./acre of cheatgrass fuel in 2014. The establishment of seeded species, especially long-lived perennial grasses is largely responsible for this decrease in cheatgrass fuels.

‘Immigrant’ forage kochia cold storage –vs- fresh seed trials resulted in some important information as well. Plots were set up by which 1-year old cold-storage ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia seed was seeded with a no-till drill and by broadcasting off of an ATV at 2 lbs./acre rate and compared side by side using the same methodologies with freshly collected seed. The idea here was to test whether there was enough of a difference to justify having to wait for freshly harvest ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia seed to be available, which can delay seeding applications or perhaps result in added applications of broadcasting kochia seed at a later date. For example, this last fall of 2014, we seeded many sites, yet current year forage kochia seed was not ready on the market do to wet and windy weather that delayed seed collections. By using cold-storage seed you can eliminate this limitation. There was no significant difference in broadcasting versus no-till drill methodologies. The freshly collected ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia seed source resulted in 0.73/ft² while the 1-year old cold-storage seed source resulted in 0.48/ft². Because forage kochia does such a good job of propagating within its community (seeded area), there was no significant difference after two years as both seed source plots ranged from 0.37/ft² - 0.91ft², averaging 0.78/ft². The ability to test a variety of plant materials and seeding methodologies in an effort to establish desirable species in rehabilitation efforts with the cooperation of stakeholders and the common goal of reducing cheatgrass densities and fuel loads was an excellent experience in this conservation seeding endeavor.

The simple fact that the stakeholder and other interested parties were on-hand to witness the various problems that are encountered during rehabilitation efforts as well as livestock management that needs to be addressed is truly a blessing and bridge builder, as both us the researchers and them the private industry came away with a better understanding and appreciation for the others profession. In our view, the cooperation with private landowners is critical as we can work hand-in-hand together for a common goal and apply these learnings in an on-the-ground setting. In this specific circumstance, Poncho McErguiaga was in desperate need of trying to address the dangers of cheatgrass fueled wildfires that threaten his life, property and means of making a living. The ability to witness first-hand how difficult it can be to establish seeded species and to personally witness seedling mortality and how slowly these plants take to get established, grow and actively suppress cheatgrass is a lesson worth learning. In July 2011, Poncho had a conversation with us about how he wanted to put some of his cattle on the conservation seeding because he was told the seeding was a failure as the site was dominated by cheatgrass. We took Poncho to the site and walked the plots, and once we showed him seedlings of the seeded species he became very pleased. We actually had to mow cheatgrass to aid in our monitoring efforts, and once the litter blew away our seeded species were green and dense in the understory (Figure 3). With this growing relationship has come the opportunity for USDA-ARS-GBRRU to investigate the influence of fall grazing on perennial grass and cheatgrass densities at the site which was initiated in the fall of 2014.

A special thank you goes out to Poncho McErguiaga of the Horse Creek Ranch and Jan Schade of the Wildfire Conservation Group for their efforts in this conservation seeding.

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Nevada’s Priority Agricultural Weeds: Brad Schultz, Extension Educator, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Winnemucca, Nevada.

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Bull Thistle

ull thistle (Cirsiumvulgare) is a non-native biennial forb (wild flower) that arrived in Western North America from Europe in the late 1800’s.

This weed probably arrived as an agricultural contaminant and new populations spread slowly east and south of the point of origin in Oregon. Bull thistle can be found in all 50 states and in every Canadian Province that boarders the United States.

Bull thistle is primarily an upland species (i.e., non-riparian) that is well adapted to disturbed and degraded sites on the landscape. This includes roadsides, fence lines, eroded gullies, ephemeral washes, ditch banks, vacant lots, waste areas, and Figure 1. Bull thistle plant with many overgrazed pastures and rangelands. Bull thistle solitary flower heads at the end of the prefers disturbed areas and even small disturbances such as gopher mounds, ground squirrel reproductive stems. The leaves are diggings, and badger burrows can facilitate esdeeply lobed with spines along the tablishment. The weed proliferates on soils with margins, particularly at the tip of the high nitrogen content but shows little relationships lobes. Photo from Graham et al. 2005. with soil levels for phosphorus or potassium. Bull UNCE fact sheet 05-03. thistle is not a riparian species, but in may readily inhabit degraded riparian areas where the water table has been lowered. It readily inhabits damp but not saturated soil.

When bull thistle occurs in pasture and rangeland it can outcompete desired forage plants, reducing site productivity. Just over 13% of the public land managers in Nevada rated bull thistle as a problematic weed on public lands. For agricultural producers, 17.3% rated it a serious problem.

Geographically, bull thistle causes more concern for producers in the western (30%) and northeastern portions (26%) of the state. Bull thistle is present in the central counties of Humboldt, Pershing, and Churchill Counties, but is considered problematic by less than 10% of their agricultural producers. The weed is considered slightly more problematic by agricultural producers in Lyon (11.6%) and Lincoln Counties (about 15% of producers).

