NMS March 2009 by Livestock Publishers

MARCH 2009

NUAL 2004 Seedstock Producers of the Year! N A h 27t

Reynolds Ranch LIMOUSIN PRODUCTION SALE

SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2009 · SANFORD, COLORADO · at the Ranch · 1 p.m. National Western Stock Show

Featuring...

SONS OF LEADING AI SIRES Including: • WULFS Nobel Prize • KVRN Pocono • KVRN Pablo • BON View New Design 878 • Three Trees Prime Cut 104T • KVRN Picante • WULFS Fanfare • HC Overtime • JCL Black Okie • WLR Direct Hit

Please join us on

March 21 AS WE PRESENT 90 OF THE BEST RED & BLACK

Limousin bulls found anywhere!

and many other leading sires!

SELLING

90 BULLS

Registered Performance-Tested

Twoe Y ar-Olds

RANCH:

719/274-5827 RIC REYNOLDS:

719/274-5084 c: 719/588-0394

60 Yearlings

Including: 20 ANGUS X LIMOUSIN BULLS

ROD REYNOLDS: This black 2-year-old daughter of SLVL Beef is typical of the quality females that are in production at Reynolds Ranch. Females with growth, volume, great dispositions and a lot of milk.

SALE MANAGER:

Jim Higel, 719/589-2116 AUCTIONEER:

Art Goehl, 719/589-2113

39+

YEARS of AI. Our Limousin have a Brown Swiss background that results in greater maternal ability, growth and good dispositions. Our mother cows are selected for their ability to work at high altitude and to wean a growthy calf under range conditions. Lunch will be served at the Ranch. Sale Catalogs available on request. Airport only 14 miles from Ranch.

719/274-4090 c: 719/588-1230

RANCH LOCATION: Go to La Jara (14 miles north of Antonito or 14 miles south of Alamosa). From La Jara, go east on Hwy. 136 to dead-end, then turn right and go 3/4 mile to Reynolds Ranch headquarters. to Santa Fe

Figure 4 Cattle Co. Bear Ranch, LLC Efficient, Low Maintenance Genetics Creating Profitability

Production Sale

APRIL 6, 2009 PM -34 s ,IVE !UCTION (ARTS "ASIN &ACILITY %CKERT #OLO

FFS UNTOUCHABLE 389U

BEAR MATADOR 472U

BW: +3.1 WW: +28 YW: (+44) MWW: +26 Milk: +12

BW: +2.0 WW: +20 YW: (+20) MWW: +11 Milk: +2.0

SALE OFFERING 80 OF OUR BEST YEARLING ROUGHAGE-RAISED BULLS Polled, Black, Red, Fullbloods, Purebreds and Black Angus Optimizers.

SWEET SIXTEEN For the first time the top replacement heifers out of both programs. A cut above the rest.

20 OPEN HEIFERS 2008 females from the Figure 4 herd. These will make great mothers.

10 BRED COWS Late calving females. A tremendous opportunity for great genetics.

BW: +2.6 WW: +24 YW: (+44) MWW: + 22 Milk +10

FFS ULTIMATE 418U

BW: +2.0 WW: +21 YW: (+25) MWW: +18 Milk: +7.0

BEAR SIR WYATT 227U

FFS UTOPIA 364U

BW: +0.1 YW: +12 WW: (+11) MWW: +14 Milk: +9.0

BW: +1.8 WW: +24 YW: (+35) MWW: +27 Milk: +15

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New Mexico’s Largest Herd of Home-Grown Bulls!

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CATTLE FOR SALE EVERY DAY. Bill & Peggy King • 505/832-4448 505/832-4330 • 505/220-9909 Tommy & Becky Spindle • 505/832-0926

FOR SALE

NOW!

150 HEREFORD BUL LS 100 ANGUS BULLS 100 CHAROLAIS BU LLS 150 BRED HEIFERS

P.O. Box 564 • Stanley, NM 87056 Located 5 miles north of Moriarty on Hwy. 41, then 1-1/2 miles east.

Are You Looking For Direction? 3/15/01 BW: 93 lbs. Adj. WW/R/Cont.: 872 lbs./124.9/81 Adj. YW/R/Cont.: 1.494 lbs./119.5/72

We have spent the last year producing bulls that excel in the traits you, our customers, have told us you want!

• • Performance • • • • • • Fertility • • • • • • • • • • Carcass • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Feed Efficiency

We will have 150 bulls available this fall featuring sons of VRD, New Design 878, Sitz Alliance 6595, and TC Forefront, so come by the ranch anytime and make your selection. Ask about our volume discounts and we’ll feed ‘til spring!

What we raise is what you need.

HIGH VALLEY ANGUS 5 miles south of Stanley on Hwy. 41

BILL & PEGGY KING 505/220-9909 • 505/832-4330 Box 5 • Stanley, New Mexico 87056 TOMMY & BECKY SPINDLE 505/832-0926 5

MARCH 2009

LT Easy Rider 1153 Pld

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➤ Selected as one of the top bulls from the 2002 Lindskov-Thiel Bull Sale ➤ His dam, 7184, is a proven herd bull producer – 3 bull calves: avg. WWR: 117.3; avg. YWR: 110.9. ➤ His brothers are making their mark in top programs – a full brother for Eaton Charolais, MT; a maternal brother for Johnson Charolais, S.D. Our breeding program is based on what our customers tell us they need. We’re also utilizing LT Easy Wind 8058 Pld, Wyoming Wind & Prime Cut.

YOUR SOURCE FOR HERD BULLS. Offering 125+ Charolais bulls at the ranch private treaty.

Bill B. & Peggy King Box 564 • Stanley, NM 87056 Day 505/220-9909 • Home 505/832-4330 Located 40 miles east of Albuquerque MARCH 2009

MARCH 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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VOL 75, No. 3 / USPS 381-580

FEATURES 15

Kyle Perez named Hereford Herdsman of the Year

NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN

4-H Ambassadors named

Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 505/243-9515 Fax: 505/998-6236 E-mail: chuck@aaalivestock.com

It’s easier to haul home a new bull than a new cow herd

Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) growing concern for horsemen

Tucumcari Bull Test reports at 84 days on test

Limousin: A Natural Advantage

Published for and official publication of:

The Case for Rangeland Preservation Areas

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; President, Alisa Ogden; Executive Director, Caren Cowan;

Riding Herd

Infant Mortality Rates and the Health Care Debate

Santa Gertrudis: Performance is the Key

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New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584; President, Joan Kincaid Executive Director, Caren Cowan

by Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson by Stephen Wilmeth

by Lee Pitts by Chuck Stocks

by Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson

DEPARTMENTS 10

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter

Update

To the Point

New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers

New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn

Estrays

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

New Mexico Federal Lands News

Calendar of Events

Jingle Jangle

PRODUCTION

In Memoriam

Production Coordinator: Carol Pendleton Graphic Design: Kristy Hinds Martel Editorial Design: Camille Pansewicz

The Seedstock Guide

The Marketplace

The Real Estate Guide

Advertisers’ Index

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING Publisher: Chuck Stocks Business Manager: Mae Lopez Advertising Reps.: Chris Martinez, Melinda Martinez, Contributing Editors: Glenda Price, Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson, Carol Wilson, William S. Previtti, Julie Carter, Lee Pitts

New Mexico Stockman (USPS 381-580) is published monthly by Charles R. Stocks, 2231 Rio Grande, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-2529. Subscription price: 1 year - $19.95 /2 years - $29.95. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to New Mexico Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194. Periodicals Postage paid at Albuquerque, New Mexico and additional mailing offices. Copyright 2008 by New Mexico Stockman. Material may not be used without permission of the publisher. Deadline for editorial and advertising copy, changes and cancellations is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Advertising rates on request.

www.aaalivestock.com

by Kris Ringwall

by Alisa Ogden

by Caren Cowan by Don Bullis

by Jim Olson

by Mike Casabonne

ON THE COVER . . Our cover this month is “Innocence Adorned” a 12 x 15 drawing by well-known New Mexico artist, Dino Cornay. To learn more about this and other originals and prints by the artist, please contact him at, 100 Busey Street, P. O. Box 488, Folsom, NM 88419, 575/278-3867, contact@dinocornayart.com or visit his website at www.dinocornayart.com/biography.htm MARCH 2009

MARCH 2009

President’ s M

C A TT L E

IATION

W MEXICO NE

S W E R S' A S

By Alisa Ogden

ESSAGE

NMCGA PRESIDENT

Greetings!

t is another warm, dry day in February with no prospect of rain. The Legislature is almost half over now and will be near the end when you read this. So far, not many bills have gone through both houses and things are beginning to heat up. Our members in Santa Fe have commented that there is a different air about the legislature. Perhaps it is because there is not much money to spend and they must prioritize where the money goes with much more scrutiny. Welcome to the real world of business. Chatting one day with some lobbyists outside the natural resources committee room, I was asked if New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMDGA), at my direction, had become anti oil and gas. To say the least, I was surprised. First, I don’t have that much power and second, NMCGA has never been anti oil and gas production. We have always advocated responsible oil and gas production. Several hot issues in regards to oil and gas production have come to fruition in the last three to four years but I think that has more to do with timing rather than who has held office in NMCGA. Our organization has always advocated responsible use of all natural resources whether it be oil and gas, wind, water, mining or timber among others. As officers and board members of our organization, when representing NMCGA it is up to all of us to carry forward our policies, voted upon by our members, when dealing with situations. If questions arise, staff and officers consult, if possible, and determine the best course of action. Sometimes we stand back to see how things work out, other times we step up to the plate to affect the outcome. Regardless, no one person decides the fate or focus of our organization. I will be in Washington, D.C. March 17 to meet with other producers, staff from NCBA, and USDA-APHIS in regards to the TB situation in the United States. It will be one of several meetings to try to change current policy in dealing with TB in cattle. All are in agreement that what we have now isn’t working, the question is what will and how to do it. The Roundhouse Ag Feed is March 19. Various agricultural organizations, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA), and New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service (NMSU CES) feed beef, lamb, beans, salad, chile, cheese, tortillas, ice cream and milk to elected officials and staff at the roundhouse two days before the close of the session. Over 1,200 people are fed in less than two hours. We always encourage members to come help. Just call the office and we will give more details if you are interested in helping. Finally, our condolences go out to our Executive Director, Caren Cowan and her family on the death of her father, Bobby Cowan, in February. Donations may be made to New Mexico Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, the Pat Nowlin Memorial Scholarship Fund, the Mattie Cowan Scholarship Fund or a charity of your choice in his memory. Sincerely,

Alisa Ogden President www.nmagriculture.org ———————————————————————————————— NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS ———————————————————————————————— Alisa Ogden Loving President

MARCH 2009

Bert Ancell Bell Ranch President Elect

Jose Varela Lopez Santa Fe Northeast V.P.

Louis Montoya La Plata Northwest V.P.

Ty Bays Silver City Southwest V.P.

Rex Wilson Carrizozo Southeast V.P.

Emery Chee Bloomfield V.P. At Large

Troy Sauble Maxwell Sec./Treas.

MARCH 2009

ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION, INC. 900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041 Roswell, New Mexico 88201 505/622-5580 575/622-5580 www.roswelllivestockauction.com CATTLE SALES: MONDAYS HORSE SALES: APRIL, JUNE, SEPTEMBER and DECEMBER BENNY WOOTON RES 575/625-0071, CELL 575/626-4754 WOOTON RES. 505/626-4754 SMILEY BENNY WOOTON RES 575/623-2338, CELL 575/626-6253

SMILEY WOOTON

RES. 505/626-6253

ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION RECEIVING STATIONS Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Livestock New Mexico Receiving Stations need to call our toll-free number for a Transportation Permit number before leaving home. The Hauling Permit number 1-800/748-1541 is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NEW RECEIVING STATION, LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO 2 Bar Livestock Highway #90 at NM #3 – East side of highway. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th weekends of each month. Truck leaves Lordsburg at 2:00 p.m. Sunday. Russell Taylor (corrals) 575/494-7229. FORT STOCKTON TEXAS 1816 E. 53rd Lane, Interstate 10 to exit 259A to FM 1053, 5 1/2 miles north of I-10. Turn right on Stone Rd. (receiving station sign) 1-block. Turn left on 53rd Lane – 3/4 miles to red A-frame house and corrals on right. Buster Williams, 432/336-0219, 432-290-2061. Receiving cattle: 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month. Truck leaves at 3:00 p.m. CT. PECOS, TEXAS Hwy. 80 across from Town & Country Motel. NO PRIOR PERMITS REQUIRED. Nacho, 432/445-9676, 432/634-6150, 432/448-6865. Trucks leave Sunday at 4 p.m. CT. VALENTINE, TEXAS 17 miles north of Marfa on Hwy. 90. Red Brown 432/4672682. Pens 432/358-4640. Trucks leave first Sunday at 3:00 p.m. CT. VAN HORN, TEXAS 800 West 2nd, 5 blocks west of Courthouse. Gary or Patty Flowers, 478/335-8080, cell 432/283-7103. Trucks leave 2nd & 3rd Sunday at 3:00 p.m. CT. MORIARTY, NEW MEXICO Two blocks east and one block south of Tillery Chevrolet. Smiley Wooton 575/622-5580 office, 575/623-2338 home, 575/626-6253 mobile. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. MT. SAN ANTONIO, NEW MEXICO River Cattle Co. Nine miles east of San Antonio on U.S. 380. Gary Johnson 575/838-1834. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. MT.

MARCH 2009

Senate amendment would ban packer ownership he Senate Agriculture Committee on Feb. 11, passed an amendment to its version of the 2007 farm bill that would prohibit packers from owning livestock for more than 14 days before slaughter. Under the proposed amendment to the Packers and Stockyards Act, packers could not, “own or feed livestock directly, through a subsidiary, or through an arrangement that gives the packer operational, managerial, or supervisory control over the livestock, or over the farming operation that produces the livestock.” The amendment was one of several passed without debate. The full text of the “en bloc amendment” can be found on the Senate Agriculture Committee Web site. The Senate proposed a similar provision in the 2002 farm bill, but it was stripped out before the legislation was approved.

Ethanol prepares for a shakeout he ethanol industry should prepare for a shake-out year in 2009, says Jim Murphy, senior consultant with Context Network, an agribusiness management consulting firm, who spoke at the 2009 Top Producer Seminar. The drop in oil prices and rise in corn prices have crippled ethanol plants, with most operating at break-even for the past six months, Murphy says. Meanwhile, the global financial crisis further tightened the availability of working capital. “Ethanol facilities are quickly burning through their working capital,” Murphy says. Some analysts have projected more than 40 plants will close by year-end. The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) calculates around 1.8 billion gallons of production capacity is currently idled, due to economic troubles. “In some ways 2009 is similar to the mid-1990s when we saw a contraction in the ethanol industry,” Murphy says. “Although we don’t see as severe a contraction, we also don’t see a lot of growth. The ethanol industry will move sideways.” “Ethanol companies will not sell off assets piecemeal, such as pumps and tanks, like the 1990s, he says. The capacity will remain intact because someone out there is going to buy those assets for pennies on the dollar and mothball them until the proper time.” Long-term, Murphy projects oil prices will rise again and ethanol economics will improve. In addition, the Obama administration is quite supportive of biofuels, which may help keep the industry alive, he says. “There will be political challenges, and I expect the blenders credit and import tariff will be gradually reduced,” Murphy says. “But overall, Obama continues to back biofuels.” ■

Conservvation Easement

Experimenting with tax credits for conservation n Colorado landowners who agree not to develop their land and place it in a permanent conservation easement are able to earn up to $100,000 in state income tax credits that they not only can use themselves, but can sell to other taxpayers in the state. This new law was meant to level the playing field so all landowners could benefit from preserving their land from development by allowing them to sell their credits for cash, says Ariel Steele, the owner of Tax Credit Connection, Inc.

The first year the tax incentives were in place, the state awarded $1.3 million in tax credits. By 2005 and 2006, the amount of tax credits swelled to more than $80 million each year. And it worked with amazing speed. The first year the tax incentives were in place, the state awarded $1.3 million in tax credits. By 2005 and 2006, the amount of tax credits swelled to more than $80 million each year. So, what does this mean for conservation and the people of Colorado, asks Steele? ■ Since the inception of the program, nearly 1.2 million additional acres have been preserved, farmers and ranchers are able to get a valuable cash infusion for agreeing not to develop their land and taxpayers can save more than they had in the recent past for investing in tax credits. ■ To date, $292 million in credits have been claimed by Colorado taxpayers, putting those dollars in the hands of Colorado’s farmers, ranchers and owners of wildlife habitat for the services they have been providing to residents free of charge. ■ Coloradoans now know that the scenic vistas, wildlife habitat and productive farm and ranchland have been permanently preserved through the payment to the landowners by way of conservation easement tax credits. New Mexico and Virginia have followed Colorado’s lead and it is likely that more will follow, says Steele. Source: Ariel Steele, “Experimenting with Tax Credits for Conservation,” PERC Reports, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2008.

11th Production Sale MARCH 14, 2009 website: redmountaingenetics.com or email us at: leeb@bacavalley.com

DR. JIM LEE MAXWELL, N.M. • 575/445-8633

GARDINER Performance and PAP Tested, Too

SELLING 60 REG. SERVICE-AGE

ANGUS BULLS About half these bulls are suitable for 1st calf heifers

MUSICK’S BUSINESS

BULL SALE Thurs., March 19 ★ Tucumcari, N.M. LUNCH: 11 a.m. ★ SALE: 1 p.m. Weaning Weights • Yearling Weights • Present Weight 120-Day Gain Test • Semen Tested • EPDs

LEON MUSICK 575/477-2254

VICKI MUSICK 575/749-2411 MARCH 2009

P.O. BOX 99 QUEMADO, NM 87829

Angus Plus and Brangus Cattle It Takes Go o To Raise Go d Cows od Calves

ANGUS

PLUS Enough Ear, But Not Too Much.

FOR SALE: 140 Yearling Bulls 20 2-year-old Bulls

Our breeding program is s imple. We only use bulls out of highly prove n female sire s. Our cow her d shows the influence of these mate rnal herd sir es. Their fertility , doing-abilit y and performance speaks for it self. We offer for sale, bulls an d heifers that w il l m ake a positive diffe rence in you r herd.

575/773

-4770

Rick & Maggie Hubbell 575-773-4770 â&#x20AC;˘ Mark Hubbell 575-773-4567 hubbell@wildblue.net

MARCH 2009

Perez honored as Hereford Herdsman of the Year Pictured at the 2009 National Western Stock Show (l to r) are: Wes Hudson, American Hereford Association (AHA) Board member and chairman of the show and sale committee, Harrison, Ark.; Kyle Perez, 2009 Hereford Herdsman of the Year, Nara Visa, N.M.; and Bill King, AHA president, Stanley, N.M.

yle Perez, Nara Visa, N.M., was selected as the 2009 Hereford Herdsman of the Year at the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver. Perez was selected for the award by his peers, other Hereford herdsmen and breeders, and honored prior to the selection of the champion horned Hereford bull on Jan. 17. Perez is a third-generation Hereford breeder. He grew up participating in junior Hereford activities, including serving on the National Junior Hereford Association board of directors and winning senior showmanship in 2002. In 2004, at his final Junior National Hereford Expo, he was

named the junior Herdsman of the Year. Following graduation from Kansas State University in 2005, Kyle decided to move back home to work on the ranch and continue C&M Herefords with his parents, Michael and Connie Perez. Since graduating to the adult ranks, Kyle has bred and shown numerous national champions including the 2009 National Western reserve grand champion horned female. Howard Fehlman, a former Hereford Herdsman of the Year, mentored Kyle and his family when they started showing continued on page 16

THREE MILE HILL RANCH Registered Black Angus Working Stock Dogs Registered Quarter Horses

Annual Yearling Angus Bull Sale APRIL 14, 2009-1:00 P.M. AT THREE MILE HILL RANCH, ANIMAS, NM A.I. SIRES: OCC Legend 616L HERD SIRES: Manzano Homer P67 • 3MHR Legend 609 3MHR Echelon 608 • 3MHR Anchor 604 3MHR Homer 615 ALL BULLS WILL BE FERTILITY TESTED WITH HEALTH PAPERS CALL FOR SALE CATALOG. “OUR CATTLE NOT ONLY MAKE DOLLARS, THEY MAKE CENTS”

Cash & Kanzas Massey P.O. Box 335, Animas, NM 88020 575/548-2477 • 575/494-2678 C: 575/544-7998 massey2@vtc.net

Call for Delivery Options & Volume Discounts!

14th Annual

Beefmaster Bull Sale

st March 21 , 2009 1 pm • Saturday • Red River Livestock Auction Overbrook, Oklahoma

(Exit 24 off I-35, 6 miles south of Ardmore, Okla.)

All bulls developed on forage.

80 PERFORMANCE TESTED BULLS DEVELOPED FOR THE COMMERCIAL COWMAN Foundation Genetics

Also Selling......

40 REGISTERED

& COMMERCIAL FEMALES

Sale Manager: Derek Frenzel (254) 541-4643 derekfrenzel@aol.com

MARCH 2009

Kyle Perez

continued from page 15

Herefords in the early 1990s. Howard fit and showed many C&M-bred cattle prior to Kyle and his brother, Drew, being old enough to go on the show road and manage the cattle themselves. “It has been a real pride for me to watch Kyle grow up and see what he has accomplished in the Hereford business,” Howard says. “There is no quit in Kyle. What makes him a great herdsman is his work ethic, his willingness to stay and work till the job is done. He doesn’t do anything half way, with Kyle he is going to do it to the best of his ability, every time.” Kyle and his family value the showring and the opportunities it allows them in marketing their cattle, but Kyle says what he enjoys most about the cattle business is calving season and branding time. He admits he spends just as much time horseback and roping as he does with a pair of clippers. Whether on the ranch or at a show, Kyle and his wife, Tonya, his parents and Drew, work as a team to make C&M a success. “It’s an honor,” Kyle says about being named Herdsman, “In my opinion the biggest honor you can receive as a fitter or ■ breeder.”

BlACK ANGUS READY FOR WORK

BULL SALE March 16, 2009 39 Two-Year-Old Bulls & 37 Yearlings Cattlemens Livestock Auction Belen, NM C A LV I N G E A S E GROWTH CARCASS Private Treaty Sales Available Now From Consignors Heartstone Angus, LLC U Bar Ranch J-C Angus

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Hartzog Angus Cattle Diamond K Bar Ranch

For Catalog contact 575/313-6813

Remember: IT’S NOT BLACK HIDE, IT’S ANGUS INFLUENCE!

MARCH 2009

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State 4-H Ambassadors and Diplomats named he 2009 4-H State Ambassadors and Diplomats were inducted during the 4-H Senior Leadership Retreat Jan. 17, in Albuquerque. Selected as ambassadors were Anne Meyer-Miner of Placitas, Laynee Kuenstler of Caballo, Jalayna Roberts of Portales and Charles Woodall of Las Cruces. Members of the diplomat team are Shane Bramblett of Grenville, Wil Hodnett of Portales, Ellen Bardwell of Edgewood and Hanna Kate Bradshaw of Hillsboro. The senior 4-H members will share the ambassador and diplomat responsibilities, which include assisting with the parade and tours at the New Mexico State Fair, planning and conducting the Senior Leadership Retreat and assisting with the State 4-H Conference. The two, four-person teams were selected from applicants who were judged on their public speaking on the topic of how to attract more 4-H members to the senior leadership retreat and on how they performed during a group project where they built a bridge from newspapers and tape that would sustain the weight of a coffee can. ■

The 2009 4-H State Ambassadors are, from left, Laynee Kuenstler of Caballo, Charles Woodall of Las Cruces, Anne Meyer-Miner of Placitas and Jalayne Roberts of Portales. They were inducted into office during the 4-H Senior Leadership Retreat Jan. 17, in Albuquerque.

