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by Lee Pitts propose a new rule. Before any politician is allowed to vote on a law or rule he or she must first prove they read it. If we are to stop this downward spiral we’re on in this country politicians are going to have to start making their decisions based on facts, rather than which political action committee gives them the most money.

When J. Dudley Butler was named Administrator of USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), the big meat packers, National Pork Producers Council, Smithfield and the NCBA painted a big target on the back of this lawyer from Yazoo County Mississippi. They blasted away at that target in a House Subcommittee ambush and we don’t know if Dudley will survive.

It’s easy to see why those who would industrialize ag in this country would want Butler silenced. After all, he has spent much of the past 30 years arbitrating poultry contracts that were written to make the poultry producers serfs on their own land. Couple that with the fact that Butler is going around the country saying things like . . .

“We know we have an imbalance of power in some of the industries now.” And as a counterbalance Butler has promised to “reinvigorate” the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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Talk like that just isn’t permitted in this country where big business calls all the shots. Some pundits say the attorney/rancher/administrator will be back in Yazoo County before the New Year. And that, my friends, would be a dirty, rotten shame.

The Last Frontier Butler has got his hands full.

The imbalance he speaks of is not just in the beef business.

Dairymen contend that major milk buyers are violating antitrust laws and farmers say that Monsanto has a lock on almost all the

genetically modified seed.

Butler and Obama say they are on a mission to save rural America. Heaven only knows it desperately needs saving. The number of ranches declined by 352,000 in the 20 years between 1987 and 2007. Down from 1.15 million ranchers to 798,290. At that rate we’ll all be gone in 40 years! Even more telling, the U.S. cattle inventory is at a 36year low and the cattle that are left are in fewer hands. “The U.S. already has lost over 30,000 independent cattle feeders just within the last 14 years,” says Bill Bullard of

R-CALF, “which has severely reduced competition in the U.S. livestock industry — not just in the market where cattle feeders sell to the meatpackers, but in the market where cow/calf producers sell their cattle to feedlots, as well.”

Of course, the packers want it to be business as usual in Washington, or in the case of GIPSA, no business as usual. In 2000, the GAO investigated GIPSA and gave it failing marks, and in 2006 both USDA’s Inspector General and the GAO’s issued reports that were so critical of GIPSA that they prompted hearings before the Senate Ag Committee. At these meetings the Congressman acted incensed at GIPSA’s activities. Or lack of them. Remember that fact as you read this story.

The 2006 report revealed that the head of GIPSA, JoAnn Waterfield, left office with 50 violations hiding in her desk drawer that she should have taken action on. Waterfield basically told her employees to “do nothing, but shuffle papers and look busy.” In other words, she was the perfect continued on page two

CBB review finds problems with NCBA checkoff spending DROVERS NEWS SOURCE

ll checkoff contractors and subcontractors are subject to compliance reviews and audits. It is the responsibility of checkoff contractors to assure that checkoff funds are being used appropriately, and it is CBB’s responsibility to monitor checkoff contractors. To this end, CBB has the legal responsibility to perform reviews of its contractors periodically, and to oversee and enforce the rules regarding checkoff expenditures.

In February 2010, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) began the process of conducting a routine compliance review of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) by engaging an independent CPA firm to perform agreed-upon procedures at NCBA. This firm reviewed NCBA compliance with its agreements to conduct checkoff-funded programs in the areas of beef promotion, research, consumer information and industry information.

The compliance review also included compliance of checkoff expenditures of the Federa-

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tion of State Beef Councils Division of NCBA (Federation). This compliance review included fiscal years 2008 and 2009 as well as the five months ended February 28, 2010. The agreedupon procedures were performed to test: NCBA’s allocation of overhead costs; employee time reporting as a basis for the allocation of salaries and benefits to the checkoff; travel expenses; Federation costs; and subcontractor selection procedures.

In addition to Beef Board members and qualified state beef councils, this independent report has been forwarded to USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service, the oversight agency for the beef checkoff, for review and input.

Statement By Robert Fountain, Jr., CowCalf Producer, Adrian, Ga. and CBB Secretary-Treasurer: “An independent accounting firm tested charges from NCBA to the beef checkoff in five areas and found many expenses that were either improperly charged to the checkoff or continued on page twelve

e buried my mother last month and in pausing to reflect on her life, I was awed by the changes that have occurred in this country during her 80-plus years of living.

It’s hard to imagine but my Mom lived for one third of our country’s lifespan.

She went from FDR to Obama, from Adolph Hitler to Osama bin Laden and from the Dionne quintuplets to the Octomom. She began her life just before the Depression and ended it during the worst economic times since then. She was alive when there was no Social Security to catch you when you fell, and unemployment and political corruption ran rampant in this country. Oh well, some things never change, I suppose.

My mother’s generation went from Shuffle Off to Buffalo to rap music. From Sinatra to Snoop Dogg.

From Brother Can You Spare a Dime to four dollars for a cup of coffee. When Barbara Harding was born there were 123 million people living in this country of ours. Today there are more than 310 million.

When my Mom was born you could buy a double dipper ice cream cone for five cents, but you had to work two hours to make that nickel! The average yearly income was $600 and there was no such thing as overtime. I suppose my family lived below what government hacks would call the poverty level these days, but we never knew it. My Mom wanted to stay home and raise her three children but knew she had to support the family, so she created her own business, as a seamstress. She literally worked her fingers to the bone and, to the best of my knowledge, we never “went on the dole.”

At my mother’s wonderful funeral service the church was crawling with her beautiful great-grandchildren and I’ve thought about those kids a lot since then. We haven’t done right continued on page eight

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Who Your Friends Are packer lackey. While she was doing nothing the Big Three increased captive supplies and the hog industry went corporate.

So, J. Dudley Butler wrote a proposed set of new rules that are part of an effort by the Obama administration to stop big agribusiness from violating antitrust laws. The regulations would give contract poultry growers new protections in their dealings with large chicken processors and would also level the playing field in the hog and cattle markets. Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Edward Avalos, said the new rules were aimed at “revitalizing rural communities.”

Attorney David Domina, and Robert Taylor, the Auburn economist, say that “The U.S. cattle industry is the meatpacker lobby’s last frontier. The packers already have captured control over the livestock production chain in both the U.S. poultry and U.S. hog industries. Open competition in those industries has become only a memory for the hundreds of thousands of independent livestock and poultry producers who recently were forced to exit those industries due to the loss of a competitive market. GIPSA’s proposed rule would prevent the meatpacker lobby from accomplishing this type of ‘chickenization’ in the cattle industry.”

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Those same Congressman who were incensed when it was found Waterfield wasn’t doing her job, went ballistic when Butler tried to do his. And lest you think it was just a bunch of Republicans trying to protect big business, the majority of the committee are Democrats. More and more frequently it seems like we really only have one party left in this country: the BIG BUSINESS Party. And are they having a party!

It was obvious from watching the Congressman act irate that groups, such as the American Meat Institute, NCBA, and the National Pork Producers Council had put tremendous pressure on members of the Subcommittee because they were spouting, almost verbatim, the talking points those groups had been spreading.

Subcommittee chair David Scott, D-Ga., scolded USDA officials that they’d “very, very seriously overstepped their boundaries.” His committee unanimously called for the USDA to extend the comment period on the rules at least 60 days. The packers and the NCBA desperately want the extension to stall for time in hopes that Congress looks even more big-business friendly after the Fall elections.

Some members of the subcommittee said that if the USDA went ahead and adopted the regulations that Congress would stop them from being implemented. “You aren’t going to like either the comments or what this committee is going to do . . . if you

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go ahead with this silly rule,” said Rep. Walter Minnick, an Idaho Democrat.

Only one member of the subcommittee showed any support for the new regs: Rep. Leonard Boswell, an Iowa Democrat.

Boswell also just happens to be a farmer.

Naturally, the National Pork Producers Council, the group that has helped wipe out 90 percent of hog producers since its inception, said that the regulations would be a “disaster for livestock and poultry producers.”

And Mark Dopp, Senior VP of Regulatory Affairs (lobbyist) for the AMI said that “marketing agreements between producers and packers will go away because of the fear of litigation.” That was the big lie that Congressmen, and NCBA, are using to kill the regs.

Avalos said that the USDA is not trying to eliminate valueadded branded products. “The proposed rule does not impact them,” he said. “The proposed rule does not prevent the use of marketing agreements, it does not prevent the payment of premiums, it does not require minimum purchases on the spot market,” he said. “The rule creates transparency and opposes discrimination or retaliation.”

For The Reading Impaired Anyone who is still under the impression that the NCBA stands up for cow-calf producers, and should therefore be given even more checkoff money, should have seen them try to jettison the new GIPSA rules. Colin Woodall, NCBA’s VP of Government Affairs (lobbyist) said the GIPSA rules are “an attack on many of the market freedoms that producers have used to gain market share and profits.

