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y entire life has been one long stress test. I’m high strung anyway and stressful events like an IRS audit and a colonoscopy literally made me sick. Becoming a deadline writer for 40 years probably wasn’t the best career choice either. But you want to know what I found to be the most stressful? My annual nervous breakdown, otherwise known as a branding. Ever since the Egyptians had the very first branding back in 480 BC, it’s been a tradition that friends and neighbors get together to brand the host’s livestock, and in return they are treated to a free beef barbecue and cowboy hospitality at its finest. The problem is I’m not what you’d call “the hostess with the mostest.” Fearing for the floor, furniture and framework of our home I’ve never even hosted a formal dinner party. We have white carpet for goodness sake! I get uncomfortable when guests use our bathroom. So having 75 uncouth guests converge on our place is more than a little intimidating. That’s why for six months prior to our branding I start having nightmares about it. What if the guests get e coli from the potato salad? What if the vet is late? Will the culvert under the road hold up one more year? Which of my “friends” would sue me for everything we own if their child got bit by a rattler? Is a ten million dollar umbrella policy enough? I can’t help it, I’m a world-class worrier. I especially worry that I may be sending out mixed messages. Every day from October through May I pray for rain and then I ask, beg, and plead that there be none on the third Saturday in January. It all just seems a little hypocritical. About four months before the branding I have to start inviting the USTRC guys who can rope. I don’t want to call too early or I might appear too desperate but if I wait too long I may lose them to someone else. I try to play it coy and act like I don’t really care if they come and then end up promising them the world; a level parking place for their live-in horse trailer with electrical

hookup and free sewage disposal. If necessary, I throw in special gifts, a massage for their horse and promise to wash their truck while they rope. The hardest thing is getting the proper balance between heelers and headers, ground crew and barbecue crew, deadbeats and heal squatters, and glazed donuts versus chocolate bars with sprinkles. Then there is the main course and all that it entails. The stakes were raised in our neighborhood when the new neighbor served New York steaks at his branding and I worry I’ll look cheap if I serve hamburgers to the key personnel (ropers, vaccinator and castrator), and beans and wieners to everyone else. Then there’s the pilgrimage to COSTCO. Is 20 dozen cookies enough? What is the proper proportion of Cokes to Pepsis? Do I serve beer and if so, what kind and what happens if one of my guests gets a DUI and in a wreck leaving our branding? And what about any gluten-free guests, does that mean I get to buy fewer hot dog buns? Decisions, decisions decisions! In the build-up to the big day I have to hide the sheep and the calf table and fix any weak spots in my fencing and corrals, or at least the weakest spots. After the range fire I started a few years ago do I dare still use the traditional fire, or should I break down and buy one of those safer, but more expensive propane heaters? I have to remember to haul in benches and tables and clean the water trough that will hold the ice and soft drinks. And I always forget to buy both kinds of sweetener, pink and blue. Then there’s the really tough part: how do I tactfully appoint the person I want vaccinating, castrating, parting out the cows and calves, and roping, without hurting everyone else’s feelings? Every year I swear next year my wife and I will brand the calves on a calf table after I figured out it only cost $35 per calf and six months in therapy to brand them the “fun” way.

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Grady Grissom

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hirty miles east of Walsenburg, Colorado, the Rancho Largo Cattle Company consists of 14,000 acres of dryland grazing (mixed short-grass prairie and pinion-juniper canyon habitat), most of it deeded, along with two state school sections. The entire ranch is arid rangeland, with no irrigation. Average annual precipitation is 10 to 12 inches. Grady Grissom came here in 1996 to run the ranch in a partnership. “The plan was for me to acquire more of the opera-

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tion, over time. I’d had experience working on ranches but was not ranch raised,” he says. His parents grew up on ranches but lived in Denver. He spent time on his grandparents’ ranches and became hooked on the land, animals, and ranch work ethic; by sixth grade he wanted to be a rancher. Grissom went to college in the east (a degree in geology, Princeton University), but came back to Colorado and spent several years working on ranches. While

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attending graduate school in California, he worked for a horseshoer and became a farrier. When the opportunity at Rancho Largo in Colorado came along, he and his wife Lynda and young daughter left California to pursue that dream. “I knew about day-to-day work taking care of cattle, but didn’t have much grasp of strategic management decisions or ecological health,” he says. He focused on efficiency, to maximize stocking rate. On this ranch it took 60 to 70 acres to run a cow-calf unit year round. Maximizing stocking rate to spread the fixed costs over more cattle seemed logical, along with doing it the “right way” with the best cattle genetics, selective breeding, detailed animal records/finan-

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cial records, tight calving seasons, etc. “I understood that stocking rate was the most important decision, but I did not understand that there’s no leeway to push the envelope —even with all the newest breeds, feeds and technologies,” he says. “We were trying to force the ranch to run at 45 to 50 acres per cow which resulted in lower conception rates (80 to 85 percent). We tried a number of things to fix that, including different breeds, local cattle, changing calving season. But we were overstocked.” He tried rotating pastures to increase stocking rates, but had poor results. Then he read Allan Savory’s book and developed an interest in holistic management. Savory stated that economic success is driven by ecology. “We developed an ecological goal. Our ranch is short-grass steppe at 5500 to 6000 feet, with some precipitation in February through April. On our initial ecological survey, we had very few cool season grasses in an environment that should support cool season grasses.” A long history of leasing and summer-long grazing had created a system dominated by gramma grass. His goal was to extend the recovery period to more than 100 days, and

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began to see results. Cool season grasses increased, along with other species including a native shrub called winterfat. “In the winter it can have 12 to 14 percent protein. This shrub is on the cows’ ‘candy list’ year-round. They hunt it down to eat it. But if you give it a chance to go to seed, it is good at reproducing,” Grissom explains. In 2000 he used an NRCS program to do some fencing and went from nine pastures to 36. “This facilitated extended recovery and shortened our graze periods. My grazing strategies are now focused on diversity of plant species. Instead of 100 days (or any set time) we look at plant recovery, and to see if the target species has gone to seed since the last time that pasture was grazed,” he explains. “We have more than tripled our cool season grasses, and are now running at 45 to 50 acres per cow. Ever since 2001 our pregnancy rates have been over 90 percent. We have a mixed operation with cow-calf and stockers, retaining some calves. We cut back the cow herd to give flexibility in stocking rate,” he says. The ranch has no full-time help, but Grissom coaches wrestling and usually has high school students as part-time summer help. “I don’t need full-time help because there are not many winter chores. We get

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many open winters; feeding consists of putting out protein supplement — cake, tubs, alfalfa, whatever works economically for that year.” THE CATTLE – He started with black baldies in a cow/calf operation then went to a combination of cow/calf and stocker cattle. “I was watching a video sale where 1100-1200 pound cows were bringing $700 to $800. Then they ran in a set of Longhorn and Longhorn-cross cows in their third trimester. The bid was at $260 so bought that whole set of pregnant Longhorn cows!” says Grissom. “Those cows taught me a lot. At $265 versus $800 to purchase them, they didn’t need to raise as big a calf. They are also very fertile and do well in rough country. We are supporting 800 pounds of cow rather than 1200 pounds.” The drawback is selling the calves. But if these cows are bred to another breed, their calves have more growth/fleshing as well as hybrid vigor. “I started using Angus bulls, and AI bred those cows, then realized Charolais bulls gave me a more uniform calf crop out of a mixed set of cows,” he says. “By accident I kept some Angus-Longhorn cross heifers and even a few Charolais cross heifers and they made great cows. You end up with a 900-950 pound cow that is fertile, hardy and raises a good calf. But the Longhorn and Corriente cows stayed so cheap that I mainly just kept buying the cows,” he says. Flexibility in marketing strategies and not being locked into any one breed helps- doing whatever works. “Bud Williams’ concept was that ranchers need three things: capital, grass and cattle. Most of us are always out of capital and grass. Cattle are the one thing that’s always available, though price may vary. This kind of thinking led me away from being tied to any specific genetic focus. Any cow I buy is essentially for sale,” says Grissom. –By Heather Smith Thomas

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Felix Canyon Road

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lonely stretch of dirt road that crosses back and forth over the Felix Canyon and sometimes makes its rocky way down the canyon’s dry creekbed eventually runs past the Lloyd Treat Ranch headquarters in rural Chaves County, New Mexico, before it continues on to join the more heavily traveled, better maintained Picacho Road. It is a rough, dry, almost unfriendly little road, owing its very existence to a long-ago decision by the previous ranch owner to allow the people on the neighboring ranch to cross his land so they could access NM 13. The obscure little road, one of thousands that run through New Mexico’s rural landscape, would have probably continued to serve local ranchers and hunters for years, had not a series of events dramatically changed the traffic on the road and the attitudes of the preponderance of the people who used it. Those events made the road one of the best publicized dirt tracks in New Mexico and got the attention of state and local lawmakers, private property rights advocates, and the far-left activists such as the New Mexico Wildlife Federation. According to Mike Casabonne, owner of the Lloyd Treat Ranch, the Casabonne family never had a problem with local hunters using the road that wended through their pastures, as there was mutual respect between the ranch family and the locals. Things changed three years ago, when another neighbor executed a unitized hunt agreement with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), allowing the neighbor to restrict access to some BLM land in exchange for granting public land hunters access to some of their private land. The BLM and New Mexico Department of Game & Fish held meetings to inform hunters about the increased hunting opportunity they had secured for the hunting public. “This information ended up in hunting forums and social media and a lot of people got the idea that this was the greatest thing for hunters since sliced bread,” Casabonne reported. “As a result, traffic on our ranch increased several times over.” Increased traffic was just the start of the problems. Many of the hunters were

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visitors from other parts of New Mexico and from out of state, and some, unlike the local hunters, had no respect for the landowners. Many did not even believe that there was such a thing as private land in New Mexico. Vandalism, poaching, and trespass on the private land increased. Though the private land was well posted, problems multiplied. It was common to see road hunting, vehicles bristling with rifles out the windows driving slowly past the ranch headquarters. The Game & Fish Department realized that hunters were confused and misinformed. They attempted to re-educate, but the damage was done. Hunters continued to believe that the private land on the Lloyd Treat Ranch was the best thing for trophy hunts, so they either ignored the private land status or disregarded it. The pressure and the poaching continued. Mike and his son, Kellen, ended up driving the roads for hours during hunting season to try to ensure that careless hunters not kill game illegally on the private ranchland. When they realized that the majority of hunters crossing their ranch showed a total lack of respect for the private land and the private landowner, they decided to try to close the road. The application for road closure simply asked the five-member Chaves County Commission to close the 5.3 miles of the Felix Canyon Road which ran through private land. The road that would be closed did not touch federal or state land, and closing the road would not deny access to one square inch of federal or state land. No one was prepared for what came next. The leftist environmental group New Mexico Wildlife Federation (NMWF), which has previously stopped a road closure in Chaves County, began a public campaign to vilify the Casabonnes and generate hate and vitriol. The barrage of lies, misinformation, and distorted facts came in letters to the editor, on Facebook, and in NMWF literature. “They said that our road was the primary access to big game Unit 32, which is several thousand square miles in size,” Mike noted. “To try to imply that our road was the primary access to the Unit is simply a distortion of facts.” An article in a local paper claimed that

the closure would “greatly deprive Chaves County residents access to public lands.” Actually, the hunting public wasn’t denied access to any of the public lands, they just had to access the public land from a different, better road. Casabonne summed up the controversy, “The key opposing issues here are convenience of access to some parcels of public land versus land owner’s private property rights. No one’s private property rights should be compromised without a compelling public need. Convenience of access to public land doesn’t meet that test.” Chaves County commissioner Will Cavin remembers the day the commissioners toured the Felix Canyon road. “There are six to eight riverbed crossings on the road,” he remembers. “It just wasn’t a good road, and the crossings wash out multiple times each year, so the cost of maintenance is higher than for most county roads.” Commissioner T. Calder Ezzell, Jr., agreed, “You can’t drive 15 miles per hour on the road we vacated,” he noted. “You can drive 45 miles an hour on the new road that the county built, and you can access the same public lands.” When hunters whined on Facebook that the alternate road would add two hours to their travel time, county officials timed their trip and concluded that trip time would be the same, regardless of which road was taken. The attacks just kept coming. “We deserve to have access, regardless of how many ranches we own or how many dollars we have,” declared Roswell Sportsman Mark Pantuso. Garrett Vene Klasen, NMWF executive director, was quoted as saying, “We cannot continue to close public roads for the benefit of one or two wealthy landowners.” Casabonne, a mild-mannered, soft-spoken rancher, countered inflammatory rhetoric with truth. He explained the logistics to a representative of the local Safari club, and they voted to take no position on the road. “The Safari club understands the issues and are more honest about the issues,” Casabonne noted. The New Mexico Council of Guides and Outfitters originally opposed the closure, but later retracted their position after hearing the Casabonne’s side of the story. Casabonne, who doesn’t like seeing his picture on the front page of the local newspapers, knew that answering the vitriolic rhetoric in the Roswell paper would be like throwing gas on a fire. But he knew the editor of the Artesia paper and had

hopes of a fair discussion. He wrote a letter to the editor and drove to the paper’s office, hoping to hand-deliver the letter. The editor would not leave her office, instead sending word that she had his contact information and would get in touch with him. Mike left, still carrying his letter, and is still waiting for the editor’s call. In the meantime, the paper ran several articles about the road in which they quoted NMWF and hunters, but never Casabonne or Chaves County Commissioners. If slanted, one-sided stories in a newspaper resonate as abuse of power, consider that local game wardens in uniform, complete with sidearms and badges, campaigned against the road closure. Though there were plenty of villains in this story, the heroes are the four members of the Chaves County Commission who appointed committees to review the road, held public hearings, listened to the recommendations from their committees, toured the road themselves, and then voted to vacate the road. “The Freeholders are appointed by the commission to look at applications to vacate a road or put it under county maintenance,” stated Ezzell. “The freeholders recommended we vacate the road. The Public Lands Committee had a hearing on the road, and they recommended closure as well. We have a policy not to vacate a road if it is the only access to public lands, but that wasn’t the case.” Ezzell continued, “It was a financial decision on the part of the county. It is a poor road, and not having to maintain 5.3 miles of road through private property will save the county a lot of money.” Fellow commissioner Robert Corn agreed. “The road we closed was entirely on private land,” he stated. “The BLM access point can still be driven to, on a road that is a school bus route. You don’t have to be bouncing through the bottom of a creek like you did on the Felix Canyon road.’” “Do we leave the road open and take on the liability and pay for millions of dollars for road work, or do we close it and tell the hunters they can use the other road?” queried Calder. “From a financial and liability standpoint, it seemed pretty simple to close it.” Calder, along with other commissioners, did not appreciate the spinning done by far-left hunters groups and the false narratives that were spread. “As much as I’m about property rights, my job is to look out for Chaves County,” he noted. Ezzell noted that the closure will save 2017 Fall Marketing Edition

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As a long-time OCA leadUnbelievably, the leader for those two sep- Premium Beef. er and chairman of the Oklahoma Beef In comments made as a Oklahoma arate events was the same person – Tom Council, he saw these meetings as ways Beef Council chairman, Tom outlined his Fanning.” to educate fellow producers on cattle procompany’s feeding program. “We manage According to Oklahoma Secretary of duction and marketing. He saw them as every individual animal,” he said. “Each Agriculture Jim Rees, “In a difficult year tools to promote the Beef Checkoff. But individual receives a unique identification at the Beef Council, Tom has stood tall to the March meeting took a different slant. reassure producers and the public at large and is measured daily for weight, gain Attention turned to a growing wildfire that steps were being taken to ensure the and health. Every load of feed ingredients that was being whipped by March winds. integrity of the beef checkoff. His charac- is monitored and tested for quality, and It turned viciously violent. Producers and ter and leadership have made the most dif- to ensure they meet our specifications in feeders quickly took action to literally save accordance with the Beef Quality Assurficult challenge achievable.” the ranch. Tom’s ability to lead, traits he Tom offered and led Buffalo Feeders to ance guidelines. had learned from his ranching heritage “If an animal needs an antibiotic, it’s be a clearinghouse for supplies, which led and as a U.S. Army Ranger, were needed given the exact amount it needs based on to thousands of tons of hay and fencing more than ever. supplies distributed to affected producers. its exact weight that day. When an antiHe and his fellow cattlemen began what Jeff Jaronek, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s biotic is used, it’s recorded in an animal would be several days of managing rescues Foundation coordinator, said, “The only health system. However, antibiotics are of family members, friends, their cattle, way organized relief efforts were even rarely used. In fact, it’s less than 10 pertheir homes, barns, sheds and equipment. possible in the northwest was because of cent of our cattle. The few animals given Before it was brought under control, the Tom’s leadership. There is no way to count antibiotics have a withdrawal period that mammoth fires had charred pasture after the hours, phone calls and miles Tom is monitored. pasture and barn after barn in Oklahoma, “No animal ever leaves our facility that spent leading the efforts.” Kansas and Texas. More than 1.5 milRoots of a leader – Tom and his wife is not clear of antibiotic. No antibiotic is lion acres were stripped of young spring Michele grew up in the town of May. Tom ever in the meat. All our procedures are in grass. Thousands of miles of fence were graduated from Oklahoma State Universi- accordance with the BQA program. We’re destroyed or heavily damaged. Five people ty with a degree in agriculture economics audited annually by an independent third lost their lives. So did thousands of cattle, in 1987. He was a member of the OSU party in conjunction with our consulting horses and other livestock. ROTC program and was commissioned as veterinarian and nutritionist.” During the horror, Tom helped lead He stressed that every product used is an officer into the Army. He left the Army OCA and local efforts to secure hay and administered in the approved sites using as an Infantry Captain and Ranger in 1992 other feed, round up missing cattle and methods that meet with USDA and FDA and began his career in agriculture. help provide food and shelter for ranchers, He worked for Cargill in the Texas regulations. “We self check and triple farmers and others who suffered losses. Panhandle late 1990s. In 2001, Tom and check that every animal we raise is healthy Early on, Tom helped his brother move his family moved back to northwest Okla- and meets a high quality standard for cattle out of harm’s way. He was also homa where he began to manage Buffalo wholesome beef. That’s a really important concerned about Buffalo Feeders in May, area of focus for us,” he said. Oklahoma near Buffalo. Tom man“We have both a nutrient manages the operation. agement and pollution management Months after the disaster, Tom plan monitored daily and weekly by was named OCA’s 2017 Cattleman the assistant manager. We employee of the Year. OCA states that the an environmental engineer consulaward “is the highest honor the tant. We have quarterly inspections association bestows upon a memto make sure we are compliant.” ber, and was designed to recognize Boosting the Beef Council – OCA members who have made sigTom was instrumental in develnificant contributions to the OCA oping an Oklahoma Beef Council and to the Oklahoma beef indusLong Range Plan for 2017-2020. He try.” worked closely with OBC executive “This past year there were sigdirector Heather Buckmaster and nificant challenges within the Beef other beef council members. They Council (financial problems) and developed these guidelines: Tom Fanning, his wife, Michele, and children Emily, Jake in northwest Oklahoma,” said • Vision Statement – Be a pos& Lane. (Courtesy Oklahoma Beef Council)

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itive difference for Oklahoma’s farming and ranching families and the greater beef community. • Mission Statement – Enhance beef demand by strengthening consumer trust and exceeding consumer expectations. They developed several Core Strategic Priorities: Grow consumer trust in beef and beef production. • Improve Beef’s Image – Align and collaborate with industry partners, and other organizations, to anticipate and combat attacks against beef, beef products and today’s American agriculture that undermines consumer trust. • Engage the entire beef community (including beef, dairy and veal producers and industry partners) in building consumer trust. A critical component must be to increase opportunities for food industry and health influencers to get connected with beef producers and beef production practices. Promote & Strengthen Beef’s Value Proposition • Connect and Communicate Directly with Consumers by delivering memorable messages directly to consumers, regarding beef’s quality, safety and nutritional value and the beef community’s commitment to animal well-being and the stewardship of natural resources while capitalizing on flexible new media technologies and innovative communication tactics. Drive Growth in Beef Exports • Increase Market Access Advocate for international market access by building trust with government and industry influencers. • Promote Unique Attributes of U.S. Beef in foreign markets (quality, safety, and nutritional value). Tom has always been a strong supporter of the $1 per head checkoff and is helping promote an Oklahoma state checkoff of an additional $1 per head. He sees it as a needed program to offset the reduced economic value of the national checkoff since it was passed nearly 30 years ago. Those checkoff dollars are vital for beef research and market development. It gets down to producers and feeders devoting more of their resources to improve their livelihood. That attitude, one to protect their cattle and ranch way of life, was amplified 100fold when the wildfires swept across miles of pasture. It was magnified the afternoon of March 6. “At 6 p.m., all of us left to help our neighbors,” Tom said. “We worked all 2017 Fall Marketing Edition

night, after evacuation orders were sent out for Laverne, May, Buffalo and Ashland, Kansas. While I was at May helping my brother trying to get cows to safety, a solid ring of fire was moving toward us. “That’s when we realized how devastating it was going to be. The next day, when the wind picked up even more, the fire was moving in different directions. Some firefighters worked 36 hours straight. They were exhausted.” Tom’s dedication to his family, cattle operation, friends and the Oklahoma beef industry were on full display during that

dreadful period. He has passed on that commitment to his children. And he plans on being in the beef business for a long time and passing it on to his two sons and daughter. “My children will be the fourth generation running cattle, but we bought our own place and built it from scratch. My wife and I grew up here,” he said. His wife Michele sums up her feeling toward Tom, “It’s pretty hard to have a bad day when the person that directs and leads your family is Tom Fanning.” We can all agree with her. –By Larry Stalcup

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or westerners, natural resource issues always seem to lead to legal questions – whether a city government is looking for additional water supply, a rancher is being impacted by wildlife, or a homeowner is concerned about fire danger near their home – and finding answers can be difficult and expensive. In response, the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Cooperative Extension System have formed a unique partnership in the University of Arizona Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center (NRULPC), the first of its kind in the nation. Established in 2015, the Center brings together the expertise of both entities, explained Jeffery Silvertooth, PhD, Associate Dean and Director for Extension and Economic Development. Extension is usually entirely oriented to programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences with applied research and Extension education the purpose of getting the information out to people to address practical problems and issues. The College of Law has the legal knowledge, and does hold clinics for the

public to attend, but doesn’t have the outreach capabilities of Extension. “The center was set up in response to requests from out in the state, we commonly work with people that have a need for answers,” he said. “In addition, part of our mission is to bring the university to the people and bring knowledge and information to bear on practical problems.” “My vision for the center to be able to look at a law to see how it works, whether there is any flexibility and see what can be done under the law, combine that with good scientific information, then let them move forward however they choose,” Silvertooth explained. “Because it is an Extension program, we can’t advocate or take sides, we can just find information, explain the pros and cons, then let people decide what they want to do. We need to focus on educational delivery.” Water law is one area NRULPC might be able to play a role, he pointed out. For example, several states including Arizona are governed by the Colorado River Compact, which sets out specific rules and actions for water shortages that would

have far-reaching impacts on water management and allotments if implemented. By looking into the compact, how it works and what options are possible under what conditions, the Center could assist in an educational effort and better prepare the communities and entities involved. With the recent departure of its Executive Director, the NRULPC is going through an internal review. “We are looking at this unexpected vacancy as an opportunity for strategic planning to assess the level of stakeholder support and best direction for the center,” Silvertooth explained. “Many people think that the Center is a good idea and want us to push for the program but critical questions remain as to how to make it work.” Through the review, Silvertooth hopes to answer three questions regarding the Center. “First,” he said, “we need to make sure this is something people really want, and whether it is a priority. Second, we need to clearly define what the Center is and is not going to do and make sure everyone is on the same page. Finally, if the Center is something people want, we need to decide how to pay for it, and if it’s not with new money we need to decide what we want to give up.” A task force has been set up to solicit ideas and funding, and he and the task force are meeting with stakeholders including the state’s agricultural organizations to get as much input as possible. One suggestion has been to make the Center more of a regional effort, since so many natural resource issues and legal questions are shared among states in the desert Southwest. Moving forward, he hopes the center will be self-sustaining within three years. It is estimated that the center will need between $350,000 and $400,000 a year to be functional including salaries, support staff and travel. “We are currently building a budget, and contributions – past and future - are much appreciated.” –By Callie Gnatkowski Gibson

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Don Schiefelbein

Minnesota

on Schiefelbein’s role on his family’s registered Angus farm near Kimball, Minnesota is all about managerial and financial oversight. That’s why he’s comfortable looking out for the Certified Angus Beef® (CAB®) brand’s future while serving as chairman of its board of directors. “It’s important that we continue to push the envelope,” he says, “and make sure what was successful back in 1978 when we began continues to be what makes us successful as we go forward.” Schiefelbein says. The same holds true back on the farm, which made high-quality beef a priority from its beginning with 50 cows and 170 acres in 1955. Today nearly 60 family members work to run 850 registered females, farm 5,600 acres and feed out 25,000 purchased customer cattle each year, everyone bringing their own special talent to the operation.