The 2009 4-H State Diplomats are, from left, Hanna Kate Bradshaw of Hillsboro, Wil Hodnett of Portales, Shane Bramblett of Grenville and Ellen Bardwell of Edgewood. They were inducted into office during the 4-H Senior Leadership Retreat Jan. 17, in Albuquerque.

the power of people and progress

Angus

The American Angus Association Regional Manager is one of the most valuable resources for a beef producer with Angus or Angus-influenced genetics. Call Jared Murnin for help in locating Angus seedstock or to inquire about Association programs and services. New Mexico• Texas

Regional Manager Jared Murnin 7734 Hwy 83/84 Abilene, TX 79602 816.390.7092 jmurnin@angus.org

3201 Frederick Avenue • St. Joseph, MO 64506 (816) 383-5100 • Fax: (816) 233-9703 • www.angus.org

MARCH 2009

Harvesting CO²

Smith Land & Cattle Company,

LLC

Registered Red Angus 2 YEAR OLD BULLS Range Born and Raised • All Grass – No Grain High Altitude • PAP Tested • Calving Ease 70 lb. Average Birth Weight

Visit our new website:

www.smithredangus.com Home: 719/379-5213 • Mobile: 719/588-1877 P.O. Box 292, Ft. Garland, Colorado 81133

Auction Co., Inc.

Cattlemens Livestock

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FRIDAY, 10 A.M.

SHEEP, GOATS AND HORSES – FOLLOWED BY CATTLE P.O. Box 608 • Belen, NM CHARLIE MYERS • Ofc.: 505/864-7451 Fax: 505/864-7073 • Cel: 505/269-9075

ALL BREEDS BULL SALE

Monday, April 6, 2009 1:00 p.m. Expect to Sell About 100 Top-quality Range Bulls

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or the past 20 years Laurentia, a Canadian company, has been working on a method of using greenhouse gases to enhance agricultural production. It has combined ancient knowledge and wisdom with modern technologies to achieve the goal. The Environmental De-Stressor system uses seven small “Balancers” (receiving/ sending devices) that are mounted in the roofs of the farms agricultural buildings. The Balancers help to absorb EMF and other incoming energies, which enable these units to cover up to 2000 acres of cropland. The De-Stressor system is totally self-sustaining and requires no electricity or other power source. Using agricultural crops to sequester greenhouse gases is the most beneficial way to help the environment and our food producers as well as the consumers who eat these nutritionally enhanced foods. Carbon is a building material for food as well as life itself. Lead researcher Peter Webb has discovered how to effect an environmental balance that allows all plants to absorb more of their nutritional needs from the atmosphere including moisture. Using corn/maize as a benchmark, in normal circumstances one acre will absorb approximately 10 tons of carbon dioxide, with the Environmental Destressor System, Laurentia estimates that 40 tons of carbon dioxide (and 300 pounds of nitrogen) can be harvested. This is based on the increased volume of roots, stalks, leaves and grain per acre. Other crops with similar uptake are alfalfa, potatoes and soybeans. Half of the carbon dioxide is stored in the root system and the balance is used above ground in stems, leaves, grain and fruit. When translated into growth, field trials in 2008 showed an increase of 1.5 tons per acre of corn, heavier beef calves coming off pasture and yet less fertilizer was used. This technology allows plants and trees to absorb greater quantities of their nutrients from the air around them, increasing production and nutrient value. A smaller system is available for home use with benefit to the occupants and their gardens alike. There will be ongoing trials into the foreseeable future in different environments and the results will be made known as they become available. ■

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Bernalillo 4-H members take third at Denver’s Round-up Horse Bowl ernalillo County’s 4-H Horse Bowl team placed third at the Western National Round-up held Jan. 7-11, in Denver during the National Western Stock Show. New Mexico State University, Colorado State University, Mississippi State University, South Dakota State University and Texas A&M University sponsored the event for senior 4-H members ages 14 to 19. The Bernalillo County team members are Zane Sullivan, Briana Curuso, Ryan Winslow and Irene Johnson. They represented New Mexico as the state champions, which they won during the state 4-H conference last summer. The team competed against 12 other state champions. The Horse Bowl provides an opportunity for youth enrolled in 4H horse projects to demonstrate their knowledge of equine-related subject matter in a competitive setting where attitude of friendliness and fairness prevails. Conducted like television quiz shows, team members buzz in to answer questions such as: ■ Define oxygenated? Answer: saturated with oxygen. ■ What is the distal portion of the

4-H leader given outstanding lifetime volunteer award helma Jo Riddle, a 4-H leader for 20 years in Quay County, was selected as the New Mexico recipient of the 2009 Salute to Excellence Award. This award recognizes 4-H volunteers who demonstrate exemplary service to 4H while promoting service through volunteerism, as both an opportunity and a privilege. Riddle is active in the 4-H Horse Program and has served in county level positions and as a 4-H club leader. Her enthusiasm and organizational skills has been a model for the 4-H members and their families. She encourages her members to complete their tasks and gives them the limelight to shine. In the nomination form it was written

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small intestine extending from the jejunum to the cecum? Answer: Ileum ■ What is the myelin sheath? Answer: The lipid substance that forms around nerve fibers. ■ The thickest muscle layer of the heart muscle is called? Answer: myocardium ■ What are the large flat muscles on the horse’s neck? Answer: splenius muscles ■ What do the initials HYPP stand for? Answer: hyperkalemic periodic paralysis

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JBS abandons National Beef takeover

Australian bushfire caused by global warming policy say fire victims

razil’s JBS, the world’s largest beef producer and owner of JBS-Swift, has abandoned its attempt to take over U.S. meat company National Beef Packing Company LLC. JBS became the No. 3 U.S. beef producer in 2008 when it bought the beef operations of Smithfield Foods Inc, which included beef plants and the Five Rivers Ranch cattle feeding operation. At that time it also tried to buy National Beef in a deal valued at $970 million in cash, stock and debt. Since then, the Brazilian company has been in talks with the U.S. Justice Department about selling assets in order to gain approval to buy National Beef. “JBS has made efforts to find a solution with all parts involved, but given the lack of satisfactory conditions, it decided not to go forward with the acquisition,” ■ JBS said in a statement.

bushfire raged through Australia in early February, devastating towns north of Melbourne. The latest report puts the death toll at 181, and it’s expected to rise. While the fires are suspected to have been set on purpose (all fires that cannot be tracked to a lightning strike are assumed to have been deliberately started), members of the Green Agenda practically leaped over one another to offer their take on the cause of the tragedy. “The bushfires are the worst natural disaster in Australia in 110 years. The previous worst bushfire was the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 which killed 75 people. “The blazes have increased pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to take firm action on climate change as scientists blamed global warming for the conditions that fueled the disaster.” There’s a word for this kind of brazen exploitation of the loss of life: “Shameless.” In America, we’re familiar with scientists and politicians exploiting national tragedies to promote their own agendas. The same phenomenon occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Scientists, the media, and even a certain politician railed on about how the deadly storm was caused by global warming. It practically became accepted knowledge that Hurricane Katrina was a storm of

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unprecedented power and the cause of that power was global warming. In reality, the deadly hurricane struck land as only a class 3 hurricane, the horrific death toll was caused not solely by the storm, but by poor maintenance of the levees that should have protected New Orleans from the storm surge and by inadequate preparation and response by the local, state, and federal governments. Not to mention the fact that scientists actually have no idea what effect global warming has on hurricanes, since at different times they have “linked” global warming to more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes, weaker hurricanes, and none of the above. Angry residents have accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk.

But the Green Agenda in Australia is perhaps even more shameless. Why? Because the extent of the damage may be directly linked to a policy they worked to enact; a policy that may have cost dozens of Australians their homes, and a few their lives. Angry residents have accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk. During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticized the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council’s help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you . . . won’t cut trees down,” he said. One family, however, refused to follow the draconian zoning regulations that prioritize the rights of trees over the safety of people (as the Green Agenda always seems to do). In 2002, Lian Sheahan and his family ignored the rules and bulldozed 250 trees surrounding their house. For this, they were called law breakers, forced to appear before a magistrate and fined $50,000. His family was “emotionally and financially drained.” Then the fires struck. The result? In Sheahan’s own words: “We are the only house standing in a two-kilometer area.” Sometimes “criminals” do prosper. ■

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fundamental question was asked the other day. Why not pay more attention to the offspring of the bull when a producer is re-evaluating the bull pen rather than the current predicted performance of the bull? This question is a very good and relevant question in the context of overall beef production. The reality of managing a beef cattle operation has many daily demands in terms of inputs and outputs. There is no simple process to place a calf up for sale, so, for at least today, let’s continue to focus on genetics because the bull buying season is upon us. The evaluation of a bull’s progeny would be and is another component of understanding if a bull is the right one. Unfortunately, the question is a lot easier to ask than answer. These concerns should lead a producer to a fork in the road. One fork points to breed associations and utilizes their expertise in sorting and reporting correct genetic feedback. The other fork points to cow management and calf evaluations. These are two unique and different data functions and clearly have different outcomes. Bull buying focuses on the first fork, so the information only is as good as the ability of the breed associations to analyze the data and report results. Once calculated and expressed as an expected progeny difference (EPD), the ability to predict the genetic potential of a particular bull is excellent. The second fork is in the herd process. As genes are placed in the cow herd, the performance of those genes is dependent on cow herd management. The associated records collected within a cow herd are more related to managerial questions, not genetic questions. Therefore, most records have the management of the herd and the genetics of the herd confounded. In other words, as a producer, you really do not know if the individual animal performance is more a function of selected genes or unique management. Both are important. The obvious response would be that what a producer sees is what a producer gets. The overwhelming comfort level tends to accept what is seen over what the

EPDs predicted. Normally, they do agree, but not always. However, it is better to accept the breed associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predictions when evaluating the progeny of a bull. Yes, that causes consternation, but, amazingly, large data sets do predict with great accuracy the answer to the question. Use EPDs generated by breed associations to buy bulls. Use herd management records to manage cows. In a pure world, all the bulls would be individually mated to a known group of cows. The calves would all be tagged and documented and the data collected.

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Use EPDs generated by breed associations to buy bulls. Use herd management records to manage cows. In a pure world, all the bulls would be individually mated to a known group of cows. The calves would all be tagged and documented and the data collected. However, most cattle are group mated. In other words, more than one bull is turned out to a group of cows or the bulls are rotated. This provides some level of assurance that the cows will be exposed to a fertile bull. In these cases, the individual sire of the calves is not known and most cattle are not randomly mated within a herd. In other words, when comparing calves, the parents of those calves were selected through specific mating plans and the evaluation of the calf is an affirmation of the plan. If the calf does not meet expectations, it is the plan that needs to be revised, not the data going into the plan. Both the cow and bull contribute to the plan, but the known accuracy of a genetic prediction generally is greater for the sire than the dam. In addition, a yearling bull that conceives a calf will be two years old when the calf is born. He will be three years old when the calf is more than likely harvested and he already will have conceived his third set of calves before the harvest data is analyzed from the first set of calves the bull sired. No wonder the data needs to be right at the time of purchase. Finally, although predicted performance is utilized to buy bulls and to re-evaluate bulls, cow performance is important. However, in the big picture, a cow herd is the product of bull genetics and it is a lot easier to haul home a new bull than a new â&#x2013; cow herd. MARCH 2009

A calf’s first day sets stage for its life ou have heard the warning: “What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas!” Perhaps you have not heard: “What happens in the first 24 hours, impacts the rest of a calf’s life!” Veterinary scientists, while with the USDA experiment station at Clay Center, Neb. monitored health events and growth performance in a population of range beef calves in order to identify associations of production factors with baby calf passive immune status. Blood samples were collected at 24 hours after calving from 263 crossbred calves to determine the amount of passive maternal immunity that had been obtained from colostrum. The baby calves were classified with “Inadequate” or “Adequate” Passive Immune status based on that blood sample at 24 hours of age. Growth performance and health events in the study population were monitored from birth to weaning, and after weaning throughout the feedlot phase. The lowest levels of passive immunity were observed among calves that were sick or died prior to weaning. Calves with “inadequate” passive immunity had a 5.4 times greater risk of death

prior to weaning, 6.4 times greater risk of being sick during the first 28 days of life, and 3.2 times greater risk of being sick any time prior to weaning when compared to calves with “adequate” passive transfer. Based on 24 hour proteins (most of which are antibodies or immunoglobulins) in the blood, the risk of being sick in the feedlot was also three times greater for “Inadequate” compared to “Adequate” calves. Passive immune status was also indirectly associated with growth rates through its effects on calf health. Sickness during the first 28 days of life was associated with a 35 pound lower expected weaning weight. Thus, passive immunity obtained from colostrum was an important factor determining the health of calves both pre- and post-weaning, and indirectly influenced calf growth rate during the same periods. Therefore, the cow calf producers can help themselves and the future owners of their calves, by properly growing replacement heifers, providing a good health program for cows and heifers, and providing natural or commercial colostrum replacers to calves that do not receive it in adequate quantities on their own. Remember that most of the transfer of antibodies from colostrum to the calf happens in the first six hours.

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• 50 yearling Angus, Brangus, and Brahman bulls on test. • Offering a few 2-year-old Brangus and Brahman bulls, and ~10 Angus and Brangus heifers. Including a strong set of ¼ Brahman x ¾ Angus cattle from 1st generation breeding as well as traditional multi-generation Brangus breeding. • Cattle derived from Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center and Corona Range and Livestock Research Center. • Calving ease and fertility considered our most economically relevant traits. Selection based on performance data, EPDs, DNA, and whole herd reporting for maternal traits.

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Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) a Growing Concern for Horse Producers December 2008 outbreak of Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) at a horse farm in Kentucky is increasing awareness of this disease in the United States horse industry, and could impact the interstate movement of breeding horses, according to Dr. Dave Fly, New Mexico State Veterinarian. The December CEM outbreak initially identified several exposed stallions at a breeding farm in central Kentucky during the 2008 breeding season, and now involves 11 infected stallions in four states, two infected mares in two states, and 575 exposed mares and stallions in 45 states. All exposed animals are being quarantined and treated. Since awareness has been raised, some exposed horses have been found that have no connection to the Kentucky farm, and no source for the outbreak has been positively identified. One exposed mare has been traced to New Mexico and has started in the testing protocol for the disease. Initially, exposures were being examined only for the 2008 breeding season. Now, potential exposures in the 2007 season and in a few

cases the 2006 season are being investigated as well. “This disease could have significant impacts on our state’s horse industry if it gets established, but we are working hard to prevent that,’ Fly said. “It is very contagious, and while animals can be treated and cured, an entire breeding season can be lost.” Many New Mexico equine veterinarians attended a CEM course held by the New Mexico Livestock Board in January which will certify them to test and treat horses exposed to the disease. “By attending the course, New Mexico’s equine practitioners are now prepared to participate in diagnosis and testing for the disease,” Fly said. “The impact to the industry is already beginning to be felt, with other countries restricting the movement of horses and semen,” he continued. “Canada is now requiring proof that horses imported into that country have had no contact with horses or facilities that could have the disease and show no signs of the disease.” That’s why we stepped up and had the training early, to try and be prepared. Now,

New Mexico is in a position to deal with, and hopefully minimize, this disease.” CEM is a sexually transmitted bacterial disease in horses. While stallions typically show no sign of infections, mares may show discharge and suffer from abortions and infertility. The disease spreads easily, both naturally through mating and by the use of contaminated equipment. Both mares and stallions can become chronic carriers of the disease. “Now, it’s just a matter of seeing how programs unfold in the rest of the country and responding appropriately,” Fly noted. Until this outbreak, CEM was considered a foreign animal disease, not present in the United States. While the disease can be treated with disinfectants and antibiotics, mares that test positive or come from CEM-positive countries must be quarantined for at least 21 days and go through a treatment protocol. Stallions that test positive for CEM or are imported from CEM-positive country must remain quarantined until a treatment protocol is completed and they test negative for the disease according to the U.S. Department ■ of Agriculture.

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Bradley 3 Ranch hosts successful sale n one of the most exciting sales of this spring, Bradley 3 Ranch sold 159 bulls to average $3,680. At the start of the sale, the Bradley family was presented with the American Angus Association’s Heritage Foundation Award for over 50 years of Angus seedstock production. This longtime history certainly lent to buyer confidence as they bid steady on the stout, real-world-oriented bulls. Buyers from 10 states representing over 200,000 head of cows filled the seats and bid on Superior Livestock. Long time friend and repeat customer, Lynn Cowden, knew the value of the Bradley 3 Ranch genetics as he bid to purchase the top five selling bulls. Cowden recognized the longevity represented in the Bradley 3 Ranch donor selection criteria as he three of his top selections were out of Bradley donors. He purchased one half interest in Lot 41, a Garden Wave son for $8,500. This outcross sire boasted a B3R bottom side pedigree and he hit the mark for calving ease, ribeye area, intramuscular fat, average daily gain, efficiency and GeneSTAR data. Cowden’s next selection was the crowd favorite. This powerful Retail Product son

garnered genetics of the proven Bradley 8017 donor cow. This bull led the sale offering for ribeye area and yearling weight while maintaining a 1.1 birth weight EPD. He sold for $8,000. The third high selling bull in the sale weaned at 67.9 percent of his dam’s weight, had a 6.0 IMF score and top 10 percent $B. Tracing back to the Bradley 3 Ranch foundation sire, 8082 on the bottom side, the Lot 11 bull was a son of Retail Product. He sold for $7,500. Cowden outlasted other bidders to own one half interest in Lot 17 at $5,500. This full brother to Lot 16 posted an impressive carcass combination with a 7.18 IMF score and 1.25 ribeye area per cwt. Another Bradley 3 Ranch, longtime New Mexico customer, was a consistent bidder throughout the day. He paid $6,500 to own Lot 21, a son of B3R P061. In the customer’s program where he retains ownership, this bull will pay dividends with his 5.50 average daily gain. More than ninety five percent of the sale offering sold to commercial breeders. These producers demanded bulls with muscle, fleshing ability and soundness and ■ the Bradley bulls delivered.

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2009 Federal Grazing Fees Announced he Federal grazing fee for 2009 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the Forest Service. The grazing fee for 2009 is the same as it was in 2008. An AUM or HM — treated as equivalent measures for fee purposes — is the occupancy and use of public lands by one cow and her calf, one horse, or five sheep or goats for a month.

The newly adjusted grazing fee, determined by a congressional formula and effective on March 1, applies to nearly 18,000 grazing permits and leases administered by the BLM and more than 8,000 permits administered by the Forest Service. The formula used for calculating the grazing fee, which was established by Congress in the 1978 Public Rangelands Improvement Act, has continued under a presidential Executive Order issued in 1986. Under that order, the grazing fee can-

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Fisher named ASI president len Fisher of Sonora, Texas, was elected president of the American Sheep Industry Association ( ASI ) at the 2009 ASI /National Lamb Feeders Association Convention in San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 24. Fisher is the major partner and manager of Askew-Fisher Ranch, located on 18,000 acres of land in Sutton County, Texas. He runs approximately 1,800 head of sheep and 400 cows, as well as offers a hunting enterprise on his ranch. Before being elected to the office of president, Fisher served as vice president and secretary/treasurer of the organization. He has served on the ASI Executive Board and is a past chairman of the American Wool Council. In addition to ASI, he has served as past president of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association, past director of the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center and past director of the Texas Polled Hereford Association. Fisher managed Sonora Wool and Mohair Co. for 16 years and has also been involved in numerous civic and local organizations. Most recently, Fisher served as chair of the ASI Goat Committee. Fisher and wife, Linda, and have two children, daughter Tammy, and son David. Commenting on his election to the office, Fisher says, “I am proud to repre-

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Lights out for Thomas Edison he Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will soon ban the most common light bulbs in the United States. New efficiency standards will require manufacturers to produce incandescent bulbs that use less energy per unit of light produced, starting with 100-watt incandescent bulbs in 2012, down to 40-watt bulbs in 2014. Under the new standards: ■ 100-watt light bulbs are banned entirely. ■ 70-watt light bulbs will have to be 36 percent to 136 percent more efficient. ■ 50-watt bulbs must be 50 percent to 112 percent more efficient. ■ 40-watt bulbs will have to improve 50 percent to 110 percent. Incandescent bulbs cannot meet these new standards absent a significant technological breakthrough. Thus, the common light bulb will soon be extinct, say H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow, and Amanda Berg, a legislative assistant, both with the National Center for Policy Analysis. The alternative for most household uses will be compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) designed to fit standard incandescent bulb bases. CFLs currently make up only 5 percent of the light bulb market. They have been touted for years as the smart choice for consumers interested in reducing their energy bills, due to their extended lifespan and low energy use in relation to the equivalent light output from an incandescent. For example: ■ A 60-watt incandescent bulb produces 850 lumens — the same light output as a 13-watt to 18-watt CFL. ■ Unfortunately, except under a fairly narrow range of circumstances, CFLs are less efficient than advertised. ■ Manufacturers claim the average life span of a CFL bulb is 10,000 hours, however, in many applications the life and energy savings of a CFL are significantly lower. The public has yet not embraced CFLs, and the government should not impose on consumers its preferences regarding the types of lights used in the home. As the deficiencies of CFLs become more apparent with widespread use, perhaps Congress will let consumers decide, say Burnett and Berg.