USDA’s justification for its proposed rule is based on a judgment, not backed by data, that the cattle and beef markets are not functioning properly,” said Woodall. “The rule also poses serious privacy concerns and provides no guarantee that producers’ private information would not be exposed to the general public, including competitors.”

Wow! So now the NCBA is concerned about the producer’s privacy. Why weren’t they this worried when the USDA, (with the NCBA’s full support) was trying to force mandatory livestock identification down everyone’s throat?

NCBA President Steve Foglesong said, “American cattle producers are innovators who have worked hard over the past several years to develop alternative marketing arrangements and marketing alliances to get paid for the value they add to their cattle. We believe that this rule jeopardizes these longstanding marketing arrangements that compensate producers for providing higher quality cattle.”

Translation . . . the packers need things to stay the way they continued on page three

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August 15, 2010 are so that they can lock up even more captive supplies.

After the hearing the USDA put out a fact sheet about the rules, probably for members of the Congressional committee who hadn’t read them. The USDA explained: “The proposed rule seeks to prevent collusion and price manipulation caused by the sharing of pricing information between packers. It does not ban packers from owning their own livestock. When a packer sells livestock to another packer, the information signals important market information about price and supply levels.

With high levels of consolidation and vertical integration, firms may be able to affect the prices of sales on the open market. In recent years, the open market has become thinner and more volatile. This open market helps determine the price of most formula contracts. There is nothing in this provision that limits or eliminates marketing agreements. Instead, the proposed rule would provide integrity in the market to prevent manipulation of prices on the open market and in marketing agreements.”

Delay And Derail Following the Congressional ambush on Butler, sixty-six farm, ranch, consumer, rural and rural development organizations from across the U.S. sent a letter to Congress that stated in part: “Contrary to statements made during the hearing, GIPSA is well within its authority to issue these regulations. In fact, USDA-GIPSA is primarily responding to the directive of

Congress in Title XI of the 2008 Farm Bill to promulgate regulations to establish criteria the Agency will use in determining which poultry and livestock industry practices it considers to be in violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. The PSA “makes it unlawful for packers, swine contractors, and live poultry dealers to engage in any ‘unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device.” The letter continued, “Very little attention has been paid to the ongoing concentration in the livestock industry and supply chain integration. Now we find that competition in the livestock and poultry industry has all but disappeared, and as a result, unfair trade practices and manipulative marketing schemes have been institutionalized and are now viewed as normal and natural.” ”Fundamental changes are needed in our industry. The first fundamental change should be the aggressive and decisive administration and enforcement of the P&S Act. We firmly believe the Proposed Rule is the appropriate first step to ensure that competition, not regulation or packer control, is the dominant force that directs the future of our U.S. livestock industries.

“We view efforts by industry to delay the comment period as little more than an effort to delay and ultimately derail the Proposed Rule itself.”

Our Last Chance To clear up misconceptions and to hear the pros and cons of Butler’s new regs, the KSDZ Radio station in Gordon, Nebraska, invited the NCBA, AMI, NAM and R-CALF to debate the new rules on August

9, at the Gordon Livestock Auction. Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF, was the only one who showed up! In response to the no-shows, KSDZ RADIO owner, Jim Lambley said, “I would think the membership of the three refusing meat industry leaders would be ashamed of the organizations they pay dearly to represent them.”

Lambley continued, “The facts speak for themselves. NCBA, AMI & the NAM obviously were afraid to step into the Round Pen with the TRUTH, on the other hand RCALF was more than willing. That fact alone tells all of us who really is working honestly for the American beef cattle producers.”

USDA did as the Congressmen asked and granted an extension of the comment period on the new regulations for 90 days, until November 22, 2010.

Just before the comment period started Dudley Butler gave some very good advice that is even more applicable now. He told ranchers, “If you can’t take the time to save your way of life, I’m begging you, take the time to write us, have friends write us a comment, have consumers write a comment.

We need to hear how important it is for you to have a family farm to provide food to the school system, to the hospital, the local farmer’s market.”

Comments may be submitted via e-mail to comments.gipsa@ usda.gov ; hard copy via mail, hand delivery, or courier to Tess Butler, GIPSA, USDA, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Room 1643-S, Washington, D.C. 20250-3604; fax to 202/6902173; or via the Federal Rulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov.

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There is another way to let those Congressmen know that henceforth we’d appreciate their reading new laws and regulations before they attack a well meaning servant of the people. The USDA is holding a series of hearings across the country on competition and captive supplies. The hearing whose primary focus will be on beef cattle will be held August 27, 2010, in Fort Collins, Colo.

For the first time in decades there’s a sliver of hope that we can stop the cattle business from going the way of poultry and hogs. As Dave Domina says, “This is a narrow moment in history when a difference can be made.”

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etween January and June of this year, Brazilian beef exports rose to US $2,352 billion, an increase of 23 percent on the same period last year.

The Brazilian Association of the Exporting Industries of Meat (Abiec) said that the increase was two percent or 971,900 tons carcass equivalent down on last year.

However, in June, exports reached $455 million, 19 percent up on the same month in 2009.

The increase was achieved even though exports fell by 177,000 tons, or two percent, mainly because of the suspension of exports of manufacturing beef to the US. Otávio Cançado, director-

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The average price went up by US $3.986 per ton carcass weight in June, 24 percent more than in the same month in 2009.

Mr Cançado said that it is possible to reach the 2007 price levels again, when Brazil exported US $5 billion in beef products.

“Between July and December, exports are expected to rise,” he said.

The market to the European Union, where Brazil exported US $148.7 million in carcass beef between January and June of this year, is continuing to concern exporters as more restrictions on Brazilian beef are being put in place.

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razil’s three largest meatpackers, JBS Friboi, Marfrig Alimentos and Minerva, have suspended cattle purchases from 221 ranches located on indigenous land, conservation areas or near recentlydeforested areas in the Amazon, according to reports submitted to Greenpeace.

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“The initiative shows that meatpackers understood, in a clear and definitive way, consumers’ environmental concern message. This announcement indicates that the process is moving forward, that companies are taking steps on the matter,” AE Brazil Newswire quoted Greenpeace campaign coordinator Márcio Astrini as saying.

Astrini also said that by the end of the year a much larger number of ranches will be excluded from the companies’ cattle supplier list.

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Guardians’ Claims of harm to Aplomado Falcon n early July, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by a lower court rejecting claims made by the Wild Earth Guardians that a program reintroducing endangered Aplomado Falcons in southern New Mexico was harming the species.

“This program, which involves private landowners, the Peregrine Fund and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been hugely successful,” said Bert Ancell, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association President, Bell Ranch. “The Wild Earth Guardians’ continuous challenges to this program — which is actually helping recover an endangered species — proves once again what their true interests are. It’s not about protecting endangered species, it’s about lawsuits, money and control.”

In 2006, Peregrine Fund, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlifle Service (FWS)

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began releasing captive-raised Aplomado Falcons in southern New Mexico, which had not had an established population of the birds in 50 years. The program in New Mexico was based on an equally successful, ongoing program in Texas. Releases were approved by the FWS under section 10J of the Endangered Species Act, designating the population as experimental, nonessential. This designation is slightly less restrictive for the landowners involved, but does not allow for animals to be taken, or killed, intentionally.

The Wild Earth Guardians immediately filed suit against the program, making claims including that the FWS had not studied the issue thoroughly, that the results of the environmental impact assessment that eventually authorized the reintroductions were pre-determined and that breeding populations of the species already existed in New

Leachman ranches sold at auction JAN FALSTAD, The Billings Gazette

uring a federal foreclosure sale on July 15, 2010, cattle and horse breeder James Leachman finally lost his seven-year legal fight to hang on to two ranches east of Billings, but he vowed to keep fighting even though he said he is broke.

The Stovall Holding Co., run by his neighbors Jay and Juanita Stovall and their son, Turk Stovall, bought Leachman’s Home Place 18 miles southeast of Billings for $2.1 million and a third tract of nearby land for $530,000. They have ranched in the area for five generations.

Jay Stovall has served on the Montana Public Service Commission.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, a creditor, bought the smaller Hairpin Ranch five miles east of Billings for $1.1 million in a sale lasting less than 15 minutes.

“We’re just going to incorporate with our other ranch properties,” Turk Stovall said about the Home Place.

The Stovalls, who mainly raise Angus cattle, operate their main ranch along Pryor Creek and another ranch between Pryor and St. Xavier.

After Stovall Holding presented the checks after the sale, the family received certificate of sales for the tracts of land. But under the foreclosure sale rules, they won’t get deeds until the yearlong redemption period ends. Leachman has 12 months to come up with the money to buy back the ranch.

“The law is clear,” he said,

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allowing him to exercise his lease rights and to keep grazing an undisclosed number of horses during the coming year.