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“Dad grew the farm as he grew his family,” Schiefelbein says. One of his father’s requirements was that each of his nine sons must leave the farm for four years before returning. “Even then, when you came back you didn’t just come back automatically. You had to come back with a plan of how you would add value to the operation.” His own plan was to better connect improving Angus genetics to their customers. “My job there directly impacts Certified Angus Beef,” Schiefelbein says. First,

he aims to keep improving the registered bulls. “Once they are out in the commercial industry, we want to purchase their calves back and share the reaped benefits of what those genetics do in value-added programs like CAB.” Back when carcass data collection seemed like the brand’s main producer focus, the Minnesota breeder worked on submitting the farm’s data to the American Angus Association. Since then, he says he’s enjoyed watching the brand grow and emerge as a dominant force in the industry.

“From those beginnings, I just got involved through having a complete understanding of what Certified Angus Beef does and really wanting to get more hands-on in the direction of the program,” Schiefelbein says. While serving on the American Angus Association board, he recently chaired a committee on long-term planning for CAB. “We have been adopting strategies and beginning to focus our efforts on a strategic path five years down the road, and that is what it is going to take for CAB to continue to be successful,” he says. “Our job is to make sure we look at key areas and ensure progress is being made on an annual and quarterly basis, to make sure we are following the path that we said we were going down at the onset of strategic planning.” Progress can be made in many areas, from optimizing CAB’s presence in the natural market to exploring avenues of greater source verification, he says. “I think it’s important after all the success we’ve had, that we keep pushing the envelope, and that’s still the right business approach today,” Schiefelbein says. CAB President John Stika considers the Minnesotan an excellent “brand chairman.” “He never claims to have all the answers,” Stika notes, “but he sure has the ability to ask the right questions when it comes to strategically planning for the future.” –By Hannah Johlman

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Dawn Nelson

Washington

awn Nelson grew up ranching, married a rancher, and is passionate about cows. She raised commercial cattle, then 16 years ago started a herd of registered Gelbvieh. She never dreamed she would also write books about ranch life and memories of her childhood on a ranch in northern Washington. “I am a 4th generation cattle rancher and my husband Kris is 5th generation. Our daughter Laren (age 12) is 6th generation on our ranch here in central Washington at Creston. We took over Kris’s family’s ranch, the NN Bar Ranch, after we got married.” Dawn grew up near Danville, Washington. Her father raised Simmentals and her grandfather raised Herefords. “I loved the way we raised cattle in that remote area. Mom and dad worked off the ranch, so Grandpa and I ran the ranch when Dad was working. I drove tractor and helped with cattle. My parents pulled me out of school when I was 13 so I could help full time on the ranch. I got my GED and did not attend high school but I don’t feel I missed out on anything. I’ve always felt lucky, growing up the way I did.” She and her grandfather did everything together. “I got to learn his ways, and we were a good team. I still believe that if something works and isn’t broken, why fix it? I tell Kris I do things a certain way because this is how Grandpa did it. Kris tells me we have tools now that are handier, but I think it’s important to pass some of the old wisdom to the next generation,” she says. As a teenager Dawn took her horse to the mountains two weeks at a time. “Grandpa brought me food at the old line shack and I’d stay out there checking cattle. It was a fun time, exploring the mountains. Our range was next to the Canadian border,” Dawn says. She and her horse checked cattle, packed salt, checked water and camped on top of the mountain. It was a good way to train young horses. “Most people today don’t

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break horses the way we did, putting in all those miles. Our young horses learned by doing. We ran cows in the mountains for many years on my family’s Forest Service leases, and now my brother runs those leases. I don’t like feeding my registered cows to wolves!” One summer she was chased by a wolf, got bucked off and dragged about 150 yards after the wolf spooked her young mare. Cattle have always been her biggest interest. “When Kris and I got married, I took my mother-in-law with me to AI school and left my husband home! Kris often jokes and says he isn’t sure if I’m married to him or to my cows,” says Dawn. Kris’s family raised Herefords and Angus. “I thought Angus were lacking in hip size and muscling and searched for a breed with a good hip. I found Gelbvieh and fell in love with their temperament and looks. They work well in our climate and terrain.” “People said this breed wouldn’t work in this area, with our harsh winters, but we decided to try. And boy, did those cows

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adjust! They handle our environment just fine and are hassle-free. We don’t have to assist at calving; we haven’t pulled a calf in years. They are born small and grow quickly,” says Dawn. Then her life changed dramatically. Thirteen years ago, when she was five months pregnant, Dawn was diagnosed with cancer. “I was told the best option was to abort the baby, to save me. That wasn’t what I wanted. So I didn’t tell anyone about the cancer, because I knew my husband would say we could always make another kid but it would be hard to make another me! So I kept this all to myself, and was able to have our little girl,” says Dawn.

AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY: BECOMING A WRITER – During the last few months of her pregnancy, she wrote stories of her childhood and growing up on a cattle ranch. “I jotted down things I thought my daughter might want to read someday, if I wasn’t around to tell her. The stories weren’t organized — just me remembering when I was a kid, so my daughter could know who her mom was,” Dawn says. There were fun memories and sad ones; she wrote down everything she could remember. She put the stories in a hope chest at the end of Laren’s crib. “After she was born, I underwent five years of reconstruction surgery. During that time, a good friend often came to my place. One day she was helping clean my daughter’s room and came across these manuscripts.” Her friend asked what these were and Dawn said it was just a group of stories about ranching. “I thought I should throw them away, but she wanted to read them. She took the manuscripts home and I didn’t think any more about it. Three months later I got an e-mail from a publisher in Spokane, Washington. My friend had sent the stories to him, under my name.” The publisher loved the stories, wanted to print them as a book, and needed a title. “I was surprised, but this was an example of when God closes a door He opens a window. This was another direction I could take,” Dawn says. The title she and her friend came up with: A Cowgirl Remembers When. “My book was published and people were buying it. I never wanted to be anything but a cattle rancher, and this new direction was unre-

al. Then I thought maybe I could do both — be a rancher and a writer. This was something I could do at home to add to the ranch income. And it was fun!” Dawn says. She had to undergo another surgery on her chest and was bandaged for a while. “They wouldn’t let me help with the cows, wouldn’t let me ride my horse, so I was indoors for five months after the reconstructive surgery. So I wrote another book.” The publisher was just starting out in the publishing business and I was just starting out writing, so there were a few mistakes along the way, but we worked through everything and got it published. This one, Cowgirl’s Justice, was my first book in the Rancher series.” Crystal Clear productions in California wanted to make it into a movie. She wrote four more books in her Rancher series—The Colt, The Rancher, Wanted Dead or Alive, and High Country. Then she wrote two more books of short stories, three cookbooks, and two more series. The Range series consists of Range Wild, Range Law, and Range Fire. The Montana Strong series includes Montana Star, Legend of Love, Montana Law,

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Christmas in Cattle Country, and Montana Secrets. She has published 20 books, with more to come. She has two books under movie contracts, a CD of cowboy poetry and has won awards for her writing. “I’ve traveled all over the country — all because of what some people would call my misfortune of having cancer. Before I started writing books, I’d only been in two states. Now there are only eight states I haven’t been to yet,” she says. Ranching is still her passion, however, and her experiences on the ranch continue to provide inspiration for her writing. THE RANCH TODAY – Dawn, Kris and daughter Laren enjoy raising cattle. Laren loves cattle and shows 4-H steers. They have 150 registered cows and a small herd of commercial cattle. “We cross Gelbvieh with Angus and can produce registered offspring (Balancers) and adjust the breed to fit any climate,” she says. Their ranch raises registered Angus, Gelbvieh and Balancers and the commercial herd consists of several breeds and crosses. “We chose Gelbvieh for their docility, growth, feed efficiency, maternal traits and muscle. We chose registered Black Angus for tenderness, growth,

maternal traits and color. When we cross these breeds we create a Balancer,” says Dawn. This is a great cross and the females make excellent cows. “Our cattle are raised in rough country. Terrain is scab rock and sagebrush with a few meadows, and summers are hot and dry. Our bulls are bred to produce easy calving and fast growth with great eye appeal. We breed for moderate frame and ability to do well in any environment. We’re always trying to improve on our genetics to satisfy the changing needs of customers and the industry. We have embryos available from some of our top females and some of the industry’s best sires. We sell 40 to 60 bulls each year by private treaty and deliver them.” She enjoys getting to know her customers. “I do a buy-back program for bull clients. If they buy a bull from me and bring him back by the time he is three, in sound breeding condition, I swap that bull for their choice of a bull calf. We make sure they get a new bloodline, and can keep improving their herd. I am a genetics nerd; I enjoy helping people when they give me a chance to play with the genetics in their herd. That’s my passion,” she says. –By Heather Smith Thomas

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or Bob Prosser, Gelbvieh producer and 2017 Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association (ACGA) Cattleman of the Year, forging new relationships and working together – even if they aren’t always traditional partnerships – is the best way to get the job done. Bob and his wife Judy raise purebred and commercial Gelbvieh, Angus and Balancer cattle on the Bar T Bar Ranch near Winslow, Arizona. They purchased the ranch, which has been in Judy’s family for several generations, in 1991. At that time, “Cattle Free by ’93” was the rallying cry for environmental groups that wanted to eliminate grazing from public lands. “Judy’s father had been very involved with the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, but we became involved with both the Cattle Growers and the Arizona and national Public Lands Councils (PLC) largely out

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of necessity,” Bob said. “At the time, we were potentially shut down by litigation.” To address the situation from another angle, the Prossers also established a collaborative group – The Diablo Trust – in partnership with a neighboring ranch, the Flying M; environmental groups, and agency personnel. Eventually, he explained, the group developed into a collaborative team with working relationships and was able to jointly write a proposed action for the environmental impact statement (EIS) required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for land management and grazing permit renewal. The Diablo Trust, which remains in place today, received both the U.S. Forest Service’s Stewardship Award and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Region 6 Award in 2006 as well as BEEF Magazine’s Trailblazer Award in 2011.

Through the efforts of the trust, the concepts of stewardship, access, landscape health, and the awareness of the importance of working together is better, he continued. “You have to be able to make a profit ranching, but to some degree you have to be able to partner with wildlife groups. At the end of the day, with litigation no one wins. It either halts production or you go broke fighting it, and it’s the death of whatever business opportunities and community are out there.” Bob says that the NEPA process is at the root of many of the issues ranchers have with land management agencies, but people can, with diligence, effort and sometimes some money, move things forward. For example, about every two years, they get a new Forest Service biologist or range conservationist in the local office. Bob takes the time to take the new employee out on the land, show them around the ranch and show them the forage utilization and monitoring so that ongoing work and projects can continue. So far, he said, that has worked well. “Personally, we don’t have many issues,” he noted. “We work well with both state and federal agencies, and do many projects together.” The value of collaboration is not limited to local issues, he noted. While Arizona and New Mexico each have their own state offices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) they both work with the same Regional Office of the USFS and share many issues and concerns. “We may or may not agree on everything but at the end of the day, by working together, we always move the ball forward.”

Bob Prosser (r) receiving his Cattleman of the Year plaque from then Arizona Cattle Growers’ President Jim O’Haco

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Bob served as ACGA Federal Lands Chairman for 10 years, and as President of the Association from 2005-2006. The Prossers continue to support the ACGA’s efforts, including litigation, and donate a bull each year to help fund those efforts. “Belonging to Cattle Growers is absolutely one of the most important things we do,” he noted. “I spent my fifteen years in leadership, and although we are not out there day to day fighting the battles, we continue to support the Association with enthusiasm.” In addition to the chance to interact with other ranchers, belonging to the ACGA gives members support and security. “Threats and challenges are always out there – some recurring and some new. If you work together, no one gets stripped off by themselves to fight alone,” he continued. In addition, Bob is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Gelbvieh Association, and remains affiliated with the Society of Range Management. Bob, whose father imported the first Limousin cattle into the United States, was raised on a cow-calf operation in Colorado. He met Judy, who grew up on a purebred Hereford operation, while working for the Charolais association. After the couple married, they moved to Arizona and joined Judy’s family operation. Data from the Clay Center Meat Animal Research Facility on the fertility and commercial value of Gelbvieh cattle sold the Prossers on the breed early on. From there, they helped develop Balancer cattle, a Gelbvieh/Angus cross that can be registered with the Association. “We had other composites, but the Balancer cattle really did well. They had the most consistent breed up and produced the most revenue for the ranch,” he said. Bob and Judy also raise Southern Balancers – a cross between the Gelbvieh and more heat-resistant breeds, like Brangus and Beefmaster, to work in the hotter desert environment. The couple runs both commercial and registered cow herds, and market bulls that they raise at an annual bull sale held at the ranch. The couple has two sons, Warren and his wife Kathleen, and Spencer and his wife Meghan, and two grandchildren.

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Doug & Janice Burgess

Oregon/Idaho

attle at Burgess Angus Ranch have the advantage of a high mountain summer range and low-elevation winter quarters where weather is mild. They summer at 5000 feet near Jordan Valley, Oregon, and spend winters at Homedale, Idaho. Doug and Janice Burgess have been producing commercial cattle for more than 40 years, and registered Angus for 22 years. They both grew up in northern California. “We had a ranch there, but the spotted owl and changing culture made it difficult. People were either involved in the drug culture or against it, and it was no place for people trying to run cattle on Forest Service lands. We lost our Forest Service permit because of the spotted owl,” he says. They looked for another ranch and in 1979 bought a place on Cow Creek in Jordan Valley. “It was formerly Camp Lyon; the Army had a post there from 1864 to 1870. It was on the main road that used to go from the valley up to Silver City, and had a stage stop. We’ve found a cannon ball and a few other relics,” Doug says. “We have an Oregon BLM permit on the west side of Highway 95, and an Idaho BLM permit. We ran commercial cows and raised hay. Then in 1995 we bought a small group of registered Angus cows to raise our own bulls. We hadn’t been able to find bulls that fit the country or that we could afford. We sold a few bulls to our neighbor (the 06 Ranch) in 1996 and now they’ve bought well over 100 bulls from us.” Most of the bulls sold by the Burgess Angus Ranch go to ranchers within about 200 miles. The bulls are acclimated to this area and come efficient cows that work well in range country. WELL-ADAPTED CATTLE – “We try to raise cattle that fit this environment and periodic drought. This lets you know whether you are on the right track with the cattle. It’s good country, and good people, but you can’t do well with extreme cattle regarding EPD numbers,” Doug says. Large-framed cattle that need a lot of feed or cows that milk heavily can’t handle this environment. “A person needs efficient cattle that can make a living on their own. That’s what

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we have in mind in our purebred herd. We try to buy herd bulls or AI to bulls that fit our program, that are not extreme. This country is extreme enough, especially weather-wise, without having extreme cattle,” he says. “We run about 200 commercial cows and 200 registered cows. The purebreds are run as much like commercial cows as we can. We have separate breeding pastures, but we run multiple sires and then DNA test the calves to determine parentage. Many registered people claim to run their purebreds under range conditions, but we do run ours like range cows,” Doug says. The calves go to branded programs. “We are GAP 4 certified (Global Animal Partnership) and weaning the calves for 60-plus days. We’ve had good feedback on carcass quality. We have a lot of repeat customers for calves. They go to natural programs — Whole Foods, the Neiman Ranch program, or Country Natural Beef,” he says. Cows have a 60-day calving season, and less than 40 days for heifers. All first-calf heifers, both commercial and registered, are bred AI. “We also AI half the purebred cows. We have a fall-calving herd and a spring-calving herd of purebreds.” The fall-born bulls are more than a year old when sold, and ready to go to work that next spring. “We don’t overfeed young bulls. The fall bulls look really good by sale time, and our sale is always the second Friday in December. We normally sell 70 to 80 bulls in our sale, both spring and fall bulls.” The bull sale is held at the ranch. The calving barn is converted into a sale barn. “Everything inside the barn is portable so we just move panels out. Everything we have today has been paid for with cow dollars, so we have a different philosophy than a lot of purebred breeders; we make do, and make things work, because we have to. We came to Jordan Valley with very little money and over the years have put together a nice little family operation — though the BLM situation is scary, looking toward the future.” He and Janice have put together enough deeded ground that hopefully they

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can survive if they lose some BLM permits to a proposed Monument. “It takes in even some of our deeded ground, so we’re not sure what’s going to happen with that,” Doug says. FAMILY – “We have a lot of family help at sale time. Janice and I have four daughters, 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The sale is a family affair. They all pitch in and help. We don’t have any hired help. Our family does it all,” he says. Doug and Janice feel fortunate that most of their family live close by. Their kids started out young, helping at the ranch. “You need to give them something to do and a goal to look forward to. That’s how I was raised,” Doug says. “My grandfather ranched in California. Our brand, the bar X, was registered in California in 1917, and has been through several generations.” The family uses horses to work and move cattle. “We rodeo, and some of the grandkids rodeo. We’ve been all over the country, pulling trailers, hauling kids to high school rodeos.” Doug still team ropes a little. Grandson Michael Babcock, in 9th grade, bought cows with his steer money. “I suggested he buy some red cows. A lot of people use Red Angus bulls in this part of the country. Having a red herd would also be an easy way to tell them apart; they’d be color-coded!” Michael calls his enterprise B and B Red Angus. TRANSITIONS – “I enjoyed growing up with cattle in California, and thought I knew a lot about cows until we moved here; it’s totally different. In California we ran our cattle on Forest Service during the summer and deeded land in winter and didn’t have to feed hay,” he says. It was quite different in Jordan Valley where winter can be challenging. After more than 20 years on Cow Creek, they looked for additional land and bought a place at Homedale (much lower elevation) in 2001. “We needed to expand, and needed a better winter place. The Cow Creek

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ranch is nearly 5000 feet elevation, and down here is about 2300. This makes a lot of difference in climate,” Doug says. The Homedale ranch has 400 acres and they put pivots on most of it--to raise hay and a little corn silage for the calves. They sell two loads of commercial calves each year on the Superior video auction at Winnemucca, usually the end of July or the first of August, and have been doing that for more than 20 years. “There are about 2500 calves each year from our area sired by our bulls and sold at Winnemucca in the same grouping. They are all black and preconditioned similarly, so our bulls get a lot of advertisement from that,” Doug explains. “Twenty years ago, when Jordan Valley cattle came on the video all the people watching the video would leave and go to the bar. Now, when Jordan Valley cattle come on, people come from the bar to watch these cattle sell. Cattle in this area in the past 15 years have totally changed. It used to be you’d have to look hard to find a good set of cattle — of any color. Now you can drive down the road in Jordan Valley and see a lot of good ones,” says Doug. Burgess bulls have had something to do with this change. The nice thing about their Homedale place is that cattle can be trailed back and forth between the two ranches. The Burgess herd (purebred and commercial cows) goes to summer range in the mountains above Jordan Valley and are trailed home in the fall from Jordan Valley, about 40 miles. “My brother comes from northern California to ride with us and we have a good time. We raise a few border collies and most of my cows are well trained to be worked with dogs. My brother said, ‘Don’t tell anybody, but you and those two dogs could do this by yourselves.’ That’s probably true, but trailing the cattle is a great time for the family to ride together.” Bringing the cows home normally takes three days. In 2015 they didn’t trail them because of the fires. “The Soda fire started above our place in Jordan Valley, right along the county road. It burned about 1000 acres of deeded land and 15 percent of our Oregon BLM permit. It burned clear down here, next to our feedlot at Homedale,” says Doug. Fortunately, the Burgess Ranch didn’t lose any cattle to fire. “We spent a lot of sleepless nights up there at Jordan Valley, and the neighbors all helped us fight fire.” –By Heather Smith Thomas

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Dale & Candee Newman

Oklahoma

Editor’s Note: To more accurately reflect the heritage of the Aberdeen breed, the American Lowline Registry changed its name to American Aberdeen Association in late July 2017.

ale and Candee Newman (Bar N Ranch, Stillwater, Oklahoma) have raised various breeds of cattle, including Angus, Simmental, Maine Anjou and Shorthorns. “Lowlines are my fault,” says Candee. “I’d been wanting to do this for 5 years and it took almost that long to get Dale talked into it. Now he loves them,” she says. She raised commercial cattle for 30 years, but Dale has raised registered cattle most of his life. “Registered Angus are my passion,” says Dale. “The only way you raise a good Simmental, Maine Anjou or anything else is with a good Angus cow; the cross makes a great animal. Then Candee wanted to try Lowlines so I decided to try them for calving ease on heifers, for us and our bull customers. I am now a believer!” Candee’s first Lowline purchase was a cow-calf pair. “The cow had a bull calf at side and he was Reserve Grand Champion Fullblood Lowline at Houston last year. My second purchase was Vitulus Branded Red, an Australian import. He’s now 11. He was never promoted much, but has sired as many national champions as any other bull. His calves are all good, no matter what he is bred to,” she says. Dale doesn’t like big cattle. “They are not efficient. Our Angus herd is OCC bloodlines and DCC Kirk Duff Cattle Company bloodlines. I like to call Lowlines Aberdeen Angus. The older ranchers know what you are talking about,” says Dale. Aberdeen Angus are the old style, pure Angus. “One thing that stuck with me years ago was what Percy Farris at Skyland Angus Farms (in Perryton, Texas) said. We were weighing bulls and he asked what I thought needed changed with those bulls. I said we need to get them up off the ground a little bit. His answer was: ‘The taller you get them, the harder keeping they are.’ He said that getting them bigger and taller leads to structure problems, milk problems and breed-back problems,” Dale recalls. “I was raised with middle-of-the-road