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Saturday morning of the 2008 Joint Stockmen’s Convention provided one of those times when I truly get to enjoy the fruits of everyone’s labor and the foresight to know that there is a future . . . it will not be the same as what we did yesterday or probably even what we are doing today. But there will be cattlemen and cattlewomen who will carry on. The revelation came as I sat in an impromptu meeting called by one of our

“youngsters” asking her peers to have breakfast to discuss ways that the younger generation could become more involved in the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA). It so happened that the meeting was at the same time as the Nominating Committee met in the next room. That Committee is made up of all the past presidents along with a few individuals appointed by the sitting NMCGA President. It is one of those groups I

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Thanks to all of you who responded to the Call to Action regarding the elimination of the agricultural exemption for workers compensation insurance. At press time it appears that with your calls we have the issue on the table where it should stay until the Legislature adjourns on March 21. There are numerous other issues that are keeping all of us busy in Santa Fe, but the overarching problem continues to be the budget. House Bill 2, which is the budget, is scheduled to go to the Senate in late February, and it could be a few days before we can determine the final outcome. Tax issues remain a concern as the Legislature works to balance a budget and provide services. Watch your email as we call for your help. As has become a tradition, the agricultural industry will hold the Roundhouse Feed on Thursday, March 19 at 5:00 p.m. in the Rotunda of the Capitol. We generally feed somewhere between 1,000 and 1,400 people in about two hours. Needless to say, it takes a lot of hands to get that done and we can use all the help we can get. For the first time, the entire day will be Ag Day in the Capitol with booths from the various industry groups in the building during most of the day. For more information on being a part of the event, please call the office at 505/247-0584. The last of ‘em

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son, choosing instead to worship in the pasture. The land, the livestock and the wildlife were more than a vocation for Bobby Cowan, they were his pew, pulpit and choir on Sunday mornings and every morning. He was close to God every day and taught us that our surroundings were only in our care for this lifetime. Environmentalists talk about the land being spiritual renewal — Daddy practiced the concept well before they were ever born. He taught us critical thinking, the ability to take care of and stand up for ourselves, and the use of creative license. When he began purchasing heavy equipment, it was a secret he didn’t share with Grandmother. One afternoon she was bringing Carol home to the JO Bar and slammed on the breaks in front of the newest road grader. “What the heck is that she asked?” Five-year-old Carol sweetly replied “that just one of Daddy’s heifers” — there was one standing in front of the grader. Hearing was always an issue with Dad even before his hearing went with age. After his formative months with Pa, my nephew R.W.’s first word was “Huh.” You never knew if Daddy heard you or was just deep in his own thoughts. Often you would ask a question that would go unanswered. Two or three days later he would come out with the answer. By then you had forgotten what you had asked and you would ask him what he was talking about . . . He’d look at you like you were nuts and tell you he was just answering your question. Off the ranch, Dad’s activities were many and varied. He was a member of the King Solomon Masonic Lodge #5 for more than 50 years, serving as Master more than once. He was especially proud to be a part of the Eastern Star and helping Merle reach the post of Worthy Grand Matron. He was a Shriner, where he was a member of the Fliver Patrol and the Mounted Patrol and work raising funds for the Shriners Children’s Hospitals. There is no telling how many miles he drove to be in a parade with his friends and wave at all the kids along the route. He served for 32 years on the Tombstone Unified District School Board seeing the new high school grow from the mesquite and earning a commendation from President George H.W. Bush. He was a long time member of the Cochise Graham Cattle Growers, serving

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Canadians resist food irradiation anadians’ confidence in government food inspection programs is plummeting as the number of fatalities linked to tainted meat products mounts, says Diane Katz, director of risk, environment and energy policy studies for the Fraser Institute. In predictable fashion, officials are promising to resolve the crisis by increasing their budgets. But matters won’t improve in any meaningful way until food safety policy is shaped by science rather than politics, says Katz: ■ The 13 deaths associated with the outbreak of listeriosis in processed meats from Maple Leaf Foods in Toronto would be tragic under any circumstances. ■ But they are all the more so given the ready availability of safe biotechnology that can destroy a great deal of the microbial contamination that sickens millions of Canadians each year and costs the economy more than $14 billion. There’s no guarantee of risk-free eating, of course. More than 250 diseases are transmitted through food by biological hazards — a vast number of which are invited by consumers’ mishandling of per-

ishables. But the use of irradiation can significantly reduce incidences of food-borne illness, says Katz: ■ Exposing food to radiant energy such as microwaves and gamma rays kills bacteria or halts their proliferation. ■ The process has undergone decades of research and has been deemed safe and effective by more than 50 countries. ■ According to the Canadian Institute of Food Science Technology: “From a toxicological, microbiological or nutritional point of view, the process of food irradiation is at least as safe as other, more conventional, well accepted food processes such as pasteurization and canning.” Yet Health Canada has not finalized any petition for food irradiation since 1984, when permission was granted to irradiate wheat and flour against insect infestations. Only three other applications have been approved in the past 25 years: for potatoes, to control sprouting and extend shelf life, in 1960; for onions, to inhibit sprouting, in 1965; and, to decontaminate herbs, in 1984. Source: Diane Katz, “Science and Safety; Listeriosis crisis demonstrates need for greater use of biotech,” Fraser Institute, October 2008.

Southwest Brangus Breeders Association TOUGH CATTLE FOR ROUGH COUNTRY — Raised with your needs in mind. Contact one of the following Brangus breeders for all of your spring needs. ■ POPPY CANYON RANCH Dr. Bart Carter 1017 S. 1st Avenue., Thatcher, AZ 85552 928-348-8918 Home • 928-348-4030 Office bjcmd@cableone.net ■ ROBBS BRANGUS R.L. & Sally Robbs 4995 Arzberger Road., Willcox, AZ 85643 520-384-3654 Home • 520-384-2478 Office/Fax Robbs.brangus@powerc.net ■ PARKER BRANGUS Larry & Elaine Parker 1700 Parker Road., P.O. Box 146 San Simon, AZ 85632 520-845-2315 Home • 520-845-2411 Office jddiane@vtc.net ■ LUNA-A RANCH Randy Armenta 1432 S. Marc Drive., Tucson, AZ 85710 520-886-3806 Home • 520-490-5511 Office randyarmenta@hotmail.com ■ LACK-MORRISON BRANGUS Bill Morrison 411 CR 10., Clovis, NM 88101 575-482-3254 Home • 575-760-7263 Mobile bvmorrison@yucca.net ■ DEES BROS BRANGUS Alex Dees P.O. Box 10090., Yuma, AZ 85366 760-572-5261 Home/Office 760-572-2880 Fax • 928-920-3800 Mobile alexudees@aol.com ■ EL RANCHO ESPANOLA DE CUYAMA

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MARCH 2009

New Mexico’s Old Times and Old Timers

Paddy Graydon: New Mexico’s Desert Tiger

ever heard of Paddy Graydon? Welcome to the club. Not many have, in spite of the fact that James “Paddy” was one of New Mexico’s most interesting characters, known to many as the Desert Tiger. A bit of confusion about his date of birth, to begin with. One source indicates that he was born in 1832, while another reports he first saw the light of day in 1842. The latter date seems a bit unlikely since he would only have been 20 years old when he died. Graydon was born in Northern Ireland but made his way to the United States, and the Southwest, as a young man. He enlisted in the United State Army’s 1st Dragoons in April 1853. He marched west and was assigned to Company G, stationed at Los Lunas, New Mexico, under the command of Captain Richard Stoddart Ewell, a well-know Indian fighter of the day. Graydon participated in a number of forays into the Mescalero Apache homeland, and was

MARCH 2009

By DON BULLIS Don can be reached at donbullis@msn.com. His website is www.DonBullis.biz. His newest book, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, is available from leading bookstores, or directly from the publisher, Rio Grande Books, at info@nmsantos.com

present when Captain Henry Whiting Stanton was killed near El Rio Peñasco in January 1855. Fort Stanton, near Lincoln, was of course named for him. In 1856, Graydon’s unit was assigned to what would become Arizona. He left the army in 1858 and opened a hotel about four miles south of Fort Buchanan. It came to be called the Casa Blanca (for obvious reasons), and it was one of the toughest saloons on the New Mexico frontier (remember that President Lincoln didn’t separate Arizona and New Mexico until 1863). Tough or not, it seems to have been successful. One source reports that Graydon had assets valued at $13,000 in 1860, a

considerable amount of money at the time. In 1861, Graydon participated in the celebrated Bascom Affair in which Apaches, under Cochise, killed six white captives and in return six Apache hostages were hanged by a U.S. Army detachment under Lt. George Bascom. The latter event sparked a war which lasted ten, or so, years. By late in 1861, with the coming of the United States Civil War to New Mexico, Governor Henry Connelly commissioned Graydon, a staunch Union supporter, as a Captain and the commander of an “Independent Spy Company.” Graydon and his men were mighty good at what they did. One Confederate soldier complained that Graydon (he called him O’Graden) “. . . knew every move we made” before the Battle of Valverde (February 21, 1862). Maybe, but the Confederates still managed a victory in that battle. It was Graydon who suggested that Union troops load two old mules with explosives, light the fuses, and then drive

them into the Confederate camp. The plan failed when the animals refused to commit suicide for the cause, although they were both killed anyway. Graydon was a conspicuous participant in the Valverde battle. In October of the same year, Graydon and his troop rode to Gallinas Springs in what is now Lincoln County, and initially met peacefully with Manuelito, a Mescalero Apache Chief, who was there because Colonel Kit Carson had directed him to be. Later, however, near Cement Springs, three miles from Gallinas Springs, Graydon and Manuelio met again. Graydon killed Manuelito and nearly a dozen other Apaches were killed by troops under Graydon’s command. In early November, 1862, Dr. John M. Whitlock (one source reports that his first name was James), an army surgeon in Kit Carson’s First New Mexico Volunteers, accused Graydon of murdering Manuelito and the other Apaches. On the afternoon of November 4, the two men met in the suttler’s store at Fort Stanton and exchanged accusations and insults, but no blood was shed. On the following morning, though, on the fort’s parade ground, the lead began to fly. Whitlock, slightly wounded in the wrist, killed Captain Graydon (actually shot him in the chest and he died four days later). In retaliation, Graydon’s men murdered Whitlock. One report indicated that the medico was shot more than 100 times, but others indicate that his body contained but 20 bullet wounds, plus the damage done by a shotgun. Carson was so angry at the murder of Dr. Whitlock that he threatened to hang the entire detachment. In the end, though, only three were charged with the crime. The three were arrested and removed to Santa Fe to await trial. They all escaped, but were eventually recaptured. They were scheduled to go on trial in February 1863, but for an unknown reason, the court was adjourned, and if there was a final adjudication of the matter, the record has not been found. Graydon is mentioned by a number of historians, several of them listed below; but the best treatment of his life is Jerry Thompson’s book, Captain Paddy Graydon: Desert Tiger. Other Sources: Don Alberts, Rebels on the Rio Grande; Mrs. B. C. Hernandez, “Death of J. M. Whitlock,” New Mexico Historical Review, January 1941; Jacqueline Dorgan Meketa, Legacy of Honor; Richard Melzer, Buried Treasures; Rathbun & Alexander, New Mexico Frontier Military Place Names; Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder; Dan Thrapp, Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography

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MUSICK’S ANGUS SALE DATE CORRECTION Our Annual Sale is

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th 48 Cattle Company Annual Tucumcari Bull Test Sale HVR Wagon Boss 515 Check out our bulls at Tucumcari Bull Test Scott, Britta, Madison & Kreese Milligan 806/683-6435 • cell: 806/267-0302 millcattle@amaonline.com Vega, Texas

Friday, March 20 NMSU Ag Science Center 3 miles north of Tucumcari on U.S. 54

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PAR NEW DESIGN P97 CED +8, BW +1.9, WW +30, YW+64, MILK +24

PAR BENCHMARK P22 CED +7, BW 2.9, WW +45, YW +67 MILK +12

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Tucumcari Bull Test Sale 48th Annual

Friday, March 20, 2009 Lunch: 11:30 am • Sale: 1:00 pm NMSU Tucumcari Ag Science Center

120 Performance Tested Yearling Bulls ❍ Representing the Industries Leading Sires ❍ Grown on a High Forage-Based Diet ❍ Backed by the Most Complete Data – 112-Day Test (ADG, WDA, Feed Efficiency) – Ultrasound – 56-Marker DNA Panel for core management traits ❍ Complete Breeding Soundness Exam on Every Bull ❍ Verified negative for TB, Trich, & PI-BVD ❍ All Bulls are 840 tagged! ❍ All Angus Bulls Tested & Verified Arthrogryposis Multiplex Free (AMF)

GENETIC SUPPLIERS REPRESENTED Grau Charolais-Grady, NM • Sandhill Charolais – Boise City, OK Milligan Cattle Co. –Vega, TX • J-C Angus Ranch – Moriarty, NM Hartzog Angus Cattle – Bovina, TX • A Lazy 6 Angus – Villanueva, NM McCall Land & Cattle – Moriarty, NM • Salazar Ranches – Espanola, NM 4G Mountain Angus – Mora, NM • Porter Angus Ranch – Mule Creek, NM Premium Beef Genetics – Canyon, TX • Mead Angus – Tucumcari, NM AAA Farms – El Rito, NM • Vagabond Cattle Co – Roswell, NM Abercrombie Ranch – Tucumcari, NM • Zenitram Ranch – El Rito, NM

Join us for our Buyers Bull Session, Social & Supper Thursday, March 19 at 6:00 pm Tucumcari Convention Center This year’s educational program will focus on: The Value of DNA-marker Technology & The New Mexico Gold Calf Marketing Program

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For more information contact: Dr. Manny Encinias at 505/927-7935 or mencinia@nmsu.edu Check us out on the web at: http://cahe.nmsu.edu/beefperformancetest

MARCH 2009

Tucumcari Bull Test reports at 84 days on test he 122 bulls on test at the 48th Annual Tucumcari Bull Test were weighed after 84 days on test. The annual bull sale will be held Friday, March 20, 2009 at the NMSU Ag Science Center, near Tucumcari. Breed leaders at 84 days are reported below. Through 84 days, the 122 bulls on test are averaging 4.21 pounds of gain per day. ■ Bull 6-2, a son of M6 Cigar 573 P ET, owned by Sandhill Charolais, Boise City, Okla., had the high ADG (6.38 pounds per day; ratio: 156.6) and WDA (3.89 pounds per day; ratio = 111.6) individual in the Charolais index group through the 84 day interim weighing session. The perfor-

mance of the sons of M6 Cigar 573P ET have enabled their pen to continue as the top ADG and WDA Charolais Sire Group through 84 days. ■ Porter Angus Ranch, Mule Creek, N.M., owns Bull 20-2, a son of HV 338 Alliance 6084, the high gaining ADG Angus at 5.96 pounds per day (ADG ratio = 130.7), and Bull 12-4, a March-born son of EXAR Precision 5290 owned by Hartzog Angus, Farwell, Tex., leads the Angus index group for WDA (4.06 pounds per day; WDA ratio = 125.7). Sons of Hartzog’s EXAR Precision 5290, are the high ADG and WDA Angus Sire Group at 84 days. ■ Bull 33-1, a son of VL Mr. Jazz It Up

348590, owned by Vagabond Cattle Company, Roswell, is the current high-gaining Maine-Anjou bull at 4.85 pounds per day (ADG ratio = 127.5) through 84 days, and Bull 34-4, also a VL Mr. Jazz It Up 348590 son, also owned by Vagabond Cattle Company, is the high WDA bull (3.16 pounds per day; WDA ratio = 104.8). Sons of VL Mr. Jazz It Up 348590 are both the high ADG and WDA Maine-Anjou Sire Group through 84 days on test. ■ RA Mile High Fire 05, from Abercrombie Ranch, Tucumcari, leads the Hereford division with both the High ADG and WDA Sire Group. Bull 38-1, a son of HC Standard Lad 5305 from Salazar

We Will Be Back in Villanueva in the Spring

• Registered Fall & Yearling Bulls Available Private Treaty at Watrous

We have bulls at the Tucumcari Bull Test BULL TEST SALE: 3/20/09 WITH EACH BULL PURCHASED BY MARCH 31, YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN: GRAND PRIZE ~ 2 round trip Southwest Airline tickets to the destination of your choice Watrous •

2nd PRIZE ~ $200 off your next bull purchase 3rd PRIZE ~ $100 off your next bull purchase BLOODLINES: Mytty In Focus • KG Spirit • Emulation • Future Direction • Twin Valley Precision

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“ They are worth more if they have Black Angus Influence.” 46

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* Need not be present to win

Ranches, Espanola, is the high individual Hereford for ADG (4.10 pounds per day; ADG ratio = 139.9) and WDA (3.29 pounds per day; WDA ratio = 113.5). ■ Zenitram Ranch, El Rito, owns the high ADG (3.15 pounds per day; ADG ratio = 110.0) and WDA (3.55 pounds per day; WDA ratio = 111.4) Blonde D’Aquitaine after 84 days on test.

A Pre-Sale Buyers Bull Session, Social, and Supper will be held at the Tucumcari Convention Center on Thursday evening, March 19. To receive the complete 84-day report contact Dr. Manny Encinias at 505/9277935 or go to http://cahe.nmsu.edu/beef performancetest. The bulls may be viewed anytime at the testing facility three miles north of Tucumcari, N.M. on Highway 54 at the NMSU Agriculture Science Center. A Pre-Sale Buyers Bull Session, Social, and Supper will be held at the Tucumcari Convention Center on Thursday evening, March 19. All potential bull buyers and seedstock operators interested in testing at the facility are encouraged to attend the pre-sale event. The event was a sale highlight last year, giving ample opportunity to visit with bull owners and partake in a valuable educational program focused on bull buying decisions for commercial beef cattle producers. This year’s program will focus on the Value of DNA-marker Technology and the New Mexico Gold Calf Marketing Program. Sale day lunch will be served Fri., March 20, 11:30 a.m., and the 48th Annual Bull Sale will start at 1:00 pm. All bulls will sell with complete performance data (average daily gain, weight per day of age, and feed efficiency), ultrasound data, and Gene STAR DNA marker profiles for quality grade, tenderness, and feed efficiency. Bulls will be fertility-tested, and verified negative for Tuberculosis, Trichomoniasis and PI-BVD prior to the sale. All Angus bulls in the sale offering are Arthrogryposis Multiplex (AM; aka Curly Calf) Free ■ (AMF).

DNA for quality grade, tenderness and feed efficiency

Lane Grau

Wesley Grau

575/760-6336

575/760-7304

Tucumcari Bull Test • March 20 at Noon 14 Bulls – 4 by the Bull Pictured Below! “Dustin Dean of Bovigen says “Grau bulls are among the highest quality grade testing Charolais bulls ever tested here at Bovigen!”

MARCH 2009

Adding value to the calf crop by CLAY WRIGHT o many producers, adding value means implementing management practices to maximize the price received for their calves on sale day. Some practices simply avoid discounts: dehorning; castration; breeding-in adequate frame and muscling; and managing away from extremes of body condition at sale time. Other practices open the door for the possibility of premiums on sale day: superior bull and cow genetics; a controlled breeding season so that calves can sell in larger, more uniform lots relative to size, age and breed-type; preconditioning; and a complete health program. Then

there are what might be called one-time practices that can significantly impact your check: minimizing presale shrink and optimizing fill in the sale ring. In the few seconds your calves are in the ring, buyers visually appraise your offering, determine their value and place a bid. Mostly, their bid is based on their perception of how your calves will perform in the next phase of production. To enhance the buyer’s appraisal of the product’s value, it is becoming more common for producers to document their value-added management practices and to communicate this information to buyers at sale time. Selling at or soon after weaning is a per-

fectly valid marketing endpoint; however, the value-added attributes you’ve infused into your product continue to pay dividends all the way to the end product — quality beef for the consumer. A good example is preconditioning. Research shows that preconditioned calves entering the feedlot will have lower morbidity and mortality, gain faster with greater feed efficiency and finish with fewer days on feed and a lower total cost of gain. One study showed a $55 per head advantage for preconditioned calves by the end of the feeding period. A buyer may share part of that future value with you in the form of a premium, but it will never equal the full value of the management and expertise represented in your calves. It follows then that the longer

Two Powerful New Herdsires at J-C Angus!

B/R Future Direction 6171

This son of Future Direction was our pick of the ‘07 Rishel sale. Co-owned with Randy White and Dan Bracken, this bull offers calving ease along with strong growth and exceptional carcass traits. He ranks in the top 1% of non-parent bulls for $G and $B as well as the top 2% for Ribeye!

CED BW WW YW EPD

1.5

TOP 25%

Milk %IMF RE 26

.86

.51

$EN

30%

• 16 Bulls at the Tucumcari Bull Test Sale – March 20, 2009 • 6 Bulls in the NMAA Sale, Roswell – March 7 • 10 bulls at the Ready to Work Sale, Belen – March 16 Our Sale Bulls are sired by our new herd sires as well as our older herd sires: A&B Midland 4013 and A&B New Design 4101. AI Sires represented include Quaker Hill Objective 3J15, SS Objective T510 OT26, and Bon View New Design 1407

MARCH 2009

CED BW WW YW

-2.09 27.04 23.59 41.31 65.59

SELLING

GAR Objective 561 This son of SS Objective was our pick of the ‘07 Lee Angus sale. This bull (pictured at 18 months) offers exceptional calving ease along with exceptional growth and solid carcass traits. He ranks in the top 3% of non-parent bulls for WW, YW, $W, $F, while ranking in the top 4% for CED, the top 10% for BW and the top 20% for Marb & Ribeye, combining for an exceptional $B in the top 2% of the breed!

EPD

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106

TOP

10%

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$EN

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.45 -10.49 32.19 41.94 31.19 62.03

10%

20%

10%

Pictures of Bulls Selling in Roswell & Belen available on our website – www.jcangus.com

J-C Angus Ranch JOHN and CATHY HECKENDORN • 75-A Pueblo Rd. N., Moriarty, NM 87035 H: 505/832-9364 • C: 505/379-8212 • Toll Free: 888/JCANGUS (522-6487) WEB:

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EMAIL:

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you own your product, the more of the true value of your management you will realize. If you are producing a high quality, value-added calf crop, it’s worth the effort to evaluate ways to own your product ■ longer.

Clem McSpadden honored with Endowed Chair at OSU o honor the legacy of the famous rodeo man, cowboy and Oklahoma congressman Clem McSpadden, an endowed faculty chair has been established in his name at Oklahoma State University. “Clem McSpadden was well known for the phrase ‘good people on good soil,’ and I believe it was his passion for young people and agriculture that guided his stellar career,” said Dr. Ron Kensinger, head of the department of animal science at OSU. “He also had a passion for OSU and the development of this endowed chair is a perfect fit for his legacy.” The 1948 OSU animal husbandry graduate was a championship roper before lending his voice as a professional and highly esteemed rodeo announcer. He went on to serve the state of Oklahoma as a state and federal lawmaker before his death last year to cancer. McSpadden was a native of Chelsea, Okla., and the great nephew of famous American cowboy and Hollywood star Will Rogers. McSpadden is also credited for helping to start country singer Reba McEntire’s career by booking her to sing the national anthem at the National Finals Rodeo. Clem and his wife, Donna, shared a passion for helping young people and together they created the Clem McSpadden Endowed Scholarship awarded today to animal science students at OSU. McSpadden is remembered also for his patriotism and religious beliefs, which he shared with the world through his original works, “If This Flag Could Talk” and “The Cowboy’s Prayer.” The Clem McSpadden Chair in Agricultural Youth Leadership will provide funds to endow a program within the OSU animal science department to provide a select group of students with leadership and international experience involving state and national government and the agriculture industry. “This chair will benefit the department of animal science by having a faculty member who will focus on developing the next generation of outstanding leaders for agriculture,” Kensinger said. “We are ■ thrilled to be a part of this effort.”

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EXAR Professional 4141 A member of the 2006 Senior Champion carload at Denver, is backed by two of the best in the Angus breed-the carcass bull BR Midland and the maternal pathfinder sire Dateline. This calving ease and high growth bull will sire progeny that will standout in the show ring. ROY, TRUDY, ASHLEY HARTZOG, Owners 806/825-2711 • 806/225-7230 • Farwell, Texas RAUL TELLEZ, Las Cruces, N.M., 575/646-4929 DAVID WALKER, Tucumcari, N.M., 575/403-7916

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China harpoons new Kyoto talks hina has now destroyed Western hopes for a new global warming agreement, just weeks before global talks in Poland aimed at writing a successor for the Kyoto Protocol — which expires in 2012, says Dennis Avery, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and Director for the Center for Global Food Issues. China has attached a ransom note to its Polish meeting RSVP: They might go along with a new warming pact if the rich countries agree to hand over one percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) — about $300 billion per year — to finance the required non-fossil, higher-cost energy systems the West wants the developing countries to use. “Climate change policies need a lot of money to be invested. However, developed countries have not made any substantive promises about how much they are going to spend on this,” said Gua Guangsheng, head of China’s Climate Change Office on Oct. 28. Don’t spend much of your “worry time” on a new climate treaty however, says Avery. Global temperatures are doing their best to tell us that CO2 isn’t very important after all: ■ Global thermometers stubbornly refused to rise after 1998, and have plummeted in the past two years by more than 0.5°C. ■ The world is now colder than in 1940, when the Post-WWOII Industrial Revolution started spewing lots of manmade CO2 in the first place. ■ On October 29, the United States beat or tied 115 low-temperature records for the date; Alaska, which was unusually warm last year, recorded 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit that night — beating the previous low by 4°F. ■ London had snow in October for the first time in more than 70 years. The 2007-08 temperature drop wasn’t predicted by the global climate models, but it had been predicted by the sunspots since 2000. Both the absent sunspots and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation now predict a 25- to 30-year global cooling. After that, the remaining enthusiasm for global warming agreements will presumably have vanished — without any big payoff to the Chinese government, says Avery.