“I’m operating the place with my horses on them. They’re there today, they’ll be there tomorrow and I expect them to be there for the next year,” he said.

Billings attorney Jon Doak, who represents the Stovalls, said his clients would contest Leachman staying on the ranch during the redemption year.

And U.S. Assistant Attorney Victoria Francis said at the sale, “Everything Mr. Leachman contends may in case not be so and it would be subject to litigation.”

There are more than 9,400 deeded acres on the ranch, according to Turk Stovall. The family already is leasing about three-quarters of the 30,000 acres of Crow Reservation on the Home Ranch.

Leachman lives in a home in Billings but is claiming homestead rights to the ranch.

But Turk Stovall said the family was moving into the Home Place ranch buildings Thursday afternoon.

“And I think he, as a member of a limited-liability company, has questionable redemption rights and that would be a matter for a court to decide,” he said.

Leachman said the sale actually helped his situation by setting a price.

“We know I have the priority redemption, so nobody can refuse a check from me for that amount for a year,” he said. “And when I deliver it, the properties are free and clear of any other encumbrances, so this is huge progress.”

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August 15, 2010 Mexico and would be compromised by the new releases. A district court in New Mexico ruled against them, and that decision was appealed to the 10th Circuit Court, which issued this recent ruling. The Peregrine Fund intervened in the initial case and the NMCGA filed an amicus brief in the appeal outlining the cooperative role of the ranching industry and the 10J designation play in restoring this and other species.

“We are very pleased with the court’s ruling, and that the court saw through the claims made by the Wild Earth Guardians,” Ancell said. “The amount of money, our tax dollars, that the federal government has to spend defending itself against suits filed by these activist groups is mindboggling.”

The NMCGA has represented the beef industry in New Mexico and the West since 1914 and has members in all 33 of the state’s counties as well as some 14 other states. The Association participates in venues necessary to protect beef producers and private property rights including litigation, state and federal legislation and regulatory affairs.

crowd of 30 on the sidewalk in front of the Yellowstone County Courthouse watched keenly, but didn’t bid against the Stovalls or the feds. Acting U.S. Marshall Rod Ostermiller conducted the sale.

After the sale, Leachman said he has no money now because his cattle company ran into severe financial troubles in 2003, and he was not represented by an attorney. But he plans on holding a horse sale this September. He said he didn’t know how many horses he has, but he said they are in good shape.

Due to his failure to pay fees to the American Quarter Horse Assoc., some previous buyers have been unable to get papers on horses they bought at Leachman’s sales, but he said those problems are largely resolved now.

Leachman’s ranches were going to be sold in an identical sale on the same day last year, but he stopped the sale by declaring personal bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy continued until this spring, when the bankruptcy judge dismissed his case.

Four years ago, creditors won a court order to force the sale of the Leachman ranches to pay delinquent debts. But he appealed clear up to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the sale.

After the sale, Leachman said life has been difficult since 2003 when the Leachman Cattle Co. ran into financial troubles.

“I’ve tried to save the places and recover and obviously that has not been easy,” he said. “The good thing is in the last three or four years, I have not incurred any more debt. To do that I had to go what I say is underground, meaning I have myself and no employees, basically.”

Time and money utting back, lowering inputs, pinching pennies — they’ve all become catch phrases, a result of the recent recession. But before you tighten the belt on your cowherd or scale back on management, health or nutrition, be sure to weigh the impact.

Being cost conscious pays in any economic climate, but you can only cut so much across the board before you cause harm.

The secret is to get the most out of all inputs.

Efficiency boils down to curtailing waste. That often means less feed or labor in some area of your operation, since those are two big

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inputs. Savings there equals fewer dollars down the drain.

The first step to reaching peak performance is tracking where you’ve been. If you don’t have production numbers it’s hard to make comparisons or data-driven decisions. You don’t need to make a complicated recordkeeping system, just make sure it includes all the variables that make a difference. Calving percentages, sale weights and health programs are a place to start. As you build on this, individual identification can help with culling decisions, bull buying and even marketing.

That may seem like an unnecessary expenditure of time, but

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long-term it’ll help you set goals and prioritize. You can focus on the most significant places to make improvements, saving time and headaches later.

Tightening your calving season might help inch up the efficiency. By paring down the number of days spent in that hectic period of sleep-deprived highalert time, you can spend the rest of the months completely centered on other aspects of your cattle business. It’ll probably provide extra income, too, because the more uniform the group, the higher price they’ll fetch at the sale barn.

As you’re gathering calves or keeping those long summer hours in the hayfield, seize each moment by thinking of ways to achieve greater efficiency. (That multi-tasking in itself will help.)

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It also helps curb impulse purchases that could cause problems for years to come.

What is your grazing situation like? If you move up weaning, maybe you’d save a little grass for your cows and push winter feeding later. Or possibly you’re in the land of expansive pastures and your cattle aren’t utilizing every nook and cranny. Could you install waterers or a dividing fence to entice them?

There are dozens of questions you can ask yourself about the efficiency of every aspect of your farm or ranch. So ask them, find answers and then act.

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offices were established in Detroit and El Paso. Subsequent offices were established on the basis of what is now called “corridor development”. That was also extended to maritime locations where illegal entry expansion was occurring. The early Border Patrol was an organization that hired its officer force largely from candidates that had roots in the border region. They were men with a common background to the American citizens whose security they pledged to protect.

From the inception until the Bracero Program in the ‘50s, the Border Patrol did its work without a great deal of fanfare. If there was conflict it was largely with landowners who employed illegals. Thousands of miles of fence and other infrastructure were built by Mexican labor at that time. That conflict ultimately prompted the idea of the Bracero Program, whereby Mexican workers were allowed conditional entry into the United States in exchange for legal employment. The plan required the Border Patrol to enforce the conditions of the program as well as to oversee the return of the same workers following their temporary visits.

The demand for labor across a wider segment of American business accelerated in the ‘60s. As a result, the country experienced a dramatic expansion in illegal immigration. Interaction with the Border Patrol and a broader profile of American business spectrum took place.

By the ‘70s, the number and the profile of illegal aliens were changing. The border was becoming a more intense and the motives of illegals were changing. Drugs, and the war on drugs, were starting to shape a new and dangerous challenge.

By 1986, the Border Patrol had to start shifting its focus from the border to areas more inland. This change in the mission of the Border Patrol was largely the result of Congressional action. The Immigration Control and Reform Act (IRCA) was passed. It mandated that an amnesty program be implemented, and it authorized the prosecution of American employers who hired illegals. Congress was putting the burden of proof on American business to determine the legal status of aliens. The Congressional mandate to secure the border was being passed to American businesses.

By the early ‘90s, Americans living in urban border centers were in near revolt as the hordes of illegal immigrants swarmed across the largely open borders and quickly disappeared into the mass of humanity on the American side. Something had to be done, and the Border Patrol figured out a plan that worked.

Starting in El Paso, the idea of going back to the actual border, making eye contact with illegals, and pinching off the flows was started. The operation was

instituted and the horde of illegal border crossings was stopped.

The numbers went down in El Paso, and the Border Patrol was able to reduce the numbers crossing in the Sector as a whole.

The next operation was instituted in the urban centers of southern California. This operation made use of what was learned in El Paso but it also incorporated higher tech ideas.

It brought to the border increased agent numbers, border fencing, stadium lighting, and ideas in high tech monitoring. more sophisticated This approach also worked. Numbers of illegals entering San Diego went down and the San Diego Sector numbers were down as well. The idea of putting pressure on the border at the point of corridor entry was working. It only needed to be expanded.

Following the success at El Paso and the urban centers of southern California, the Border Patrol was intent on expanding the idea into southern Arizona.

Nogales and the greater Tucson Sector was the target. That operation brought the factors learned at El Paso and San Diego to the Arizona border at Nogales. The operation failed.

What the illegals found in Arizona was exactly what made the efforts in El Paso and southern California work. The immense and harsh conditions of the open desert outside of the Nogales entry became a major entry into the U.S. Unlike the urban centers of southern California and El Paso, the Arizona lands outside of the preferred entry points were not fully patrolled and controlled by the Border Patrol.

Much of the Arizona border allowed the Border Patrol only conditional and limited access.

The hordes of illegals found the American invention of federally designated Wilderness, and the United States has been at an ever increasing risk ever since.

The powerful United States Border Patrol couldn’t access the millions of acres of wilderness, but the human and drug smugglers certainly could, and they did.

A Closer Look at the Corridor Concept The Border Patrol first started using the corridor concept as a method of controlling illegal immigration in the late ‘80s. The concept was developed by David Aguilar and his staff at the Border Patrol’s Southern Region office in Dallas. The purpose was to control the heavy influx of illegal aliens from Central America entering illegally through the McAllen Sector. There were a lot of factors that led to the heavy influx including natural disasters, protected status for certain aliens from El Salvador, and a policy of releasing the other than Mexicans (OTMs) from detention facilities because of absence of funding to detain them.