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Aberdeen Angus cattle. I’ve been breeding Angus, Maine Anjou and other breeds for many years, and the half-blood is where the cattle industry needs to go, to get these cattle back to moderate frame size,” he says. “When you watch cull cows come into the auction barns some of them weigh 1600 pounds or more. We watched a Black Angus cow at the sale at Fairview, Oklahoma that weighed 1980 pounds. It takes too much hay to feed a cow like that. She can’t compete with a smaller cow that weans off a higher percent of her body weight. There’s no way that huge cow can wean a 900-pound calf out on the range!” They sold off their Simmental herd and bought Lowline cows. Dale puts a lot of emphasis on carcass qualities, and the carcass doesn’t need to be huge. “I don’t want a great big steak; I just want a good steak! The carcass merit and performance of these Lowlines is fantastic,” he says. He feels Lowlines are the most positive note in the cattle industry today. “I was born in 1951 and raised with Angus cattle, and probably had my diapers changed out in a corral somewhere. Dad loved Angus and didn’t want tall, leggy cattle. I fought to keep my Angus down to moderate size, but it’s hard to do today because most bigname breeders have gone to bigger cattle,” Dale says. “Our Lowlines have had some success with Grand and Reserve Champions but more than 80 percent of our best heifers that we let somebody go show were stuck in third place,” Dale says. “They were so good that they couldn’t leave them low in the class, but because they weren’t big, the

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judges stuck them third.” Many judges would say, “That’s one heck of a little cow.” Candee feels that statement sums it up. The judges weren’t looking for cows, they were looking for show heifers. “The kind they want won’t work out in the real world,” says Dale. “It’s sad that our industry has changed so much that we can’t educate our youth about what we really need. If people think cattle have to be big, they will not be successful cattlemen.” The show world has often hurt the cattle industry by promoting the wrong kind of cattle. Dale spent 11 years in the feedlot business in the Oklahoma panhandle. “I like corn-fed animals, but we are facing a new market: grass fed beef. The Lowline cattle, going back to the old Aberdeen Angus, will do it. They can get fat on nothing but grass. We’ve had neighbor after neighbor ask us what we are feeding our cows because they look so good. We don’t feed them! They do fine on pasture,” he says. Dale is adamant about the need for good females. “Our bull Branded Red has such great quality and a good disposition. This is passed on to his daughters. Disposition is highly inherited, along with milk, conformation, etc.” he says. “When a cattleman talks about nothing but bulls, I know he’s an amateur,” Dale says. “The female side is what’s most important. You can’t expect a bull to be anything great without a great mother. A great mama cow has more than 80 percent of the influence on her calf. Her bull calf goes on to become someone’s herdsire and can change the quality of the calves— because of his mama. She has more influence than his sire,” says Dale. A bull’s daughters take after his mother—in udder shape, disposition, quality of conformation, etc. “I love to go to customers’ places who have bought bulls from us, and see their calf crop. You see that bull’s mama coming out in that set of calves! One old rancher had a saying that a bull is not a bull until you have his daughters in production. Then you know what you’ve got.” Candee loves the Lowlines for their longevity, compared to other breeds. You expect a cow to be a good producer well into her teens, but some of the other breeds wash out at age 10 or younger. “They are not a very good investment!” Dale tells of an outstanding Angus cow that came from Skyland Angus Farms. “She’s buried here in our pasture. She was 21 years old and pregnant again, but she walked right by a water tank to go out onto the pond ice to get a drink. She fell through and drowned. We had turned down a lot

of money for that grandma cow! People who looked at her thought she was about 12 years old; she looked that good! We had babied her, the last five years, but she goes back to those old foundation Aberdeen Angus,” he says. Dale has raised a lot of cattle that he took all the way through feedlot and packing plants, seeing the carcasses. “I got to see how much longer it takes to get those big leggy cattle fat. Lowlines take a lot less feed and produce a better carcass. These cattle are exactly the type of cattle that Al White used to sort off and pick for Swift Packing—to have the best cuts and the best meat—back in the 1970’s,” he says. “I’ve been involved in this cattle business a long time and I think people today put too much emphasis on numbers. EPDs are not always dependable. They are only as good as the breeder who turns in the numbers and records. Here at our Bar N Ranch we feel strongly that we need some kind of records, but EPDs are not the answer. I realize am new at the Lowline business, but the important thing is quality cattle, and I do not believe that you can find good cattle by just looking at paperwork.” To have birthweight EPDs accurate, every calf should be weighed at birth. “I don’t think every breeder does this. Mama is trying to eat you, and you think you are going to weigh her baby calf! Also I don’t think everyone weighs every calf exact at weaning time, or yearlings. I don’t think those numbers are always reported honestly and some breeders are not getting it done,” he says. Candee agrees, and says every calf has to be reported – for accuracy and to build EPDs that tell the true story – not just the good calves but the culls and steers, too. It’s important to have carcass data, and this is doable and shows what the cattle are actually doing. Ultrasound scans are more important than EPDs, and this is where the Lowlines excel, in carcass. The Lowlines’ numbers in scans are exceptional in ratio of REA to live weight, and the tenderness and marbling are second to none,” Candee says. Dale says we need moderate size, sound-structured, efficient cattle. He also feels there’s nothing better than using a Lowline bull on Angus heifers. “My older brother Joe, who is now 77 years old, bred his Angus heifers to a Lowline bull, and after he calved those heifers out last spring, he told me that he will never have an Angus heifer calve on his place that is not bred to a Lowline bull. My veterinarian says it’s about time somebody changes calving ease to a sure thing. The Lowlines actually do it!”

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Burt Rutherford

s a young hand, he wrote the press releases promoting a particular perspective. He moved to the main herd, explaining new technology and reporting on the movers and shakers of the cattle business. As he became a seasoned hand, he began tracking the markets, especially the fed cattle market, informing hundreds of thousands of feeders, cattlemen, and cowboys. As a cowboss, he is chronicling the trends of the cattle industry, using pen, camera, computer and the web to help his readers become better at doing what they do. Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor of BEEF magazine, has dedicated most of 40 decades to reporting on the livestock industry. Rutherford grew up horseback on a small acreage northwest of Fort Collins. A small-time cow trader lived across the street and put him to work when he was old enough to pitch hay and use a shovel. The worn out cows that were temporarily at home in the trader’s corral piqued Rutherford’s interest and influenced his decision to study agricultural journalism in college. When Rutherford was a junior, one of his fraternity brothers got him a gig taking photos and writing news releases for the North American Limousin Foundation during the National Western Stock Show. After the National Western was over, Rutherford’s gig morphed into a part-time job. When he graduated in 1980, he went to work for the NALF as their first communications director, occupying a small office on the first floor of the old Livestock Exchange Building in the Denver Stockyards. At that time, the Continental breeds were beginning to make a genetic impact on the United States cowherd. Along with the trend towards more defined muscling and bigger cattle, Estimated Progeny Differences (EPDs) were starting to influence decisions. “We talked a lot about how to use EPDs from the seedstock perspective,” Rutherford remembers. “We also tried to explore how the commercial cow/calf guy could use the EPDs to make better decisions in buying bulls.” After several years in the seedstock end of the industry, Rutherford moved to the

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fourth floor of the Livestock Exchange Building when he took a job as a reporter-writer for the Western Livestock Journal, a weekly newspaper for the commercial cattle industry in the West. “Working for a weekly newspaper was a great experience for a young single guy,” he recalls. “It was tremendous.” But when Rutherford and his wife, Debbie’s firstborn daughter was still less than a year old, the Texas Cattle Feeder’s Association asked Rutherford to move to Amarillo, Texas, as the organization’s communications director and the editor of its weekly TCFA Newsletter and Cattle Feeders Annual. TCFA focused on just one segment of the business, most of it policy and regulation related. Rutherford witnessed a tremendous amount of governmental oversight enter animal agriculture in the environmental laws and mandates. The animal rights issues also started to grab more attention. “The biggest thing was that every time you turned around, there was another wreck in the market caused by the Dairy Buy-Out, or another government program,” Rutherford noted. But the biggest change that Rutherford observed was the development of Alternative Marketing Arrangements, also known as selling on the grid or forward contracting and selling based on formulas. “When I joined TCFA in 1985, most everyone in the southern plains who fed cattle sold on the cash market,” Rutherford remembers. “Cactus Feeders and Paul Engler developed the first formula with Iowa Beef Processors, and there was a lot of disruption in the market. Everyone was wondering what the heck was going on. Now, all these years later, we are seeing that it has completely flip-flopped. Upwards of 85 to 90 percent of the cattle recently have been sold some other way than on the cash market.” “The pendulum has swung too far, and is swinging back the other way, which is a good thing,” Rutherford commented. “We need both: the strong cash market, and the options.” Rutherford headed the communications department of TCFA for 21 years before becoming senior editor of BEEF

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magazine in January of 2007. By this time he was an award winning writer and photographer, and his move to BEEF brought his commitment to the industry he has served for the last 30 plus years full circle. He describes BEEF as a for-profit extension service featuring production related articles that give producers an idea of what is working for others. “The vision when the magazine was formed was that cow-calf producers would look at the product they were producing and always keep their eyes on the end zone, which is the beef.” Rutherford continued, “Often times, from a cow-calf producer’s perspective, the decisions you have to make for your particular operation may not be the best for the industry as a whole. The low-cost, low-input producer looks to manage the ranch as cheaply as he can and market the calves as he always has. Then you have the guy who is genetically motivated. He tries to improve the economically important traits on his ranch, and he also wants to sell reputation calves. He wants every order buyer in the salebarn to know that genetically those are the best calves that will be sold that day. That is how he adds value. And he ensures that his calves have the opportunity to provide the best experience when the consumer gets the product.” This is a trend that draw’s Rutherford’s passion. “We need to elevate the conversation about why we need to keep the focus on the end-zone,” he noted. “For the individual beef producers, the end zone is consumer satisfaction.” BEEF’s business is throwing ideas out for their readers, 80 percent of whom are cow-calf producers. “We leave it up to the reader to decide if it might be useful in his particular operation,” Rutherford commented. “If we run an article and someone runs with it and it doesn’t turn out very good, you know all his neighbors are watching.” Rutherford once asked a life-long cat-

tlewoman what she and her husband would do differently if they had a second chance. She told him that years before, they had decided to diversify and run sheep. They borrowed the money and purchased a couple of thousand head of sheep in 1929. When the Depression hit, they wound up getting rid of the sheep but still had the loan they had taken out at the local bank. The small-town banker with old-fashioned values understood the young couple’s dilemma and told them to make a little payment every time they had a chance. The final payoff on the loan occurred in 1979, fifty years later. “This can be a pretty tough business,” Rutherford commented, “ It can take a lifetime to pay for a small mistake.” Therefore, agricultural people are unique in that they talk over new ideas for a long time before implementing them, Rutherford noted. “We were talking about the concept of value added cattle in the 1980s, and we are still talking about it. The alternative market just allows the value added concept to happen.” A writer spends a lot of time looking at trends and techniques, explaining new management practices, and analyzing what works. However, at its most basic,

the people who run the farms and ranches are the ones who truly matter to any reporter. Rutherford was reminded of this when a outdoor editor he occasionally freelanced for asked him to travel to a ranch and do 500 words on a couple of Wounded Warriors on a turkey hunt. Rutherford expected to spend a couple of hours with the warriors on the hunt, but he ended up spending four days. One warrior had been paralyzed by Iraqi sniper fire. He was able to hunt because the shotgun was rigged to a joystick on his motorized wheelchair. The other warrior had survived multiple IED explosions and had been medically discharged because he couldn’t survive another concussion. “Just sitting and talking to those guys, I profoundly felt that I was in the presence of true, genuine heroes,” Rutherford remembered. “I knew there was a bigger story, so I wrote it. No one wanted to run it. A couple of years later, BEEF used the article in a Memorial Day issue. The only thing that had anything to do with ranching was that the hunt had taken place on a ranch. But the article resonated with a lot of readers. “The young man who was paralyzed

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had borrowed a shotgun from his fatherin-law,” Rutherford continued. “One night, he asked a room full of men how he could convince his wife that he needed to buy a shotgun. There wasn’t a man in the room who wouldn’t have given him his personal shotgun, but we didn’t because this man was Army strong and Army proud.” When the article was published, a North Dakota rancher made arrangements to pass the shotgun he had inherited from his father to the young wounded warrior. “Everything came full circle,” Rutherford recalls. “It was a God thing. It had nothing to do with ranching, but it also had everything to do with ranching, because that one gesture by the North Dakota rancher sums up who ranchers are.” When his work in agriculture garners applause, like the Beef Improvement Federation’s Ambassador Award in 2012, the recognition reminds Rutherford that what he does every day matters to an industry. “I try to write articles that bring in the bigger picture,” he noted. “One of the neat things about the business of writing is that I learn as much with every article I write as my readers do.” –By Carol Wilson

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Bert Ancell

New Mexico

he big country of the West is characterized by many things...an endless sky, a horizon 75 miles away, a wide sweep of land. It is peopled by individuals known for their big hearts and bigger dreams. In New Mexico’s cattle country, known for immense landscapes and larger than life characters, cowboy Bert Ancell casts a big shadow. Ancell worked for more than 40 years on northeastern New Mexico’s Bell Ranch, one of the most iconic ranches in the West. His big hat, commanding presence, and outgoing personality make him a magnet for other people, and once he has made friends, Ancell’s cowboy accent, plainly-spoken messages and big personality help him explain the cowboy way of life to those who aren’t as blessed, whether they are schoolchildren with dreams of their own or legislators who need to understand how their policies affect animal agriculture. Ancell cut his teeth on stories of oldtime cowboys who worked on big ranches and camped out with the wagon for weeks for spring and fall works. His dreams were all about cattle and horses and the open range. When the 16-year-old football star got a chance to spend the summer following the wagon and branding calves on a remote ranch in northeastern New Mexico, he loaded his pickup with a saddle and bedroll and left home. The Bell Ranch was the stuff of dreams for a young cowboy. The ranch that began as part of a Mexican land grant in 1824 was a place where legends were built. In fact, the Bell was the very lockstitch in the fabric of Western culture, tradition and economy for generations. It was an immense ranch, with almost 300,000 acres where men could test their mettle against the cows, the horses and the land, and where stories were told over campfires, of wrecks and green horses, cattle and good dogs. Ancell learned quickly that he’d landed in the midst of a fraternity of old time cowboys. It was the chance of a lifetime for a young cowboy to work on a ranch which embodied such a strong cowboy tradition. After a few years, Ancell was asked to assume the duties of Wagon Boss, where he worked between the ranch manager and the cowboys. He was the one who

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planned out how to gather each pasture and what to do with the cattle. He assigned each cowboy his mounts and was the one who went into the 100-horse remuda each morning and flipped the hoolihan rope to catch the horses that would be used that day. It was still a cowboy’s outfit, because at its foundation was the custom and culture of the West. “We all loved working on the Bell,” noted Ancell. “There was a lot of history and the cowboy tradition was so strong.” Ancell figures he worked with over 200 cowboys in his 40-year tenure at the Bell. “Some were just there for the wagon works, and some worked for over 27 years before they left,” he stated. Bert slept on the ground for six weeks running the first year he went out with the wagon for fall works. “Those were good times,” he noted. “But since I slept on the ground for 26 years, I don’t care to throw my bed on the ground and camp out.” New Mexico agriculture likes to put boots on the floor and hats on the heads when something affecting agriculture is being considered in the legislature. Ancell answered the call for help one year and found that he was good at being the face of the ag industry. Patty Waid, event coordinator with the New Mexico Beef Council, noted that “Bert has a down-home, easy persona that makes it easy for others to see that he loves the ranch, the history, and the people who make up the ranching industry. “Agriculture rarely speaks for itself,” Patty concluded. “But it is vitally important that people like Bert speak about history and the ranching lifestyle. “ Ancell’s son, Button, grew up surrounded by the cowboys of the Bell Ranch. For many years, his grandfather, Berl Ancell, cooked for the Bell Ranch wagon, so three generations of Ancell males worked cattle all day, then swapped stories over beef, beans and biscuits around the campfire that night. “I loved hearing those stories,” reflected Button. “They told of good horses, and good dogs, and wrecks they had survived. I really appreciated the stories because I missed a lot of the wild West, but my Papa and his peers lived it.” Button noted that all his milestones on horseback were made on the back of

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a horse which Ancell had ridden first. “It was dang sure handy having those good horses to do stuff on,” Button stated. “I learned to ride on a horse named Rooster. My Papa started that horse when he was 16. The horse was family. I remember being at Bell Headquarters and my Papa would put me up on the horse and turn us loose. Just the two of us would take off and explore the country, and Papa never worried, because he knew that the old horse was going to get us both home safe.” Ancell gets emotional when he starts talking about horses he has loved and ridden. Soap, Clabber, Zeke, Rooster, Cuervo and Cowboy made the short list of favorites. Speck holds a place of honor as perhaps the greatest Bell Ranch horse Bert ever had the privilege of working. The abundance of good horses, great scenery and honest cowboys has always attracted artists and photographers to the Bell. Ancell and his cowboys have been part of photo shoots for outdoor wear and many periodicals, and the wagon rarely pulls out for spring or fall works without a painter or a photographer along to capture life the way it is lived on the Bell. Ancell has been shot by Kurt Marcus, Photographer of the West, and has been the subject of covers for the New Mexico Stockman, Working Ranch and Western Horseman, and has been painted by Gary Morton and Kenneth Wyatt and a host of other notable western artists, but Ancell doesn’t think of himself as the archetypical cowboy. “To me, being a cowboy is an unattainable goal,” he stated. “Something that is up there to strive for. If someone thinks I’ve made it, I’ll just say that I’ll do until a cowboy comes along.” Ancell’s father, Berl, quit school after the 8th grade and got a job in a cowboy camp, learning at the age of 16 to cook for the crew. Ancell remembers that the kitchen table was the “deciding place” when

he was growing up. It still is, as well as a place of information and fellowship. For instance, a cowboy crew may work together all day, but when they are standing around eating or drinking coffee is when information is exchanged and stories are swapped. So when Jeff Lane decided that the Bell Ranch needed a chuckwagon to take to Ranch Rodeos where Bell Ranch cowboys participated, he asked Ancell to be the chuckwagon cook. Lane had an ulterior motive for the purchase. It seems that the Bell had come in second in several ranch rodeos, and if a ranch sponsored a chuckwagon at the rodeos, they were awarded seven points towards the finals. Within two years, the Bell won the Ranch Rodeo in Amarillo, and Ancell’s reputation as a great chuckwagon cook was sealed.” Ancell still loves to get the wagon out and cook up a lot of brisket or ribs for a hungry group. He has the wagon and a big smoker and everything else he needs on a 24-foot gooseneck and can cook for hunters, cowboy artists, and trail rides. When his sister told Bert that his chuckwagon biscuits were “just like papa’s” Ancell felt like he had the recipe down right. He watches food network and

cooking shows to get ideas, adding his own special touches to each dish to make it his own. Breakfasts are a particular favorite of Ancell’s, and his gravy is always a big hit. His peachy yellow cake with a hot cream cheese frosting has been described by a woman at a birthday party as “the best cake I’ve ever eaten in my life.” Another time it was served, a man whose team won the first ever chuckwagon cooking contest at the Cowboy Symposium assured Ancell, “that cake would win first place at any chuckwagon cooking.” Ancell’s core values are true to most cowboy’s code of ethics, with integrity, family and God topping the list. Ancell, along with others in a small community church, helped start the Cowboy Camp Meeting in Mosquero. Last year, 250 plates were served out of the wagon on Saturday night. “I had a kid ask me once why I don’t go to church much, and my answer is that I’m in church every day,” Ancell stated. “I’m out here where God built everything, and man can’t do better than God did in putting things together.” As he stewards the land and the livestock, Ancell reflects on the fact that God

owns it all. “A person can say he owns the ranch, but it is really God’s. All we are here for is to take care of it, and I just hope that I’ve done God a good job there.” Ancell was hired as manager of the Ojo Feliz outside of Wagon Mound in 2012. Though he is busy with a new ranch, he remembers the cows and the gathers and the wrecks, the fun and the heartbreak, the stiff, sore aches earned from long days in the saddle. But mostly he remembers the men who rode beside him and the cowboys who earned respect and loyalty because of the way they rode for the brand. He remembers and honors both the young kids who cowboyed for the summer with him, and the old-timers who built the great ranches of the West. Many of those cowboys still search Ancell out and tell him that they would like to someday come back and work for him again. “That kind of respect and loyalty is important to me,” he confirmed. Big dreams, for Bert Ancell, did come true. He has cowboyed in big country and cast a big shadow in the cowboy’s world. –By Carol Wilson