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Source: Dennis Avery, “China Sinks New Kyoto,” American Conservative Union Foundation, December 3, 2008.

Night time feeding influences time of calving t is generally accepted that adequate supervision at calving has a significant impact on reducing calf mortality. Adequate supervision has been of increasing importance with the use of larger beef breeds and cattle with larger birth weights. On most ranching operations, supervision of the first calf heifers will be best accomplished in daylight hours and the poorest observation takes place in the middle of the night. The easiest and most practical method of inhibiting nighttime calving at present is by feeding cows at night; the physiological mechanism is unknown, but some hormonal effect may be involved. Rumen motility studies indicate the frequency of rumen contractions falls a few hours before parturition. Intraruminal pressure begins to fall in the last two weeks of gestation, with a more rapid decline during calving. It has been suggested that night feeding causes intraruminal pressures to rise at night and decline in the daytime. In a Canadian study of 104 Hereford cows 38.4 percent of a group fed at 8:00 a.m. and again at 3:00 p.m. delivered calves during the day, 79.6 percent of a group fed at 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. A British study utilizing 162 cattle on four farms compared the perentages of calves born from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. to cows fed.at different times. When cattle were fed at 9:00 a.m., 57 percent of the calves were born during the day, vs 79 percent with feeding at 10:00 p.m. In field trials by cattlemen utilizing night feeding when 35 cows and heifers were fed once daily between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., 74.5 percent of the calves were born between 5:00 am and 5:00 p.m. In the most convincing study to date, 1331 cows on 15 farms in Iowa were fed once daily at dusk, 85 percent of the calves were born between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Whether cows were started on the night feeding the week before calving started in the herd or two to three weeks earlier made no apparent difference in calving time. On many large ranches, it is physically impossible to feed all of the cows after 5:00 p.m. In those instances, the ranch manager should plan to feed the mature cows earlier in the day, then feed the first calf heifers at dusk. The heifers, of course, are the group of females that are of greatest need of observation during the calving ■ season.

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eveloped in France, Limousin cattle were first imported into the United States in 1971, quickly growing in popularity according to the North American Limousin Foundation (NALF). At first, the breed was concentrated in Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota and western Canada, but quickly spread across the United States. Today, the NALF has 4,000 active members who register 40,000 head annually.

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Registered Limousins can be red or black, horned or polled. In 2002, NALF established the Lim-Flex program, which gives producers the flexibility of a Limousin/Angus cross and the advantages of the breed registry and association. This cross allows producers to maximize the best traits of both breeds, muscling and efficiency of the Limousin and the marbling and disposition of Angus. Limousin cattle have been very successful in the show ring as well as in the beef cattle industry. Frame size, carcass quality, and muscling are some of the traits that have caught producers’ attention. For the past 40 years, Limousin cattle have been a constant at Craig Limousin Ranch, just south of Durango, Colo. Today, Joel and Jann Craig, and their son Derek, raise hay and purebred Limousins on the family ranch. Joel grew up on his family’s dairy and said that the breed caught his attention when they were looking for ways to add beef to their cattle. “Holstein steers provided our beef, and we got to looking around at other breeds to increase the beef in the cattle we ate. We used artificial insemination (AI) in the dairy cattle, and liked the look of the Charolais cattle in the sire magazines. We started using

Charolais semen to increase the meat in our beef cattle, and I liked the females so much, we kept some. “A few years later, the Limousin breed was introduced to the United States from France. I saw pictures of these big, beautiful red cattle and just had to try them. My dad sent me to an AI school in Chicago, where I saw one of the first Limousin bulls in the country. I brought back some semen straws, which we used on our Holstein/Charolais cows, and we grew from there.” Joel kept improving his cattle through AI, and over 40 years progressed to a purebred herd. “I started from scratch, and have never bought a

Limousin cow. At first, there were hardly any Limousins in the country, but with artificial insemination, you have access to genetics from anywhere in the world.” Carcass traits are one of the breed’s strengths. “Research has shown that they have a muscling gene that other breeds just don’t have,” he explained. “They slaughter and cut up at a higher yield than most other breeds. In fact, in France, Limousin were known as the butcher’s breed because of how easy they were to cut up. Our kids showed the cattle in 4-H and were always at the top of carcass classes.

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Limousin just don’t put on fat like other breeds.” Joel said that while his first intention was to produce seedstock, he sells many of his bulls to commercial producers and has developed a good market for butcher steers and freezer beef. “We try to sell our breeding stock by private treaty. We always have bulls and heifers available. Most of our bulls go to commercial producers, and they are a good cross on any breed.” The Craigs run their cattle on hay pasture in the winter, and on grass in the summer. “We raise both red and black cattle, bred for the real world and working world. We focus on what works on the range and in the mountains,” he explained. “Our customers tell us that the cattle travel well up in the mountains.” When Limousin were first imported, they did have a reputation for a bad disposition, but Joel says that has been moderated over the years. “The cattle are high vigor, and have a lot of fire in them,” he explained. “You can bring out that fire in them, and if you do you will have problems. If you handle them right, they are great cattle. That vigor really helps when you’re calving, those little Limousins are up and sucking right away.” He also credits the breed for maternal strength. “They are good mothers,” he noted. “I know all of my cows, some you can walk right up to with a new baby and some will run you off. They are very protective.” Like any producer, Joel is constantly working to improve his cattle. “I have

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been culling really hard, looking at things like temperament and feet. I am selecting for the polled gene, and am getting a nice polled herd that I think could compete in the show arena, but that is really not my thing.” For producers looking to add muscling to their cattle, Limousin is the way to go, he noted. “Packers are always saying we need higher yield grading in beef calves. The only way to get that is to add meat and muscle to your breeding. I always tell our buyers, just wait until you see the calves. When they are between two and four months old, they look like little running racehorses out in the pasture. They are all muscle.” The breed has changed quite a bit over the years, but he credits his success to staying with what works for him rather than trying to follow the trends. In recent years, there has been a focus on crossbreeding with Angus, but he says he sees people now looking for heavier, thicker bulls. Looking towards the future, Joel is hopeful that when he is ready to slow down, Derek will be ready to take over. “The ranch was homesteaded by my great-grandfather, and Derek will be the fifth generation of our family on the land. You see ranches falling apart and subdividing, but that won’t happen here while I am alive.” For Jim and Judy Greer and Dave and Amanda Winston of Greer Winston Cattle Company in the Mimbres Mountains of southern New Mexico, Limousin have been a good fit since the late 1990s. “We bought a couple of Limousin bulls to cross on our crossbred commercial cattle herd, liked what we saw in the calves, and have worked from there to improve our herd, Jim said.

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grams.” Carcass traits are one of the breed’s biggest strengths. “Yield grade on Limousin-cross calves is consistently higher than those without the Limousin influence because of the breed’s high muscle to bone ratio,” he noted. “The carcass is high yielding, more muscular, with less fat and meat that is lower in cholesterol.” To get more information on the calves typically sold commercially, Jim said they are planning to retain ownership of a few and send them to a feedlot. “We have AIed for the past five years and would like to see how they feed out, look at their feed conversion ratio, just for our information. We have sold our calves to the same buyer for the past five or six years, so we think he is satisfied.” Demand is also growing for the beef, Jim said. “We feed out some calves here and sell quite a bit of beef to people who want that kind of meat — low in cholesterol, a little healthier. “In our atmosphere, our terrain, we feel like Limousin is the best fit,” Jim ■ concluded.

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“We were really drawn to the breed’s growth, muscle to bone ratio and the carcass merits and thought they could increase our profitability,” he continued. “As we got more involved with the breed, we started getting more involved with the North American Limousin Foundation (NALF).” Over time, he said, they started moving towards purebred cattle, and making the benefits of the breed available to other producers. “As cattlemen, we knew what we wanted, and thought maybe that’s what other cattlemen were looking for, also,” Jim explained. Today, they run their purebred cattle on the lower Mimbres, raising registered bulls for sale to other producers and to use on their commercial herd on Forest Service permits up in the mountains of the Gila National Forest, he said. “Our objective is to have a have breeding program focused on reproductive efficiency, low birthweights and gentle disposition.” “We artificially inseminate (AI) our registered herd, and try to stay in the topten percent of breed genetics. Some of the sires use are Escalante for the Limousins and New Design for the LimFlex.” Jim said. “We try to raise bulls in the rocks for ranchers. The bull calves have to make it on their own until the end of February, first of March every year. The top end of those, we sell as bulls, and those that we don’t think will make good bulls we sell as steers.” Jim said that he and Dave have worked to develop efficient cattle that fit their environment. “We strive for gentle cattle. We want to maximize their growth potential but want to limit the mature size of our cattle, we don’t want them to get so big that it’s hard to maintain their body condition. Our country is rough, we are at a high altitude, and the cattle do have to travel. If you get them too big, they spend all their time hunting grass for themselves instead of getting the energy to their calves. “We want our cattle to perform under range conditions,” he continued. “We are always trying to improve our cattle. We want them to work, and profit matters. That’s why we turned to Limousin in the first place.” Jim said that the help provided to members by the NALF has really benefited the operation. “As breeders, with the organization’s help, we can easily document the cattle’s pedigrees and develop reliable EPDs that producers can use as a tool in their crossbreeding pro-

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he Cattlemen’s Beef Board seated new board members and elected officers and representatives to its 2009 Executive Committee and the Beef Promotion Operating Committee during its annual meeting in Phoenix on January 31. New Mexico is well-represented by the selection of Tammy Ogilvie, past chairman of the New Mexico Beef Council to represent Tammy Ogilvie Wesley Grau the Federation of State Beef Councils on the Beef Promotion Promotion Research Act to help coordiOperating Committee, and Wesley Grau, nate state and national Beef Checkoff past president of New Mexico Cattle programs. The 20-person committee Growers, was appointed by the Secretary includes 10 members of the Cattlemen’s of Agriculture, to the Cattlemen’s Beef Beef Board, among them the Board’s three officers and seven others elected Board. directly by Beef Board members. The After being appointed by U.S. Secretary other 10 members of the committee are of Agriculture in December, a total of 32 representatives of state beef councils, Board members – including 15 new including the chair and vice chair of the members and 17 existing members who Federation of State Beef Councils and were appointed to a second term – were eight other members elected by state seated for service on the Beef Board after beef councils. Tammy Ogilvie of Silver taking the oath of office from USDA rep- City is among these selected. She and her resentative William Sessions during a husband, David, both raised in the indusCBB meeting on January 28. try, have ranched in the Silver City area since 1987 and have received numerous Operating Committee awards for natural resource stewardship. The Beef Promotion Operating When looking at the task ahead, Ogilvie Committee was created by the Beef says, “As 2008 funds have not met pro-

jections, this Operating Committee must go back and trim budgets. My job is to study proposals that have come in from contractors at the national level and set priorities. We will continue to evaluate and make some hard choices as to the best use of checkoff funds to support promotion, research, and education. We are facing challenging times as we deal with what is going on in the economy and our industry.” Ogilvie has served on the New Mexico Beef Council since 2003. Wesley Grau, a seed stock producer from Grady, will serve a three-year term on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. His goal on the Advertising Committee is to “promote beef and make ranching profitable,” while representing the 800,000 producers nationwide who pay the checkoff dollar. As he observes, “With the shrinking dollar, advertising revenue now buys half as much as it did in 1986, so we have to do a better job with less money. Individual producers cannot afford to advertise in downtown Denver, Pittsburgh, or New York. Together we can advertise in urban areas snd we can promote beef to consumers so a new generation can learn to love beef.”

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NVIRONMENTAL CARE. Through its issues-management investment, the checkoff recently achieved several media placements to help tell the beef production story to consumers, through publicizing the 2009 national Environmental Stewardship Award winner, Yon Family Farms. The checkoff generated publicity materials, including online news and traditional news releases, fact sheets, and an electronic press kit featuring a video of Yon family, and scheduled media meetings with Yon family dur-

ing the recent Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Phoenix. So far, these efforts have resulted in news articles about the family and their care for the environment in publications including the Saluda Standard-Sentinel, the Edgefield Daily and BEEF magazine, and on the radio via the Brownfield Network and other stations. The press materials generated will provide ongoing reference for consumer media coverage about the environment this year, particularly around the upcoming Earth Day campaign.

THE BEEF STORY. Three new checkofffunded videos also highlight beef producers’ care for the environment. The videos are posted to the popular YouTube Web site. They feature a variety of beef producers doing their daily work and are focused on the areas of cattle feeding, handling and health. The videos leverage existing checkoff footage, as well as new footage taken on National Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Award Winners’ operations, to portray accurately these issues that are so often continued . . . MARCH 2009

2009 National Beef Cook-Off Calls for “Sonoma-Style” Recipe Entries

n 2009, Sonoma, California will be known for inventive beef recipes. The 28th National Beef Cook-Off, funded by the Beef Checkoff Program, will come to Sonoma in late September, during the peak of the area’s beautiful harvest season, to host both a Home Cook competition and a Chef/Media Challenge. Home cooks nationwide, and local professional restaurant chefs working in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento metropolitan area counties, are encouraged to showcase their “Sonoma-Style” by entering their original, newly developed beef recipes by March 31, 2009. “The program continues to be a great platform to provide beef recipes that help meet consumers’ needs for taste, health and convenience,” said Fita Witte, President for the American National CattleWomen, Inc., the beef industry organization which presents the National Beef Cook-Off on behalf of the

Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the Federation of State Beef Councils. The Beef Checkoff Program along with contest sponsors Raley’s Bel Air and Nob Hill Foods, the official grocer of the 2009 National Beef CookOff, Korbel-Kenwood Vineyards, and Kunde Vineyards, are bringing the best competition yet to Sonoma. Home cooks nationwide submit thousands of entries for the biannual National Beef Cook-Off at www.beefcookoff.org or by mail.” To capitalize on today’s culinary trends, the Cook-Off is introducing four new categories this year: 1. Live Well with Fast and Convenient Grilled Beef Recipes 2. Teens Cooking with Beef 3. Lean Beef in Nutrient-Rich One-Dish Meals 4. San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Counties “Best of Beef” Chefs

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misrepresented. The new videos add to a growing library of beef videos on the YouTube channel BeefPastureToPlate, where one video has so far been viewed more than 4,700 times. To see the new videos, go to http://www.youtube.com /user/BeefPasturetoPlate. CONNECTING WITH GROCERS. The checkoff’s issues-management and Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) programs recently provided independent grocers with answers to their questions about food production issues, such as animal welfare, straight from the source – America’s farmers and ranchers. The checkoff highlighted animal welfare with a “farmers market” pavilion at the National Grocers’ Association annual convention in Las Vegas. Anne Burkholder, National BQA Award Winner, talked to independent grocery owners and wholesalers about her personal animal care story and handed out checkoff-funded fact sheets and brochures about BQA and animal welfare. During the two-day event, Anne was able to connect with at least 50 grocers who now can pass the information along to their customers. Anne was one of eight farmers and ranchers participating in the event and fielding questions from grocers. For more information about the event, visit www.farmergoestomarket.com. For more information visit http://www.MyBeefCheckoff.com or contact Daren Williams at dwilliams@beef.org.

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For the first time, the Cook-Off is inviting local professional restaurant chefs to show their eclectic regional flair for beef. These new categories will inspire home cooks and professional restaurants chefs to become inspired by the beautiful Sonoma landscape to create delicious, healthy beef dishes that will promote beef as a centerof-the-plate option to help drive beef demand for 2009 and beyond. Fifteen home cooks will compete for the “Best of Beef” grand prize of $25,000 and six other cash prizes with a total of $70,000 up for grabs. Six professional restaurant chefs will compete for prizes totaling $5,000 in Sonoma on September 23. The deadline for entries is March 31. In addition to promoting beef’s taste, health and convenience, the Cook-Off drives awareness and purchase of a variety of fresh beef cuts. It encourages entrants to share a recipe that incorporates their favorite way to prepare beef, matching the cooking method to beef cuts to ensure success – whether it’s pan-broil, stir-fry, grilled, broiled, roasted or braised. One category pairs lean beef with other nutrientrich ingredients to promote enjoyable, healthful meals. Recipes can be submitted online, and the contest rules and winning recipes from past contests can be explored at www.beefcookoff.org.

Women in Agriculture Leadership

he 7th Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference will be held April 15-17, 2009 at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso. For registration information please contact Shacey Sullivan (800-4515997) shacey.sullivan@farmcreditnm.com or Caren Cowan (505-2470584) nmcga@nmagriculture.org.

2008-2009 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Tom Spindle, Producer; VICE-CHAIRMAN, Cliff Copeland, Purebred Producer SECRETARY, Luke Woelber, Fluid Milk Producer NMBC DIRECTORS: Tammy Ogilvie, Producer; Manuel Salazar, Producer; Chad Davis, Producer; Bill Porter, Feeder; Joe Clavel, Producer; Jim Bob Burnett, Producer

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MARE OWNERS: Your opportunity to purchase a breeding to proven performers and/or proven sires at outstanding fees. Send in your bid on a breeding. Opening bid is $300 for stallions standing in NM and $400 for stallions standing out of state. Earliest postmark wins bid. NMQHA Membership required to bid. Send your name, address, phone number and check for your bid on any available stallion service to: NMQHA Futurity, c/o Berniece Zielke, P.O. Box 908, Belen, NM 87002. STALLION OWNERS: Donate a breeding by June 15, 2009. When stallion service is sold (or paid up), stallion owner receives 10% of total monies earned by his get at 2009 Futurity. Over $10,000 paid out at 2008 Futurity. Check out our website at www.nmqha.com for updated nominated stallions and details about stallion service sale and the futurity or contact Berniece Zielke at 505/861-2164 or email lhrramorris@juno.com

Casey Darnell inducted into AQHA Hall of Fame he late Casey Darnell, nationally known horseman from Corrales, N.M. will be inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame at the annual convention in San Antonio the first week in March. An AQHA life member, Casey Darnell was a born horseman. An AQHA judge for 21 years, Darnell was a roper, horse trainer

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Livestock producers from Mexico, Canada and U.S. seek NAFTA reform EXPANDED TRADE HAS NOT HELPED CONSUMERS epresentatives of consumer groups and livestock producer organizations from Canada, Mexico, and the United States called on leaders to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and address concentration in livestock markets. The groups met in Billings, Montana, in February, to address the challenges faced by family farmers and ranchers from trade policy and uncompetitive livestock markets. “NAFTA is not working for Mexican and Canadian farmers,” said Gilles Stockton, a rancher from Grass Range, Mont., representing the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC). “It is certainly not working for U.S. farmers and ranchers. We also learned that it is not working for consumers.” Representatives of Mexican hog producers said NAFTA has severely affected agricultural and livestock sectors in Mexico. U.S. exports of pork to Mexico increased about 40 percent between 2007

and 2008 and now supply about half of the domestic pork consumption in Mexico, said Alejandro Ramirez González, with the Confederation of Mexican Hog Farmers. “Far from providing benefits for farmers, we’ve been trampled on by imports to degrees that threaten the sovereignty of our country,” González said. Powdered milk imports from the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, and New Zealand threaten Mexican dairy farmers, which supply only two-thirds of the domestic demand, according to Victor Quintana with the Peasants’ Democratic Front of Chihuahua. “Hundreds of thousands of Mexican dairy farmers will be driven into bankruptcy if Mexico’s federal government does not change current agricultural and food policies, Quintana said. Neil Peacock, with the National Farmers Union of Canada, said the best way to advance cattle farmer’s interests is through collaboration with U.S. and Mexican farmers and organizations.

“Forming a coalition to pursue common objectives and speak to governments with a common voice is a critical step toward success for all North Americans — farmers and non farmers, rural and urban, Canadian, Mexico, and American,” Peacock said. A representative of a consumer group, Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch, said the promised benefits of expanded trade have not materialized for consumers. “Even as prices livestock producers receive have gone steadily down, retail food prices rarely do,” Lovera said. “So while the producer’s share of the retail food dollar continues to shrink, consumers are not spending less at the meat and dairy case.” Dennis Olson, senior policy analyst with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, said the “promises made by supporters of NAFTA have not been kept and new policies are urgently needed.” He said the groups are focusing on opportuni-

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ties to work jointly on policy initiatives, such as the ban on packer ownership of livestock, that would curtail the power of global meat cartels to influence livestock markets and politics. On behalf of the conference participants, Olson urged leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico to repeal provision in NAFTA that impede the rights of all countries. Olson said these rights include:

“We commit ourselves to building an alternative food system that is designed to make safe, affordable food a higher priority than increasing the profit margins for the global meat cartels.” ■ Establishment of domestic food and agricultural policies that provide farmers with the cost of production without dumping commodities into other countries at below the cost of production. ■ Enforcement of antitrust laws preventing price manipulation and other anticompetitive practices in agricultural markets. ■ Setting up publicly-owned grain reserves to stabilize prices and to provide fair prices to both farmers and consumers. ■ Regulation of commodity futures markets and speculative investments. “We commit ourselves to building an alternative food system that is designed to make safe, affordable food a higher priority than increasing the profit margins for the global meat cartels,” Olson added. The conference was sponsored by the National Association of Peasant Marketing Enterprises, National Farmers Union (Canada), Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Food and Water Watch, and the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC). Other participating organizations included the Confederation of Mexican Hog Farmers, Democratic Peasant Front of Chihuahua; La Jornada del Campo, and National Association of Peasant Marketing Enterprises from Mexico; and the Dakota Resource Council, Dakota Rural Action, Farmers Legal Action Group, Northern Plains Resource Council, and R-CALF USA ■ from the United States.