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Smugglers Corridors To combat this problem, Aguilar created the McAllen Corridor and soon resources and manpower began to flow into the Sector. Agents were pulled from other Border Patrol Sectors to implement the staffing in the Sector on a temporary basis.

Anti-smuggling agents and resources, including operational funding, were taken away from different Sectors all over the nation to reinforce the McAllen corridor.

Eventually, the OTM invasion slowed and resources were returned to their respective Border Patrol Sectors, but the corridor concept was established. To determine what might qualify for the creation of a corridor, Border Patrol Stations were required to report a whole new set of metrics that were created to measure what was going on in their respective station areas. Line watch stations, stations whose area of responsibility were adjacent to the Mexican border, were instructed to divide their areas of responsibility into zones and report the activity that occurred in a respective zone.

“Zone Reports”, “Got aways”, and “turn backs” were examples of the new metrics.

With the amnesty and employer sanction provisions of IRCA, apprehensions in the late ‘80s dropped. The lull didn’t last long, though, when it became apparent that the Clinton administration wasn’t serious about enforcing employer sanctions. By the early ‘90s, apprehensions across the southern border were again increasing.

In 1991, El Paso, Texas was approaching chaos. Crime had increased dramatically, auto theft was rampant, beggars and windshield cleaners were at almost every intersection in the city. To combat this problem, El Paso Sector Border Patrol Chief Sylvestre Reyes and his staff created Operation “Hold the Line”. The idea was simple. Instead of chasing illegal aliens after they entered the United States, the Agents would prevent them from entering illegally by deploying right on the border. Interestingly, this plan wasn’t approved by the regional hierarchy because El Paso was not an approved corridor.

Although it was a struggle, the plan worked. Gradually the illegal aliens began to realize that things had changed and the days of being able to cross whenever and wherever they wanted in El Paso had changed. Reyes’s idea had been to close the urban border and force the aliens out into the desert where it would be easier to apprehend them. The success of “Hold the Line” soon led the San Diego Sector to adopt a similar strategy with the implementation of Operation “Gatekeeper”. At that time, the San Diego Sector had been the consistent leader nationwide in apprehensions (McAllen and El Paso battled for second). The Tucson Sector was still considered a Sector where nothing

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much happened. Its harsh, isolated border expanses were not yet seen as a pathway into the United States.

As anticipated, the illegals began to move out of the El Paso / Juarez metro area and seek easier ways to cross into the United States. Apprehensions in the Deming, N.M. station area 100 miles to the west began to skyrocket. In the far western reaches of the Sector area at Lordsburg, New Mexico large increases in apprehensions occurred as well. The Deming corridor was created and by the late ‘90s other stations in the El Paso Sector were being asked to detail agents and equipment to Deming to try and stem the flow.

Deming tried to emulate the El Paso strategy of forward deployment of its agents, but the aliens would continually outflank them.

The farming area west of Columbus, New Mexico was soon overrun by illegal aliens entering on foot and in vehicles headed north. The chaos that had been happening in El Paso was now pushed into the Deming corridor.

The chaos would soon hit the Tucson Sector as well. Douglas and Nogales, Arizona soon experienced the effects of increased illegal entry. By then, David Aguilar was in Tucson as the Sector Chief and he had brought many of his staff officers from the Southern Region to help gain control in that Sector.

In 2003, Chief Aguilar was sent to Washington, D.C. to take the place of retiring Chief of the Border Patrol Gustavo De La Vina. The Tucson Corridor had been created and accordingly extra manpower and technology had been poured into the area.

Zones and special enforcement areas were created, and different strategies were created almost monthly, but nothing seemed to work as entries continued to soar.

In 2004, a new theory of border control began to evolve and it became the Border Patrol mantra for achieving control of the border. It was believed, and ultimately shown, that with the right mixture of personnel, technology, mobility, and infrastructure control of the border could be achieved. This strategy was developed in conjunction with the pending implementation of the Secure Border Initiative (SBInet). Using this strategy Deming began to gain control of its area of responsibility. With increased numbers of agents, camera surveillance technology, improved infrastructure, and the authority to go anywhere without constraint, the Border Patrol was able to develop a plan that was effective in the farming area west of Columbus. Apprehensions dropped and a more orderly operational control of the area was returned.

By 2009, apprehensions were down all across the nation largely because of the economy. The El Paso Sector, once among the top two most active Sectors in the

nation, had experienced a whopping 51 percent decrease in apprehensions. That was the largest decrease in the nation.

Meanwhile, Tucson’s share of illegal apprehensions soared as a percent of the whole. That year, nearly half (241,673) of the 540,865 apprehensions caught nationwide occurred in the Tucson Sector.

While alien apprehensions were down nation wide, narcotic seizures increased by 57 percent.

As with human smuggling numbers, the Tucson Sector led the way with 1,204,702 pounds of narcotics seized. That was a nearly 48 percent of all marijuana interdiction along all United States borders.

Another measurement suggests the extent of the problem.

The Tucson Sector represents about 13 percent of the entire Mexican border, but, in 2009, the rate of human apprehensions occurred at about 920 per mile of border for the year. The southern border as a whole experienced a rate of 167 per mile of border, but the El Paso Sector had an apprehension rate of just fewer than 6 percent of the Tucson result, or just 54 per mile.

Those results would suggest that El Paso still has pressure, but Tucson is out of control.

The Tucson Sector has received more manpower and technology in the past ten years than any Sector, yet it has not achieved control of its border.

The question must be asked, “Why”? The answer is access to the border. Prohibitions against accessing border wilderness areas, wildlife management areas, wilderness study areas, a large Indian reservation on the border and Department of Agriculture forest lands have dramatically hampered the Border Patrol’s ability to patrol and control that segment of the border.

At the same time, illegal aliens and drug smugglers aren’t constrained by the prohibitions and are accessing and abusing those areas.

Corridor profile The most violent and explosive growth of the Arizona human and drug smuggling corridors is a fact of life in the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector. It is ground zero where the unexpected circumstances of Operation “Safeguard” and the displacement of illegals from “Hold the Line” and “Gate Keeper” took root and flourished.

What is unique about the Tucson Sector that has created such danger even with the presence of increased manpower and technology?

Starting at the New Mexico/ Arizona line and running west, that stretch of border is dominated by federal land holdings. The corridor entry points discovered by illegals following Operation “Safeguard” were expanded from the east into designated Wilderness dominated lands of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Coronado National Forest, and other Departments of Interior and Agriculture man-

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aged lands. These lands all have some common characteristics.

Those similarities are: 1. The corridors have wilderness/de facto wilderness safe havens.

2. They have east/west highway access north and south of the corridors.

3. They have rugged and complex north/south mountain and drainage orientation which provides channels of movement.

4. They are almost entirely or heavily dominated by federal land agency management.

5. The concentration of American private property rights at risk is limited as is the presence of resident American habitation.

6. All corridors have high, strategically located points of observation.

The First Step toward Solution The lessons from history in Texas and in the urban centers now indicate that success of controlling the border will come only by taking the fight back to the border itself. Success cannot be achieved by dropping back and

focusing on peripheral issues. Silvestre Reyes’ simplistic order to his officers in the Operation Hold the Line to “go to the border and make eye contact with illegals” is more valid today than it has ever been. The problem is the Border Patrol cannot do that in Arizona. They are constrained in the wilderness and de facto wilderness areas as discussed, but the federal government has also created a loop hole whereby they can be blocked from entry to other federal lands.

By statutory authority, the Border Patrol has the right to enter into any private property for any reason and without announcement within 25 miles of the Mexican border. That authority was granted years ago in order to defend the sovereignty of our nation. Nothing was deemed more important than the need to protect American citizenry.

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The blind insistence that more and more lands be protected for the purposes of creating an environment largely “untrammeled by man” has made it dangerous for traditional and legal activities in those lands. The void that is being created is being filled by drug and human smugglers. The

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Patrol must have the same rights and authority to enter federal lands within 25 miles of the border as they do on private land holdings. That organization cannot be encumbered and denied access in order to attempt to carry out its mission while at the same time drug and human smugglers make full use of the lands where that access is conditional or denied. The universal message to Congress should be, “Start defending this country by installing the full rights and

authority of the Border Patrol by allowing full and unencumbered access to any and all lands, at any and all times, without any time or conditional constraints to the 25 mile buffer along the entire Mexican border from Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean”.

The Border Patrol has demonstrated in the El Paso Sector that, if it has such authority, it can control the border and the human and drug smuggling corridors. Without it, it is a defensive war that America is losing.

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“What he suggested is that we move forward on several bills to address energy and the oil spill and then continue to work on the climate piece when we get back,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), said after the meeting in the Capitol.