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Freddie Fritz – an Arizona Legend

my days, but I’m thankful at my age of 86 years that I’ve had a few more ups than downs and I’m still here. In the early days, there were many oldtime ranchers in the Blue River and Eagle Creek country where I was raised. Today It never hurts to remember where we came I can only recall one ranch in that entire from in determining where we are going. area which is still in the hands of the old Arizona original family. And that is the old Henry From his own account, Jones, or W Y Bar Ranch on the upper July 8, 1895 – April 3, 1985 Blue. Henry Jones moved into that country After the first World War, (I was in that was born up the Frisco River here, for a while, though I never went overseas) before the turn of the century. He raised about three miles above Clifton where . . . When I came back in 1919, cattle quite a large family, and most all of them the pump station is today. In those days were selling by the head, or steers were. are gone today. Today, there’s Elaine Marks, who is the it was called Oroville. But back in those days, there just wasn’t widow of Bill Marks, who was a grandson My father and mother both came from much market for heifers or cows, except of Henry Jones. That’s the only ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas. That was an early the ones sold locally. the entire area after all these many years, German settlement. My father was one of In the spring of 1919, shortly after I after practically a century, that is still in the pioneers in the area here. He came to came back, we contracted our yearlings the old hands. Our old ranch went back this country in the winter of ’84 and ’85. for $45 a head. That fall, we sold the same to 1888, so we were crowding in almost a To my best recollection he brought the yearlings for $17. hundred years, too. first cattle into the lower Blue River counDuring that same period, every bank I’m no longer in the ranching business, try in the summer of 1886. in Greenlee County, including the Bank and it’s rather sad in a way, after I’ve been With him at the time was an old fellow of Duncan, Eagle’s Bank & Trust Comthere all my life. Today, I don’t even own a by the name of West Townsend. But my pany at Clifton, The First National Bank cow or horse. But I’m definitely still confather’s partner, who was with him in the in Clifton, the State Bank of Morenci and cerned with what occurs in the livestock cattle business in the early days, was not the State Bank of Metcalf, was taken over industry in Arizona. And I try to be a part with them, whom the Indians killed at by the Valley Bank. By the summer of ’22, of our state association of Arizona Cattlewhat is known today as the Old Baseline every bank in Greenlee County had closed growers. I was president of that way back Ranger Station on Blue River. That was in the doors except the Valley Bank. in ’45 and ’46. the year 1887. Most of the ranchers held money back I also have served in several capacities. In the year 1888, my father moved out in those days. During that same period, They had me in the Legislature for quite into what is the present location of the there was a severe three-year drought. a few years. I was there 14 years — three old Three X Ranch at the mouth of Alder There were a lot of people and a lot of tenures in the House and four in the SenCreek on Blue River. ranchers did not survive in those times. ate. Likewise, I’ve served 23 years on the At that time, he sent for his younger Because after the death-loss and giving our Arizona Livestock and Sanitary Board. In brother and they became partners in the cattle away and trying to liquidate (a lot addition to being interested directly in the Three X Ranch. They were partners until of them did not have enough cattle to liqlivestock industry, I’ve been concerned after the turn of the century. I’ve been at uidate) a lot of them had deficiencies and with the affairs from a local and a state the same old ranch all my life until the mortgages held against them. and a national standpoint. summer of 1976. And I sold out to Sewell Again, we experienced a rough time The Greenlee County CattlegrowGoodman. after the market crash of ’29. The years ers was organized Feb. 10, 1914. My During my lifetime, I’ve seen a lot of of ’31, ’32 and ’33 were extremely rough father passed away in January 1916. For changes in Blue River country. I’ve seen a years again. We faced another drought and some unknown reason — Father was at lot of good people, but I’ve never found cattle practically brought nothing. that organizational meeting — he didn’t anyone there that I didn’t like. The government had a program, and if join. My mother and father always talkWhen I sold out to Sewell Goodman, I I remember correctly, they gave us $15 for ed German, and I remember him making sold him what cattle there was in the old the cows and $5 for the calves. a remark in German. (Throughout the Three X Ranch. However, I kept the old In another instance, to show how the years, I’ve forgotten most of the German brand. I’ve always used it as part of my cattle market was in the early days, you I’ve known.) signature. could not borrow any money in the ‘30s. He told my mother, “Vell, ve organized Community came first I sent three car loads, or a little better and there’s a few fellers in that thing that During my lifetime, I’ve tried to be a than 100 head of cows, to W.D. Lilliwhite I don’t like, and if they’re going to run it, I part of the community. I’ve lived here Company in Los Angeles, Calif. And when don’t want anything to do with it.” And he in Clifton all my life and, God willing, I I got the returns back, I should have kept never did. I joined that convention when intend to finish here. ‘Cuz, as I told peo- the cattle at home because I’d rather have they had the annual meeting on the 10th ple when I sold out, I was gonna stay here gone through the expense and bringing of February, 1916, and I’ve been a membecause I can go down the street and kids them here to Clifton and shipping ‘em. ber of it all these many years. called me by my first name. Those cows brought us $6.17 a head. I’ve been on the board of the NatuSince my early days, I’ve seen a lot of That’s what they netted us. ral Resources Committee for 30 years or changes in the livestock industry and I’ve So! We’ve lived through all of that! more now, and I am definitely not going to sold cattle at all prices. And I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in

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seek another appointment. In fact, folks, after all these many years, I’ll be nothing but a has-been in the future. A few other, from the social angle of it: I was with the Kiwanis here in Clifton. My brother and I were, I think, charter members of the Kiwanis Club. And to keep up with whatever might be going on, I’m a member of the Rotary Club and belong to the Chamber of Commerce. I have a life membership in the American Legion. Also, I came back in February 1919 and joined the Elks Club #1174 in that year. And old Frank Springer used to have a barbershop there on East Side and Frank Hodges, who married the second oldest daughter of Uncle Towle Cosper named Lula. And those two took my application. I’m crowding close to 60 years in that organization. I also joined Masonic Lodge. I’m a past master of the local deal and my good wife, Kathleen, we were married….Wait and I’ll come back to that in a minute. IN the ‘30s I joined the Masonic Lodge in Clifton, Order #8. Now let me bring the person into my life who has been my wife for 57 years. In the early days, Kathleen and I were kids.

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She came to spend since ’24 has been my one summer with her teacher. brother-in-law Ernest Folks, life has been Patterson, who had good to me. I want to been transferred to continue to be part of the old ranger station my community. Folks, above the old (inauI’ve met a lot of people dible) ranch on Blue on life’s road and I’ve River. never found anyone yet, Kathleen and I regardless of who he or were 14 and 15 when she might be, if I didn’t we met. Due to my sit down and talk to ‘em Freddie Fritz deal in the army, the a while, I couldn’t find a ups and down of the times, we didn’t get few good points. married until Aug. 21, 1924. We only had And folks, we all have our faults. As one girl who we unfortunately lost at the the old saying is “There’s a little good in age of three. the best of us and there’s a little bad in the Through the many years we’ve been worst of us.” together, there have been a lot of ups and Life’s just been good to me. I value my down in our ranching life. But we’re still friends. I value their confidence and to me here and we’re still going. And at our age a person’s word is his bond. I’m proud of of 85 and 86, I’m thankful that we can still my American heritage and my Greenlee get around by our own power. County birthright. And, God willing, I’m Kathleen, in those early days, taught going to try to finish here with you – the school for a number of years. Originally, best people on earth. she was from Pulaski, Tennessee, though This story was a transcript of a 1981 tape recordshe has spent practically all her life here. interview with Freddie Fritz, who was then 86 She graduated from the old Flagstaff Nor- ed years old. Copper Era reporter Rena Short transcribed mal. Which today is Northern Arizona the taped conversation for the Era’s special edition, University. She taught for six years and “Diary of a Decade,” published in 1987. The transcript includes only Freddie’s recollections of his life.

Gib Yardley

ardley Cattle Company is a 150-year-old multi-generational family ranch, headquartered in Beaver, Utah. Gilbert “Gib” Yardley, 84 years old, is fourth generation and his eight children are fifth generation. “In February 1856, my great-grandfather, James P. Anderson, and 13 other men settled in this beautiful valley in southern Utah,” says Gib. Our elevation is 6000 feet, but a lot of our cattle summer in mountains at over 10,000 feet elevation. We winter most of our cows on desert winter range at about 5000 feet. It’s 125 miles between our winter and summer range and we live in between,” he says. “We have another ranch 20 miles south of Panguitch, at the headwaters of the Sevier River. We truck cattle 125 miles from winter range to that ranch, then trail them about 25 miles to the top of the mountain,” says Gib. It used to be more difficult to get cattle back and forth from winter and summer range. “My Granddad, James Heber Yardley was in partnership with his two brothers. One brother, Uncle Al, would take a herd of steers and cows to winter range clear down on the Arizona Strip. He took a pack horse and supplies for several months (potatoes and salt bacon), lived in a tent, and stayed with the cattle all winter.” In the spring of 1908, Uncle Al was riding home from Arizona, took the wrong canyon and ended up in the head of Asay Creek. “He said this was the most beautiful spot he’d seen in his life. He located the man who owned the ranch and found it was for sale. He and my granddad they bought that ranch for $5,000. Later they acquired one of the first forest permits on the Dixie National Forest adjoining the ranch, and ran 500 head of cattle there.” It’s 75 miles from Asay Creek to the family ranch at Beaver, and they drove cattle back and forth on horseback, taking three to four days, then in the late 1940s started trucking them. In the early ‘80s they bought two winter range permits — a

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combination of BLM, state land and private ground — 40 miles west of Beaver. “We winter most of our older cows out there without feeding hay,” says Gib. Once in awhile there’s so much snow that it covers the feed, but that has only happened two or three times in the past 35 years. This is excellent winter range and the easy-fleshing cattle stay fat. There’s lots of Indian rice grass, needle-and-thread (some of the best grasses, in terms of nutrition and palatability), and native desert browse plants (white sage—also called winterfat, with as much protein as alfalfa—and 4-wing salt brush) which make wonderful feed. The cattle on winter range are watered with wells. In the past, the pumps were

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powered by eight windmills, but they are switching to solar because it’s more dependable than the wind. THE CATTLE – In 1920, Gib’s Grandfather went to Kansas to buy cattle and brought the first Hereford cattle to southern Utah. “In 1939 and 1940 he went to Colorado to buy replacement heifers from Fred DeBerard. We continued to buy registered Herefords from many top breeders

around the country. About 50 years ago I started using AI, and also started breeding some cows AI to Simmental bulls,” says Gib. “I went to Canada to see the first Simmentals that came to North America, on a breeding farm owned by the Alberta Government. They also had a big red bull that was the best I’d ever seen; he was the first Maine Anjou brought to North America from France. I decided I wanted some of those cattle. Today we have mostly Simmental, 150 head of Black Angus cows, 50 Maine Anjou and the rest of our cattle are Simmental crosses — from quarter bloods to purebreds,” he says. Most of the Yardley cattle summer at high elevation. “We’ve had some problems with brisket disease but we PAP test all our bulls. Angus are more prone to brisket disease, so we don’t take many of them to the high country. The Simmentals and Maine Anjou don’t have that trouble,” says Gib. The cows calve on winter range, starting February 20th. “The heifers calve closer to home, and start the first of February. The cows calve unassisted. We just go out every other day to weigh and tag calves.” Yardley Cattle Company has had one of the biggest bull sales in the West the past 44 years. “We sell about 200 bulls every year (mostly Simmental, and some Maine Anjou and Angus), here at the ranch. Buyers come from all over the U.S. and our bulls this year went to 18 states. We have a female sale the Saturday before Thanksgiving and sell 150 to 175 females. This year was our 40th female sale. They usually go to about 20 states,” says Gib. He showed cattle for many years at Denver and was honored in 2006 at the 100th Anniversary of the National Western Stock Show. In earlier years he traveled throughout the U.S. with feeder pens and show calves at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, American Royal in Kansas City, Pacific International Show in Portland, Oregon, and North American Livestock Show in Louisville. For many years there were no heifer pen shows at Denver, but there was no rule that said you couldn’t take heifers to compete against the steers, so Gib took the first pen of heifers ever shown in Denver. The next year Denver had a heifer pen show. Yardley Cattle Company has always been on the leading edge of seedstock pro-

duction — fertility-testing bulls, PAP-testing (to identify cattle that can or can’t handle high altitudes), artificial insemination for 50 years, embryo transfer, and recently started doing in-vitro fertilization. “We try to expand the top 10 percent of our cow herd with embryo transfer. If you can get 10 or 20 calves out of a good cow every year instead of just one, this can be a very positive influence. This accelerates improvement more than if you are only doing it from the bull’s side,” he explains. Most of their bulls go to commercial producers who run cattle in similar range conditions. Gib’s son Steven says: “Their calves are sold by the pound, so we want our cattle to perform well for our customers as well as being structurally correct and hold their flesh. Calves need to put a lot of pounds on between birth and weaning. There are many bull producers, so the only way to hold onto our customers is to have a great product, great customer relations, and take care of those customers. “My dad has established a great reputation of honesty and dependability. People can rely on him and count on his word. We stand behind our bulls 100 percent. Satisfied customers pay our bills; they make it possible for us to do what we do.

They are also our friends. We have a great repeat customer base,” Steven says. FAMILY – Gib spent so much time pursuing his dream of raising good cattle that it took awhile to find a wife. He traveled around the country winning cattle shows, but eventually realized he should start raising a family. His children say it was a good thing that a protective mamma cow knocked some sense into Gib. In 1981 he was tagging a calf when the cow got him down and broke his nose, a few ribs, and his determination to stay single. In the emergency room of the Beaver Valley Hospital he asked Denise Evans (his nurse) to marry him. Gib and Denise had seven girls and a boy. “God knew he needed more patience and sent him girls to mellow him out! Dad has managed to raise seven girls that know how to brand a calf and the pedigrees on cattle but lack most domestic skills; we figure we have plenty of time to learn,” says Jeannie. “Family values are core to our business. Dad believed as much in raising solid children as solid cattle,” she says. Daughter Michelle does the secretary work, keeping track of data, taking care of registration and transfers, and does the sale catalogs. Son-in-law, Rodney

Teichert, married to Tawnya, is a partner in the ranch. “We have two hired men who have been with us for about 10 years. My seven daughters all come help during the sales. Daughter Jeannie Griswold does the advertising.” Steven’s wife Leslie is now part of the team and helps with the cattle. They have four boys. “My older boys enjoy horses and cattle, and help us all summer with cattle in the mountains. We have good horses, and working with our families makes for good memories in the summer, doing these things together,” says Steven. Steven feels ranching is a great way of life. “Ranchers have a strong love for God and His creation, and recognize their need for His help in their lives. They also take care of each other. We all seem to see eye to eye on most things; we believe in the Constitution, freedom and the things that made our country great. This is part of who we are as ranchers, and it’s a wonderful heritage. We appreciate being able to rub shoulders with people across the nation who see things the way we do, trying to do something good in the world,” he says. –By Heather Smith Thomas

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Johansen Family

ocated in Southeastern Utah near Castle Dale, the Johansen family raises cattle on a ranch that spans six generations. Brock Johansen is 5th generation and currently runs the ranch with his parents, Scott and Laurel Johansen. Brock’s great-great-grandparents came from Mount Pleasant, Utah to settle in the Castle Valley and started a cattle operation. In summer the cows range on public and private land in the Manti-La Sal National Forest which goes up to 10,600 feet elevation, and the lower ranch is at 5,700 feet. The Johansen cattle have adapted to high elevations. Trailing to summer range is about 25 miles and takes two days. The cows graze rangeland for eight months, then in fall and winter graze on the San Rafael Swell on BLM and private ground. This is high desert country; Castle Dale only gets an average of 7 inches precipitation each year, so the cows must travel for food and water. The harsh environment creates a natural culling process, which ensures that the purebreds will work very well in commercial herds. “We’ve always had good range cattle. My uncle Craig started running purebred Line 1 Herefords in 1979. This produced good maternal traits in our cattle,” he says. Brock went to college and obtained a law degree. His father is also a lawyer and was County Attorney, and then a local judge from 1992 through 2016. “I don’t practice law myself; I am CEO of the telephone company in Emery, Carbon, Grand and San Juan Counties. That’s my day job,” Brock says. “When I finished college in 2005 everyone wanted black cattle. I converted our herd to polled Black Herefords. Today we run about 200 registered Black Hereford polled cows and sell about 65 Black Hereford bulls each year by private treaty, and some heifers. About 85 percent of our Black Hereford bulls are sold to repeat customers.” BLACK HEREFORDS

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— Black Herefords were the brainchild of late polled Hereford breeder John Gage (Blue Jacket Farm, Eudora, Kansas), with the help of Frank Felton, another longtime Hereford breeder. They organized the American Black Hereford Association. The purpose of the breed was to eliminate red-baldie calves in Hereford-Angus crossbreeding programs. Black-baldie calves have always topped the market at sale barns while red-baldies of the same herd are sold at a discount. The benefit of using Black Herefords is Hereford heterosis without the Hereford discounts. Herefords have also traditionally been more efficient than their Angus counterparts. Herefords are known for docile temperament and feed efficiency. Angus have been known for lighter birth weights, good growth and outstanding carcasses. Combining these two breeds produces an outstanding animal with the benefit of black color. In 1994, Felton and Gage began creating a Black Hereford using the method other red-hided breeds already used to turn hair color black. Breeding registered Hereford and Angus cattle together to produce an F1, then breeding F1 females to a registered Hereford bull and selecting for black hair color was the first step. The 3/4 Hereford black bulls were used on a different set of F1s to produce 5/8 blood offspring — with black on both sides of the pedigree. To be a purebred Black Hereford, the animal must be 87.5 percent Hereford and up to 12.5 percent

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black Angus. It’s not just a crossbred. The breed-up process is similar to that of Black Simmental or Black Gelbvieh. “Commercial ranchers should use a cross between Angus and Black Herefords. Value of direct and maternal heterosis has been well established. By using F1 crosses, not only will their calves get a jump in performance, but F1 mothers have 38 percent more longevity. They breed back better and stay in the herd longer,” Brock explains. “The F1 Angus/Hereford cross has always been the premier cross, and now breeders can use Black Herefords and avoid red hide and discounts at the sale barn. Rotational crossbreeding is a great system and producers can add a third terminal breed for big calves. They just need to remember to not keep the larger, inefficient cattle as replacements,” he says. “We have cattle in our herd that are 97 percent Hereford, but black. These higher percentage cattle ensure more heterosis when bred to Angus or other breeds. We don’t just select for black, however. Longevity, maternal, calving ease, growth and low maintenance are all very important in the conditions our cattle run in. The white face is dominant, so Black Herefords look like Herefords, only black,” Brock says. The first 3/4 blood calves were born on Gage’s Blue Jacket Farm, and in 1997 the first registered Black Hereford bull was born (BJH Balder 7504). The first Black Hereford EPDs were calculated in 2005, but Gage didn’t live to see that step. “When John Gage became ill in 1998, Joe and Norma Hoagland of J&N Ranch, Leavenworth, Kansas continued his program. They purchased most of Gage’s cattle and did the final work in forming the foundation herd for the new breed,” says Brock. They also purchased the two bulls Frank Felton selected to use on the F1s. They used the cows and bulls in their commercial herd for a few years as a test, and didn’t get any red-baldies. In 2012, the American Black Hereford Association started publishing the Black Hereford Journal and hosted the first National Black Hereford Sale. In 2005, the ABHA consisted of 14 breeders in nine states, and by 2014 there were 145 adult

members and 15 junior members from 31 states. “The breed continues to grow, and we’ve been a part of that growth. For the past several years we’ve been in the top five for numbers in breeding Black Hereford cattle in terms of registrations per year. We’ve been the top breeder for the past two years. We’re producing more Black Herefords than anyone else in the nation right now,” Brock says. He serves as chair of the Breed Improvement Committee and Rules and Ethics Committee for ABHA, and does a lot of their free legal work. “I promote the association in numerous ways. We don’t show, but this year we had several bulls shown by other families. There is a national Black Hereford show in November and this year it’s in Sedalia, Missouri. There will be bulls and heifers shown that were purchased from us. There are also cattle being shown that are just one generation from our genetics. We run a cow-calf operation focused on the needs of commercial cattlemen.” He prefers a functional, moderate cow (about 1200 pounds). “Showing is a way to showcase the breed, however, and it’s often a family deal. Some families have kids out there washing and fitting cattle and it’s a good project for kids,” says Brock. The ranch is run by Brock and his wife Andrea, and Brock’s parents—Scott and Laurel Johansen. Brock and Andrea have six children. “We don’t need hired help; our ranch is run by family. We put up our own hay on a ranch south of Castle Dale where we put in eight pivots. Here is where we raise hay, calve the cows, and breed them before they go to the mountains for summer pasture,” he says. “We calve in late January through February so the cows can breed up before they go to the mountains in June. The purebreds need to be bred before they go, and we ultrasound the cows a week before we take them to summer pasture. If a cow is not confirmed pregnant she doesn’t go to the mountain until we know she is pregnant. We give those cows three more weeks, ultrasound them again, and send them later,” he explains. “We still drive our cattle to the range and it’s a two-day drive. The cows graze mid-June until October. We usually wean on our private ground up there and haul the calves out. The cows don’t have calves on them when they go down to BLM pasture. The dry cows graze there from October 15 through mid-January. We trail them 2017 Fall Marketing Edition

down. In January we bring the cows home a week or two before calving,” says Brock. Horses are necessary for moving and gathering cattle. “We have a dozen horses and all our kids ride. We usually buy weanlings and break them ourselves.” The kids can put a lot of miles on those young horses and help further their training. “We always have some horses that need a lot of work, and cattle work is a good way to train them. Our range has a lot of country that has to be covered by horseback. The kids and I enjoy packing a lunch and riding to check cows with my

dad or gather cattle. Dad always said the best thing for a colt was to put him behind a herd of cows and make him just walk behind those cows. The same can be said about kids,” says Brock. The young horse or cowhand can learn about patience, and cows. Giving the horse and child a job to do helps settle their minds. A ranch is a good place to train horses and raise kids. “My dad always said it’s really more about raising the kids than raising the cattle, in the end.” –By Heather Smith Thomas

Dwight Babcock

wight Babcock grew up near Chicago, Illinois, but fell in love with the Southwest when he came to the University of Arizona to play baseball. When he finished college he became involved in the insurance and software business in Tucson, Arizona. “I had some early success automating major insurance carriers around the world. This gave me the financial ability to purchase a second home, to escape the hot summers of Tucson. Most people here go up toward the White Mountains or Flagstaff but that’s a long drive, so I went south to Cochise County,” says Babcock. He was looking for a 40-acre parcel in the middle of a forest where he could build or find a home and not have neighbors. “The only available options for purchase were ranch properties and mining permits, so I decided to look at ranches. I bought a large ranch in the Dragoon Mountains — the home of Cochise, chief of the local Chiricahua tribe of Apaches, who led several battles against the Army during the 1860s,” he says. This is also the location of Council Rock where Cochise signed over the land to the government in 1872, after making a peace treaty and being granted a reservation for his people. “That took place right here,” says Babcock. The ranch dates back to the 1880s. He has the original papers from Teddy Roosevelt, giving land to the settlers before Arizona became a state. This area has an interesting history and rugged landscape. It was the setting for the movie Buffalo Soldiers starring Danny Glover, and the remake of the Magnificent Seven series. The Three Sisters ranch is isolated, but just an hour’s drive south of Tucson, in mountainous country 5000 to 7000 feet elevation. On average, temperature is 15 degrees cooler than at Tucson. It sometimes gets as much as 10 inches of snow in several storms, yet it melts within a day

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except on north-facing slopes. It’s a pleasant climate year round, with mild winters and fairly cool summers. “I bought the ranch in 1982. The young lady who owned it had hard times after her father suddenly passed away. I helped her work out of the financial problems, got the ranch paid off for her and worked out a strategy so she would have some money and not have to file bankruptcy,” says Babcock. “At that time the ranch had no remaining livestock. I developed a Quarter Horse operation with about 80 broodmares bred for cutting, team penning and roping. Our main goal was to raise cutting horses,” he

