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Big Names, Little Pills

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m not proud of this but I take 20 pills per day to stay alive, which goes a long way in explaining why my writing may appear loopy. Every time I go to a different specialist they ask me what drugs I’m taking, which would be no problem if the drugs had simple names. But no, the drug companies want to make it difficult so the docs write prescriptions in handwriting you can’t read, for drugs none of us can spell. Or pronounce. They aren’t even words. That could be a deadly combination and you could end up with an 88-year-old lady taking Viagra instead of her blood pressure medicine.

Making it worse, every drug has at least two names, its own and a generic. Gabapentin is generic for Neurontin, Benazepril is generic for Lotensin, Gemfibrozil is generic for Lopid and on and on. It’s as if they are trying to impress the FDA with their big sounding fake words. Why don’t they speak English? What are they trying to hide?

It seems that the smaller the pill the more difficult the name. And who among us can remember if Acetaminophen is Tylenol or Advil? Or is it Ibuprofren? It’s terribly confusing and perhaps that’s the point. Drug companies use such long words to confuse us and give us a headache so we have to buy even more pills for the pain.

Big pharma does the same thing with drugs we give our animals and they have evidently hired the same marketing firms who name their drugs to also name their companies.

For example, Pfizer, a trusted name in animal drugs for generations, renamed its animal division Zoetis. What’s a Zoetis? Then there are things like Zilmax and Zactran.

Makes you wonder if the wordsmiths who came up with these names are big Scrabble junkies and they needed more “z” words for triple letter scores.

Drug makers have merged and purged so much we had firms like CIBA-Geigy and Sandoz, GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, which sound more like law firms. Schering-Plough sounds like they make tractor

implements and Intervet sounds like it’s giving the veterinarian permission to come into your house or barn.

Consider the drugs Vetoquinol, Pyxis and Clamoxyquine. It’s as if they are on a mission to give rarely used letters of the alphabet equal rights. Even words that seem faintly familiar are misspelled, like Cylence Ultra. If you or I would have spelled “silence” that way in grammar school we’d have been held back a year.

Because ranchers are practical people we give these drugs nicknames to remember them. Clenbuterol becomes “bute” and Acerpromazine becomes “Ace”. Or we just refer to their size and color, as in, “Hey doc, I need some of those big blue pills for scours. Well they’re not for me really, they’re for my calves."

I just wish the names of the drugs would give some hint as to what they do. Tylan 200 is a great product but it gives no hint as to what it does; it sounds more like the name of a Nascar race. And what’s with all the numbers like Pyramid 5, Triangle 9 or Arsenal 4.1? They sound more like computer operating systems than they do drugs.

We should take a page from the pesticide people who name their products things like Ambush, Ammo, Avenge, Bullet, Lariat or Crossbow. Now that’s an Arsenal. (Another pesticide). The products you buy in a grocery store aren’t named this way. Instead they have simple names like Fritos, Snickers or Twinkies. If Proctor and Gamble or Kraft owned a drug company their ear tags would be called Swat and their scour pills would be known far and wide as Plug-It. There is one exception. Every time I see a Viagra or Cialis commercial I get red-in-the-face embarrassed and I certainly don't want the names of those pills describing on television exactly what it is they do!

Uh, oh, I better quit now because there’s smoke coming from my computer and I think I may have just fried my spell checker.

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E.C. Larkin Texas

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was reading a story the other day about hobos. I was interested in the hobo story because, much to my surprise, the more I read the more I realized how much they have much in common with auctioneers and ring men who work purebred cattle sales.

For example, hobos are always broke, never home, and always on the lookout for a good free meal. And did you know that the hobos have an annual convention and at this confab they elect a King? Some past Hobo Kings had names like El Paso Kid, Road Hog, Beefsteak Charley, and Scoop Shovel Scott.

Now if that doesn’t sound like the ring crew at a bull sale I don’t know what does.

If all the ring men and auctioneers in the cow business got together at Denver’s National Western, the Houston Stock Show or any other of a thousand places where ring men, field editors and auction men are known to gather, to elect a King I feel confident in saying that it would be E.C. Larkin of San Antonio, Texas.

That’s E.C., but in this case it sounds more like “Easy” than it does the letters of the alphabet; as in easy does it, easy to travel with, easy to do business with and easy to like.

E.C. is the publisher and owner and two monthly magazines, the Gulf Coast Cattlemen, which serves that part of the country with the most cows in the United States, and The Beefmaster Cowman, which is the official publication of the Beefmaster association. In addition to writing an always entertaining column in both periodicals, E.C. travels the country working all kinds of auctions. You may have seen him on television

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as he works the Barrett Jackson auto auction or the Keeneland sales in Kentucky where most of the great thoroughbred racehorses are sold. When he isn’t at these auctions, or working several real estate auctions around the country for Williams and Williams, he is most likely at a bull or female sale.

E.C. is also an auctioneer in his own right and a real estate broker.

If someone added up all the dollars worth of merchandise, from cars to cows, that E.C. has helped sell at auction over the past 45 years I have no doubt it would be in the billions. At the age of seventy E.C. has got more miles on him than a 1975 Peterbuilt and yet he keeps truckin’ on down the road.

E.C. is mutually loved and respected by auctioneers, ring men and ranchers alike.

The livestock magazine business is very competitive and ring men have been known to badmouth a competitor in the quietness of a car going down the road to another sale, but that’s what makes E.C. so unique, in over 40 years in the business I’ve never heard anyone say an unkind word about E.C. E.C is the very best at what he does and defines what a good ring man should be and how he should act, both at ringside and in public. Whether he is taking bids from billionaire foreign sheiks at Keeneland, selling foreclosed real estate to ruthless opportunists, or selling bulls to ranchers, E.C. is like a broken drum . . . he simply can’t be beat. In a region of the country that arguably has the very best ring men going down the

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road, E.C. is the best of the best. One reason there are so many good ring men in Texas is because young rookies got a chance to work and watch E.C. and they learned from the best.

There is yet another reason why livestock ring men and auctioneers admire and respect E.C. Every time they look in their date book to remind them which sale is next and where they need to be, they are reminded of their friend. In my file are little yearly date books, 40 of them to be exact. At least 30 of them were given to me by E.C., as he has given thousands of them to his friends over the years. Those date books tell the life story of countless ring men and auctioneers.

In this day and age when everyone seems to have a smart phone to keep track of dates, phones numbers and deadlines, E.C.’s datebooks are the reason some of us have never missed a bull sale. To be left off the mailing list one year might mean it’s time to sack the saddle, park the car and get off the road.

And if you are at a bull sale and there is a full complement of ring men and auctioncontinued on page 19 Livestock Market Digest

Craig Vejraska Washington

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raig Vejraska grew up ranching in north central Washington, and lives on the same ranch today. He started with Angus cattle in 1960 when he was about 12 years old. “My relatives in the Midwest had Angus. My family at that point in time had a commercial herd of Herefords and some Shorthorn crosses. I wanted to show heifers, and decided I wanted to show a black heifer,” he says.

“We went to a breeder (Bob Wagner) at Wilbur, Washington and bought a heifer. I bought another heifer that same year from Donnamere Angus (Mike Lindstrom) and started my little herd. The first bull I bought was from Appland Angus at Yakama, Washington, from Willard Catlin. That bull was a Springmere 210 son. Springmere 210 was a famous bull at that time in the Pacific Northwest. So this was my start. Today we

have about 800 cows, and I call my herd a runaway 4-H project!” says Craig.

“We’re still on the old home place (with some added acreage)—about 30 miles south of the Canadian border, on the dry side of the state. It’s high mountain desert. Our average rainfall is about 6 to 10 inches annually,” he says.

“We had our 53rd production sale this year. For awhile in the beginning we had a joint sale with some other people but for many years we’ve had our own sale,” says Craig.

The cattle run out on rangeland in summer, and are brought down to the valley for winter feeding. “We have 700 acres of cropland, raising mostly alfalfa and some corn silage on our irrigated ground. We sell a little hay but feed most of it to our cattle. Our summer range consists of some U.S. Forest Service and some Colville tribal lease—mak-

ing it about 300,000 acres altogether. The cattle have to cover a lot of country, so we get a chance to do a lot of horseback riding!”

Craig and his wife Mary Kay have four sons. Two of them, Todd and Scott, are involved with the ranching operation.

“They do most of the work now. I went from being the boss to being the go-for.

They’re always saying, ‘Dad, go for this,’ or ‘Dad, go for that’. I delivered most of the bulls this year—all but about 4 or 5 of them.

I enjoy that job, because I get to see everybody. It’s a chore, but an interesting one,” he says.

“Our bull sale customers are 99 percent repeat buyers so we get to know them pretty well. First we were selling to them, and now we are selling to their kids, and some of continued on page 14

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our customers are their grandkids!”

He and his wife have 7 grandchildren— four boys and three girls—ranging in age from 8 to 14 years of age. “The three little girls’ dad is here on the ranch, so they are actively involved. They enjoy showing steers and heifers, so we have another generation coming on. They ride with us in the hills and do other ranch chores. I think they enjoy it and they are really good help. They range in age from 7 to 14 and help with everything.

Their dad, Todd, makes sure they get to participate, in everything from changing water

to chasing cows,” says Craig. It’s fun to have family involved in the ranch, and fun to watch the grandkids grow up.

For 25 years he owned the local livestock market, so he’s been very involved in the cattle business. “Even though we farm, we have lots of black cows. Those black cows have paid for everything; they’ve been good to us,” he says.

He was president of the Western States Angus Association for several years, and president of the Washington State Angus.

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the very first one they had. We started it at Pullman, Washington and took those people across north central Washington showing them cattle and different kinds of farming.

None of us really knew what we were doing because nobody had ever done it before. We were blazing new trails. That’s when I was president and Mary Kay was secretary treasurer. We got it done,” he says.

His wife has been involved from the beginning, in the Angus Auxiliary. She just finished her last year on the National Angus Auxiliary Board, where she served for 6 years. She came from a farm/feedlot background in Nebraska when Craig met her.

“She adapted and has been actively involved in our cattle ranching. We can always count on Grandma to cook Sunday dinner when we are branding. When the grandkids were too little to help, Grandma was also the babysitter. She’s chased her share of cows around, too, but someone has to be the chief cook and bottle washer and keep us all organized. She keeps us lined out, and she’s the glue that holds it all together,” he says.

He has been very active in the state cattlemen’s association, served as a county commissioner, and helped fight for water rights that the government was trying to take away from producers. “It doesn’t seem to matter where you live, there are always issues we have to contend with, to survive.

Endangered species listings may set aside thousands of acres that we can no longer use, because of a snail or a bird. I’m glad that we’ve had a good relationship with the Colville tribes; they have been good to do business with and we feel lucky—because the ranchers over in Oregon don’t know if they have a future.”

Wolves are another issue that many western ranchers are now facing. “We have a wolf pack on the tribal permit called the Strawberry pack, near Strawberry Mountain. At this point we don’t really know if we’ve actually lost cattle to wolves. We go out there May 1 with the cattle, and by the time we get to see those cows all evidence of any kills is gone. We’ve lost cows out there in recent years but we haven’t actually seen wolves eating on a cow. For years we never lost a cow, then all of a sudden we started missing a few here and there and don’t know what happened to them; we don’t know if these losses are due to two-legged wolves or four-legged ones!”

Craig continues to be active in the cattle industry and is currently running as a board candidate for the American Angus Association for the coming year.

– by Heather Smith Thomas Livestock Market Digest

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calves. Clayton said the horse likes it and pulls hard on the rope which is the sign of a good calf roping horse.

Johnny also goes to club cuttings and anywhere else Clayton wants to take him.

All of this trainer’s horses get a well rounded education which keeps them happy with their job. One of the best things that Clayton told me was that his horses normally get turned out to pasture after a big show.

Wouldn’t you like to be a show horse in Clayton’s barn?

The rest of the story is that during the finals of the Open Cow Work during the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Clayton and Johnny were going down the fence and a cow hit Johnny in the shoulder which flipped the horse with Clayton ending up underneath. Needless to say Clayton ended up with a broken rib, bruised lung, and an injured knee.

In true cowboy fashion, since the horse was fine and they got Clayton out of the arena and his friend Justin Wright was able to complete the cow horse run on Johnny which assured Clayton a check. Edsall and Johnny ended up winning over $17,000 for their efforts at the Snaffle Bit Futurity.

It seems that Clayton Edsall was raised on the family ranch in Montana where they ran a cow calf operation. He was also influenced by his grandfather Earl Stuckey on the Flying B Ranch where they ran about four thousand mother cows.

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layton Edsall and his horse “Johnny” Isolena raised lots of eyebrows at the 2013 National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit Futurity held in Reno, Nevada last October. Clayton and Johnny made their mark at the Futurity by tying to win the herd work portion of the competition with Corey Cushing, Scottsdale, Arizona.

At the time Johnny was an unregistered American Quarter Horse which is unusual for horses competing at that level. It was initially reported that Johnny was just a grade ranch horse out of the pasture. While technically he was unregistered he was a very nicely bred horse by Quejanisalena, a son of Smart Little Lena, that earned $340,000.

He is out of the great mare Dual Train, a daughter of Dual Peppy.

Not too long after the herd work win at the futurity Johnny was registered with the American Quarter Horse Association. However, even though this incident turned out a little different than originally reported it is still a fascinating story.

Johnny Isolena was raised by Clayton Edsall at his Clayton Edsall Cow Horses located in Clements, California.

As a colt Johnny was kind of a hard case.

He tended to be plagued with eye infections as he was born with no tear ducts. Clayton liked the horse, but he remained quite sickly and hard to get consistent training on because of his malady, thus the lack of an early registration.

Clayton did some research and finally was able to find a way to help Johnny. In August of his three-yearold year Johnny had some corrective surgery for his eye problem and by October he was competing at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity.

What an incredible turn around!

Now, this is not your typical show horse story because there is nothing typical about horse trainer Clayton Edsall. Clayton’s horses don’t just go from the stall to the arena and back again. These horses seem to do everything around the ranch. For instance one of Clayton’s favorite things to do with Johnny is to rope

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Clayton Edsall & the horse Johnny Isolena at the Snaffle Bit Futurity at Reno in 2013.

of Tom and Bill Dorrance, Ray Hunt, and Buck Branaman. These folks were often at the Stuckey ranch so Clayton was exposed to some of America’s best horsemen. Also featured at the Stuckey Ranch were horsemen Bryan and Joe Neubert colt starting clinics.

As a young man Clayton traveled a bit working for ranches and other horse trainers in several western states while honing his craft. He even started polo pony colts in Indio, California.

With his ranching and training background it is quite obvious to Clayton that horses are not dumb and need lots of different activity to stimulate their minds. He seemed to think some training programs were designed to dumb down horses and make their life monotonous. No wonder so many horses get bored when they are constantly in an arena.

He also recognizes the value in turning a horse out to pasture for a break from the rigors of horse show training. Horses are designed to move and will remain healthier and happier when they can do that.

Another thing that I gathered from my conversations with Clayton is that he is pretty happy with his life. He loves horses and the everyday training of them.

His girlfriend is Chelsea Barney who shares Clayton’s love of training horses. I bet folks will be reading a lot about her, too, in the near future. As a matter of fact Chelsea Barney won the Limited Non Pro class at the same event. She had a spectacular go. Watch the leader board at the next big working cow horse event because I bet you will see Clayton Edsall trained horses at the top.

– By Barry Denton Editor’s note: Barry writes a monthly column for the Livestock Market Digest called “View from the Backside”. Barry is an accomplished farrier, photographer and horseman. He and his wife Laurel live and ranch on the Bar U Bar Ranch in Skull Valley, Arizona, where they raise Quarter Horses and Longhorn cattle.

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Frank Fox California

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f you are reading this story, have read my column, or subscribed to the Digest any time during the past 31 years you have one man to thank because he made it all possible. His name is Frank Fox and he was my teacher, a mentor, and a dear friend.

Have you ever gone back in your life and identified the turning points, those moments that determined what you would do with your life? My biggest turning point came in the summer of 1973 when I met the woman I would marry, and got the job that would determine my life’s work. None of that would have happened without Frank.

I first met Frank in high school at a judging field day where he and the Dean of Agriculture of California Polytechnic College, (it wasn’t called a university then) were in attendance. You were bound to see them, or another Cal Poly representative, at any field day, bull sale or industry function. The professors were different back then, they were widely traveled and more highly visible. It was almost like they were scouting the players and deciding in the back of their minds who they wanted to come to Cal Poly, one of the great ag schools in the country. The list of Cal Poly graduates who have assumed a prominent role in the beef industry is almost endless.

From the time I met the Dean and Frank Fox at that field day there would be no debate where I would go to college. It was Cal Poly or bust for me.

If Frank was to apply today to become a professor and the beef cattle specialist at Poly he wouldn't be given the slightest consideration because he had no fancy initials after his name. No PhD was he. Prior to coming to Cal Poly he had been a high school ag instructor in northern California.

Perhaps the lack of a Doctorate was one of the things that made Frank so down-to-earth and accessible; a person that ranchers looked to for good practical advice.

Once I got to Cal Poly Frank played a prominent role in my life and he made it possible for me to finish college in three years. I had to because the cash horde I’d made showing steers and working summers in the oil fields was gone. Back then students didn’t mortgage their futures by going

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in debt up to their eyeballs for a degree that may, or may not, pay off. Frank made it possible for me to finish up by arranging for me to live for free at Herdsman Hall. He also got me jobs on the various animal units and it was Frank who went to bat for me with the administration who eventually gave me permission to take 31 units my last quarter, when 18 units was considered a full load.

Frank also got me my first two jobs after I graduated. My first was working on a purebred Angus ranch where one of my responsibilities was attending the Cal Poly Bull Sale where the owner I worked for had some bulls. At the sale that day Frank introduced me to a friend of his by the name of Dick Crow, publisher of the Western Livestock Journal. Frank explained to me that Dick was looking for a field editor to cover the southern half of California, part of Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Frank thought the job was a natural for me. My reaction was, “Are you kidding me? WLJ? The only periodical I had ever used my own money for a subscription and whose pictures covered the enclosed porch that served as my bedroom growing up?”

The only problem was the job called for selling ads, taking pictures, writing stories and working ring at bull sales, none of which I’d ever done before or taken any classes in. I’d never even given one thought to getting into publishing, as my goal was to either become a large animal vet or a rancher, despite the fact I didn’t have a ranch, any money, or even a horse I could call my own.

Thanks to Frank’s strong recommendation Dick hired me and within two weeks of that meeting I was traveling with Dick and Mack Jones, WLJ’s head of field staff. There were many times I wondered if I’d made a mistake because I couldn’t take good photos, I didn’t know what I was doing ringside, the people I worked with were much older than me, and no one would teach me. I really didn’t like the travel and being away from my wife either. But the one thing I liked, I loved, and that was writing. That WLJ job would eventually lead to buying the Digest along with Chuck Stocks, Skinner Hardy and Bill Lefty and, as they say, the rest is history. But it all started with Frank Fox.

Skinner Hardy (l) presents a champion trophy to Frank Fox (r) at the Western Stockmen's Market All Breed Bull Sale in Famoso, California in 1982.

In my new job Frank encouraged me and put in a good word for me every chance he got. He was a big supporter of the Digest and would often use it in his classes as a teaching tool. I spoke to many of his classes.

Frank also had a full load at Poly, besides lecturing, he was in charge of Cal Poly’s much respected purebred herds, commercial herd and bull test. He also got around to all the cattle events in the state.

I think it was the bull sale where Frank had his biggest impact on the industry. In its earlier years the Cal Poly test and sale featured fat two-year-old bulls and no one I can think of was using yearling bulls at that time. To even think of it was beef cattle heresy. I don’t know where Frank got the initial idea but he really turned heads when he announced flatly that the Cal Poly Bull Sale and Test would henceforth be only for yearling bulls. You should have heard the outrage from purebred breeders and commercial men alike. Many outstanding consignors quit the sale. It was only because the idea was coming from Frank and that he had such a great reputation within the industry that ranchers supported that first yearling bull sale.

Along with the bull sale there was a field day that featured many of the best minds in the business through the years. Frank used the field day to sell the idea of using yearling bulls and he also instructed ranchers on how to use them differently than older bulls. The use of yearling bulls has always reminded me of Certified Angus Beef in that it was an “overnight sensation” that only took ten years to gain some acceptance. Of course, now days yearling bulls are the norm and two year olds are as rare as clean socks in a bunkhouse. Frank can take a lot of credit for that and I think it is one of his biggest legacies.

I’ve only kept in contact with three of my Livestock Market Digest

teachers through the years: Bill Jacobs my Cal Poly livestock judging coach, Gordon Woods my high school vo ag instructor and FFA adviser, and Frank. For many years after college I saw him all the time because we lived within 20 miles of one another and he was always at cattle and Cal Poly events I attended as part of my job. Later he and his wonderful wife Wanda moved to northern California to be nearer their grown-up kids.

But even then we stayed in touch and I remember fondly having breakfast with he and Wanda whenever I’d get go to a bull sale close to his home. The last time I saw him he came to my house and we talked for hours. Frank was like a favorite pair of slippers . . . always so comfortable. I specifically remember laughing about one of the funnier lessons Frank taught me.

Despite everyone saying it’s impossible for a town kid without a ranch, or an inheritance, to become a cattlemen I did it. My wife and I had a cow herd, ran some stockers and I was always trading on cattle. One time Frank said he needed a very specific type and weight of cattle to run a test for a pharmaceutical company. He asked me if I knew where he could find some and it just so happened that I had a load of just such

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cattle in my inventory. So we set a date to ship the cattle and Frank offered to bring another hand to help gather and load the cattle. I said it wasn’t necessary but he could if he wanted. So on shipping day Frank shows up with another instructor at Poly who just so happened to be the sheep specialist. He was an industry leader in the sheep business but a cowboy? Not so much.

We gathered the cattle from a small trap where my wife and I had put them the night before. Frank also brought along two Poly horses and I swear one of them must have been in the Cal Poly rodeo string’s herd of practice broncs. We saddled up to bring in the cattle but every time we got them near the entrance to the corrals here would come the sheep specialist on his wild bronc dispersing the cattle in the four directions of the compass. We did this about five times and I was starting to get a little suspicious.

Then after we finally got them in the big corrals and tried to push them into the shipping pen here would come the sheepherder again. Four hours later we finally got the cattle loaded for the short trip to Poly where they would be weighed off car for the pay weight. By the time they got there their tongues were hanging out, they were cut in

two and ganted up like a lost Death Valley tourist. That was the best lesson I ever got about shrink.

When I think about that day now a smile creeps across my face.

One of my motivations in life was to pay Frank back for having such confidence in me and to make him feel proud of me. Truth be told, I think I might have been the teacher’s pet. That feeling was reinforced when one of Frank’s daughters called me with the news of Frank’s passing this summer. She explained that Frank couldn’t communicate at the end of his life but his kids would take turns reading to him as he lay in bed. I got a warm feeling in my heart and a lump in my throat when she said that what they read to him were my books. She said Frank was in pain but the stories brought a smile to his face. It is at times like these that I'm so grateful to have become a writer.

With Frank’s help, of course.

So with Caren’s permission, I’d like to dedicate this edition of the Livestock Market Digest’s Fall Marketing Edition to my great friend and teacher, Frank Fox, because without him I feel quite confident the Digest would have died a quiet death 30 years ago.

– by Lee Pitts

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Working Ranch Cowboys Association Texas

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or most ranchers and working cowboys, there’s not much that’s more fun to watch than a ranch rodeo. Across the country, ranch rodeos large and small are becoming more and more popular, bringing people together to share in friendly competition and camaraderie – whether participants or spectators.

The Working Ranch Cowboys Association (WRCA), based in Amarillo, Texas, has taken that love of the sport to a whole new level, establishing a World Championship Ranch Rodeo and raising money to help and support working cowboys in need. “Our intent is to showcase and preserve the skills of working ranch cowboys,” said Gary Morton, founding WRCA board member and cowboy artist. “We wanted to bring the best cowboys from all over the country together in one place.”

Since getting started, the WRCA and its charitable arm, the Working Ranch Cowboys Foundation, have given away almost $2 million. They offer scholarships to ranch kids – automatic four-year scholarships as long as the recipients meet their requirements. The organization also helps in crisis situations for cowboys facing things like health problems, damage from fire, or last winter’s devastating blizzard in South Dakota. The organization also offers memberships to people – cowboys or not – who want to support its efforts.

“We have made money from day one,” Morton said.

Currently, there are 24 WRCA-sanctioned ranch rodeos across the country – from Florida to Montana and across the West, and the winning team from each rodeo is invited to compete at the WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo. This year’s championship, set for November 6 – 9 in Amarillo, Texas at the Amarillo Civic Center, will be the nineteenth annual rodeo.

“It’s more than just a rodeo,” Morton said, “and performances are often sold out.”

Over the same weekend, the WRCA also

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holds a ranch horse show, sanctioned by the Ranch Horse Association of America (RHAA), based in Abilene, Texas. The horse show runs during the day, with ranch rodeo performances in the evenings. Two trade shows: “Trappings” made up of 150 booths offering handcrafted items like cowboy gear, jewelry, and clothing; and the Ranch Expo, featuring pharmaceutical companies, cattle handling equipment, and other items, are open throughout the weekend, along with opportunities to enjoy cowboy music and poetry. The venue is a big part of the event’s success, he noted. “We literally melt the ice out of the hockey rink to hold the rodeo and handle the livestock behind the scenes. It is a lot of work, but there’s not a bad seat in the house. We never lose sight of the audience.”

The show also provides a platform to speak about the benefits of ranching, Morton explained. “Ranching is under attack from people who don’t understand it, don’t appreciate it, and don’t live it. We put the best spotlight we can on ranching, and hopefully people who don’t know much about agriculture will see the rodeo, like it, and start asking questions.”

It might seem strange to someone who’s not a cowboy – you don’t see many lawyers who go and play at law on the weekends – but cowboys play the same as they work, Morton said. “The sport of ranch rodeo is booming. Part of being a good cowboy is that competitive nature.”

“Something we didn’t anticipate is how far some teams will travel to compete,” he continued.

The organization got its start in 1995, when cowboys from across the country met in Amarillo to discuss the possibilities, Morton said. They started sanctioning rodeos and in 1996, held their first World Championship Ranch Rodeo, inviting 10 teams to compete. Over time, that number evolved to 24.

The WRCA has four employees in its

Amarillo office. A ten–member volunteer board of directors meets four times each year to provide direction. Staff and/or board members also travel to different rodeos throughout the year. “We always try to have someone at our WRCA-sanctioned ranch rodeos,” Morton noted.

Sanctioned rodeos must have a minimum of 10 teams competing and include five WRCA-approved events, one of which must be ranch bronc riding. “The rodeos don’t have to use WRCA rules. We know that people do things differently in different parts of the country,” Morton said. “We allow them to do things their way, and that gives each event local flavor.”

It is important that teams be legitimate ranch teams – made up of ranch owners, employees and/or day workers – and they must prove that through financials. To qualify, ranches must run at least 300 mother cows or 750 yearlings. “We want to remain as real a deal as we can, so we do the best we can to make sure they are legitimate ranch cowboys.”

Teams are made up of four to six people, representing one or more ranches. “Big ranches don’t have any trouble putting together a team, but over the years we have found that there are smaller ranches that also want to compete. They can form a tworanch team, but both ranches have to qualify.”

As things change over time and rodeos drop off of and are added to the WRCA’s list, geography is a big consideration when it comes to sanctioning new rodeos. “We want to have as much variety as possible,” he noted.