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■ Add more than $10,000 to a family of four’s share of the national debt by 2035.

Reid’s gambit is only temporary and part of a plan to pass a stripped-down energy bill capitalizing on oil spill angst, then adding in the onerous capand-trade provisions in conference in the upcoming lame duck session of Congress, says IBD. Senate cap-and-trade point man John Kerry has said that his proposal, the American Power Act, will be considered in a lame duck session. WaxmanMarkey sponsor Rep. Henry Waxman has told reporters that in conference, he will reinsert the fullblown cap-and-trade program during that session.

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Labor Day 2010 good day’s work is a good day’s work.” Labor Day 2010 finds us with our head down, shoulders to the wheel, noses to the grindstone and 10 percent unemployment.

The high unemployment is not because we don’t know how to work, we do! The proof is our high productivity per capita.

Today we are getting the same job done as before, but with less people. Our country still has the work ethic that brought the working class Europeans and Asians to our shores. It’s what still draws immigrants to America. Mexican illegals don’t come here because of free health care, unemployment benefits, or a welfare system, they come here to work!

America’s democratic republic encourages capitalism and entrepreneurship which invest in growth which is achieved by putting workers to work. European nations, primarily socialist leaning governments, discourage individual achievement, in trade for government care for the masses. It reaches its extreme when the government finally concedes they have spent themselves into bankruptcy and collapse like Russia after the Cold War and Greece last spring.

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The governments are afraid to trust the people . . . the workers.

America has gotten itself in financial trouble with the combination of well-meaning irresponsible politicians and bankers who wouldn’t stand up to them. We continue to try and spend ourselves out of debt by increasing the worker’s taxes.

Our greatest saving grace is that we as a people know how to work. Generations before us have pulled themselves out of the doldrums of worldwide conflict, natural disasters, invasions and floundering politicians.

Somehow, when we crash and burn we always seem to come back stronger and better; personally, as a people, and as a nation.

That history is where I turn to for inspiration. That and the backbone and perseverance that I see every day in my fellow workers.

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t least 13 states are considering enacting taxes on plastic and paper bags used at grocery stores and carryout restaurants, but a Tax Foundation report shows the environmental benefits of the tax are often exaggerated and the tax becomes another general revenue grab by public officials, says Natasha Altamirano, manager of media relations for the Tax Foundation.

According to the Tax Foundation report: If designed as a tax meant to eliminate a bad side effect (in this case litter and other environmental problems), a bag tax may be considered successful if it achieves some environmental goals while still leaving bags affordable for the people who need them most.

But the environmental goals set forth by public officials are often too ambitious to be achieved by a bag tax alone.

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Moreover, although customers might give up disposable plastic or paper bags from grocery stores and other retailers, they may instead purchase bags for household needs previously served by grocery bags — such as trash liners or lunch bags — which have the same chance of adverse environmental effects as grocery bags.

Bag tax legislation is pending in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. In Washington, D.C., a bag tax was implemented at the beginning of 2010: Originally labeled a “fee” for the Anacostia River Cleanup Fund, the bag tax in Washington, D.C., raised approximately $150,000 in its first month, according to a D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue report.

That translates to taxes on

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xtortion is defined as “Obtaining property from another induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.” – Blacks Law Dictionary 5th Ed. at p. 525.

Willing seller/market value is defined as “The most probable price which a property should bring in a competitive and open market under all conditions requisite to a fair sale, the buyer and seller each acting prudently and knowledgeably, and assuming the price is not affected by undue stimulus.” – Rules and Regulations, 55 Fed. Reg. 34696.

Let’s keep this very basic because, indeed it is. Western Watersheds Project (“WWP”), Oregon Natural Desert Association (“ONDA”) and Jon Marvel (The Greenfather) approaches El Paso Corporation with a deal.

Ruby Pipeline owned by El Paso is a multi-million dollar natural gas pipeline being constructed from southwestern Wyoming through Utah and Nevada to Oregon. Ruby Pipeline has to get a permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to build the pipeline.

WWP files an appeal to stop the permit which would stop construction of the pipeline, putting hundreds of jobs and million of dollars in jeopardy. WWP goes to El Paso and cuts a deal: in short, WWP agrees to drop its litigation against FERC and let the pipeline go through, only if El Paso will pay WWP and ONDA $22 million dollars to eliminate the federal lands livestock industry. Remind anyone of the street side grocer in New York when

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approximately 3 million disposable bags, a far cry from the 22 million bags the city originally projected would be taxed each month.

Despite that revenue shortfall, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) has proposed an intergovernmental transfer of the bag tax funds to pay for general city services not necessarily related to any environmental programs.

“Taxes are charges to pay for general government services, while fees defray the cost of a service provided to a particular individual,” said Tax Foundation tax counsel and director of state projects Joseph Henchman. “Americans have historically scrutinized any charge with ‘tax’ in its name. Fearful of being branded as a ‘tax hiker,’ politicians are reluctant to call anything a ‘tax,’ so they often incorrectly categorize these bag taxes as ‘fees.’”

Source: Natasha Altamirano, “Bag Taxes Are Bad Tax Policy,” Heartland Institute, July 17, 2010.

approached by the Mafia to buy “protection”? El Paso agrees as they need their pipeline to serve an energy starved California.

So what did this plot of legalized extortion accomplish and how was it possible?

According to the El Paso/WWP agreement, the $22 million can be used to lobby Congress to change federal law to allow for the permanent elimi-

faced with permitting and construction delays. Just like radical environmentalists extort taxpayer money from the federal government disguised as “reimbursement for attorneys fees,” so too, will these groups extort money from other companies who need to use the multiple use lands.

Is anyone foolish enough to think that El Paso and their subsidiaries will not pass this “little

. . . the $22 million can be used to lobby Congress to change federal law to allow for the permanent elimination of BLM grazing permits and allotments. nation of BLM grazing permits and allotments. Currently, the Supreme Court has agreed that BLM lands are to be used for livestock grazing and that the permanent elimination of livestock is prohibited by federal statutes. The Ruby Pipeline agreement allows radical environmental groups to lobby Congress to change those statutes.

Faced with these huge and real challenges, grazing permittees will have no choice but to be “willing sellers” Once a change in statutes takes place, radical environmental groups will be allowed to “buy” grazing permits from “willing sellers.” Grazing permittees are not a real “willing seller” though. WWP, ONDA and the like have already appealed the renewal of thousands of grazing permits across the West; these groups have also challenged the current grazing fee in federal court; these groups have petitioned the Obama administration to eliminate the grazing program because of their “concern” over the deficit. Faced with these huge and real challenges, grazing permittees will have no choice but to be “willing sellers” at far below market prices all toward the elimination of the ranching industry and the local economies dependent on sustainable ranching and private property ownership. It is simply more extortion to force ranchers to be “willing sellers.” Without its economic base of grazing permittees, local governments and communities will lose. Without their environmental stewardship of the land and water, wildlife and the range itself will lose. The El Paso funded demise of the Western federal lands ranchers and will certainly hasten the death of multiple use of public lands.

Other companies are now faced with the precedent that either they pay extortion money to radical groups or they will be

settlement” along to their end consumers? Big companies do not absorb cost of doing business expenses, they pass them along to their customers.

Jon Marvel, WWP, ONDA and their ilk have never been about “saving the environment or the resource” They are 100 percent about destroying public lands ranchers, property rights and other multiple users, period.

In this agreement, the $22 million in the first five years have to be used to “purchase” permits and allotments on lands connected to the pipeline corridor; in the second five years, the money can be used to purchase any lands within the “sagebrush steppe” habitat. How can buying grazing permits in New Mexico or Arizona be used as environmental mitigation for a pipeline in Wyoming, Utah northern Nevada and Oregon? Even though the WWP’s FERC appeal was based on an alleged harm to the environment, Ruby Pipeline’s settlement with WWP did not change a single think in terms of on-the-ground mitigation and none of the $22 million will be spent on improvements on-theground to mitigation for the ground disturbance from the pipeline. Not only did WWP extort $22 million from Ruby, WWP’s claim of concern for the environment does not result in a single on-the-ground improvement completed by a single environmental group.

WWP’s press releases call this an historic deal, supporting the elimination of “disastrous” (in the words of the WWP, ONDA and the like) public lands grazing.

During this deal, not one rancher or representatives such as the Western Legacy Alliance were asked to give an opinion or was invited to the table. Ranchers are simply on the receiving end and it is time to stand up and fight.

This is just like the mafia’s “protection program.” Is this the kind of protection public lands users want or need?

After unearthing this disturbing deal and some of its details, the Western Legacy Alliance (WLA) is striving for a fair shake for ranchers and other natural resource users.