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says. Babcock also bought cattle. “In our area the typical cow was an F1 Brahman-Hereford cross. We had Salers bulls, then switched a couple of times to other breeds before changing to Black Angus. We got out of the horse business after a few years, and no longer raise horses except what we need for the ranch. It is 20,000 acres with a lot of mountains and only one road across it, so we need horses to check the cattle. Everything is done

horseback,” he says. The horses run in big pastures. “Even when we were raising horses, they ran loose because I don’t like to have horses in stalls. Whenever I’m not there for a while, our horses are turned out on 6000 acres in the mountains. They come in when we want them, coming to a whistle. I sometimes bring them in just to eat down the grass in the corrals,” says Babcock. The horses are always fit and healthy, running in the mountains. “This was the way I raised foals when I was in the Quarter Horse business because they grew up sane and sound, accustomed to everything—rain, lightning, other animals, and varied terrain. When you get those youngsters in to start training them, none of them try to buck. That’s what I really liked about them — they have such a sound mind.” The horses are comfortable in the real world, not raised in artificial conditions. The cattle also do well roaming mountain pastures. “We switched to Angus about 10 years ago. We thought the Angus breed had done a better job of marketing and the economics were better. I was initially concerned, about how good these cows would be out there as mothers, in the mountains with predators — and whether they would be as protective as horned cows. I found out Angus were great at protecting their calves. If you come up to one of those mamas that has just dropped a baby she’ll come right at you! These black cattle go high on the mountains, so they’ve done well,” he says. MARKETING BEEF – “We’re becoming known for the quality of our cattle. I plan to expand our herd, looking at a different method of bringing aged natural beef to the consumer, direct to their home — on request, for the cuts they want from their purchased inventory,” Babcock explains. The website is www.agednaturalbeef.com “Most people who buy beef this way thinks they need a freezer or locker to store it before they can order a quarter, half or whole. But with our program, they simply have an inventory on their phone of the cuts they bought in that quarter, half or whole, and they can call us and order what they want from that inventory. We

overnight ship the cuts they want. It’s not the same animal each time; it’s a fresh animal, and a just-in-time delivery concept, via Fed-Ex to their home,” says Babcock. “This is aged natural beef, with no hormones or antibiotics. We plan to use the University of Arizona Ag school for harvest and processing. We grain finish ours, but I am talking with a group of other ranchers who grass finish theirs. It’s a different type of aging process for grass-finished beef, however — a wet aged solution versus a dry aged process. I will eventually have some different options available for customers. We may not try to finish our calves both ways, but instead work with other local ranchers who are grass finishing and meet the criteria for prime beef. With our technique, we can go beyond local and be national. We can ship our beef and have it tomorrow in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles,” he says. This is different than Omaha Beef that sells a 6-ounce fillet for $50. His system makes it more affordable, and people get a full complement of cuts available from their quarter, half or whole purchase. “We can also help them with cuts they don’t understand, with recipe ideas. At the end

of the year, what they don’t use (from the quarter, half, or whole they purchased) we can make available to local charity and they get a deduction for it. We are trying to make it simple. We are not trying to find sources to send our secondary cuts to restaurants or local butchers. We tell our customer it’s all theirs and they can have the prime cuts (that might otherwise cost $25 per pound at local stores and $150 per pound from mail order houses) for $11 to $12 per pound, sent direct to their home. They don’t need a big freezer and risk losing the meat if there’s a power outage, and they don’t have to drive somewhere to pick it up,” he explains. RANCH MANAGEMENT – He and his wife Elaine take care of the cattle themselves. “We used to have a ranch manager and a staff of people when we were raising horses, but now I do all the cattle work myself, with the exception of roundups where local ranchers help. I also have other ventures with other herds of cattle — with another rancher — and his crew comes over to help me with anything major that I need,” Babcock says. His cattle are user-friendly. “I can drive along one road and throw some feed out

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ereford, Texas has been called the Beef Capital of the World for decades. First there were big cowcalf ranchers and stocker operations. Then came the swarm of commercial feedyards that brought with them several major packer operations in the Panhandle. Much of that time has seen Bob Josserand involved in one way or another. And as mayor of Hereford for more than 20 years, the fate of his beloved city has never lost his attention. Bob retired from his post as mayor in 2015. He was always in the middle of continued growth of various agricultural-related industries, as well as higher education. Since he settled in Hereford to head Farr Better Feeds in 1971, he has seen the agribusiness-dependent city of about 16,000 shift gears on food and fiber production. He has been chairman of AzTx Cattle Co. headquartered in Hereford since it was formed in the early 1980s. He has lived through numerous times of prosperity and wrecks. His cattle ventures have also include co-ownership of a ranch in eastern New Mexico near Yeso between Vaughn and Fort Sumner. He remembers Hereford’s glory days in the vegetable packing business. There were a half-dozen or more packing sheds in the ‘70s. But government labor laws forced companies like Griffin & Brand, Barrett-Fisher and others off the Hereford produce shelf. The area’s staple industry, cattle feeding, began facing competition for roughage and other feedstuffs from an influx of large dairies. Then came ethanol plants that bid against corn contracts. Distillers grain byproducts would become part of feedyard rations. Growth in the regional dairy industry was among reasons Caviness Beef Packers’ Hereford operations were enlarged. The company now slaughters about 1,600 cattle a day. Many are for cow markets and many are Holsteins. Bob formed AzTx in 1983. That was after the sale of ProChemco Cattle Co., for

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which he was president. Along with several partners, AzTx became one of the nation’s largest cattle feeding companies. The recent recession-driven poor economy and high feed costs forced the company to realign. Its Hereford Feedyard remains a staple just east of downtown. But AzTx sold its Garden City facility in 2015 after it had used the feedyard for cow production during the drought and later as an export feedyard. Along with finishing cattle, Hereford Feedyard is now used for straightening out feeder cattle for AzTx and other feedyards. AzTx is among many feedyard companies that strive to produce a product consumers want; one that tastes good, is consistent and high in quality. This attitude provides added-value opportunities for the company and its feeding customers. And it doesn’t involve just one breed. “Adding value is not a color or breed issue,” says John Josserand, Bob’s son and AzTx president, who oversees most of the feeding operations and value-added ventures. “There are good carcasses in every breed, and in every calf crop. You just have to determine which genetics are producing them.” Bob sees the increase in national cattle numbers continuing, as producers refurbish their herds. Good rainfall over much

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of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico the past few years has brought grasses back to life after the dreaded drought a few years ago. He sees U.S. cattle numbers increasing. Bob and his wife, Nancy, are usually seen at major state and national beef conventions and other events. As a former president of the then National Cattlemen’s Association, Bob remains heavily involved in policy which impacts beef producers and feeders. He was excited about the 2014 passage of the $1 per head Texas Beef Checkoff. This program is in addition to the national Beef Checkoff. It is providing the Texas industry with more funds used for the promotion, marketing, research and educational efforts of beef and beef products for prospective consumers of Texas beef around the world. The measure passed soundly, 67 percent to 33 percent. But Bob would like to have seen a more favorable vote. “I’m happy it passed due to a focused campaign by people knowledgeable enough to know the good it would do,” he says. He adds, however, that producers who voted against the state checkoff will still reap its benefits. “People who vote against the checkoff, I call them cave people, those who don’t want change,” he says. While checkoffs are needed for beef promotion and research, consumer education on beef safety and quality is a must. So is the truth about animal welfare. Groups like Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, NCBA and other state and regional associations help provide money and manpower to offset the continued anti-beef, anti-agriculture onslaught by the federal government, animal activists and others. “What the EPA has tried to do with water rights and private property rights is ridiculous,” Bob says. “Every time I stop to think about it I get mad. In order to be effective in fighting against bad regulatory proposals in Washington, D.C., we need a broad spectrum of industry leaders from various states. No one state can do what NCBA can do. We must support NCBA’s efforts in

Washington.” Water has always been a major issue across the High Plains. In Hereford, water sources were running low when Bob was elected mayor. “I immediately went to New York City with a plan to sell municipal bonds for our community,” he says. “The plan helped us drill new wells and expand water storage facilities to meet our water needs.” Bob has always been encouraged about the tremendous support Hereford business and community leaders have provided the city. It has helped expand public education, and even resulted in establishment of a Hereford campus for Amarillo College, one of the state’s leading junior college systems. “It started when I received a call from the late Teel Bivins, who suggested I get together with Amarillo College,” he says. Bob then received a call from Doug Allen, an Amarillo financial consultant, who was acquainted with an Arizona man whose wife had recently passed away. She was a native of Hereford and he wanted to honor her with a major donation to the community. Bob arranged a meeting with

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lic school system may have been different from some schools in nearby Amarillo or Canyon. “However, we have seen major improvements in our schools,” Bob says. “If kids want to learn, everything is available to the them. We’re as good as Amarillo or Canyon schools.” Bob may wear boots and a cowboy hat, but he and Nancy have long been supporters of the arts. The received the coveted 2013 Golden Nail Summit Award from the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. It’s the chamber’s most prestigious arts award, recognizing people who have given to the fine arts for years and years. Bob is on the board of trustees at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. Nancy is past president of that board. “Hereford has been blessed. We have had many leaders who were committed to making this city and the agricultural community grow,” Bob says. “They include J.W. Witherspoon, Henry Sears and many others. I’m honored to have been associated with these men and their vision for cattle feeding and Hereford.”

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ocated in Amarillo, Texas, the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) is the world’s largest equine breed registry and membership organization, representing over 250,000 members worldwide. Through the Association, horse owners can maintain registrations, participate in a variety of levels and types of shows, and find help on numerous horse-related issues and questions. The Association also has an active youth component for young riders, and through the American Quarter Horse Foundation, operates the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum. For AQHA President Ralph Seekins, improving communication between members and the Association is a top priority. In a recent article, he emphasized the importance of members and their input, as well as the executive committee’s efforts to increase transparency and involvement with members. “The AQHA is a member-driven organization, therefore my goals during my term as president are not to focus on my own priorities. Instead, it is my goal to work with the members and focus on our members’ priorities.” In addition to maintaining the blog

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started by former president Sandy Arledge, Seekins emphasized his willingness to work with and assist members. “I want people to know that I am here to answer any questions or help with any concerns you have. I hope all of our members feel the same way about promoting our horse and AQHA both inside and outside of the equine industry. The Executive Committee and AQHA staff encourage you to be our eyes and ears and report back about what you are seeing and hearing.” To help get a better handle on members’ satisfaction with the AQHA and its programs, the Association conducted a gap analysis – a study to determine the difference between what members want and how satisfied they are with what the Association is doing in that area in late 2015. The results showed that four of the biggest gaps among members were: ensuring the availability organized competition for exhibitors of all financial needs and skill levels; ensuring high standards and consistency in creating and enforcing AQHA rules and regulations; ensuring a level playing field for all exhibitors in AQHA competition and ensuring increased opportunities for recognition and rewards

for those investing their time and money in formal AQHA competition. With those results in mind, he challenged members to work together to enhance the AQHA. “Your individual commitment is what makes our team work. To improve as an association, it is important to remember how our members view AQHA and to work together to improve that perception,” Seekins said. The Association is positive about the future, working to listen to its’ members better, and judges are better trained than ever, but there is always room for improvement. The role of the membership is vital to strengthening the Association, he continued. “This is your organization. You own it. My challenge to our board of directors, committee members, committee chairs and members is to re-strengthen as a team and be more involved in the Association. With your help, we can rebuild the trust in the eyes of the more than 250,000 members across the globe. Remember that you’re the owners of this Association. Help us make AQHA better.” Seekins, Fairbanks, Alaska, has been an AQHA director since 2006 for Washington/Alaska and was elevated to director emeritus in 2016. He has served on the AQHA Marketing and Membership Committee, the Foundation Council and the AQHA Public Policy Committee. The family bought their first American Quarter Horses in 1995 at the urging of his daughters, have been very successful training and showing horses, earning nine AQHA Champion titles, three AQHA Supreme Champion titles and two versatility awards. The family also uses their horses in the Helping Hooves therapeutic riding program for riders with disabilities. –By Callie Gnatkowski Gibson Source: AQHA

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Austin Hager

ustin Hager is a 36-year-old 4th generation rancher at Karlsruhe, ND. He started his venture into the cattle business when he was seven years old. “My dad bought each one of us kids a bottle calf and a weanling colt; that was our start in ranching, so we could learn about responsibility and chores,” he says. “My bottle calf and colt were my beginnings. Dad bought the milk replacer and feed for our calves but we had to take care of them and that built a work ethic. This gave me the incentive to be in the cow business. My steer brought nearly $1200 when I sold it and that was a lot of money back then. Three little kids — my brother, sister, and myself — brought three big steers into the sale barn and the guy who owned the sale barn bought them.” Hager used that money to buy two heifer calves. “I also rode a lot of colts when

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I was young. When that first colt my dad bought for me was 2 ½ years old I broke him, rode him a year, and sold him as a 3-yearold. I made enough money from him to buy two weanling colts the next fall. I just kept doing that. Every time I bought a couple I’d sell them after I’d ridden them a year or two,” he says. Whenever he made a little extra money he’d buy more heifers. “At first it was commercial Angus. Then in the late 1980s I started in the purebred business, when I was 12. My dad had been breeding some of our commercial cows to Charolais bulls but switched to Limousin bulls in 1989. I was only about eight or nine when he got his first Limousin bulls, but I really liked them. I liked how much mass they had, and their longevity,” says Hager.

“When my dad started switching out the Charolais bulls and running Limousin bulls, I figured if he was going to be buying bulls, he could just as well buy them from me! I opened a checking account and took out a loan in 1992 for $2400. That’s how I got started in the registered business when I was still a kid,” he says. He raised bulls for his dad, then after he got his cow numbers built up he had a few more bulls to sell, and sold them

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body and capacity, and do-ability. This is why we’ve gone to the composite, because the females are so much better than straight bred cattle. About 75 percent of our commercial herd today are Lim/Flex cows and we run Lim/Flex bulls on them to keep the mix the same,” he explains. The Lim/Flex is between 3/8 to 5/8 Angus and 3/8 to 5/8 Limousin. “One thing we’ve noticed on the commercial females is that our half-blood cows will raise as big or bigger calf than our commercial straight-bred Angus cows did. But the main reason we like the half-bloods so much better is their longevity. On average we get two years’ more production from them. Before, we used to sort off all of our 10-year-old cows, keep them home in the fall and feed them after we pull the calves off, and sell them. Now we run all our cows until they are 12 years old before we do that. Getting two years’ more production is a big factor,” he says. “And when we sell those cows, having some Limousin in them, they bring more money because they have more red meat yield. There’s more to them and they always bring a little more than straight Angus. Those are some of the benefits on the half-blood cows on the commercial side,” Hager says. He has always been active in helping promote good cattle, and served several years on the board of the National American Limousin Foundation (NALF), and is also a member of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Seedstock Council. He and Leah run about 765 cows, on 8000 acres. Winters are long and hard, and they put up about 4000 bales of hay per year and 3500 tons of corn silage for winter feed. Their four children are a big help. Bailee, their oldest daughter, is 11, son Pitch is 9, son Tripp is 6, and Remmi is their 3-year-old daughter. “They are already good help. The kids also rodeo and ride about five days a week. They are out there every day on their horses helping when we are calving, branding sorting and AI the cows,” he says. “We don’t raise any horses anymore. We bought a couple kids’ horses for the kids to start on, since our ranch horses had a little too much ‘go’ for the little kids. Now the kids are stepping up to the ‘in between’ horses. We have four horses that are getting old — age 23 to 30 — that the kids started out on. A couple of those old horses are out to pasture and haven’t been ridden for a couple of years.” They’ve earned their retirement! –By Heather Smith Thomas

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att and Adam Duckett grew up on a commercial cow-calf ranch near Jordan Valley, Oregon in Owyhee County (in the southwestern corner of Idaho) on South Mountain. They both went to college and worked at jobs outside of agriculture after graduating. Then in 2007 they decided they wanted their families and children to have the same opportunities and experiences that they enjoyed as kids growing up on a ranch. “We had an opportunity to get back into production agriculture full time and that’s when we started our company, which we called South Mountain Land and Livestock,” says Matt. They named it after the area where they grew up — steep, rugged country, with cold winters and a lot of snow. Today their cows are wintered in lower country along the Snake River near Melba, Idaho, and summered on pasture near Cascade and Donnelly, Idaho. The company brand is D/4 and the ranch logo consists of their name — South Mountain Ranch--with the outline of mountains above it. Matt had already purchased some registered cows in 2005. “In 2007 Adam and I started acquiring more registered cows from some of the premier purebred operations in the western United States. Our focus/objective in raising cattle was, is and will continue to be to raise cattle that we think will work and function in the high desert environment. We grew up in that kind of an environment on a commercial outfit so we have some understanding of what kind of cattle will work in that environment,” he says. “In our program, ¾ of our cow herd is Angus and ¼ is Hereford. In addition to our purebred operation we also farm in Canyon and Owyhee counties. We raise forage crops, row crops and some seed crops.” They also do some custom haying and straw baling for neighboring ranchers. In 2014 they put in a backgrounding lot on one their places near Melba and started backgrounding calves. “This is a great area for feeding cattle because our climate is so mild and dry. We have great access to the

feedstuffs we grow and we can feed cattle fairly reasonably,” says Matt. Their feed yard backgrounds cattle for some of the best cattle feeders in the Northwest. “Our long-term objective is to use this feed yard to feed some of our customers’ calves and gather data on how these calves perform in the feedlot. We will use that information to help us continue to improve our genetic selection,” he says. For the breeding program, Matt feels balance is very important. “We are not interested in chasing single traits. In our bull sale catalog each year we emphasize that we are focused on maternal, growth, carcass, disposition and calving ease. All of these traits are important but they all have to be in balance,” he says. The breeding program includes AI and some ET, using proven leading sires — to produce cattle that excel on the ranch, in the feedlot and on the rail. People often ask him how he goes about selecting a sire to use in their breeding program. “We look very hard at each potential sire. These bulls will be the future genetics for our customers and we want to be able to provide the genetics they need — to be competitive and profitable in the future,” he says. “In the forefront of my mind, too, is that the genetics we select will be our future females — our bull-making factories. The daughters we put back into our herd are so important. The number one criteria when evaluating sires is whether we will be happy with that bull’s daughters when they go into our herd. If a bull doesn’t pass that test we don’t need to look at him any farther,” Matt explains. This is a family operation. “Adam and I started our operation from scratch. This year will be our 9th season selling bulls. Our bull sale is always on the second Tuesday in February, and is held at the ranch near Melba. Many of the bulls we sell today are going to the same customers who were buying them nine years ago. We continue to build on those relationships,” Matt says. “It is important to us that the bulls per2017 Fall Marketing Edition

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our bull sale we have donated a registered Angus heifer, and auctioned her off to raise money for the Idaho Cattle Association and Owyhee Cattlemen’s Association. We’ve also gone to businesses that sell products to ranchers and farmers and asked them to make donations or to buy the heifer and roll her over (sell her again and again) to raise more money. In the past three years we’ve raised about $40,000 for the Owyhee 68 litigation (The Fight to Save the West), which has to do with some grazing permits in that county. We asked that the proceeds be used for that purpose. We don’t have federal grazing permits ourselves, so those grazing issues don’t directly impact us, but these are important issues for our friends and neighbors. This impacts many of our customers,” he says. Their families are part of the team effort. Matt & his wife Pyper have four children: son Kaden (15), daughter Hallye (12), daughter Jayda (8) & youngest son Tanner (age 5). Adam & his wife Stephanie have three children: daughter Bren (13), son Jack (11) & son Troy (8 years old). The kids enjoy the ranch and helping with the cattle, farming and other chores. “The kids help with all aspects of the operation. They are involved with the cattle, and the farming,” says Matt. Adam and his family live at one of their ranches south of Marsing, near Melba, Idaho, along the Snake River. Matt and his family live on the Canyon County side of the river. “We are pretty spread out, and farm some ground in Canyon County, so it helps to have Adam and I close to various parts of the operation,” he says. Matt oversees all aspects of the purebred operation, genetic selection, and business operations. Adam handles the farming side and works with the feedlot and backgrounding the calves. Their wives help with the bull sale, running for parts, office work — and wherever they are needed. The ranch also has some full time employees who have been with this company since its beginning. It helps to have a good team! –By Heather Smith Thomas

Dale Micheli

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his historic ranch near Fort Bridger, Wyoming now has six generations that have lived here since it was homesteaded in 1901 by the Micheli family. They came to southwest Wyoming looking for a place to settle, and lived briefly in Kemmerer, where Ron and Dale’s great-grandfather worked in the coal mines. After his entire crew was killed in an underground disaster — and his life spared only because he was home sick that day — his wife decided they needed to change occupations. The young family made a trip to the Bridger Valley, created a homestead, and this was the start of the Micheli Ranch. The going was tough at first, eking out a living raising potatoes, vegetables, beef and milk to sell to families in the mining camps. Dale Micheli has been on the ranch all his life, and says his grandfather Joseph started the registered Hereford business in 1917 to upgrade the beef quality of Longhorns and other cattle in that area during the early 1900s. He originally tried to order some polled Herefords, in 1915, but never got those cattle, and lost his money. A couple years later he managed to obtain some horned Herefords. “We’ve had Herefords ever since,” says Dale. “We have some registered Angus now also, and run about 160 cows of each

breed. We also have a commercial herd of 300 Angus and Hereford and crossbred cows. We go back and forth between breeds with the commercial cattle because black baldies are hard to beat.” The commercial cattle are a good “reality check” regarding directions to go with the purebreds. Cattle here must be hardy and efficient. This region is mainly high desert, and mountains — elevation about 7000 feet — averaging about 11 inches of moisture each year, mostly in the form of snow. Ron and Dale run the ranch, with their children. “We both have large families, and many grandchildren. Ron has eight kids and I have six, and most of them are involved in the ranch. Ron’s son Tony is full time with us. My son Kyle lives on the ranch, too,” says Dale. Some of the grandkids are old enough now to help. “Ron’s wife Patty rides a lot to take care of the cattle. My wife is involved with the ranch but is also teaching kindergarten at the local school,” he says. The ranch has been a wonderful place to raise their families, with multiple generations. The cousins grew up just across the yard from one another and are best friends. THE CATTLE – “I have always loved my Herefords, served on the national Hereford board and was chairman of the

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Certified Hereford Beef committee for several years. I have a lot of passion for this breed,” says Dale. Hereford cattle are hardy and efficient and do very well in rugged range country. “We breed to the best bulls we can, in our AI program, and spend a lot of money on herd bulls,” he says. Efforts are continually made to keep improving the cattle, studying all the EPDs, carcass data and striving for a balance in all desired traits. In recent years the ranch added Angus because many of their bull customers want Angus. “We have a lot of problems at this elevation with brisket disease in the Angus cattle, and we PAP test. This is the biggest issue we have with Angus. They are much more prone to that than the Herefords, and for my Angus bull buyers that’s the number one issue. We cater to that and only keep bulls with low PAP scores,” says Dale. “For awhile we PAP-tested all the bulls but then decided there was no need to PAP the Herefords because they are always low. We felt it wasn’t worth the expense, on them. PAP testing the Angus bulls is essential, however, because almost everyone has gone black, and have gotten into trouble with brisket disease. Crossbreds are a little better, and crossing back to Herefords certainly helps,” says Dale. “Many ranchers in this area run cattle at high elevation, and a lot of our customers are higher than we are. They’ve lost calves to brisket disease and some of them have gone to Hereford bulls. But some of them won’t. Our biggest market has been the Angus cattle, but the Hereford cattle are doing well for us,” he says. The rangeland between their ranch and Evanston is checkerboard ownership — a mix of private and public. Summer pastures go up to about 7000 feet. “It’s high desert but pretty good summer grass country, and cool. We do a lot of riding to keep track of the cattle,” says Dale. Years ago the ranch raised a lot of good horses. “My grandfather’s brother Frank raised Arabs. They have a lot of endurance for riding all day in the mountains, and that’s why Frank liked them. We have to cover a lot of distance, and those horses really travel well on our range. We don’t have much of those bloodlines here anymore,

but his passion was Arabs. My son has a Quarter Horse stud and several mares and is starting to breed horses.” The horses are a great sideline because they are necessary for taking care of the cattle on summer pastures. “Ron and Patty take care of the riding and I do the AI work in the purebreds. Ron does more of the commercial side. It takes all of us, as a team effort,” Dale says. “The cattle perform pretty well in the summer on the high desert, but it’s too