Through the WRCA, cowboys and cowgirls come together to do something they love, help their neighbors, encourage the future of the industry, and help the public see what ranchers are all about – a good deal all the way around.

– by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson Livestock Market Digest

Hueftle Cattle Company Nebraska

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eil and Anita Hueftle and their family raise Red Angus seedstock near Cozad, Nebraska. Neil’s grandfather, Gus Hueftle, was a Hereford breeder and raised registered bulls. Neil’s father Karl also had Herefords, as Neil was growing up.

Then in 1970 Karl bought his first Red Angus bull from Sally Forbes.

“When I was showing cattle in 4-H, we started using Red Angus bulls on our Hereford cows. Then we transitioned into Red Angus in the 1970s. At that time we also dabbled in Simmentals, and a few Limousin and Charolais. Back then we AI’d our cows to a little bit of everything, but kept building our Red Angus numbers,” says Neil.

“We had been acquiring a small number of registered cows at various sales. At one point we sold bulls to Leachman Cattle Company in Billings, Montana when they needed some extra bulls for a crossbreeding

program they designed for the King Ranch in southern Texas. Then Dad and I b e c a m e Leachman Heuftle Red Angus ready for the sale ring cooperators in the late 1980s.” While they were affiliat- got him he had excellent EPDs but to look at ed with Leachmans they produced some him he didn’t really stand out as anything notable herd sires including Above and special. Once he proved himself, however, Beyond, Cheyenne, Gravity and Jewel he was the right bull at the right time,” says Maker. We’ve been lucky enough to raise Neil. some of the major bulls in the breed,” he The Hueftle Cattle Company acquired says. additional cows from Leachmans and kept “We partnered with Leachman on an building the herd. “We started selling bulls unknown bull called Cherokee Canyon, and independently under the HX brand in he ended up being one of the most popular bulls in the Red Angus breed. When we first continued on page 21

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eers in attendance that all got there on time and on the right day, you probably have E.C. to thank.

Once a month ranchers and readers from Texas to Florida receive a letter in the mail from E.C. disguised as a monthly editorial in a cow magazine. He writes in a commonsense style that goes down “easy” and often tells funny stories about his friends in a humorous manner that never offends, but always entertains. Both columns that E.C. writes monthly, for the Gulf Coast and the Beefmasters, have become “must reading” in the ranch homes of tens of thousands of people and about the best thing that can happen to someone in our business is to be mentioned in his column because it’s the closest thing we’ll ever have to a “high society” page in the cattle business.

For some folks the only way they are ever going to become semi-famous is to get a mention in E.C.’s column by shooting a nice buck, an illegal one, or a buck the owner didn’t want shot. As was the case when E.C. shot a too-young buck on his good friend Nolan Ryan’s ranch. Avid readers are still waiting to find out if E.C. gets invited back next season to the great baseballer’s ranch.

It is for these reasons, and many more, that if it was ever put to a vote of his contemporaries, E.C. Larkin of San Antonio, Texas, would indeed be elected King Of The Ring.

– by Lee Pitts 2014 Fall Marketing Edition

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Carlos Griffin Texas

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arlos Griffin has a ranch in the Piney Woods area of eastern Texas, on land that has been in the family for several generations. “This area grew a lot of cotton and corn in the early days. Our place was started in 1849 and our family has lived here continuously since then. Up until World War II no one grew anything but cotton and corn. After the War, all the farm workers left and went north to work in the factories.

We had all these fallow fields, not growing anything, so a lot of people started growing crimson clover, for seed,” says Griffin.

Clover improved the soil fertility and many other plants started growing. “This is what put us in the beef business. We started off just growing it for seed and now it’s a crop we intermingle with Bermuda grass.

The clover comes on strongly in the spring and then dries up early, but provides some nitrogen and helps with forage growth,” he says.

“The most exciting thing we’ve begun to use in the past few years is Tifton 85. It’s a hybrid Bermuda and a phenomenal grass. It responds very well to water and fertility, and is very drought tolerant. It really helps us.

We run about 150 head in a cow-calf operation, and also background some calves. We feed out a few cattle for customers, but we primarily sell feeder calves after they are backgrounded, selling them at 650 to 700 pounds,” he says.

The market for natural beef is improving.

“We plan to keep more heifers this year, to replenish the herd. Some of our cows are getting old. We also had a terrible drought in 2011, and this past year it was also bad up until September. Then it started raining and was still raining the end of December— a welcome change,” says Griffin.

“We cut and bale about 200 acres for hay, and sell some. Most of it we put in the barn, and whatever we don’t have room for (and store outside) we try to either sell or feed up first,” he says.

For a lot of the hay and pastures he’s now using the Tifton 85. “We have some irrigation wells, and this grass responds very well to irrigation in the summer. We can cut it about every four to five weeks. For pasture, we limit graze, but most of it we cut for hay. Later in the summer we grow enough back for the cattle to graze into the fall,” he

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says.

“We also have a small acreage of alfalfa; we are one of the few places in eastern Texas that can grow alfalfa. We’ve been playing with that for several years, and it responds well to irrigation. We are feeding it to some of our young stock,” he says.

“The last couple of years we’ve been working with haylage—alfalfa and grass.

We were amazed at how well the cattle like it; they eat every bit and don’t waste any.

We don’t feed any protein supplement like cubes, but on occasion have used some of the tubs. Most of our cattle do just fine on the hay we put up. The alfalfa has enough protein, and most of the Tifton grass is around 12 percent protein or better. This is very adequate for a dry cow, without any supplement,” says Griffin.

“A lot of our grass has clover in it, and the cattle graze this during winter, which provides enough protein. Our winters are not very cold; a cold day here would be in the upper 20s. Occasionally it will be colder, but a cold spell doesn’t last very long.”

The growing season ends in October or early November, and the rye grass starts growing again in late February. Winter is short, and this is when the cattle are fed hay.

“Once they start grazing in spring, they won’t eat hay. Summer can get pretty hot, and on a place where there’s no irrigation the grass will stop growing during the heat.

We have a limited amount of irrigation and try to use that water for the hay. The cattle can keep grazing through summer, however; we simply rotate them through the pastures.”

The cows start calving in February and March. “We try to be done by early April so the cows can breed back during the spring

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growth and before hot weather. We have mostly Angus cattle and they don’t like the heat; they don’t do as well in as the Brahman cattle. We have some mixed with Brangus and they do much better in the heat and also have a little more growth due to heterosis,” he says.

“Our family transitioned into the cattle business in the late 1940s and 1950s when we went from row crop into pasture. Now with the cows and calves and the fast-growing Tifton grass we let the backgrounding calves go through the pastures first, and then follow with cows. Most of that grass we cut for hay, but some areas we use for calf grazing,” he says.

“The fast-growing Tifton has really changed the way we do business. We have more hay to sell, and more pasture. We also have enough white-tail deer that we have some hunting leases. We have a lot of pine and other timber on the steeper hillsides of our ranch and harvest it, as well. Everything is managed around the pastures, however.

We have about 2000 acres and a lot of it is in timber,” says Griffin.

“We fight some weeds in summer; we spray on a limited basis, early in the season.

We have to be careful what we spray because we don’t want anything to carry over and affect the growth of our clover in the winter,” he explains.

FAMILY — Carlos has a son who is becoming more involved with the ranch.

“We raised three boys. We lost the middle one, but the other two help on the ranch.

The youngest one will eventually take over and keep things going. My wife Margaret (“MiMi”) and I just celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary so we hope to pass this ranch on to the next generations. Our oldest son (Carlos Jr.) we call Scooter. He’s been in the oil business and has done quite well.

The youngest son is Paul. Everyone has a nickname. They call me Pappy. We have eight grandkids and nine great-grandkids,” says Griffin.

“Paul has a degree in mining engineering, and he’s applying that knowledge to the irrigation! He’s become an expert on irrigation systems. He has one son that helps on the ranch, and two daughters that help on occasion. They live in Dallas and Austin. We just hope to keep on going, and keep raising cattle. I am primarily interested in the grassgrowing part of it. I got a degree in agronomy many years ago, at Texas A&M. Our whole family are Aggies; all three boys graduated from Texas A&M and six of our granddaughters graduated from A&M,” says Griffin.

– by Heather Smith Thomas Livestock Market Digest

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Nebraska in 2004 with our own bull sale.

Mom and Dad stayed with Leachmans a couple more years and then joined us in 2006,” Neil says.

“Hueftle Cattle Company’s roots have always been in the commercial cattle business and Dad still runs a significant number of commercial cattle with about 450 cows.

Our herd of Red Angus cows is about 330 head. Most of them are registered Red Angus or registered Red Angus-Simmental crosses. Along with the cattle, Dad and I also farm and raise about 800 acres of corn each year and approximately 300 acres of alfalfa. We also grow a few soybeans and other crops,” he says.

“My great-great-grandfather started farming about 10 miles from here. He came to this area from Germany. We’ve started the next generation; Anita and I have three boys—Anson, Aaron and Isaac. Anson is a senior at University of Nebraska at Kearney, Aaron just graduated from the Eustis-Farnam High School and Isaac is a junior there.

They are always really busy with sports, 4-H and FFA, etc.”

Their cow herd starts calving in mid-January, with most of the cows calving in early February. “The weather conditions in midwinter here can be less than ideal, but we need to calve early in order to sell yearling bulls,” explains Neil.

Their annual sale is held near the ranch.

“Kevin Berke, a neighbor and HXC cooperator who buys bulls from us, has a small feedlot and a building that was available— and we made that building into a sale barn.

We had our first sales at a local sale barn at Gothenburg, Nebraska (10 miles away) for the first five years, and then decided that it would be handier to have it closer. Now, if some of the people want to look at our cows, bulls or ranching operation, we are only a mile away,” says Neil.

Anita does most of the bookwork involved with putting on the sale. She does the catalog, advertising, manages the website, cattle records, etc. “We’ve been fortunate to have some good sales and this year was our tenth sale. Our sale is held every year on the second Friday in March,” says Neil.

“Karl and Janice, Neil’s parents, are still an active part of the operation,” says Anita.

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tains their cattle records and farm accounts.

Karl, who turned 90 this year, still checks the pastures and pivots and keeps them running, and gives input into the cattle operation,” says Anita. Now semi-retired, Karl and Janice enjoy spending time with family and attending many of their grandchildren’s activities.

All of Karl and Janice’s children have cattle of their own in the HXC herd and help out occasionally on the ranch. Their son Lee has a commercial herd north of Eustis.

Another son Nolan lives in Broken Bow. He comes back to the ranch frequently to fill in the gaps during busy times of year. All of

them take time out to help with the Annual Production Sale.

Kim Lehmann has been Karl’s herd manager for 30 years. He is an integral part of the HXC operation. He AI’s all of Karl’s cattle and makes most of the breeding decisions each year. Kim and his wife Shelly live nearby in Eustis and have two grown daughters. One is a teacher and the other is an ICU nurse.

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Southwest Brangus Breeders Arizona / New Mexico

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here is no doubt that showing livestock is good for kids. It keeps them busy, teaches them the value of hard work and dedication and the importance and value of caring for their animal no matter what level they take it to – from the county fair to a national show. They come away with a lot more than whatever prizes they may have won – new friends and experiences, how to be a graceful winner and loser – it’s a list that keeps growing the longer you think about it.

Costs can add up pretty quickly, though, when you consider the cost of an animal, feed, travel and equipment. Being able to show is something that many rural kids kind of take for granted, but there are a lot of kids for whom showing livestock is completely out of reach for many reasons – where they live, their background or their economic situation.

A number of southwestern Brangus producers are working to make the experience possible for more kids by providing the means to participate. The Southwest Brangus Breeders Association’s (SWBBA’s) heifer program gives kids in Arizona and New Mexico the opportunity to show a quality Brangus heifer at almost no cost to them or their families. The program brings togeth-

er Brangus producers who would like to encourage young people with kids who would like to show cattle but have no means to do so. “The emphasis is on giving these kids the opportunity to have a quality animal and show on the national level, something they wouldn’t otherwise be able to do,” said Dr. Bart Carter, SWBBA President and southeastern Arizona Brangus producer.

The idea for the program originated about five years ago with San Simon, Arizona, FFA advisor Mike Zamudio, who wanted to build the numbers of kids in his chapter that showed livestock, Carter explained. “Because of their economic circumstances, however, and the ability of parents to fund this kind of thing, there was no way a lot of these kids were going to be able to show,” Each year, Zamudio lets the SWBBA know how many Arizona kids are interested, and the SWBBA starts calling producers to see who has animals available, Carter noted. Individual breeders provide an animal to each student, transferring the registration into their names. In addition, the breeder provides feed and a travel stipend.

The student is responsible for basic daily care of the animal. Depending on the situation, some kids take their animals home and some keep them at facilities in town.

Students learn to care for their animal, how to get them ready for the show, and how to show. They show the heifers in various shows throughout the season, finishing up at the Arizona National in January.

Then, the heifer goes back to the breeder with the student keeping any prize money he or she has won.

In some cases, students Elizabeth McCormick, Clovis, New Mexico, a part of the have made arrangements SWBBA heifer project, showed the Champion Brangus Heifer with the breeders to purin the Junior show at the Arizona National Livestock Show in December of 2013.

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chase their heifer.

At the end of the year, participating students submit a narrative on their experience and the Association awards one a $500 college scholarship.

“It has worked really well,” Carter said, “and it’s a great experience for the kids.” So far, the majority of participation comes from the San Simon FFA Chapter, although the SWBBA has encouraged FFA teachers in other schools to take part. Most of the cattle have come from Brangus breeders Larry Parker, Parker Brangus, San Simon; Ray Westall, Brinks Brangus, Arabela, New Mexico; and Bill Morrison, Lack-Morrison Brangus, Clovis, New Mexico.

Morrison heads up the heifer program.

He is pleased with the success they have had, citing a girl from Clovis who participated last year. She lives in town, had never been around livestock before signing up for the heifer program, and showed the Grand Champion Heifer at Phoenix.

Like her, some of the kids who participate don’t come from an agricultural background, so through the program they are also exposed to and learn about agriculture as a whole as well as all that’s involved with caring for and showing their heifers.

So far, he said, there have been just a few participants in New Mexico, with people learning about the program through word of mouth. “If we advertised more, we would probably have more kids than available heifers.”

“There are many kids out there who don’t have a lot of opportunity,” Morrison said. “We hope to help some of those kids who are on the border and need some encouragement. To be honest, it’s kind of an expensive thing for the breeders, but if we can help one kid, it’s worth it.”

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rank and Christina Ward raise registered Angus seedstock near Orland, California. They sell several of their best bulls each year at consignment sales, primarily Red Bluff. They’ve been selling bulls at Red Bluff for 20 years. “We save our best ones to take there. We sell some bulls privately, and have gone to other sales, but the major one we’ve been going to is Red Bluff,” Christina says.

THE CATTLE — “We do some embryo work and are very particular about the bull calves we keep. One year we cut more than half of them,” says Christina. This helps ensure that bull customers get only the best.

“This is a good way to do it, particularly right now when steers are worth a lot. But we’ve always been ruthless in culling. It may have cost us some money in the short term, but I think we are better off in the long run.” Only the very best become breeding stock to represent their breeding program and the breed.

California “Last year we had 10 bulls to sell. We are limited by our resources and try to focus on having them really good rather than having a lot of them. We’ve always been small breeders, and are trying to grow, but with both of us having full-time jobs we can only do so much with the cattle. We just want them to be good, and problem free, and easy to deal with,” she says.

“We have fall and spring calves. The fallcalved bulls run on native feed their whole lives. The spring calving cows calve out on native pastures and then come in to irrigated feed until we wean their calves. We AI everything but we do have a few calves sired by cleanup bulls,” says Christina.

“We focus on having bulls that are very muscular, easy fleshing, in an attractive package. Many of the buyers at Red Bluff sale are looking for top end bulls. We try to keep the numbers balanced, in terms of EPDs, and don’t go to any extremes. We do

like their mothers to have a lot of milk; we focus on the cow qualities. For us, they need to be easy fleshing and have problem-free udders,” she says.

The Wards also pay attention to disposition. “This is something we’ve found to be highly heritable. If a bull is out of a cow that’s a real nut, we don’t keep him as a bull.

Most people don’t want to deal with wild cattle and definitely don’t want to have a bunch of calves by one like that,” says Christina.

GETTING THEM READY FOR THE SALE — “The first thing we decide is whether we’re preparing a range-ready bull or a halter bull,” says Frank. “We feed them the same, however, to meet their genetic potential and have a big yearling weight (a high WDA—weight per day of age). We always try to see how much performance our cattle have, so we want to feed them to meet their genetic potential without getting too fat,” he says. You walk a fine line between growth and fat.

“We don’t feed our young bulls in a feedlot. They are in big pasture lots and move around quite a bit. When the bull calves are weaned, the best ones are selected as halter continued on page 25

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or Texas cowman Tom Moorhouse, as for many in the livestock business, ranching is much more than how he makes his living. It’s how he was raised, all he ever really wanted to do, and something he is doing his best to pass on to the next generation. “I’m going to stay in as long as I can, it’s just a lifestyle for me,” he said. “It’s good that I feel this way because sometimes it gets tough.”

And, he has been in the business all of his life. He was raised working cattle on the Moorhouse Ranch between Benjamin and Guthrie with his three brothers Ed, John, and Bob. He spent the summer before he went to college cowboying for the neighboring 6666 Ranch, and worked for Gage Holland in college. After graduating from Sul Ross, he returned to the ranch to stay. He also spent five years managing the Tongue River Ranch in Paducah.

The Moorhouse family has a long history in Texas. Tom’s grandfather, Edward, came to Texas in 1908, and the family settled near Benjamin. He bought what is now the family ranch in 1920, but lost it in 1934 due to drought and the Depression. In the late 1930s, Tom’s father, Togo, was able to buy that ranch back, and it remains the Moorhouse headquarters today.

Tom and his brothers operated the ranching business, Moorhouse Ranch Co., jointly for many years. Tom and John comanaged the operation which included both private land and leased country. Eventually, though, as the families started getting larger, the brothers split up the operation. Only Tom and John remain in the ranching business today. “It is important to me to keep it in the family,” he said.

Moorhouse runs a cow/calf operation.

Like many people in this part of the country, the family started out with Hereford cattle.

Over time, they started crossbreeding, and today, the herd is primarily Angus. “We like the Angus cattle. They do well for us and for the packer at the end of the line,” he noted.

Typically, he retains ownership of his calves in the fall, weaning them and running them on wheat pasture to sell in the spring at between 750 and 800 pounds. He also

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buys yearlings to put on wheat through the winter, depending on conditions.

Some things have changed over the years, but Tom tries to maintain ranch traditions, like roping and dragging calves to brand and pulling the chuckwagon out.

“We incorporate modern technology when we need to, but still have our traditional ways, the things that we do and the ways that we do them,” he explained. “As long as something is working and fits in, that’s how we do it. If it doesn’t, or we have to have the technology to compete, then we make a change.”

Quality horses are also an important part of the operation, which received the 2008 Best Remuda Award from the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). Tom raises his own ranch horses from a band of brood mares, the majority out of a Shiny Spark stud, and sells the ones that don’t work on the ranch. “We are after the genetics that fit us, and we feel like we have them.”

All of Tom’s five children were raised living and working on the ranch. While the oldest four have gone on to other endeavors, his youngest son Gage, is the most interested in the ranch. The fourth-generation rancher is currently attending Texas Christian University’s (TCU’s) Ranch Management School.

Tom says he was lucky to have been married to two great women in his life – Sue for 20 years and Becky for 22 years – both of whom he lost to cancer. “They were both ranch women, helped ride and work cattle, and were very supportive – just good ladies.

It has been rough, but I am lucky,” he said.

“A lot of people never get to marry one good person, and I got to marry two.”

He has seen a lot things change over the years, and one of the biggest, he says, is high land and cattle prices. “It just takes so much capital to get started. It has always been hard to buy land without some kind of financial backing, and it’s even harder now than it was. Plus, a mother cow is worth $2000 now where she used to be worth $250 or $300.”

That, combined with the realities of ranching – hard work and long hours without a high financial payoff – is having a big

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Tom Moorhouse, a cowman and a cowboy.

impact on people getting into the business.

“A lot of young people are not going into agriculture, there are easier ways to make a living,” he added. “You sort of have to do it because you love it.”

He has been on the Board of Directors of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) for 20 years, and says it’s important for ranchers to be involved in industry groups. “The cowman doesn’t have much of a say because there are so few of us, but if we all join together we have a bigger voice – that’s why I’ve been part of TSCRA for so many years.”

Tom is doing his part to strengthen the connection between agriculture and urban residents – bringing members of the public, photographers and reporters out to the ranch to get a taste of ranching. “I feel it is good if the public is educated on the ranching industry and the lifestyle of the rancher and cowboy,” he said. “We sometimes let people come out and stay, and don’t mind as long as they stay out of the way.”

Outside pressures on ranchers are always increasing, and protecting land and water rights is very important, Tom said. “Town people want our water, and we face problems from the government. Some of those problems won’t be corrected, but we get by.”

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bulls. These are usually the ones that are bigger, stouter, with a more attractive profile. We generally see more value in a halter bull than a range bull; they go to different consignment sales,” says Frank. The halter bulls showcase their breeding program and are more visible to the public.

“We always select for good feet and legs, muscling, fleshing ability, etc. One of the first things we look at when we wean the calves is scrotal circumference. Any with small testicles are culled at that point,” he says. Rigid culling results in keeping only the best—the best genetic package for bull customers.

The halter bulls are prepared a little more extensively, depending on the show and sale they will be going to. “It’s nice if we can get them halter-broke early because it’s easier on them and us when they are younger. Frank is real particular about halter breaking them.

He uses the big halters that are made out of one-inch cotton rope and the lead is 30 feet long. If you tie big animals with a narrow halter and they pull back very hard they could break their ears or scar their noses or the backs of their head,” she explains. It puts too much pressure in a small area.

“We have a wall we tie them to (rather than a fence) so they can’t get their feet through anything. We let them stand there and pull against it. Obviously it’s not as hard on them when they are smaller. They soon learn to give to the halter. After a couple days of that, we start tying them with their heads up, to get used to that. We don’t let them drag halters because this just teaches them that if they pull their heads they can get away. We want them to learn that they come to us, and respect the restraint,” she says.

“We feed for optimum condition without having them too fat,” says Christina. “We sell some yearlings, and the fall calves are a little older. Some buyers take the yearlings and turn them right out with cows in the hills. If they don’t have a little extra flesh covering they melt away because they are just babies.

We don’t want them fat but they need a little reserve so they can hold up,” she explains.

“Most people like to get them out into their own environment when they are younger. That’s better for us, too, because we don’t have to feed them as long or run the risk of them getting hurt when they are confined together. We like to see them out with cows by then,” says Christina Feed plays a role in fertility at a young 2014 Fall Marketing Edition

age, affecting semen quality. “We semencheck bulls 30 days before the sale. If a bull has something wrong or an infection, he won’t be going to the sale. We try to keep them as healthy as possible,” she says.

“We make sure they are vaccinated according to what the sale wants,” adds Frank. “It seems like they now want the bulls to have a modified-live virus vaccine and an 8-way. Often they want you to bleed the bulls and check for BVD,” he says.

It helps to get the bulls adjusted to various conditions before they are taken to the sale. “We get them used to eating out of a

feed pan and drinking out of a bucket before we go, because they have been used to troughs and feed bunks. We also tie them all day with a neck rope so they can learn to lie down and stand up while tied,” he says.

“Any time we have bulls in front of the public, we want them to see our best bulls— the best view of what we do. Anything we can do to create a positive image helps showcase our animals. When they look good it also gives a better image for the cattle industry, even to people who don’t know anything about it,” says Christina.

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Johnny Trotter Texas Reprinted Courtesy of The American Quarter Horse Journal

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hen Johnny Trotter’s phone alarm sounded at 4:45 a.m., he turned it off and a few seconds later slid down out of the nose of his horse trailer.

Johnny was parked at the headquarters of his Deer Springs Ranch near Turkey, Texas.

It was the end of April, and spring works were starting. A couple hundred cows with calves would be gathered that morning in a rough section of the ranch, and the calves branded. Another hundred or so would be worked that afternoon.

Johnny had been sleeping in his trailer.

He stepped out into the still-dark, cool morning air, grabbing his hat as he went through the dressing room door. With his Klapper-made spurs making a soft jingle with each step, he walked the hundred yards or so to where his horses stood, in a corral attached to a barn in which some of the other cowboys were sleeping. Both horses were gray, and even though there was no moon, they reflected enough of the early morning starlight that Johnny could see they were watching him, waiting. He poured out grain for both of them, then pitched some hay over the fence.

Breakfast for the cowboys was at 5:30, and as quick as it was eaten, everyone saddled their horses and left the barn in a long trot. It was still 45 minutes before sunrise, but the day had begun.

Johnny Trotter is president of AQHA, but long before he became involved with the Association, he cowboyed for a living.

And in a way, he still is.

The Beginning Even as a child, all Johnny ever wanted to be was a cowboy. He started riding when he was pre-school age in Abilene, Texas, and discovered that a friend of his dad’s had a horse. Then, between the first and second grade, his father, who was a Methodist minister, moved the family to Dumas, Texas,

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and Johnny got his own horse. feedyard.

There might have been disappointment Johnny, as president and general managin the beginning, but as it turns out, it was a er of the operation, supervises the marketprodigious move for the youngster. The cating of 200,000 to 250,000 fed cattle per tle feeding industry was about to explode, year. Also, he manages a farming operation and the small Texas Panhandle town would that consists of 10,000 acres of wheat and soon become the No. 1 cattle feeding area 1,500 acres of corn that is harvested as in the country. Hereford proclaims itself to silage for feed in the feedyard. be the Beef Capital of the World. At any The Horses one time, more than a million cattle are on Johnny has had horses since he was in feed within a 50-mile radius of the Hereford the second grade. Ever since he was in high city limits. school, he used them in his work, and in the Johnny day-worked for several cattlemen 1990s, he became a fairly proficient team around the area after school and on weekroper – he has won two trailers and 20 sadends, and he shod horses and traded horses dles, and for the last three years has qualiout of the sale at Clovis, New Mexico. For fied for the World Series of Team Roping the next four years or so after he graduated finals in Las Vegas. from high school, Johnny contracted to take care of cattle that were turned out on wheat The Business pasture, riding through them on a regular On a typical day, Johnny arrives at the basis, roping and doctoring any that were feedyard between 5:30 and 6 a.m. He starts sick. out by checking the market, but then there Then he met cattleman, farmer and seed are the other duties of a general manager. producer Shirley Garrison.

He has to oversee all the grain buying – “Even while I was in high school, I took about 45 million pounds a month – and care of Shirley’s wheat pasture cattle,” Johnwork with the yard manager on deciding ny says, “and I started helping him on the how many head of cattle to buy and/or sell, farm during the summers. Then in the ’70s, and when. Then there are the farming deciI leased a preconditioning feedyard, and sions and equipment-purchase decisions, in Shirley and I became partners on it. When addition to making decisions on cattle he the big feedyard I own now came available, has on various ranches. we bought it together, rebuilt the feed mill He and a partner run cattle on a ranch at and got it going, and it has just continued to Abilene, Texas; he works with another partget bigger all the time.” ner on cattle they have turned out near HatToday, Bar G Feedyard actually consists tiesburg, Mississippi; and he has some more of two feedyards a mile apart, with a total partners in cattle operations near Seguin, feeding capacity of 120,000 head. In addiTexas, and throughout the Texas Panhantion, there is a 5,000-head preconditioning feedyard where freshly w e a n e d calves are started on feed before they are turned out on grass or wheat and then brought into the big Heading at Make A Wish Livestock Market Digest

dle. He has that cow-calf operation near Turkey, Texas, and he runs cattle on a couple of ranches in New Mexico. In addition, he and Pete operate a ranch near Bryan, Texas, where they raise yearlings for use as cutting cattle. Johnny and Pete furnish several thousand head each year for National Cutting Horse Association competitions.