Plant Biology

Bull thistle is biennial plant, and like all biennial plants only reproduces from seed. All biennial plants live for two growing seasons. The seed may germinate in either the spring or fall when soil moisture is adequate, and the plant forms a basal rosette of leaves during its first growing season. Bull thistle develops a tap root to over 2 feet deep and this root extracts soil moisture deeper soil layers throughout the long dry summer season. The rosette leaves go dormant during the winter months and regrowth occurs the following spring from buds on the root crown. During the second growing season the plant bolts anytime from late spring through the summer, producing reproductive stems that may become 2 to 6 feet tall. A stressed bull thistle plant may produce only one flower head, while large unstressed plants may have over 400 flower heads, but 10 to 200 flower heads per plant is most common. On average, each a flower head will produce about 100 seeds; thus, most plants produce from 1,000 to 20,000 seeds.

From 20 to 75% of these seeds may be dormant when dispersed, but about 90% will germinate within one year. Seed located near the soil surface develops a transient or very small persistent seed bank.

Soil type and the amount of shade at the soil surface appear to affect seed longevity for seed that resides between the soil surface and one-inch deep. Seed on the surface of sandy soil (with little shade cover) or buried one-inch deep in sandy soil generally does not persist longer than six months.

In contrast, on clay loam soils, seed on the soil surface in a shaded environment, or buried one-inch deep, had 2 to 14% viability after 30 months. Over 50% of the seed buried at least six inches deep can remain viable for three years and perhaps longer. When light declines to less than 40% of full sunlight, bull thistle populations typically decline and may approach complete control. The reduction in bull thistle’s germination rate with declining sunlight at the soil surface clearly demonstrates the value of having a tall and dense stand of perennial grasses or crop species on a site. Canopy gaps in the vegetation increase the emergence and establishment of bull thistle, especially when those gaps are at least 4 to 8 inches or larger in diameter.

Wind is a primary seed dispersal mechanism for bull thistle, but 66 to 90% of the seed usually lands within 7 feet of the mother plant. About 10% of the seed often disperses to distances greater than 90 feet. Long distance dispersal may occur when seed attaches to the hide of livestock and wildlife, or is moved long distances by vehicles and farm equipment (often in mud in attached mud or flower heads in the undercarriage), contaminated crop products, or flowing water.

Control Approaches

Long-term control of a bull thistle infestation requires eliminating seed production long enough to deplete the soil seedbank, while also preventing the introduction of seed from nearby and/or distant populations. Once control occurs, the site must be occupied by a dense vigorous stand of either desired perennial grasses (pasture or rangeland) or crop species. The shade provided by a dense stand of desired

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vegetation is the best initial defense to reducing the risk of an infestation of bull thistle. There are a suite of non-chemical and chemical treatments that are available to control bull thistle and long-term control probably will involve an integrated approach that applies multiple methods in sequence and/or combination. There is no single recipe available: all properties and infestations are different and will require place-based solutions.

Non-chemical

Any mechanical treatment that completely severs the taproot below the soil surface kill bull thistle plants as long as as there are no leaves left attached to the root crown and root system. After a mechanical treatment, if any leaves have a vascular system that is still attached to the root system, the plant probably will regrow and produce flowers and seed. All mechanical treatments must occur before the flower heads emerge. Observations in California found that bull thistle plants whose stems were severed from the tap root at the soil surface only a few days after the flowers emerged still produced abundant viable seed from the stems and attached flower heads left on the ground.

Mowing may be an effective treatment but it must be timed to occur just before flowering, or no more than a couple days after the flowers appear. Mower blades typically cannot be placed close enough to the soil surface to remove all bull thistle leaves which allows most mowed plants to regrow, especially when soil moisture levels do not limit regrowth. Mowing after flowers have formed does not prevent them from developing viable seed, despite the stem being severed from the root. Repeated mowing treatments are often needed because most bull thistle populations have plants with a wide range of maturity stages. Individual plants often produce flowers and seed many weeks apart from one another. One mowing treatment may control seed production on some plants but will only delay production on others.

Livestock grazing is not considered a viable control option. Bull thistle’s leaves have many spines along the leaf margins and this dramatically reduces its palatability. There is some anecdotal evidence that goats and perhaps sheep can provide some control, but at best it only reduces plant size, density and reproductive output. Grazing works tends to work best when it is one component of an integrated management approach, and often is most effective when it’s combined with an herbicide treatment.