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cold in winter. We get a lot of wind and the snow on the lower meadows clears off pretty well, so the cattle are able to graze during most of the winter,” Dale says. The ranch puts up hay for the winter days when forage is snow-covered. Alfalfa is grown under a center pivot but the rest is native grass hay. On good years the range forage is excellent. The ranch has an aggressive AI program with the purebreds. “Those cows start calving in February. The commercial herd starts in April, and calve through June, hopefully with better weather by then. Sometimes February is the best month to calve, but I can’t calve very many that early because I have to put them in the barn. That’s why I just calve the AI cows early because I know when they will calve,” says Dale. He AIs about 150 older cows each year, and 130 heifers. Dale does all the AI himself. “I told my son and Tony that they need to go to school and learn to do this. There are some tasks we want to pass on to the younger generation,” he says. The Micheli family goal is to produce

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bulls that work well for their customers. “People have been loyal to us over the years and we try to provide the cattle they want. Our annual sale is always the 4th Wednesday in October. We had our 27th sale last year, here at the ranch. Before that, we sold bulls at a couple consignment sales and by private treaty, then started our own sale. We sell about 40 Angus bulls and 40 Herefords, coming two-year-olds. I would love to sell younger bulls, but our customers want us to grow them up a little more,” Dale says. The bull sale is a family affair, and the highlight of the year, as they all work together to make it a great occasion. “We also do a little showing at the Wyoming fair and at Reno and Denver. We don’t do much showing — just enough to keep us knowing where we are at, compared to other breeders,” he says. The kids all did some showing, growing up, and it was a family affair showing 4-H steers and FFA steers at the county fair. Now they show mostly in the open breeding shows at the state fairs. –By Heather Smith Thomas

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his innovative and forward-thinking auction market in Southern California (15 miles north of Bakersfield, near McFarland at Famoso) has been in business for many decades. Col. Harry Hardy purchased the auction yard from the previous owners in 1966, and with his son H. Skinner Hardy started the current livestock auction. Their annual all-breed bull sale started in 1966. This sale was the first to grade bulls to establish a sale order, and sell them on their merits. A group of 20 local cattlemen served as a grading committee to score the bulls, using the California Beef Cattle Improvement Association grading system established by UC-Davis. Guidelines for scoring and grading were based on muscling, capacity, balance and structural correctness. Bulls were sifted for soundness before being introduced to the grading committee, and any bulls removed for soundness issues could not be sold in the bull sale. They were, however, offered for sale through the ring afterward as sifts. Over the years, consignments grew to several hundred head and by the late 1970s there was no longer time to sell the sifted bulls at the end of the sale. Consigners of those bulls were allowed to hold them at the yard and sell them later, in the regular Monday sale. Col. Bill Lefty began auctioneering alongside Col. Harry Hardy in the late 1960s. Lefty was instrumental in bringing consignments of several continental breeds like Charolais and Simmental, inviting breeders to bring their bulls. During the 1970s many breeds were represented, including Brahman, Brangus, Santa Gertrudis and other “eared” breeds in addition to the British and Continental breeds. From 1975 to 1985 the Famoso Bull Sale had the largest offering of Brangus bulls west of the Rocky Mountains. Col. Bill Lefty worked the bull sale for more than 20 years, until Skinner Hardy sold the auction to Jim Pennington and Dave Thompson in 1991 and they continued the Famoso All-Breed Bull Sale. Skinner Hardy helped with the bull sale until 2006 (41st annual sale), when he retired

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after 40 years of merchandizing livestock. Pennington bought out Thompson’s interest, and he and his wife Amy hosted the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship at their sale facility in 2000. Col. Max Olvera (Turlock, California) took the championship title that year. The Mebane family bought the auction market in December 2002 from Jim Pennington. Dwight and Helen Mebane and their six children take pride in their family business that has continued to grow. Their

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two sons, Justin (age 33) and Bennet (29) manage the yard full time. This market has a regular cattle sale every Monday. About seven years ago they added a monthly sale for sheep, goats and pigs, held the first Thursday of every month. “We also have a few special bred cow sales during the year,” says Justin. “We sell pairs, bred cows and all of them are preg-checked, mouthed, and merchan-

dized in groups by our staff here at the yard,” he says. This is the 52nd year for the prestigious Famoso bull sale. “This was the first allbreed bull sale in the West. When it started, all the sales were breeder sales. You went to a certain sale to buy Herefords, or Brangus, or Angus. This was one of the first places to bring all the breeds together,” says Justin. The 50th sale in 2015 offered Angus, Hereford, Red Angus, Brangus, Gelbvieh, Balancer, Charolais and composite bulls from reputable breeders in California and Utah. The all-breed sale has been very successful. “One of the unique things is that we still invite local ranchers/customers to come in ahead of the sale and grade the bulls. They assess the bulls as they go through the ring one at a time. The panel of ranchers grades the bulls, and we use that system to create our sale order,” he explains. A sifting committee still goes through all the bulls, to make sure all of them are acceptable. “One of the members on our committee is Dr. Jerry Woody, a veterinarian who has been working with our auction yard a long time. He looks at the bulls, evaluates structure, and sifts them for anything that would be a problem or concern.” says Justin. “On our special sales we always try to find additional things that complement the sale, like selling females the morning of the bull sale,” says Justin. Some females are registered but most of them are just good commercial females that a rancher might be looking for as replacements or to increase the cow herd. A female sale might include everything from young open heifers and bred heifers to bred cows and pairs. “A few years ago we started having a farm equipment sale in conjunction with the annual all-breed bull sale. This has been well received. We sell equipment the morning of the sale, at 9 a.m. Following that auction, at 10 a.m. we have the female sale, and then in the afternoon, starting at 1 p.m. we sell the bulls. This has been a good addition to our bull sale because many customers come ahead of

the bull sale to buy or sell equipment, or to buy cows or heifers at the female sale,” he explains. The Mebane family has always been involved with cattle. “My parents have ranched in Kern County for many decades. Dad started as a supplement feed salesman and has always been in the cattle business as a rancher. When I was a kid, my five siblings and I worked on the ranch and Dad was traveling around trading cattle. He’s been involved in nearly every aspect of the cattle business,” Justin says. Justin went to auctioneer school in 2003 in Bakersfield. “It’s called the World Champion School of Auctioneering, with Jim Pennington and Max Olvera. I thought it was neat that the guy we got our auction market from was one of the guys who taught me.” Justin was 2007 Rookie of the Year at the International Livestock Auctioneer Championships in Calgary, Alberta, and has qualified as a semi-finalist for the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship each year since 2013. Justin represents California as one of 31 contestants who must qualify to compete at this event.

Justin and his wife Jennifer have two young children — son Cash and daughter Haley — so they have another generation coming on. The family works together as a team. His father Dwight does the sale order, and his mother Helen does all the books, runs the office and helps yard the cattle. His brother Bennet also works at the auction. “We are lucky to also have a good staff that is very knowledgeable about cattle,” Justin says. They have good help in the yard and the office. Carol Levitz has been clerk since 1974. “We promote our sales and cattle offerings as much as we can. I personally go out and merchandise throughout the week and also on sale day. I go out on horseback and help the crew put together groups/ merchandize cows in the mornings, and help merchandize stockers in the afternoon whenever I am not selling. I am the main auctioneer for the sales,” he says. His brother Bennet helps with the auctioneering. The Idle Spur Café at the auction yard provides a handy place for staff and customers to eat and customers to socialize.

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eveloping young leaders to fill in the footsteps of past generations is key to the future of the livestock industry. Terri Barber, Corrales, New Mexico, is a good example of a young rancher and ag professional stepping up to accept the leadership of a significant entity in the beef cattle community, the American Hereford Association (AHA). Barber is finishing her term as president of the AHA. She’s a member of the Barber Hereford ranching family from Channing, Texas and is a professional with Elanco Animal Health. She is also a past staff member of a beef cattle breed association and served a stint with the Texas Department of Agriculture. In today’s fast-paced world with instant communication demanding instant response, it is hard for young people to fit association involvement into job and life demands. Barber juggles the demands of being president of AHA with the demands of her work at Elanco, while still being a part of the Barber Ranch operation. This seems to be a daunting task. Being a member of the 12-member AHA board is a four-year commitment, Barber explains. “I ran for the board in 2013. Three directors go off each year and three new ones come on. The directors represent four regions. I represent the Southwest region, which extends to California.” Having worked for a beef breed association early in her career, Barber says “I have a little more empathy for the AHA staff members. I think we have handsdown one of the most talented staffs of any breed association, I would say worldwide.” Fitting a significant volunteer obligation into a full-time job required her to increase the efficiency of how she uses her time. “I’ve changed jobs within Elanco,” she explains. “I was on the food animal side of our animal health company and now I’m on the companion animal side. I pioneered a territory in New Mexico as a result of Elanco acquiring Novartis a few

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years ago. It gave me an opportunity to learn a completely different business side of our animal health world. The busier I’ve gotten, the more efficient I have become. Like anything else, you prioritize what you have to get done in your day-to-day goals and then you work around schedules.” And you delegate, she says. “Other people fill in where you can’t,” she says, referring to the support the AHA staff provides its leaders. “It’s amazing how much you can get done when you’ve got a lot of balls in the air.” The conversation about Barber running for the AHA board started in 2011 when the AHA president at the time approached

Terri Barber

her parents about serving on the board. Barber says her parents directed the attention to her, saying it was time for the next generation to lead. “My advice to young cattle raisers is to not procrastinate and think too long about doing something. The earlier and the faster you jump in, the more you’re going to learn. You’ll be more well-rounded and sought-after for anything that comes along later in life. You can’t sit back and expect doors to open automatically because that’s not the way of the world,” she says. When it comes to the business of ranching, Barber suggests something she wishes she could do more of herself — personally connect with the client.

“Ranchers absolutely need to get to know their customers and what drives those customers to make a decision. We need to educate ourselves on how best to help that customer. I don’t think you can make too many personal connections with your customers,” she says. “If you want to keep a customer in this competitive environment, you have to be able to show him or her just what your cattle are going to do to help their bottom line. “Create opportunities for your clients like cooperative buy-back programs for the calves of the bulls you sell them. Help them market those calves. Anything that helps create demand for what they’re producing will ultimately help them as a producer,” she says. “If I could just do one thing all day, every day, it would be to reach out and provide customer service. Let your clients know that you’re thinking about them and that you really do care about their bottom line. That, ultimately, is going to drive your success in what you’re doing as a producer.” One area in which seedstock producers can help their clients is in interpreting what can seem like an overwhelming amount of genetic data available on cattle. The array of expected progeny differences, values and measurements can be daunting to a client who buys a bull every few years. “This is an area in which AHA, and we as purebred cattle providers, are trying to help educate our customers. We are working to educate folks on what information is important when making breeding decisions,” she explains. This puts the Hereford association, and any seedstock rancher who goes to this effort, “in a favorable light as a good resource,” she says. Barber can’t stress enough the importance of “keeping yourself educated. Go to events that TSCRA sponsors, the ranch gatherings, your board meetings, any type of event that can empower you as a producer and help you be a provider of knowledge. This is good for your customers. You will be seen as a solution and a resource, and not somebody just trying to sell them something. They’ll remember that.” –By Ellen H. Brisendine, The Cattleman Magazine

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to hear what the rural agricultural commuhe confidence that Representative nity wants and needs out of a Farm Bill. But first he had to climb the hurdle of Mike Conaway’s constituents in Midwest Texas have in him has never the budget desires or demands of fiscal been more stark than it was in the 2016 conservatives in his own party. Conaway General Election when he won his race found himself caught between the GOP’s for a seventh term in the U.S. House of internal divisions: Budget Chairman Diane Representatives by a whopping 79 per- Black, 6th District in Tennessee, who was cent. The confidence that his colleagues in fielding the demands of the Freedom CauCongress have in him is growing by leaps cus, a far-right flank of the Republican Party that relentlessly pushes for lowerand bounds. Conaway, a Republican who represents ing the deficit; and the Republican House Texas’ 11th Congressional District, is the leadership, who knew that deep cutbacks current Chairman of the U.S. House Com- would go nowhere in the Senate and mittee on Agriculture which puts him in would likely derail tax reform. It is believed that the House Ag Comcharge of the 2018 Farm Bill on the House side of Congress. He was instrumental mittee was facing around $70 billion in the passage of the 2008 and the 2014 in proposed cuts over the next decade. Farm Bills. In them his focus was largely Conaway’s intervention kept the reduction on strengthening the agricultural economy. to around $10 billion. Conaway persistently made the case The Farm Bill is an omnibus, multi-year law that governs an array of agricultural that slashing programs under his watch and food programs. Although agricul- would imperil the 2018 farm bill and, by tural policies sometimes are created and extension, farmers, rural constituents and changed by freestanding legislation or as low-income Americans struggling to make ends meet. part of other He also conmajor laws, sistently argued the Farm Bill that the slump in provides a the farm econopredictable my and the more opportunity than $100 billion for policymakin savings over a ers to compredecade that agrihensively and culture and nutriperiodically tion programs address agriare projected to cultural and contribute to fedfood issues. eral deficit reducThe farm bill tion should allow is renewed the Agriculture about every Committee to be five years but spared from addiin recent years tional cutbacks. has taken “This level of longer and savings is espelonger to procially impressive duce and get given the entire passed. Mike Conaway farm bill comChairman Conaway has set his sights on getting the prises just 1.7 percent of the total federFarm Bill back on a regular track, with the al budget, with support to farmers and goal of completing the 2018 bill by Sep- ranchers under the Commodity Title and tember 2018. To that end he has held sev- Crop Insurance constituting only 0.26 eral listening sessions around the country percent of the overall budget,” Conaway

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wrote. Conaway added that the current situation for farmers and ranchers justifies the agriculture committee developing a farm bill with the goal of addressing those woes, rather than how much money can be saved. He requested “no further budget reductions” and instead “budget flexibility.” The connection between the House budget process and the farm bill comes down to simple math. The Freedom Caucus views the budget process as a way to force committee chairmen to sharply cut spending in areas under their jurisdiction. For House leadership, only after passing a budget can the GOP unlock the fast-tracking tool known as reconciliation, which allows it to pass tax reform with a simple majority — that is, without needing a single Democratic vote in the Senate. The problem with such an approach for ag lawmakers is that any farm bill does require Democratic support if there is any chance of it becoming law, in part because the Freedom Caucus tends to vote “no” en bloc. Thus, to win Democratic votes, gutting SNAP, mandating stringent work requirements for SNAP recipients or slashing crop insurance and conservation are non-starters. Farm leaders are acutely aware that lawmakers who know agriculture or have agriculture in their districts aren’t a strong enough force to pass a farm bill alone. In all, there are 35 primarily rural congressional districts, while there are 195 that are primarily urban. The Budget Committee in the spring had an initial goal to find some $500 billion in cuts to mandatory spending over the next decade. Black eventually pared back that figure to $200 billion to bring House leadership, the Freedom Caucus and defense hawks all on board, which then had to be divvied up among the 12 Appropriations subcommittees. In addition to all of this, Conaway is not without detractors whom he has remained silent on. “With the farm economy in one of the biggest slides since the Great Depression, the chairman has been advocating for a budget that won’t exacerbate the conditions of our farmers and ranchers in rural America and that won’t impede development of the next farm bill,” said Rachel Millard, a spokeswoman for the Ag Committee. While all of this seems to be enough to keep a guy busy, Conaway shouldered an even greater load presiding over the U.S.

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House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russia’s meddling with the 2016 president election. He is the second-ranking member on the Committee, but Chairman Devin Nunes has stepped aside on this investigation. It is believed that Conaway’s direction will steer the probe away from the partisan terrain it has been focused on. Conaway has long sought to elevate the House above partisanship. In 2013, when he accepted the chairmanship of the House Ethics Committee, he told his hometown paper that his goal was to “improve the view the public has of the House and how it operates.” Prior to becoming Agriculture Committee Chairman, Conaway served as Chairman of the House Ethics Committee and held leadership roles as Chairman or Ranking Member of two Agriculture Subcommittees since the 111th Congress. In addition to his role as Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, he currently serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. An accountant by trade, Conaway, 68, grew up in Odessa and graduated from Odessa Permian High School in 1966 after playing on Permian’s first state championship football team. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Texas A & M University-Commerce in 1970. After serving in the Army at Fort Hood, he returned to the Permian Basin with Price Waterhouse and settled in Midland, later working with George W. Bush as the chief financial officer for Bush Exploration. He developed a lasting friendship with President Bush as they learned together what it takes to run a business. An ordained deacon in the Baptist church, Congressman Conaway and his wife, Suzanne, live in Midland and have four children and seven grandchildren. –By Caren Cowan Source: POLITICO

Roland Snure

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In his own words...

was born July 1, 1974 in Douglas, Arizona to a cattle ranching family that had been living and working in the area since before Arizona was a state. As a child, when a century seemed like an unimaginably long time, I was confident that the world and my place in it would be constant and secure. My great-grandparents had started our ranch as a homestead not long after Geronimo surrendered (and not far from the actual spot). My grandparents were still alive and ranching. My parents were ranchers. Most of our friends and neighbors were ranchers and, just like ours, their families had been in the business for a hundred years or more. I realize now that it was the ideal childhood. There were multiple generations living and working together, outdoors, beholden to no one, with a tangible product at the end of the effort. It all felt very permanent. I imagine Geronimo felt the same way when he was young. As I grew up, life definitely gave me an education about the impermanence of all things. Nature, human frailty, age, illness, death and random chance all played a part in guiding me down a path that, looking back, I never could have imagined I would choose. I was always a good student and a hard worker and at the age of 31, I found myself practicing general surgery in Silver City, New Mexico. By that time, my grandparents and my father were gone and the ranch was in trouble and eventually it was all sold. My attitude then was that it was for the best. I thought I had made a good bargain trading a life of heat, drought, wind and dust for a cool, clean quiet operating room and a ton of money. Life, however, would continue my education. After eight years, my surgical career began to wear on me. I liked practicing general surgery, but navigating “healthcare” was becoming more and more of a burden. Over time, the work became less and less gratifying and it had completely taken over my life. Then a contemporary

of mine, a former medical school classmate, was diagnosed with and very soon thereafter died of pancreatic cancer. My eyes were opened. I realized that anything could happen to anyone at anytime and I had spent the last 20 years working towards and worrying about a future that in reality, I had no control over. So I decided to make a change. I sold everything and moved to New Zealand. I only had one skill, general surgery, but luckily there is a need for it in the rural and remote parts of New Zealand. I took a job at a public hospital in a small town on the east coast of the North Island called Gisborne. “Amazing” is a word that is overused these days. Nevertheless, I had an amazing experience. The country itself is the most beautiful place I have ever been. Coming from the desert, I never imagined that a place could exist with so much water and green grass. The people were some of the best I’ve encountered. They were, real, down to earth, no nonsense, salt-of-the-earth types and I made some deep and lasting friendships. Above all, life there was far more relaxed and I was able to decompress a little. It was then that I started to get a little more interested in painting. I have always enjoyed making things with my hands, which is probably why I was drawn to surgery. I enjoyed drawing when I was a child and when I got older, I dabbled in making furniture with reclaimed wood and other materials from the ranch. However, I have never had any formal training, so I guess that makes me “self taught.” After a year or so in New Zealand, despite its beauty and wonderful people, I began to feel homesick for southern Arizona. The reason why New Zealand is so green and wet is because it rains. A lot. Being used to 300 days of sunshine a year, the rain did have an effect on me. So I used art to reconnect with home and since it can be hard to find brightly colored, festive, Dia de los Muertos pieces that far away from Mexico, I made my own. A couple of friends saw what I had made and admired it, so I made a couple of pieces for them. From those experiences, I discovered that I really enjoyed it, despite the lack of training, and decided to continue experimenting and flexing my atrophied artistic muscles. After three years, the pull of the des2017 Fall Marketing Edition

ert sun had become a lot stronger. At that time, a very appealing general surgery job became available in Bisbee, Arizona. I applied for it and was hired. The move

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back has proven to be a good decision. I have reconnected with old friends and family and have reestablished my connection with the Southwest. I have continued to work on my art and have been encouraged by friends (overly kind ones, I suspect) to try and take it farther. Having been away, I have a much

greater appreciation for the beauty of the land and culture of the US/Mexico border, which I hope is apparent in my work. There is no denying that this is a troubled region. Cochise County, where I grew up and now work, is in an economic downward spiral. The situation with the Mexican border is uncertain. Fear and anger abound. Circumstances have undeniably changed since I was a child and that is probably why my subject matter tends reflect the nostalgia for better times. But my preference for bold color and distinct lines perhaps expresses an underlying optimism that I believe exists here. It’s a belief that in the end things will turn out as they should. It is difficult to write about one’s own art without feeling self-conscious. I don’t want to come across as a poser or a pretentious twit, but that horse is probably out of the barn. What is true is I paint what comes to my mind, although nothing ever ends up as I imagine. Often it’s disappointing, but occasionally I’m pleasantly surprised. I always enjoy doing it and hopefully I can reach some of you who will enjoy it as well. Roland’s work can be found at www.barrartisto.com/the-artist

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he term “cattle rustling” evokes images of the Duke riding across the silver-screen, bringing desperadoes to justice. In Texas, Oklahoma and many other states, however, cattle theft remains a serious problem today. The special rangers with the Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) are on-call to fight it. Founded in 1877 in Graham, Texas, the TSCRA began using peace officers in 1893. Over a century later, the TSCRA Special Rangers have gained worldwide respect. They’ve been compared favorably to the Texas Rangers and Scotland Yard. With 29 rangers divided into six regions, these officers constitute an elite force with many responsibilities. The Special Rangers investigate approximately 1,000 agricultural crime cases and recover an average of $5 million in stolen cattle and assets for ranchers, annually. “We assist with investigations of livestock theft and property theft, such as farm and ranch equipment,” said Special Ranger Jimmy Dickson, supervisor of Region 6, which encompasses Anderson County, Texas. “Local law enforcement are usually the first responders, but they often call us to assist, because of our experience with agricultural cases.” Experience is a key element in ranger selection, said Dixon, a former Cherokee County, Texas sheriff who has been with TSCRA for more than 23 years. “Most of us are outpost officers; we operate alone,” Dixon said. “The calls come directly to the special ranger,” who are all seasoned investigators. In Texas, special rangers are commissioned by the Department of Public Safety; their Oklahoma counterparts are commissioned by the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation. All are funded by the TSCRA, a membership-supported organization. “We receive no state or federal grants,” Dixon said. TSCRA special rangers are stationed in districts in Texas and Oklahoma where they: • Investigate thefts of cattle, horses, saddles, trailers, equipment, and even poaching • Pursue white-collar criminals who commit agricultural fraud • Inspect livestock to determine owner-