And, of course, all those cattle end up in the feedyard.

“Everything I do, with the exception of some bank boards that I’m on and the racehorses, has a common denominator of moving toward the feedyard,” Johnny says.

And even the racehorses sometimes move that way. Occasionally, a horse that won’t run ends up being used in the cattle pens by one of the cowboys.

Johnny was first appointed to the AQHA Racing Committee in 2000. In 2003, when he was elected to the AQHA Board of Directors, he was appointed to the AQHA Stud Book and Registration Committee. He was elected to the AQHA Executive Committee in 2010 and was elected president in March of this year. He has also served on the nominations and credentials committee,

and the American Quarter Horse Foundation, as well as the ranching and racing councils.

He owns Whiteface Ford in Hereford – his son, Eddie, is the manager there – and he and a partner own Quality Distillers Grain and Panhandle Express Trucking. QDG markets wet distiller’s grain, a by-product of a local ethanol plant, to commercial feeders,

itage Award.

As his tenure on the Executive Committee of the AQHA winds down, Johnny is beginning to think about the future. Of course, he’ll continue with his cattle operations and his venture into the racehorse industry – still trying to win the All American Futurity – but he also knows he’ll have time to rope more, and he plans to qualify for the Adequan Select World Championship Show down the road.

“You know, I got that first horse in the second grade, and I’ve had one ever since,” he says. “So, I’ve been trying to be a good cowboy pretty well all my life. I don’t know if I’ll ever make that, but I’d like to be remembered as a horseman and a cattleman.

Most of all, I want to be remembered as being a Christian man who wanted the right things done at the right time. That’s how I would like to be remembered as the AQHA president.”

– by Jim Jennings

“I got that first horse in second grade and I’ve had one ever since.” stocker operations and dairies. Panhandle Express Trucking services QDG but also hauls other feed products. In addition, Johnny is a board member of First Financial Bank in Hereford and First United Bank in Lubbock, Texas, and an executive committee member at First Financial Bankshares Inc. in Abilene. And he is a former member of the Texas Cattle Feeders board of directors.

Johnny is also involved in his local community, where he was the 2004 Deaf Smith County Citizen of the Year and the 2006 recipient of the Tri-State Fair Western Her-

Jim Jennings is a special contributor to The American Quarter Horse Journal and former executive director of publications.

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Juan Alejandro (Chapo) Varela Sonora, Mexico

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erca de mil 500 ganaderos del País estuvieron de manteles largos dentro del marco de la Asamblea de la Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Ganaderas. La mayoría de los hombres del campo acostumbrados al trabajo duro estuvieron acompañados de sus esposas e hijas, quienes lucieron ataviadas en sencillos y elegantes atuendos. “Estar aquí es increíble, nos sentimos muy halagadas y orgullosas”, coincidieron Brianda y Blanca

Dalia Gutiérrez. El Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto fue el invitado de honor y encargado de otorgar a 16 criadores la Medalla Presidencial al Mérito Ganadero.

“Todavía no tiento tierra, ando muy emocionado”, dice Alejandro Varela Hall, pionero en sanidad animal que abrió la puerta para la exportación de ganado a Estados Unidos. En los años 80, Varela Hall inició una etapa de vacunación contra tuberculosis a 5 mil cabezas de ganado,

hoy el País exporta 1 millón 300 mil. “Soy vaquero de corazón”, exclamó el oriundo de Agua Prieta Sonora. Una vez concluida la premiación, el Presidente se retiró y comenzó el banquete. Entre la algarabía el tiempo se detuvo cuando Marco Antonio Barba, uno de los homenajeados, recordó cuando su padre cabalgaba con él por los campos de Juárez Chiapas siendo apenas un niño. “Él nos inculcó el amor al campo, la pasión por la ganadería y el amor a la tierra”, mencionó Marco, quien duerme, anda, despierta y sueña en el rancho las 24 horas del día. La fiesta fue amenizada por un tradicional mariachi que fue acompañado por el canto a todo pulmón esporádico de algunos de los invitados.

El galardonado Alejandro Varela,pionero en el País en la exportaciónde ganado a Estados Unidos.

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hapo was recognized in 2014 by the Confederacion Nacional Ganadera for his contributions to the cattle industry of Mexico. Media around the award focused, mainly, on the work Chapo did on the binational health committee to help Sonora attain a health status, regarding Tuberculosis, that no other Mexican state had or has attained. This was a very important contribution, made by Chapo, and well deserving of the award bestowed on him.

But it does not nearly define Chapo’s accomplishments to the cattle industry of Sonora and Mexico.

Chapo is a steward of the land. He makes it produce and create work for the people and turn the grass into nutrient dense beef for human consumption. He has depopulated his ranch in times of drought to protect the ecosystem, at great financial loss to himself. He has been involved in brush control of grasslands, wildlife propagation and judicious use of cattle to maintain the riparian areas open and free flowing.

He was one of the first to use artificial insemination under range conditions, the first to perform in-ranch cattle embryo transplants, and kept meticulous individual records on his herd. His Brangus cattle were considered to be some of the finest in Mexico. He was and is a “hands-on-cowman”, at age 78 he still rides, gathers, works and brands his cattle.

Since 1991 he has worked in introducing into Sonora the Gelbvieh and Balancer breeds of cattle. The cattle under his management have attained extraordinary reproductive rates and excelled in feedlot and carcass performance at Red Rock Feeding in Arizona.

At age 78, Chapo is not finished with his work, and still can saddle his own horse and do a day’s worth of ranch work. This is my friend, Chapo Varela.

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Bilo Wallace Chihuahua, Mexico

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nown on both sides of the U.S. / Mexico border for his dedication to the cattle industry, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua rancher William Walter “Bilo” Wallace was recently honored by Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto with the Presidential Medal of Merit.

Wallace is active in the cattle industry on the local, state, national and international levels, but is happiest on the ranch where he was raised, especially in years like this when late summer rains have the ranch looking better than it has in years, he says.

“We are one of the lucky ones.”

Unlike most Chihuahua ranchers who have their ranch, but live in town, Bilo and his wife Imelda live on the ranch, like his parents before them. Both of their sons play an active part in the operation. Wes lives on and helps manage the ranch, and Bilito, who works at the livestock export pens in Columbus, New Mexico, comes to help on the weekends. The Wallaces also have two daughters, Imelda Virginia and Selyna, and seven grandchildren, including Wes’s baby son, the fifth generation of the family on the ranch.

The Wallaces raise both registered Red Angus cattle and commercial cattle, made up of mainly Hereford, Angus and crossbreds. Commercial steers are exported through either the Santa Teresa or Columbus crossing. Heifers are either sold in Mexico or exported as spayed heifers, depending on the market. The registered stock all stay in Mexico.

They also raise quarter horses out of a Playgun stud both for their own ranch use and for sale.

Rancho Corralitos has a long history in Chihuahua. Originally known as Corralitos Mining, Land and Cattle Company, it was established in the mid-1700s by Spaniards to refine ore from San Pedro Mines, and in the mid-1800s purchased by an English/American syndicate who added lumber to the business. Bilo’s grandfather came to the ranch in the 1860s, leased pasture and began running cattle and sheep.

Bilo’s father returned to the ranch in the late 1930s, after the Mexican Revolution, and the Wallaces have been there since.

Bilo first started getting involved in the industry in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. “I

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has served several terms since. In this position, he has worked closely with ranchers and state and national government officials on both sides of the border to control those diseases and minimize the impact on cattle trade between the United States and Mexico, as well as developing good working relationships and friendships.

Serving in that role helped make Bilo aware of the importance of animal health, preparing him for his current role as President of the Chihuahua Animal Health Commission. Bilo is the first President of the independent Commission, which until recently operated under the UGRCH. The Commission is funded by the federal government, state government and producers, and oversees all things animal health in Chihuahua – from bees to cattle and horses to turkeys and chickens, he explained.

He also serves on the CNOG’s cattle export and animal health committees.

Over the years, he has played an active role in other issues impacting Chihuahua’s cattle producers, working to successfully reopen the border to allow the exportation of spayed heifers into the United States when it was closed in 2005. In 2008, he helped convince the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to lift its rule requiring exported Mexican cattle to be branded with state digits, which reduced the value of hides and increased the workload for exporting ranchers.

Now more than ever, he said, it’s important for ranchers – and especially younger ranchers – to get involved. “This industry is really changing, from animal ID, to health issues, to marketing cattle, and we need new blood. At meetings I just see a bunch of old folks. I tell young people they might spend a lot of time away from home, but in the long run it’s worth it. If people don’t get

was a young guy, just out of school, and had a different outlook on how things should be,” he explained. “Ranchers were having a lot of trouble getting export permits from the federal government in Mexico City.

There was a lot of bureaucracy and the problem was that only the northern states and Durango and Zacatecas exported cattle, so the rest of the country didn’t care too much.”

Bilo earned a degree in range management from New Mexico State University in December of 1968. In 2009, NMSU honored him with the Distinguished International Alumni award.

He has been a member of his local Nuevo Casas Grandes cattle growers association since 1966, and has served as a delegate to the state organization, the Union Ganadera Regional de Chihuahua (UGRCH) as well as several terms on the Board of Directors.

From 2002 to 2007, he served as President of the UGRCH, working to rebuild the infrastructure of the Association by restoring warehouses, pharmacies and livestock receiving pens at the local level. During his term, he worked to modernize the quarantine facilities at Palomas-Columbus, San Geronimo-Santa Teresa and Ojinaga-Presidio to facilitate cattle export.

He also helped oversee construction of a new UGRCH facility in Palomas which includes preconditioning pens and a feed mill for members’ use. “If you want to precondition your cattle or feed them out, the Union will do that for you,” he said. “The pens were originally built for 5000 head and are now up to a 9000 head capacity, and the feed mill has doubled in size in three years.”

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In today’s global economy, it’s important for producers on both sides of the border to work together, he continued. “We have to look in the mirror as countries and treat each other as we want to be treated, especially on trade issues. It’s very important. If we want to export, this is a world market.”

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t’s rare that the United States comes out on top of a trade agreement and about the only time I can think of one that we did win was an accident.

The Akaushi breed of cattle have been bred in Japan for over 100 years and in that time they became a national treasure, to be guarded like the crown jewels. So high is their status that they are known as “The Emperor’s Breed”. And with good reason: from its beginning the breed has been subjected to intense genetic improvement and the result is a breed that is highly consistent in all phases of beef production. It’s little wonder the Japanese government were very careful to keep the genetics all to themselves. But thanks to a loophole in the Trade Act of 1992, a handful of the cattle leaked out of the country in 1994. That was the first, and last, time the Japanese government let us win a trade war.

I have known Bubba Bain for over 30 years and I was not surprised when he was hired to be the Executive Director of the American Akaushi Association in 2009, after all, Bubba likes a challenge and there hadn’t been a purebred beef cattle association established in this country for 30 years.

Bubba and the Akaushi breed were made for each other. Bubba has been involved in all phases of beef cattle production from Director of Field Services for a breed association, owner/operator of an embryo transfer facility, manager of cow/calf operations, owner/operator of a feedyard and feed mill, and a sales manager with extensive marketing experience. Last year Bubba sent me a cooler filled with a small fortune in Akaushi beef and tried to sell me on the breed because, well, that’s his job. I’m a skeptic by nature, as anyone who has read one thing I’ve written knows. I also didn’t want my friendship with Bubba to get in the way of an objective article so I reluctantly gave one Akaushi ribeye steak to a good friend of mine, Finicky Fred, who is the biggest critic in the world. Fred rarely has a good word to say about anything! The result? Well, let me put it this way: In the past year Fred has asked me every time I saw him when I was going to give him some more of the beef because, in his words, it was the best he ever tasted and it “melted in his mouth.”

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decisions, at the ranch, that they have possibly never been able to make before.

“It’s always been my opinion,” says Bubba, “that the feedlot guy didn’t want to tell the producer how well his cattle performed on feed, for fear of having to pay more for his calves next year. And the packer never wanted to tell the feeder how well those cattle did on the rail, for fear of having to pay more for those cattle next goaround. The American Akaushi Association thinks differently. This information is vital to the producer and the beef industry.

One of the major priorities the American Akaushi Association and its members have,” says Bubba, “is to protect the integrity of the Akaushi genetics. We honestly believe that the Akaushi Breed can, and will, have a profound and positive impact on the Beef industry. So to protect these genetics is imperative.

Beeman thinks that the Akaushi breed, more than any other breed in existence today, has the potential to have a profound and positive impact on today’s beef Industry and that positive impact can be seen and measured in one generation. If the industry and its leaders truly want to make a difference in the quality, consistency and healthiness of the the beef being marketed today, Akaushi genetics should be a part of every herd in the USA and across the globe.”

All you have to do to get a testimonial for the cattle is ask someone who has used them. Rancher Matt Cherni’s crossbred Akaushi heifers got 90 percent pregnant in a 40-day breeding period and his crossbred steers graded 100 percent prime! That’s right, I said 100 percent Prime!

“These cattle have the potential to really change the beef industry for the better,”

Hmmm, maybe I had better check out this breed after all.

According to Bubba, “The lineage of the American Akaushi can be traced back 30 generations to the origin of the breed!

“Eighty plus years ago the Japanese Association of Akaushi was created in order to collect, manage and process all Akaushi data,” explains Bubba “and since then the association has collected carcass performance, breeding pedigrees and economic data for every animal in the entire breed.

This data has been used in the selection of every Akaushi dam and sire over the last half-century. During the same period this data has also been used to select prospective sire and dam lines to be utilized for further genetic improvement. Consequently new sire and dam lines are only released for general production after they have been proven by extensive and accurate statistical analysis. As a result of this unique closed system and multi-trait selection process, the Akaushi breed is extremely uniform and consistent throughout its genetic line.”

I was surprised to see that Akaushi cattle look a lot like something you might see in a Montana pasture or a Texas auction market. To me they look more like a Gelbvieh than they do the other Japanese breed I’m familiar with, Wagyus. But unlike some breeds used in this country, an extraordinarily high percentage of Akaushi have the marbling to consistently grade USDA Prime.

“One thing that the American Akaushi Association does for its membership,” says Bubba, “is get feedlot and carcass information back to our producers. We feel that this information in the hands of our producers, only makes our branded program stronger. These folks can finally Fullblood Akaushi Bull make culling

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says Cherni. “They can make CAB or better quality meat in every animal fed, instead of occasionally.”

The other thing that makes the Akaushi breed different is that the genetics of the Akaushi breed is controlled by a branded beef program known as HeartBrand Beef.

Jordan Beeman is president of HeartBrand Beef and he and his father used to own a Texas beef processing plant known as Eddy Packing. They were first introduced to the breed when they processed some of the offspring of the original Akaushi cattle brought to this country. That did it . . . they sold Eddy Packing in 2011 and since then they have devoted themselves to HeartBrand beef.

Beeman thinks that the Akaushi breed “has the potential to have a huge positive impact on today’s beef Industry. More than any other breed in existence today and that positive impact can be seen and measured in one generation. If the industry and its leaders truly want to make a difference in the quality, consistency and healthiness of the the beef being marketed today, Akaushi genetics should be a part of every herd in the USA and across the globe.”

“One of the things that sets HeartBrand apart form other cattle operations,” says Beeman, “is our unique meat program. We have a program in place that markets beef across the county to retailers, foodservice distributors, and direct to consumer via our website. We sell a niche product that is highly marbled and DNA verified back to Akaushi genetics. All of the DNA is done in cooperation with the American Akaushi Association. We are the only beef company, that I know of, that uses DNA to ensure the beef is from a specific breed. This allows our customers to consistently serve a product that is tender and flavorful. You will find Akaushi beef on menus across the county from fine dinning establishments to hamburger restaurants. We take great pride in supplying the best beef in the marketplace.”

Another thing that got my attention was the name of the CEO, Bill Fielding. I can’t even begin to estimate how many times we’ve published words this man has said as he is easily one of leading meat-men in America. William Fielding was semiretired after a lifetime of dedication to the beef business. He has been President CEO of several leading meat companies and has spent more than 25 years running divisions of several meatpacking giants, as president of Cargill’s Meat Sector; president of ConAgra Fresh Meat; and president of Farmland Refrigerated Foods. He has also managed 2014 Fall Marketing Edition

smaller, more specialized operations, serving as chief operating officer of Creekstone Farms Premium Beef and CEO of Meyer Natural Foods. He also served as chairman of the American Meat Institute in 1992 and was inducted into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame in 2012.

When Bill Fielding became aware of Akaushi cattle and what they had to offer the industry he came out of retirement to become the CEO of HeartBrand Beef.

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The Cowbelles Arizona

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t has been said that you can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been. Another variation is “Who knows only his own generation remains always a child” which is attributed to Cicero. Since 1939 The Cowbelles have provided a beacon for women and men across the West and the nation.

Not that this is what it was ever intended to do. There may be some descrepancies in the details, but by all accounts the seed for The Cowbelles seed was planted by Mrs. Will Glenn when Cochise County, Arizona ranch families gathered at the Ira Glenn home for occasional dances. These gatherings provided companionship for many who had not seen each other for weeks or months to get together and exchange “cattle talk” —rains, droughts, markets and such.

Mrs. Ralph (Mattie) Cowan offered her home for a gathering of cattle women to form the club suggested by Mrs. Glenn.

Accounts differ as to whether that meeting took place in the Cowan home in Douglas or in the living room that was once a stage stop of the Cowan’s 4Bars Ranch near McNeal. That ranch house and surrounding land remain in the Cowan family today.

One thing was certain. There was a delicious meal served and no matter where you are today, you can count on a great meal at every Cowbelle meeting.

The first meeting was held on October 17, 1939. According to the minutes of that first meeting 15 women made the decision to hold monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of the month, a tradition that has been carried on for just short of 75 years. Monthly dues were 25 cents. To be a member of the group you had to be the wife, daughter or mother of a cattlemen or you had to own cattle yourself.

It is these women and their kind that were the fabric of today’s ranch industry.

But their purpose wasn’t to punch cows or show off their horsemanship skills, although they all could keep up with their husbands and cowboys and had done so for years. Their purpose wasn’t to make a name for themselves or even to change the world.

Their husbands were being elected to leadership positions and were forging an industry to pass on to their children.

They and their children were in serious

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the second meeting, which was held on November 21, 1939. According to the minutes of that gathering there were 20 ladies present who considered the names “Cattle Ladies Club” and “Cow Belles.” A vote was taken and Cowbelles won by one vote.

Since then every meeting is called to order with the ringing of a cow bell.

The membership grew to 31 before the end of 1939 and didn’t stop growing for decades. In 1940 the secretary of the Wyoming Stock Growers wrote for permission to organize Cowbelles in their state.

Greatly flattered, The Cowbelles graciously gave permission.

In 1947 the Arizona Cowbelles began with Mattie Cowan serving as its first president. The first local chapter of New Mexico CowBelles was founded in 1957, when Pat Nowlin, an Arizona Cowbelle moved to New Mexico with her family. She was instrumental in getting a group of likeminded women together and served as the New Mexico CowBelles first president.

The American National Cowbelles were organized in 1952 as an affiliate of the American National Cattlemen in Fort Worth, Texas. There were already nine states with Cowbelle groups. The first president of the national group was Mrs. O.W. Lyman, Kansas. Mattie Cowan served as first vice president. She then served as president in 1953.

The main objective of this new Cowbelle group was to improve the relations between beef cattlemen and the general public, according to the book Arizona Cowbelles This Is Your Life written by Betty Accomazzo in 1972. Accomazzo was extremely active in Arizona and National Cowbelles during her life.

need of socializing between trips to town for supplies that sometimes didn’t occur for weeks or months at time. But they didn’t plan to waste their time just visiting. At that initial meeting Mrs. Pete Johnson donated pieces for a quilt. The group determined that each member should also make 10 squares for an afagan (spelling from the original minutes). The quilt and the afagan were the first of many, many items that were made and donated to the Arizona Children’s Home and later the Arizona Boys Ranch.

There was no record of the children who attended early Cowbelle meetings, but over the decades there have been countless youngsters who got their start at making friends at a Cowbelle meeting.

There remains only one person alive who attended that first meeting, Mary Ella (Sproul) Cowan Christian, Tombstone, who was two years old at the time. Her three daughters are double bred third generation Cowbelles.

On the manly side of things, Billy Ben Snure, Amarillo, is a third generation double-bred descendant of Cowbelles. His grandmother Mrs. Ben Snure and his mother Florence Cowan Snure were both original Cowbelles. It was Florence who came up the pin for the The Cowbelles while attending the University of Arizona. She found a wood pin wearing a tiny cow bell that became the sign for The Cowbelles that has been handed down for generations.

Mattie Cowan was elected the first president of The Cowbelles at that first meeting. It was a job that took her on a journey that she couldn’t have imagined throughout Arizona and then the nation as Cowbelles and their mission spread.

The Cowbelles always participated in parades in Douglas, Arizona.

In the early years the floats were horse drawn. The ladies all wore The selection of a their Cowbelle dresses that were made for the occasion. Mattie name for the group Cowan is at the front in her dress that resides today in the office of didn’t happen until the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association.

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Sadly, in 1986 the American National Cowbelles decided that the moniker was not representative of the “modern woman” and voted to change the name to American National Cattlewomen. The vote took place a few months before Mattie Cowan’s death.

She was never told of the change. New Mexico’s Pat Nowlin did attend that meeting in San Antonio, Texas and was eventually granted time to speak to the group assembled.

Since 1986, all but two states have changed their names, one by one, to Cattlewomen. Arizona and New Mexico proudly hold up their heritage and mission, although some local clubs have opted for “modernization” just as locals in other states have held on to the Cowbelle name.

Meanwhile back in Douglas, Arizona, The Cowbelles live on. In 1951 the group purchased its own home — a building that had held a laundry that was in need of repair. The Cowbelles went into debt to purchase and repair that building. The group held bake sales, roast beef dinners, dances and more to pay off the debt.

The building is, again, in need of major work for its survival. A new roof and modernizing the kitchen that has been the prep area for thousands of meals over the last 50

years are high on the list. The wood floor where hundreds of miles of dancing have taken place and the restrooms are also in need of help. A fundraising effort is underway and a grant to preserve the historical building is being sought.

Today Cowbelle membership is open to any woman or man who believes in the cattle industry and wants to help that industry through education, promotion and legislation. Cowbelle and Cattlewomen group membership struggles as the world has become so fast paced and communication is instant.

The divide between young women who must be working professionals to help provide for their families and the matrons who have carried forward the heritage of their families is difficult. But that doesn’t stop groups of women from gathering once a month to learn about current issues, raise money for scholarships and the National Beef Ambassador Program, honor our nation’s flag, pray for their friends and last but not least, enjoy a beef dinner as only a Cowbelle can cook.

As Mrs. Bill (Cordy) Cowan once said, the ladies who answer the call of the cow bell are ready, willing and able to help anyone, especially those in the cattle industry.

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Along with that helping, they have raised families and listened to lots of alarms — alarm clocks, door chimes, telephones, fire engine sirens and train whistles, the list goes on and on. The sound of the cow bell rings loud and clear and just like other alarms, it calls attention to the job at hand.

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Beggar’s Diamond V Ranch Montana

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ill Beggar, his brother and parents have been ranching in eastern Montana for many years. The ranch is 20 sections of land, located south of Wibaux, Montana, near Interstate 94, 6 miles from the North Dakota border.

“When I was in high school my dad bought a couple half-blood Simmental bulls and a 4-H steer for me that was half Simmental. I had the Grand Champion steer.

We bred those half-blood bulls to our commercial cows (which were predominantly Angus, black Baldy and a little Shorthorn) and we saw a big difference in the calves,” says Bill.

“We started AI-ing our cows to Simmental bulls and had those first calves in 1975.

This made a great cross. In 1976 we had a small bull sale. Most of those bull calves were red and red white-face. In that first sale we just had one black one and he topped the sale. So from then on we focused on black Simmentals,” he says.

“We still raised a few red ones, but we were some of the pioneers of the black Simmentals. There were probably 10 other ranchers breeding black Simmentals at that time, but we were raising the black ones when they were still unheard of,” he explains.

“We kept focusing on that trait, and keeping the black heifer calves. We sold a black baldy heifer calf in the Montana state sale and she was one of only two black heifers in that sale. She ended up being the mother of Leachman’s Circle S 600 U bull, which was one of the popular bulls in the black side,” says Bill.

“That was one of the cows that put us on the map. Today we’ve expanded our cow herd to 600 and they are black Simmental or Sim-Angus, with a few straight Angus. We sell about 150 bulls in our spring sale. This year we had 100 Sim-Angus bulls and about 35 purebred black Simmental bulls and 15 Angus bulls,” he says.

“We AI about 400 head of cows each year. Our big focus now in the black Simmentals is to have them solid black-homozygous black and polled. Not every cow on the place is that way yet, but this is

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our goal. We don’t breed to any bulls that are not homozygous black and polled,” he says.

“We don’t have any red Simmental anymore; everything is black. We are going solid black for the commercial producer to complement the Angus and we don’t like any white on the underside; we don’t want any sunburned and snowburned udders.”

He likes moderate framed cows with deep, thick bodies and stays away from the big-framed tall Simmental cattle of 30 years ago. “Our cows are not the biggest, but they are very efficient. Calving ease is very important. We feel these cows have got to have a calf by themselves without any assistance. We’ve based our program for the commercial cowman who probably calves a lot of calves by himself without a lot of extra help, and doesn’t have time for problems,” he says.

“We want efficient cows that will wean 50 percent or more of their own body weight. We have a spring and fall calving program. In the fall, everything calves out in the pasture—even the two-year-old heifers.

Our fall calving starts mid-August and runs until the end of October. Our weather is nice that time of year and I’d like to do more fall calving. We have about 250 females calving this fall. The spring calvers start about the first of February and calve through April.

We don’t assist very many of those cows.”

Their breeding program is known for cows with really tight, nice udders. “We get quite a few compliments on that. If we have to help a calf nurse because the cow’s udder is bad, she doesn’t stay around,” he says. A seedstock producer must

have the same rigid standards as the commercial producer—who doesn’t have time to be nursing a calf.

“We cull hard on udder structure and don’t tolerate a cow that you have to get in the chute to nurse. We don’t tolerate helping them calve, either. If a cow doesn’t calve on her own and have a calf that gets right up and nurses, and wean at least 50 percent of her body weight, she doesn’t stick around here,” says Bill.

“We wean our heifer calves in late November and their mothers go back out in the pasture grazing, with no supplement, no extra feed. The heifer calves last year averaged a little over 700 pounds. The weights went from about 625 all the way to 900, with several of them 800 pounds. Most are born in February and March. The cows stay in good shape even with calves on them that long, and the calves are fat,” he says.

“We don’t creep any of the spring calves; those cows raise them without creep. We do put creep feeders out during winter for the fall calves when all the green grass is gone, and keep them out grazing as long as we can. The fall-born calves are weaned in March and those cows are then kicked out in the pasture.”