When applied as a stand-alone treatment, at least three successive years of grazing are needed to reduce bull thistle populations. Grazing management of bull thistle infested sites must be managed to ensure the grazing animal targets (harms) the weed and benefits the desired forage species that must increase when bull thistle declines. When desired forage species on pastures and rangeland are routinely heavily grazed there is in an increased probability that bull thistle will establish or existing populations will increase. The ability of fire to control bull thistle is unclear. Young and rapidly growing plants (rosette to bolting growth stages) are often quite green and have a high moisture contents. Associated vegetation may burn, but good combustion of the green bull thistle is unlikely. Targeted flaming with intense, sustained and focused heat can successfully control newly emerged seedlings or rosettes but often is less applicable to large widespread infestations, or where the fire may spread rapidly from the targeted plants. Mature bull thistle plants will burn quite easily but some may have already dispersed a significant portion of their seed. Fire, however, is a useful tool to remove standing dead material to improve herbicide applications to seedlings or rosettes the next growing season. Seedling emergence increases under high sunlight conditions; thus, the removal of standing dead material may increase seedling emergence, creating an opportunity for significant seedling control and reducing the size of the seedbank. The response of bull thistle populations after a fire appears linked to how the of desired perennial grasses respond to the fire. Fires which promote a dense vigorous stand of tall grasses appear to help reduce bull thistle, while fires that reduce shading and increase bareground are more likely to promote the weed. Most bull thistle seeds on or close to the soil surface are probably killed by fire. Only about 6% will survive a soil temperature of 212°F for 15 minutes. Buried seeds are likely to survive most fires. Burning also can be a valuable seedbed preparation treatment when it removes plant litter that could adversely affect the seeding of desired species.

Biological control of bull thistle has had limited success. A bud/seed weevil (Rhinocyllus conicus) has become widely established but generally has poor effectiveness. The stem gall fly, Urophora cardui, appears to have had variable success. Reports range from little to good effectiveness. Two additional insects include a stem fly (Cheilosia corydon) and a root weevil (Trichosirocalus horridus) but their respective effectiveness is largely unknown. Evidence suggests that bio-controls are ineffective as a stand-alone treatment, and if used, should always be part of an integrated treatment program.

Chemical Control

There are at least 14 active ingredients labeled for application to bull thistle in Nevada (Table 1), and at least 162 potential products available. Many of these products are pre-mixed packages that include at least one of the 14 active ingredients shown in Table 1, and one or more other active ingredients – many of which are labeled for either bull thistle or other weeds that often grow in conjunction with bull thistle. Most, but not all of the active ingredients in Table 1 are selective herbicides, and across all of the potential active ingredients there are varying levels of residual activity. Generally there are at least a couple products available for most of Nevada’s major crops, wildland settings and non-crop environments.

Most herbicides, even those with a strong soil residual, control bull thistle best when they are applied postemergence at the rosette stage. Some are also effective at the bolting growth stage. Any herbicide application should ensure that there is enough soil moisture in the ground for bull thistle to continue rapid growth for at least several weeks after the herbicide is applied. This ensures that the ac-

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tive ingredient is moved (translocated) from the leaf surface to the plant’s growing points that produce the leaves, bolting reproductive stems or flower heads. Death of these buds is critical for killing and controlling the weed.

For a foliar systemic herbicide treatment to be effective the leaves must be actively photosynthesizing, and photosynthesis requires adequate soil moisture and warm temperatures. The mere presence of green leaves in late summer or early fall does not guarantee the plant is photosynthesizing and moving carbohydrates to the growing points. Herbicide applications to green plants under dry soil conditions, or in a prolonged period of cold temperatures, are less successful than applications when the soil is moist and air temperatures warm. Soil moisture should remain adequate for several weeks after herbicide application to facilitate herbicide movement to all growing points.

No single active ingredient listed in Table 1 is the best herbicide for all bull thistle infestations. Every infestation has some unique characteristic and herbicide selection should be based on site-specific conditions. Some factors to consider are: 1) do you need an herbicide that is selective and not going to adversely affect the residual desired species that occupy the site; 2) are your short- and mid-term management objectives compatible with a chemical that leaves the soil with a residual amount of the active ingredient; 3) what will bull thistles’ growth stage(s) be when you have the time to fit an herbicide treatment into your overall farming or ranching operation; 4) can you make the commitment to any follow-up treatment that is needed; and 5) consider using active ingredients with different modes of action (i.e., killing mechanism) when chemical treatments will occur for several consecutive years, to

reduce the risk of selecting for herbicide resistant biotypes.

Any weed control and management program for bull thistle should use an integrated approach that applies two or more methods of weed control. Very seldom does a single approach work long-term.

Furthermore, all approaches, except for the purposeful management of an area for bare-ground, must consider how to establish and/or increase the desired species on an infested site. A dense, vigorous stand of desired perennial grasses (or crop species) provides the best opportunity to prevent the rapid large scale establishment of bull thistle. Tall and dense desired vegetation reduces the amount of sunlight that reaches the soil surface and also results in large root systems that acquire most of the available soil moisture. High sunlight and high levels of available soil moisture both facilitate the germination of bull thistle seed and subsequent seedling establishment.

If your property is susceptible to bull thistle becoming established, periodically scout the area to find the initial (and often few) colonizers, and eliminate them before they produce abundant seed. Early detection of bull thistle and a rapid response to the first few plants that establish provides the best opportunity to prevent large scale establishment and a costly multi-year treatment program.

An important question of any herbicide treatment is, was I successful? Your level of success cannot be determined until at least the middle of the first growing season after your treatment is applied.