PREG CHECK AND CULL REPLACEMENT HEIFERS EARLY by GLENN SELK any ranchers choose to breed the replacement heifers about a month ahead of the mature cows in the herd. In addition, they like to use a shortened 45- to 60-day breeding season for the replacement heifers. The next logical step is to determine which of these heifers failed to conceive in their first breeding season. This is more important today than ever before. As the bulls are being removed from the replacement heifers, this would be an ideal time to call and make arrangements with your local veterinarian to have those heifers evaluated for pregnancy in about 60 days. In two months, experienced palpaters should have no difficulty identifying

cows that are pregnant and will be producing a salable product the following fall. 3) Identifying the open heifers shortly after (60 days) the breeding season is over will allow for marketing the heifers while still young enough to go to a feedlot and be fed for the choice beef market. The grading change of several years ago has a great impact on the merchandising of culled replacement heifers. “B” maturity carcasses (those estimated to be 30 months of age or older) are very unlikely to be graded Choice and cannot be graded Select. As a result, the heifers that are close to two years of age will suffer a price discount. Currently non-pregnant, yearling 875

The total loss of keeping the open heifer would be about $200 in feed and forage and another $122 in lost value. The grand total expense for not culling open replacement heifers in today’s market is about $322 per head. which heifers are pregnant and which heifers are not pregnant (open). Those heifers that are determined to be “open” after this breeding season, should be strong candidates for culling. Culling these heifers immediately after pregnancy checking serves three very economically valuable purposes. 1) Identifying and culling open heifers early will remove sub-fertile females from the herd. Lifetime cow studies from Montana indicated that properly developed heifers that were exposed to fertile bulls, but did not become pregnant were often sub-fertile compared to the heifers that did conceive. In fact, when the heifers that failed to breed in the first breeding season were followed throughout their lifetimes, they averaged a 55 percent yearly calf crop. Despite the fact that reproduction is not a highly heritable trait, it also makes sense to remove this genetic material from the herd so as to not proliferate females that are difficult to get bred. 2) Culling open heifers early will reduce summer forage and winter costs. If the rancher waits until next spring to find out which heifers do not calve, the pasture use and winter feed expense will still be lost and there will be no calf to help eventually help pay the bills. This is money that can better be spent in properly feeding

pound heifers (shortly after a breeding season) are selling for about $94 per cwt. Therefore an 875 pound, culled replacement heifer is worth about $822. Non-pregnant two-year old cows are selling for about $65 to $70 per cwt. Open two-year old cows (those that could have been identified shortly after the breeding season) that weigh 1,000 pounds would only sell for about $700 next spring. The average expense for owning the cow is about $1 per day. So the total loss of keeping the open heifer would be about $200 in feed and forage and another $122 in lost value. The grand total expense for not culling open replacement heifers in today’s market is about $322 per head. Therefore, it is imperative to send heifers to the feedlot while they are young enough to be fed for 4 to 5 months and not be near the “B” maturity age group. Certainly the percentage of open heifers will vary from ranch to ranch. Do not be concerned, if after a good heifer development program and adequate breeding season, that you find that 10 percent of the heifers still are not bred. These are the very heifers that you want to identify early and remove from the herd. It just makes good economic business sense to identify and cull non-pregnant replacement heifers as soon as possible. ■ MARCH 2009

Oil tax plans change says Obama aide n Dec. 2, an aide to president-elect Obama’s transition team said Obama was dropping his plan for a new windfall profits tax because oil prices had dropped below $80 a barrel and were expected to stay there. Oil prices had recently fallen from a record $147 a barrel in July to less than $50 a barrel. During the campaign, Obama announced an Emergency Economic Plan that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each and individuals $500 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign called “windfall profits from Big Oil.” However, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD): ■ Obama forgot to mention that, in 2007, Exxon paid income taxes of $30 billion on revenue of $390 billion and net income of $40.6 billion. ■ Including income, sales-based and all other taxes, Exxon paid $105.7 billion in 2007 taxes, or about 44 percent of its revenue. ■ In 2007, a record year, oil companies earned 8.3 cents per dollar of sales; beverage companies and cigarette makers, by contrast, earned 19.1 cents, drug makers, 18.4 cents, and all manufacturers made 8.9 cents on average, more than “Big Oil.” And what did they do with their “record profits”? Aside from paying record taxes, they spent an awful lot to find new sources of domestic energy, says IBD. According to Ernst & Young, from 1992 to 2006 the U.S. oil industry spent $1.25 trillion on long-term investment vs. profits totaling $900 billion. “A windfall profits tax is bad policy at any price,” noted Thomas Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research. Indeed it is, as shown by what happened after President Jimmy Carter signed the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act into effect on April 2, 1980, says IBD: ■ The 1980s version, according to Congressional Research Service data, cut domestic oil output by 3 percent to 6 percent and increased oil imports by 8 percent to 16 percent. ■ A side effect was falling, not rising, tax revenues. This is not the path to energy independence. When you tax something, you get less of it, not more, says IBD.

Source: Editorial, “Oil Change,” Investor’s Business Daily, December 5, 2008.

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How well is Europe’s permanent ag bailout working? s governments race to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of a particular model of financial capitalism, they would do well to remember that the perils of overly light regulation can be more than matched by heavy-handed interventionism of a kind that distorts and inhibits markets. They need only look at half a century of experience with agriculture policy, says Jack Thurston, a transAtlantic fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Since the late 1950s, Europe had a command-and-control farm policy in which prices were set and farmers were guaranteed good prices regardless of whether their products were actually needed, resulting in an out of control farm budget. But in 1992, the European Union (EU) began moving toward a more marketoriented model. Yet, skeptics prevent more sweeping reforms, seizing on the recent volatility in global food prices as evidence of the failure of markets. But there are three principal causes of the food crisis, and each is an instance of too much government intervention, not too little, says Thurston:

■ Most significantly is the low productivity of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, India and parts of Latin America. ■ A second and more proximate cause of the food crisis was the government policy that encouraged the burning of food crops as transportation fuel. ■ The recent tightening of food markets was amplified to crisis level when the governments of a handful of countries like Russia, Vietnam and Argentina, which traditionally grow a surplus of key crops, began restricting their exports to keep domestic prices low. Moreover, EU farm subsidies amount to a permanent bailout with a twist. They are paid whether times are good or bad; and the more fertile your land, the more help you get. The European Union could do worse than follow this logic and retreat to a supervisory role ensuring that national farm policies and subsidies do not distort the single market. Such reforms could save tens of billions of Euros, says Thurston.

Source: Jack Thurston, “A Permanent Bailout,” Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2008.

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Growth implant strategy outlined at animal science meetings aximizing quality and efficiency calls for different implanting strategies on steers versus heifers. A Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) seven-year study characterized the effect of trenbolone acetate (TBA) growth implants on both sexes. Gary Fike, beef cattle specialist for CAB, presented the results at the recent Southern Section meetings of the American Society of Animal Science in Atlanta, Ga. “We analyzed the data gathered through our cooperating feedyards and were able to compare Angus-influenced lots implanted at least once with TBA to those that were not,” Fike said. A second analysis compared cattle that received the highest, 200-mg dose, of TBA against all other protocols, including other lower-dose TBA implants. In all, the study represented 655 lots of steers and 217 lots of heifers. “For steers, all TBA implants improved average daily gain and feed efficiency, at the expense of much lower quality grade,” Fike said. TBA reduced Certified Angus Beef (R) (CAB(R)) brand acceptance by nearly 10 points, from 30.2 percent to 20.6 percent in the steers. However in heifers there was no quality grade, brand acceptance rate, or hot carcass weight (HCW) difference. The heifers responded to the implants in gain and efficiency, but with no advantage for the higher dose. The steers in the high-dosage TBA group had a 35 pound (lb.) gain in HCW, compared to their counterparts that received lower doses of TBA. “If you’re feeding for a grid, it makes sense to look hard at your use of TBA in steers,” Fike said. “Depending on the market and the premiums, you may be able to recoup that lost weight, and then some, if you limit the TBA implant in favor of quality.” Heifers, however, can be given TBA in moderation without sacrificing grid performance. “The highest dose of TBA did not appear to improve growth traits over other implants in this analysis,” Fike said. “So sticking with the lower levels of the hormone looks like a way to get the best combination of feedlot and carcass traits.” To view the abstract or PowerPoint, visit: http://www.cabpartners.com/news/re ■ search/index.php.

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“Rangeland Preservation Area is an alternative federal land use designation that allows productive utilization with appropriate limitations. It prescribes the allowable uses at a local level, which may be modified from ecosystem to ecosystem. It differs from Wilderness by recognizing the presence of human activities, past, present, and future, in a resourceful and positive manner.” — Jerry G. Schickedanz, Ph.D., Range Science, University of Arizona, NMSU College of Agriculture, Dean Emeritus

he idea of Rangeland Preservation Areas (RPAs) evolved in an effort by People For Preserving Our Western Heritage (PFPOWH) in response to dialogue during the “Regional Land Management: A Community Response” meetings held by the City of Las Cruces and Doña Ana County in 2006 and 2007, and in subsequent interaction with community leaders. PFPOWH studied reports written by all eight Stakeholder groups after conclusion of the community response meetings. In the two years since then, we have talked extensively about the issues with business leaders and the boards of many organizations and agencies. PFPOWH had initially called for return to multiple-use land management and sustained-yield requirements pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act for the eight Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) in Doña Ana County. It became apparent, however, that population growth would require disposal of public lands to accommodate that growth. Ranching alone would not prevent the encroachment of development into the open spaces of the county. It became equally apparent that Wilderness designations would forever revoke most vehicular access into those open spaces and severely limit utilization for livestock grazing and public recreation. In this process, PFPOWH has identified nine community expectations for management of our public lands as follows: (1) Retention of open space; (2) Provision for planned economic and population growth; (3) Unrestricted application of Homeland Security and law enforcement activities; (4) Prevention of unlawful use of off road vehicles; (5) Continued access for all segments of the public; (6) Perpetuation of traditional ranching operations; (7) Access for flood control and water capture projects; (8) Enhancement of wildlife and rangeland health; and (9) Fidelity to Wilderness criteria as set forth in the Wilderness Act of 1964.

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There are many reasons why PFPOWH vigorously recommends Rangeland Pre servation Areas as a new land designation, but three reasons stand apart: 1. No existing federal land designation can satisfy all nine community expectations listed above. RPA designations would make it possible to meet those expectations; 2. Our rangelands need to benefit from past and future advancements in range stewardship and science. There is currently no federal designation that elevates rangeland health and improvement to a proper level of importance. The assault on livestock grazing and the extractive industries on western lands has been unchecked and even advanced by Congressional action. Our country is facing a series of shortages due to proposed actions that will further threaten our livelihoods as well as our security and our liberty; and 3. There is no recognition in federal land management procedures and policies of the social fabric of human endeavors that is associated with the federal lands. Humans have been tied to those lands and the stewardship of livestock in Doña Ana County since 1598 when Oñate crossed the river at what is now El Paso with several thousand head of domestic livestock. The West needs a land designation that builds on existing stakeholder relationships with federal land management agencies. Social fabric issues must be elevated to points of the law. It has been argued that Congress will not enact a new and unique land management designation such as RPA. That denies the fact that Congress has already created four unique land management designations that are a part of the National Conservation Area (NCA) category within the National Landscape Conservation System. Why Rangeland Preservation Areas in Doña Ana County, and why now? Perhaps for the first time, a stakeholder group has conceptualized and found

strong community support for an idea that would elevate federal land user relationships in the West. The idea of RPA responds to the plea coming from every corner of the West . . . to find some means to engage, rather than destroy, historic stakeholder relationships with federal land management agencies. We have a rare opportunity in DoĂąa Ana County, NM, to advance cooperative efforts among NMSU, the USDA (Jornada Range), the BLM, Homeland Security, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NM State Land Office, NM Fish and Game, the DOD, and the ranching community, with the specific intent of creating a model that can serve as a standard for sustainable rangeland health and productivity. The results can be enhanced techniques and practices that improve native ranges and allow utilization of our natural resources while protecting our environment and the fabric of our culture, and creating a model the West and the World can emulate. DoĂąa Ana County could become a foremost destination to study measures to maintain a robust and healthy balance in RPA ecosystems. Fourteen land management professionals and more than 775 organizations and businesses primarily in DoĂąa Ana County have joined a coalition of PFPOWH supporters who recognize the potential benefits of the RPA proposal as a viable alternative to Wilderness designations, and who believe that wholesale designation of Wilderness areas would be dangerous, ill conceived, and not in the best interest of our citizens. Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Note: Stephen L. Wilmeth is a DoĂąa Ana County and fourth-generation New Mexico rancher and a member of the Steering Committee of People for Preserving our Western Heritage. For more information, visit www.peopleforwesternheritage.com.

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bout 20 years ago, during the late 1980s I believe it was, a group of young adventurous cowboys went to work for a large ranch in central New Mexico. You see, those cowboys had been hired on to try and gather the wild cattle that were roaming at large over about 300 sections of range that stretched from the Rio Grande River up into the mountains on the far east side of the valley (a good 20 miles away at some points). The country was flat, scrubby grassland plains down towards the river, but as you approached the foothills it changed drastically into a rougher country with deep gorges, brushy thickets, large cactus, and scrub trees. Then as you got up into the mountains, the trees got bigger and included some Piñon, and the gorges had turned into canyons with big boulders, and live springs. There were about three or four different climates on that big ‘ol ranch, and each one carried with it its own set of challenges when it came to working cattle. The man who owned the ranch at that time was elderly and did not have much help and therefore the cattle on the ranch had gone unbranded and turned wild for the most part through years of not being tended to. Basically they had just gone back to being wild with little or no human interaction taking place for an extended period of time. Now those young men who had been hired on, being the adventurous young cowboys that they were at the time, were really, really excited about the prospect of chasin’ wild cattle around central New Mexico for the summer. During that summer, they had a lot of long, long days trailin’ cattle sometimes up to 17 or 18 miles to get them to a point on the ranch where they could be shipped from. And that was if you drove in a straight line, by the time you went back and forth, up and back, and round and round with those cattle it was more like a 35 or 40 mile ride each day. Most of those cattle were wild and spoiled, and it made for some exhausting days of riding to get enough of ‘em corralled to load up the trucks that were taking them to market. I guess that cattle prices were high at that time, so the owner 66

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and the “boss” that had been hired were really pushin’ the cowboys to get as many as possible into the corrals. There were four or five sets of corrals on the ranch where you could ship from, and most of them were located a long way from where the cattle were hanging out. I imagine that it was not a lot different than what those old time hands had to go through over 100 years before as they were putting together large herds of wild cattle for the famous trail drives. Yeah, sure there were fences on the ranch, but those pastures were so big and spread out that you didn’t see them very often. That’s how it started out for those young cowboys that summer, a lot of long hard days of gathering and driving cattle to the various shipping points on the ranch. One of the best times that a young cowboy could ever think of came that summer when four of them were sent out into the foothills area at the base of the mountains to gather mavericks in a unique manner. The boss had purchased a “tranquilizer rifle” that was sure to make the job of gathering wild mavericks easier and safer. That was the general idea anyway. Since most of the cattle in those foothills and up into the mountains were very suspicious of people on horseback, and since that new rifle had a pretty good range, it stood to reason that a person should be able to drive a pickup into the area and get close enough to some wild cattle to shoot them with the tranquilizer rifle from a safe distance, right? Well, the plan went something like this. Four cowboys were assigned to take a pickup and a large stock trailer with three horses (one guy was a designated driver) into the foothills and park the trailer well away from the area where the wild cattle hung out. You see when those old maver-

icks heard a rickety old stock trailer or saw a man on a horse, they bolted for higher and rougher country (they had been choused plenty in the past I guess). So the cowboys would leave the trailer and horses a safe distance away and take off in the pickup with that tranquilizer rifle, just as if they were easin’ around hunting deer or something. The cowboys would spot a wild maverick, usually in the foothills grazing, and the wild bovine would watch that old pickup with suspicion. But they could generally get close enough to shoot a wild one with the tranquilizer, wait for it to run off a little ways, and then, when it went down, the cowboys would drive over and put a rope on them and tie ‘em down. After tying down several animals in that manner, the cowboys would go back down and get the trailer and the horses and return across the range, load the animals one by one into the trailer, using the horses to load them with. Once the trailer was full of mavericks, with just enough room left for the horses, they would head back to headquarters. That was usually a pretty long day to get maybe two loads like this as it was about 45 minute to a 1 hour drive each way from the mountain area back to the headquarters. Sounds like a pretty good plan eh? The cowboys could get a dozen or so wild mavericks gathered a day this way without a lot of crazy chasing and roping, it would be easier on both man and beast. That was the plan anyway. The reality of the situation was this; it didn’t take long to capture the gentler mavericks that hung out in the lower more open country. Within a few weeks, the cowboys had either hauled off or spooked those cattle in the lower country that were easier to get to. Before long they were going higher and higher into the foothills at the base of the mountain in search of new candidates for the tranquilize and load method of gathering wild cattle. And as the cowboys ventured higher and higher in that old pickup truck with the loaded tranquilizer rifle, it became more of an adventure. You see, they now had to try harder and longer shots because they couldn’t get as close or get as clear of a shot as they were getting on the cattle down below. The cowboys were always arguing over whose turn it was to shoot and some pretty clever games were invented to decide who won the opportunity to shoot next. Things like drawing straws, arm wrestling, foot races, and if you miss you lose your turn, were implemented to see who the next shooter would be. Another challenge was that the terrain was not nearly as forgiving for driving

cross county on up there near the base of the mountain as it was at the lower and more level elevations. There would be 10 to 20 foot arroyos that just appeared out of nowhere as they drove along. The cowboys sure didn’t want to come upon one of those all of a sudden if they were going fast or not paying attention, as they just might end up at the bottom of it with the pickup now on top, and cowboys now on bottom. There was also a lot more vegetation such as large cholla cactus and even quite a few piñon and cedar trees in places. So as you could imagine, the obstacles were much more of a challenge, but being a crew of young and about half wild cowboys like they were, it sure as heck was a lot of fun. There was many a time that the tranquilizer shots went astray and hit a tree or a cactus or sometimes nothing at all but thin air. That made it difficult to find the spent tranquilizer cartridges that were ever so important to locate so that they could be refilled and reused. And the cowboys lost count of how many times they got that old pickup into a spot that they couldn’t get out of and had to spend hours digging it out with a shovel that was carried for just that purpose. And there were other events such as cowboys fallin’ out of the back of the truck as the driver swerved or dodged trees, arroyos and such. That was always a hoot as the guys who remained in the pickup truck liked to make the guy who had fallen out jog for a little ways before letting him back in. There was even a funny incident where the shooter was sitting in the passenger seat with his head and upper body hung half way out of the window as he was trying to get a clear shot from the moving pickup truck. As they sped along chasin’ after a maverick that was loping off to higher ground it was about all that the cowboy crew could do to hold on to their seats much less shoot accurately. But that didn’t stop them from trying. As they sped along trying to get closer to that old maverick, the driver crashed through a stand of cholla cactus and the next thing you know, there was a loud scream from the shooter who was still hanging half way out of the window. You see, he was so engrossed in watching where that old maverick was going that he failed to notice the cactus patch that they were fixin’ to crash through. Well, as you can imagine, the loud scream was followed by him suckin’ back into the pickup truck and all eyes immediately went to the big patches of cactus stuck to his face, arm, and upper body. It was quite a sight; he looked a little like that movie character that has pins and needles sticking out of

his entire body. Once the guys figured out that nothing serious was damaged, they all busted up laughing so hard that it made their sides hurt. The cowboys spent the next hour going back and looking for the guy’s hat, the tranquilizer rifle, several tranquilizer cartridges that had been in his pockets, and pulling cactus out of the unfortunate cowboy shooter. All the while someone would just bust up in laughter from time to time and then the whole crew would join in. Even “Mr. Prickly”, as he was now called, had settled down enough to join in on the humor of the situation. As I said, those young cowboys were having way too much fun doing their “job.” At nights when the whole ranch crew would gather around the dinner table back at the headquarters, they would share the details of the day’s events with the other cowboys who had been out trailing cattle on other parts of the ranch all day. Those guys were all envious of the job duties that had been bestowed upon the four young men, and the others would try to find any way to get assigned to the “tranquilizer crew.” Life was just not nearly as much fun for those guys who spent a long hard day in the saddle riding maybe 35 or 40 miles pushing a couple of hundred head of cattle towards a shipping point only to wind up with 60 or 70 head in the pens after they all bolted like so many wild animals running back over the top of the cowboy crew showing little or no respect for the cowboys who stood between them and their freedom. It just didn’t seem right to those guys that the four “tranquilizer” cowboys were having so much fun. After all, everyone was getting paid the same wages, and seniority was not a factor, it was just blind luck I guess. The four seemed destined to have a fun and easier job lined up for the rest of the summer, and let me tell you what, they were sure enjoying their newly found good fortune. That is what everyone thought anyway, up until the day that the four young cowboys encountered the proud bull. To be continued… Editor’s Note: Jim Olson is a ranch raised cowboy / author / real estate broker who grew up on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico. Today Jim enjoys team roping with his family and attends a number of major team roping events throughout the year. He is the owner of Arizona Ranch Real Estate and New Mexico Ranch Real Estate, a businesses that deals with ranch, farm, and horse property sales throughout Arizona and New Mexico. Today, he lives on and operates his own ranch near Stanfield, Arizona. In 2008, Jim published his first book titled My Cowboy Heroes Volume I. Jim can be reached through his website at www.mycowboyheroes.com

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Federal share of economy is soaring he government’s spending surge to ease the financial crisis and a worsening recession is increasing the federal share of the nation’s economic activity close to $1 out of every $4, the highest level since World War II, an analysis of current and projected payments shows. Emergency rescue plans for financial institutions and increased benefits for needy individuals are mounting, as Congress considers President-elect Barack Obama’s call for a massive public works program that could exceed $500 billion and a $14 billion bailout of the auto industry. All that spending will push the federal share of the nation’s $14.4 trillion economy to 25 percent or more — past the postWorld War II record of 23.5 percent set in 1983, at the end of what was then the worst recession since the Depression. Economists warn that the fast pace of government spending could spell trouble in the future: ■ Slower economic growth, higher interest rates, and the likelihood that tax increases or spending cuts will be needed to tame a budget deficit headed toward a record $1 trillion. ■ The government reported Wednesday that the deficit for the first two months of the 2009 fiscal year was more than $400 billion. “That’s the opposite of what we’re trying to do to the economy,” says Maya MacGuineas, president of the non-partisan Com-

mittee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The government should boost spending, but “we have to do it really carefully,” she says. Federal spending as a share of the economy peaked at nearly 44 percent in 1943 and 1944, when spending for World War II soared. Since then, it has hovered at near a fifth of the U.S. economic output. The government’s growing share of the economy is driven so far by the bailouts for banks and financial institutions: ■ More than $200 billion has been used from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, and $13 billion was used to buy stock in Freddie Mac, the housing corporation. ■ Other payments are likely to bring the total figure to more than $350 billion for the 2009 fiscal year that began in October, say budget analysts such as Brian Riedl of the conservative Heritage Foundation. ■ That will bring federal spending to about $3.5 trillion. “Excess government spending has been shown to reduce economic growth,” says Ried. “The more money spent by politicians in government, the less spending is available for the private sector, which is the sector that usually creates more productivity.” Source: Richard Wolf, “Federal share of economy soaring,” USA Today, December 11, 2008.

Some want to limit a few of your favorite things by LYNNE FINNERTY chnitzel with noodles is one of Maria’s “favorite things” in the musical, The Sound of Music. Some of your favorite things might be sausage and eggs on a Sunday morning, or roast turkey with gravy and buttery mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Of course, there are people who have different tastes. They prefer not to eat meat, or they go even further and swear off eggs and dairy products as well. Hey, it’s a free country. Vegetarians and vegans have good intentions, and they give farmers another market segment to serve. You would never shove meat, eggs and dairy products down someone’s throat if that’s not what they like to eat. But there are people who want to take away your choice to eat what you like. Don’t believe it? Then hold on to your bacon. Ballot initiatives against common, modern livestock production methods, launched under the guise of caring about how animals are treated, are aimed at driving up the cost and complexity of raising farm animals to the point where a farmer can’t make any money. So far, initiatives have passed in

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Florida, Arizona and California to ban certain types of animal housing. As a result, two hog farms that existed in Florida before the ballot initiative have since closed. A university study says there probably won’t be any egg production left in California after Proposition 2 Ballot initiatives against common, modern livestock production methods, launched under the guise of caring about how animals are treated, are aimed at driving up the cost and complexity of raising farm animals to the point where a farmer can’t make any money.

goes into effect. That initiative passed last November and banned the type of poultry cages used on most egg farms. The next ballot campaign could be in your state. By the way, most farm animals are treated very well. A lot of country folks grew up in drafty old houses, where the bedrooms got frosty at night. The animals on many modern farms snooze comfortably in state-of-the-art, climatecontrolled facilities.