Those fall calves are put on a short gain test after weaning and then turned out on grass. “They are developed on grass without any extra feed until October. Then we bring them in to develop for the sale. This year we offered more than 60 big stout 18-monthold bulls along with 90 spring-born bulls,” he says.

The ranch puts up a lot of hay and sells hay. “We put up enough hay to winter the cows for six months or whatever, depending on the year. We farm about 1500 acres and make silage to feed the bull calves and weaned heifers. We also feed the cows;

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whenever the snow hits us hard, we bring them home. Then the spring-calving cows don’t go back out on grass until mid-May after the grass has a good start. For the fall calving cows we always keep a stockpiled pasture or two to put them on in the spring but they don’t need much extra help after we take the calves off them,” he says.

The breeding program tries to create cattle that fit their environment and produce what the commercial breeder needs. “We are conscious of carcass quality and pay attention to it, but first you must have cattle that are profitable for a ranch.” They have to make it on the ranch first, before they become a carcass. The cows must breed on time every year, calve without assistance and raise a good calf and do it efficiently.

“We don’t bring the spring-calving cows in until January if the weather stays good.

We don’t pamper them; we make these cows work for a living,” says Bill.

Disposition is another important trait.

“We cull a cow if she’s wild or waspy. I used to be able to run pretty fast, but not anymore. Most people want them easy to manage. The age of the average rancher is getting older and we definitely don’t want anyone getting hurt with any cattle we’ve raised.

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“The bulls are developed in big lots and get plenty of exercise. We feed a high fiber ration and have the bulls gaining about 3 to 3.5 pounds per day. We don’t believe in pushing them to 4 or 5 pounds,” he says.

The bull sale is held at the ranch, always on the first Wednesday of February. “Our customer base runs through Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska. We’ve sold bulls from coast to coast and into Canada, and the South,” he says.

He and his wife Darlene run the ranch, along with his brother Bob and his wife Virginia. “Darlene and I raised six kids and they are all grown and gone, except our son John and his wife Alicia who came back to the ranch and plan on staying here. So now we have a third generation started. It’s nice to have a family operation that hopes to continue on for several generations.

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Mike Casabonne New Mexico Mike Casabonne

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here is an old saying that “blood will tell.”

In rural New Mexico, near the small community of Hope, lives a rancher with the blood of a stockman. Through his arteries pounds the same blood that caused three of his grandparents to leave a village in the Pyrenees Mountains of southwestern France, cross an ocean and a continent, and tend livestock in the territory of New Mexico. The tenacity, hope and stubborn optimism that carried those ancestors through the Great Depression and two World Wars still courses through Mike Casabonne’s body. The blood ran true as he gave time and resources to better his community, his family, and agriculture. Hope beat in tune with his heart as he waged war against the predators who were slowly killing the New Mexico sheep industry.

Mike is a modest man who was surprised when a gathering of Wool Growers honored him as their 2013 Sheepman of the Year.

Though he has spent countless hours providing leadership in the sheep business, his community and all of New Mexico’s ag industry, his service is so innate that he doesn’t realize how much he gives to the rest of agriculture.

Mike’s story started three generations ago, in 1907. Jack Casabonne and his brother John Pete immigrated to America when Jack was just 17 years old. Another Frenchman gave the brothers their start herding sheep in the Artesia area. Just two years later, Felix Cauhape, left Lescun, France, to come to America and make his life as a sheep rancher. Felix was Mike’s maternal grandfather, and he imported a young girl from his village to join him in the harsh, unforgiving landscape of New Mexico territory.

Over the next 100 years, the Cauhape and Casabonne families raised sheep,cows and kids near the small village of Hope.

Mike’s parents, George and Marie Elizabeth, set a standard of production efficiency that the rest of the New Mexico sheep industry tried to emulate. The Casabonne flocks consistently had a 115 to 125 percent lamb crop and a reputation wool clip. Mike, like his sister and two brothers, grew up with

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dogie lambs on the back porch and memories of family work and fun in the shearing shed. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be numbered among the men and women who feed the world.

After graduation from college, Mike spent a year and a half with Dr. Dewey Brown, one of the top feedlot veterinarians in the country, learning different management systems and philosophies of animal agriculture that he still uses today. When he returned to the Casabonne home place, his aunt Madalyn Cauhape asked him to travel with her as she fulfilled her duties as president of the New Mexico Wool Growers. “I wasn’t smart enough to know that if you are young and show some interest, they will put you to work,” he reminisced with a smile.

Mike also became friends with Lloyd Treat, who ranched west of Hope. One day Lloyd offered Mike a lease on his place.

Mike recalls, “Lloyd had gotten a chance to ranch when A.C. Hedricks sold this place to him, many years ago, and he wanted to give me the same chance. He always told me not to worry, he would sell this place to me at a price I could afford to pay. And he did. We leased the place for about 10 years, then bought it.”

Mike and his wife, Dwanna, were also raising a family by that time. The years flew by in a blur of shearings and county fairs, family gatherings and reunions of friends disguised as a marking or a shearing.

Through it all, family involvement in the sheep business was a constant.

It wasn’t in the blood of a Casabonne, however, to just be a part of something.

Mike worked tirelessly to improve things for everyone in the business. He was on the Wool Council when they started a skirting and grading program and was one of the first to implement the program on his own ranch. Though the program was costly in terms of time and manpower, when American producers started classing and grading and baling their wool according to international standards, the prices they received went up as well. “Mike did a lot to improve New Mexico’s wool clip,” noted Pete Gnatkowski, another sheep producer.

Mike’s leadership was also responsible

for a group of New Mexico producers selling range raised lambs to Wynn Dixie, a major retailer in southeastern United States.

“Everyone is doing that now,” noted Steve Lewis, another sheepman. “But Mike was the one who got us started 20 years ago.”

The old saying “if you want something done, ask a busy man,” is appropriate when applied to Mike. “Most people don’t realize how busy ranchers are,” noted Mike’s brother, Tom. “Mike is always working on livestock, machinery, wells, bookkeeping, or something else. But he also makes time to be active in livestock and grazing associations.

It is a big priority for him that ranchers work together for their own good.”

Mike served as New Mexico Wool Growers president and was active nationally when the American Sheep Producers Council was combined with the National Wool Growers Association into the American Sheep Producers Association. It took lots of letters and phone calls and time away from home. The Casabonne kids were little, but Dwanna and the kids handled the ranch and Mike took care of business.

Besides the sheep and wool associations, Mike has served as both president and vice president of the New Mexico Federal Lands Council, on the board of directors of the Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative and the First American Bank of Artesia, and two terms on the Artesia School Board.

“All the people that I grew up looking up to did things for others,” Mike commented.

“I knew I wanted to be a rancher like these guys that I grew up respecting, and I wanted to give back, because that is what makes life worthwhile.”

After three generations of raising sheep on American soil, the Casabonne name was forever linked with sheep. But across the Land of Enchantment, coyotes were eating sheepmen out of business. At the end of the 20th century, one by one, the big ranches that had for the last 100 years each run thousands of ewes were forced out of the sheep business.

Mike and Dwanna, along with their friends and neighbors, had to change their outfits from sheep and cattle ranches to cattle ranches. Corrals had to be enlarged.

Drinkers had to have more capacity.

And the men who had all their lives defined themselves as sheepmen remembered that they always had been, and still are, stockmen.

For Mike Casabonne, blood still tells the story of stockmen and stewardship.

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at the heifer, and said, ‘Young man, I’d have to have $350 for that one.’ I said, ‘Dad, write him a check and let’s load her up, and I’ll give you the money tomorrow when we go to the bank.’ So we took her home.”

About a month later she had a nice big Idaho bull calf. “When he was a coming 2-year-old bull I took him to the Six Point Sale—and he topped the sale at $800. That cow lived cow but I was more interested in Polled to be 18. Every time I sold a calf I’d buy Herefords. He suggested I look at his neigh- another cow or heifer, so that was the start bor’s cattle. He told me Gilman Fletcher had of my herd. Later we bought all the yearling really good Polled Herefords—‘but he does- heifers that Gilman Fletcher had, and this n’t take them out and show them and put us in the purebred business,” he says. nobody knows he has them’”.

“We kept increasing the herd. We had Keith and his father went to Fletcher’s 100 commercial cows along with 30 to 50 place and looked at some bred heifers. “I purebred cows. Part of the farm was so saw one I wanted, but he told me she was rough and rugged, with lava outcroppings, not for sale. He showed me some that I that we didn’t think we could run purebred could have for $200 but I didn’t see any of cows on it. But the time came when we those that I was interested in,” recalls Elk- either had to expand or do something else, ington. and we didn’t have any other pasture. So we “I said, ‘Well, Mr. Fletcher, you said that sold the commercial cows and put purebred certain heifers are not for sale. Does that cows on that rough pasture. Now they are mean they are not for sale at any price or weaning 600 to 800 pound calves off that just not for sale for $200?’ He got a funny country.” look on his face and said, ‘Young man, there “This is what we’ve based our program isn’t anything on this farm that is not for on—producing cattle that would work in sale, at a price.’ I said, ‘If that’s the case, what’s the price on that heifer?’ He looked continued on page 41

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“I had saved money from bum lambs and my dad took me to several ranches to try to find a heifer. We found a really nice horned Hereford cow that the owner said he would sell for $250 (which in those days was a lot of money). I told him she was a really great

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Cowfolks Care USA

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ll good cowboys know to never underestimate the power of a woman.

Women who live on the range are usually good-hearted, feisty, and tough.

They have learned to make do or do without. They can fix most anything and can whip up something that feeds the soul or the body out of almost nothing.

When you put together five of these cattlewomen who live in four different states and can all handle a computer and know their way around the Internet, something powerful is sure to happen . . . just as it did in the fall of 2013, when Sheila Carlson called four of her internet friends and asked them to help her ensure that their brothers and sisters in the ranching community got a hand when they needed it the most.

These ranchwomen met through an internet group called Ranch Wives. “When Sheila heard from the good Lord that a group called Cowfolks Care needed to come about, she rounded up the four of us,” noted Tina Williams, one of the group.

The five virtual strangers united behind a common cause . . . to help those in the ranching community who needed extra help with medical bills or expenses that come with long illnesses. In the last year, the group has raised in excess of $21,000 to help different ranching families.

The formula is simple. The women used the popular social-media Facebook site to launch a group called Cowfolks Care. Currently, Cowfolks Care has 6,800 members.

When the five-woman board approves a need and asks for donations, their members send photos and descriptions of items they want to donate. When the auction opens, members can bid by “commenting” under a post. When the auction is over, the winning bidder can send a check or pay through PayPal. One hundred percent of the total that is raised is then sent to the chosen recipient.

“We accept anything that someone wants to auction off,” noted group member Sue Kennen. “We’ve auctioned off bucking bull straws and a Quarter Horse straw of semen.

Horses have also been donated, and we get a lot of western memorabilia.”

Although Cowfolks Care has a business office in a home outside of Flagstaff, Ari-

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zona, and Sheila and one other board member live in Arizona, the rest of the members are scattered across the continent. One of them works in Oregon. One member lives in Texas, and Sue lives in Louisiana. None accept any reimbursement for their time or expenses. All they do, they donate back to Cowfolks Care.

Several of the ladies have not yet met face to face, yet they talk daily, trying to support families in need and get together financial assistance for others. “A year ago we only knew each other from Facebook, but now I would not trade the other four ladies in this group for the world,” noted Tina Williams.

President and Cowboss of Cowfolks Care is Sheila Carlson. The group was Sheila’s brainchild, and though she doesn’t run the whole show, she is the leader.

Sue Kennen is Vice President and the Nighthawk. She is the night watchman, the one who goes to bed earlier and gets up earlier than the rest. “We sometimes get an email from Sue at 2:00 in the morning,” noted Williams. “We don’t know if she hadn’t been to bed yet, or if she just got up early.

Secretary and Point Rider is Holly Ward.

Holly keeps track of the meetings and is also out front, keeping everyone headed in the right direction.

Amber Barton is Treasurer and the Tally Man, keeping the numbers and riding herd on Excel spread sheets.

Tina Williams does Public Relations and is the drag rider, following along behind everyone and trying to keep spirits up.

“Actually, we do everything (except spread sheets) as a group,” Tina noted. “The five of us take care of this baby together.

The stories of the people are sad and they break our hearts, but we are glad that we can help them.”

The ladies of Cowfolks Care get more requests for help than they can handle.

Those experiencing immediate needs, such as the cowhand who broke his leg and just needs a little money for doctor bills, might be helped from the general fund. Others, such as the lady who had to travel from a ranch in the middle of nowhere to get to

doctor’s appointments, get whole auctions for their cause. “We have helped families with food, travel and gas to get to appointments,” Sue noted. “When you live a long ways from the doctor, just getting there is a strain. We can sometimes pay a house payment, or maybe an electric bill. Sometimes we help with a phone bill. We just want to give a hand when someone else in the ranching community needs it.”

The administrators run one or two general fund auctions a year. They also sent a gift card for Thanksgiving dinner to some handpicked recipients and put up a Virtual Angel Tree at Christmas. Once they put children of the people they helped on-line, their members chose “angels” to buy for. When they packed the gifts to send to the family, often the return address says, “from Santa Claus.”

“A lot of people would like us to get a booth in Las Vegas, but we really can’t unless someone donates a booth,” Sue noted. “Likewise, we’d love to do some more national things, like maybe do an auction on Superior Livestock. Doing something like that would mean that we could help more people.”

More members would also help. It is easy to join. Just search for Cowfolks Care on Facebook and ask to join the group. Once your membership is accepted, you can bid during an auction and/or donate goods, services or crafts for an upcoming auction.

Cowfolks Care also maintains a website at cowfolkscare@yahoo.com In their drive to help others, these five amazing ranchwomen are always looking for more donors and more bidders, because ultimately, more of both will help them help more ranchers.

– by Carol Wilson

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tough terrain and conditions. If our cattle won’t work there, they won’t work for our customers. Many purebred breeders run cows on irrigated pasture in the valley and don’t know what it takes to make them work in the hills,” Elkington says.

“We used to show at all the state fairs, but when the popular type got so tall and extreme, we left the show ring and started concentrating on a more practical type of cattle and have been breeding them that way ever since. We emphasize fertility, performance and efficiency,” says Elkington.

In 1981 the Elkingtons started having production sales. “We lived through the glory days of Hereford cattle and then the world turned black. The Angus people could see that their breed needed a boost so they started their Certified Angus Beef program.

After several years of promotion it became popular. I thought it was interesting that even the hamburger from the CAB is promoted—in spite of the fact that if there’s anything you don’t want fat, it’s hamburger!

But great promotion can do anything,” he says.

“Black cattle took over the landscape and for awhile it became a little harder to sell Herefords. So in 2002 we gathered up a carload of bulls and took them to Denver to show them. We realized we needed to stretch out and bring in buyers from farther away to make our sale successful. We got Reserve Champion pen of yearlings, and also sold a bull to Rausch Hereford Ranch (half interest for $15,000. We sold bulls to several other purebred herds around the country, which helped elevate our visibility again.”

“We were selling 60 Polled Hereford bulls each year in our sale, but wanted to sell a few more bulls. So we brought some South Devon cattle into our program about 15 years ago. We bought the pick of one breeder’s herd. We bought a South Devon bull from Oklahoma. We added this breed to our program because it complements the other breeds and enables us to sell another 10 to 20 bulls at our sale.” The South Devons are easy fleshing, gentle cattle.

“We might have been able to increase faster with one of the more well known breeds like Red Angus, but the South Devon

is a great breed. Every cattleman who has tried one has come back for more. Now I’m on the national board of directors for the breed association, helping direct the breed.”

“When we first started we did put some of the Hereford cows with a South Devon bull; there is a breeding-up program in which after the cattle are 15/16th South Devon they are considered fullbloods. This is a way to get into the breed in several generations, starting with another breed.”

Demand for Hereford bulls is coming back strongly again, with the need for crossbreeding. Many herds have been bred black for several generations and have lost the hybrid vigor they had with the first cross and the black baldy cow. It’s time for an infusion of Hereford genetics.

“The Hereford has many advantages.

There is no other breed that can survive under the harsh conditions that the Hereford can. Driving up through some of the country around Soda Springs last year, with the feed so dry, the black cows and calves were thin and the Hereford cattle were fat,” Elkington says. Herefords are more efficient, easy-keeping cattle.

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Olson Double O Ranch Montana

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arrell and Vicki Olson’s Double O Ranch south of Malta, Montana has been in the family several generations.

“My grandmother and her brother came from Pennsylvania to homestead,” says Vicki. “My grandmother came in 1916 and was probably one of the first women in Montana to prove up on a homestead.” She married the man down the road who also had a homestead. With those three pieces, and two more that her husband and brother filed on, there were five homesteads in the family.

“The place we run now is 20,000 acres of private land and leased BLM. On that land there were 56 homesteads, total. Some of them didn’t make it and reverted back to the government. Many people don’t understand these checkerboard lands. We’ve worked with the BLM on a management plan and people don’t understand that it’s intermingled. They want to do something with the water but don’t understand that it’s on the private property. Those pieces are not public land,” she says.

Her grandfather on the other side came to America as a Basque sheepherder at age 16 from the Pyrenees Mountains in France.

He worked on a sheep outfit and took his wages in sheep. “He and my grandmother, whose family comes from Iowa, met when she was very young. They were living on the Missouri River when the Fort Peck dam was built. The place they owned was flooded and they had to move. This was during the 1930s and they moved up here to what we call the home ranch,” Vicki says.

Her grandfather bought out people who had to sell during the Depression. “Some of them sold their land for only $1 an acre, but they were walking away from unpaid taxes (my grandfather paid the taxes) and received some money from their land.

That’s better than the people who had to leave their land with nothing,” says Vicki.

Her grandfather built up the family ranch over the years and more land was added.

“Then my dad and uncle bought it from my grandfather. They ran it together then split it in 1979 and made two separate operations.

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That’s when my husband and I came back to the ranch, after10 years working for other people,” she says.

The Double O Ranch runs mostly black cattle and Charolais bulls as a terminal cross. “We use Angus bulls on heifers and keep our replacements from those calves.

People can’t believe we calve as late as we do and still wean 600 pound calves by November. This area has good grass. It’s not lush and green, but this native grass has more potency than tame pastures,” she explains.

The family does most of their cattle work horseback, and raises most of their own horses. “We’ve bought a few, but we break our own. We still have big community brandings where we all help each other.

Calves are roped and dragged to the fire, with a crew vaccinating, tagging, castrating, etc. At shipping time we also help each other. We have good relationships with our neighbors and that means a lot out here.”

Olsons hope they can eventually pass their land to the next generation. They had a tour last year in May, on ranching sustainability, trying to educate people about how ranchers try to do what’s best for the environment and still feed the world. “The NCBA and World Wildlife Fund were involved with this tour, hoping to large companies like Walmart to see that we are good at what we do. We ranchers have been here a long time, and we have learned what works and what doesn’t, on this land,” says Vicki.

“Some people tell us we should just sell out and go somewhere else, but we are determined that no one is going to push us off. Sure, we could sell the land for a lot of money, but it’s not about the money. This is home, and it has history that goes back a long ways,” she says.

Their son Jason rode bulls when he was young. He is now 35 and sells work boots.

“For awhile he also sold medical equipment, and he’d go into the operating room and tell them how to put in hips. People would scratch their heads and say, ‘Jason? The bull rider?’ and I’d tell them, yes, but he also has a degree in psychology and counseling and has done a little bit of everything.”

This is the big advantage for kids who grow up on ranches. They are innovative because they’ve dealt with so many things, and have a good work ethic. “World Wildlife Fund has been telling everyone in Washington, D.C. for years that the ranchers here are all broke and can’t wait to sell our ranches and get the hell out of here and that our kids don’t want to come back. The first time we met with some of the D.C. WWF people, we told them that not only do we not want to leave, but even if our kids can’t come back, the rest of the world is better off, just having them, because they have the best work ethic, and so much more to offer than most kids. They know how to take care of themselves and how to get out of a mess or solve a problem.”

PUBLIC LAND ISSUES — The Taylor Grazing Act in 1934 mandated dividing the range into allotments for various ranches that used it, figuring out the number of animal units for each ranch. “This area is checkerboarded with public and private lands. Later, when they were re-allocating these allotments, the BLM brought a bunch of kids fresh out of college to do some of this. I remember my dad cussing those young, educated idiots who had never been on a ranch and knew nothing about cattle use. My dad fought with the BLM, trying to educate these inexperienced young people,” Vicki says.

Today the American Prairie Reserve, the land-owning arm of the World Wildlife Fund, is trying to buy ranches in this area.

“They want to eliminate us so they can have a 3-million acre wildlife preserve. They claim they are saving endangered species, yet those were all here and doing fine when they came along,” she says.

Private landowners do the most for wildlife, yet don’t get much credit. “Studies show how much time wildlife spends on private land. In our area, most of the winter habitat for wildlife is on private land. Right now we have one of the best sage grouse populations and it has not been declining like in some areas. Yet one of the things written into the management plan is possibly removing the livestock,” she says. Sage grouse need grazing, to have ideal habitat.

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They prefer the grazed areas with succulent new regrowth rather than rested pastures with mature grass.

Vicki has been going to meetings, writing comments, and making suggestions regarding the documents so people can understand them and make comments without having to read an 800-page document. No one has time to do that, especially ranchers who are busy trying to make a living. They don’t have time to defend themselves.

“We’ve had many meetings around the

stage, working on a sage grouse plan, and one official scolded me for not making it to every one. That really offended me. My livestock association had someone at every meeting, and there were local ranchers at each meeting. Some of those meetings were a day of travel away from my place and two days of meetings. When you add this up for all the meetings, that’s at least a month gone—from what I need to be doing. The other people around the table were being paid to be there,” says Vicki.

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Boe Lopez New Mexico

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oe Lopez knows how to work. He remembers stomping wool, standing deep in a wool sack on the family ranch near Springer, New Mexico. As Boe worked and sweated, mashing each fleece deeper into the sack, at last there were enough fleeces in the sack that Boe could see out of the bag. After a few more fleeces were added, he could climb out of the sack, only to begin his job again at the bottom of another burlap wool sack.

“That was work,” Boe claims. “As a young boy, I burned cockleburs all day in the hot sun. That was working. But what I’m doing now, serving on boards and attending meetings, isn’t near as much work. Come with me to the ranch and I’ll show you what work is.”

As a fourth generation rancher in the short grass prairie of northeastern New Mexico, Boe knows the daily work associated with ranching. He has rescued freezing calves from blizzards, fenced in the blistering sun, and repaired pipeline when all the cows on the place are waiting for the next drink. But Boe is also a part of a new generation of agriculturalists, a young man who not only does the physical labor of the ranch, but also serves as a leader in his community and the ag industry. In this role, he has become a part of of agriculture’s most needed crop: its future voice.

Besides ranching on three sides of the small town of Springer, Boe also serves Springer as the mayor pro-tem. In addition to that, he serves on the Boards of the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association and New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau. Boe is also the chair of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Young Cattlemen’s Leadership subcommittee, as well as being president of the Agricultural Agents Association of New Mexico, secretary of the county fair board, and member of the county Farm Bureau. Besides all of these responsibilities, he holds down a full time job as Agricultural Extension Agent for his county.

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Most nights he is at a meeting, or on a conference call, or reading up on statutes or regulations so he can be informed at his next meeting. If he isn’t tied up at a meeting, Boe may be patrolling the family’s high country lease looking for cattle that show symptons of Brisket Disease, or helping a 4-H student with the beef project. He readily admits that he has to balance his time between a full time job, the family ranch, and time to advocate for and help guide the industry.

Why has a young rancher chosen to be so involved? “I go to meetings and see guys that are 50, or 60, or 70, and they have been representing ranching for years,” he noted.

“We have to pick up some slack, learn from these guys who have represented us so well, and do our fair share.”

So Boe travels to Washington to deliver comments on COOL legislation. Or trains a 4-Her in public speaking. Or represents his industry on the local political level.

Boe’s grandmother helped direct her young grandson toward community involvement and leadership. “She would say, ‘learn from those people who have done it over the years. Then see what you can add to the mix,’” Boe recalls.

After her husband died, Boe’s grandmother raised three children on the ranch and made sure each got a college education.

The courage to stay on the ranch and work hard for what you love made an indelible impression on Boe. “We just take care of this place to pass along to the next generation,” Boe stated.

“The intention is to make it better for the next generation. My brother brings my twoyear-old nephew to the ranch, and he “helps” us move the cattle to the high pasture. I have no children, and if I never do, the ranch will go to my nephew. We already have it set up.”

As Boe works to protect the legacy and the industry, he is a part of an important movement in rural America. As young producers step into leadership roles, in their commodity boards, ranching organizations, and politics, they are taking on the mantle of leadership to provide a safe and stable food source for the world.

The responsibility of leading agriculture

forward becomes heavier with each passing year, in part because only two percent of the nation actually farms or ranches today.

Because fewer people know what goes on at a ranch, it is important that each producer teaches the rest of society about a food producer’s actual role. “I tell them that our family couldn’t have stayed on the ranch for four generations if we weren’t taking care of the land,” Boe noted. “I help them see that in a blizzard, I am out in the storm, taking care of the cattle and bringing the newborn calves back to my house to dry them off.”

Boe’s message is the same, whether he is talking to a 4-H member or a rancher. “I tell them to get involved and to develop personal relationships with their legislators,” Boe stated. “The legislators can’t be experts in everything, so they need someone they can trust and who they can call for the straight story. If we help them in that way, those who make the laws will listen to us instead of others.”

Boe has been profiled as a part of 50 under 50, showcasing 50 articulate, hardworking, involved young farmers and ranchers from across the nation who are making a difference in public perception of agriculture and in the political arena. Even after this recognition, he insists, “I was just in the right place at the right time for someone to talk to me. Actually, there are plenty of other young adults who are leading and telling agriculture’s story.”

Sometimes classmates stop by Boe’s ranch house and wonder aloud why he chooses to live in rural America. “They don’t realize that I probably travel more than they do,” Boe admitted. “I get to meet new people all the time. I like dealing with cattle.

And I like the ranch.”

The 2012 Census of Agriculture noted that the average age of the American agriculturalist is 58.3 years. As many of today’s hoary-headed leaders get ready to step down from the saddle, they do so with the knowledge that Boe Lopez, and other bright young advocates for the industry, are stepping into leadership roles to spread the word about what matters to rural America and promote causes important to today’s agricultural and rural communities.

– by Carol Wilson Livestock Market Digest

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hile it takes good cattlemen, shepherds, horsemen, cowboys, families and livestock to produce food and fiber for America and the world, in today’s world it takes champions that may have never been on a horse or worked cows or sheep. It takes strong and dedicated elected officials in every seat from the city council to the Congress to fight for laws and regulations that allow America to produce what the other 98.5 percent of the nation enjoy every day – and what allows them the time and money to pursue careers and recreation off the ranch and farm. Congressman Scott Tipton representing Colorado’s third congressional district is one of those champions.

Using his positions on the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Small Business Committees, Congressman Tipton is fighting for the issues that most directly impact folks across the West, many of which involve open spaces and natural resources.

Scott has passed legislation in the House to encourage healthy forest management and prevent wildfire, as well as got a bill signed into law with bipartisan support to advance the development of clean, renewable hydropower. He is among the leaders in Congress at the point of the sword working to stop federal attempts to encroach on private property, including fighting massive federal grabs of privately-held water rights – standing up for farmers and ranchers, the ski industry, and all who rely on their water rights to survive.