The effectiveness of an herbicide treatment on any weed that can develop a seedbank that persists two or more years should not be judged as a complete success until no plants have occurred for the duration of time in which seed can survive in the soil.

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Milestone

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Chlorsulfuron

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Plateau, NuFarm

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MCPA Dimethylamine salt or 2-ethylhexyl ester

MCPA Rhomene MCPA Shredder MCPA

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Metsulfuron- methyl*

Ally, Escort, Patriot

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Table 1. The list below identifies the active ingredients and many of representative products known to control bull thistle in the landscape settings and crops for which the active ingredient is labeled. Use the information in this table to determine the potential active ingredients for your specific needs. Product selection should occur only after the applicator has read all current product labels and identified the appropriate products for their specific situation. Many of the active ingredients listed in this table are available in pre-mixed formulations with other active ingredients. Those pre-mixed packages (products) are not listed in this table. A complete list of all active ingredients and products labeled to control Bull thistle can be searched for at the CDMS (http://www.cdms.net/LabelsMsds/LMDefault.aspx?pd=7607&t=) and Greenbook (http://www.greenbook.net/) websites. The order of chemicals below does not reflect any preference or efficacy. Across the spectrum of available products, some may only suppress bull thistle (generally means no seed production).

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Yes

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Postemergence from rosette to bolting but before buds form

Yes

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Postemergence from rosette through early bud stages

Listing a commercial herbicide does not imply an endorsement by the authors, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension or its personnel. Product names were used only for ease of reading, not endorsement.

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ello from the Humboldt Watershed CWMA! The HWCWMA was developed to address the invasive weed problem and subsequent decline in water quality within the entire 16,843 square mile watershed, which covers most of Northern Nevada. The primary function of HWCWMA has been to provide land managers, owners and weed control groups assistance in the areas of funding, agency and weed group coordination and cooperation.

This month we would like to introduce you to a plant that is not currently listed as one of Nevada’s state listed noxious weeds, but has shown itself to be highly invasive. Curly dock or Rumex crispus is a perennial weed that is a member of the buckwheat family.

It is native to Eurasia and was first observed in the United States during the 18th century. Habitats include seeps, glades, weedy meadows (including areas prone to occasional flooding), pastures and fallow fields, vacant lots, roadside banks and gravelly areas along railroads, edges of yards and gardens, and miscellaneous waste areas.

Disturbed areas are preferred.

This adventive perennial plant is 1–3’ tall and little branched, except where the flowers occur. Initially, it consists of a rosette of basal leaves about 1’ across. A flowering stalk bolts from this rosette during the late spring. This stalk is round in circumference, hairless, and ribbed. The alternate upper leaves are up to 6” long and 1” across (excluding their petioles). They are oblong-lanceolate, hairless, and dull green. Their margins are crisped and undulate up and down. Their petioles are up to 2” long, becoming broader at the base. The basal leaves have a similar appearance, except that they are somewhat larger in size, their petioles are longer, and their margins are less crisped or wavy. The inflorescence or flower head consists of a panicle of racemes with whorls of flowers; it is about ½–1½’ long. Each plant has perfect female flowers that are pollinated by the wind.

Control Methods: Application Timing: Use lower rates when weeds are small and

actively growing. Use higher rate on larger plants but prior to bolting.

• 2.0 to 2.5 ounces per acre of Chaparral™ herbicide • 1.5 to 2.1 pints per acre of GrazonNext® HL herbicide • 1.5 to 2.1 pints per acre of ForeFront® HL herbicide • 2.0 pints per acre of Grazon® P+D herbicide Tillage: Uprooting, chopping, and then burying the taproots will control curly dock (that is why curly dock is not a problem in tilled cropping systems). Using a shovel to remove the crown about 2-inches below the soil surface is also effective.

Mowing: Mowing will prevent seed production and reduce top growth.

Pulling: Hand or mechanical pulling are effective ways to remove curly dock weeds. Individual curly dock plants can be successfully eliminated from crop areas quite easily, so long as at least 2/3 of the tap root is removed. Dig deeply or pull gently to ensure that the tap-roots are removed to prevent re-sprouting. This should take place once the flower stem lengthens but before flowering.

Grazing: Livestock do not readily eat the plant, so grazing simply reduces competition and enables curly dock to establish or spread.

As always, please notify the HWCWMA if you see curly dock Flower Head growing within the Humboldt River Watershed. We have an opportunity to stop invasive species from spreading if we act quickly and our staff can provide the property owner or appropriate public agency with site-specific treatment options for these plants. The HWCWMA also maps and monitors heavily infested sites in the watershed which allows the HWCWMA the ability to provide educational and financial assistance to land owners and groups in their management efforts, ultimately improving all of the qualities of the land and water in our watershed.