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ship and prevent theft after a natural disaster such as wildfire, flood or hurricane • Determine the ownership of estray, or stray, livestock • Educate landowners on how to prevent theft and spoil the plans of thieves • Keep the peace Unlike their predecessors, modern Special Rangers have an array of hi-tech investigative tools, most notably the TSCRA database. Special Rangers supervise the association’s market inspectors, who annually process more than five million head of cattle at 100 Texas livestock markets. Complete descriptions of each animal, including age, sex, color, class, and horn, as well as ear marks and brands, are recorded in the database. The association also maintains a file of more than 100,000 recorded brands in Texas. Dixon told the Palestine Herald-Press that this database recently helped recover an animal stolen in Navarro County. The thieves were caught when the animal’s brand was retrieved from the TSCRA database during an attempted sale in Anderson County. “We work from multi-million dollar cases down to a single calf,” he said. Although investigations can prove challenging, each lasting weeks or even years, Dickson said ranchers can take steps to avoid becoming victims. Among them: • Always brand your livestock. It is a major deterrent to thieves. • Do not pen your livestock by the road, even if you are shipping them the next day. • Keep an accurate count of your livestock. • Mark all farm and ranch equipment, saddles, and vehicles with your driver’s license number, not your social security number. TSCRA’s Special Rangers have national and international reach. Reports on missing and stolen livestock and equipment are regularly distributed to TSCRA’s network of more than 700 law enforcement agencies. The TSCRA Special Rangers often cooperate with numerous agencies in the states

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surrounding their areas of responsibility to solve a single case. In another recent case that was resolved quickly and favorably, the Rangers located approximately $21,000 worth of junior livestock exhibitor’s show cattle. An East Texas family’s show heifer purchased in Wisconsin where they paid for its delivery to their home. They become concerned when the heifer didn’t show up and the man hauling her failed to return phone calls. After hearing of the situation, Special Ranger Larry Hand immediately initiated an investigation. He quickly learned through his fellow Special Rangers that it was not an isolated incident. In total, more than $21,000 in cattle were missing along with the man transporting them. Special Ranger Hand enlisted the assistance of the Texas Department of Public Safety, who used resources at their disposal to help locate the driver and cattle near Lindsay, Oklahoma. It was learned that the driver had become extremely ill near a local delivery point. The rancher at the delivery point received his cattle and unloaded the remainder for safe keeping while he got medical assistance for the driver. Hand then went about coordinating the delivery of the remaining cattle. All were safe and healthy, and were subsequently picked up from the Oklahoma rancher and received by their owners. Those who assisted Hand in clearing the case, included the Nebraska Brand Committee, Texas Department of Public Safety and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. In a case a few years back Special Rangers in the Panhandle of Texas assisted New Mexico’s Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc. apprehend an embezzler who is now serving time behind bars for his sticky fingers. With all of the work they do and have done for more than the past 120 years, the Special Rangers have an amazing safety record. Only four have fallen in the line of duty, most of them nearly a century ago. –By Caren Cowan Sources: Palestine Herald-Press & TSCRA

The Buyer’s Guide is a handy reference to Leading Auction Markets, Order Buyers, Feedlots, Livestock Breeders and Service Providers.

Buyers’ Guide If you would like to be included in next year’s guide, please call us at 505/243-9515.

Livestock 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

“Pot of Gold” Bull Sale, 26th annual bull sale, Feb. 23, 2018, Montrose, CO. Selling 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, 970/2491453 or Dave Bowman 970/323-6833, www. gelbviehbulls.net.

Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale, 670 Antelope Blvd., Ste. 3, Red Bluff, CA 96080, 530/527-2045. Jan. 24-28, 2017. www.redbluffbullsale.com

Wagonhammer Ranch, Club calves – the winning kind. Spring and fall born. Myron Benes, Albion, NE 68620, 402/395-2178 or 402/395-6962. Production sale 3rd Wednesday of March. Top quality females available at all times, Private treaty. www.wagonhammer.com

Weaver Ranch, Maxine, Mourine & Susan Weaver, 970/5683898, 3000 W. County Rd. 70, Ft. Collins, CO 80524. Annual Sale Feb. – bulls PAP tested; also selling a good choice of bred heifers. weaverrch@aol.com

ANGUS Aztec Angus, 2467 Arrowhead Trail, Gilbert, AZ 85297. Terry and Kathy Van Hilsen and sons, 480/963-6324. Cattle available year-round.

Felton Angus Ranch, 02 Felton Lane, Springdale, MT 59082. Richard 406/220-1176, Jim 406/220-1177, Maurice 406/764-2216. Production sale Monday, February 12 2018, broadcast live on Superior Livestock Service. Call for more information. www.feltonangus.com rkfelton@rangeweb.net 2017 Fall Marketing Edition

Gonsalves Ranch, 7601 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. 20, 2017, Oakdale Producers Livestock Market, Oakdale, CA. Angus & SimAngus breeding stock available year-round private treaty.

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

Jauer Dependable Genetics, 31059 Juniper Ave., Hinton, IA 51024, www.jauerangus.com. Roger 712/947-4357, Kurt 712/947-4338, doug@jauerangus.com Our program is committed to producing efficient Angus mama cows that are deep, thick and easy fleshing with minimal maintenance requirements.

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.

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.

Sunny Okanagan Angus Ranch, 103 Cherokee Rd., Omak, WA 98641, Craig Vejraska, 509/322-2780, sunnyokangus@ communitynet.org. Home of Payweight 1075. We strive to bring you Range Ready Bulls. www.sunnyokanaganangus.com

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, www.bowkranch.com, 970/3236833. “Pot of Gold” Gelbvieh, Angus & Balancer Bull Sale. Females private treaty. Over 30 years of AI breeding, emphasis on moderate size – calving ease – carcass.

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

Barzona Breeders Association of America, 604 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.

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

BEEFMASTER Casey Beefmasters, Watt Casey, Jr., Albany, TX, 325/668-1373, Watt50@sbcglobal.net, www.CaseyBeefmasters.com. Breeding high quality Beefmaster cattle since 1948. Inquiries invited, visitors welcome. Semen available. BBU. www.WattCaseyPhotography.com

L I V E S T O C K 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.

Isa Beefmasters, Lorenzo Lasater, 325/656-9126, San Angelo, TX. www.isabeefmasters.com lorenzo@isbeefmasters.com Performance Beefmaster Genetics. Bull Sale, Females, Semen & Embryos.

Dale Lasater Ranch, P.O. Box 38, Matheson, CO 80830. Alex Lasater 210/872-1117, www.lasaterranch.com, email: lasater@rmi.net. 66th Field Day & Sale Sept. 8-9, 2017. 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.

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.

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.

CHAROLAIS Broken Box Ranch, P.O. Box 760, Williams, CA 95987. Jerry & Sherry Maltby. 530/473-2830 or 530/681-5046, www.brokenboxranch.com. Quality Charolais. Bulls and breeding stock available year round. Rice straw available.

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. 33rd Annual Sale 1st Saturday in April 2018 . “Creating Greater Rancher Returns.”

Grau Ranch Since 1907. 3720 CRQ, Grady, NM 88120. Wesley Grau. 575/760-7304. Raising Charolais since 1965. Selling top quality bulls using selected genetics. Visit us at www.grauranch.com

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L I V E S T O C K V-A-L Charolais, 1041 Janeta Ave., Nyssa, OR 97913, Harlen and Kendalee Garner, ranch 541/372-5025; Harlen’s cell 208/573-4133. 100 white and red factor bulls offered each year the 3rd Tuesday in Feb. valcharolais@hotmail.com

CLUB CALVES Wagonhammer Ranches, Club calves – the winning kind. Spring and fall born. Myron Benes, Albion, NE 68620, 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 Association, P.O. Box 2698 Monument, CO 80132, 719/4259151, http://corriente.us. The Corriente Breed Registry preserving the: highly productive, inexpensive to care for, resourceful foragers that benefit the environment, Corriente cattle breed. Cattle for the sportsman, naturalist and health conscious beef industry. The Ropers and Bulldoggers Choice. Unspoiied by overdomestication.

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.

HEREFORDS 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.

Coleman Herefords, 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.

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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.

Harper Cattle, LLC., 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 16, 2017. P.O. Box 66, Kaycee, WY 82639, Mark & Cathy 307/738-2443, David & Heather 307/267-4491. Visit us at www.largentandsons.com.

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.

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.

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.

LIMOUSIN/BRAHMOUSIN 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

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.

RED ANGUS DWD Farms, Don Wright, 2645 WCR 23, Ft. Lupton, CO 80621, 303/659-8276. Commercial Simmental cross, Red Angus X Simmental; alfalfa hay, corn.

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 515/2290920, 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, 209/7273335. Red Angus “Cream of the Crop” Sale. Your source for proven, superior Red Angus genetics. www.mcpheeredangus.com

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

Southwest Red Angus Assn., P.O. Box 1380, Van Horn, TX 79855, Tim Head, President, (h) 432/283-1141, (c) 432/2849664, qgra@hughes.net. Live calves, dams with strong maternal traits.

Sutherlin Farms Red Angus, 415 Spooner Creek Lane, Stevensville, MT 59870, home 406/642-3487, cell 406/3691202. Sale date March 2018, 1:00 p.m. at the ranch. Selling over 100 Red Angus Bulls + SIMM X RA bulls; 150 home raised Red Angus commercial heifers.

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RED BRANGUS Southern Star Ranch, Michael H. & Claudia Sander, 2702 S. Westgate, Weslaco, TX 78596, 956/968-9650, office 956/968-4528, msander94@yahoo.com American Red Brangus bulls for sale.

SALERS 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.

SANTA GERTRUDIS Santa Gertrudis Breeders International, P.O. Box 1257, Kingsville, TX 78364, 361/5929357, www.santagertrudis.com. Breed association for Santa Gertrudis cattle.

Wendt Ranches Partners, 5475 FM 457, Bay City, TX 77414. Gene Kubecka 979/240-5311; Daniel Kubecka 979/240-5312, wendtranches@hotmail.com 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.

SENEPOL Senepol Cattle Breeders Assn., www.senepolcattle.com Email: info@ senepolcattle.com Facebook: SCBA Intl 1-910/444-0234 or 800/SENEPOL. The Senepol breed will give heat tolerance, gentle nature, tenderness, Hybrid vigor, calving ease, polled heads, udder quality and maternal efficiency to any breeding program or commercial operation.

SHORTHORN American Shorthorn Association, 7607 N. W. Prairie View Rd., Kansas City, MO 64151 www.shorthorn.org, office 816/599-7777. For further information check our website or email us at info@shorthorn.org

SIMMENTAL/SIMBRAH Pine Ridge Ranch, 9876 Plano Rd., Dallas, TX 75238. Bill & Jane Travis, ofc. 214/369-0990, eves. 214/348-1618, billtravis@bigplanet.com www.simbrah.com. “Hot Weather Cattle with a Quality Carcass.” High quality Simbrah breeding stock available private treaty year round.

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 303/7709292, 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 928/9254668. KJ Kasun 928/713-1169. Commercial cattle and registered Quarter Horses.

SHEEP American Hampshire Sheep Assoc., P.O. Box 231, Wamego, KS 66547, Jeff Ebert, Executive Secretary 785/456-8500. Hampshires work great as terminal sires for 4-H flocks or club lambs, as well as farm flocks. Join the breed that’s going places! asregistry@ gmail.com www.hampshires.org

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.

American Sheep Industry Assoc., Inc., 9785 Maroon Circle, Suite 360, Englewood, CO 80112, 303/771-3500, 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.

Fisher Texels, www.fishertexels.com, Gene & Niki Fisher, fishertexels@gmail.com. Contact 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: 479/444-8441, 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.

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

Feedlots 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.

Western Nevada Cattle Feeders, 2105 Meridian Rd., Lovelock, NV 89419, 775/273-7900, Rick Marvel, feedlot mgr., Melanie Hamilton, office mgr. Capacity 12,000 head. Full service feedlot. wncf@gbis.com

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River Ranch: Located in central Apache County, Arizona, northwest of St. Johns the property includes 1,280 deeded acres with 320 acres BLM grazing lease for 20 animal units yearlong. The Little Colorado River (locally ephemeral) is located along one mile of the deeded land. There is one livestock well on the property with a small set of corrals. This is a nice, private and secluded gentlemen’s ranch with good winter browse and spring season grasses. Price $675,000 Old Greer Place: St. Johns, Arizona. The ranch is located directly west of the town of St. Johns. US Highway 180 runs through the center of the ranch. Deeded land includes numerous live water springs and sub-irrigated meadow lands adjacent to the Big Hollow Wash. There is a total of 1,330 deeded acres with an additional 1,300 acres Arizona State Lease and the ranch will run approximately 35 animal units yearlong. Price $735,000 Hunt Valley Ranch: 12 miles Northwest of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 1,173 deeded acres with 320 additional acres of private lease for 23 animal units yearlong. The property includes an older cowboy house and paved frontage along US Highway 180. There is an irrigation well which provides water to a small orchard and a two acre improved pasture. This ranch is a nice rural home site with close proximity to the county seat in St. Johns. Price: $595,000 Alpine 85 Property: One of the finest properties in Alpine because of its beauty, and location near town while offering complete privacy. The property lies at 8,000 feet elevation and includes 85 deeded acres. With tremendous views overlooking the Bush Valley, San Francisco River and surrounding mountain tops the property backs up to national forest and includes paved access from US Highway 180/191. Public water and sewer access is available to the property boundary. Alpine is an authentic small western mountain town, a quiet getaway with spectacular scenery with easy driving distance to many fishing lakes and streams. The area is also located on the boundary between the famous hunting Units 1 & 27 known for large herds of elk and world-class 400+ point bulls. With the large ponderosa pine and beautiful oak trees scattering the property there is great potential for a private, secluded home-site in the pines or possibly development into smaller tracts. Price: $1,200,000 offers for a partial purchase will be considered.

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

WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease. Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road. Nice headquarters and good access to above rim. Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000

2 center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available. Owner financing available to qualified buyer. Significantly reduced to $550,000 MAXWELL FARM W/HOUSE, Colfax County 400 +/deeded acres with 101.2 water shares. Seller would consider split. $495,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres, 2 parcels, excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at end of private road. $489,000. House & 1 parcel $375,000

MIAMI 80 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 80 +/- deeded acres, 80 water shares, expansive views, house, shop, roping arena, barns and outbuildings. Reduced MIAMI HORSE TRAINING FACILITY, Colfax County, $485,000 NM. Ideal horse training facility, 4 bedroom 3 bathCOLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/room approx. 3,593 sq-ft home, 332.32 +/- deeded deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, acres, 208 shares of irrigation, all the facilities you 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with need to summer your cutting horse operation out of amazing 360 degree views. Reduced $425,000 the heat and far enough south to have somewhat mild winters. Approximately 6,200 ft elevation. $1,790,000 MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 20 +/- deeded acres, 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq ft adobe MIAMI HORSE HEAVEN, Colfax County, NM. Very home, barn, grounds and trees. Private setting. This is private approx. 4,800 sq-ft double walled adobe a must see. Reduced to $375,000 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with many custom features. 77.50 +/- deeded acres with 77.25 water FRENCH TRACT 80, Colfax County, NM irrigated farm shares, large 7-stall horse barn, large insulated metal with home and good outbuildings, $350,000 shop with own septic, large hay barn/equipment COLMOR PLACE, Mora County, NM 354 +/- deeded shed. $1,500,000 acres, I25 frontage, house, pens, expansive views. MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. Ocate Creek runs through property. $275,000 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares,

• 100 acres, Kaufman County TX, Long County Rd frontage, city water, excellent grass. $3750 per acre. • 240 acres, Recreation, hunting and fishing. Nice apartment, 25 miles from Dallas Court House. $3250 per acre. • 270 acre, Mitchell County, Texas ranch. Investors dream; excellent cash flow. Rock formation being crushed and sold; wind turbans, some minerals. Irrigation water developed, crop & cattle, modest improvements. Just off I-20. Price reduced to $1.6 Million. • 40 acre, 2 homes, nice barn, corral, 30 miles out of Dallas. $415,000.

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FLORES CANYON RANCH – 3,290 acres located in the foothills of the Sacramento Mountains just 30 minutes from Ruidoso, NM. Access is gated and locked from U. S. Highway 70. Improvements include a sprawling 3 bedroom residence with an enclosed metal shop and equipment shed. Fantastic views of Sierra Blanca and the Capitan Mountain range. Sale to include cattle and equipment. For more information give is a call for a color brochure. Price: $3,000,000.00. DOUBLE L RANCH - Central NM, 10 miles west of Carrizozo, NM. 12,000 total acres; 175 AUYL, BLM Section 3 grazing permit; Water provided by 3 wells and buried pipeline. Improvements include house and pens. Price: $1,500,000.00. JACKSON RANCH - Southeastern NM cattle ranch 40 miles northwest of Roswell, NM on the Chaves/Lincoln County line. Good grass ranch with gently rolling grass covered hills. 8,000 total acres, 200 AUYL grazing capacity. Partitioned into four pastures watered by 2 wells with pipelines. Call for brochure. Price: $2,000,000.00. RHODES FARM – Southeastern NM on the Pecos River east of Hagerman. Comprised of 480 total acres with 144 irrigated acres. Unique private drain water rights. Call for a Brochure. Price Reduced: $1,000,000.00. L – X RANCH – Southeastern NM just ten minutes from Roswell, NM with paved gated and locked access. 3,761 total acres divided into several pastures and traps. Nice improvements to include a site built adobe residence. One well with extensive pipeline system. Well suited for a registered cattle operation. Price: $900,000.00. These are several of the ranch properties that we have had the good fortune to be able to get sold over the past couple of years. We are not flashy, but we can get the job done. We know ranch properties because we live the life. Let Bar M Real Estate represent you in the sale of your ranch.

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• NEW LISTING! 167 Acres, Cattle/Horses/Hunting Estate 5000 sq ft inspired Frank Lloyd Paul McGilliard Wright designed home. 3 bed, 2 1/2 baths, full w/o finished basement, John Deere room, bonus Cell: 417/839-5096 room. This estate is set up for intensive grazing, 3 wells, 3 springs, 4 ponds, automatic waters. 1-800/743-0336 Murney Assoc., Realtors Secluded, but easy access, only 22 miles east of Springfield, off Hwy 60. Springfield, MO 65804 MLS# 60081327 • NEW LISTING! 80 Acres - 60 Acres Hayable, Live Water, Location, Location! Only 8 miles west of Norwood, 3 miles east of Mansfield, 1/4 mile off Hwy 60. Well maintained 3 bed, 1 1/2 bath, 1432 sq. ft. brick/vinyl home, nestled under the trees. Full basement (partially finished), John Deere Room. This is your farm! MLS#60059808 • 139 ACRES - 7 AC stocked lake; hunting retreat. Beautiful 2BR, 1BA log cabin. Only 35+ miles northeast of Springfield. MLS#60031816 • HOBBY FARM Deluxe 30 acres, 3 bed, 3.5 bath, 3100 sq ft custom built, 1 owner home, Webster Co, Rogersville schools, 13 miles from Springfield. RV drive through barn, horse barn, large hip roof barn, kennel, & small animal barn, year-round spring-fed creek. This farm has it ALL! MLS#60043538

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RANCH PROPERTY BEAVER CREEK RANCH: 2,701 deeded acres plus adjoining out the gate USFS & BLM permits for 500 pair, about 540 acres irrigated hay. Pre-1914 water rights Beaver Creek and irrigation well. 3 homes, 6 hay barns, 4 easy winter feedlots and calving grounds, large reservoirs, can run 500-600 cows. This is a YEAR ROUND cattle ranch in the Fall River Valley, CA. The Fall River Valley is famous for its Fly fishing for wild trout in the Fall River. The mule deer hunting and waterfowl hunting on this ranch are excellent. Fall River & McArthur are wonderful communities with good services including a hospital, an 18 hole golf course, and the Fall River Valley has a Jet capable 5,000 foot runway. REDUCED ASKING PRICE - $5,900,000

ROUGH DIAMOND RANCH: 280 ac located just east of Redding, CA. Water Rights from 1876. Tall timber, irrigated meadows with free gravity flow water, 2 beautiful ponds – one for trout and the other for bass. Newer residence situated on the banks of the largest pond, a second home nearby perfect for guests or caretaker. Large barn and a shop. Very private with excellent access – only 4 hour drive from the Bay Area, fly into Redding or helicopter into your front yard. Call Bill Wright Reduced Asking Price $2,395,000 JWB RANCH: approx. 392 ac just outside Redding, CA. Year round cattle operation with about 50 ac irrigated with creek water rights, 4 reservoirs with excellent fishing! Good winter range and irrigated pastures. Very Private, paved driveway up to a Beautiful owner’s residence set up on a knoll with spectacular views; 4,300 sq. ft. vanishing edge pool, 9,400 sq. ft. shop/barn, plus horse stable, riding arena, etc. Public utilities plus private generator & solar. Great hunting and fishing with horseback, ATV, and hiking opportunities on your own private ranch. $2,695 ,000 - Bill Wright

ROUND HOUSE RANCH: approx. 291 ac just outside Redding, CA. Water Rights from Oak Run Creek – about 50 ac flood irrigated with water right and springs plus 4 ponds. Blacktail deer, wild turkeys, quail, and dove. Elk winter on the ranch – see the photos! Headquarters tucked in next to a pond and overlooking the irrigated fields. Excellent like new construction with residence 3 bedrooms and 1 bath, “bunkhouse” with two bedrooms and full bath, metal barns for both hay and equipment storage. Complete set of pipe corrals. Excellent steel pipe and 6 strand barb wire fencing. This is a very well maintained ranch with great opportunities – hunting, fishing, horses, ATV’s. Call Bill Wright. OWNER VERY MOTIVATED – REDUCED TO $2,495,000

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Antelope Peak Ranch: 5,200 deeded plus BLM permit attached to ranch. 5 center pivot’s irrigating approx. 583 acres plus another 28 acres with surface water rights out of large spring. Three homes plus shop and other outbuildings. This Elko Co. ranch offered at $3,900,000. Cove Springs Ranch: White Pine County, Nevada. 2,568 acres with BLM permits adjoining the Ranch out the gate. Rated at 400 head year around. Two homes good water with approx. 1800 acres water righted. Two pivots with good shallow well. Price: $3,500,000. North Butte Valley Ranch: Elko County, Nevada. This ranch has 550 acres of deeded base with water rights on approx 226 acres. The deeded lands sit in the center of the BLM allotment which is divided into 6 pastures with a total of 2,420 aum’s from 4/15 to 12/22. Approx. 286 hd. Home with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths off grid. On county road. Price: $1,600,000. Mason Mountain Ranch: 3782 deeded acres plus small BLM permit. Summers up to 300 pair In the past. Recent improvements to stockwatering sources and new set of corrals. Landowner Elk Tag. $1,750,000. Elko County 566 acre Organic Farm: this farm is located approx.. 15 miles South of Wells on the East side of US Hwy 93. There are 249 acres under three pivots, one full and two wipers. Price Reduced to: $700,000.