Among his latest achievements is the U.S. House of Representatives passage of legislation co-sponsored by Congressman Scott Tipton to increase transparency under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by providing updates to ensure that the best publicly available scientific data is being utilized by the federal government when making listing decisions. In hearings he underscored

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he shortgrass which waves over the Circle Dot Ranch of northeastern New Mexico shelters a past. Native Americans once roamed this land. They were joined 400 years ago by Mexican conquistadores and sheepherders. Later, American traders who followed the Santa Fe Trail risked the hard weather, dry passages and hostile Comanches and lurched across the sod to get to lucrative Santa Fe Markets.

Bill Sauble, the man who uses the Circle Dot, knows the history. In many ways, his life is a reflection of both the history of the land and the Circle Dot brand. Circle Dot land has been described as some of the finest short-grass prairie in the world. Like that land, Bill is known in ranching circles as “the best of the best.” And like his brand, which was used as a road brand on cattle drivers because it is impossible to alter, Bill has lived a life according to personal convictions which have not changed.

In a world where ranchers either have to “show up at the table” or “be on the menu”, Bill has for years set aside his personal needs and desires to represent cattlemen at meetings, on boards, and at hearings. He has shown such fairness that he has been appointed by four different governors to be on the New Mexico Livestock Board. His intellect is legendary and his ability to solve tough problems is admired. And he does it all with a gentle humility. “Bill can say less and get more done than almost anyone,” according to Rex Wilson, past president of New Mexico Cattle Growers Association.

Ray Baca, executive director of the New Mexico Livestock Board, stays in close communication with Bill. “He takes his job as chairman of the Livestock Board seriously,” reported Ray. “He really fights for the rights of the ranchers and the industry. He knows how to get things done. And he takes his own time to come to Santa Fe and fight for the cause.”

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well. He is a statesman and is the longest serving member of the livestock Board. Bill takes it upon himself to ensure that the operations of the Livestock Board effectively regulate the industry in a way that strengthens its credibility and honors its position in our culture and economy.”

Besides his legendary leadership on the Livestock Board, Bill has also served in leadership roles in the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, New Mexico Cattle Growers (where he is past-president), Colfax County Commission, New Mexico Association of Counties, United States Animal Health Association, and the American Farm Bureau federation. This list doesn’t even include his reserve and active military service and his long list of honors, most starting with the word “outstanding.” In short, outstanding is about the only word that ranchers can agree upon to describe Bill Sauble.

Bill learned so much about disease and animal health with the livestock board that it was just natural that the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) tap Bill as one of their at-large delegates for the western region. USAHA isn’t a rule making body, but they decide how the United States will address animal disease issues. “This is the place where they have the really complicated disease discussions that have implications locally, nationally and internationally,” noted former State Land Office Commissioner Bill Humphries.

‘This isn’t just a philosophical debate because the outcome determines whether or not people can market their cattle.

Bill grew up on the Circle Dot, which was billed by a 1942 New Mexico Stockman magazine as “one of the best sodded ranges in the state which can accommodate 2,500 head of cattle.” After graduating with honors from New Mexico State University with a B.S. in Animal Science, he served two years in the United States Navy, then moved with his wife, Debbie, back to the home ranges of the Circle Dot. He hadn’t been home long before he began traveling with Alvin Stockton, then president of New Mexico Cattle Growers.

He learned of industry and tax issues, and

later joined the local Farm Bureau. One involvement led to another, and the Sauble family lent helping hands throughout the industry and the county. The Sauble children learned to give from their parents.

Troy, Bill and Debbie’s son, noted, “Dad taught me that leadership is not standing in front of a crowd giving directions, it is often being the person behind the scene making sure everything is running smoothly and that the right people are where they need to be at the correct moment in time.”

Fellow students at New Mexico State University described Bill as someone who could explain science more thoroughly in 15 minutes at the Aggie Snack Bar than the professor could in a two-hour lecture. He never lost that ability to explain highly technical information in a way that the masses can understand. “Bill gets on our local radio station and explains agricultural issues and what is going on in the legislature,” noted Bob Rickleffs, ranch manager for Philmont Scout Ranch. “Bill is good at helping the public understand agriculture and the problems we face.”

But time spent away from the ranch doesn’t mean Bill doesn’t know what is going on at home. Neighbor Frank Rice remembers a time when the Saubles were shipping cattle and the order buyer cut 65 calves off of the shipment. After the calves were sorted off, the buyer remarked, offhandedly, that he’d still be willing to buy those calves. Bill allowed as how he’d be willing to sell them. By the time the two men came to an agreement on price, the buyer ended up paying an eight cents per pound premium on the calves he’d sorted off of the main load.

Cattlemen who know him agree that Bill Sauble is a legendary leader who listens to all sides of an issue, acts with conviction, and works with others, even those whose politics are strongly opposed to his own. His friends and fellow cattlemen call Bill Sauble one of the most futuristic leaders they have ever known. His past work and his present endeavors are still ensuring a future for cattlemen. It is a legacy of which even the humblest of men can be proud.

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on the validity of that data and undermines species preservation efforts.

Tipton believes and is quite vocal about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “waters of the United States” rule. If adopted, he says, it would amount to the largest federal water grab in U.S. history. It would have unnecessary, devastating consequences on private water users and long-established state water law.

Congressman Tipton was raised in Cortez, Colorado. He graduated from Ft. Lewis College in Durango, where he studied Political Science and became the first person in his family to earn a college degree. After college, he returned home to Cortez and cofounded Mesa Verde Indian Pottery with his brother Joe. It was through his business that Scott met his wife, Jean, who is a former school teacher. The Tipton’s have two daughters, Liesl and Elizabeth, and two sons-in-law, Chris and Jace.

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During his time at the state House, he worked to ensure quality water for the people of Colorado and to improve the air quality of southwest Colorado. He also sponsored legislation to protect children from the worst criminal offenders.

Scott was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and again in 2012 for a second term. He is currently running for a third term.

Scott is a champion of advancing an allof-the-above energy solution that balances common sense conservation with responsible development. He passed the Planning for American Energy Act through the House to put requirements into place to develop wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale and minerals, based on the needs of the American people.

Scott has used his experience as a small businessman to inform his work as a Subcommittee Chairman on the Small Business Committee. Here he has worked to protect farmers and ranchers from regulatory overreach, as well as push for expanded trade opportunities.

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ark and Susan Doverspike and their son Steven are ranching in eastern Oregon on a ranch that has been in operation since 1888. Susan is fourth generation on the ranch. “Steven makes the 5th generation and we have a 6th generation that joins us occasionally. We have three sons, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren,” says Susan.

“My great-great-grandfather and his two sons came to California from the East, then rode horses up through Oregon to Washington and picked out places near Burns and Lakeview to settle, with homesteads and purchase. Our side of the family ended up in Burns,” she says.

“Our ranch went from Hull and Edith (my great-grandparents) to O.D. and Ethel (my grandparents), to Richard and Vera (my parents), and then to Mark and me and our boys. The theme through the generations has been to raise grass so we’d have something to feed a cow. We’ve expanded the ranch with each generation,” she says.

“This ranch is mainly a cow-calf and yearling operation. We sell some calves in the fall and hold some over to sell as yearlings in July,” says Mark. “We catch that lull in supply when the price is generally better.

The cattle are mainly Angus. We used to have Hereford/Angus but now most of our bulls are Angus. We plan to use some Hereford bulls to give us some F1 crosses again.”

This region has good summer grass but winters are long. “In early spring our cool season grasses start growing,” says Steven.

“We start grazing crested wheat, and then

by May the warmer season grasses start.

They are done growing by late July on a good year, or the end of June if it’s a dry year.”

The native meadows are harvested as hay and baled for winter feed. The regrowth provides fall pasture. “We have native Timothy and canary meadows that supply some fall grazing. In March the cattle go to our calving grounds—sagebrush hills—so the cattle are out of the wet, flooded meadows for calving. It’s a much healthier environment for the calves, but we have to feed a lot of hay there while we’re calving,” says Steven.

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steppes that provide early spring grazing.

We go early into a couple of those pastures that we didn’t graze the year before. A lot of the feed is old grass from the previous year, so we have grass to go onto in early spring, from last year’s crop. These are BLM pastures and we turn out in late April.”

After that the cattle go to a large BLM pasture. “We rotate between pastures every other year. Thus the cows are eating new grass that’s growing into leftover feed. We are allowed to stock these pastures a little heavier just because there’s more feed with a combination of the new grass and the old,” he explains.

“After that the cattle go up into the Forest with warm-season grasses that had the early springtime to grow. We stay all summer on those pastures. Then in the late fall we use a mountain ranch where we have native meadows that we hay and rake-bunch for fall feed. There’s a lot of sedges and timothy up, providing good nutrition for the cattle to come into in the fall,” Steven says.

“When we rake-bunch hay (into piles) it preserves the protein level,” explains Susan.

It’s more like a bale of hay than a windrow that is subject to more weathering. The cattle usually have those rake-bunch piles eaten by the time it snows.

“We probably average two to three feet of snow in the lower regions. Up on the higher mountains the fences are covered,” Steven says. “Some years we have snow by mid-November. Usually we are feeding hay through December until late April.”

The yearlings that are held over are sent to one of their ranches near Riley, which is about 40 miles west of Burns. “They go on some native grass but mainly crested wheat seedings that come up early in the spring and are very high in protein. Those yearlings stay on the ranch grazing during the summer and are ready to market in July,” he says.

The good feed and genetics make it work. “Susan does a really good job with the genetics, picking out bulls that are growthy with good carcass and maternal traits,” says Mark. Most of the calves are crossbred.

It’s always an interesting challenge, tweaking the genetics to enable the cattle to fit their environmental conditions. “In this

high desert environment we can’t get too high on milk production or the cows won’t stay in the herd,” says Susan. They may raise big calves but won’t breed back.

“Sustainability is very important to us, because the high desert is a very harsh environment. Our range pastures are rated at about 15 acres per cow per month,” says Steven. The cattle moving from pasture to pasture follow the grass readiness, moving higher in elevation as the summer progresses. The ranch meadows are just over 4000 feet elevation and the range pastures go up to 6000 feet.

“Our ranch at Riley puts weight on cattle quicker than our Burns ranch until about August,” says Susan. “From August on, the Burns ranch picks up because the Riley ranch grass dries up. We still have good grazing at that time on the Forest and we can follow some green grass on up the mountain where it stays green longer,” she says.

“We try to keep our cows at about 1250 to 1300 pounds and no bigger,” says Mark.

It’s a challenge to raise cattle in the desert— to be sustainable on the ranch and still produce a calf that is growthy and performs well for the buyer. This is the challenge, selecting genetics to make it work. It’s a moving target.

“We try to hit some of the niche markets like GAP and natural (NHTC), age and source verified,” she says. “Our oldest son Donald works for Western Video Market and Shasta Livestock Auction and helps us with the marketing. Our youngest son Daniel is finishing college at Eastern Oregon University, majoring in Ag Business,” she says.

“One of the rules mom and dad set up for us boys was that in order to come back to the ranch we had to get an education— bachelor’s degree or higher. Daniel is accomplishing that goal. My older brother and I have already done that. The second rule is that we have to work for somebody else for a minimum of two years, to see if we really want to come back to the ranch or have a job we like better someplace else,” says Steven.

He worked for JBS Five Rivers Feeding Company and brought back a lot of feeding knowledge and experience with what happens after the cattle leave the ranch. “We’ve tweaked our feeds around, the last couple of years, and tried a few different things to see if we can do a little better job of feeding the calves when we wean them, until they are shipped,” he says.

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istorically, terms like holistic management and sustainable ranching have been viewed with some suspicion by many ranchers. Sometimes it’s because of how and where the terms are used, or who used them, but mostly it’s just that ranchers are pretty traditional types –“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” – is something that you commonly hear, and new ideas sometimes take a while to take hold.

When you get right down to it, though, holistic management, regardless of the system used or degree it’s taken to, is about paying attention to the land, and in the end increasing productivity. It’s about managing for the benefit of the whole – land, wildlife, supporting a family,livestock, hunting – whatever fits into a particular rancher’s needs. It can mean anything from putting in a new water to improve utilization of a pasture, or periodically resting existing pastures, to building fences and establishing a

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ture. It was a pretty long grazing period, but still a rotation,and better than continuous yearlong grazing, Tom said. Over the past five years, they have put in several miles of pipeline and fencing, and now have 25 pastures. Today, their average grazing period is five days with average 130-day rest period.

“And our grass shows it,” he noted. “In a year-round grazing situation, there are a number of ecologically high successional grasses hiding in the mesquite and cholla where they are protected from grazing.

When you put a rotation in place, those grasses can move out. Grasses like Arizona Cottontop and Western Wheat are really spreading, and it is really fun and gratifying to see it.”

Moving the cattle so often seems like a lot of work, but the cows figure it out pretty quickly, he explained. “When we get a new bunch of cows we do have to train them, but after three or four moves they figure out that

they are going to fresh feed and it’s easy. We don’t even need to get horses, we just call them up and open the gate.”

Tom, who has a range management degree from New Mexico State University (NMSU) attended his first Allan Savory school on holistic management in 1980, and says that the two things that really stuck with him were the one-herd concept and time control of grazing. At the time, he was working for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Since leaving the BLM, he has put the practices he learned into place on ranches in the Big Bend area of Texas; Capitan, New Mexico; Crawford, Nebraska and Tucumcari, New Mexico.

One-herd grazing is patterned after the way large herds of ungulates grazed, constantly moving in a large herd, grazing for short periods of time and not returning to a previously grazed area for a long period of time, he explained. Their hooves chip the surface of soil, which prepares the seedbed.

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eventually decomposes, building up organic matter in soil which improves the water holding capacity of the soil. If the animals are left in for too long, though, they begin to do damage so timing is critical. Each pasture is rested an average of 96 percent of the year, helping the grass plants to grow healthy root systems which enables the grass to withstand drought.

“My favorite saying is that I plan for a drought, and so far things are going according to plan,” Tom said “People hate to hear me say that.”

When making management decisions, he assesses the available forage, then allocates forage made this year for next, trying to leave 40 percent for wildlife cover and erosion control. “If we’re getting short on forage, we can sell cows in October or November and maintain our grass rather than in April or June when we are out of grass. If we find that we have more forage available than cattle, we can hold our calves over and take advantage of the spring market rather than the fall market.”

Tom and Mimi sell grassfed beef directly to consumers, so they hold over a certain number of calves to meet their customers’ needs each year. They run Corriente and Longhorn cows, and breed them to Charolais and Angus bulls. “There is a lot of muscle and lot of bone on those calves, they really make good cross,” he noted.

The process can be labor intensive on the front end, building fencing and pipelines, but in the end is just management intensive, he said. “It is a different way of managing, and it takes perseverance to stay with it. It takes a while to get it right, but I after 34 years I think I’ve got it.”

Ranchers from Duke Phillips and Gary Wofford in Colorado to Sidwell and Sid Goodloe in New Mexico, to Kimberley Knight of Date Creek Ranch in Arizona and Chad Peterson in Nebraska, have put holistic management concepts to use on operations of all types, sizes and terrains. Using their own experience and expertise along with input from universities, researchers and different organizations, they are making their ranches viable both today and for future generations.

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Buyer’s Guide Livestock AKAUSHI American Akaushi Association, Bubba Bain, executive director: cell 361/217-0098, bbain@akaushi.com, 732 Jeff Davis Rd., Harwood, TX 78632, office 830/540-3912, fax 361/580-3897, info@akaushi.com, www.akaushi.com.

ALL BREEDS Cattleman’s Weekend, Selling in March each year. Call for exact date and time. Prescott Livestock Auction, Richard & Janet Smyer, P.O. Box 5880, Chino Valley, AZ 86323, ofc: 928/445-9571, Richard’s cell 928/925-1848; email: pla@northlink.com Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale, 670 Antelope Blvd., Ste. 3, Red Bluff, CA 96080, 530/527-2045. Jan. 27-31, 2015. www.redbluffbullsale.com Weaver Ranch, Maxine, Mourine & Susan Weaver, 970/5683898, 3000 W. County Rd. 70, Ft. Collins, CO 80524. Annual Sale Feb. 2015 – bulls PAP tested; also selling a good choice of bred heifers.

ANGUS American Angus Assn., 3201 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph, MO 64506, 816/383-5100. www.angus.org angus@angus.org Call or contact us for breeder information in your area.

Bagley Cattle Co., 8890 Brookdale Rd., Millville, CA 96062, Dale & Jane Bagley 530/547-5222. Range bulls available year-round. Some females also available. Most AI’d to top trait leaders. The choice of two excellent breeds – Angus & Hereford.

Bar T Bar Ranch, P.O. Box 190, Winslow, AZ 86047, Bob & Judy Prosser, 928/289-2619, www.bartbar.com, info@bartbar.com.

Females available October. Selling 400 bulls 2nd Saturday in April, Yerington, NV Bell Key Angus, 9351 Lakeshore Dr., Nampa, ID 83686, Dennis Boehlke, 208/989-1612, 208/467-2747. Private treaty all year. Selling bulls at Gem State.

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Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd., M.L. Bradley, 15591 CR K, Memphis, TX 79245, 806/888-1062, www.bradley3ranch.com . Reg. Angus & Charolais; nice reg. ranch horses; seedstock – reg. Angus & Charolais; semen available on calving ease bulls.

Breckenridge Partnership Ltd., P.O. Box 1973, Roswell, NM 88202-1973, Bernarr Treat, Ranch Manager, 575/623-2999 x 3130, 575/626-5355 cell, btreat@armstrongenergycorp.com; Lawton Heatley, Ranch Foreman 254/5594830 cell, lawtonheatley@yahoo.com Offering registered Angus bulls & females desired by today’s producers

Buchanan Angus, www.buchananangus.com, 13490 Algoma Rd., Klamath Falls, OR 97601. Robert and Kathleen Buchanan, 541/883-8471. Annual Bull Sale 4th Sunday in February each year.

Breeding stock available year-round.

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Burkholder and Unruh, 17077 Rd. 6 SE, Warden, WA 98857.

Glen Burkholder 509/349-8849, John Unruh 509/349-2945; alfalfajohn@scml.us Quality Angus cross show steers, private treaty.

Diamond Oak Cattle Co., 1232 W. Tahoe St., Merced, CA 95348. Steve and Jean Obad, 209/383-4373, Steve’s cell: 209/777-1551. A good selection of choice bulls available.

Doerr Angus Ranch, Registered Black Angus, Max & Wendy Doerr, doerrangusranch@hotmail.com www.doerrangusranch.com Production Sale last Friday in January. 50K tested bulls & heifers.

Felton Angus Ranch, 02 Felton Lane, Springdale, MT 59082.

Richard 406/220-1176, Jim 406/220-1177, Maurice 406/764-2216. Production sale second Monday in February 2015, broadcast live on Superior Livestock Service. Call for more information. www.feltonangus.com rkfelton@rangeweb.net

Gonzalves Ranch, 7243 Maze Blvd., Modesto, CA 95358.

Joe 209/523-5826, jgonzalves1@aol.com, Mike 209/531-4893, Joey 209/765-1142.

“COMPLETE CATTLE to fit your genetic needs.” Also consignors to Bull’s Eye Angus Breeders Sale, Weds., Sept. 17, 2014, Oakdale Producers Livestock Market, Oakdale, CA. Angus & SimAngus breeding stock available year-round private treaty.

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Hales Angus Farm, 27951 S. US Hwy. 87, Canyon, TX 79015.

Richmond Hales 806/488-2471, (c) 806/6791919; Rick Hales 806/655-3815, (c) 806/6799303, email: halesangus@gmail.com www.halesangus.com. 20th Annual Bull & Heifer Sale, the 3rd Saturday in March 2015, Canyon, TX. Hooper Cattle Company Steve Hooper, 575/773-4535, fax 575/7734582, email: hoopercattle@wildblue.net, HC 32 Box 405, Red Hill Rt., Quemado, NM 87829, www.hoopercattlecompany.com.

Angus and Hereford cattle bred for optimum genetic performance.

Hubbell Ranch, Angus Plus cattle. P.O. Box 99, Quemado, NM 87829, Rick & Maggie Hubbell 575/773-4770. Quality Angus Plus bulls & heifers available.

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King Herefords, Bill King 505/220-9909; Tom & Becky Spindle 505/832-0926; P.O. Box 2670, Moriarty, NM 87035. Come see us for all your herd bull needs – 150 Hereford, 125 Angus & 100 Charolais bulls available this fall. Located 5 miles N. of Moriarty on Hwy. 41; then 1.5 miles east. www.billkingranch.com Visit us on Facebook.

McClun Lazy JM Ranch, Jim and Jerri McClun and Family, 307/8372524, Rt. 1, 1929 Rd. 60, Veteran, WY 82243, email: jkmcclun@yomail.com. Polled Hereford and Angus. Private treaty sale at the ranch. Family owned and generated since 1964. Visitors always welcome.

BALANCERS Bar T Bar Ranch, P.O. Box 190, Winslow, AZ 86047, Bob & Judy Prosser, 928/289-2619, www.bartbar.com, info@bartbar.com.

Females available October. Selling 400 bulls 2nd Saturday in April, Yerington, NV.

Bow K Ranch, Dave & Dawn Bowman, 55784 Holly Rd., Olathe, CO 81425, 970/323-6833, www.bowkranch.com “Pot of Gold” Gelbvieh, Angus & Balancer Bull Sale.

Females private treaty. Over 30 years of AI breeding, emphasis on moderate size – calving ease – carcass.

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Miller Angus, 174 NM 236, Floyd, NM 88118, Dink & Mitzi Miller, home 575/478-2398; cell 575/7609048. Quality registered Black Angus cattle.

Private treaty available.

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Reynolds Brothers Angus, 3623 W. King Rd., Kuna, ID 83634; Brian & Joan Reynolds, 208/465-4516, 208/899-0530 cell, reyangus@clearwire.net. Breeding quality registered Angus for the commercial market. Private treaty.

Barzona Breeders Association of America,

2 Bar Angus, 4020 US Hwy. 385, Hereford, TX 79045, Steve & Laura Knoll 806/344-7444, toll free 1-877/2BARANG. Bulls & heifers available year round private treaty. Annual sale 1st Saturday in Oct. www.2barangus.com

Boykin Barzonas, 8727 Lydia Lane, Montgomery, AL 36117.

Raymond Boykin, Jr., cell 334/430-0563. Low maintenance cattle that grade. Heat tolerant, range ready. Purebred and percentage cattle. Breeder since 1986.

W Bar R Angus, P.O. Box 114, Browns Valley, CA 95918.

Larry and Carol Whithrow, 530/742-3892, carolwhithrow@att.net. Breeding top-quality Angus with the commercial man in mind.

F & F Cattle Company, 130 Fitzgerald Lane, Mosquero, NM 87733, Mike and Pat Fitzgerald, 575/673-2346, ffcattleco@plateautel.net. Barzona cattle – F1 crosses. Also stocker cattle. Stop by the ranch anytime and say hello. -Purebred Barzona cattle..

Wagonhammer Ranches, Club calves – the winning kind. Spring and fall born. Myron Benes, Albion, NE, 402/395-2178 or 402/395-6962.

Production Sale, 3rd Wed. of March. Top quality females available at all times. Private treaty. www.wagonhammer.com.

Weaver Ranch, Maxine, Mourine and Susan Weaver, 970/568-3898, 3000 W. County Rd. 70, Ft. Collins, CO 80524, weaverrch@aol.com.

Annual sale, Feb. 2015. Bulls PAP tested and a good choice of bred females. weaverrch@aol.com

18800 E CR 1603, Foster, OK 73434, Nancy Bard-Nunn 217/649-5616. Top quality breeding stock available year round. nbduley@mc.net

1007 Cedar St., Adair, IA 50002, Alecia Heinz, Exexcutive Secretary 641/745-9170, barzonabreeders@gmail.com www.barzona.com

Hampton Cattle Co., P.O. Box 134, Kirkland, AZ 86332, Steve Hampton 928/442-3438, pshampton56@yahoo.com. Bulls & heifers available in the fall.

Yardley Cattle Co., Gib Yardley & Family, P.O. Box 288, Beaver, UT 84713. Simmental, Maine-Anjou and Angus, plus crosses of all three breeds.

Annual Female Sale Saturday prior to Thanksgiving. Bull Sale 2nd Saturday in March.

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Cherry Glen Beefmasters, P.O. Box 6897, Vacaville, CA 95696, John & Sue Pierson 707/448-9208, piersons@castle.com Bulls available year-round.

CJ Beefmasters, P.O. Box 269, Wellington, Ut 84542, R.D. & Peggy Campbell 435/637-3746, R.D.: 435/636-5797. Bulls & females available year-round.

Evans Beefmaster, Gayle Evans 435/878-2355, Mark Evans 435/878-2655, P.O. Box 177, Enterprise, UT 84725. Quality Beefmasters affordably priced. Legends of the Beefmaster breed Legacy Award – Beefmasters since 1953.

ISA Cattle Co., Inc., Laurie Lasater, Box 60327, San Angelo, TX 76906, 325/949-3763, Lorenzo Lasater 325/656-9126. www.isacattleco.com. 53rd Bull Sale — October 4, 2014 — 160 Beefmasters, Charolais. – Check out our ad.

Lasater Ranch, P.O. Box 38, Matheson, CO 80830. Dale Lasater, 719/541-2855; Alex Lasater 210/872-1117, www.lasaterranch.com, email: lasater@rmi.net. 65th Field Day & Sale Sept. 5-6, 2014. Home of the Foundation Herd of the BEEFMASTER BREED. Schwoerer Beefmasters, P.O. Box 593, Oakdale, CA 95361. Marion and Karla Schwoerer, 209/847-4722.

Range ready bulls available. BBU.

Silver State Beefmasters, 4660 Rice Rd., Fallon, NV 89406, Dalton & Diane Lowrey, 775/867-4099; Diane’s cell 775/426-9447. Winners of many awards for their Beefmaster Bulls & Females.

They offer private treaty at ranch. www.silverstatebeefmasters.com lowrey@phonewave.net

Havens & Parrott Farm, 2429 Orange Ave., Greenfield, IA 50849, Alvin & Karen Havens 641/743-6610, www.khavens.com havens@iowatelcom.net Quality Barzona cattle. Breeding stock available.

White Cattle Co., 31053 Eben Ray Lane, Burns, OR 97720, Doris 541/573-6566 or Mary Lee White 541/589-1476. Quality Angus, ChiAngus and Hereford cattle. Breeding stock available year round.

Casey Beefmasters, Watt Casey, Jr., Albany, TX, 325/668-1373, cell: 325/668-1591 text, Watt50@sbcglobal.net, www.CaseyBeefmasters.com.

Breeding high quality Beefmaster cattle since 1948. Inquiries invited, visitors welcome. Semen available. BBU. www.WattCaseyPhotography.com

BEEFMASTER Beefmaster Breeders United, 6800 Park Ten Blvd., Ste. 290 W, San Antonio, TX 78213-4284, 210/732-3132, Jaralyn Stephens, www.beefmasters.org, email: jstephens@beefmasters.org.

Breed registry. Write or call for breeder listings or information.

BLUE CATTLE American Blue Cattle Assn., P.O. Box 633404, Nacogdoches, TX 759633404, http://www.belgianblue.org Contact: Steve Dollarhide 580/245-2370, stevedollarhide@yahoo.com, office 936/652-2550, info@belgianblue.org. Beef up your herd with Belgian Blue cattle, the terminal sire of choice for commercial and dairy herds. They are bred for high yield lean meat with less fat and cholesterol than chicken. Belgian Blue beef is very tender because of the finer muscle fiber & lower percent of tough connective tissue. Their docile temperament makes them an excellent choice for club calves. Belgian Blue–The commercial Crossbred Solution!