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insufficiently documented. For example, international and domestic travel expenses for the spouses of staff and volunteer leadership, consulting fees for the purpose of investigating a certified beef program for the policy division, travel performed for the purpose of initiating an NCBA-member insurance program and time spent by employ-

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A routine compliance review by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, with the help of an independent accounting firm, showed inappropriate use of checkoff dollars, CBB said in a new release it distributed in late July. In addition to further investigating the matter, CBB said it would issue more detailed guidelines. (See http://www.meatingplace.com/M embersOnly/webNews/details.as px?item=17540.)

“We agree with CBB’s accounting firm, Clifton Gunderson LLP, and with CBB that written and specific guidelines are needed for all checkoff contractors,” Foglesong said in a statement. “The accountant’s inability to determine compliance on select items does not mean noncompliance. Rather, it is an indication that written guidelines are needed to achieve compliance.”

Foglesong said NCBA takes compliance seriously, which is why it keeps separate bank accounts. He contended the group’s accounting and time keeping procedures are on par with or exceed most industries’ standards. In that system are more than 8,000 coding options for assigning time and expenses to help ensure accuracy.”

When the National Cattlemen’s Association merged with the National Live Stock and Meat Board, NCBA became more than a policy organization.

NCBA became the home for the Federation of State Beef Councils, and as such, the No. 1 champion for the beef checkoff,” Foglesong said. “Our employees log more than 200,000 hours annually building and protecting beef demand. Every hour is focused on delivering results that matter with a strong focus on being accountable to producers.”

NCBA said it will address the compliance review with the Federation, CBB and USDA, and provide a complete response to the accountant’s report to these and other stakeholders at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference.

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SAN JUAN RANCH – Located 10 miles south of Deming off Hwy. 11 (Columbus Hwy) approximately 26,484 total acres consisting of 3,484± deeded, 3,800± state lease, 14,360± BLM and 4,840± Uncontrolled.

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Wilson Ranch: Modoc County, 487 acres, house, barn, summer range. Surprise Valley, Calif. Priced at $950,000.

Willow Springs Ranch: Shasta County, 1,470 acres, barn, two homes, Cottonwood Creek frontage. Make offer.

Pasture Ranch: Modoc County, 427 acres, nice home, 400 acres irrigated.

2.5 miles Pit River frontage, priced at $1,600,000.

Fisher Ranch: Modoc County, 2,808 acres, 465 irrigated, USFS and BLM permits, older nice home, 200 cows included. Priced at 2,999,000.

Hooker Creek Ranch: Tehama County, 1,023 acres, winter range, large ponds, recreation, electric, well, septic, telephone. Priced at $1,095,000.

19855 S. Main St. P.O. Box 1020 Cottonwood, CA 96022 Office: 530/347-9455 Fax: 530/347-4640 homeranchr@aol.com

R.G. DAVIS, BROKER

Rubicon Ranch: Tehama County, 2,082 acres, Hunting Ranch, pigs, deer, quail dove. Ponds and creek. Priced at $1,350,000.

Spring Meadow Ranch: Shasta County, 160 acres, water rights, 50 acres irrigated, large home, swimming pool, barn, shop. Priced at $699,000.

Trinity River Ranch: Trinity County, 117 acres, 5,000 ft. Trinity River frontage, excellent trout fishing.

Priced at $665,000.

Kelley Ranch: Modoc County, 658 acres, 156 acres irrigated, three houses, barn, shop. Priced at $900,000 Paskenta Ranch: Tehama County, 487 acres, house, corrals, barns. Approx.

200 acres, class one soil. New well, nursery-orchard. Priced at $1,795,000 Horse Ranch: Tehama County. 26+ acres, 14 acres irrigated, house, corrals, 120x200 covered arena. 140 ft. cutting arena, 16-stall barn, Cottonwood Creek frontage. Priced at $1,350,000

“EAGER SELLERS” 1,350 -1,400 AU’s YEAR ROUND – WINTER RANGE – 11,750 DEEDED PLUS BLM and STATE LEASES - ONE CONTIGUOUS BLOCK - LOW OVERHEAD – GOOD IMPROVEMENTS – 10 MINUTES TO TOWN and SCHOOLS -$6,000,000 – CAN CUT TO 1,000 HD AND REDUCE PRICE! – P BAR 225 – 250 AU’s - 850 DEEDED (650 irrigated) – 1-1/2 MILE RIVER - NICE MEADOWS – MODEST IMPROVEMENTS WITH GREAT WORKING FACILITIES – CLOSE TO TOWN and SCHOOLS - $1,800,000 – WANT OFFER -CAN ADD CUSTOM HOME AND 80 ACRES – GREAT STOCKER OPERATION – LYMAN – RAE @ 208-761-9553 LIFESTYLE RANCH 55 MILES TO BOISE – 2,213 DEEDED ACRES PLUS STATE AND BLM – DROP DEAD PRIVATE – 2 MILES MAJOR STREAM – BEHIND LOCKED GATE – COMFORTABLE IMPROVEMENTS – ELK, DEER, TURKEY, CHUKAR, HUNS, QUAIL, WATERFOWL - BEAR, LION AND VARMINT – TROUT and BASS PONDS - $1,400,000 – WANT OFFER – TURKEY CREEK LIFESTYLE – 320 DEEDED ACRES (105 irrigated) COMFORTABLE IMPROVEMENTS – SPECTACULAR VIEWS – BORDERS FEDERAL LANDS – ELK, DEER, TURKEY – ONLY MINUTES TO SOME OF THE FINEST YEAR LONG FISHING IN THE NORTHWEST – STEELHEAD, STURGEN, TROUT, BASS, CRAPPY AND MORE - $690,000 – WANT OFFER – POSY -RAE @ 208-761-9553 LIFESTYLE/INCOME – POSSIBLY THE FINEST WILDLIFE VARIETY/QUANITY AVAILABLE – 1,160 DEEDED ACRES (180 irrigated) – 2-1/2 MILES RIVER – 2 BASS PONDS – PLENTIFUL QUAIL, CHUKAR, DOVE, PHEASANT, WATERFOWL, DEER and AND VARMINTS - EXCELLENT IMPROVEMENTS – COW/CALF AND/OR STOCKER OPERATION FOR INCOME /TAX ADVANTAGE - $1,900,000 – LANDRETH

AGRILANDS Real Estate www.agrilandsrealestate.com Vale, Oregon • 541/473-3100 • jack@fmtcblue.com

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THE LIVESTOCK MARKET DIGEST INTEREST RATES AS LOW AS 3%. PAYMENTS SCHEDULED ON 25 YEARS

JOE STUBBLEFIELD & ASSOCIATES 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX 806/622-3482 • cell 806/674-2062 Drew Perez Assocs.

Nara Visa, NM • 806/392-1788

5-acre Horse Set-up: Location-location, only 2+ miles north of Mountain Grove on Girlstown Rd. New fencing, 20x40 new 3-stall horse barn/shop/1-car garage, 1,300 sq. ft. , 3-br., 2ba. manufactured home, wrap around deck ( 2 sides), nestled down your private drive. MLS #1010102 675 Acres Grass Runway, Land your own plane: Major Price Reduction. 3 BR, 2 BA home down 1 mile private land. New 40x42 shop, 40x60 livestock barn, over 450 acres in grass.

(Owner runs over 150 cow/calves, 2 springs, 20 ponds, 2 lakes, consisting of 3.5 & 2 acres. Both stocked with fish. Excellent fencing. A must farm to see. MLS #1010371 483 Acres, Hunter Mania: Nature at her best.

Don’t miss out on this one. Live water (two creeks).

70+ acres open in bottom hayfields and upland grazing. Lots of timber (marketable and young) for the best hunting and fishing (Table Rock, Taney Como and Bull Shoals Lake) Really cute 3-bd., 1ba stone home. Secluded yes, but easy access to Forsyth-Branson, Ozark and Springfield. Property joins Nat’l. Forest. MLS#908571 See all my listings at: paulmcgilliard.murney.com

PAUL McGILLIARD Cell: 417/839-5096 • 1-800/743-0336

MURNEY ASSOC., REALTORS

August 15, 2010

TO PLACE YOUR LISTINGS HERE, PLEASE CALL DEBBIE CISNEROS AT 505/332-3675, OR EMAIL DEBBIE@ AAALIVESTOCK.COM

Real Estate

GUIDE O’NEILL

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

LAND, LLC

www.swranches.com

Cimarron River Property, reduced to $359,000: 10.91± deeded acres, 2,700± sq. ft. home.

West edge of town w/water frontage on the Cimarron River, some water rights and a private lake.

This is the end of the road with awesome views of the mountains in a quiet peaceful village.

Cimarron, Colfax County, N.M. Foreman Property, reduced to $415,000: 559.10± deeded acres, Private 2,000± sq. ft. home.