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*NEW* 400 Head Alamosa Ranch,

Tolar, NM – +/-10,982 Deeded acres, +/- 4,000 acres State of NM Grazing Lease, +/-700 acres adverse grazing. 2 homes, barns. The HQ consists of a 3 BR, 2 BA, double wide mfg main home, yard with fruit and shade trees. Second double wide mfg home, set of scales, pipe corrals, pipe loading chute, saddle house, shop, cedar picket and wood horse pens. 13 Wells, 80 to 200 feet deep, 12 windmills, 4 miles of pipeline and 2 storage tanks. Ephemeral increases in wet years ($370/ac) $4.064M *NEW* Hunting and 125 Head Cattle Ranch, Lindrith, NM – Laguna Seca Ranch is set against scenic bluffs with expansive views of open meadows and rolling hills covered in pines, juniper and oaks in the Santa Fe National Forest. Abundant elk and deer. Includes deer and elk permits, two homes, steel shop with equipment shed partially insulated and heated, hay barn, tack room, storage, second hay barn, steel corrals with sorting pens, steel lead-up and crowding tub, squeeze chute, scales, calf table and loading chute. Well watered with 7 wells, 8 dirt tanks, 2 storage tanks, and 10 drinkers. $2,500,000 Includes cattle and equipment. 490 Head La Cienega Ranch, Yucca, AZ – Solid working desert ranch with a well improved recently remodeled headquarters. Includes a home, bunk house, shop, tack house,

good corrals. 122.83+/- deeded acres, 13,483+/- acres State

Lease, 69,390+/- acres BLM, and 86,302+/- acres adverse grazing. Good water with miles of pipeline, 9 wells, 2 dirt tanks and springs. $1,690,000. Call Tamra Kelly at 928-830-9127

Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1,490,000

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*NEW* 300 Head South Clem

Ranch, Harquahala, AZ, – Solid working desert ranch. 40 deeded acres, +/-32,000 acres BLM, +/17,600 State, +/-34,800 adverse. 3 Wells, 5 dirt tanks, 9 - 10,000+/- gal storage tanks. Shipping corrals at HQ and 3 sets of working pens and traps. Ephemeral increases in wet years. Includes cattle and rolling equipment. $1.45M

*SOLD* 1388 AUM’s – Deadman

Ranch, East of Reserve, NM – Mtn ranch in the Ponderosa Pines with open grassy meadows and abundant wildlife. Turnkey operation, private 115+/Ac deeded inholding with USFS permit. $1.2M w/cattle & equip.

SOLD

*NEW* 150 Head White Mtn Ranch, Show Low, AZ – Mfg home on +/- 42 deeded ac, +/-320 ac BLM, +/-6,720 acres State, & +/-12,800 ac adverse grazing, 5 wells, 6 dirt tanks, 2 storage tanks. Includes 50 head of cattle and equipment. $1.1M

*SOLD* Bar LR Homestead Multi

Parcel Auction, St. David, AZ ~ Sold at Auction April 22, 2017 122.87 +/- Acres with panoramic valley and mountain views, irrigated pasture, white vinyl fencing, mature pecan trees, multiple homes, workshop all in a beautifully treed, quiet rural town setting.

SOLD

*NEW* 98+/- Acre Farm, Pomerene, AZ – 70 plus irrigated acres with an 800 gpm well that has a 16” casing, records indicate it is 70’ deep with static water at 35’. Flood irrigated and fenced. Suitable for crops, pasture, or nut trees. Located close to I-10, town, schools and services with easy access. A great value at $400,000 *REDUCED* +/-38 Acre Farm, Sheldon AZ – This preppers paradise includes a large 4 BR 3 BA home; canning studio; root cellar; large workshop with covered outdoor work area; irrigated pasture with 600 gpm well, fenced and cross fenced for cattle/ horses; corrals; barn; chicken houses and pens; rabbit pen; garden area, fruit trees, pond and other various outbuildings. The property includes tractor implements; backhoe; and RV. $410,000 $395,000 240 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, & a well. Reduced to $279,800 $215,000. Terms.

HORSE PROPERTIES/LAND *SOLD* 49+/- Acres, with 10 Head State Grazing Lease, Benson, AZ – Beautiful hilltop home with 5 bedrooms 3 Baths, 2 Fireplaces, two family rooms, large food storage area, root cellar, steel workshop/hay barn with concrete floor and corrals. Great potential as a family home, group home, bed and breakfast. $360,000

SOLD

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Marketing AUCTION MARKETS ARIZONA Marana Stockyards and Livestock Market, P.O. Box 280, Marana, AZ 85653, 520/6824400; fax 520/682-4191; Clay Parson, home 520/682-4224, (mob.) 520/444-7650; Seth Nichols, 520/705-6763, (mob.). Reg. sales Weds., 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 JanApr 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

Roswell Livestock Auction & Roswell Livestock Auction Trucking Thanks for your business, it is appreciated! Benny Wooton 575.626.4754 Smiley Wooton 575.626.6253 RLA 575.622.5580 roswelllivestockauction.com • rla@dfn.com 900 N. Garden, Roswell, NM 88201

NEWMAN STOCKYARDS, LLC 2011 E. Stuhr Road Newman, California

John McGill cell: (209) 631-0845 office: (209) 862-4500

REGULAR SALES Tuesday & Thursday – 3 p.m. newmanstockyardsllc@yahoo.com

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Valley Livestock Auction, LLC, P.O. Box 4053, Sun Valley, AZ 86029, Derrek & Ilene Wagoner, ofc. 928/524-2600; 800/777-4269 (4 COW); mob. 928/241-0920. Regular sales Wednesdays, cattle, horses, sheep and goats. Special sales in season or as advertised. www.valleylivestock.info.

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, 559/3812628 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.

Prescott Livestock Auction ChinoValley, AZ

Sales January through April & July and August Biweekly May & June and September to December Every Week Sales start at 11:00am on Tuesday

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.

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.

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 –cows and bulls (dairy and beef). Saturdays 9 a.m. hogs, 10 a.m. goats & sheep, 1 p.m. horses & beef cattle (all classes). www.fresnolivestock.com.

ORLAND Livestock Commission, Inc Office: 530-865-4527 Wade Lacque: 530-570-0547 Regular Sales

Hosting Cattlemen’s Weekend March

Wed. 12:00 Noon - Misc. Thurs. 12:00 Noon - Feeder Cattle

Richard Smyer 928-445-9571

ORLAND, CALIfORNIA

La Junta Livestock

FARMERS

COMMISSION COMPANY

Don & Jace Honey

SALES Wednesdays at 10:00 am All Classes of Cattle

We also “Handle”

Special Consignment Sales

La Junta, Colorado

Office: 719/384-7781 • Jace: 719/332-3512

Livestock Market 209-847-1033 Steve Haglund

REGULAR SALES Mon. 1:30pm Butcher Cows Thurs. 11:30am Beef & Dairy Cattle flmoakdale@gmail.com OAKDALE, CA 69

M A R K E T I N G Humboldt Auction Yard, Inc.,

101 Livestock Market 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.

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.

EUCLID STOCKYARDS 14185 S. Euclid Ave., Ontario, California

euclidstockyards@hotmail.com

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.

Producers Livestock Marketing Commission, 1022 S Pine St. Madera, CA.93639-0510, Rick O’Brien, Office 559/674-4674 Reg. Sales, Tues. 11:30 a.m. Butcher cows, feeders, bred cows & pairs.Fri. 12:30 p.m. Butcher cows. 3rd Fr. each month a special Butcher cow sale 12:30 a.m. www.producerslivestock.com

Charlie Rogers

RegUlAR SAleS Wednesday 9am

All Classes of Beef Cattle Special Horse Sales as Advertised

575-762-4422 www.clovi slivestock. com PO Box 187, Clovis NM, 88101

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.

Western Video Auction, “Market Your Cattle With Professionals”. 3917 Main St., P.O. Box 558, Cottonwood, CA 96022, 530/347-3793, Ellington Peek cell 530/7516900, John Rodgers cell 559/730-3311; Brad Peek cell 916/802-7335. Call for more information on next sale. www.wvmcattle.com wvm@wvmcattle.com

COLORADO Burlington Livestock Exchange, Inc., 46277 Hwy. 24, P.O. Box 39, Burlington, CO 80807, Steve Schneider, owner; Dennie Flock, district manager; Charlie Flock, office manager, 719/346-8900, ble@rebeltec.net www.bleinc.com Regular sales Thursday, 1:00 p.m. All classes of cattle.

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

PO BOX 525 - CRAWFORD NE 69339

Regular Sale – Wed. 1 p.m.

Orland Livestock Commission, Inc.,

Shasta Livestock Auction Yard,

Jeremy Gorham cell: (909) 282-2198 office: (909) 597-4818

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

CRAWFORD LIVESTOCK MARKET, LLC

Office - 308-665-2220 Toll Free - 1-866-665-2220 Owners: Jack & Laurel Hunter Home: 308-665-1402 Cell: 308-430-9108 www.crawfordlivestock.com email: clm@crawfordlivestock.com REGULAR CATTLE SALES FRIDAY

EAGLE PASS RANCH BALANCER BULL SALE Wednesday, September 27

100 Bulls Sell

Regular Sales 1PM Mon. & Thurs. Joel Cozzie Office: 209-387-4113 • Cell: 209-769-4660 Joey Cozzie Cell: 209-769-4662

101 Livestock Market Inc 831-726-3303

Jim Warren 831-320-3698 jwarren@101livestock.com

REGULAR SALES TUESDAY 10:00am • Small Animals 11:30am • Butcher Cows & Bulls 1:30pm • Feeder Cattle

www.101livestock.com

SALE LIVE at www.lmaauctions.com

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M A R K E T I N G 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; 11:30 a.m. Bred cows, pairs and feeder cattle. Horse sales 1st Saturday every other month.

Treasure Valley LIVESTOCK AUCTION

Caldwell, Idaho Office:

(208) 459-7475 Ron Davison

(208) 941-8114 Sales Monday & Friday 10am

www.treasurevalleylivestock.com

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.

SALES EVERY FRIDAY IN DINUBA, CALIFORNIA

TULARE COUNTY

Stockyard

WWW.TULARECOUNTYSTOCKYARD.COM Jon & Summer Dolieslager 559.591-0884 Neal Spiro, DVM 559.289-6006

Derrek & Ilene Wagoner 928-524-2600 Derrek 928-241-0920 Regular sales Wed. 12 Noon Special sales as advertised Latest sale reports visit our website www.valleylivestock.info

kenneth dellinger, General Manager

Your best interests will be met when your livestock are represented by the marketing professionals at Five Stages Auction. Contact us at: Office 575-374-2505

1-800-438-5764

Kenny Cell 575-207-7761

www.fivestateslivestockauction.com

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Winfield Livestock Auction 7168 Hwy US160 Winfield, Kansas 67156 (620) 221-4364

www.winfieldlivestockauct.com Email: wla@sutv.com Sales held each Wednesday in Winfield, Kansas at 11 AM Our sale is one of the leading livestock auctions of South Central Kansas. We are now broadcasting our Livestock Sale on Wednesday, live at: www.cattleusa.com

Cattlemens Auction LivestockCo., Inc.

Po box 266, Clayton, nM 88415

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 208/454-0605. P.O. Box 639, Caldwell, ID 83605. tvla@qwestoffice.net www.treasurevalleylivestock.com

DINUBA, CALIFORNIA

8517 Sun Valley Rd, Sun Valley AZ

Livestock Auction

Treasure Valley Livestock Auction,

• Selling Small Animals 10am • Feeder Cattle 12:30pm • Weigh Cows at 2:30pm

Valley Livestock Auction,LLC

Five States

IDAHO

Regaulelas:r S S

CATTLE Every Friday at 9 a.m.

SHEEP, GOATS & HORSES Every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the Month at 10 a.m.

For more information or to consign cattle, please give us a call or drop by. We guarantee our same high quality service as in the past.

P.O. Box 608 • Belen, NM CHARLIE MYERS • Office: 505/864-7451 Fax: 505/864-7073 • Cell: 505/269-9075

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Twin Falls Livestock Commission,

NEBRASKA

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.

Atkinson Livestock Market,

KANSAS

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

Crawford Livestock Market,

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.

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.

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, 575/762-4422. 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 575/626-6253. 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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TEXAS

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

SALE MANAGERS/AUCTIONEERS

WASHINGTON

Conover Auction Service, Inc.,

Toppenish Livestock Commission, www.toppenishlivestock.com, 428 S “G” St., Toppenish, WA. 98948, John Topp 509/8652820, 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.

WYOMING

www.conoverauction.com, P. O. Box 9, Baxter, IA 50028. Al & Jeanne Conover, office 641/227-3537, Al 515/491-8078, fax 641/2273792. Auctioneering and sales management.

Dub Venable, Inc., Rt. 1, Anadarko, OK 73005, ofc. 405/ 2475761; cell 405/933-1043. Auctioneer and sales management: “CALL US FIRST!”

Chuck Yarbro Auctioneers

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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ORDER BUYERS/ COMMODITIES BROKERS

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., 325/5379335; 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.

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.

Services 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.

JLG Enterprises, Inc., 209/847-4797, P.O. Box 1375, Oakdale, CA 95361, www.jlgenterprises.com. Bull housing, semen collection, testing, evaluation.

BEEF PACKERS Caviness Beef Packers Hereford, TX, 3255 W. Hwy. 60, Hereford, TX 79045, 806/357-2333, Beef Product Shipment Office, Caviness Beef Packers Amarillo, 4206 Amarillo Blvd E, Amarillo, TX 79120, Corp. Beef Sales/ Logistics 806/372-5781. 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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ORGANIZATIONS R-Calf USA, Fighting for the U.S. Independent Producer: Working on issues like COOL, GIPSA, Animal ID, Checkoff, Trade, BSE, Market Concentation, Sheep Issues, etc. Renew or join today! 406/252-2516. www.r-calfusa.com

SCHOOLS Continental Auctioneers School, Classes held in Iowa. 800/373-2255, info@ auctioneersschool.com For classes, call or visit us online at www.auctioneersschool.com

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

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

S U P P L I E R S

M A N U F A C T U R E R S

EAR TAGS

STATE ASSOCIATIONS

Allflex USA, Inc,

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.

North Carolina Cattlemen’s Assoc., 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.

Suppliers & Manufacturers

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.

Ritchey Livestock ID, 13821 Sable Blvd., Brighton, CO 80601, 1-800/327-8247, www.ritcheytags.com Two styles, four sizes. Twelve color cominations, permanently numbered and very durable tags. Please call or write for more information and a free brochure.

F ARM & RANCH EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES

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!

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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S U P P L I E R S Valley Oaks Ranch Supply, www.vosupply.com. Call Jared Holve at 559/359-0386. Certified livestock scales, Silencer hydraulic squeeze chutes, Roto Grind tub grinders; fencing.

FEED SUPPLEMENTS Foster Commodities, 900 W. Belgravia Ave., Fresno, CA 93706, toll free 1-800/742-1816, Manufacturers of liquid Fos Pro-Lix supplements.

Sweet Pro Supplements, Premium Feed Supplements for all your supplement needs. P.O. Box 333, Seligman, AZ 86337, 602/319-2538. 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

M A N U F A C T U R E R S

Wedge-Loc Co. Inc.,

Pearson Livestock Equipment,

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

LIVESTOCK CURTAINS Reef Industries, Protect your livestock from the elements with Griffolyn® livestock curtains. Griffolyn® materials are high quality and high performance polyethelene laminates that are cold-crack resistant and moisture resistant. 9209 Almeda Genoa Rd. Houston, TX 77075, 800/231-6074, www.reefindustries.com

www.pearsonlivestockeq.com Box 268, Thedford, NE 69166,308/645-2231. info@pearsonlivestockeq.com “Designed by cattlemen for cattlemen.”

POND LINERS Reef Industries, 9209 Almeda Genoa Rd., Houston, Texas, 77075, 800/231-6074 www.reefindustries.com Multi-layered Permalon membranes provide the high strength, lightweight, cost-effective solutions for all your lining needs.

LIVESTOCK HANDLING EQUIPMENT 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

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Advertiser’s INDEX

A A & M Livestock Auction.................................70 AC Nutrition...........................................................18 Ken Ahler Real Estate Company ................68 American Akaushi Association....................... 3 American Angus Association........................17 American Gelbvieh Association...................... 6 American Salers Association.........................79 Animal Health Express......................................77 Arizona Life Real Estate...................................67 B B & H Herefords...................................................47 Bar M Real Estate....................................... 65, 68 Bar T Bar..................................................................55 Beckton Red Angus............................................49 Beefmaster Breeders United ........................ 8 Bell Key Angus.......................................................41 Bennett Shorthorns...........................................31 Big Bend Saddlery...............................................77 Big Mesa Realty....................................................66 Blevins Mfg.............................................................27 Bottari & Associates..........................................67 Bradley 3 Ranch...........................................51, 78 Breckenridge Partnership LTD.....................31 Buchanan Angus..................................................33 Buena Vista Realty..............................................67 C Cal Tex Feed Yard................................................70 Callicrate Banders...............................................20 Campo Bonito........................................................64 Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction ...................71 Cattlemen’s Livestock Market........................ 7 Cherry Glen Beefmasters...............................74 Circle D Corporation..........................................76 CKP Insurance........................................................75 Clovis Livestock Auction..................................70

Cobb Charolais Ranch........................................49 Chip Cole Ranch Brokers..................................66 Conlin Supply.........................................................39 Crawford Livestock Auction..........................70 D Decker Herefords................................................49 Denton Photography........................................58 Diamond Oak Cattle Co....................................49 Doerr Angus Ranch............................................25 Dos Palos Auction Yard....................................70 E Eagle Creek Enterprises..................................61 Euclid Stockyards................................................70 Evans Beefmaster...............................................41 Exit Clovis Realty.................................................66 F F & F Cattle Company......................................41 Fallon-Cortese Land...........................................63 Farmers Livestock Market..............................69 Figure 4 Cattle Company................................55 Finca del Rio...........................................................12 Five States Livestock Auction......................71 G Gateway Simmental...........................................33 Global Equipment Co., Inc...............................80 Gonsalves Ranch...................................................43 Green Mountain Red Angus...........................35 H Hales Angus Farm...............................................35 Headquarters West / St Johns....................63 Headquarters West/ Sonita..........................65 Hoffman AI Breeders........................................49 Hutchinson Western..........................................27 Hydrabed................................................................... 2 I Isa Cattle Company............................................37

J Jacobsen Ranch....................................................15 Jones Manufacturing........................................43 K Kaddatz.....................................................................49 L La Junta Livestock Commission...................69 Lack-Morrison........................................................43 M Magee Red Angus...............................................49 Marana Stockyards & Livestock Market..................................................72 Meadow Acres Angus Ranch.........................49 Miraco ......................................................................29 Murney & Associates Realtors......................66 N Nashville Auction School.................................51 Newman Stockyards LLC.................................69 No Bull Enterprises, LLC...................................19 O 101 Livestock Market Inc................................70 O’Neill Land/Agriculture LLC.........................64 Orland Livestock Commission.......................69 Oregon Opportunities.......................................65 P Phillips Ranch.........................................................45 Power Pipe & Tank..............................................23 Prescott Livestock Auction...........................69 Joe Priest Real Estate.......................................64 R Redd Ranches........................................................13 R K Auctions...........................................................64 Robbs Brangus......................................................51 Tom Robb & Sons Polled Herefords..........45 Roeder Implement..............................................51 Roswell Livestock Auction..............................69

S Schuster Herefords............................................51 Seven Mile Limousin...........................................53 Shasta Land Services.........................................66 Siler Santa Gertrudis..........................................51 Snedden Ranch.....................................................21 Southwest Livestock Auction.......................71 Spike S Ranch.........................................................53 Stockmans Realty................................................68 Joe Stubblefield & Associates......................68 T T & T Trailers.........................................................37 Tehama Angus Ranch........................................51 Treasurer Valley Livestock Auction............71 Tru-Test Scales......................................................74 Tulare County Stockyards..............................71 2 Bar Angus ..........................................................18 U United Country Vista Nueva..........................63 V Valley Livestock Auction..................................71 Virden Perma Bilt................................................45 Virginia Cattlemen’s Association.................29 Visalia & Templeton.............................................. 5 W W & W Stock Tank...............................................72 Waldo Real Estate...............................................63 Weaver Ranch ......................................................76 White Cattle Co....................................................55 P H White.................................................................53 Willcox Livestock Auction...............................11 Winfield Livestock Auction.............................71 Brinks Westall........................................................73 Western Trading Post (Olson).......................58 Y Y-Tex Corp................................................................. 4

Livestock Market Digest

Sustained Fertility It matters in your fem females and it matters in your bulls. Salers will challenge any breed fo for superior ffer ertility and unmattched longevity in fem females plus serviceab ble years in our bulls. Sustained fer fertility is what the Salers breed off ffer ers. Bred up as yearlings, two’s three’s and beyond. As a producer, you control the costs it takes to get a fem female into production. With Salers you “Keep Her in Production.”

for multi-breed comparisons, in its The Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska, the largest database fo from the Germplasm Evaluattion project, verifies again that Salers are still the most recent release of sire breed means fr continental breed of choicee ffo or Calving Ease and Marbling.

C urrent B reed Av Current Breed A Average verage EP D’ss A djusted tto EPD’s Adjusted o aan n Angus Basee Angus Bas (2009 Ye Year Y ear Bas Base) e)

Breed

BW EPD

Angus

Salers

+ 3.8

Hereford

+6.4

Charolais

+9.1

Gelbvieh

+5.1

Limousin

+5.4

Simmental

+6.8

B Breed reed o off S Sire ire S Solutions olutions ffr from rom US USMARC MARC Actual A ctual D Data ata

Breed

Marbling

Fat

Rib Eye Area

Angus

5.8

.578

12.77

Salers

5.34

.349

13.40

Hereford

5.09

.517

12.70

Charolais

4.98

.343

13.61

Limousin

4.64

14.10

Simmental

5.01

.363

13.61

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To quote USMARC in the presented report, “Marbling score was estimated to be highest in Angus. Continental breeds were estimatted to ull marbling score lower than be one-half to a ffu Angus with the excep ption of SALERS.”

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