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BRAHMAN American Brahman Breeders Assn., 3003 South Loop West, Ste. 520, Houston, TX, 713/349-0854, www.brahman.org, abba@brahman.org. American Brahmans, often referred to as “Crossbreedings Common Denominator,” are proven to rank #1 in hybrid vigor, heat tolerance, and efficiency compared to all other beef breeds.

BRANGUS Brinks Brangus, Tate Pruett, 1818 Arabela Rd., Arabela, NM 88253, 575/365-6356, taterfire@hotmsil.com. Reg. Brinks Brangus.

Lack-Morrison Joe Paul & Rosie Lack, P.O. Box 274, Hatch New Mexico 87937, 575/267-1016, fax 575/267-1234; Racheal Carpenter 575/644-1311, www.lackmorrisonbrangus.com.

Quality Brangus cattle.

Lack-Morrison, Bill Morrison, 411 CR 10, Clovis, New Mexico 88101, 575/482-3254, cell 575/760-7263; bvmorrison@yucca.net; www.lackmorrisonbrangus.com.

Quality Brangus cattle.

Parker Brangus, Larry A. Parker, P.O. Box 146, 1700 N. Parker Rd., San Simon, AZ 85632, 520/845-2411, Larry’s cell 520/508-3505, jddcane@rtc.net Registered and commerical cattle.

Robbs Brangus, 4995 Arzberger Rd., Willcox, AZ 85643.

R.L. Robb, 520/384-3654. Come by any time and see our herd.

Westall Ranches / Brinks Brangus, Tate Pruitt, Arabela, NM, 575/365-6356, taterfire@hotmail.com Reg. Brinks Brangus; bulls, heifers, semen, embryos.

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King Herefords, Bill King 505/220-9909; Tom & Becky Spindle 505/832-0926; P.O. Box 2670, Moriarty, NM 87035. Come see us for all your herd bull needs – 150 Hereford, 125 Angus & 100 Charolais bulls available this fall. Located 5 miles N. of Moriarty on Hwy. 41; then 1.5 miles east. www.billkingranch.com Visit us on Facebook.

Wagonhammer Ranches, Club calves – the winning kind. Spring and fall born. Myron Benes, Albion, NE, 402/395-2178 or 402/395-6962.

Production Sale, 3rd Wed. of March. Top quality females available at all times. Private treaty. www.wagonhammer.com.

CHIANGUS White Cattle Co., 31053 Eben Ray Lane, Burns, OR 97720, Doris 541/573-6566 or Mary Lee White 541/589-1476. Quality Angus, ChiAngus and Hereford cattle. Breeding stock available year round.

CLUB CALVES Wagonhammer Ranches, Club calves – the winning kind. Spring and fall born. Myron Benes, Albion, NE, 402/395-2178 or 402/395-6962.

Production Sale, 3rd Wed. of March. Top quality females available at all times. Private treaty. www.wagonhammer.com.

CORRIENTE North American Corriente Assn., P.O. Box 2698 Monument, CO 80132. New Address! New Phone! Same great Corriente cattle! 719/425-9151. For a list of breeders visit: http://corriente.us

GALLOWAY CHAROLAIS Broken Box Ranch, P.O. Box 760, Williams, CA 95987.

Jerry & Sherry Maltby. 530/473-2830 or 530/681-5046, www.brokenboxranch.com.

Bulls and breeding stock available year round. Rice straw available.

Cobb Charolais Ranch, John Cobb, 406/562-3670, Mike Cobb 406/562-3694, P.O. Box 348, Augusta, MT 59410, www.cobbcharolais.com. Purebred and comm. annual spring & fall bull sales.

DeBruycker Charolais, Lloyd & Jane 406/476-3427, Joe & Cathy 406/466-5821, Mark & Belva 406/469-2371, Brett & Kay 406/476-3214, 1690 6th Lane NE, Dutton, MT 59433. 31st Annual Sale 1st Saturday in April 2015. “Creating Greater Rancher Returns.”

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DD Ranch, 12535 CR 23, Ft. Lupton, CO 80621, Debra Vance 970/405-5784, debvance@ theddranch.com, www.theddranch.com.

Registered white and black Galloway cattle.

Herd Sire Atomic is a trait leader in the breed. Contact for more information.

GELBVIEH American Gelbvieh Assn., 10900 Dover St., Westminster, CO 80021, 303/465-2333, www.gelbvieh.org email: info@gelbvieh.org Bar T Bar Ranch, P.O. Box 190, Winslow, AZ 86047, Bob & Judy Prosser, 928/289-2619, www.bartbar.com, info@bartbar.com.

Females available October. Selling 400 bulls 2nd Saturday in April, Yerington, NV.

Bow K Ranch, Dave & Dawn Bowman, 55784 Holly Rd., Olathe, CO 81425, www.bowkranch.com, 970/323-6833. “Pot of Gold” Gelbvieh, Angus & Balancer Bull Sale. Females private treaty. Over 30 years of AI breeding, emphasis on moderate size – calving ease – carcass.

"Pot of Gold" Bull Sale 24th annual bull sale, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, Olathe, CO. Selling 100 top quality yearlings & two year olds – several herd sire prospects.

PAP, trich, fertility and PI-BVD tested – Gelbvieh, Balancers, & Angus. Females private treaty. For information call Mark Covington, 970/249-1453 or Dave Bowman 970/323-6833, www.gelbviehbulls.net.

HEREFORDS Bagley Cattle Co., 8890 Brookdale Rd., Millville, CA 96062, Dale & Jane Bagley 530/547-5222. Range bulls available year-round. Some females also available. Most AI’d to top trait leaders. The choice of two excellent breeds – Angus & Hereford.

Chandler Herefords, Inc., 17528 Chandler Lane, Baker City, OR 97814.

George 541/523-2166; Duane 541/523-4265, Charles, 541/523-3570, gchandlr@uci.net, www.chandlerherefords.com. Purebred, horned bulls; replacement heifers. Private treaty. Five generations since 1889.

JOE PAUL & ROSIE LACK P.O. Box 274, Hatch, NM 87937 575/267-1016 RACHEAL CARPENTER 575/644-1311

BILL MORRISON 411 CR 10 Clovis, NM 88101 575/482-3254 Cell 575/760-7263 bvmorrison@yucca.net www.lackmorrisonbrangus.com

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Clark Anvil Ranch, 32190 CR S, Karval, CO 80823. Clinton Clark.

719/446-5223 ranch, 719/892-0160 Clinton’s cell, cclark@esrta.com. Breeding quality Hereford and Salers. Bulls & females available in the spring.

Harper Cattle, LLC.,

Coleman Herefords,

Hooper Cattle Company, Steve Hooper, 575/773-4535, fax 575/7734583, email: hoopercattle@wildblue.net, HC 32 Box 405, Red Hill Rt., Quemado, NM 87829, www.hoopercattlecompany.com.

Hereford and Angus cattle bred for optimum genetic performance.

1271 CR 115, Westcliffe, CO 81252-9611, Ken & Suzanne Coleman. Line One Breeding “Where Quality Runs High.” 719/783-9324, www.colemanherefords.com Visitors always welcome.

Craig Herefords, P.O. Box 152, Phippsburg, CO 80469. Dan, Karen, Brandon, 970/736-2272, Email: dcraig45@yahoo.com. High-altitude, performance-tested Hereford bulls available. Also bulls & females at private treaty.Testing at Midland Bull Test.

D&S Polled Hereford, Dennis & Sonja Gallegos, P.O. Box 306, Abiquiu, NM 87510, 505/685-0717, cell 505/929-4124, gallegos127@windstream.net Bulls & females available in the spring.

Decker Herefords, 28 County Rd. 1332, LaPlata, NM 87418, Jaye & Sue Decker 505/330-3179, info@deckerherefordranch.com Bulls and a few select heifers available private treaty at the ranch.

Diamond M Ranch, Summer Headquarters, Laurier, WA – The McIrvins, 509/684-4380. Winter Headquarters – 646 Lake Rd., Burbank, WA 99323, 509/545-5676. Selling 1,500 Herefords annually.

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www.harpercattle.com, Mark Mitchell, 817/466-7417 (corporate), 817/565-5426 (c), mark.mitchell@harpercattle.com. Ranch-raised Hereford & Angus bulls for the reg. & comm. cattleman. Available private treaty year-round.

Jones Polled Herefords, www.freewebs.com/cjphereford3/, 30469 Transformer Rd., Malin, OR 97632.

Richard and Cindy Jones, 541/723-2132.

Quality Polled Herefords. Registered herd.

Bulls & heifers at the ranch.

King Herefords, Bill King 505/220-9909; Tom & Becky Spindle 505/832-0926; P.O. Box 2670, Moriarty, NM 87035. See us for all your herd bull needs: 150 Hereford, 125 Angus & 100 Charolais bulls available this fall. Located 5 miles N. of Moriarty on Hwy. 41; then 1.5 miles east. www.billkingranch.com Visit us on Facebook.

Largent & Sons Sale! November 2014. P.O. Box 66, Kaycee, WY 82639, Mark & Cathy 307/738-2443, David & Heather 307/267-4491.

Visit us at www.largentandsons.com.

Madsen Herefords & Angus, 4351 Mines Rd., Livermore, CA 94550.

Louis and Joan Madsen, 925/447-0794.

Range bulls and breeding stock available. www.jonesfarm.com Pumpkin patch in October.

McClun Lazy JM Ranch, Jim and Jerri McClun, 307/837-2524, 1929 Rd. 60, Veteran, WY 82243, email: jkmcclun@yomail.com. Polled Hereford and Angus. Private treaty sale at the ranch.

Family owned and generated since 1964.

Visitors always welcome.

Mountain View Herefords, 4488 Hwy. 82, Elgin, AZ 85611. Grace and Michael Wystrich 520/456-9052. Bulls & females available year-round. Also consign to Willcox and Prescott Bull Sales.

Nine Cross Hereford Ranch, P.O. Box 310, Eager, AZ 85925, Fred Moore 602/380-4716 mobile. A good selection of breeding stock available year-round.

Orvis Cattle Co., 9601 State Hwy. 4, Farmington, CA 95230.

Roma Orvis, 209/ 899-2460, orvisranch@ juno.com, www.orvisranch.com. Don Harper, general manager 775/790-0243.

Bulls for sale at the ranch and Cal Poly Bull Sale.

Pedretti Ranches, 1975 E. Roosevelt Rd., El Nido, CA 95317.

Gino Pedretti, 209/722-2073, 209/756-1609 mobiles, GBL1domino@sbcglobal.net. Mark St. Pierre 209/233-1406. Hereford cattle.

A good selection of breeding stock available year-round.

Robb Polled Herefords, Tom Robb and Sons, 719/456-1149; robbherefords@rural-com.com, 34125 Road 20 North, McClave, CO 81057 (12 miles east of Las Animas, CO, Hwy. 50 north on Rd. 20). Range raised Polled Hereford bulls and heifers. See our ad!

Schuster Herefords, 877 Bickleton Rd., Goldendale, WA 98620, Clay Schuster 541/980-7464. A great selection of bulls available this fall.

Raised on grass, ready to work.

Breeding Herefords since 1938.

Schutte & Sons – S&S Polled Herefords, www.schutteandsons.net, 1417 Rd. 2100, Guide Rock, NE 68942, Ron 402/756-3462, rnschutte@gtmc.net. Polled Hereford, comm. bulls, bred females. Annual production sale 1st Tues. in March.

White Cattle Co., 31053 Eben Ray Lane, Burns, OR 97720, Doris 541/573-6566 or Mary Lee White 541/589-1476. Quality Angus, ChiAngus and Hereford cattle. Breeding stock available year round.

HIGHLAND American Highland Cattle Association, Benefits of Highland Genetics: Enhanced beef quality; Infuse grass genetics; Increase browsing & foraging ability; Improve calving ease; Add maternal longevity; Perfect hair coat for club calf market. Historic City Hall, 22 S. 4th Ave., Ste. 201, Brighton, CO 806012030, 303/659-2399 fax 303/659-2241, info@highlandcattleusa.org, www.highlandcattleusa.org.

LIMOUSIN/BRAHMOUSIN KEMI Limousin, Michelle & Willie Pankonien.

Email: kemilimousin@gmail.com; www.kemilimousin.com; 979/204-9016. Full blood Limousin breeding stock available private treaty.

North American Limousin Foundation, 6 Inverness Court, Ste. 260, Englewood, CO 80112, 303/220-1693, www.nalf.org, Mark Anderson, Exec. Dir. NALF is the official breed registry for Limousin genetics in the U.S., while also offering marketing assistance for producers of Limousin-influenced feeder calves and fed cattle through the Commericial Marketing Program.

Running Creek Ranch, 45400 CR 21, Elizabeth, CO 80107. Pat Kelley, 303/840-1848; Joe Freund, 303/840-1850.

Selling 200 purebred 2-year-old bulls annually at private treaty. Your call or visit is always welcome. www.runningcreek.com

Seven Mile Limousin, 8917 Butte Rd., Sweet, ID 83670, Eric Herr 208/584-3515, 208/365-8583 cell, ericph1@frontiernet.net Red/Black & Polled Limousin. Lim-Flex available private treaty.

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LONGHORN Texas Longhorn Breeders Assn. of America 2315 N. Main St., Ste. 402, Fort Worth, TX 76164, ofc. 817/625-6241, fax 817/625-1388, tlbaa@tlbaa.org, www.TLBAA.org. Also publishers of Texas Longhorn Trails monthly magazine.

MAINE-ANJOU American Maine-Anjou Association, P.O. Box 1100, Platte City, MO 64079-1100, office 816/431-9950, fax 816/431-9951, maine@kc.rr.com, www.maine-anjou.org.

Call or contact us for Association business or the breeder nearest you.

Yardley Cattle Co., Gib Yardley & Family, P.O. Box 288, Beaver, UT 84713. Simmental, Maine-Anjou and Angus, plus crosses of all three breeds.

Annual Female Sale Saturday prior to Thanksgiving. Bull Sale 2nd Saturday in March.

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Schou Ranch, P.O. Box 35, Lone Pine, CA 93545, Lewis Schou, 760/876-1122, schou@qnet.com.

Quality Red Angus bulls available.

Shuman Reg. & Commercial Red Angus, Lauren & Mel Shuman, 707/777-3695, P.O. Box 185, Bridgeville, CA 95526. Performance tested & quality proven cattle since 1976.

Bulls and females available private treaty at the ranch.

Southwest Red Angus Assn., P.O. Box 1380, Van Horn, TX 79855, Tim Head, President, (h) 432/283-1141, (c) 432284-9664, qgra@hughes.net. Live calves, dams with strong maternal traits.

SALERS American Salers Association, 19590 E. Main St. #104, Parker, CO 80138, 303/770-9292, e-mail: amsalers@aol.com, www.salersusa.org. Breed registry.

American Red Angus Association, 4201 N. I-35, Denton, TX 76207, 940/387-3502, info@redangus.org www.RedAngus.org Contact us for breed information, or for the breeder nearest you.

Rancher Tested. Rancher Trusted.

Clark Anvil Ranch, 32190 CR 5, Karval, CO 80823. Clinton Clark.

719/446-5223 ranch, 719/892-0160 Clinton’s cell, cclark@esrta.com. Bulls and females available in the spring. Breeding quality Salers and Herefords.

Beckton Red Angus, 37 Beckton Dr., Sheridan, WY 82801. Cam Forbes, email: becktonwyo@gmail.com, www.becktonredangus.com, ofc. 307/6746095, eves. 307/674-8162, fax 307/672-7281.

Annual Production Sale April every year.

Figure 4 Cattle Co., 14131 Harts Basin Rd., Eckert, CO 81418, Gary & Gail Volk, 970/835-3944, (c) 970/216-8748, figurefour@ tds.net, www.figure4cattleco.com. We raise Salers, Optimizers and Angus – Private treaty.

Grass genetics.

CB Ranch, 23080 Thomas Ave., Gerber, CA 96035, Bernie Hartman 530/385-1427. Herd sire: Lorenzen Santiam Real Grid 8426. Bulls available.

Green Mountain Red Angus, 2435 Logan Trident Rd., Three Forks, MT 59752, www.GMRAcattle.com; 406/2856773, Bob Morton’s cell 406/580-0348.

Annual Female Sale 1st Weds. in Dec. Annual Bull Sale 3rd Tues. in Mar. Breeding stock available year round.

Gregory/Magee Red Angus, 6801 Weeks Rd., Redding, CA 96002, Daniel & Teala Magee 530/209-5210, tealamagee@yahoo.com Range ready bulls for the commercial cattleman.

Loonan Stock Farm, 1724 Holly Ave., Corning, IA 50841, Judy Loonan and Rick Thompson, 641/322-3921, Judy’s cell 515/423-5642, Rick’s cell 515/229-0920, LSFRRA@wildblue.net.

Breeding quality Red Angus / Red Simmental / Simangus and Red Hybrid cattle. First Sat. in Feb. is opening day of our private treaty sale at the ranch.

McPhee Red Angus, 14298 N. Atkins Rd., Lodi, CA 95240, 209/727-3335. Red Angus “Cream of the Crop” Sale. Your source for proven, superior Red Angus genetics. www.mcpheeredangus.com

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Jacobsen Ranch, Wade Jacobsen & Family, 406/264-5889, cell 406/799-5889, Fax 406/264-5883, wadej@3riversdbs.net, 1282 US Hwy. 89, Sun River. MT 59483. See my December Production Sale ad in this issue! Sale held at Western LS Auction, Great Falls, MT. Sale day phone 406/723-5400. Selling 95 bulls, 200 bred heifers. Salers / Salers-Angus Hybrid and Angus.

SHORTHORN American Shorthorn Association, 8288 Hascall St., Omaha, NE 68124-3234. www.shorthorn.org, 402/393-7200.

For further information check our website or email us at info@shorthorn.org Bennett Shorthorns, Oakville, WA, John & Donna Bennett.

Private treaty year round. Shorthorns are an excellent choice for marbling and high gradability! Call 360/273-9932 for performance data! Herd for sale.

SIMM/ANGUS Gonzalves Ranch, 7243 Maze Blvd., Modesto, CA 95358, Joe 209/ 523-5826, jgonzalves1@aol.com; Mike 209/531-4893, Joey 209/765-1142.

“COMPLETE CATTLE to fit your genetic needs.” Also consignors to Bull’s Eye Angus Breeders Sale, Weds., Sept. 17, 2014, Oakdale Producers Livestock Market, Oakdale, CA. Angus & SimAngus breeding stock available year-round private treaty.

SIMMENTAL/SIMBRAH Gateway Simmental, 2109 Joyland Rd., Lewistown, MT 59457, Jim and Tom Butcher, 406/350-0467.

Gateway Spring Sale 1st Monday in Feb. www.gatewaysimmental.com Pine Ridge Ranch, 9876 Plano Rd., Dallas, TX 75238.

Bill & Jane Travis, ofc. 214/369-0990, eves.

214/348-1618, billtravis@bigplanet.com, fax 214/369-9132, www.simbrah.com.

“Hot Weather Cattle with a Quality Carcass.”

High quality Simbrah breeding stock available private treaty year round.

Yardley Cattle Co., Gib Yardley & Family, P.O. Box 288, Beaver, UT 84713. Simmental, Maine-Anjou and Angus, plus crosses of all three breeds.

Annual Female Sale Sat. prior to Thanksgiving. Bull Sale 2nd Saturday in March.

SANTA GERTRUDIS Siler Santa Gertrudis, David and Avanell Siler, P.O. Box 3, Doole, Texas 76836, 325/483-5449. Breeding stock available.

Wendt Ranch, 5473 FM 457, Bay City, TX 77414. Dan Wendt, 979/245-5100; 979/244-4386 (f), dwendt@1skyconnect.net, www.wendtranches.com. Quality Santa Gertrudis since 1954. Performance tested.

Breeding-age bulls available. Also select females year-round.

Woman Hollerin Ranch, Ricky & Betty McCormick, 1211 Peach Ridge Rd., Brookshire, TX 77423, ranch 281/3756861, Betty’s cell 281/797-6355, rickydmc@ juno.com, www.womanhollerin.com.

Semen on Bar 5-E7.

Contact: Gary A. Thrasher D.V.M.

Westlake Cattle Growers L.L.C. (520) 384-3761 Cell: (520) 508-5731 Fax: (520) 384-3931 westlakecattle@wildblue.net

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SOUTH DEVON North American South Devon Assn., 19590 E. Main St., Ste. 104, Parker, CO 80138. Gentle cattle with proven feed efficiency. For more info. or breeder listings call 303/770-9292, www.southdevon.com.

TARENTAISE American Tarentaise Association, www.americantarentaise.org info@americantarentaise.org 9150 N. 216th St, Elkhorn, NE 68022, 402/639-9808. Tarentaise cattle – a moderate frame breed – provides hybrid vigor in commercial herds – deeply rooted genetic potential for improvement in: fertility, natural muscling, feet and legs, efficiency in tough conditions, udder quality and profitable carcass traits – epitome of the long lived Momma cow in the commercial cattle world – use for longevity, maternal traits, adaptability, taste and hybrid vigor.

HORSES Brooks Quarter Horses, For cowhorses you can depend on and be proud of, give us a call 209/984-4853.

9700 Rock River Rd., Jamestown, CA 95327, www.brooksquarterhorses.com

Camp Wood Cattle Company, 7765 Williamson Valley Rd., Prescott, AZ 86305. Swayze McCraine 928/771-0673 or 928/925-4668. KJ Kasun 928/713-1169.

Commercial cattle and registered Quarter Horses.

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American Sheep Industry Assoc., Inc., Judy Malone, 9785 Maroon Circle, Suite 360, Englewood, CO 80112, 303/771-3500, judym@sheepusa.org, www.sheepusa.org, www.growourflock.org. National Trade Association for the Sheep Industry.

Continental Dorset Club, www.dorsets.homestead.com, “The mother breed.” Out-of-season lambing. Debra Hopkins, 401/647-4676, P.O. Box 506, N. Scituate, RI 02857, cdcdorset@cox.net.

Breed information and breeder listings.

Elbrock Ranch, P.O. Box 25, Animas, NM 88020, Edward & Tricia Elbrock 575/548-2270, Edward 575/538-1812. Beefmaster cattle, Black Faced show lambs available in spring; sheep breeding stock available.

Fisher Texels, www.fishertexels.com, 2275 N. Grays Creek Rd., Indian Valley, ID 83632, Gene &Niki Fisher, 208/256-4426, fishertexels@gmail.com. Call for information on The Lean Meat Breed.

Katahdin Sheep, Low-Maintenance Meat Breed – NO SHEARING! – Excellent Maternal Traits. Think about it! Call or write for information or breeders list. Jim Morgan, phone: 479/4448441, Katahdin Hair Sheep International, P.O. Box 778L, Fayetteville, AR 72702, www.katahdins.org, info@katahdins.org.

New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc., Marc Kincaid, President, P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87107, Office located at 2231 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 505/247-0584, (f) 505/842-1766, nmwgi@nmagriculture.org, www.nmagriculture.org. Call, write or email for membership information.

Bar G Feedyard, Eight miles south of Hereford, TX. 125,000 head capacity. Financing available.

Johnny Trotter, president/general manager, P.O. Box 1797, Hereford, TX 79045, 806/357-2241.

Broken Box Ranch, P.O. Box 760, Williams, CA 95987, ofc.

530/473-2830, cell 530/681-5046, www.brokenboxranch.com Jerry and Sherry Maltby, owners. Capacity 5,000 head.

Preconditioning, backgrounding, heifer development.

Cal-Tex Feed Yard, Inc., 381 CR 373, Trent, TX 79561, 325/862-6111; 325/862-6137 fax, email caltexfeedyard@wtconnect,com Rex Bland, pres., 325/537-9335; Rosemary Bland Hayster, 325/232-6498; Terry Brown, yard mgr., 325/862-6159; Jonny Edmondson, 325/338-7692.

Full-service commercial cattle feeders.

Cal-Tex Beef Coast to Coast.

Western Nevada Cattle Feeders, 2105 Meridian Rd., Lovelock, NV 89419, 888/626-4440, Rick Marvel, feedlot mgr., Melanie Hamilton, office mgr. Capacity 12,000 head. Full service feedlot. wncf@gbis.com

Westlake Cattle Growers LLC, 3217 N. Hwy. 191, Cochise, AZ 85606, office 520/384-3761, Gary A. Thrasher DVM cell 520/508-5731. Processing, backgrounding, rehabilitation. 10,000 head capacity. westlakecattle@wildblue.net

U.S. Targhee Sheep Association,

American Oxford Sheep Association, David Trotter, Sec., 812/256-3478, 9305 Zollman Rd., Marysville, IN 47141, secretary@americanoxfords.org Write, call or email for free brochures or breeder listings.

Mardy Rutledge, Secretary, 8912 Saddle Red Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89143, 702/292-5715, ustargheesheep@gmail.com www.ustargheesheep.org

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Regular sales Wednesdays, cattle, horses, sheep and goats. Special sales in season or as advertised. www.valleylivestock.info.

Marketing AUCTION MARKETS ARiZonA Marana Stockyards and Livestock Market, P.O. Box 280, Marana, AZ 85653, 520/6824400; fax 520/682-4191; Joe Parsons 520/682-3917, (mob.) 520/444-0990; Clay Parson, home 520/682-4224, (mob.) 520/444-7650. Reg. sales Thurs., 10:30 a.m., all classes of cattle. Special sales in season as advertised. www.maranastockyards.com Prescott Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 5880, Chino Valley, AZ 86323, Richard & Janet Smyer, office 928-445-9571, Richard’s cell 928/925-1848. Sale time 11 a.m. Sales Jan-Apr and Jul-Aug every other week; May-Jun and Sept-Dec every week.

Hosting Cattlemen’s Weekend sale in March each year. Call for exact dates. pla@northlink.com

Willcox Livestock Auction, www.willcoxlivestockauction.com; P.O. Box 1117, Willcox, AZ 85643, 520/384-2206, Sonny Shores, Jr., auctions@vtc.net. Sales Thursdays 11 a.m., cattle and horses.

CALiFoRniA A&M Livestock Auction Inc., P.O. Box 96, Hanford, CA 93230, Richard and Nick Martella 559/582-0358 office, 559/381-2628 Richard’s cell, Sherrie Siloa O/M. Regular sales 12:noon Wed. All classes of cattle. www.amlivestockauction.com amlivestockauction@yahoo.com

Cattlemens’ Livestock Market, 12495 Stockton Blvd., Galt, CA 95632.

209/745-1515 office, Jake Parnell. Sale Weds. All classes of Beef Cattle – Dairy Cows.

Jake’s cell: 916/662-1298.

Dos Palos “Y” Auction Yard, 16575 S. Hwy. 33, Dos Palos, CA 93620-9618.

Joel E. Cozzi, 209/769-4660 (cell), Joey A. Cozzi, 209/769-4662 (cell), Marie Alfaro o/m 209/387-4113, www.dpyauction.com.

Regular sales Monday 1:00 p.m. — all classes of cattle, including dairy cattle; Thursday 12 noon — butcher cattle. Special feeder sales in season as advertised.

Escalon Livestock Market, 25525 E. Lone Tree Rd., Escalon, CA 95320, www.escalonlivestockmarket.com, Miguel A. Machado 209/595-2014 cell, office 209/838-7011; Dud Meyer cell 209/768-8568. See our ad and daily schedule in this issue. escalonlivestockmarket@yahoo.com.