Custom rock work. Horse barn, two-car garage, two hay barns, 5 pastures. Excellent spring gravitational feed-to-trough, house on city water system less than 5 years old, septic system brought up to code. 0.8 mile driveway, mature cottonwood trees, very private, 4 miles east of Springer, Colfax County, N.M. Canadian River Ranch, reduced to $299,000: 39.088± deeded acres, with 0.3 miles of the Canadian River going through the property. Excellent partially remodeled home, workshop on concrete slab, roping arena. Exceptional improvements at this price, located 6 miles east of Springer, Colfax County, N.M. Great horse property, easy access off pavement.

Miami Lookout, $395,000: 80.00± deeded acres in Miami, N.M. Approximately 60' x 60' metal building, utilities buried, water and septic in place. All back off highway up the mesa on private driveway, affording majestic views. Currently owner parks 5th wheel during summer months. Utilities could accommodate a 3 bedroom home. Has trees and irrigation shares. Colfax County, Miami, N.M. Spear Road Ranch, $700,000: 160± deeded acres, with exceptional three bedroom 3 bath home, approx 2,200 sq ft. Adjacent office, 3 car garage and workshop, one round pen, 150' x 300' arena. Convenient to I-25, fantastic views of mountains and the plains. Second manufactured home on site. Water shares and three water meters. Approximately 5 miles NE of Springer, NM.

KEVIN C. REED Ranchers Serving Ranchers

RANCH SALES & APPRAISALS

Texas and New Mexico

LEE, LEE & PUCKITT

Office: 325/655-6989 Cell: 915/491-9053

ASSOCIATES INC.

1002 Koenigheim, San Angelo, TX 76903 • www.llptexasranchland.com • llp@wcc.net

PREMIER RANCH FOR SALE 12,000 acres, Terrell County, Texas.

Southwest of Sheffield, southeast of Fort Stockton. Excellent hunting ranch, mainly deer (whitetail and mule) and turkey. New hunter’s lodge and walk-in freezer. Surface rights only; no minerals. Principals only. $400/acre, cash.

billkalil@juno.com • 432/683-0990 • 432/349-8448

Western View Ranch, $259,235: 373± deeded acres, located one mile east of Taylor Springs.

Windmill, stock pond, highway frontage, electricity and amazing views of N.M. and Southern Colorado mountains. Traditionally used for yearlings, in great shape. Would make nice escape. Approximately 8 miles E of Springer, N.M.

SPRINGFIELD, MO 65804

O’NEILL AGRICULTURAL, LLC “Offers computer-generated color custom mapping service on digital USGS base maps. Hang a map in your office that looks like your ranch, w/water lines, pastures and roads etc. Put your ranch on one piece of paper.”

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monday, september 13 • 9am At the Rita Blanca Coliseum - Dalhart, TX

• IRRIGATED FARMLAND • CRP • DRYLAND ACRES • FEEDYARD Directions to the Property: Tracts 1-14 are located approx. 18 miles N.W.of Dalhart, TX on the north side of Hwy 87.

Tract 15 is located approx. 13 miles N.W. of Dalhart on the south side of Hwy 87. Watch for Auction Signs!

INFORMATION DATES: Tuesday, August 17 – 9:00am to 10:00am Tuesday, August 31 – 9:00am to 10:00am Meet a Westchester representative at the Rita Blanca Coliseum - 1.2 miles west of Hwy 87 on FM 281 in southeast Dalhart, TX. We look forward to meeting with you to discuss any questions you have.

in conjunction with Westchester Real Estate of Texas. Rex Schrader #0013222

NEVADA RANCHES and FARMS

MASON MOUNTAIN RANCH Nothern Elko County ranch with 3700 deeded acres and a small BLM permit. Great summer pasture with free water from springs, creeks and seeps. No power but land line phone.

The ranch received 1 landowner Elk Tag this year.

The irrigation reservior on Mason Creek is stocked with Red Band trout. Several useful buildings including home with gravity flow water and propane lights, water heater and refrigerator.

The ranch should run 300 pair for the season.

Price: $1,575,000.

Bottari Realty Out West Realty Network Affiliate

Call for Brochure 800-607-6888 • 217-352-6000 or Visit our Website: www.westchester-auctions.com

PAUL D. BOTTARI, BROKER www.bottarirealty.com • paul@bottarirealty.com

Ofc.: 775/752-3040 Res: 775/752-3809 • Fax: 775/752-3021

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August 15, 2010

TEXAS & OKLA. FARMS & RANCHES • 503 Ac. So. Navarro Co., Texas.

It’s got it all. $1,950/ac.

• 532-acre CATTLE and HUNTING, N.E. Texas ranch, elaborate home, one-mile highway frontage. OWNER FINANCE at $2,150/ac.

• 274 ac. in the shadow of Dallas. Secluded lakes, trees, excellent grass. Hunting and fishing, dream home sites. $3,850/ac.

• 535-ac. Limestone, Fallas and Robertson Co., fronts on Hwy. 14 and has rail frontage, water line, to ranch, fenced into 5 pastures, 2 sets, cattle pens, loamy soil, good quality trees, hogs and deer, hunting. Priced at $2,300/ac.

• 1,700-acre classic N.E. Texas cattle and hunting ranch. $2,750/ac. Some mineral production.

• 146 ac. – Horse, hunting are cattle ranch N. of Clarksville, TX. Red River Co. Nice brick house, 2 barns, pipe fences, good deer, hogs, ducks, hunting. Price at $395,000.

• 256 ac. – E. Texas jewel. Deep, sandy soil, high, rolling hills, scattered good-quality trees.

Excellent improved grasses, water line on 2 sides. Road frontage on 2 sides, fenced into 5 pastures. Five spring-fed tanks and lakes, deer, hogs, ducks. Near Tyler and Athens. Price $1,920,000.

Joe Priest Real Estate 1205 N. Hwy 175, Seagoville, TX 75159

972/287-4548 • 214/676-6973 1-800/671-4548 www.joepriest.com joepriestre@earthlink.com

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Dean Newberry Real Estate • Farm • Ranch • CRP Land • Dairy Locations O: 806/364-4042 • F: 806/364-4350 108 East 3rd • P.O. Box 966, Hereford, TX 79045

OREGON OPPORTUNITIES Real Estate

~ SOUTHERN OREGON ~ Farm/Ranch ~ Rural ~ Timber Recreational Properties View available properties at: www.orop.com

267.60-acre ranch! Tall trees and meadows surround the historic lodge. Multiple living quarters in private setting.

Gravity wheel line irrigation system irrigates 240 acres.

Over 12,000' of drain tile insure highly productive meadows. Two large barns and range rights. $2,700,000.

Exquisite 40-acre property! Irrigation, a private bass lake and deeded access to the Rogue River. Meticulously landscaped grounds with vineyard potential. Shop, horse barn and arena, spa, sauna, tennis court, salt water pool.

Fabulous views. $3,800,000.

Scenic creek front property! 328-acre ranch, 1865 water rights for 100 acres. Two homes. Currently running 65 cows.

Indoor arena, 2 feed barns, one with covered working cattle equipment. $1,500,000.

Private 314-acre ranch! Two modern homes. 54 irrig. acres.

1/2 mile of creek frontage. Outdoor arena, stalls, working pens and hay storage. Gorgeous views. $2,500,000.

River frontage! 250 remote acres with older free irrig. rights for 116 ac. Two homes, numerous outbuildings.

Currently a horse breeding operation. 11 stalls, covered round pen, outdoor arena. $1,200,000.

Tom Harrison, CCIM • 800/772-7284 • harrison@orop.com

www.deannewberryrealestate.com Cell: 806/346-2081 • Res.: 806/363-6722 • Email: dnre@wtrt.net 1301 Front St. Dimmitt, TX 79027

Ranch and Farm Real Estate

Ben G. Scott, Krystal M. Nelson – Brokers 800/933-9698 day/night www.scottlandcompany.com

This ad is just a small sample of the properties that we currently have for sale. Please check our website and give us a call!

We need your listings both large and small, all types of ag properties (ESP. CRP).

TOM GREEN CO., TX. DAIRY – Capable of milking 1,500 in a parallel double 16 rapid exit parlor, nice home, 171 acres, additional adj. land available, pavement and all weather road, near San Angelo.

QUAY CO., NM – 880 acres, 3 pivots, alfalfa, homes, barns and pens, pavement.

“Advertising with Livestock Market Digest and New Mexico Stockman for the past couple years has been a very positive experience. We have worked directly with Debbie Cisneros and she goes above and beyond!

Both publications offer a great circulation and a great website presence which helps us market more effectively for our clients.

By advertising with them we get the results we desire.”

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Call 208/345-3163 for catalog.

KNIPE LAND CO. RANCHES FARMS COMMERCIAL Established 1944

Call me today. As a fellow farm owner and operator, I understand the unique challenges faced by agriculture and am here to help you in meeting your goals, whether buying or selling.