The HWCWMA has also developed a website to serve as a clearinghouse for information on invasive Leaves weeds in the Humboldt Watershed. Our website (http:// www.humboldtweedfree.org) contains fact sheets for state listed noxious weeds in Nevada, Board of Director’s information, funding partner’s links, and many more features including a detailed project proposal packet that you can print, fill out and mail back to us at your convenience. We are looking to expand our project area outside of the Humboldt River and always welcome new funding opportunities.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Andi Porreca, HWCWMA Coordinator at (775) 762-2636 or email her at aporreca@humboldtweedfree.org. You may also speak with Rhonda Heguy, HWCWMA AdminHometown Solutions_EighthPageAd_sans.pdf 1 7/21/11 2:21 PM Plant istrator at (775) 738-3085, email: hwcwma@gmail.com.

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Look Up! Look to Jesus!

eana named this column “Look Up”. I love it. Our articles are known as “Cow Country Church” to our email subscribers. Look Up! It’s never been more important than right now to look up and get our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. In these times, our lives, and the lives of our loved ones, may depend on us keeping our eyes on Jesus and His miracle-working, supernatural power.

We need to search out the promises of God in the Bible and make them ours. Then when we get in a jam and get squeezed, what comes out of our mouths is the Word, not worldly trash. This took some learning on my part. I had to get the world out of me and fill my spirit with the Word of God. I was like a rank bronc; after I felt the spurs and quirt of the world long enough, I threw my head up long enough to look up and see Jesus. My daughter, Cindy, calls this a “come to Jesus meeting” when she’s working with spoiled horses. But how sweet to have the Word flow out of you when trouble comes — the power of the Living Word.

I had to train myself to dig into the Bible, then train myself to line up with the Word of God. I have to have faith in that Word and make it the final authority in my life. It’s a work in progress. We don’t ride that nice 2-year-old in a snaffle bit one day, then hang a bridle on him the next. No, it takes time, patience and diligence to make that good bridle horse.

The results are wonderful and worth all the effort. With God’s promises in our heart and in our mouths, we become powerful, not pitiful; the answer to someone’s need, not part of the problem.

Here are some of my favorite Bible promises.

New King James Version: Philippians 4:19 – And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Hebrews 4:16 – Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Amplified: Psalm 46:1 – God is our Refuge and Strength, a very present and well-proved help in trouble. (He is our ever present Help in time of need.)

NKJV: This verse changed my life – I Peter 2:24 – Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree (the cross) that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed. Apply it to yourself; apply it to others. By His stripes we were healed. Done deal.

II Timothy 1:7 – For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but (a spirit) of power and of love and of a sound mind. Faith expects the best, fear expects the worst. Faith draws prosperity and provision, fear draws lack.

Isaiah 41:13 – For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you “Fear not, I will help you.”

Mark 11:22 – Jesus said, “Have faith in God.” Romans 10:17 – So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Your faith muscles will grow as you hear the Word of God preached, read and studied.

So let’s not drag our nose in the dust, let’s look up. Let’s look up to the One who died to give us life and life more abundantly (John 10:10). Let’s not be like that 20-year-old circle horse still packing a snaffle bit. Let’s dig into our Bibles and apply its Godly promises to our lives.

Thanks to those who call us with encouragement. Thanks also to Anne Hummel who does my typing and handles the computer for me.

Happy trails. May God richly bless you. We love you and would love to hear from you.

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While health risks to humans are low, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is warning people to avoid contact with sick or dead poultry or wildlife.

Nevada State Veterinarian Michael Greenlee said that the highly pathogenic (HPAI) H5 avian influenza virus has been found in birds in various parts of the world but has not been shown to cause any human infection.

“All bird owners, whether commercial producers or backyard enthusiasts, are encouraged to practice good biosecurity by preventing contact between their birds and wild birds and reporting sick birds or unusual bird deaths to officials,” he said.

If contact occurs, wash hands with soap and water, and change clothing before having any contact with healthy domestic poultry and birds.

USDA APHIS confirmed in December the presence of HPAI in wild birds in Whatcom County, Washington.

HPAI was also found in a small, backyard poultry flock in Oregon.

HPAI would have significant economic impacts if detected in U.S. domestic poultry. Commercial poultry producers should follow strict biosecurity practices and raise their birds in very controlled environments.

Poultry and poultry products, including wild game birds, are safe to eat as long as proper handling and cooking guidelines are followed, Greenlee said.

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CHECKOFF NEWS As a rancher or

Focusing on Beef’s Health Benefits The Nevada Beef Council’s engagement with health and nutrition influencers continued to blossom over the holiday season. In December, the NBC partnered with the Northern Nevada District Dietetic Association (NNDDA) on its holiday mixer. This organization is the leading group of food and nutrition experts in the state of Nevada, with its membership comprised of 400 registered dietitians (RDs), dietetic technicians and nutrition students. As a partner of this group, the NBC provided beef nutrition materials and research, and helped develop the delicious menu that included beef short ribs as the main entrée selection. The NBC is also planning to host a ranch tour in Northern Nevada for NNDDA members in the near future, with the goal of giving them an even greater understanding and awareness of the beef production process.