While some have a problem with the fact that a lot of farm animals are “confined,” or raised indoors, that production practice puts a roof over the animals’ heads and protects them from the harsh elements and predators. Some don’t like that animals are sometimes housed in individual pens. If you were living next to a sow with an attitude, you would probably be glad if her pen kept her from kicking and biting you. If there was a sick hog in the barn, you’d be glad the farmer could keep him away from you so you wouldn’t get sick, too. If you enjoy your meat and potatoes, your spaghetti with meatballs and your schnitzel with noodles, here’s what you can do. Farmers, tell your friends and neighbors and anyone else who will listen about all the things you do to take excellent care of your animals. Consumers, be aware that there is a movement afoot to limit your food choices — to make it more expensive or difficult for you to have some of your favorite things. If this article made you hungry, go eat a hamburger (while you still can). And if you want a more accurate picture of how farmers care for their animals, visit the Web site www.conversationsoncare.com.

Riding Herd BY LEE PITTS

The White Nightmare he two cowboys who worked on a big western spread came into town every Sunday to do their laundry at the Suds For Duds and attend “services” at the Pastime Bar. There they loaded up on beans and crackers and shot a little pool. Eight ball was a game they practiced with religious fervor and had become quite proficient at. In the bunkhouse on Saturday night the cowboys were counting their quarters for the next day’s pool games when the subject of horses came up. Probably because someone had dumped at the ranch during the night an old white horse the cowboys quickly named The White Nightmare. The ranch owner had told them to “get rid of it.” This is becoming quite a problem as urban horse owners have nowhere to dispose of their old equines as a result of a bunch of dogooders who got the horse slaughter plants in this country shut down. Their hearts may have been in the right place but their brains must have been in their butts because the new law has resulted in more, not less, suffering for horses. Did they think the old horses would just vanish? Many auction markets have stopped selling horses and horse owners have few alternatives. Some traders operate in the shadows, gathering up unwanted horses and sending them on an arduous 750-mile journey into Mexico where they are killed. Often in gruesome ways. Another option is to have a veterinarian euthanize your horse and then burying it in your very own horse cemetery. Or, I suppose, you could kill it yourself, as if you’d be more skilled in horse killing than the pros at processing plants. Another popular option is to dump your old nag off in a National Forest or on BLM ground where they will soon come to be called “wild horses” and be wards of the state. Or, the horses are illegally turned loose on ranches when no one is looking. “It used to be we had to be on the lookout for rustlers pulling into distant pastures and loading up our cattle,” said George, the

elder statesman of the two cowboys. “Now we have to be on the watch for people dropping off livestock. I guess someone figured we needed another worthless nag to feed.” “I ain’t shooting a horse,” said Joe, the other cowpoke. “I’d rather shoot pool.” “And I sure don’t want to dig a hole big enough to bury one in,” said George. “In the morning load up that worthless nag and throw in that broken down bronc saddle.” The next day the cowboys were sitting at the bar eating their beans and George was eyeing every amateur who chalked up a cue. Finally he made his challenge by placing a quarter under the rail. When George lost the pool game in rapid fashion Joe couldn’t believe it. His mentor could’ve beat the oilfield roughneck with his eyes closed. Unbelievably, George proceeded to lose several more games to the cocky roughneck. “I don’t have any money left young man,” said George to the roughneck, “but I got a saddle out in the trailer I’d sure bet against all the money I’ve lost here today.” The overconfident roughneck took the bait and quickly won the game. “Well, you’ve got my saddle, I might as well bet you my horse too,” said George. The grizzled cowboy had to try hard not to win the last game but he finally succumbed and the last the two cowpokes saw of the roughneck he was proudly holding a saddle and a lead rope that was attached to the aforementioned white mare. The cowboys laid low for awhile but after weeks of not worshipping they couldn’t stand it any more and went to the pool hall. The barkeep was glad to see them and told them, “That roughneck you pawned that sorry horse off on has been in here every night this week trying to lose that horse the same way you did, but he couldn’t find anyone as dumb as he was. But you can relax. They pulled out of town this morning.” The cowpokes were glad to be back in their normal Sunday routine as they drove back to the ranch. There waiting for them in the remuda was The White Nightmare.

Report looks at changes in U.S. livestock industry SDA’s Economic Research Service just released a report on the transformation of the livestock industry. Livestock agriculture has undergone a series of striking transformations, according to the report. Today’s livestock farms tend to be tightly linked to other stages of production and

The study found that U.S. livestock production is shifting to much larger enterprises, in part because of scale economies. processing through formal contracts. While the farms are usually owned and operated by a family, they rely increasingly on hired labor. And the farms that account for most production are much larger than they were in the past. The study found that U.S. livestock production is shifting to much larger enterprises, in part because of scale economies. Between 1987 and 2002, the production locus (the farm size, in annual sales, at which one half of national production comes from larger farms and half from smaller) increased by 60 percent in broiler, 100 percent in fed-cattle, 240 percent in dairy, and 2,000 percent in hog production. Recent surveys indicate that production has continued to shift to larger operations since 2002. To view the full report at the USDA website, go to: http://www.ers.usda.gov/ Publications/EIB43/.

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Infant Mortality Rates and the Health Care Debate by CHUCK STOCKS

’ve heard a lot lately from people who want to nationalize health care in the U.S. The argument starts with dubious and unsubstanciated complaints about the expense of health care in this country versus countries who practice state run health care, and finally ends with an embarassingly worn out and verifiably false diatribe about what a poor job our health care system does of taking care of its patients.

I’m currently researching to find out just how expensive our health care costs really are, compared to other countries, and believe me, it’s a difficult task. It’s difficult because politicians in countries where socialized medicine is practiced do not want their citizens to know the true costs. The costs of their programs are hidden, assigned to agencies which are not directly involved in health care and often simply not made public. Similarly they seem to go to great lengths to hide data on the benefits and effectiveness their nationalized system is providing for their citizens. We have activists, nationally and internationally, decrying the cost-benefit ratio of American health care, when they know nothing about the cost-benefit ratio of countries who have practiced nationalized health care for decades. Activists are engaged in an ongoing, unsubstanciated campaign to overstate the comparable cost of health care in this country and at the same time run an intensive scare campaign to keep U.S. citizens uninformed and misled about the quality of health care their own system delivers in this country, while concurrently over-stating the benefits of state run health care. Cooking the books on infant mortality

Chief among the criticisms used to demonize the U.S. health care system is the statement that the U.S. ranks 31st or 13th or 25th, whichever number was pulled out of the critic’s hat that day, in infant mortality rate (IMR) on a worldwide basis. The numbers that are quoted on infant mortality are based on statistics submitted to the United Nations by the countries themselves. Each of the reporting countries have differing criteria for 70

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reporting and compiling their statistics and as such, the numbers that the U.N. has released are biased, bogus and have no place in a rational discussion of health care efficacy. A cursory examination of the ways different countries report their IMR statistics and their internal definition of infant mortality, shows unquestionably that the demonization of America’s comparative ability to care for newborn infants is based on false assumpions and reporting procedures that are vastly different from country to country. The fact that information on the reporting differences from country to country are widely available, has to make you wonder why advocates of socialized medicine would even use these numbers in their arguments. Why would a person who claims to want to improve health care, deliberately use false data to try to bolster the case for one system over another, when the actual facts would be a far better place to start? While the United States reports every case of infant mortality, many other developed countries do not. A 2006 article in U.S. News & World Report stated: “First, it’s shaky ground to compare U.S. infant mortality with reports from other countries. The United States counts all births as live if they show any sign of life, regardless of prematurity or size. This includes what many other countries report as stillbirths. In Austria and Germany, fetal weight must be at least 500 grams (1 pound) to count as a live birth; in other parts of Europe, such as Switzerland, the fetus must be at least 30 centimeters (12 inches) long. In Belgium and France, births at less than 26 weeks of pregnancy are registered as lifeless. And many other countries don’t register babies who die

within the first 24 hours of birth. Thus, the United States is sure to report higher infant mortality rates. For this very reason, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which collects the European numbers, warns of head-to-head comparisons by country.” Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union do not count as a live birth or as an infant death, premature infants (less than 1,000 g, less than 28

Another paradoxical finding is that when countries with poor medical services introduce new, upgraded medical centers and services, instead of declining, the reported IMRs immediately increase.

weeks gestational age, or less than 35 cm in length) that were born alive (breathed, had a heartbeat, or exhibited voluntary muscle movement) but failed to survive for at least seven days. Although such extremely premature infants typically accounted for only about 0.005 of all liveborn children, their exclusion from both the numerator and the denominator in the reported IMR led to an estimated 22 percent-25 percent lower reported IMR. In some countries, because hospitals or regional health departments are held accountable for lowering the IMR in their catchment area, infant deaths that occur in the 12th month are bureaucratically "transferred" statistically to the 13th month (i.e., the second year of life), and thus no longer classified as an infant death. And, too, in some countries and cultures, a baby that dies before its 25th day of life is not reported in the country’s infant mortality statistics at all. Another challenge to comparability is the practice of counting frail or premature infants who die before the normal due

Many people who repeat the mantra of poor health care in the U.S. based on our country’s reported infant mortality rate are simply parrotting the propaganda claims of agenda driven activists who should and probably do know the truth, but who choose to promote the distorted view because it bolsters their agenda. date as miscarriages (spontaneous abortions) or those who die during or immediately after childbirth as stillborn. Therefore, the quality of a country’s documentation of perinatal mortality can matter greatly to the accuracy of its infant mortality statistics. This point is reinforced by the demographer Ansley Coale, who finds dubiously high ratios of reported stillbirths to infant deaths in Hong Kong and Japan in the first 24 hours after birth, a pattern that is consistent with the high recorded male to female sex ratios at birth in those countries and suggests the high rate of female infant death in the first 24 hours are misreported as stillbirths rather than infant deaths. Another paradoxical finding is that when countries with poor medical services introduce new, upgraded medical centers and services, instead of declining, the reported IMRs immediately increase. The main cause of this is that improvement in access to medical care is often accompanied by improvement in the registration of births and deaths. Deaths that might have occurred in a remote or rural area and not been reported to the government are now being reported by the new medical personnel or facilities. Thus, even if the new health services reduce the actual IMR, the reported IMR may increase. Ironically, this fact could imply that IMR statistics may well be consistently higher in countries with superior health care delivery services. The claim by proponents of socialized medicine in the United States that the medical system in this country causes or is

complicit in our “high infant mortality rate” is simply false and based on verifyably skewed data. Those who make these claims to justify their goal of state run medicine are, knowingly or unwittingly grossly distorting the truth. Many people who repeat the mantra of poor health care in the U.S. based on our country’s reported infant mortality rate are simply parrotting the propaganda claims of agenda driven activists who should and probably do know the truth, but who choose to promote the distorted view because it bolsters their agenda. Like Al Gore’s “hockey stick” theory, which supposedly proved that world temperatures are rising at an alarmingly accelerated rate and which we now know, has been totally discredited by the scientific community, the statistics quoted by socialized medicine zealots are likewise, distortions to try to support a pattently political agenda. Unlike the hockey stick theory, bogus health care statistics are still being used and their distortions are completely ignored by the U.S. media and others whose agenda includes demonizing the U.S. health care system and thereby justifying the nationalization of health care. Do we need to constantly seek ways to improve and economize our health care delivery system? Of course we do. Are distortions by proponents of a philosophy that always seeks to expand the role of government in our lives, helping to improve that system? I think every sensible person in this country knows the ■ answer to that question.

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he Bureau of Land Management has announced the grazing fee for the coming year will remain at the $1.35 per Animal Unit Month rate for another year. The fee applies to livestock on BLM and Forest Service grazing lands with some exceptions, primarily the fees for U.S. Forest Service administered National Grasslands. The fee is set by the Public Rangelands Improvement Act (PRIA) formula which has remained in place by executive order. The formula adjusts the grazing fee from a base forage value figure using private land lease rates, production costs and market values of livestock. The $1.35 fee is the minimum and cannot change by more than 25 percent in one year.

The National Landscape Conservation System was included as part of the Omnibus Lands Bill passed by the Senate in mid January. Federal land user groups have been warning of the dangers of this legislation since it surfaced during the Clinton-Gore-Babbitt years. The NLCS would give the BLM broad authority to regulate federal land use. NLCS critics claim the BLM will have the ability to restrict land use to the level of National Parks on lands placed in the NLCS although the agency and other supporters of the concept claim that is not the intent. In New Mexico, one National Monument, one National Conservation Area, three historic trails, two Wild and Scenic rivers, four Wilderness Areas and all 59 Wilderness Study Areas in the state will be included. This is an unprecedented increase in land use regulatory authority for the BLM. The House is expected to vote on S.22 before the end of February. The Omnibus Lands Bill did not include any major new wilderness designation for New Mexico except the Sabinoso Wilderness Area which already had legislation pending. The Sabinoso is in the BLM Taos Field Office area. That doesn’t mean the wilderness issue is over for the state. The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance has a long list of areas they want designated as wilderness or some other restricted use classification. If your operation is in a Wilderness Study Area or an area that you know to be targeted by any environmental group for special designation you should make efforts to find out what is going on from a wilderness perspective. In addition you should 72

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make sure BLM or Forest Service maps of your allotment include all buildings, corrals, waterings, fences, roads or other improvements. If an area has roads and other improvements present it doesn’t meet the criteria for wilderness. That won’t stop the other side from wanting it but it allows the grazing permittee to make a better argument against it. Recent studies in Idaho and Montana show that increasing wolf populations are taking a toll on deer and elk herds. The director of the Idaho Game and Fish Department says wolves are causing a 15 percent decrease per year in deer and elk herds in southern Idaho when they would normally expect a 7 percent increase. Who would have guessed that a growing population of large carnivores would kill deer and elk? Since the Obama administration has halted all regulations pending at the end of the Bush term, the wolf delisting process is on hold and there is nothing the states can do to manage the situation. Even if delisting is eventually resumed, green groups have pending lawsuits to tie it up in court for as long as they can. In New Mexico the Game and Fish Department has denied negative wolf impacts on deer and elk. Local residents and hunters and guides know better. If there is less impact on wildlife populations from the human habituated Mexican wolves it is probably because they kill more livestock than their northern cousins. Environmental groups have made great progress by posturing their garbage as “conservation” or “protection” when most of the time the positions they advocate are

neither. With a sympathetic and largely ignorant group of reporters on environmental issues they have done a good job of keeping the public misinformed and supportive of policies that contribute to removing people from the land. The wolf issue is one of the best examples. Catron County residents have adopted new measures to do more to combat enviro/media PR. The Gila Livestock Growers’ Association has started an advertising campaign funded by the Peoples Alliance for Jobs and the Environment (PAJE) to inform the public of the other side of the wolf issue. Another new organization formed to deal with wolf program PR specifically is Americans for the Preservation of Western Environment (APWE). Contributions to PAJE can be made on their website at peoplejobsenvironment.org/. Directions to join APWE can be found on their website at amprowest.org. If you are in the livestock business, a contribution to either of these organizations is an investment in your future because their opponents want to make sure you don’t have one. Bobcats and mountain lions are other predator species protected by the Game Department in New Mexico so they do at least attempt to keep estimates of populations to justify their management of them. Coyotes however are not protected and there are no publicized population figures but observations by ranchers, hunters and others who spend time outdoors have noticed a substantial increase in numbers in many areas of the state. Control of coyote predation is one of the primary jobs for the Wildlife Services program although they are called on to help with nuisance species in urban areas and bird control at airports as well as other activities to protect human health and safety. Coyotes along with bobcats and mountain lions have almost eliminated the range sheep industry in New Mexico even with the help of Wildlife Services. The agency is continually under attack by environmental and animal rights groups. They have appealed to the new Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsak to eliminate it. A significant part of the program’s budget in states with wolves, including New Mexico, has been used up in the special efforts to control wolves within the confines of the Endangered Species Act. 70 livestock organizations and state agriculture departments have written to Vilsak in defense of the program. His office said it would be weeks before he made any

decisions about eliminating agencies or programs within USDA. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar seems to be concentrating mostly on energy issues so far. He has cancelled oil and gas leases in Utah and told groups his department will focus on renewable energy. Utah lawmakers are upset with the decision because of the cost to the state. Utah, like many other western states depends on energy production to fund state services and create jobs in rural areas. Environmental groups have made great progress by posturing their garbage as “conservation” or “protection” when most of the time the postions they advocate are neither. With a sympathetic and largely ignorant group of reporters on environmental issues they have done a good job of keeping the public misinformed and supportive of policies that contribute to removing people from the land. The wolf issue is one of the best examples.

So far there has been no indication of any major change in grazing administration from Interior. Salazar has been criticized by some environmental groups for not doing more to shake things up. Global warming is still getting the headlines but more critics continue to surface. One of the latest is former astronaut and U.S. Senator from New Mexico Harrison Schmitt. He has cast his vote with those who believe the global warming hype is just an excuse to justify more government control. Some climatologists believe we are more likely to be entering a period of global cooling. That should not be much comfort to us either. History shows that conditions are more favorable for growing crops and forage in a warmer environment. Instead of worrying over the doomsday predictions for global warming we might find we should have been trying to figure out how to survive the next ice age. The truth is none of these folks know for sure what’s going on let alone what to do about it. Although seasonal weather predictions seem to be improving in accuracy they aren’t always right either. The rest of the world should do what most of us do, make our best guess as to what we think is coming and try to be flexible enough to survive if things go the other way. A little prayer doesn’t hurt either. Till ■ next time, may God bless us all.

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Enough is Enough by KEVIN ROGERS, Arizona Farm Bureau President ocal and national news outlets are reporting on a current U.S. District Court jury trial that involves a rancher being sued for detaining illegal immigrants as they crossed his ranch. It is unfortunate that Southeast Arizona rancher Roger Barnett felt compelled to use force to protect his family and property when he detained individuals trespassing on his land until proper authorities arrived. I trust the court system will weigh the facts and deal equitably with the issue before the court. But, enough is enough. The organization I represent, Arizona Farm Bureau, has many members who live near the Mexican border. From Yuma to Douglas, they tell of the same frustration of illegal migration across their farms and ranches leaving cut fences, open gates and trash behind. They tell of break-ins and coming upon heavily armed drug runners and human smugglers. They also tell of the human suffering when they find those who die on their rangeland or those who knock on their door for food and water

because they are lost or have been abandoned by their “guide.” Blame for this problem is laid directly at the feet of our Congress because of inaction on the immigration issue. Without securing the border to thwart all illegal activity and updating our worker visa system, border residents will continue to have unwanted and dangerous traffic across their farms and ranches. The border needs to be secured in conjunction with an updated visa system that allows legal access through the border for temporary and permanent workers. Workers that our U.S. Department of Labor has determined are needed and do not replace willing American workers? workers that will be employed by businesses that have demonstrated to the U.S. Labor Department that American workers are not available. An updated and streamlined visa system using new technologies is key to securing the border. This frees up enforcement resources to concentrate on the ille■ gal activity that remains.

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erformance is the key for the Rogers family. Rick and Kenna Rogers, and his parents Horace and Sharon Rogers run registered Santa Gertrudis at Pecan Creek Ranch in Prague, Oklahoma, east of Oklahoma City.

Rick said the family originally got their start with the breed in the 1970s, and have had their current operation for five years. “My father grew up on a farm, and even though he had a full-time job, he wanted cattle,” Rick said. “He bought a small herd to get started, and a couple of those cows were percentage Santa Gertrudis. In the past, he had calving problems with other breeds, but had none with the Santa Gertrudis crosses. The cows calved easily and raised beautiful calves.” “Slowly but surely, he worked his way away from the other breeds and worked towards the Santa Gertrudis,” Rick continued. “From the early 1970s to the mid1980s, he went from a grade herd to a purebred herd, then in the mid-1980s, sold the cattle and the land. A few years later, I had the opportunity to buy a ranch in my home town, and Dad and I decided to get back into the cow business. I wanted to do it because it was something I could do with him.” Since then, the Rogers family has been steadily working to produce cattle that will work both as brood cattle for registered

producers and for commercial producers in crossbreeding programs. “We revived my dad’s brand and his registry number with the Santa Gertrudis Breeders International and have really enjoyed getting back into it.” Since Rick travels quite a bit during the week for work, Horace does a lot of the dayto-day work, like feeding and checking water. The Rogers have high standards for their registered Santa Gertrudis. “We concentrate on performance, weight and growth, as well as the phenotype, the look of the animal,” he explained. “If animals don’t meet the criteria in our business plan, we don’t keep them, we sell them into the grade market with no papers.” They select for the dark red color in their cattle, and are working to develop a polled herd. In fact, he said, they have not dehorned an animal in two years. Rick also looks for traits in his cattle that will support an animal in the pasture. “For instance, they need good, hard feet to be able to get around in rough terrain, and we like smooth shouldered animals because it makes for easier calving females. Fertility is

another important thing we look for.” “I believe Santa Gertrudis do very well out in the pasture,” he continued. “They are easy to keep, and are resistant to heat and insects due to the Brahman influence. They have their calves, and those calves grow extremely well” Calving ease is another important trait. “We like a little lighter birthweight, fast growing calf. We have a high percentage of unassisted, live births in our cattle. In fact, it’s been two years since we have pulled a calf,” he noted. “We like a little lighter birthweight, fast growing calf. We have a high percentage of unassisted, live births in our cattle. In fact, it’s been two years since we have pulled a calf.”

judge their performance,” he explained. “People want leaner meat that’s still tender but doesn’t have quite as much fat, so that’s what we are working to produce.” The Rogers are also involved in the show side of the business. Rick said that juniors, and the show calf circuit, are good markets for their calves. “We are proud of the breed, proud of what we are doing, and want people to see what we are doing. This year, we showed a heifer and a bull several places, including the New Mexico State Fair. We are currently looking at our prospects for next year.” Frank Chavez, who ranches in hot, dry southern New Mexico, got his start with the breed crossing Santa Gertrudis bulls on his Red Brangus/Beefmaster cross commercial herd. Today, Frank, his wife

Deann and son Frank L. Chavez raise both purebred Santa Gertrudis and Santa Gertrudis cross cattle. “It’s really a family owned and operated ranch, with me, my wife Deann and my son Frankie taking care of things,” he said. “We started out using Santa Gertrudis bulls on our commercial red cattle,” Frank explained. “Then, we started using some Santa Gertrudis females. We just liked the breed, and kept improving our genetics.” Frank said that for him, the breed’s red color is a big part of appeal. “I have always thought red cattle did better in our country. Black cattle, in my opinion, drink more water. If you have to pump your water, you really notice how much your continued on page 78

The Santa Gertrudis breed is known for a gentle disposition, an important trait for many producers, and Rick is no different. “I believe that disposition is heritable. Our herd bulls all have a gentle disposition. In fact, our original herd bull was a show bull, and you can see that trait in the calves. Occasionally we will get one that’s a little wild, but we don’t keep those around.” Advanced technology, like DNA testing and embryo transfer, play a big part in the operation. “We pull tail hairs on our cattle for DNA testing. Some of the genes that have been identified are for marbling, tenderness and feed efficiency and we are trying to put our main focus on these traits,” Rick explained. “We believe this testing will consistently produce the type of performance we desire. You can’t beat satisfied customers, he said. “Our customers have been very happy with the bulls they have purchased from us. They tell us that on average, the calves out of our bulls wean between 50 and 100 pounds heavier than they did without the Santa Gertrudis influence. It comes back to the dollar, it’s about producing pounds of meat.” The cattle run mainly on rolling hills, bluestem and Bermuda grass and improved pasture. The Rogers also have riverbottom land, with a native pecan orchard and clover, where they run the cattle when they want to feed the cows and calves a little extra, Rick pointed out. Feed efficency is important to the operation. “The Santa Gertrudis breed is feed efficient. They convert feed into more pounds of meat. We try to be very consistent about how we feed our animals so that we can fairly MARCH 2009