Euclid Stockyards, Jeremy Gorham, Sale Yard 909/597-4818, Cell 909/282-2198, Ontario, California.

Stocker and feeder cattle sale every Wednesday at 1 p.m.; butcher cows Monday-Friday 9:00 to noon.

Farmers Livestock Market Inc., P.O. Box 2138, Oakdale, CA 95361, Steve Haglund 209/847-1033; flmoakdale@gmail.com Regular sales: Mon. 1:30 p.m. butcher cows; Thurs. 11:30 a.m. beef & dairy cattle.

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nEBRASKA Western Video Auction, Fresno Livestock Commission, LLC, 559 W. Lincoln, Fresno, CA 93706, 559/2375259. Phil Tews owner/auctioneer, Cindy Tews and Wendy Kenison owners/office managers. Thursday, 12 noon slaughter cows and bulls (dairy and beef). Saturdays 9 a.m. hogs, goats, sheep, horses, beef cattle (all classes). www.fresnolivestock.com.

Humboldt Auction Yard, Inc., 603 3rd St., Fortuna, CA 95540, 707/725-5188, eves. Lee Mora 707/8457188; Lou Mora 707/845-7288. Sales every Wednesday 1:30 p.m. All classes of livestock.

Sale every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. — all classes of livestock.

Newman Stockyards LLC, P.O. Box 756, Newman, CA 95360, John & Alana McGill 209/862-4500, newmanstockyardsllc@yahoo.com Regular sales Tues. & Thurs. at 3:00 p.m.

All classes of cattle.

101 Livestock Market Inc., 4400 Hwy.101, Aromas, CA 95004, 831/7263303, jwarren@101livestock.com, Jim cell 831/320-3698. Regular sales Tuesday – 10 a.m. small animals; 11:30 butcher cows & bulls; 1:30 feeder cattle. www.101livestock.com Sale live at www.lmaauctions.com

Orland Livestock Commission, Inc., P.O. Box 96, Orland, CA 95963. Ed Lacque, owner/mgr., 530/865-4527; Wade Lacque, auctioneer. Sales: Weds., 12 noon, misc.

Thursdays, 12 noon, feeder cattle.

Shasta Livestock Auction Yard, 3917 N. Main St., P.O. Box 558, Cottonwood, CA 96002, 530/347-3793, owner: Ellington Peek. Contact Brad Peek cell 916/802-7335, Ellington cell 530/751-6900. Sale every Friday. All Classes of cattle. www.shastalivestock.com shasta@shastals.com

Tulare County Stockyards, www.tularecountystockyards.com, 9641 Ave. 384, Dinuba, CA 93618, ofc.

559/ 591-0884. Regular sales: Tues. goats; Friday feeder cattle. Bull sale annually – last Saturday in September.

Turlock Livestock Auction, 10430 N. Lander Ave., Turlock, CA 95380, P.O. Box 3030, Turlock, CA 95381, auction phone 209/634-4326, fax 209/6344396, www.turlocklivestock.com, turlockls@aol.com. Owners Karen Cozzi & family, Max Olvera, Steve Faria. Sale days: Tues. – feeders, pairs, bred cows, cull cows & bulls; ; Weds. – cull cows & bulls; Fri. – dairy replacements, cull cows & bulls.

Visalia Livestock Market, P.O. Box 2529, Visalia, CA 93279.

559/625-9615, Randy Baxley, owner, 559/622-9634 eves, 559/906-9760 cell.

Beth Baxley, office manager; Sam Avila,yard manager, 559/799-3854. Regular sales Wed., 11:30 a.m., slaughter cattle; 1:00 p.m., stocker and feeder cattle.

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3917 Main St., P.O. Box 558, Cottonwood, CA 96022, 530/347-3793, Ellington Peek cell 530/751-6900, John Rodgers cell 559/7303311, Brad Peek cell 916/802-7335. Call for more information on next sale. www.wvmcattle.com wvm@wvmcattle.com

CoLoRADo Delta Sales Yard, Inc., 700 W. 5th, Delta, CO 81416, Dan & Holly Varner 970/874-4612, deltasalesyard.com.

Regular livestock sales, Thursday 10 a.m.

Butcher Cows & Bulls; 11 a.m. Sheep & Goats; 12:45 p.m. Pigs; 1 p.m. Butcher Cows & Feeder Cattle. Horse sales 1st Saturday every month.

La Junta Livestock Commission Co., 719/384-7781; eves 719/384-7189; Jace’s cell 719/332-3512, 24026 CR 30.25, La Junta, CO 81050, www.lajuntalivestock.com.

Regular sale: Wed., 10 a.m. all classes of cattle. Also handling special consignment sales.

iDAHo Treasure Valley Livestock Auction, 208/459-7475 ofc., Ron Davison eves, 208/941-8114 cell; 208/845-2090 Frank Bachman eves. Sales start at 10 a.m., Monday – butcher cattle; Friday – beef cattle; 2nd and 4th Saturdays – hogs, sheep, goats and cattle; Special sales as advertised.

Out-of-state 800/788-4429; fax 208/4540605. P.O. Box 639, Caldwell, ID 83605. tvla@qwestoffice.net www.treasurevalleylivestock.com Twin Falls Livestock Commission, www.twinfallslivestock.com, 630 Commercial Ave., Twin Falls, ID 83301. Bruce Billington, Mike Elliott, Stenson Clontz, Jerry Stewart, 208/733-7474. Sales Wed. 11:00 a.m. cattle, and Sat. 11:00 a.m. all classes. Oldest established livestock auction yard in Idaho.

KAnSAS Winfield Livestock Auction, Inc., John Brazle, 7168 U.S. 160, Winfield, KS 67156, www.winfieldlivestockauct.com, ofc. 620/221-4364, eves. 620/221-6647.

Sales Wed. 11 a.m., all classes of cattle.

Special feeder and stocker sales in season.

MiSSoURi LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION, 10510 NW Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, MO 64153-1278, 800/821-2048, www.LMAweb.com www.LMAauctions.com We are committed to the support & protection of the local livestock markets.

Auctions are a vital part of the livestock industry, serving producers and assuring a fair, competitive price through the auction method of selling.

Atkinson Livestock Market, Reg. sales Tues. — all classes of cattle.

Michael Tasler. Call for information on special sales, 402/925-5141. P.O. Box 279, Atkinson, NE 68713. atkinsonlst@inetnebr.com www.atkinsonlivestock.com Bassett Livestock Auction, Inc., Regular cattle sales Weds., 12:00 noon. Call for info. on special feeder and stocker sales most Weds. 402/684-2361, Box 9, Bassett, NE 68714. Don Painter & Arlen Nelson, owners.

Jeri Nelson, ofc. mgr., www.blacattle.com.

Crawford Livestock Market, P.O. Box 525, Crawford, NE 69339-0525, Jack & Laurel Hunter, office 308/665-2220, Jack 308/430-9108, clm@crawfordlivestock.com Reg. sale Friday – all classes of cattle.

Norfolk Livestock Market, P.O. Box 723, Norfolk, NE 68701, Bart Koinzan, office 402/371-0500, cell 402/649-1029, toll free in NE 800/672-8344.

Sales: Thurs. 12:15 feeder cattle; Fri. 8 a.m. slaughter cattle and fats; Sat. 8 a.m. butcher hogs, 10:30 a.m. feeder pigs, baby calves, sheep & goats. Horse sales as advertised.

nEW MEXiCo Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction, Inc., P.O. Box 608, Belen, NM 87002, Charlie Myers 505/864-7451, Fax 505/864-7073.

Reg. sales: Fri. 9 a.m. cattle; 1st and 3rd Thurs. sheep, goats and horses.

Clovis Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 187, Clovis, NM 88101. Charlie Rogers, www.clovislivestock.com, 575/7624422. Regular sales Wed., 9 a.m. Special horse sales and cow sales as advertised.

Five States Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 266, Clayton, NM 88415, Kenny Dellinger, General Manager. Your best interests will be met when your livestock are represented by the marketing professionals at Five States Livestock Auction. Contact us at: office: 575/374-2505, 1-800/438-5764; Kenny’s cell 575/207-7761. www.fivestateslivestockauction.com Cattle & horses are sold each Wednesday beginning at 11:00 a.m.. Sheep sale is the next to last Wednesday of each month at 11:00 a.m. Watch and buy live each week at DVAuction.com Roswell Livestock Auction, www.roswelllivestockauction.com, 900 N. Garden, 575/622-5580, Benny Wooten 575/626-4754, Smiley Wooten 575/6266253. P.O. Box 2041, Roswell, NM 88201.

Cattle sales Mondays. Horse sales in April, June, Sept. and Dec. Southwest Livestock Auction, 24 Dalies Rd., Los Lunas, NM 87031, ofc.: 505/ 865-4600; fax: 505/865-0149. Dennis Chavez, owner/mgr.; Delbert Autrey, auctioneer.

Quarterly horse sales. Regular sales, Sat. at 12 noon., dairy/ranch cattle, horses.

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Pat Goodell, 541/884-9667, Kenny Fay, 541/892-2067. Regular sales Tues., 1 p.m. – all classes of livestock. Call for information on Special Video Sales – special sales in season as advertised.

TEnnESSEE Knoxville Livestock Auction Center, Inc. www.knoxvillelivestock.com, P.O. Box 167, Mascot, TN 37806. Jason Bailey, mgr., office 865/933-1691; cell 865/603-6410. Regular sales Weds., 12:00 p.m. All classes of cattle; horse sales 2nd & 4th Sat. each month.

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SALE MANAGERS/AUCTIONEERS Conover Auction Service, Inc., www.conoverauction.com, P. O. Box 9, Baxter, IA 50028. Al & Jeanne Conover, office 641/227-3537, Al 515/491-8078, fax 641/227-3792. Auctioneering and sales management.

Dub Venable, Inc., Rt. 1, Anadarko, OK 73005, ofc. 405/ 247-5761; cell 405/933-1043. Auctioneer and sales management: “CALL US FIRST!” Chuck Yarbro Auctioneers Chuck Yarbro Senior office 509/765-6869, cell 509/750-1277; Chuck Yarbro Junior cell 509/760-3789; 213 South Beech, Moses Lake, WA 98837, www.yarbro.com, chuckjr@yarbro.com.

UTAH Smithfield Livestock Auction, www.smithfieldlivestock.com, Lane or Dean Parker 435/757-4643, sale barn 435/5633259, lane@smithfieldlivestock.com, P.O. Box 155, Smithfield, UT 84321. Regular Cattle Sales every Thurs. Dairy sales 1st & 3rd Thurs.

WASHinGTon Toppenish Livestock Commission, www.toppenishlivestock.com, 428 S “G” St., Toppenish, WA. 98948, Jeff Wiersma cell 509/952-7299, John Topp 509/865-2820, Chad Lowry 208/861-2224, Troy Frazier 509/386-3077. Sale days every Mon., 1:00 p.m., dairy, feeder and slaughter cattle. 1:00 p.m. Special Dairy sale, 1st Fri. every month.

Thurs., 11 a.m. Feeder cattle, slaughter cows. Sale every Sat 11 a.m. all classes of livestock. Internet Auction 10 a.m. Weds.

WYoMinG Torrington Livestock Market, LLC, www.torringtonlivestock.com, P.O. Box 1097, Torrington, WY 82240, 307/532-3333. Shawn Madden, Lex Madden, Michael Schmitt. Fri.: reg. sales all classes of livestock. Weds.: calf and yearling feeder specials. Mon.: calf and bred cow sales in season. NOW OFFERING VIDEO SALES through Cattle Country Video Sales.

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ORGANIZATIONS New Mexico Federal Lands Council, Bebo (Don L.) Lee, President, P.O. Box 149, Alamogordo, NM 88310, 575/963-2505, nmflc@nmagriculture.org nmflc.blogspot.com Representing federal & state trust land users in NM & across the West.

Call, write or email for membership info.

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A.I./EMBRYO/SEMEN All West/Select Sires, Leaders in the AI industry since 1941.

Semen available on over 100 trait leaders in all breeds. www.selectsiresbeef.com, P.O. Box 507, Burlington, WA 98233, 800/426-2697. Call for your free directory.

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JLG Enterprises, Inc., Jack Lerch, 209/847-4797, P.O. Box 1375, Oakdale, CA 95361, www.jlgenterprises.com.

Bull housing, semen collection, testing, evaluation.

Pitchford Cattle Services, Darrell & Shana Pichford, Casey and Gracey, 8565 County Road 3913, Athens, TX 75751, 903/677-0664, Darell cell 903/388-2288.

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BEEF PACKERS ORDER BUYERS/COMMODITIES BROKERS California Livestock Commission Co., John Smithers, Associate, P.O. Box 1292, Brawley, CA 92227, office phone: 760/3440796, fax 760/344-4740.

Charles D. Leonard, Feeder cattle, commodities broker, Leonard Cattle Co., P.O. Box 349, Springfield, NE 68059, 402/253-3003, 1-800/228-7301.

Thompson Livestock, Inc., 20265 Superior Place, Whitewood, SD 57793, Tommy Thompson - cell 605/6412323, Ted Thompson - cell 605/641-2000, Charlotte Thompson – office manager, 605/269-2222. Order buyers, buying and selling cattle and sheep year-round.

Email: thompsonlivestock@gmail.com.

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Caviness Beef Packers Hereford, TX, 3255 W. Hwy. 60, Hereford, TX 79045, 806/357-2333, Beef Product Shipment Office 806/357-2377, Caviness Beef Packers Amarillo, 4206 Amarillo Blvd E, Amarillo, TX 79120, Corp. Beef Sales/Logistics 806/3725781. cavinessbeef.com

LIVESTOCK HAULERS Stuhaan Cattle, Dane Stuhaan, (CA) 559/688-7695 or cell (NE): 559/280-7695. Livestock hauling in western United States. stuhaanbeef@aol.com

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Renew or join today!

406/252-2516. www.r-calfusa.com; 406/252-2516.

PUBLICATIONS Livestock Market Digest, Lee Pitts, Exec. Editor, P.O. Box 7458, Abq., NM 87194, www.aaalivestock.com, 505/243-9515, caren@aaalivestock.com.

THE source for analysis of current livestock industry issues. Visit our website, call, or write for subscriptions and advertising.

New Mexico Stockman Magazine, Caren Cowan, Publisher, P.O. Box 7127, Abq., NM 87194, www.aaalivestock.com, 505/243-9515, caren@aaalivestock.com.

Serving the Southwest for over 75 years.

Visit our website, call, or write for subscriptions and advertising.

REAL ESTATE Agrilands Real Estate, wwwagrilandsrealestate.com, Jack Horton 541/473-3100, jack@fmtcblue.com.

A great selection of ranches in several western states. Give us a try – thank you!

Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc., 1435 S. St. Francis Drive, Ste. 210, Santa Fe, NM 87505, Ken Ahler, broker, ofc. 505/9897573, kahler@newmexico.com, eves. 505/4900220, www.SantaFeLand.com. Serving your farm and ranch real estate needs since 1981.

Azure Enterprises, Inc., P.O. Box 880, Las Vegas, NM 87701 (mailing address). HC 69-60, Sapello, NM 87745 (office). Larry Brow, ofc. 505/454-6000; cell 505/429-0039. Find your dream property – visit our website: www.azureranches.com

Baker City Realty, 1705 Main St., Ste. 100, Baker City, Oregon 97814, Andrew Bryan owner/broker 541/523-5871, cell 208/484-5835. Your eastern Oregon specialist in rural properties. www.bakercityrealty.com.

Bar M Real Estate, Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker, P.O. Box 428, Roswell, NM 88202, 575/622-5867, 575/420-1237, sammmcnally@msn.com.

Visit me at www.ranchesnm.com. Farm & ranch sales; general certified appraiser.

Bottari & Associates, P.O. Box 368, 1222 6th St., Wells, NV 89835.

Paul D. Bottari, ofc. 775/752-3040, eves. 702/752-3809, cell 775/752-0952, fax 775/752-3021, Paul@bottarirealty.com, www.Bottarirealty.com. Specializing in farms and ranches in Nevada.

Don Bowman, LLC, 2040 Reno Hwy., Fallon, NV 89406, Don Bowman, broker, office 775/423-6197, cell 775/745-1734. Farm & ranch properties.

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Buena Vista Realty, A.H. Jack Merrick, 521 W. 2nd, Portales, NM 88130, jack@buenavista-nm.com, 575/2260671. Provide quality real estate service to buyers & sellers. Dairy, farm, ranch, commercial, or residential. We are committed to good honest service.

Hoover Case Auction Service, P.O. Box 281, Marshfield, MO 65706, Hoover Case (office) 417/859-3204, (cell) 417/8446020; email: hoover@caseauction.com www.caseauction.com Auction sales, realty and southwest Missouri farms.

Coldwell Banker Legacy / Betty Houston, 515 Center St., Socorro, NM 87801, 575/835-1422, houston_betty@msn.com, socorronmproperty.com. Can be viewed on youtube.com.

Chip Cole, Ranch Broker, 14 E. Beauregard, Ste. 201, San Angelo, TX 76903, 325/655-3555. Comm. cattle. Ranch real estate. Selling West Texas for over 30 years. www.chipcoleranchbroker.com.

David Dean – Campo Bonito, LLC, Ranch Sales, Leasing and Management – New Mexico/west Texas ranches. www.availableranches.com, P.O. Box 1056, Ft. Davis, TX 79734, dpdean@hughes.com, David P. Dean: ranch 432/426-3779, mob.

432/634-0441.

Exit Clovis Realty, Coletta Ray 575/799-9600, 2504 Ashford Dr., Clovis, NM 88101, 575/762-4200, coletta@plateautel.net. If you are interested in selling native grassland – we have buyers!

Call for your land sales or purchases. www.clovisrealestatesales.com

Fallon-Cortese Land, 1410 E. Sumner Ave., Box 447, Ft. Sumner, NM 88119, www.ranchseller.com, 575/3552855, 575/760-3818. Sales of New Mexico ranches since 1972.

Headquarters West, P.O. Box 1980, St. Johns, AZ 85936, Traegan Knight 928/524-3740 office; 602/228-3494 cell; www.headquarterswest.com traeganknight@hqw.com Farm & ranch properties in Arizona.

Headquarters West Ltd./Scottsdale, 8700 E. Pinnacle Peak Rd., Ste. 223, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, Con A. Englehorn: off. 602/258-1647, cell 602/206-1224. www.headquarterswest.com Serving area ranch needs. “Call us first” Headquarters West Real Estate/Sonoita, P.O. Box 1039, Sonoita, AZ 85637, Sam Hubbell 520/609-2546, www.headquarterswest.com. Call us for your farm & ranch needs in Arizona.

Headquarters West Real Estate/Tucson, 4582 W. 1st Ave, Tucson, AZ 85718, 520/792-2652, Walter Lane cell 520/4441240, wlane@headquarterswest.com, www.headquarterswest.com. Serving your farm and ranch needs in Arizona.

Home Ranch Properties and Equities Inc., P.O. Box 1020, Cottonwood, CA 96022, ofc.

530/347-9455. R.G. Davis, broker 530/9491875, Jeff Davis, realtor 530/604-3655, Tonya Redamonti, realtor 530/521-6054, www.homeranchpropertiesandequities.com

Knipe Land Co., Inc., P.O. Box 1030, Boise, ID 83701, John Knipe 208/345-3163, Fax 208/344-0936. Servicing ID, NV, OR, WY, and WA. For assistance in locating, purchasing, or exchanging an agricultural, commercial, or recreational property, please call or visit our website: www.knipeland.com. Call for a free catalog.

Chas. S. Middleton and Son, 1507 13th St., Lubbock, TX 79401, 806/7635331, Sam’s cell 817/304-0504, sam@ csmandson.com. Ranch Sales & Appraisals – serving the ranching industry since 1920.

Murney Associates Realtors, Springfield, MO, Paul McGilliard 800/7430336, office, 417/839-5096 cell. Dealing in Farms, Ranches & Commercial Properties. paulmcgilliard@murney.com www.murney.com

New Mexico Home Ranch Realty, 130 Cougar Rd., Carlsbad, NM 88220, Joe Cox Qualified Broker 575/981-2427 office, 575/361-5269 cell, jjcox@pvtn.net www.nmhomeranch.com Serving SE NM farm, ranch & rural properties.

O’Neill Agricultural, LLC, Timothy John O’Neill, P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714, 575/376-2341, land@swranches.com. Real estate services & ranch mapping services. www.swranches.com Oregon Opportunities Real Estate, www.orop.com, 548 Business Park Dr., Ste. 101, Medford, OR 97504, 541/772-0000, 800/772-7284, fax 541/772-7001, email: harrison@orop.com. Southern Oregon farms, ranches and comm. properties.

Premiere Intermountain Properties, Montana farm and ranch brokers. P.O. Box 30755, Billings, MT 59107, ofc.: 406/2592544. Brian Anderson, broker and sales, (c) 406/839-7439; John Goggins, broker/sales, (c) 406/ 698-4159; Roger Jacobs, broker/ sales, (c) 406/698-7686; Patrick K. Goggins, broker-owner. www.pipmontana.com.

Joe Priest Real Estate, 1205 N. Hwy. 175, Seagoville, TX 75159, 972/287-4548, 214/676-6973, 800/671-4548. www.joepriest.net, joepriestre@earthlink.net Many years serving the farm & ranch needs of the area.

Ranch Land Co. 430 W. Beauregard, Ste., C, San Angelo, TX 76903, Leon Nance, office 325/658-8978, cell 325/340-6332, ranches@ranchlandco.com www.ranchlandco.com.

Rivalé Ranch Realty, Raymond Rivalé, broker, P.O. Box 217, Des Moines, NM 88418, 575/207-7484, email: rivale@bacavalley.com, www.mesaviewrealty.com. I specialize in farm & ranch land in New Mexico.

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S RK Auctions, 3489 Hwy. 200 S, Lindsay, MT 59339, 406/ 485-2548, Rick Kniepkamp’s cell 406/9391632. House and real estate auctions.

Rusk County Realty, 507 S. Marshall, Henderson, TX 75681, 903/657-7574 office; Broker, Patti Miller 903/452-4406 cell, pjmillerre@suddenlinkmail.com; Donna Wilder Sales Agent 903/646-3865 cell, dwilder@eastex.net.

Schrimsher Ranch Real Estate, LLC, Keith Schrimsher, P.O. Box 802, Roswell, NM 88202, 575/622-2343. srre@dfn.com www.nm-ranches.com Check our website for our newest listings.

Shasta Land Services, Inc., 358 Hartnell Ave., Ste. C, Redding, CA 96002. Bill Wright, 530/221-8100, billwright@ranch-lands.com. Specializing in agricultural properties throughout northern California and southern Oregon. Brokerage, appraisals, mortgage, management. Visit our web page: www.ranch-lands.com.

Socorro Plaza Realty, 505/507/2715, fax 575/838-0095, P.O. Box 1903, Socorro, NM 87801, Don Brown, qualifying broker, dbrown@socorroplazarealty.com

Southern Plains Land Co., Kalin Flournoy, office 583/639-2031, 940/723-5500. Wichita Falls, TX. Texas, and Oklahoma farms and ranches. Check our website, SouthernPlainsLand.com. See our ad in this publication.

Stockmen’s Realty, P.O. Box 191, Sonoita, AZ 85637, Nancy Belt office 520/455-0633, fax 520/455-0733, cell 520/221-0807, nancy@stockmensrealty.com Ranches-Land-Farms. “Thinking of Buying or Selling? Call ‘Cause We’ll Get ‘er Done!”

Joe Stubblefield and Associates, 13830 Western St., Amarillo, TX 79118, joes3@suddenlink.net, 806/622-3482, Joe: 806/674-2062, Michael Perez: Nara Visa, NM 575/403-7970. Agricultural land loans.

Interest rates as low as 3%. Payments scheduled on 25 years.

Terrell Land & Livestock Company Tye C. Terrell, Jr., qualifying broker, office: 575/447-6041, P.O. Box 3188, Los Lunas, NM 87031, tyecterrell@yahoo.com. Selling ranches since 1972. We know New Mexico and New Mexico’s needs.

United Country Vista Nueva, 708 S. Ave. C, Portales, NM 88130. Farms & ranches available, eastern & northeastern New Mexico. 575/356-5616. Charles Bennett, Qualifying Broker; Beverly Bennett, Associate Broker. Charles’s cell 575/7600734, Beverly’s cell. 575/760-0723. www.vistanueva.com

Waldo Real Estate www.waldore.com, 937 SW 30th St., Ontario, OR 97914, David M. Waldo, principal broker, 541/889-8160. Serving Oregon and Idaho farms and ranches since 1976.

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SCHOOLS Auctioneers & Appraisers Academy, Classes to enter auction industry. Advanced classes to further your career. Taught by int’l auctioneer champions. Visit: AuctioneersAcademy.com for more info, or call Paul Ramirez at 520/241-3333. Next classes: Oct 11-19, Dec. 7-9, in Phoenix.

American Auctioneer Schools, Continental Auctioneer Schools conducting classes in Minnesota & Iowa. 507/995-7803, www.auctioneerschool.com auctioneerschool@hotmail.com

North Carolina Cattlemen’s Association, State Graded Feeder, Stocker and Value Added Sales in spring, summer and fall – over 10,000 head annually. Bryan Blinson, www.nccattle.com, 919/552-9111, 2228 N. Main St., Fuquay Varina, NC 27526, email: bryan@nccattle.com.

Virginia Cattlemen’s Association, P.O. Box 9, Dadeville, VA 24083, Jason Carter 540/992-1009 or 540/292-7688 cell. Graded feeders & stocker sales, over 125,000 head available. In-barn Tel-O-Auction, load lots & board sales. Cattle available on a year-round basis. www.vacattlemen.org.

Suppliers & Manufacturers

Mendenhall School of Auctioneering, P.O. Box 7344, High Point, NC 27264.

“America’s top-quality auction school.” Free catalog. 336/887-1165. Visit our website: www.Mendenhallschool.com

Nashville Auction School, 112 W. Lauderdale St., Tullahoma, TN 37388.

Celebrating our 50th Anniversary. Visit our website for class schedules. www.learntoauction.com email: nas@learntoauction.com 800/543-7061

World Wide College of Auctioneering, P.O. Box 949, Mason City, IA 50402-0949, 800/423-5242. “The Finest Education in the Auction Profession.” Also annual class held in September in Denver, CO. www.worldwidecollegeofauctioneering.com email: wwca@netconx.net

STATE ASSOCIATIONS California Cattlemen’s Association, www.calcattlemen.org, 916/444-0845, 1221 H St., Sacramento, CA 95814, Billy Gatlin, exec. vice pres., billy@calcattlemen.org. Call or write for information. Also publishers of the California Cattleman monthly except July/August is combined.

New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association, Jose Varela Lopez, Pres., www.nmagriculture.org, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, located at 2231 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Ph: 505/247-0584, Fx: 505/842-1766, nmcga@ nmagriculture.org. Representing the beef industry and private property rights in New Mexico and 14 other states. Visit our website/call/write/email for membership info.

New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc., Marc Kincaid, President, P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194, office located at 2231 Rio Grande Blvd., NW, www.nmagriculture.org, www.wgi@nmagriculture.org 505/2470584, fax 505/ 842-1766. Trade organization for New Mexico’s sheep industry.