“Working closely with current and future health and nutrition experts to help them gain a broad understanding of beef nutrition as well as how beef gets from the pasture to plate is an important role we are proud to play on behalf of Nevada ranchers and producers,” says James Winstead, the NBC’s Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist. “Doing so helps ensure these individuals—who can have strong influence on the dietetic practices of others—feel comfortable and secure in recommending beef as part of a healthy diet.”

The NBC also partnered with a running group to put beef front-and-center at a popular Thanksgiving run. The Desert Dash Group, organized by millennial running enthusiasts, had over 350 runners participate in its Turkey Trot Thanksgiving Race last

November. The NBC provided the athletes with beef nutrition information, along with information on how to join Team BEEF Nevada. Team BEEF is a group of endurance athletes that is sponsored by the NBC. Members of this group, both in Nevada and across the country, appreciate and enjoy beef as a recovery food, and help promote beef by wearing “Team BEEF Nevada” jerseys during their athletic events or marathons.

For more information about Team BEEF Nevada, find us on Facebook!

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Helpful Resources for Beef Producers As a rancher or beef producer, there’s no one better equipped to tell our industry’s story to consumers than you. Yet with some of the misperceptions about livestock production that exist today, it can sometimes feel like a daunting task to know just where to start.

There are a number of helpful resources available to producers to provide insight and education on how to be an advocate for the ranching and beef production community.

Here are just a few of the checkoff-funded resources designed for you.

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Combine all ingredients for your selected rub in a small bowl, and press evenly onto your steaks. Then, prepare your steak as you normally would (grill, pan fry, or broil), cooking to 145’F for medium rare, or 160’ for medium.

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News & Updates from the Nevada Beef Council Beef Research For the latest research and white papers on everything from cattle welfare in the United States to the sustainability of beef production, be sure to check out beefissuesquarterly.com.

On this site, you’ll find a variety of helpful, scientific-based articles and studies funded by the Beef Checkoff. The market research you’ll find here provides a fact-based foundation of knowledge that helps guide many of the programs carried out by state beef councils, including the NBC.

Masters of Beef Advocacy 2.0 If you haven’t already taken advantage of the Masters of Beef Advocacy (MBA) program – a free online training program designed for members of the beef community to equip themselves with information they need to answer tough questions about beef production – there’s no better time than now. The program, which has already trained thousands of producers across the country, has recently been revamped and enhanced.

By completing the checkoff-funded MBA 2.0 program, you can learn how to best

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sharpen your beef conversation skills, while honing your knowledge on all aspects of beef production. Topics include environmental sustainability, beef nutrition, animal welfare, beef safety, and more. To apply for the MBA 2.0 program, visit www.beef.org/mastersofbeefadvocacy.aspx.

My Beef Checkoff And lastly, for all things related to the Beef Checkoff – including a variety of useful resources for cattle and beef producers – be sure to visit MyBeefCheckoff.com. You can even sign up for an e-newsletter to have regular industry updates delivered to your e-mail box.

Opportunities to join the Nevada Beef Council The NBC is once again looking for producers interested in joining its board. If you represent the cow-calf, dairy or feeder sectors and would like to serve as a council member, please consider applying. Nevada Beef Council members – who represent every sector of the Nevada beef industry – help guide the NBC team it its efforts to promote the beef industry throughout the state. The council meets in person twice each year and provides feedback and guidance on NBC programs and activities.

For an application, call us at 877-554-BEEF (2333) or e-mail askus@nevadabeef.org.

The NBC hopes to fill the seat later this spring.

Knowing one’s limitation and

accepting their stories, is what tests the maturity of the willow tree.

The wind blows, it bends, the drought arrives, it grows slower. The rain comes the tree digs it roots deeper for the next drought, but the willow can not survive being surrounded by fire. God did not design the willow to be overwhelmed by fire. Either help shows up and puts the fire out, or the tree burns and dies.

The moral of the story—some trees can get to a point they need help or they die.

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The 2014 Western States Ranch Rodeo World Champions Women’s Steer Stopper: Victoria Jackson Open Ranch Rodeo Team: TL Ranch from Idaho Members: John Schutte, Ira Walker, RC Crutcher, Jason Eiguren

Women’s Ranch Rodeo Team: Shoebox Ranch from Idaho Members: Amy Ward, Justine Munns, Coree Shiner Kyndall Tibbits

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he fifth-annual Western States Ranch Rodeo Association National Finals Rodeo was held October 30November 2 at the Winnemucca Events Complex in Winnemucca, Nevada.

The WSRRA National Finals showcased events of the working cowboy and cowgirls.

Throughout 2014, WSRRA sanctioned 41 open ranch rodeos, 15 women’s ranch rodeos and more than 100 ranch bronc 2014 WSRRA All Around Cowboy riding events in 13 Western - Justin Quint States. The top 41 open teams, 15 women’s teams, 15 steer stoppers, and 15 ranch bronc riders competed for cash and prizes at the National Finals. Prizes included Gist Buckles, custom made gear made

by Ricardo’s Saddlery and John Mincer.