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cattle are drinking.” Hardiness one of the breed’s biggest strengths, he said. “Our country ranges from 6,500 to 7,000 feet, the cattle have always been good climbers. We have had really good luck with these cattle. They adapt well to our climate and altitude, they are not soft footed and can get out and travel. Some of our country is steep, straight up and down, and you’ll see the Santa Gertrudis up on the side of the hills.” Frank also credits the cattle for being good browsers. “We have a lot of mountain mahogany and oak brush up on the mountains. That browse will keep them alive in

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case of drought, they are not just depending on the grass. If they don’t browse, they’ll starve.” Santa Gertrudis are known for a gentle disposition, and Frank agrees. “I can call my cows, just talk to them and if they can hear my voice, they come running. They are good, gentle cattle, easy calving and good mothers that take care of their calves. They are not pets, although we do have one bull that you can walk up to in the pasture. You always have to remember that they are animals.” “I like to chase cows up the mountains as much as anyone,” he laughed, “they just don’t need to be mine.” The Chavezes run their purebred cattle near Winston, calling the ranch Frank’s Place, and run other cattle on his father’s land near Monticello. The purebred Santa Gertrudis are marketed as seedstock, and he plans to expand the market in future years. “In the past couple of years, we have been putting Santa Gertrudis bulls on the Monticello cattle and weeding out the black color, although we do still have one of my dad’s black cows. I have noticed that with the Santa Gertrudis bulls, we wean calves that are at least 15-20 pounds heav-

ier on average on a 450 pound steer.” The cattle are all grassfed, and don’t receive any steroids or hormones. Frank, who is recently recovered from pancreatic cancer, said that they are working to get into the organic market in the next couple of years. “Santa Gertrudis are just big, meaty cows,” Frank noted. “Compared to other cattle, they have a lot more meat than bone, and they will put meat on anything you cross them with.” The Rulison and Pritchett families of P Bar 1 Cattle Company in Adin, California, have been in the Santa Gertrudis business for 21 years. Located in the northern part of the state, they raise both purebred Santa Gertrudis and Santa Gertrudis/ Angus cross cattle. “I got my start in 4-H,” said Sara Pritchett. “I showed dairy cattle, and helped a friend who needed help trimming a calf’s hooves. He saw how good I was with cattle, and offered to let me show one of his heifers. Later, I was able to buy one. My father had done research on the breed in college, so was knowledgeable, and we grew from there.” It’s a family business, with Sara’s father and stepmother Craig and Betty Rulison,

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her brother Arden, Sara and her husband Trey, and their children, Austin, four and Melody, two, all involved. Santa Gertrudis are a good tool for crossbreeding, she noted. “We cross purebred Santa Gertrudis bulls, including one that we got from Red Doc Farms in Belen, on our Angus herd, and are getting crossbred cattle that do really well in our country. The crossbreds seem to do better up here where the temperature is harsher. We sell the calves commercially, and have kept quite a few black crossbred females, and bred those back to Angus bulls.” The purebred herd remains an important part of the operation, although they have scaled back. “We want to maintain and build up our registered bloodlines,” she noted. “And, we want the kids to be able to show when they are ready. My son already has a heifer of his own.” Maternal traits are a big strength of the breed, Sara said. “Santa Gertrudis genetics add depth to the females. They have a bigger pelvic area, so we have few calving problems, even with first-calf heifers. They have good mothering capabilities and take good care of those babies. We do get docked a little in price for the ear on the calves, but think the benefits of Santa Gertrudis genetics outweigh that.” Disposition is also important. “The majority of our cattle are pretty mellow, but they are going to protect their calves. If the dams are mellow, we find that the calves are pretty mellow, too,” she pointed out. “I take

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jinglejangle Dear CowBelles, and Readers of “Jingle Jangle”: Here it is March. When I moved to New Mexico I was told March is our windy month, and indeed it was in the late 80s in Las Cruces. As I came out of church one Sunday morning in March I looked up at the Organ Mountains and noted they were covered in a gray brown cloud. I stated that a storm had come in. My friends around me chuckled and replied that no moisture was in the air but that we were having a glorified sand storm. A favorite COWTOON of mine by A.W. Erwin depicts two cowboys each hanging onto a fence post and one states “I re’con th’wind is gunna blow t’day . . . Cuz there goes yer shadow!” This past year it seemed to me that every month was a windy month. To satisfy my own curiosity and interest I got on the computer one day and studied the weather of this last year. There was never a day without some wind. The average speed may have been 8 mph but a gust that day was 30 mph. I do keep in mind that many of you depend on wind for your windmills so that your stock tanks remain full for your cattle. Also, some of you now have wind turbines that are generating energy. Our CowBelle state treasurer, Owaissa Heimann, has a wind energy project named after her. The gentleman who is in charge of the project liked her name Owaissa thus he named it the “Owaissa Wind Energy Project.” This project will be on the Heimann ranch as well as two other ranches. Eleven New Mexico CowBelles plus Caren Cowan and Dina Reitzel attended the Cattle Industry Convention in Phoenix. We kept very busy going to board meetings and committee meetings. One afternoon was devoted to workshops for us to attend. Dr. Doug Scholz, DVM for Novartis Animal Health gave a presentation on “Getting the Most for Cattle . . . The Latest Word in Pre-conditioning.” He emphasized the importance of a good vaccination program and the economical benefits. Rick McCarty and Daren Williams, NCBA gave a joint presentation on “How Green We Are.” They presented data from consumer environmental surveys, an overview of how consumers see the global warming/greenhouse gas issues and what they think will help save the planet. Con80

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cluding the workshop was Dr. Lowell Catlett, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, NMSU. Dr. Catlett’s presentation was “New Frontiers That Will Change Everything.” Yes, Dr. Catlett is a very entertaining and thought provoking speaker. Did you know that 90 percent of women in the presence of a horse end up in heart rhythm with them whereas this occurs only 10 percent in men! Karen Kelling, Linda Lee, and Owaissa Heimann will each be presenting information from this convention to the CowBelles at the District Workshops. The highlight of the convention for me was the announcement of the USDA Internship Award. This award was presented to Leticia Varelas. Remember Leticia was the 2008 New Mexico Beef Ambassador and, one of the National Beef Ambassadors. This young woman has made such a great impact for the Beef Industry and definitely made a positive impression on the USDA selection committee. Leticia will be spending the summer in Washington, D.C. working at the USDA. American National Cattle Women is the head organization to each state CowBelle or Cattle Women organization. The mission of ANCW is to promote and support the beef industry by encouraging and equipping women in beef and related agribusiness. Approximately 150 women from New Mexico are members of ANCW. Of these women several give of their time and finances to positions within ANCW. Fita Witte, was the 2008 President of ANCW and now the past president and chair of the nominating committee. Fita was also a Region VI director and is the state team leader of New Mexico for the National Beef Cook-Off. Patty Townsend is a past president and was the 2008 parliamentarian. Genora Moore was the 2008 secretary. Janet and Staci Witte served as the 2008 historians. Owaissa Heimann is on the membership committee, and Estelle Bond recently went off the Bylaws committee after serving many years. In January I became the Consumer Education chair. The ladies in this organization work hard and that is what makes it an outstanding organization in which I am proud to be a part of. On that note, our

recipe this month comes from Fita Witte, 2008 American National CattleWomen President. Here is a quote from Fita: “After talking to Jerry it was a toss up between red chile enchiladas or beef tacos. I fix tacos quite often because they are quick, easy, and tasty. Nothing gourmet from me. Plain and simple.” Beef Tacos: Brown 1 lb ground beef. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Fry corn tortillas until soft or crispy. Fill with ground beef. Top with chopped Green Chili, Shredded Cheese, Diced Tomatoes, and Shredded Lettuce. Dates to Remember: March 9-12 . . . District Workshops March 15 . . . . . Man of the Year nominations due to chair, Barbara Wagner March 19 . . . . . Roundhouse Feed April 15 . . . . . . Pat Nowlin Scholarship applications due to chair, Anne Ferguson April 16-18. . . . Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference, Ruidoso, NM April 16-18. . . . ANCW region VI meeting, Salt Lake City, UT Happy Trails, Kathryn Malcolm-Callis, NMCB President •••••• he Elephant Butte Inn was the scene for the meeting of the Chamiza Cowbelles February 5. Topics of discussion included the on-going food drive to keep local food banks stocked during the current economic situation, supplies for the Ag Day booth, and donations to American Legion for beef jerky and personal items to send to local troops stationed in Iraq. Liza Greer made a brief report on her progress with gaining support from the Sierra County School Superintendent for Ag Day in April. She will be meeting with him to discuss Ag Day and the overall function of the Cowbelles in Sierra County. Attention was also focused on the upcoming Longhorn Show, which will take place February 14-15. Cowbelles will have a table in the Fair Barn during the event. The Cowbelles will be selling raffles

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sider every gun to be loaded at all times; 2) Always point the gun in a safe direction; 3) Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot; and 4) Be sure of your target, the backstop and what lies beyond. Remember — there’s an attorney attached to every bullet that is discharged from your firearm! Donn also suggested having a 21 foot radius around you at all times, and to be aware of someone breeching that circle. If a stranger enters that boundary and comes toward you, immediately raise your hand in his direction and say, “Stop right there.” He said that usually this will stop the intruder who is just looking for some cash, since you now do not appear to be an easy target. If the stranger is bent on something more evil, this will give you some more room and time to evade him. If you wait until he is right next to you, you have no options – he is in control of the situation. During business meeting, Toni Barrow mentioned the District 1 Workshop in Santa Fe on Thursday, March 12. She also read thank you notes from state officers for supporting the Beef Ambassador Contest. She reminded us of the Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference in Ruidoso, April 15 through 17, 2009. It was decided to support the Mountainair Gymkhana again this year with a $100 banner. There was dis-

TERRY MYRICK OLIVER, 88, of Lordsburg, died January 6, 2009. Terry was born in Amarillo, Texas on April 21, 1920. Terry and her husband, Blackie, moved to Lordsburg when her daughter bought the J O Bar Ranch south of Lordsburg. Previous to this she made her home on the Mimbres River near San Lorenzo, where she lived for thirty years. She owned and operated the Black Range Station store. Terry was the Volunteer Fire Dept. dispatcher and was an active member is the Mimbres Valley Booster Club and the Copper CowBelles. Terry led a colorful life which started in Santa Fe, were she was the first known woman saddle maker and pursued a short career in the movie business. Terry was a member of the Tobosa Belles. She is survived by her husband, Jesse G. (Blackie) Oliver, a son, a daughter, six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. EUNICE DEAN NUNN, 85, lifelong prominent Luna County rancher, died February 8, at Mimbres Memorial Hospital. Eunice was born in Fort Sumner and attended New Mexico A & M College in Las Cruces. She married Edward “Smokey” Nunn in 1942. She was born, raised and married into a ranching family. She lived, loved and worked with cattle, horses and all her family her entire life. LEE J. ROBBINS, 76, who ranched and farmed at the Porter Community for many years, died January 16 in Albuquerque. He also ranched and was in the trucking business in Colorado. He is survived by his wife, Zola, two daughters and five grandchildren.

cussion about programs and hostesses for the rest of 2009. Karen Tanner gave a report on her research of by-laws. She said she would give formal, written suggestions for changes for the group to vote on at one of the next few meetings. We welcome Cookie Conant as our newest Chuckwagon member! Our next meeting will be at Denise Immerwahr’s house in Mountainair on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Submitted by Babbi Baker The Frisco Cowbelles met January 19 at the community center in Glenwood. Cathy Murphy and Sue Keetch were the hostess. Fourteen members present. Margie McKeen gave an update on the Beef Council meeting she attended in December. Margie also proposed a possible web site with member Debbie Laney volunteering to look into it. The yearly budget was presented and approved for 2009. It was voted and approved that the “Heifer Project” would be put in the fair book this year and if there isn’t any interest, the project will be dropped. Plans were discussed on El Fuego our stuffed bull, trailer can be inspected at the McKeen Ranch. Ranch Days will be April 28-29. Meeting was adjourned by President Sue Jones. Subcontinued on page 83

LYNNETA RAE SMITH, 83, Taos County pioneer and lifelong resident of No Agua, died January 2. She worked with her husband George and their son, Carol, on their RimRock Ranch. Besides her husband and son, she is survived by two daughters, 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. BOBBY LEE BASHAM VANDEWART, 81, longtime Roswell ranch woman, died January 12, at her home. She and her husband Jim, owned the Eagle Aerie Ranch before they retired. She was preceded in death by her husband and is survived by two sons, a sister, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. EVELYN “ILENE” (SIMS) SWEIGARD, 86, who grew up on ranches at Vaughn and Pastura, died December 24, in Barstow, Calif. She worked in Texas and California during WWII in defense related work. She and her husband Dwight moved to North Hollywood, Calif., to open an aircraft electrical repair shop which they grew into a large corporation in the San Fernando Valley. They bought a farm near Questa in the 1960s, where they spent most of their time. She is survived by a son and 11 nieces and nephews. AGAPITO “PETE” ORTIZ, 89, longtime Newkirk rancher and horseman, died January 1, at his home. He ranched in Guadalupe and Quay Counties. As a young man, he worked at the Bell Ranch and was a veteran of WWII. He was preceded in death by his wife, Amalia and is survived by three children, 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

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mitted by Sam Dutton, Reporter The Powderhorn CowBelles met at the home of Vickie Evans with Dorothy Vaughan as a co-hostess on January 13, 2009. New members, Charlotte Orton and Morgan McClain were welcomed. Reports on a successful Winterfest and Annual Meeting were heard. The group voted on a nominee for Man of the Year, approved full membership in the Chamber of Commerce and authorized the budget for 2009. Programs, projects, meeting places, hostesses and committee chairs were discussed and agreed upon for an active year in 2009. Dorothy Vaughan, Secretary The Corriente CowBelles meeting was held on Jan. 14, 2009 at Good To Go in Ruidoso. There were seven members present and guest Jackie Walker (a new member now). Hostess was Ruth Wold. Presi-

JUSTO LUCERO, 90, rancher, veteran and former aid to U.S. Senator Clinton P. Anderson, died January 25 at his home in Los Alamos. He is survived by his wife, Luciana, two sisters, a son and a daughter, seven grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. ELOY SALAZAR, lifelong rancher at Maes, died January 17, at an Albuquerque hospital. He worked at the Montezuma Seminary and the State Hospital. He is survived by his wife Aurelia, six children, one grandchild, four brothers and a sister. RITA R. WITHERS, 74, who grew up on the Ladder Ranch in southern New Mexico and later on the Mimbres River. She is survived by her husband, John, a sister, four children and 33 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. GERALD KENNETH BIERNER, 60, lifelong Sierra County rancher and horseman, died January 12, at a Truth or Consequences hospital. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Linda, two daughters a granddaughter, three sisters and a brother. ERMA JEWELL MEREDITH, 85, who ranched and farmed at Melrose with her husband, died on February 1. She is survived by a daughter, a grandson and two great-grandchildren. Editor’s Note: Please send In Memoriam announcements to: Chuck Stocks, N.M. Stockman, P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque, NM 87194, fax: 505/998-6236 or email: chuck@aaalivestock.com Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194.

dent Ruth Wold called the meeting to order. Minutes from the Nov. 12 meeting were read by secretary Jane Nevarez. The following items of new business were presented for discussion, with action taken as noted: 1) Sign-up sheets for hostesses and committees was passed around for members to sign up; 2) At the Cattle Growers’ Convention in December 2008, Ruth was elected State Secretary. Our club is very proud of her; 3) The District IV Workshop will be hosted by Otero CowBelles and will be held March 10 in Alamogordo; 4) Jo made a motion to contribute $500 to the State Beef Ambassador program (pending budget review meeting). Kathy seconded. Motion passed; 5) Ruth showed the club bags with information and gifts that are made by Agro-Guard. The information is concerning homeland and food security. These bags would be a great hand out at Ag Day. With no cost to the club; 6) Jo made a motion that our club be Associate members of ANCW. Margaret seconded. Motion passed; and 7) It was discussed that the scholarships for this year include two for teachers at Capitan School. Submitted by Jane Nevarez, Secretary

New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to “Jingle Jangle”, please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com

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Vista Nueva, Inc. Vista Nueva, Inc. Has Joined Forces with United Country — Now There is A Big Difference Among Real Estate Firms UNITED COUNTRY VISTA NUEVA, INC. OFFERS THE FOLLOWING: • Local Advertising • For sale sign • Our local reputation • Inter-office MLS service (over 700 offices nation-wide) • Nationally distributed real estate catalogs • Regionally distributed real estate catalogs • Metro advertising reaching 800 million readers weekly • Toll-free home office phone number (21 watts lines) • Confidential list of buyers to contact weekly (Our office is mailing out about 200 letters to the buyer list each week) • National name recognition since 1925 • Specializing in selling of property located in the rural market areas and small towns • The best non-urban real estate website in the industry. An average of over 2 million visitors per month spending over 24 minutes per visit. • We can also auction your property if you wish to sell in this fashion through United Country Auction Services, Inc. • United Country Home Warranty Program (free to sellers while their property is listed with us) • United Country Home Mortgage • Agricultural and commercial loans United Country’s marketing tools are so advanced that we have expanded our services to include residential, commercial, and country homes along with our traditional agricultural properties. If you’re thing of selling a home, business, farm, ranch or vacant land, we may already have a buyer for your property in our confidential list of prospects.

Qualifying Broker – Charles Bennett • OFFICE 575-356-5616 • HOME 575-356-5616 708 South Avenue C, Portales, NM 88130 • www.vista-nueva.com 90

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LARGO CANYON RANCH RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO

FARM and RANCH LOANS

Approximately 453 deed acres with ranch house, outbuildings, corrals and other improvements; everything required for a working cattle ranch. ■ Thirty-four secions of BLM Lands under Grazing Permit “Superior Mesa Allotment #515”. 3,148 permitted AUM/2185 active AUMs from November 15 to June 15. ■ Three sections State Land Lease. ■ $680,000 firm. Owner may carry. Includes assignment of BLM Permit and State Lease; includes water rights; includes free propane.

• $100,000 & Up • Competitive Terms • Fixed & Adjustable Rates

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Hoff’s Scotch Cap ReMax Farm & Ranch

Licensed In Idaho • Call Today!

Adam Consiglio New Mexico Mortgage Co. 505/292-3200 505/263-6477 cellular www.adamconsiglio.com

Realty Service 1610 Branding Iron Drive, Spearfish, SD 57783 • 605/722-2174 doug@scotchcap.com • www.scotchcap.com

Semen Service

ALSO AVAILABLE FOREST SERVICE GRAZING PERMIT NEAR BAYFIELD, COLORADO

Nancy A. Belt, Broker (Cell) 520/221-0807 Tobe Haught 505/264-3368 (Office) 520/455-0633 (Fax) 520/455-0733

■ Beaver-Baldy Allotment. Over 21,000 total acres on San Juan National Forest northeast of Bayfield. Permit currently allows 200 pairs from June 15 to October 15. Permit runs with cowherd – permitted cows available at $1,350 per head.

Turkey Creek, AZ 2837 Acres deeded, nice HQ, small State lease, 724 acre-feet of water rights, great development potential $6,000,000.

Contact GOSNEY RANCHES

Southeast, AZ A Year Round River Runs through the Deeded Land! Great Guest Ranch Prospect. Excellent access, 280 deeded acres, grazing leases, irrigated pasture with water rights from the river. HQ situated in beautiful canyon. Scenic.

970/884-9533

New Mexico / West Texas Ranches Campo Bonito, LLC RANCH SALES P.O. Box 1077 • Ft. Davis, Texas 79734

NEED RANCH LEASES & PASTURE FOR ‘09

DAVID P. DEAN Ranch: 432/426-3779 • Mob.: 432/634-0441 www.availableranches.com

COMMITTED TO ALWAYS WORKING HARD FOR YOU!

North of San Simon, AZ Great Guest Ranch Prospect. Pristine, scenic, private but only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 Acres of deeded, 52 head BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $2,450,000 Young, AZ 72 Acre Farm. Under the Mogollon Rim, a must see, with small town charm, mountain views. 1,000 gpm well, home, 1800’s museum, 2 bedroom cabin, shop, and barn. Excellent for horse farm, bed and breakfast, land or water development. +/-62 ac & well for $1,700,000 and Home and other improvements $424,500 Rainbow Valley, AZ 300 Head Cattle Ranch. Excellent desert ranch owned and operated by the same family for 40 years. Well improved with BLM and State grazing leases. HQ on State Land, well watered. $850,000 Wickenburg, AZ 216 Head Cattle Ranch. Scenic, lush high desert vegetation. 103 deeded acres, State, BLM and 3,100 acres private lease. Well watered w/tanks, springs & wells. Abundant feed, numerous corrals and great steel shipping pens. $850,000 Near Cotton City, NM 680 Acre Farm with 315 acres of water rights, +/-4 sections of BLM. Run +/-300 head. Irrigated by 12" pipe with alfalfa valves. 3 Irrigation wells water at 150' and 2 domestic wells. Nice home, barn and corrals. Great Buy! $755,000. Tombstone, AZ 68 Head Cattle Ranch. Be part of the old west with this Tombstone cattle ranch. 68 Head year long, BLM, State grazing leases, 160 acres deeded land, spectacular views, close to town, great access. Grass and browse ranch. Reduced to $525,000 Santa Teresa Mnts, Ft. Thomas AZ. 200 deeded acres, 17 Head BLM Allotment, private retreat, two wells. This property is very remote and extremely scenic with a beautiful canyon lined with sycamores, cottonwoods and beautiful rock formations. $400,000. Greenlee County, AZ, 139 Head Ranch. Year long USFS Permit with two room line camp, barn and corrals at HQ. This is a remote horseback ranch with limited vehicular access, 8 dirt tanks, +/-20 springs. 10 Acres of deeded in Sheldon, AZ. $400,000 Grant County, NM 33 Head Ranch. +/- 640 Deeded acres, 1800 acres BLM and 320 acres State of NM lease, 2 wells, 4 dirt tanks, 2 springs plus 5 storage tanks. Beautiful views, rolling hills. Great little ranch for small purebred operation. $375,000 HORSE PROPERTIES: Benson, AZ 39 Acre Quality Horse Facility. Castlebrook barn, nice home and much more $895,000. Willcox, AZ 25 Acres. Nice home, irrigated fields, large metal workshop, round pen, corrals, lighted roping arena $300,000. Benson, AZ - Very Western 10 Acre Horse Property. Great for working cow horses, straw bale home with round pen, arena, tack barn, stalls. $379,000. Benson, AZ 8 Acres. Remodeled home 3 bedroom, 2 bath, irrigated horse pastures, barn $330,000.

3008 N. Prince St., Clovis, NM 88101 575/763-5055 • 575/762-5611

BRETT JOHNSON brett@505resources.com • www.505realtors.com O. 575/763-5055 • C. 575/760-3654 • F. 575/769-9177

Dragoon, AZ 5 Acre Horse Property. 3927 s.f. home remodeled with new kitchen cabinets and flooring, 4-stall hay/horse barn, two turnouts. $250,000 (Additional acreage available and grazing possibility for a few head of cattle.)

Thinking of Buying or Selling? Call! ‘Cause we'll get ‘er done! www.stockmensrealty.com

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“Making a difference to the land and the people” ■ Raton, NM – 616 acres on the historical landmark Kiowa Mesa, 30 miles SE on Hwy 193. Beautiful mesa country with awesome views of the surrounding valley, volcano Mtns, and mesas. Excellent habitat for Mule deer, antelope and grass for livestock. Cabin with windmill water. Great small recreational ranch. $525,000

Norman “Punch” Hennigan, Qualifying Broker Toll Free 877/704-4077 • Office 575/445-4077 • Cell 575/447-7758 116 S. 2nd, Raton, NM • www.kiowaland.com • sales@kiowaland.com

www.azranchrealestate.com

AGENTS WANTED We have a couple of positions open for licensed real estate agents who are interested in selling horse properties, ranches, or doing ranch property leasing. Agents from all areas of Arizona and New Mexico considered. Please contact Jim Olson at 520/424-3839 for your private interview and further details if you are interested.