BOOKS Double Z Bar Ranch, 230 Raydondo Creek Rd., Cimarron, NM 87714, “Cowboy Day Books”. $15 includes postage. A collection of working cowboys, adventures, romance. Traditions of Cowboys. 575/483-5054, Stephen Zimmer, zimmer_stephen@gmail.com

Computers Turnkey Computer Systems, Inc, P.O. Box 51630, Amarillo, TX 79159, Carey Coffman, 1-800/999-0049, 806/372-1200, www.turnkeynet.com carey@turnkeynet.com Feedyard accounting and management system.

National service – financial stability – high customer satisfaction. Before you act, investigate! Call us!

Ear Tags Allflex USA, Inc, P.O. Box 612266, DFW Airport, TX 75261, phone 972/456-3686, fax 972/456-3882, phone 1-800/989-TAGS (8247). Allflex is the world leader in design, technology, manufacturing and delivery of animal identification for traceability systems across all animal production. Livestock identification products: Visual tag, EID tags, Precision syringes.

FARM & RANCH EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES Branson Tractors, 2100 Cedartown Hwy., Rome, GA 30161, 877/734-2022. For information contact us regarding our awesome line of tractors and farm equipment. Check our website: www.bransontractor.com. Find a dealer in your area – US and Canada.

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Everything for the farm and ranch needs. www.conlinsupply@msn.com 209/847-8977, Merced 209/725-1100.

Palco Livestock Equipment, 1001 E. Eisenhower Ave., Norfolk NE 68702, 800/345-5073 www.apacheequipment.com Apache feeding & hay handling equip. Palco Livestock Equip., Henke, Buffalo Farm & Livestock Equip, Sani-Pac Environmental Containers.

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FEED SUPPLEMENTS Sweet Pro Supplements, Premium Feed Supplements for all your supplement needs. P.O. Box 333, Seligman, AZ 86337, 602/319-2538, 928/422-4217.

Arizona and New Mexico! See our ad! www.sweetpro.com

FENCING Parmak / Bayguard, Electric Fence Products 1-800/662-1038. Featuring Parmak electric fence chargers and Bayguard electric fence accessories. Everything you need to build a complete electric fence for livestock or predator control. For more information see your local farm supply dealer or visit us at: www.parmakusa.com

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Wedge-Loc Co. Inc., 1580 N. Pendleton Dr., Rio Rico, AZ 85648, 1-800/669-7218. Wedge-Loc™ bracing hardware for T-posts, fencing. No more digging post holes. www.wedgeloc.com email: sales@wedgeloc.com

FLY CONTROL P.H. White Co., www.phwhite.com, 800/344-0115, P.O. Box 155, Dyersburg, TN 38025. Cow Life – Cattle Rub. Full season fly control . . . anywhere!

GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT Schiltz Manufacturing, 101 2nd Ave. S, Nemaha, IA 50567, Ken Schiltz 800/658-3637, fax 712/636-4514, schiltzmfg@frontier.com www.schiltzmfg.com The perfect bin unloading systems for all your needs custom built.

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Conlin Supply and Powder River have teamed up for decades to provide you with high quality and durable livestock handling equipment. Let us come to your ranch and assist with any questions or design layouts to make your cattle operation more profitable

Two Central Valley Locations to Serve You 576 Warnerville Rd. – Oakdale, CA 209Ͳ847Ͳ8977 717 E. Childs Ave. – Merced, CA 209Ͳ725Ͳ1100 62

Big Bend Saddlery, www.bigbendsaddlery.com, P.O. Box 38, Alpine, TX 79831, 2701 E. Hwy. 90, Alpine, TX 79830, 432/837-5551 or toll free 1-800/634-4502. Manufacturers of fine custom-made saddles, bridles, bits and tack; custom chaps, leggings and belts.

Also suppliers of brush jackets, western hats, range teepees and bedrolls; full line of cast-iron cookers.

Blevins Mfg. Co., Inc., 615 Ferguson Road, Wheatland, WY 82201.

307/322-2190. Stirrup buckles. Check out our display ad.

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Brighton Feed & Saddlery, Roger Allgeier, 370 N. Main St., Brighton, CO 80601, 800/237-0721, info@brightonsaddlery.com. Saddles, custom cowboy gear, rope, bits & spurs.

HAY EQUIPMENT Roeder Implement, www.roederimp.com Email: aroeder@roederimp.com P.O. Box 228, Senaca, KS 66538, 785/3366103. New Holland self-propelled and pulltype bale wagons. All models available. Also farm accumulators and forks.

LIVESTOCK CURTAINS Reef Industries, Protect your livestock from the elements wuth Griffolyn® livestock curtains.

Griffolyn® materials are high quality and high performance polyethelene laminates that are cold-crack resistant and moisture resistant. PO Box 750250, Houston, Texas, 77275, 800/231-6074, www.reefindustries.com

LIVESTOCK FEEDING EQUIPMENT Roto-Mix, LLC Manufactures of livestock mixing and feeding equipment, compost mixing equipment and manure spreaders. Rotary and Vertical feed mixers in various capacities available in truck, trailer or stationary. Truck mounted Ration Delivery Boxes. Commercial series and Forage Express rotary mixers with optional GeneRation II Staggered Rotor for mixing wet distillers grains. Vertical feed mixers ranging from the smaller skidsteer friendly single auger VX series to twin auger VXT and Cyclone Series with capacities ranging up to 1300 cu.ft. www.rotomix.com or 620/225-1142.

LIVESTOCK HANDLING EQUIPMENT Bowman Livestock Equipment, America’s premier cattle handling equipment. Write or call for full details, 877/521-9111, P.O. Box 345, Herington, KS 67449. sales@bowmanlivestockequipment.com www.bowmanlivestockequipment.com See my display ad!

Grandin Livestock Handling Systems, Inc., 3504 Shields St., Fort Collins, CO 80524, 970/484-0713. Custom corral design service. Humane livestock handling systems. www.grandinlivestockhandlingsystems.com

Pearson Livestock Equipment, www.pearsonlivestockeq.com Box 268, Thedford, NE 69166,308/645-2231. info@pearsonlivestockeq.com “Designed by cattlemen for cattlemen.”

LIVESTOCK TRAILERS Big Bend Trailers, 17257 State Hwy. 166, Ft. Davis, TX 79734, Jim & Kellie Dyer 432/426-3435. Ranch tough . . . at a fair price. Nationwide delivery available www.bigbendtrailers.com 2014 Fall Marketing Edition

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Circle D Corporation, www.circle-dtrailers.com, 613 North Ash, Hillsboro, KS 67063, 620/947-2385.

Gooseneck stock trailers by Circle D. Built to pull better – longer. Flatbed trailers, livestock trailers.

T&T Trailer Sales, www.tandttrailersalesnm.com, 505/8648899, Todd & Callie Gibson, 19480 Hwy. 314, Belen NM 87002. Quality name brands from a dealer you can trust. Circle D, GR, Elite and Calico trailers, parts and service for all makes, CM Truck Beds.

LIVESTOCK WATERERS & TANKS Miraco Manufacturing, www.miraco.com, 800/541-7866, P.O. Box 686, Grinnell, IA 50211. Manufacturers of Mira-Fount Livestock Waterers – beef, dairy, hogs. Totally energy-free waterers. Call, write or visit our website for more info.

Power Pipe & Tank, P.O. Box 31240, Amarillo, TX 79110, 800/299-7418. Fiberglass stock tanks, storage tanks and potable water tanks.

Delivery available. www.powerpipeandtank.com mfisher@powerpipeandtank.com

W&W Fiberglass Tank Co, 100 N. Prince Rd., Pampa, TX 79065, 800/882-2776, www.wwtank.com Todd Little. Fiberglass stock & storage tanks 4' to 24' stock tanks and up to 21,000 gal. storage. We deliver in the US.

METAL BUILDINGS Legacy Steel Span Buildings, We offer a wide range of farm and commercial buildings. All of our buildings have a 30-year warranty and we deliver coast to coast. Call for prices 1-800/237-9620, ext. 314, www.steelbuilding.com.

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Tank coatings & roof coatings. For metal, shingles, or tar roofs. Long lasting, easy application. Tank coatings for concrete, rock, steel, galvanized and mobile tanks. www.virdenproducts.com. Call for catalog.

TUB GRINDERS Jones Manufacturing Co., Visit our website: www.mightygiant.com P.O. Box 38, Beemer, NE 68716, 402/5283861; mightygiant@gpcom.net. Since 1929 – building high quality, high durability tub grinders.

VET SUPPLIES Animal Health Express, Barbara Jackson, 3301 N. Hwy. Dr., Tucson, AZ. 85705, 1-800/533-8115.

Supplier of animal health products, livestock supplies, supplements, equine supplier and more. Please call for a free catalog. www.animalhealthexpress.com

Callicrate Banders, Made in St. Francis, KS, USA. Bloodless, humane, and easy to use.

Call 1-800/858-5974 for a supplier near you. www.callicratebander.com rachel@nobull.net

Inosol California Bander Castrator, www.inosol.com, 1774 Citrus Ln., El Centro, CA 92243, 1-800/847-2533. You gain the advantage of delayed castration. You gain again with a lower cost of castration. pipeline compatible. El Paso, Texas.

WESTERN ARTISTS A. “Tim” Cox, 891 Road 4990, Bloomfield, NM 87413, 575/632-8080, fax 575/632-5850, email: scox@timcox.com, www.TimCox.com.

Call or write for brochures.

Reef Industries, PO Box 750250, Houston, Texas, 77275, 800/231-6074, www.reefindustries.com Multi-layered Permalon membranes provide the high strength, lightweight, costeffective solutions for all your lining needs.

SCALES Central City Scale, Inc., Offering livestock scales, chute scales, portable chute scales and cake feeder scales. Several indicators to choose from including the 640 Avery Weigh-Tronix. Also portable platform scales, semi-truck platform scales and seed tender scales.

Grain cart scales now with new tablet and smart phone interface. www.ccscales.com 308/946-3591.

KEN & SUZANNE COLEMAN 1271 County Rd. 115 Westcliffe, CO 81252-9611 Home

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MOATS RANCH: The Moats Ranch is located 30 miles northwest of Roswell, NM along and on both sides of U.S. Highway 285. Acreage includes 12,025 deeded, 4,080 federal BLM lease, 3,240 NM State lease and 1,280 uncontrolled. Modern residence that has been completely remodeled along with other functional improvements.

Price: $2,600,000,00 BUCK SPRINGS RANCH: The Buck Springs Ranch is located 35 miles northwest of Roswell, NM all within Chaves County. U.S. Highway and State Road 20 divide the ranch. Acreage includes 15,133.5 deeded acres and 8,590 federal BLM lease acres. Improvements and pasture fences were in good repair. Price: $3,300,000 EAST RANCH: The East Ranch is located in southeastern New Mexico within the east-central portion of Lincoln County. The Capitan Mountain range to the south and the Jicarilla Mountain range to the west. The ranch is comprised of 22,000 ± deeded acres and 4,000 ± federal BLM lease acres. Price: $6,200,000 SHANKS BROTHERS RANCH: The Shanks Brothers Ranch is located in the foothills of the Capitan Mountains within historic Lincoln County, NM. The ranch is comprised of 5,400 deeded acres along with 4,617 Federal BLM lease acres. Modestly improved with two residences and adequate livestock working facilities. Good mule deer hunting. Price: $1,800,000 SIX SHOOTER RANCH: Central NM, 10 miles west of Carrizozo, NM. 12,000 total acres; 175 AUYL, BLM Section 3 grazing permit. Modestly improved with one residence, hay barn and livestock working facilities. Water provided by 3 wells and buried pipeline. Improvements include house and pens; $1,300,000 BORDER RANCH: The Border Ranch is located approximately 10 miles east of Columbus, New Mexico along and on both sides of State Highway 9 in both Luna and Dona Ana Counties. The ranch is comprised of 1,910 deeded acres, 11,118 NM State lease acres and 52,487 Federal BLM lease acres. This is a big desert ranch with a grazing capacity of 613 Animal Units Yearlong. Price: $1,100,000 MOUNT RILEY RANCH: The Mount Riley Ranch is located 30 miles northwest of Santa Teresa, NM along and on both sides of NM State Highway 9. The ranch is comprised of 160 deeded acres, 6,921 NM State lease acres and 74,977 Federal BLM lease acres. Adjoins the Border Ranch on the west. Grazing capacity is 488 Animal Units Yearlong. Price: $725,000 Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Rosw ell, NM 88202 Office: 575- 622- 5867 • Cell: 575- 420- 1237

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put so much milk into those cows that they can’t hold up on dry feed. They can’t milk under those conditions, and they won’t breed back. Fertility is the number one money-making trait in the beef business but some people overlook this in their search for other traits,” says Elkington.

If a person is crossbreeding, there are many advantages to using Hereford bulls on other breeds, because the Hereford bull will cover more territory and breed more cows than an Angus bull. “It’s also a proven fact that a black-baldy cow lasts longer in the herd; there are 7 percent less of them open in the fall compared to straightbreds.

Longevity of the crossbred cow adds at least three years to the life of the cow in the herd,” Elkington says.

“Many people tell me they are tired of the disposition of the cows they are running, whether its blacks or one of the Continental breeds. They want to get back to raising

something more docile and easier to handle.”

Elkington bulls are sold as coming 2year-olds in February. “Our March calves have good weaning weights by October.

Many ranchers in this valley calve in January and February to have decent weaning weights, but you don’t need to calve that early if you have good cows. It takes more feed for early-calving cows,” he says.

“We don’t try to push the calves at all, so for our March calves to be big enough to breed cows we don’t try to sell them as yearlings. We bring them along slowly on freechoice hay and a few oats and develop them for sale as 2-year-olds. Some people want yearlings because they think they can get an extra year out of those young bulls, but it usually doesn’t work that way. We’ve found that 2-year-olds last a lot longer.” Yearling bulls are pushed so hard to get them big enough that they don’t hold up when they go out to breed cows. Their feet and legs go bad from too much grain, or they burn out so badly after their first breeding season (losing weight, falling apart chasing cows around in big pastures) that they never recover.

Keith and his brother Brent are partners on the cattle and now Keith’s son Layne is also involved, living on the ranch. “He does most of the bookwork and promotional work, along with breeding match-ups. He uses the computer to match the traits that we need with the bulls available,” says Elkington.

Brent’s son Thomas is a senior in college and wants to come back and work on the ranch. “While the kids were growing up they were involved in 4-H and helping, too.

Now Layne’s kids have 4-H projects. Eric (Layne’s oldest child) won the Idaho Cattleman’s belt buckle for having the most outstanding beef project in the county this last year, and a belt from the county cattleman’s association. He also got the fitting and showing championship at the county fair,” says Elkington. “Layne has two kids—a girl and a boy. Our ranch is big enough and steep enough that we have to round up cattle with horses, and the kids enjoy helping with that,” he says.

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400 Head Ranch, adjoining Leslie Canyon, Cochise Co., AZ – Highly improved & maintained w/4 homes; horse barn; hay barn; equipment sheds; workshop; roping arena; excellent shipping corrals w/scales; extensive water distribution w/wells, storage & pipelines. Scenic w/rolling grasslands and mountains. Easy country. +/7,346 deeded acres, State lease & USFS permit. This is a top quality ranch & a rare opportunity. $3,900,000.

150 Head Ranch, Near Willcox, AZ – +/- 3,000 deeded acres, and State Grazing Leases. One bedroom home, corrals, well, and electric at headquarters. Well watered with about 15 miles of new pipeline and 9 storage tanks & drinkers, 8 dirt tanks. Great country. Good mix of browse and grass. $1,950,000. *NEW* 253 Head Andrada Ranch, Vail, AZ 271+/- deeded acres and 16,237+/- acres State Grazing Lease.

Historic HQ with 3 homes, bunk house, horse barn, hay barn, equipment shed, tack room, extensive corrals, round pen and scale. Spring and well at HQ. Desert ranch in a great location with a good mix of grass and browse. $1,858,500 *REDUCED* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – This is a scenic midsize ranch with great prospects.

Operating as a private hunting retreat, and a purebred Angus and Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, and +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk and mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1.65M $1.55M

*NEW* 112 Head, Bar 11 Ranch, Lake Roosevelt, AZ – 83 deeded acres, 36,000 acres of US Forest Grazing Permit (possible increase of 112 head).

6 corrals, 13 stock tanks, 6 steel tanks, 9 wells. 9 acre feet of water rights from a spring to deeded, home, restaurant, shop, barns, corrals. $1,100,000 *REDUCED* 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & private, only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,300,000 $975,000, Terms. *REDUCED* 335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – +/- 20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit. Good vehicular access to the ranch – otherwise this is a horseback ranch. Scenic, great outfitters prospect. $850,000 $760,000. * REDUCED* 314 Acre Farm, Pearce, AZ – Two pivots, three irrigation wells, charming +/- 2100 s.f. home, four car garage, large metal workshop, both with concrete floors, two railroad cars with cover between for horse stalls, hay and feed storage. $750,000 Now $698,000.

Graham Co, AZ 78 Plus Head Cattle Ranch – Approx. 640 deeded acres, 3633 acres USFS and 5204 acres BLM; 1 BR, 1 Bath home/camp.

Foothills of the Santa Teresa Mountains. $650,000 *REDUCED* Virden, NM +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights. Pastures recently planted in Bermuda. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena.

Jesse Aldridge 520-251-2735 Rye Hart 520-455-0633 Tobe Haught 505-264-3368 Harry Owens 602-526-4965 Sandy Ruppel 520-444-1745 Erin Aldridge Thamm 520-519-9800

Scenic setting along the Gila River.

Great set up for raising horses also suitable for cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $550,000 Terms. *REDUCED* Young, AZ, 65+ Acres – Under the Mogollon Rim, small town charm & mountain views. 2100 s.f., 3 BR, 2 Bath home, 2 BR cabin, historic rock home currently a museum, shop, & barn. Excellent opportunity for horse farm, bed & breakfast, or land development. +/- 65 acres for $1,070,000; home & other improvements. $424,500.

240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, homesite or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & 1200 gpm well. $336,000 Terms. *NEW* 900+/- Acre Farm Bowie AZ – 21 registered shallow wells and 4 deep wells. Good supply of quality ground water. Potential pistachio, pecan, or organic farm. Rested for some time and as such qualifies for “organic” status. $2,900/acre.

HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND 480 Acres Oracle, AZ – One of the last remaining large parcels of land in the area. On the northern slope of Santa Catalina Mtns. Small ranching, development or granite mining potential. $2,640,000.

San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000 40 Acres Beautiful Turkey Creek Area – An amazing opportunity to own 40 unique acres in an incredibly bio-diverse location, in the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains, with end of the road privacy. $340,000.

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Missouri Land Sales 675 Ac. Excellent Cattle Ranch, Grass Runway, Land Your Own Plane: Major Price Reduction. 3-br, 2-ba home down 1 mile private lane. New 40x42 shop, 40x60 livestock barn, over 450 ac. in grass. (Owner runs over 150 cow/calves, 2 springs, 20 ponds, 2 lakes, consisting of 3.5 and 2 ac. Both stocked with fish. Excellent fencing. A must farm to see. MSL #1112191 113 acres SOLD / 214 acres REMAINING: “Snooze Ya Loose.”

Cattle/horse ranch. Over 150 acres in grass. 3/4 mile State Hwy. frontage. Live water, 60x80 multi-function barn. 2-br, 1-ba rock home. Priced to sell at $1,620 per acre. MLS #1204641

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PAUL McGILLIARD Cell: 417/839-5096 1-800/743-0336 MURNEY ASSOC., REALTORS SPRINGFIELD, MO 65804

GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY CLOSE TO SPRINGFIELD. El Rancho Truck Plaza. MLS #1402704; Midwest Truck Stop MLS #1402703; Greenfield Trading Post MLS # 1402700. Owner retiring. Go to murney.com, enter MLS #, CHECK THEM OUT!!!

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NEW MEXICO RANCHES — West of Logan: Secluded, Scenic, Rugged Private Domain with private access. 5,000 Deeded Acres & 1,240 Acres of scattered State Land. Excellent wildlife habitat along with about 100 head of cows. Beautiful, panoramic views from mesa rims with numerous intermittent canyons!

— North of Roy: mixed land status combines to 14,680 Total Acres. Excellent grass country capable of running 800 to 1,200 yearlings or 250 to 300 Cows. Open country, and easy to operate!

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– Southeast of Silver City: by San Lorenzo. Very Scenic and easily accessible. 1,273 Deeded Acres and 1,320 Acres of State Land. Joins the Gila National Forest. Major Price Reduction!

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Miami Tangle Foot. 10.02± deeded acres w/water shares & meter. $118,000.

Maxwell. 19.5± deeded acres, water, outbuildings, great horse set up. $269,000.

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Sustained Fertility It matters in your ffeemales and it matters in your bulls. Salers will challenge any breed fo for superior ffeertility and unmattched longevity in ffeemales plus serviceab ble years in our bulls. Sustained fe fertility is what the Salers breed off ffeers. Bred up as yearlings, two’s three’s and beyond. As a producer, you control the costs it takes to get a ffeemale into production. With Salers you “Keep Her in Production.”

or multi-breed comparisons, in its The Meat Animal Research Center, Clayy Center, Nebraska, the largest database ffo most recent release of sire breed means ffrrom the Germplasm Evaluattion project, verifies again that Salers are still the continental breed of choicee ffo or Calving Ease and Marbling.

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protein of choice and should be something the whole industry supports and promotes.

“I wish we would have known about these cattle 25 or 30 years ago,” he says.

One thing Fielding does not want the Akaushi breed to do is own a packing plant.

He never wants that experience again. So HeartBrand Beef made a deal with Caviness Beef Packers of Hereford, Texas, to process Akaushi beef destined for HeartBrand.

A rancher using Akaushi genetics is not required to sell their cattle to HeartBrand, but the company does pay them a premium to do so. And they will buy them at any stage of development. A rancher using Akaushi bulls and semen can receive a $20/cwt. premium over market top for preconditioned calves, and $15/cwt. over market top for pre-vaccinated calves. Premiums can be larger. As in Japan each animal is tracked from birth to processing including the grade of every animal.

Bohanon’s Prime Steaks and Seafood in San Antonio was the first restaurant to feature HeartBrand’s beef. “As both chef and owner of Bohanan’s Prime Steaks and Seafood,” says Mark Bohanan of San Antonio, “I am committed to serving only the best quality foods. Akaushi beef is definitely a cut above any other beef that's available here in the U.S. When people find out it's a red meat that’s actually good for them, they no longer look at it as a guilty pleasure.”

What Bohanon is referring to is the fact that the fat from Akaushi breed is significantly lower in saturated fat and cholesterol and higher in monounsaturated fat and Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA). CLA is a beneficial fatty acid that has had a number of health benefits attributed to it, including anticancer properties and weight management. CLA is naturally found in animal protein but typically in small amounts, but Akaushi beef is different. “The meat has a positive ratio of monounsaturated to saturated fatty acids, a ratio of about 1.4 on the fullbloods,” Beeman says.

“Other medical research has shown that a higher intake of unsaturated fat is healthier for preventing heart disease,” says JoJo Carrales, vice president of operations for HeartBrand Beef. “What’s unique for us is that we are the only animal protein that has a positive ratio of unsaturated fat to saturated fat.”

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Advertiser’s INDEX A Agrilands .........................................66 Ken Ahler Real Estate Company ....69 American Akaushi Association........80 American Angus Association..........21 American Gelbvieh Assn ...................4 American Highland Cattle Assn. .....35 American Salers Assn......................75 Apache Palco Livestock Equipment78 B Bagley Cattle Co..............................31 Baker City Realty .............................68 Bar G Feedyard ...............................13 Bar M Real Estate ............................64 Bassett Livestock Auction Inc.........57 Beckton Red Angus ........................31 Beefmaster Breeders United ..........3 Bell Key Angus ................................43 Bennett Shorthorns........................19 Big Bend Saddlery...........................74 Blevins Manufacturing....................29 Bottari & Assoc ...............................70 Bowman Livestock Equipment ......35 Bradley 3 Ranch ........................29, 77 Branson Tractor ..............................25 Breckenridge Partnership LTD .......37 Buena Vista Realty ..........................71 C Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction.......47 Cattlemen’s Livestock Market .......11 Coldwell Banker / Betty Houston ..68 Chandler Herefords ........................29 Cherry Glen Beefmasters ...............74 Circle D. Corporation ......................37 Clovis Livestock Auction .................73 Cobb Charolais Ranch.....................35 Chip Cole Ranch Brokers ................68

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Coleman Herefords ........................63 Conlin Supply Co Inc.......................62 D D & S Polled Herefords...................45 Camp Bonito LLC / David Dean ......71 Decker Herefords............................43 Doerr Angus Ranch ........................39 Dos Palos Auction Yard ..................57 E Eagle Creek Enterprises....................7 Escalon Livestock Market .................5 Evans Beefmaster ...........................45 Exit Clovis Realty ...............................6 F F & F Cattle Company ....................50 Farm Credit of New Mexico .............8 Fallon-Cortese Land........................69 Felton Angus Ranch .......................47 Figure 4 Cattle Company ...............73 Five States Livestock Auction .........45 G Gonzalves Ranch .............................50 Gregory/Magee Red Angus............49 H Headquarters West/Englehorn ......72 Headquarters West/Knight.............65 Hoffman AI Breeders......................74 Inosol California Banders................76 Isa Cattle Company.........................41 J Jacobsen Ranch ..............................14 Jones Mfg .......................................47 K Kemi Limousin.................................74 Knipe Land Company Inc................67

L La Junta Livestock Commission .....57 Lack-Morrison .................................53 Largent & Sons................................73 M Chas Middleton & Son Real Estate .72 Miller Angus ....................................51 Miraco .............................................33 Murney & Associates Realtors ........68 N Nashville Auction School ................74 National Animal Interest Alliance ...70 New Mexico Home Ranch Realty ...67 Newman Stockyards LLC ................57 No Bull Enterprises LLC...................27 O O’Neill Land LLC...............................72 Oregon Opportunities ....................69 Orland Livestock Commission ........56 P Pearson Livestock Equipment........31 Phillips Ranch ..................................45 Lee Pitts...........................................49 Power, Pipe & Tank.........................23 Premier Intermountain Prop. ........67 Prescott Livestock Auction.............56 Priefert Mfg. ...................................79 Joe Priest Real Estate .....................72 R R K Auctions....................................64 Ranch Finder...................................71 Tom Robb & Sons Polled Herefords47 Robbs Brangus................................74 Rusk County Realty.........................71 S Schrimsher Ranch Real Estate........66

Sci Agra Inc......................................39 Seven Mile Limousin .......................54 Shasta Land Services.......................68 Siler Santa Gertrudis .......................49 Silver State Beefmasters.................43 Smithfield Livestock Auction..........43 Socorro Realty.................................69 Southern Plains Land Company .....73 Stockmans Realty............................67 Joe Stubblefield & Associates ........69 T T & T Trailers....................................59 Terrell Land & Livestock Co ............70 Treasurer Valley Livestock Auct......57 Tulare County Stockyards...............33 Turlock Livestock Auction...............57 2 Bar Angus ....................................69 U United Country Vista Nueva...........66 Valley Livestock Auction .................31 Virden Perma Bilt............................43 Virginia Cattlemen’s Association....31 Visalia & Templeton ..........................2 W W & W Stock Tank...........................41 Waldo Real Estate ...........................73 Weaver Ranch ................................76 Wedge Lock Company Inc..............74 Western Video Market .....................6 Westlake Cattle Growers LLC ..........55 White Cattle Company ...................43 P H White ........................................59 Willcox Livestock Auction ...............17 Winfield Livestock Auction .............56

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