The Nationals Finals kicked off with ranch-dog trials, open jack pot roping, open women’s steer stopping, and a big loop roping. The WSRRA big loop winners were RC Crutcher and John Schulte. The WSRRA open jack pot roping winners were Rob Webb and Daxton Jim. The women’s steer stopping winner was Marcia Eiguren.

Friday, October 31, WSRRA kicked off the finals with all the teams working their ranch horses. Friday also started the long go performances. Teams competed in everyday ranch work events; tie down steer roping, trailer loading and team roping. The WSRRA held the first 2014 night performance. The performance highlighted the Grand Marshall, Darlene Loomis from Nebraska, and two rounds of the PWHRA (Professional Wild Horse Racers Association), WSRRA Ranch Bronc riding round 1 and team event competition by the open and women’s teams. Rodeo clown, Tuffy Gessling entertained the crowd with his rope tricks and laughs. Devoted to providing a family atmosphere the WSRRA held a Halloween costume contest during the performance.

After the performance the crowd was invited to join recording artist, Joni Harms for a WSRRA Kickoff Party.

Saturday, November 1, WSRRA held another long go performance which included sort & rope doctoring, and team branding. WSRRA

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National Sponsors, Performix Nutrition and The Boot Barn sponsored a dummy roping contest. Buckles and Jackets were awarded to the kids. As the sun was going down the second evening performance was held.

This performance was full of Wild West action and western traditions. Team events were held for the open and women’s teams, two rounds of PWHRA and WSRRA ranch bronc riding round 2. The crowd again was entertained by Tuffy Gessling.

Saturday ended with year-end and long go awards at the Winners at Winners awards party, music by the Jeff Palmer Band, hosted by the Winners Inn & 2014 WSRRA Champion Ranch Bronc Rider - Travis Yutzie Casino.

Sunday, Nov. 2, WSRRA held the championship round ranch rodeo for the open and the women’s divisions. It was also the final rounds of the PWHRA and ranch bronc riding. Champions were crowned at the end of the performance. The arena was highlighted with talent and traditions of the WSRRA. Devoted to the west and its traditions, the WSRRA succeed in crowning cowboys and cowgirls for their efforts at the finals. Congratulations to all the contestants.

Established in 2010, the WSRRA is becoming the most popular ranch rodeo circuits for cowboys and cowgirls. The association currently has more than 650 members.

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• Different results for different sectors — Different sectors within the financial markets may respond in different ways to low oil prices, even if the overall effect is generally positive. For example, businesses such as consumer goods companies and Ranch Properties now available auto manufacturers may respond favorHeard Ranch/Farm: Diamond Valley 173 acres with Morrison Ranch-Eureka County: 160 acres with ably to cheaper oil and gas. But the picture Irrigation well only $195,000. well in Antelope Valley. $280,000. might be quite a bit different for energy Elko Co. 10,706 deeded with BLM Sheep permit: Ruby Valley: 1136 deeded acres of which apcompanies.

These private sections are in the checkerboard area prox. 129 acres have water rights. On paved State You could spend a lot of time and effort and are intermingled with public lands. The ranch has Rt.229. Only 45 minutes from Elko. Good summer trying to adjust your investment portfolio in historically been a Spring Sheep range. The BLM range. Would make a great place to live! Price: response to low oil prices. In fact, you may permit is only 29% public lands. Price includes 50% $700,000 well want to consult with your financial proof the mineral rights on all but 320 acres. Oil & Gas Current Mountain Ranch: Wanting to own a self Lease might pay a big portion of the purchase! fessional to determine which moves might sustaining property where you grow all you need?

Price$1,500,000. Considering adding the property make sense for your individual situation. check this one out. Lots of fruit trees including; Pear, below to it to make a year around unit.

Yet there’s actually a bigger lesson to be apricot, cherry, nectarine, apple, grapes, blackberry, learned here: Don’t overreact to temporary Elko Co. Humboldt River Property: 650 acres and more including Almond’s. One center pivot with located between the Ryndon and Osino Exits on I-80. developments. The recent decline in oil Alfalfa plus other meadow pastures. Ponds with This property has over 300 acres of surface water prices has certainly had an economic imTrout, bass and bluegills. Lots of Deer and wild turrights out of the Humboldt River. The BLM permit pact, but no one can predict how long these keys. A meat house with cooler and cutting room. 3 for the 10,706 acres above is a short distance from prices will stay low or what other factors this property with a stock driveway on this property. homes. Price. $1,900,000. may arise that would affect the financial Price:$1.2 million.

Clover Valley Ranch: 2,489 Deeded Acres with markets. That’s why you can’t reconfigure over 500 acres water righted and irrigated with North Butte Valley Ranch: 550 deeded acres with your portfolio based on particular events, Spring fed meadow and hay ground and approx. a gravity flow system from Stream flow and from whatever they may be — oil price drops, inLD SO irrigation wells one of which BLM aum’s for 150+ head for 4/15 to G 12/22 in private several underground N terest-rate fluctuations, political squabbles I D N recently redrilled.