PAUL STOUT, QUALIFYING BROKER 3352 State Road 209, Broadview, NM 88112 O: 575/357-2060 • C: 575/760-5461 • F: 575/357-2050 paul@firstalternativerealty.com www.firstalternativerealty.com

www.orop.com

MAIN OFFICE: 40070 W. Hwy 84 P.O. Box 1, Stanfield, AZ 85172 Toll-Free: 866/424-9173 F: 520/424-3843 JIM OLSON Designated Broker – Arizona Qualifying Broker – New Mexico

Idaho-Oregon

LOOKING TO SELL YOUR FARM, RANCH, OR RURAL HOME?

www.azranchrealestate.com www.nmranchrealestate.com Harquahala Ranch: A nice little desert ranch located in west Maricopa County.

Owner/Agent Asking $159,000 – CONTRACT PENDING! Antelope Creek Ranch: A nice ranch in Yavapai County close to Phoenix and Prescott. Good feed conditions, strong stocking rate and small size of the ranch make it an enjoyable ranch to own and operate. Call Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069 or Katie Leibold at 602/319-0370. PRICE REDUCED! $160,000 A-1 Ranch: Working cattle ranch in Coconino County. Summer grazing permit. 175 Hd June 1 to Oct. 31. 10 Deeded acres. Forest and State Leases. Call Troy Cooke at 928/5320055. PRICE REDUCED! $275,000 Immigrant Springs Ranch: Beautiful Ranch in Apache County. 2 houses, huge barn, springs, well. 1,320 deeded acres. 660 State Lease 54 HD year round. OWNER MAY CARRY! Call Troy Cooke at 928/532-0055. Asking $989,000 Antelope Ranch: A beautiful working cattle ranch in Cochise County. Over 8 sections of deeded land. Headquarters and Managers house, 2 adobe barns and a shop. Working corrals with large pens, heavy squeeze chute, tub, scale, semi and truck trailer loading alleys. OWNER MAY CARRY! Owner/Agent Call Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069. PRICE REDUCED! $2,975,000 Peterson Ranch: A very nice home with over 4100 Deeded acres and Arizona State Grazing Lease in Cochise County. 625 HD year long, well watered and highly improved.

Call Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069. Asking $3,500,000 Long H Ranch – SOLD! 350-Head year round. 53 Sec. State/BLM/Private Leases Silver Creek Ranch – SOLD! (Ranch Only – No Home) Show Low, Arizona Franco Ranch – SOLD! 13± Sections of Arizona State Grazing Lease, 80 HD yearlong Bombing Range Ranch – SOLD! Arizona State Grazing Permit. 72 HD yearlong

GREAT NEVADA RANCH!

GREAT PRICE!

10,000 acres deeded, including 4,000 ac. irrigated grass meadow, alfalfa production.

Numerous water rights to surface and underground water, USFS permit in excellent mountain country for 976 head in summer months, 7298 AUM’s BLM for spring and fall. Can run 1,000 head during drought conditions and an additional 2,000 on wet years.

Priced to sell at 3.5 million.

DON BOWMAN, LLC Don Bowman, Broker 775/745-1734 Joe Dahl Sales 775/427-6287

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NMCGA to Hold Video Contest

PACOFEEDYARD,LTD. Commercial Cattle Feeders

Excellent Facility & Feeding Program OWNED BY FRIONA AREA CATTLEMEN

Feed & Cattle Financing Available

CAPACITY 35,000 Located in the Heart of Cattle Feeding Country 10 Miles South of Friona on Hwy. 214

1/800-725-3433 • 806/265-3281

he New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) and the Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc. invites youth between the ages of 12 and 19 to create a short video that presents an inspiring story about ranching and New Mexico Agriculture.

Young people are encouraged to make a video that illustrates how your New Mexico ranch family helps feed New Mexicans and the world, how ranchers care about the environment and care for their animals.

“Let your creativity flow — feel free to use music, humor, or other formats to help celebrate

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New Mexico ranchers,” says Alisa Ogden, NMCGA Immediate Past President, Loving.

“NMCGA recognizes the important role that young farmers and ranchers have in the future of agriculture” said Bert Ancell, NMCGA President, Bell Ranch. “It is the youth of today that will emerge as the leaders of tomorrow. This is why the Association dedicated a committee to the younger generation, the Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee (YCLC) and the Junior Cattle Growers’ Association.”

Ranch families are active members of their communities and belong to organizations like

local 4-H and FFA, church councils and social clubs. They’re also hard working people, dedicated to providing safe, wholesome and nutritious beef as well as caring for wildlife and the land Their consistent care for animals and improvements to farms and ranches are vital to making sure New Mexico and America has the safest, most environmentally friendly beef supply in the world.

Deadline for submission is Nov. 30, 2010.

The winning videos will be posted on YouTube, as well as receive prizes: 1st place will receive $500, 2nd place $300, and 3rd place $200. To get an entry form please go to www.nmagricul ture.org, or for more information please contact the NMCGA office at 505/247-0584, or by email at nmcga@nmagriculture.org.

Feller Hughs, Manager Paco Feed Yard, Ltd. • Box 956, Friona, TX 79035

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resident Obama’s health care overhaul is designed to cover the uninsured by changing how the government spreads its social safety net, says the Wall Street Journal.

The new law taps a program for the elderly to help provide insurance to 32 million Americans of younger generations. Nearly half the funding is supposed to come from paying lower fees to hospitals, insurers and other health care providers that participate in Medicare, the federal insurance program for Americans age 65 and older, as well as younger disabled people, says the Journal: The 44 million Americans on Medicare won’t see changes to their guaranteed benefits under the law.

But of those, 11.3 million on Medicare Advantage plans (a public-private hybrid) are likely to begin seeing extra benefits go away as soon as next year.

Medicare Advantage cuts are slated to pay for 15 percent of the health care law’s tab.

The White House says the health law doesn’t take from seniors to help younger generations, but instead eliminates overpayments to private companies, particularly insurers that run Medicare plans.

By lowering payments to health providers, the new law extends the life of Medicare’s trust fund by 12

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years, according to an actuarial report from Medicare’s umbrella agency.

Stuart Butler, a vice president at the Heritage Foundation, says the White House is misrepresenting the benefits that accrue from Medicare payment cuts. “It uses it to create a new entitlement for a separate group of people rather than strengthening” the program, he says. Moreover, such cuts alone don’t pay for the law.

According to Heritage: The law will spend $938 billion over a decade, mostly to expand coverage to lower-income Americans.

To finance that, there will be $455 billion coming from cuts in government payments to health care providers that serve patients on Medicare and two other federal programs.

The hardest hit — to the tune of $136 billion — will be private insurance companies that run Medicare Advantage plans.

The Congressional Budget Office says on average, Medicare Advantage enrollees will get $68 less a month in benefits by 2019 because of the law.

The payment cuts to Medicare Advantage begin in 2012.

Source: Janet Adamy, “Health Law Augurs Transfer of Funds From Old to Young,” Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2010.

Senators Oppose Stricter PM10 Limit bipartisan coalition of 21 senators is urging EPA not to tighten its national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for large particulate matter (PM10), warning that a stricter standard could impose significant costs on the agricultural sector — a large source of PM10.

In a July 23 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the senators urge EPA to retain the PM10 air standard of 150 micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3) and claim that a stricter limit might be impossible for some

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states to meet. EPA’s latest policy assessment for its ongoing review of the standard includes a first-time proposed stricter range of between 65 and 85 ug/m3.

“A coarse PM NAAQS of 6585 ug/m3 would be twice as stringent as the current standard.

The current standards have been difficult if not impossible for industries in the Western portion of the country to attain, including agricultural operations,” the senators say.

The farming and mining industries are large sources of PM10, and they have already criticized the July 8 policy assessment as difficult to attain. Dust emitted by the industries contributes to PM10 formation, but the sectors argue that they are already taking all feasible steps to control dust and there may be no options for cutting their dust emissions to meet a stricter standard.

“I think that agricultural operations . . . would have a very difficult time achieving a standard set that low,” a National Cattlemen’s Beef Association source said recently.

The senators echo these arguments in their letter to Jackson, warning that a tougher standard would be “extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers.” The senators point to projected higher costs to farmers stemming from “excessive dust control measures.”

The senators also highlight EPA’s statement in its policy paper of considerable uncertainty associated with PM10, caused by limited monitoring data and other restrictions. The senators say this uncertainty could justify EPA retaining its existing NAAQS. “Since EPA would be justified in retaining the current standard, then the current standard should be retained,” they write.

The letter comes as EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee July 26 launched a two-day meeting to review the agency’s draft policy assessment.

The policy paper also makes recommendations for more-stringent standards for fine PM. New Mexico’s senior Senator Jeff Bingaman wrote his own letter to the EPA on the issue.