■ Hook Open A Ranch – Willcox, AZ. This is one of the nicest working cattle ranches available in Arizona today. The ranch has easy access to the town of Willcox, but has a secluded feel at the same time. Rates at 350 head year round, this ranch is the perfect size for a family operation. The Hook Open A Ranch is desirable in many ways including the location, the mix of different country, the ease of working the ranch, the quality of the improvements, and the upgraded headquarters. There is a possibility of splitting this ranch in 2, please call for details. You owe it to yourself to come have a look at one of Arizona’s best ranches. Call Jim Olson at 520/424-3839 or Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069. Asking $2,500,000.

Peterson Ranch – Cochise County, AZ. This is one of the greatest values in Arizona Ranches. There is a very nice home with over 4100 Deeded Acres and the balance of the Ranch is Arizona State Grazing Lease. The operation is rated 625 head year long, well watered, and highly improved. This beautiful Ranch is located in remote rolling grassland in a little known area of Arizona at higher cooler elevations. This is the Ranch you have been waiting for! Call Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069 Asking $3,500,000.

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■ Stockton Pass Grant Creek Ranch – Willcox, AZ. (2) 160 acre parcels completely surrounded by the Coronado National Forest located in the beautiful Graham Mountains. This is some of the most beautiful and unique property that Arizona has to offer. The “Stockton Pass Ranch” headquarters is located on the southernmost 160 acre parcel and consist of a ranch home, corrals, and typical ranch headquarter type improvements. Both deeded parcels have seasonal creeks running through them. This ranch is rich in Arizona history. There is also a 175 head Forest Grazing Permit that is included in the purchase. Call Jim Olson at 520/424-3839 or Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069 for details!

640-ACRE PARCEL OF VACANT LAND northeast of the Racino (horse racing & casino) being built in Moriarty, New Mexico. Ideal horse property for Racino activities, air park, or open space subdivisions.

■ Antelope Ranch – Cochise County, Arizona. This is a rare opportunity to buy a beautiful working cattle ranch, with over 8 Sections of deeded land. Excellent access year round to the Headquarters. The headquarters is a large historic ranch house, 5-6 bd/4 ba, large kitchen, long porches and a basement. The manager’s house is separate and self contained with 1 bedroom/1 bath, living room, kitchen and a stackable washer/dryer hookup. 2 adobe barns by the corrals, a shop by the main house. The working corrals are welded steel and designed for the rancher with large pens, heavy squeeze chute, tub, scale, semi and truck trailer loading alleys. OWNER MAY CARRY. One or more members of selling entity are a licensed real estate agent. Call Scott Thacker at 520/444-7069. Asking $4,950,000 Cash or $5,150,000 Terms.

Wildhorse Ranch – Yavapai County, Arizona. Wildhorse Ranch consists of approx. 883 deeded acres and 6,700 State Lease acres for a total of just under 12 Sections. Boulder Creek runs through the deeded lands on the ranch, and the ranch has 150 ac. ft. of surface water irrigation rights from the creek. There are 2 nice homes on the ranch, one of which is brand new and very customized. This ranch is located only 7 miles from the town of Bagdad on a good all weather, County maintained road. The words here cannot describe the beauty and uniqueness of Wildhorse Ranch. One or more members of Selling Entity are Licensed Real Estate Agents/Brokers in Arizona. Call Gale Pearce at 520/466-2994 or Jim Olson at 520/424-3839. Asking $6,500,000. ■

ARIZONA RANCH REAL ESTATE NOW LICENSED IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO SHOW LOW BRANCH: P.O. Box 3151, Show Low, AZ 85902 Phone: 928/532-0055 F: 928/537-1904 • C: 928/242-4744 TROY COOKE, Branch Mgr.

MARCH 2009

MAIN OFFICE: 40070 W. Hwy. 84 P.O. Box 1, Stanfield, AZ 85272 Ph: 520/424-3839 • F: 520/424-3843 Toll Free: 866/424-9173 JIM OLSON, Broker

MARANA BRANCH: P.O. Box 90806, Tucson, AZ 85752 Phone: 520/572-0109 F: 520/844-3405 • C: 520/444-7069 SCOTT THACKER, Branch Mgr.

CONTACT Robert Almy, Jeff Rose & Associates 2111 Wyoming Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87112 Office: 505/872-9373 Cell: 505/301-8744

OREGON OPPORTUNITIES Real Estate

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

Bar M Real Estate

Chip Cole

SCOTT MCNALLY, BROKER Specializing in sales and appraisals of rural properties

RANCH BROKER

SELLING WEST TEXAS FOR 29 YEARS!

P.O. Box 428 • Roswell, NM 88202 Phone: 575/622-5867 Mobile: 575/420-1237 Web Site: www.ranchesnm.com email: sammmcnally@msn.com

— PETROLEUM BUILDING — 14 E. Beauregard Ave., Suite 201 San Angelo, Texas 76903-5831 Ofc.: 325/655-3555

Tom Harrison, CCIM 541/944-3131 Ph: 800/772-7284 • F: 541/772-7001

HOMESTEAD RANCH 4 deeded sections, Mohave County, North Arizona. Located in Pipe Valley, 1 mile south of Pipe Springs National Monument, abutting Paiute Reservation. 2 shallow wells. Electricity available to all 4 sections. On proposed pipeline from Lake Powell to St. George. 2,400 acres / $3,000,000

DON HANRION – 928/643-6600

Scott and L co.

1301 Front St., Dimmitt, TX 79027 Ben G. Scott, Krystal M. Nelson–Brokers 1-800/933-9698 day/night www.scottlandcompany.com

Ranch & Farm Real Estate

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

TEXAS PANHANDLE – 8 section ranch with new set of pens, concrete bunks, truck/cattle scale and commodity barn, mobile home, watered by subs, mill and pipeline, on pavement. POTTER CO., TX. – 4872.8 acres of beautiful ranch country four miles north of loop 335, Amarillo, TX., pavement on four sides ( 3 mile – hwy. 287., 1 mile – Western St., 1 mile – Givens Road, 1 mile – Rivera Park Road). Well watered by pumps powered by solar energy (state of the art) and windmills. Deer, quail & dove. Talk to us about dividing (640 acre min.). TEXAS PANHANDLE – 177 acres with extraordinary 5404 sq. ft. +/- home overlooking the property with beautiful views of live creek, trees, wildlife (deer, quail, & turkey), indoor horse training facilities, stables, excellent cattle working facilities and pens, employee housing. Info in process. COPE CREEK RANCH – Briscoe Co., TX. –just north of Lake McKenzie, 640 acres on pavement, ideal hunting and/or weekend hideaway. MUST SEE! Just out of Amarillo! 640 acres on Mulberry Creek, all grass, watered by mills & ponds, beautiful views, talk to us about dividing if lesser acreage is desired.

Mathers Realty, Inc.

Las Cruces or Bust! Keith Brownfield ASSOCIATE BROKER keithbro@zianet.com mathersrealty.net

240 Vista Del Rey – Beautiful custom home on 5 acres. 3 bedrooms, plus an office with 2.5 baths, fireplace & oversized 3 car garage. Open floor plan with 2 eating areas. Stained & grooved concrete floors. Lots of wood, tile accents, & solid wood doors. Large master suite with HUGE walk in closet. Large fenced backyard with fruit and shade trees and automatic drip & sprinkler system. Gorgeous mountain views from every window. Large covered patio with ceiling fans. 150' X 240' Roping arena w/10' return, large catch pen and horse stall. All five acres are completely fenced. Remote roping chute & hot tub negotiable. 340 Rincon Road, Rincon, NM – Located on 29+/- total irrigated acres, this private 2063 sq. ft. southwestern style home has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, w/fireplace and attached 2 car garage. 24+/- acres of farmland currently planted in alfalfa. Water Rights include an Irrigation Well, flood water from Elephant Butte Irrigation District. Home has community water, natural gas and septic tank. Horse facilities include 100’x19’ pole barn with 3 pipe stalls 12.5’ wide. This barn has drinkers in each stall, electricity and water misters to keep the horses very comfortable. Two large corrals with feed bunks and Mueller insulated shop 70’x30’ with two utility doors. Pipe and cable arena 260’x147’ and two very large turnouts. San Jose Rd, La Mesa, NM – 19.18+/- acres of farmland with water rights, Great access and location. Call Keith Brownfield at 575/640-9395.

Fairaces, NM – 10 acres with water rights, great location close to Mesilla, NM. Call Van A. Bullock 575/522-4224.

1101 S. Highway 28 #1 & #2, La Union, NM – 150.463 acres of farmland with water rights. Last piece of paradise before you cross the New Mexico/Texas State Line. Call Laura M. Conniff at 575/644-0067 or Keith Brownfield at 575/640-9395.

Holman Road, Las Cruces, NM – 125.57+/acres. Large tract with great access. Call Van A. Bullock at 575/522-4224.

MATHERS REALTY, INC. 2223 E. Missouri, Las Cruces, NM 88001 575/522-4224 Office • 575/522-7105 Fax • 575/640-9395 Cell

“Propriety, Perhaps Profit.” MARCH 2009

MARCH 2009

Bottari Realty www.bottarirealty.com

NEVADA RANCHES & FARMS Wells Area Farm: 90 deeded acres of which approx. 85 in Alfalfa and Orchard Grass hay. Good home and outbuildings plus singlewide mobile. On Hwy 93.3 miles North. Price: $500,000. Elko Company Deeded Sheep Base: 10,960 deeded acre plus a BLM permit (29%) in the Adobe Range Northeast of Elko, NV. Price only: $1,426,000. including 1/2 mineral rights. Add the Elmore listed below for hay base. Elmore Ranch: 750 acres on the Humboldt River approx. 15 miles East of Elko. Approx. 400 water righted acres and not improvements other than fences. Price: $600,000. Mason Mountain Ranch: approx. 3700 deeded acres plus small BLM permit adjoining the ranch. This ranch is located on the road to Charleston approx. 16 miles off the Mountain City highway. Modest improvements include home and misc. outbuilding. No power. Approx. 80 acres of meadow irrigated out of Mason Creek and springs. Lots of wildlife. Would be good combination summer cattle and recreation. Price: $1,575,000. We have more ranch listings on our site www.bottarirealty.com

OFFICE: 775/752-3040 RESIDENCE: 775/752-3809 FAX: 775/752-3021 E-MAIL: paul@ bottarirealty.com

PAUL D. BOTTARI, BROKER Out West Realty Network Affiliate

Ag Services, Inc. EMAIL:

bp@asileasing.com

• Real Estate Loans, $500,000 to $50 Million

Los Chaparrales Ranch ~ Nourished by the Mimbres River is a 1,789 acre desert oasis of sycamores, cottonwoods, and water. This environment is a refuge for wildlife and ideal for the western horse and cattle. This pretty little ranch has 1,389 deeded acres, water rights, a beautiful location and heavenly views. The neighborhood is sparsely populated, yet the amenities of nearby Silver City and Deming, are easily accessed. $1,800,000. Eagle Canyon Ranch ~ Located within the scenic productive hill country 40 miles west of Artesia, New Mexico, which is one of the region’s most prolific small town communities. This 15,980 acre expanse is an ideal cattle grazing operation. It has good water development, pipe shipping pens, and excellent access off paved roads. Abundant wildlife: mule deer, Barbary sheep, and quail. Turn-key sale includes cattle on site! $1,500,000. Rancho Bonito ~ This 4,210 deeded acre Santa Rosa, New Mexico ranch has plenty to offer. A healthy climate, great vistas, central location, highway frontage, private access, and no thru traffic. The scenic range sites support rolling grasslands, mesa rim, and piñon/juniper woodlands thriving with wildlife. Four shallow wells, several water troughs and earthen tanks complement this pretty little ranch. Don’t miss this great investment opportunity! $2,105,000. Zia Mesa Farm ~ Are you semi-retired but yearning to keep you foot in agriculture yet not bury yourself . . . then I urge you to see this low maintenance 162 acre wheat farm. Pivot sprinkler irrigation, neat and tidy residence, barn, and farmyard. Best of all is that is that you’re within minutes of a good fishing hole at Fort Sumner Lake, New Mexico! $450,000. Agua Negra Ranch ~ 18,000 deeded acre river ranch with flowing water, lakes, water rights, scenic woodlands and grassland range site. Agua Negra Ranch is a contiguous expanse of private land with spectacular water features and abundant wildlife: deer, antelope, turkey, quail, water fowl and fishing. Good stock pens, indoor arena and easy access. Ideal for the western lifestyle and livestock operation. Seller will divide! $12,000,000. DVD’s and Brochures available upon request by contacting:

• Agricultural Equipment Leasing • Very Competitive Rates • Dairy Facility Loans 201 Innsdale Terrace Clovis, New Mexico 88101 OFFICE: 575/762-8608 TOLL FREE: 888/868-2331

Keith L. Schrimsher Phone/fax: (575) 622-2343

www.nm-ranches.com MARCH 2009

A A Fiftys Remedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 A Lazy 6 Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Ag & More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Ag Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Alamogordo Pig & Lamb Sale . . . . . . . 28 American Angus Assoc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 American Brahman Breeders Assn. . . . . 86 American Gelbvieh Assoc. . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Apache Creek Limousin Ranch . . . . . . . 55 Apex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Arizona Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . 92 Ash Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Ash Marketing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 B Ken Babcock Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Bar T Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Bar W Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Tommy Barnes Auctioneer . . . . . . . . . . 87 Begert Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 BJM Sales & Service, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Black Angus “Ready For Work” Bull Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Blevins Mfg Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Border Tank Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Bottari Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Bradley 3 Ranch LTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Brand/Larissa Gardner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 C C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Campbell Simmentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Cargill Animal Nutrition . . . . . . . . . 39, 87 Carter Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Casey Beefmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Cattle Guards/ Priddy Construction . . . . 88 Cattlemens Livestock Auction Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Bill Cavaliere/ Farm-Horse Ranch For Sale . . . . . . . 89 Caviness Packing Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 42 Century 21/Barry Lucas . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Champion Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Cimarron English Shepherds . . . . . . . . . 43 Clark Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Clovis Livestock Market . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 COBA Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Coldwell Banker – A.C. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Paul Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Coldwell Banker Legacy – Emile Gonzales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Chip Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Conniff Cattle Co., LLC . . . . . . . . . 52, 84 R. L. Cox Fur & Hide Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 CPE Feeds Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Craig Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Crouch Mesa Trailers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 George Curtis, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 D D&L Tooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 D2 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 David Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 DeBruycker Charolais . . . . . . . 11, 23, 85 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . . 86 Domenici Law Firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Dos Amigos Corrientes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 E ECS Forage Turf Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Elgin Breeding Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Esch Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Estrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 F Fallon-Cortese Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . 89 Farm Credit of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . 8 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 FBFS/Larry Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Figure 4 Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Five State Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . 51 Flying W Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, 86 Foster Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Franklin Show Lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Freeman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 G Gila Monster Tuff Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Gosney Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Grau Charolais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Greer & Winston Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . 54 Tom Growney Equipment, Inc. . . . 86, 102 H Hales Angus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 84 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 49, 84 John Hawks’ High-Altitude Gelbvieh . . . 29 Hayhook Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Henard Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 High Plains Ranchers & Breeders Sale . . . . . . . . . 29 Hoff’s Scotch Cap Farm & Ranch Realty Service . . . . . . 91 Hoffs Scotch Cap Semen Service . . . . . 85 Hollis Cotton Oil Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Homestead Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Hooper Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 84 Huguley & Co. Land Sales . . . . . . . . . . 90 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 I Insurance Services of N.M. . . . . . . . . . . 81 J JaCin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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J-C Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Joe’s Boot Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Johnson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Jones Stewart Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . 27 K Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equip. . 87 Kail Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Keeton Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 King Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Kiowa Land & Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 L L&H Mfg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 La Gloria Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Lasater Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 84 Lazy D Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Lee Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Lewis Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 LG Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Lone Mountain Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . 103 Lower Valley Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Lucas Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 M Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mathers Realty/Keith Brownfield . . . . . 93 Maulsby Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 McGinley Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 84 McKee Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Mead Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Merrick’s Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Mesa Feed Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 87 Chas. S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . . 89 Milligan Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Montana del Oso Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Montoya Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Murney Assoc./Paul McGilliard . . . . . . . 89 Mur-Tex Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Mushrush Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Musick’s Angus Business Bull Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 43, 51, 84 MVR Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 N New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn . . . . 57 New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 President’s Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 New Mexico Mortgage Co. . . . . . . . . . . 91 New Mexico Purina Dealers . . . . . . . . 104 New Mexico Quarter Horse Assoc. . . . . . 59 NMSU / Milt Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 NMSU Recruiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 O Oklahoma Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lois Oliver Real Estate/ Becky Harwell . 89

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1031 Financial Exchange Corp. . . . . . . 89 Oregon Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 P Pacific Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Paco Feed Yard, LTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Paul’s Veterinary Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Dan Paxton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Pecan Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 People for Western Heritage . . . . . . . . . 64 Phillips Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Lee Pitts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Porter Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Porter Limousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Premium Beef Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 R Ranch Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Rancho Espuela/Big Bend Trailers . . . . 52 Red Doc Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Redd Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Reward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Reynolds Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Rim Fire Stock Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Robertson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Jeff Rose & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . . . . . . 12 Running Arrow Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Runyan Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 S Safety Highway Products . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Salazar Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Santa Gertrudis Breeders International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77, 86 Schrimsher Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . 95 Scott Land Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Marvin F. Shurley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Siler Santa Gertrudis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Singleton Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Skaarer Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Smith Land & Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Southeast Colorado Bull Test . . . . . . . . 64 Southwest Brangus Breeders Assoc. . . . 41 SW NM Cattleman’s Survival Course . . 89 Stockmen’s Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Stromei Realty/Alan Brawley . . . . . . . . 90 Joe Stubblefield & Assoc. . . . . . . . . . . . 89 T T&T Trailer Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Texas Limousin Assoc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Texoma Beefmaster Sale . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Thirteen Oaks Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Three Mile Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 86 Tucumcari Bull Test Sale . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Tucumcari Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 U U Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 United Country/Vista Nueva . . . . . . . . . 90 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 V Virden Perma-Bilt Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Vitalix Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 W Weichert Realtors/The 505 Group . . . . . 91 West Star Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 84 West Texas Brangus Breeders Assoc. . . 25 Western Limousin Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Westlake Cattle Growers, LLC . . . . . . . 37 Wild West Properties, LLC . . . . . . . . . . 89 Williams Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Williams Windmill, Inc. . . . . . . . . . 31, 87 WW – Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 X XP Bar Cattle Co.,LLC -&- Ranch . . . . . 76 Y Yoder Limousin & Salers . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Green policies push state into the red ov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was all smiles in 2006 when he signed into law the toughest anti-globalwarming regulations of any state. Schwarzenegger and his green supporters boasted that the regulations would steer the Golden State into a prosperous era of green jobs, renewable energy, and technological leadership. Instead, since 2007 — in anticipation of the new mandates — California has led the nation in job losses, says Stephen Moore, a senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page. What happened? ■ The regulations created a cap-andtrade system, similar to proposed federal global-warming measures, by limiting the CO2 that utilities, trucking companies and

other businesses can emit. ■ It imposed steep costs ($23 billion of new taxes and fees on households through higher electricity bills) on companies that exceed the caps; since energy is an input in everything that’s produced, this will raise the cost of production inside California’s borders. Now the state is losing jobs, a lot of them, says Moore: ■ California’s unemployment rate hit 9.3 percent in December, up from 4.9 percent in December 2006. ■ There are now 1.5 million Californians out of work. ■ The state has the fourth-highest housing foreclosure rate in the nation, has lost more businesses than any state in recent years, and is facing a $40 billion deficit.

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With cap and trade firmly in place, the economic situation is only likely to get worse, says Moore. Meanwhile, other states are plundering the Golden State’s industries by convincing businesses to pick up stakes and move out before the cap-and-trade earthquake hits. Governors and Washington politicians who want to reduce their “carbon footprint,” but are worried about the more immediate crises of cascading unemployment, unbalanced budgets, and the housing-market collapse, would be wise not to follow California’s lead. Green policies have a tendency to push states into the red, says Moore. Source: Stephen Moore, “California’s ‘Green Jobs’ Experiment Isn’t Going Well,” Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2008.

by Lee Pitts

ow that we’re officially in a recession economists say we all you need their old Wranglers and Levis to make pinkeye patches. have to live more cheaply. It just so happens that being When they arrive there are sure to be some jeans that fit you. If not, splurge on a pair of suspenders. As for shoes, here’s a great cheap is something I’m very good at. When you don’t have any money you learn how to live on less. tip: take longer steps and your shoe leather will last twice as long. I learned early on that you can spend a lot of money shopping When my wife and I lived in Australia as struggling college students we lived on $40 a week because that’s all we had. We lived so we avoid that activity at all costs. In addition to cutting your napkins in half you can cut down on conin a trailer, ate a lot of mutton and we cut sumables by reusing Kleenex® and cutour napkins in half so they’d last twice as ting back on toilet paper expenses by collong. Really. We started our married life To get free jeans just tell all lecting it the day after Halloween when pinching pennies and never got out of the your relatives that you need you can usually find it draped on houses, habit, so, I’m more than qualified to tell their old Wranglers and Levis cars and trees. you how to be cheap. to make pinkeye patches. I understand that many people have someThe first place the financial experts say When they arrive there are thing called entertainment expenses. to cut back is on eating out, but you don’t sure to be some jeans that If you’re in the dating scene take your date have to make such a sacrifice. You just fit you. If not, splurge on to see a free lunar eclipse or house fire have to change the definition of what eatinstead of a movie and, if you do go out to ing out is. I’m sure in your area there are a pair of suspenders. eat, only pick up a check if it’s made out to free barbecues sponsored by livestock you. Your date will admire your frugality. If pharmaceutical companies and brokerage houses who want to get your business. The downside to eating at all possible, find a spouse who was born on February 29 and these free meals is you might have to listen to boring speeches. then you’ll only have to buy her a birthday gift every four years. You can save on energy costs by recharging your electrical You can also eat for free at neighbor’s brandings but you might be expected to actually do some work to earn your meal. Although, I gadgets at work and taking a hot water bottle to bed at night. Durnever have. You could go to McDonalds and mix ketchup with hot ing the last depression people made their own booze in stills and water to make tomato soup but at some point you’re going to now, thanks to ethanol, you can make your own booze and gas at need protein. That’s where bull sales come in. During the fall and the same time. If the kids want to go on a vacation to eat bad food spring there are bull sales nearly every day and all you have to do and sleep in strange beds just go mooch off a relative for a week. is ride the grub line and you’ll be eating like a king for free! You Or you could just rent a library book and show them pictures of should look at a few bulls prior to escaping before the sale starts. all the pretty places you didn’t go visit. If the kids want to ride (Unless they also offer a free meal after the sale.) Take a big dog- thrill rides at an amusement park just let them ride in the car gie bag along to tide you over during the off season when there with your 95-year-old Grandpa who can’t see. Finally, if you get sick instead of seeing a doctor go to the drug are fewer sales. Anyone who has seen me up close and personal will not find it store and read get-well cards. I’d also recommend that you live a hard to believe that my wife and I spend very little on clothes. Our long time to cut down on funeral expenses. They can really kill jackets come from auction markets and I have enough free caps you. See how simple being cheap can be? to last 20 lifetimes. To get free jeans just tell all your relatives that

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