Access on paved road and just allotment.P Six E pastures in BLM allotment. Home is off at home, natural disasters in faraway lands, the grid with power from Solar panels and back-up 7 miles South of Wells, Nevada. One 3 bedroom 2 and so on. generator. Located on County road approx. 50 miles bath home. Full line of equipment included. Price: If you can keep from being overly influSouth of Wells, Nevada. Price: $950,000 $1,900,000 enced by specific events, you may be able to For additional information on these properties go to: BOTTARIREALTY.COM gain at least two key benefits: First, by not making trades constantly in reaction to the Work: 775-752-3040 Paul D. Bottari, Broker headlines of the day, you can avoid piling up Home: 775-752-3809 • Fax: 775-752-3021 paul@bottarirealty.com heavy fees and commissions — costs that 1222 6th St., P.O. Box 368 Wells, NV 89835 • www.bottarirealty.com can reduce the return rate on your investwww.progressiverancher.com

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Spec ializing in hunting, ranching, and horse properties 640 AC N. Fifth Street (Elko, NV) Section 25, Twp.37N, Rge.54E. Water Well and seasonal creek through property. Close to Elko’s Snow Bowl ski area. Easy access, Great views of the Ruby Mountains. $400,000

Wells Arena (Wells, NV) Old Clover Road. 12+ Acres with 15,400 sq. ft. metal building & storage shed. Power, private well. Wire and panel fenced. $480,000 Shadow Mtn. Ranch

12.5 Acres in Duck Creek Basin in Nevada.

Beautiful spacious 4,000 sq. ft. home with 4 bedrooms/3 bathrooms. Water Rights Hunting and Fishing Galore! $1,200,000

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Minutes from Battle Mountain, Nevada. 169 acres, Feedlot, corrals, new shop & equipment shed, mobile home with mature landscape.

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464 Pioneer Way

(Western Hills, Elko, NV) 42 acres. Beautiful 2,640 sq. ft. Custom Home. Spectacular Mountain & Lake Views.

3 bedroom/3 bath – walk out basement with master suite. Barn with power & water, storage shed, garden area. $330,000

Sherman Hills Ranch

1,259.51 acre Private Ranch in Osino, close to Elko, Nevada with year round creek through the property. Great views! Three large pastures, fenced and cross fenced. Garage, shop, corrals. Permanent manuf. home. Open floor plan with 2 bed / 2 bath. $1,500,000

Clear Creek Ranch

South of Winnemucca, Nevada. Approximately 10,000 Deeded Acres. 11 Month BLM Lease Approx. 740 irrigated acres, 2 large diameter irrigation wells. Ranch Manager’s home & equipment yard. Log Cottage

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Starr Valley Pasture

Unique fenced 1,104 acres on Boulder Creek bordering U.S. Forest Service in Starr Valley, Nevada. Water-righted with nice meadows. $1,400,000

Recanzone Ranch

Neat ranch in Paradise Valley, Nevada.

900+ acres, 300 AUMs, right by town. Original Sandstone House. Easy access to Hinkey Summit & surrounding mountains. Includes Barn, Outbuildings and Corrals. $1,390,000

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Spring Cove Ranch

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JBB/AL Herefords Annual Bull Sale Monday, March 9th, 2015 1:00 PM at Spring Cove Ranch in Bliss, Id. Selling 160 Angus Bulls 43 Hereford Bulls, 6 Red Angus Bulls 38 Angus Heifers 17 Hereford Heifers 3 Red Angus Heifers

Selling the first sons of Sitz Longevity 556Z CED+6 BEPD-.3 WEPD+67 YEPD+115 MEPD+29 SC+1.40 CW+31 MARB+.43 RE+.53 $W+71.84 $B+79.21

Selling sons and grandsons of Varsity V Warrior CED+11 BEPD-.6 WEPD+56 YEPD+90 MEPD+29 CW+50 MARB+.1.30 RE+.65 $W+57.74 $B+134.36

Selling sons of KM Broken Bow 002 CED+12 BEPD-.8 WEPD+61 YEPD+104 MEPD+28 SC+1.23 CW+40 MARB+.66 RE+.69 $W+56.32 $B+122.67

Selling sons & grandsons of CCA Emblazon 702 CED+15 BEPD-1.3 WEPD+58 YEPD+98 MEPD+21 SC+.47 CW+36 MARB+.50 RE+.63 $W+56.82 $B+95.84

Selling sons of C GOHR 9158 About Time 1101 CED+0.5 BW+2.3 WW+56 YW+84 M+28 Milk & Growth +56 SC+.8 RIB+.66 MARB+.05 CHB+$27

For Catalogs Call: 208-352-4332 www.springcoveranch.com Spring Cove Ranch, Angus since 1919, 96 years, The Butler Family, Bliss, Idaho JBB/AL Herefords, Herefords since 1967, 48 years, The Bryan & Anderson Families Gooding, Idaho

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